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Forbidden Foods and illegal Eats
Mangosteen
What is it:
A fruit native to South-east Asia
Why is it illegal:
Due to the fear of Asian fruit flies that can devistate local crops. Asian countries are unable to export the fruit
Where it's illegal
North America, Europe
 Mangosteen
Durian
What is it:
A large smelly fruit that looks like a jackfruit or a green porcupine
Why is it illegal:
The fruit smells so pungently bad that many puvlic places, such as hotels and bus stations, prohibit people from carring it.
Where it's illegal
In many public places in South-east Asia.
 Durian
Foie Gras
What is it:
Fatty duck or goose liver.
Why is it illegal:
The birds are forced fedd untill their livers are 10time normal size. This crual and horific process has made this illegal.
Where it's illegal
Argentina and the Cities of Chicago and San Diego. Force-feeding birds for the production of Foie Gras is illegal in the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany. Italy, Noeway,
Poland and Israel.
 Foie Gras
Fugu Liver
What is it:
Fugu is the Japanese word for pufferfish, a smalll fish that is cosidered the second-most-poinsonous vertebrate in the world.
Why is it illegal:
The meat of the pufferfish is considered a delicacy in Japan and Korea. The liver contains the deadly nurotoxicin, tetordotixin, of which humans need only ingest a few moilligrams
for a fatal reaction to occur.
Where it's illegal
Japan
 Fugu
Haggis
What is it:
A dish containing sheep's heart, liver and lungs minced with spices and vegtables, simmerged in the animals stomach or sheeps casing.
Why is it illegal:
The USA prohibits sale for consumption haggis' awful ingrediences such as sheeps lungs and windpipe.
Where it's illegal
United States of America
 Haggis
Casu Marzu
What is it:
Sardinian for 'rottem cheese. This delicacy os made by injecting Pecorono cheese with half-inch maggot larvae that digest the cheese, bringing it to a whole new level of fermantation.
Why is it illegal:
Often eaten with live maggots inside, there are dangers accociated with consumming the cheese. The larvae are uneffected by stomach acid and can bore through the intestinal track and
make a run for internal organs.
Where it's illegal
It is illegal in the only country where people eat it, Sardinia.
 Casu Marzu
Ortolan
What is it:
A swollow-sized song-bird from Europe and parts of Asia, that are captured alive and blinded and then painfully fattened on a diet of figs and oats. Its then drowned in Brandy and roasted
and consuned whole in one bite.
Why is it illegal:
The bird is highly endangered. Those caught hunting the bird in France can recieve a $10,000 fine.
Where it's illegal
It is illegal to hunt them in France but it is not to eat them.
 Ortolan
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