While putting together our list of disgusting delicacies we realized that we may have missed some, and that our audience would likely be able to outmatch our choices. Hundreds of great entries poured in, and you guys listed some interesting dishes!

Need more background information? Here are links to more information for the finalist entries for the crown of world’s most disgusting delicacy.

• Baby Mice Wine
• Bull Penis
• Dear Placenta Soup
• Dog Meat
• Frog Smoothie
• Hákarl
• Kiviak
• Kopi Luwak
• Kutti Pi
• Monkey Brains
• Three Squeaks
• Warthog Anus
• Widgety Grubs

The winning submission will win $500. Voting ends at noon Eastern on April 13th. Best of luck to the entrants! We track IP addresses to prevent vote stuffing and other such gaming attempts.

Update: Below is a snapshot we took to record the final results. Congratulations to Jianu Lucian for the winning entry.

The most disgusting dish I’ve ever seen (and I’ve actually eaten sheep’s head, stinkhead, and moose nose jelly) is the Namibian Warthog Anus that Anthony Bourdain feasted on when he took a trip into the African bush with Namibian bushmen. To cook Namibian Warthog Anus, kill and gut the warthog and pull out the anus with the last 1 foot of intestine attached. Squeeze out the feces, but don’t wash the anus or intestine. Make a fire and throw the juicy anus directly into it, ignore the dirt and ashes that will cover the anus. When the anus is al dente – be sure not to cook it too long – cut it into bite sized pieces and serve immediately. For a picture, check out this video:

This is one time when well done is eminently desirable, but no, this Hershey highway is served al dente.

Submitted by Laurie Constantino

This is disgusting primarily because of the very high risk of contracting fatal transmissible spongiform encephalopathies such as Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and other similar brain diseases. In parts of China, the monkey’s brain is eaten raw. While it is most likely an urban legend, some people claim that monkeys’ brains are, or were, eaten from the head of a live monkey.

Here is a common description: The monkey’s head was supported by its neck in a bracket, two pieces of wood with a semicircular hole on each side such that when you put them together, they form a complete circle around the animal’s neck, allowing the head to be exposed above the plank. The hair around the head is shaven with a shaving razor. A small chisel and a hammer is used to quickly chisel a circle around the crown, and the top part of the skull is removed. A teaspoon is used to scoop up the brain, which is immediately eaten. This has to be done before the monkey dies.

Submitted by Getophe

Widgety grubs – giant tree maggots here in Australia, about the size of a human thumb. Eat raw and wiggling. I’ve tried them, they are kind of gooey and eggy, but they can bite your tongue if you forget to bite their heads off.

Submitted by Bernice, Photo by Richard Giles

Caldo de Cardan (Bull Penis), Bolivia

More information available (in Spanish) on MDZ Online.

Submitted by Miguel

With the Frog Smoothie, from South America, they take the Telmatobius frogs (endangered), skin and cut them, then throw them into a blender with a few other ingredients:

• three ladles of hot white bean broth
• two generous spoonfuls of honey
• raw aloe vera plant
• several tablespoons of maca
• 1 dead, skinned, endangered Telmatobius frog

It makes about 200ml of Smoothie.

Submitted by Adam

Kutti pi, which is an Anglo-Indian dish consisting of an animal fetus (of any sort- usually goat or cow). National Geographic has a video of it here.

Not sure what makes me more queasy; all the organs for sale in the market or the fact she’s holding her modern car keys while bargaining for a fetal goat.

Submitted by Alli

This is all I could find about this certain “delicacy”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_meat

Dog meat is eaten in some countries and certain breeds of dogs are raised on farms and slaughtered for their meat. Dog meat may be consumed as an alternative source of meat or for specific medicinal benefits attributed to various parts of a dog. In parts of the world where dogs are kept as pets, people generally consider the use of dogs for food to be a social taboo.

Cultural attitudes, legalities, and history regarding eating dog meat varies from country to country. Very little statistical information is available on attitudes to the consumption of dog meat. Though the consumption of dog meat is generally viewed as taboo in Western culture, some Westerners support the right to eat dog meat and accuse other Westerners who protest against dog eating in other countries of cultural imperialism and intolerance

Submitted by Jianu Lucian

Deer placenta soup, served with mushrooms, flowers, black chicken, and deer tendon in the broth. Image available on WeirdMeats (above).

Submitted by Michael Hughes

From:
Korea.

What is it?
What better to wash down your gelatinous lumps of lye fish than a nice chilled cup of dead mice? What better indeed.

Baby mice wine is a traditional Chinese and Korean “health tonic,” which apparently tastes like raw gasoline. Little mice, eyes still closed, are plucked from the embrace of their loving mothers and stuffed (while still alive) into a bottle of rice wine. They are left to ferment while their parents wring their tiny mouse paws in despair, tears drooping sadly from the tips of their whiskers.

Wait, it gets worse …
Do you wince at the thought of swallowing a tequila worm? Imagine how you’d feel during a session on this bastard. Whoops, I swallowed a dead mouse! Whoops, there goes another one! Whoops, I just puked my entire body out of my nose!

Submitted by Kristina