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Aug 2021
14 m

Taboo Food Would You Eat This?

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Would you eat decaying food? What about poisonous food? Liz Waid and Adam Navis look at these and other taboo foods - foods that most people will not eat. Are there foods in your culture that other cultures find taboo?

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