Random Animals That Are Served as Food... Alive! (12 items)

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  (#11) Grubs

  Flavor-wise, you could do a whole lot worse than a witchetty grub if you're looking to start eating food that is still alive. The flavor of this 7-centimeter-long Australian insect is said to be like fried egg and nuts. Not bad!
   
   
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  (#12) Sea urchin

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  Not everyone eats sea urchins fast enough after plucking them out of the ocean to technically eat them while they're still alive, but aficionados say they're better this way (otherwise you're just eating uni like you would find in a sushi restaurant). The only edible part of a sea urchin? Its sexual organs.
   
   
   
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  (#10) Oyster

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  You might already know that oysters are still alive after they're shucked, but it's worth noting that there is a common dish out there that is served alive. Who knows? Maybe someday eating live maggots will seem as common as eating live oysters.
   
   
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  (#3) Lobster

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  This one is particularly gruesome: a Houston restaurant will serve you "belly sashimi" right out of a lobster's belly... while the lobster is still alive, staring at you. One critic called the dish - which, let's remember, entails eating a lobster's stomach while it wiggles its claws at you - "utterly delicious."
  
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  (#5) Fish

  Ikizukuri is a Japanese dish where the fish is still alive while you eat it. Talk about fresh! The head is left alive (complete with gill movements) while the rest of the fish is filleted or - more horrifically, somehow - deep-fried.

  
  
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  (#7) Shrimp

  If you're looking to eat something both alive and almost lethally intoxicated, head to Shangai. So-called "drunken shrimp" is a dish that consists of live shrimp "marinated" in booze called baijiu and then eaten while still alive and insanely drunk. Extra gross points: the drunken shrimp get thirsty, so they drink up the sauce on the plate, essentially seasoning themselves!

  
  

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