10 Nightmarishly Disgusting Foods You'd Definitely Be Way Too Chicken To Try

5. Beating Snake Heart

Food doesn't come much fresher than this €“ but it doesn't come much gorier than this, either. In Vietnam, if you wish, you can actually eat a still-beating cobra heart. If the very thought of eating a snake heart makes you feel faint, you certainly won't like the way it is prepared. It isn't prepared much really - first, the live snake is slit open, then its heart is pulled out, and then you can pretty much just feast on it there and then. The rest of the snake doesn't go to waste though. In fact, more or less all of a snake can be eaten - including the blood and bones, yum. Eating a still-beating cobra heart has become something of a badge of honour, and many travellers, food-fans and chefs have been known to eat it to show how tough and manly (or crazy) they are. TV chef Gordon Ramsay even got in to a bit of trouble with animal rights groups after he ate a live snake heart as part of one of his TV shows in 2011. Once again, eating a snake heart is said to improve a man's sexual performance, although it does make you wonder how anyone ever discovered that. If you're planning on trying a snake heart though, be warned - sometimes it can still be felt beating in your stomach - it's the gift that keeps on giving!