8 Most Horrifying Foods Around the World (4 of 5)

6. Shanghai Blood Clams

These mollusks have a high hemoglobin content, hence their nameBlood Clams. They are quite safe if prepared by professional chefs. However, if you fail to adhere strictly to the cooking recipe, you risk contracting dangerous infections such as typhoid or dysentery. In 1998, these bloody things caused an outbreak of Hepatitis A in China. The disease then infected 300,000 people. Despite the prohibition on their sale, both gourmets and traders continue to indulge in these mollusks.

7. Fugu

In Japan, cooks who want to serve fugu have to obtain a state certificate and pass an exam by eating the fish they have prepared themselves. This puffer fish is served as sashimi, and the poisonous chunks are cut out. Fugu contains the nerve-paralytic poison tetrodotoxina component of the potion used by Voodoo sorcerers to create zombies. It is 25 times more dangerous than curare. A lethal dose can be contracted even by touching the insides of the fish with your bare skin. And to add to all that, there is no known antidote for the toxin.