There's sweet and sour crocodile, fried spare rib crocodile with peppers and garlic, fried crocodile egg with ham, and crocodile French bread. Thins strips of deep-fried potato are piled into a cone, over which are sprinkled a handful of small cooked black ants. You can also test the limits of your palette and imagination by ordering Drunken Scorpions with Asparagus. After marinating in wine, the scorpions are deep-fried, as is the small aspargus tip after being dipped in a flour paste. You eat them whole-claws and tails.
Iguanas are still a tasty treat in many parts of Central America.
Top billing for the smelliest, most maligned, and highest priced fruit goes to the football-sized durian which grows on Southeast Asian plantations. So malodorous is the durian that Singapore Airlines will confiscate any fruit brought aboard. Durian market stalls in Bangkok or Kuala Lumpur can be identified blocks away by their overpowering smell.