They say you are what you eat.

In which case, some people are toxic pufferfish liver. Others are a turkey head sewn onto a pig's butt.

Food is everything to us: life, culture, and community. For millennia we've put all kinds of things in our mouths, some of them deadly, some which seem - to modern eyes and ears - uh, questionable?

Today, as we dig, Jolts & Zing ask:

• What celebrity fad diet did Lord Byron introduce?
• What disgusting meal do George Washington and Warner Herzog have in common?
• Why did Fidel Castro breed a super cow?

Open wide! Here comes the plane! Full of wild weird food. Let's Get Shocked!

REFERENCES

• Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle
• Historic Kitchens at Hampton Palace - Recipes Reference
• Survivor, Season 10 Episode 8: Neanderthal Man, in which they eat Balut.

Created, researched and performed by Daniel Berger-Jones and John J King.

Produced and edited by Kenneth Fuentes, Daniel Berger-Jones, and John J King.