Wikipedia:Unusual articles

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Such material is not meant to be taken seriously.

Food

Engastration – here in the form of turducken.

Alferd Packer	Before Dahmer there was Packer...
Ayds	Ayds was a great way to lose weight, until the mid-1980s...
Banana production in Iceland	Weirder than Björk?
Bird's nest soup	Asian delicacy.
Boneless Fish	A frozen fish scaled, gutted and deboned, then glued to its original shape using a food-grade enzyme.
British Rail sandwich	A culinary match to the quality of the train service.
Cannabis foods	Various foods containing cannabis.
Carmine	A common food dye manufactured from insects.
Casu marzu	Italian "maggot cheese" – cheese designed to be eaten while it is infested with cheese fly larvae.
Century egg	A Chinese dish which involves preserving a duck, chicken or quail egg for several weeks to several months before eating.
Chubby bunny	A common (but sometimes lethal) game played with marshmallows.
Competitive eating	In which the main goal is the quick and vast consumption of food.
Cockle bread	Bread made by English women in the seventeenth century that involved kneading and pressing against the woman's buttocks.
Deep-fried Mars bar	A Scottish delicacy.
Deep-fried Twinkies	America's answer to the above.
Charles Domery	A Polish soldier noted for his unusually large appetite. While imprisoned in England, he remained ravenous despite being put on ten times the rations of other inmates, eating the prison cat, at least twenty rats and, on a regular basis, the prison candles.
Durian	King of fruits. King of smells?
Engastration	Dishes consisting of animals stuffed into each other. Turducken and whole stuffed camel are prominent examples.
Eyes (cheese)	There are eyes in the cheese, but no cheese in the eyes.
Flies graveyard	A delicacy in the United Kingdom.
Fried spider	Exactly as it sounds – and a regional delicacy in Cambodia.
Hitler bacon	Can it possibly be kosher?
Hufu	For all you vegetarian cannibals out there, the tofu product designed to look and taste like human flesh.
Human placentophagy	The consumption of a newborn's placenta is common among mammals; humans do it too.
Ketchup as a vegetable	Makes junk food seem healthier.
Kosher locust	Can Jews eat grasshoppers?
Luther burger	Described as the "cardiologist's worst nightmare"
Lychee and Dog Meat Festival	Vegans are the only group who can oppose this festival without any fear of hypocrisy.
Michel Lotito	Known as Monsieur Mangetout (or "Mr Eat-all").
Milbenkäse	A type of German cheese containing live mites, which are eaten along with the cheese.
Monkey brain	A Chinese delicacy that has been made famous through films.
Pieing	A slapstick stunt, or a kind of political protest. And there's even a list of victims.
Products produced from The Simpsons	Fictional trademarks gone real.
Rhubarb Triangle	A recipe or a dangerous area to fly through?
Roadkill cuisine	Yes, Skunk a la Michelin sounds tasty to some people.
Sannakji	Small octopuses eaten alive with sesame oil.
Sealed crustless sandwich	A patented peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
Spoo	The most delicious foodstuff amongst all alien species of Babylon 5.
Stargazy pie	A Cornish fish pie that looks back at you.
Stinky tofu	Fermented soybean curd is apparently a delicacy for some people. One external link describes its scent as "a used tampon baking in the desert."
Surströmming	A Swedish dish consisting of rotten herring, said to have the worst smell in the world.
Takeru Kobayashi	A slightly built Japanese competitive eater. He has consumed 63 Nathan's Famous hot dogs and buns in 12 minutes and holds a host of eating records for other foods.
Tarrare	A French showman and soldier noted for his unusual eating habits. Among other things, he ate a meal intended for 15 people in a single sitting, ate live cats, snakes, lizards and puppies, and swallowed an eel whole without chewing.
Tim Tam Slam	An Australian method for drinking tea through Tim Tam biscuits.
Tomatina	A gigantic food fight with a ham-topped greased pole as the start.
Sonya Thomas	What weighs 105 pounds (48 kg) and eats more hot dogs in 12 minutes than most people do all summer?
United States military chocolate	Originally designed to taste "little better than a boiled potato". Not much has changed.
Unusually shaped vegetable	"While some examples are just oddly shaped, others are heralded for their amusing appearance, often representing a body part such as the buttocks."
Vegetarianism of Adolf Hitler	Hitler believed that a vegetarian diet could both alleviate his personal health problems and spiritually renew the Aryan race.
Virgin boy egg	Eggs cooked with the help of young boys' urine.
Who Ate All the Pies?	A chant sung by football fans in England and Scotland, aimed at supposedly overweight footballers, officials or opposing supporters.

Beverages

Beer goggles	Does drinking a certain beverage make other people more attractive to you?
Civet coffee	Not coffee made from civets, but rather from ordinary coffee beans the civet has, well, excreted.
Cola wars	A marketing battle between Coca-Cola and Pepsi.
Fucking Hell	A German beer named after the Austrian village of Fucking.
Grapefruit juice effect	Be careful – that delicious food item could be dangerous to prescription-drug users.
H₂NO	Why drink tap water, when you can pay to have a cool, refreshing glass of Coca-Cola or freshly chilled bottled tap water?
If-by-whiskey	A famous speech successfully both attacking and defending booze.
ISO 3103	The ISO standard cup of tea.
OpenCola	The world's first open-source beverage.
Snake wine	A type of Vietnamese wine that includes a whole venomous snake in the bottle.
Soda and candy eruption	Diet Coke + Mentos = geyser.
Vodka eyeballing	Here's looking at you, kid.

Restaurants

Conflict Kitchen	A Pittsburgh take-out restaurant, exclusively serving ethnic foods from countries in which the United States is in conflict.
Cross Cafe	A Hitler-themed Indian restaurant, formerly known as "Hitlers' Cross" [sic].
Dinner in the Sky	Enjoy a delicious meal—suspended 150 feet (46 m) in the air.
Fortezza Medicea restaurant	Eloquent, fine dining in a high-security prison.
Hamburger University	Where McDonald's employees learn their stuff.
Heart Attack Grill	Noted for its 8,000-calorie "Quadruple Bypass Burger".
Ithaa	The world's first underwater restaurant.
Kayabukiya Tavern	A Japanese restaurant where guests are served by employed monkeys.
MaDonal	A McDonald's knock-off in Iraq.
McDonald's urban legends	Is that worm meat in your Big Mac?
Modern Toilet	A restaurant chain whose furniture and decor is based on – yes – toilets.
Original Spanish Kitchen	A Los Angeles restaurant that suddenly and unexpectedly closed in 1961, giving rise to an urban legend about the fate of its proprietors. The restaurant's contents – even as far as the place settings – remained untouched for decades.
Pyongyang	A restaurant chain whose sole proprietor is the Government of North Korea.

Folklore

Bird people	The widely recurring motif in legends and fiction of birds who are people, or people who are birds.
Behind the sofa	Where young British children hid from menacing scenes in sci-fi TV, now recalled humorously and nostalgically by British adults.
Bigfoot trap	Believed to be the world's only Bigfoot trap.
Cottingley Fairies	A successful photographic hoax in 1910s England.
Flying ointment	A hallucinogenic ointment said to be used by witches in the Early Modern period.
Global Orgasm	Make love, not war... all over the world!
Kaspar Hauser	A German youth who claimed to have grown up in the total isolation of a darkened cell, and was once thought to be linked to the princely House of Baden.
Icelandic Elf School	Possibly the only school granting elf-spotting degrees. (Though certificates are also available from John Oliver.)
Josiah S. Carberry	An expert on cracked pots, and one of only three fictional people to have won the Ig Nobel Prize.
Liver-Eating Johnson	A 19th-century mountain man with a penchant for revenge and the consumption of livers.
Machine elf	An entity that people claim they become aware of after having taken tryptamine based psychedelic drugs such as DMT.
Man-eating tree	Hoaxes and unsubstantiated reports in Madagascar and elsewhere.
Monkey-man of New Delhi	Reports in 2001 of a strange monkey-like creature appearing in New Delhi at night and attacking people.
Phantom social workers	Mysterious claims of "social workers" seeking to abduct infants and children.
Proverbs commonly attributed to be Chinese	...although they're probably not.
Reptilian humanoid	A recurring theme in fiction, especially science fiction, pseudoscientific theories and conspiracy theories.
Rods	Photographic anomalies which some think are undiscovered flying creatures or miniature UFOs.
Russian reversal	In Soviet Russia, Wikipedia edits YOU!
Spring Heeled Jack	A mysterious character said to have existed in England during the Victorian age.
Telling the bees	An alternative explanation for the declining bee population.
Titivillus	The patron demon of scribes, responsible for many errors.
Tsukumogami	According to Japanese folklore, if you keep your straw sandals (or any other household items) around for 100 years, they may become "alive and aware" and develop eyes and sharp teeth.
Vagina dentata	The tooth, and nothing but the hole tooth.
Vampire pumpkins and watermelons	A folk legend from the Balkan peninsula of south-eastern Europe based upon the idea that any inanimate object left outside during the night of a full moon will become a vampire.
Vril	A belief that aliens controlled Nazi Germany and helped Hitler and others to escape to the South Pole when the war was lost.
Well to Hell	A 9-mile (14 km) borehole drilled by Soviet scientists uncovers the sounds of millions of damned souls. Hot stuff.
Witch window	A superstitious practice in the State of Vermont to prevent witches from flying through open windows at night.

Mystery animals and animal folklore

Pieter Dirkx's imagining of the Mongolian death worm.

Bonnacon	A mythical ox which flings burning dung at its enemies from its rear and horn.
Cattle mutilation	The alleged killing and subsequent mutilation of cattle, sheep or horses by unknown perpetrators. Some say they may be aliens.
Chupacabra	A legendary creature in the folklore of parts of the Americas, generally reported in Latin America, that preys on livestock.
Dog spinning	Do Bulgarians really twizzle their domestic canines to foretell prosperity? The British Green Party thinks so, and they're not happy about it.
Drop bear	A fictitious Australian marsupial supposedly related to the koala.
Entombed animal	Tales of live toads and other creatures encased in stone.
Fearsome critters	North American lumberjack folklore, with Axhandle hounds and jackalopes.
Flying pig	The classic impossibility has been officially proved possible by the Internet Engineering Task Force: "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine."
Gef the talking mongoose	A poltergeist-like creature which claimed to have been an 80-year-old Indian mongoose, alleged to have haunted a Manx cottage during the 1930s.
Humanzee	A hypothetical(?) human/chimpanzee hybrid.
Hodag	The animal of Rhinelander, Wisconsin and has been confronted by Scooby Doo
Jersey Devil	A mythological creature said to inhabit the New Jersey Pine Barrens.
Liver bird	A legendary cormorant or eagle that is the symbol of a major English city.
Lluvia de Peces	It's raining fish in Honduras.
Mongolian death worm	A large, bright red worm that kills using acid and electrical discharges – allegedly.
Montauk Monster	Actually a decaying raccoon... or is it?
Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus	An endangered creature, whose major predator is the sasquatch. Apparently.
Phantom kangaroos	They're not just found in Australia.
Popobawa	A bat-winged monster from Zanzibar said to sodomize people during election campaigns.
Pig-faced women	A lesson never to compare a person's children to pigs when pregnant, lest you be cursed.
Rat king	Not the rodent monarch familiar from The Nutcracker, but a rare (some say nonexistent) phenomenon in which a group of rats grow up with their tails tangled in a knot.
Rhinogradentia	A fictitious mammal order documented by an equally fictitious German naturalist.
Sidehill gouger	Fictional creatures said to inhabit the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia and the southwestern sandhills of Saskatchewan.
Spherical cow	"Consider a spherical cow in a vacuum..."
Vegetable Lamb of Tartary	Money might not grow on trees, but maybe sheep do.

Phobias

Ablutophobia	Fear of showering or any other form of bathing
Chemophobia	Fear of chemicals and chemistry
Chromophobia	Fear of colors
Chronophobia	Fear of time
Coprophobia	Fear of feces or even defecation
Cyberphobia	Fear of computers and internet
Decidophobia	Fear of making decisions
Dentophobia	Fear of dentists
Emetophobia	Fear of puking
Globophobia	Fear of balloons or balloons popping
Mageirocophobia	Fear of cooking
Numerophobia	Fear of numbers
Osmophobia	Fear of odors and smells
Phallophobia	Fear of the erect penis
Philophobia	Fear of love
Phobophobia	Fear of having a phobia
Telephobia	Fear of making or answering telephone calls
Xanthophobia	Fear of the color yellow

Questions

Wikipedia is not afraid to tackle the tough questions:

How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?	A proverbial question of theology.
If a tree falls in a forest	Philosophy meets the logging industry.
*Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ?*	Lady Marmalade wasn't the only one asking this.
Where's the beef?	In 1984, people thought this was really funny for some reason.
Why did the chicken cross the road?	People have asked this for over 150 years.