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See also: Food Eating Contests
BRAINS
The world eating competition for cow brains is held by Takeru Kobayashi, 17.7 pounds in 15 minutes.
Heliogabalus was a Roman emperor (204-222 AD) who was known for his culinary excesses. For one banquet he had 600 ostrich brains prepared.
A story is told that the cook to Wilhelm the king of Prussia served donkey's brains à la diplomate to Napoleon III after his defeat and capture at Sedan.
There is a recipe in the earliest surviving cookbook by the Roman Apicius for brains with rose petals.
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