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From human heads to brain sandwiches, these horrific meals might just put you off your lunch.

Here we reveal seven of the most disgusting dishes in the world:

1. HUMAN FLESH

Back in May this year, a restaurant was closed down for serving human flesh to customers.

Bleeding human heads were discovered stored in plastic bags after police raided the restaurant.

A priest who had recently dined at the restaurant, in Anambra, Nigeria, was horrified to discover he had unwittingly become a cannibal.

"The attendant noticed my reaction and told me it was the small piece of meat I had eaten that made the bill that high," he said.

"I did not know I had been served with human meat, and that it was that expensive."

Police are said to have arrested 10 people in connection with the grim discovery.

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2. GIANT PENISES

Beijing's famous penis restaurant serves up schlongs of all shapes and sizes.

People spend hundreds of dollars on delicacies like cooked yak penis or sheep gonads.

Many Chinese people believe chomping on animal genitals increases male potency and does wonders for women's skin.

As a result the Guolizhuang Restaurant has become a huge hit in China's capital.

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3. BRAIN SANDWICH

Imagine tucking into pig brain slapped between two slices of bread – yummy!

The dish was once hugely popular in St. Louis, Missouri, but is now only served in a few restaurants.

Cows brains were originally used but due to the outbreak of mad cow disease the sandwich is now served with pigs brains along with pickles, onions, mustard and ketchup.

You can purchase this delicacy in places including Indiana and Ohio.

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4. FRIED TARANTULA

An arachnophobe's worst nightmare – a-Ping (fried tarantula) is a popular dish in Cambodia.

People started eating fried spiders in Cambodia back in 1960 when there was a severe food shortage and it has remained a popular snack ever since.

The spiders alone have very little taste so are usually mixed with garlic and other herbs.

5. MAGGOT CHEESE

Casu Marzu, a pecorino cheese and Sardinian specialty, has to be the most disgusting cheese in the world.

Flies are allowed inside the cheese to lay their eggs,. Then when the maggots hatch they wriggle about fermenting the cheese.

The breeding ground then becomes a delicacy and people eat it up, maggots and all. However, the regional tradition has become illegal due to its inability to meet food sanitation standards.

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6. SOFT-BOILED FOETUS

Soft-boiled duck foetus, known as Balut, is a common street food in both the Philippines and Vietnam.

The underdeveloped baby animal is allowed to grow for a few weeks before it is boiled and eaten.

Peel back the shell and along with a typical soft-boiled eggy interior is also the small inert body of a duck foetus – small bones, feathers, beak and all.

Most restaurants suggest slurping it right from the shell with a pinch of salt.

7. HUMAN PLANCENTA SMOOTHIES

A mum serves human placenta smoothies from her house.

Kathryn Beale, 41, produces the drinks for new mums from the kitchen of her terraced home and sells them for about £20 each.

She puts a fist-sized fleshy piece of the placenta into a blender after chilling it overnight and mixes it with fruit.

Kathryn insists the smoothies are perfectly safe and that eating placentas has many health benefits.

But council officials are worried about potential "serious health risks" and attempted to gain an emergency court order banning her from producing the drinks.

This failed after Kathryn agreed to stop making them until officials can inspect hygiene standards at her home in Swindon, Wiltshire.