Poop and Urine as food around the world

Ttongsul is a traditional Korean medicine with a 9% alcohol content. The poo of a human child between 4 and 7 years old is refrigerated for 3-4 days, mixed with water, divided into smaller pieces, and fermented overnight.

Un, Kono Kuro or Black Ivory Coffee is produced at an elephant conservation center in northern Thailand.

Arabica coffee cherries are mixed with other fruits and other foods and fed to the elephants, who then slowly digest it over 15 to 30 hours before excreting it.

The undigested coffee cherries excreted by elephants are removed from the dung by elephant trainers, washed, sun-dried, and roasted to become coffee.

In Oklahoma, USA, there is an annual Cow dung festival where people throw cow dung at each other and lick their fingers.

Here’s a video of the same.

In 2015, Irvinestown, Ireland’s 37th Annual Lady of the Lake festival introduced a brand new competition—sheep dung spitting!

This bizarre contest requires participants to take sheep excrement into their mouths and attempt to spit it the furthest.

Here’s a video of the same.

Camel Urine is consumed as a traditional medicine in the Middle East. It is believed to cure various diseases, including cancer.

Virgin boy eggs are a traditional dish of Dongyang, Zhejiang, China, in which eggs are boiled in the urine of young boys, preferably under the age of ten.

Many also don’t see a need for a doctor when simple remedies that use readily found ingredients, such as poop, are seen as legitimate means of medicine.