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Terrible Food

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Dominic Arkwright and guests talk about eating road kill and string cheese.

Fancy some road kill or string cheese? Dominic Arkwright, Johann Hari, Stephanie Calman and Jonathan McGowan. From 2011

What's the worst thing that could be served to you for lunch? Fox lasagne? Tripe? Raw seal blubber? 

Dominic Arkwright and his three guests chew over the subject of awful cuisine.

Jonathan McGowan explains how liver turns his stomach, but doesn't think anything of eating dead rats - as long as they're rats from the countryside. 

Johann Hari reveals how for many years he's had a culinary addiction that now makes him shudder.

And Stephanie Calman shares some absolute no-nos for dinner parties. 

Producer Beatrice Fenton

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2011.

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