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WARNING: Don't eat this on vacation!

From space cake to deep-fried spiders, here's a warning you should heed before your next meal.

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Christopher Elliott
Aug 10, 2025
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Meg Wubbenhorst didn't think twice before ordering a space cake at a coffee shop in Amsterdam recently. But maybe she should have. As she was about to discover, it was something she should never have eaten on vacation.

"I saw Anthony Bourdain eat one years ago and thought it'd be fun to try it," she says. "But I'm not Anthony Bourdain."

No, she isn't. Wub…

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