10 Historical Foods Too Dangerous For The Modern World

10 Historical Foods Too Dangerous For The Modern World In December 1135, King Henry I of England died at his hunting lodge in Saint-Denis-en-Lyons, Normandy. His physician, and the chronicler Henry of Huntingdon writing in his *Historia Anglorum*, attributed the death to a surfeit of lampreys, an eel-like parasitic fish that Henry had been explicitly warned to avoid. He ate them anyway. He was dead within days.