Before there was "Bizarre Foods" on the Travel Channel, there was the Pankot Palace dinner scene in the 1984 film "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom."
Fans of the movie might argue that it functions solely as comedic relief in an otherwise dramatic action movie; however, a 2001 study conducted through University of Texas proves otherwise: A large majority of American audiences believed it to be either a fully accurate representation of Indian cuisine, or an exaggeration of it, when it’s actually neither — everything about the scene is fictional.
TIL they never ate. /s