"From Roman charioteers scarfing wild board dung to astronauts guzzling their own pee in space to today's kids spreading insect vomit on their toast, this humorous compendium is chock-full of history, science, and fascinatingly gross facts. Bug secretions coating your candy corn? Rodent poop in your popcorn? Physicians tasting their patients' pee? It's irresistibly disgusting!"--Jacket flap.

Part 1, Health & medicine -- Tylenol á la boar dung -- Eat poop to stop pooping -- Doctors used to taste what? -- Pearly white pearly whites -- Sweet, sweet pee -- Help! It's the Black Death! -- Move over, kidney transplants, make way for poop transplants -- Space water -- Part 2, Your lunch box -- Scrumptious whale secretions -- Wait! What's in my candy corn? -- The odoriferous beaver butt -- Hidden surprises! -- Saliva, anyone? -- Sweet insect vomit -- Poop coffee -- Fly vomit, yummy! -- Munching some maggot cheese.