Angelina Jolie cooks and eats tarantula with her kids in Cambodia

Angelina Jolie used to wear a vial of her husband’s blood around her neck for love, so it should come as no surprrise that she’s open to another odd activity.

But that was back in 2000 with her former spouse Billy Bob Thornton, before she settled down with Brad Pitt and had kids.

Now, on her recent trip to Cambodia – where she’s promoting her new movie ‘First They Killed My Father’ – Angie proved she’s still able to shock us when she showed off her impressive culinary skills by frying and eating tarantulas, crickets and scorpians with her children during a TV interview.

The 41-year-old actress-and-director chowed down on the crispy bugs, as she demonstrated how to prepare them to Maddox, 15, Pax, 13, Zahara, 12, Shiloh, 10, and eight-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne.

Speaking in a video interview with BBC World News, she said: “See the hard part where you have the teeth? Take the fangs out.

“I think it’s always been a part of the diet [in Cambodia], the bugs, but then I think there is a truth to the survival during the war of course when people were being starved they were able to survive on things like this and they did.”

The star admitted she first tried insects and arachnids when she adopted Maddox from Cambodia as a baby and explained how best to start sampling the delicacies.

She said: “I first had them when I was first in the country.

“Crickets, you start with crickets. Crickets and a beer and then you kind of move up to tarantulas.

“[Spider] it’s actually really good the flavour. It’s hard to chew the scorpion.”

But her brood – who she has with estranged husband Brad Pitt – don’t share the same opinion and likened the taste to “flavourless chips”.

Knox said: “[It tastes like] dry chips. Yeah, like, flavourless chips.”