WATCH: For $1000, Padma Lakshmi Let A Strange Man Eat Ham Off Her Body

Our recap of last night’s DC Central Kitchen Food Fight, the biggest culinary fundraiser in our nation’s capital, is forthcoming. By all accounts the night was a success, raising over $600,000 to battle hunger. But for now we’d like to highlight some of the more peculiar ways that they managed to raise less than 1% of those funds, namely: letting people eat Iberico ham off your body (if you’re Padma Lakshmi), or spoon-feeding people iguana meat (if you’re Anthony Bourdain and/or Andrew Zimmern.)

No, we are not making this up. See the below photos:

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And lest you still do not believe, this upside-down video should be enough proof that this real life pork porno did, in fact, happen.

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