What Was The Weirdest Thing You Have Eaten

[Parche]

An no this is not a sex thread.....


I dont know if it is weird, but squid, or calimari...................

ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhh



:shrug: :hi:

[mcctatas]

1. I don't know

but I'm sure it was at olive garden...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Rocky Mountain oysters.

Don't ask...

[pokerfan]

53. Testicle Festival every year

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/794

I had a ball...

[mcctatas]

3. Oh yeah....

I went to a wild game feed once, I ate rattlesnake, elk balls, bear and possum....

it was in a bar and I was drunk;)

[XemaSab]

16. Rattlesnake? That's for yuppies

You ain't hardcore until you've eaten roadkilled mud snake.

[mcctatas]

17. you calling me a yuppie?

Well I never! :grr:

[XemaSab]

20. Go eat your arugula and seared Ahi

yuppie. :P

[MrCoffee]

4. The fungus plate at a restaurant in Beijing

It had about 10 different types of fungi on it. Most were pretty good, one was absolutely delicious, and one was memorable for its foulness.

[AlCzervik]

5. Jellyfish.

[TZ]

6. Jellyfish

and they had the texture one would expect of jellyfish....x(

[Parche]

8. Turtleandsue

Ok, i guess it was turtle when i was in the Cayman Islands!!!!!

:woohoo: :hi:

[LadyoftheRabbits]

7. Swordfish and escargot

Escargot was foul... like eating a little black rubber ball with sauce. :o

[vixengrl]

46. Escargot--I think my impression was "Large boogers in garlic."

Not a great impression. Swordfish is pretty tasty--I like swordfish sushi.

[Tikki]

9. For my 21st birthday my mother took me to a...

French Restaurant in Santa Monica.
I had snails as an appetizer and
boullabaisse...and I wore a bib.

Tikki

[madinmaryland]

10. You just went there. PEV!!1!!

:rofl:

[dgibby]

11. grasshoppers and escargot

[billyoc]

12. Some kind of monkey meat, or baboon, or something.

In Djibouti.

Yes, that's right, I said I ate a freaking MONKEY. x(

[mcctatas]

31. OMG....

do you remember that scene in the Indiana Jones movie where they were cracking monkeys on the head to eat their brains? You didn't do it that way did you?

[billyoc]

32. Oh, HELL no! It was a sandwhich.

Some of my shipmates wanted to destroy the place when they found out. yech...

[mcctatas]

44. Oh thank God!

I would hate to have my image of you as a sterling character shattered ;)

[billyoc]

47. That scene was gross. The spiders!

:scared:

[mcctatas]

48. OK...

now you're just being a girl ;)

[billyoc]

52. lol, I hate those things.

:rofl:

[mentalsolstice]

13. My mom's favorite, lamb fries

Let's put it this way, it's parts of the body the little lamb can live without, but he won't be procreating.

[HamdenRice]

14. Mopani worms

I have traveled and lived in various parts of Africa and Asia, so I've had a lot of unusual food. I liked almost all of it.

The only thing I absolutely hated was mopani worms -- giant black caterpillars filled with green goo -- a South African "delicacy". They tasted really bad and had a horrible texture.

All the other weird food I had in Africa was great -- ostrich, porcupine, rat, etc.

[Kali]

41. you actually ate them?

OH MY GOD. I remember reading about the "harvest" when I was a kid and I have the sick fascination of a true phobic about consuming larvae.

lepidoptera larvae + me = hysterical screaming and attempting to run away

[HamdenRice]

68. Yeah at a Johannesburg restaurant that specialized in 'exotic' SAn food

When you were reading about them, were you living there?

Actually, I can't say they tasted bad. They didn't taste like anything -- maybe like thick dry paper with green goo inside. Because they don't taste like anything, they were served with a spicy dipping sauce.

It wasn't the taste that was so bad; it was the texture and how they looked.

[Kali]

74. No, I haven't made it to Africa yet. Probably Nat. Geographic.

I know the Aboriginals of North America harvested some kind of large caterpillar too. I guess they are pretty rich in fats - a substance low in most hunter/gatherer diets.

Then there are the sago palm grubs and other large beetle larvae (Australia?), but I am a pretty pick eater for a fat chick!

[Inchworm]

15. A dried dog turd

When I saw my mom running at me to take it from me I crammed whole thing in mouth and swallowed.

I was about 3. I don't remember it, but I do remember hearing the story repetedly.

:puke:

[baldguy]

36. That's Divine

[MorningGlow]

18. A Scotch egg

Came highly recommended by one of my favorite college professors. "Be sure you have one as soon as you get to London!" Er... :puke:

[XemaSab]

21. I looked it up

:puke:

[Canuckistanian]

25. Deep fried egg and sausage? I don't understand.

It may be a bit greasy, I concede, but how much different is it from a Denny's Grand Slam breakfast?

[MorningGlow]

37. You would think, right?

But it was more like eating a handful of dust that sucked all the moisture out of my mouth. Couldn't swallow, couldn't speak...thank goodness I was in a pub and could wash it down with plenty of lager. x(

[vixengrl]

55. It's a dry, dry thing--especially eaten at a pub.

I suppose it could be made fresh in a way that wasn't dry (not so hard-cooked egg, loosely-made sausage (like, not ground to paste, but chunkier with tasty fat--lots of pork) batter-y breading, and be just done, not done a while ago and warmed over, but it would still be *heavy*.

(You were punk'd--they sell food like that in pubs to get you to drink more--like the peanuts and Chex Mix and salty buffalo wings here in the States!)

[MorningGlow]

73. Totally punk'd--and I TRUSTED that professor!

She was so enthusiastic about London and made a point of speaking rapturously about Scotch eggs and how much she missed them.

:wtf:

I sure wish I knew where she got hers, because the one I had was :puke:

[Lethe]

29. sounds good except the egg yolk would be better runny

if it was deep fried and the egg yolk was runny, that would be the shit. The yolk loses most of it's flavor if hardened.

[MorningGlow]

38. Quite the opposite, actually

See upthread. Nasty surprise!

[MilesColtrane]

19. Chocolate covered ants

[HughBeaumont]

22. A light bulb.

Just the glass part, not the filament.

Tasted horrible. The things I do for 50 bucks.

[LeftyMom]

23. vegan turducken

[LostinVA]

43. Haruka wants to try that

However, I will not eat fake meat (except in Zen Palate's Autumn Rolls) so a vegan turducken would be a waste.

[LeftyMom]

45. The chinese veg grocer closed, so I no longer have a great source of cheap faux meat.

:(

[Canuckistanian]

24. Sea Cucumber

At a Japanese restaurant.

It was ghastly, bitter and unpleasant.

I can understand "acquired tastes", but Sea Cucumber is one I'll avoid in the future.

[medicswife]

26. Raw horse meat....from up in the neck where the mane grows.

It was horrible. I had to try it or face disgrace..... I only had one piece. Worst thing I've ever had in my entire life.

[Rabrrrrrr]

34. I had raw horse sushi in Japan - loved it! Yummy, yummy.

[vixengrl]

58. "Or face disgrace"--there's a good food culture story here--

I had an opportunity to try horse, if I went out of my way to a certain butcher shop that had it in Italy, but I lacked the language and drive, and ultimately didn't--too many novels as a little girl about brave horses and the girls who loved them, so--no Flicka for me! Although if I saw it in a restaurant menu--still difficult. Unless maybe well-done. A small amount. Maybe in a burger...or a flank steak...

But your experience?

It wasn't in the US, since culturally and legally, we eat no Trigger-burgers at our Roy Rogers--and the neck? Not a steak, something in the belly-area? Since it was awful, and I suspect you were fed it by someone who might have known it was not your cup of tea--

But the "or face disgrace" bit sounds exciting.

[Taverner]

27. Either Guinea Pig, Snake, Ant Eggs or Water Beetle Paste

Take your pick

[mainegreen]

28. Pickled Sea Urchin roe.

Not bad actually.

[Tom Kitten]

30. Chocolate Honeybees

Didn't know what it was until afterwards...tasted OK...like chocolate!

Weirdest thing I ate knowing what they were were raw oysters...like eating salty gritty snot.

[hobbit709]

33. Pickled sparrows

[baldguy]

35. Alligator

snails (escargot)

fish eggs (caviar)

calf's brains

pig's feet

a whole rabbit, intact with the head (hosenpfeffer)


that's off the top of my head...and I love calamari!

[Kali]

39. sea cucumber

Want to trade? even badly cooked calamari is less rubbery than sea cucumber and at least it has flavor.

[Generic Brad]

40. Deep fried shrimp shell - antennae and everything

But squid? Put it in with some fried rice, cilantro, corn, onion, carrots and some teriyaki sauce. Nothing weird about that.

[crim son]

42. I like calimari if it is either deep fried

or cooked very briefly and served with marinara sauce, or probably other sauces. Worst but maybe not so weird foods: raw oysters which literally made me gag, and pasta with squid in its own ink. :puke: Squid ink is like concentrated liquid essence of old fish: putrid.

[fourvahl]

49. It was so weird that

I repressed the memories. But.. but.. I know it was very weird. How weird is that?

[deucemagnet]

50. I ordered calamari in a greek restaurant on Crete and got a cuttlefish.

The waiter assured me, "Is cousin from squid." It was tasty! :9

[vixengrl]

51. This is not recommended, as it was pretty dumb--but

I ate a "Rio Snapper". That's the brand name for a little thingie they sell in playing-card-size boxes around Independence Day--you know, the little bit of gunpowder and sawdust wrapped in a spit-ball sized wad of paper and you throw it and it goes, "BANG!" or "SNAP!" when it hits the ground? Or like, if you step on it?

Well, I got dared to *bite* one when I was ten or eleven. You have to know, I was a bit of a tomboy, and a dare was a meaningful debt drawn upon my honor, so I had to pay in full. My problem is being, if you'll allow the oxymoron, a "closet exhibitionist"; once all eyes were on me I had to elaborate upon the deed. I took the "snapper" between my teeth, inhaling so as to suck my teeth dry and then drew back my lips as far away from the snapper as I could. I bit down, causing it to "snap" weakly, which should have been enough, but for an imp of the perverse that let the snapper then fall back upon my tongue.

Whereupon there was nothing left but to roll it about in my spit until soft and swallow. Naturally I displayed my empty mouth in pride.

I have naturally eaten paste, Elmer's glue, wax (as in "wax teeth"), and the brownish, syrupy glue known as "mucilage." I have undoubtedly swallowed countless gnats. On impulse, I have sample cowslips, dandelions, sliver of a jade plant, grass, and acorns. Acorns are a little bitter. Was *not* impressed, not much like filberts, really.

I once ate an entire rotisserie chicken, including most of the bones to unnerve an uptight relative. The bones were softened by the slow-roasting process, so it really was no problem. The spine and ribs I mostly balked at, but the wing-bones were barely there. Drumsticks were impossible, but I left them extraordinarily clean. In Italy, I downed two-and-three inch smelts, heads, tails, bones and all, having taking my husband's advice regarding "picky eating" (this was four years ago, when he didn't yet know me as well) to the extreme. My recommendation if you want to do this--lots of wine. The bones tickle going down--you just can't chew them all thoroughly,

I have also eaten at least a 1/4 lb of pickled hering at a sitting (when I was about two--at a party, because people where watching and feeding it to me, half a bottle of Pepto Bismol (tasted great--I was five and subscribed to the "more is better" approach to self-medication--got a finger put in my throat for that stunt), a number of dog treats--some of which I even shared with the dogs they were intended for, usually just to see the look of shock on their canine faces, I licked mercury--again, dared to, but I surreptitiously wiped my tongue on my sleeve. I've also downed alligator, escargot, caviar, raw squid, oysters, mussells, shark, swordfish, and have recently discovered I may have eaten some maggots, as I discovered one in a packet of figs I was eating, near the end, and I am well aware that flies do not lay single eggs.

I try not to intentionally eat things that are still living.

For what it's worth though, I went to the Great American Brew festival in Baltimore in I think it was 1998, and started at Anheuser-Busch and worked my way--with my then-husband, to Yards in one day hitting all booths. Because of a defect in my metabolism, instead of becoming sleepy I lay awake in the hotel room, watching the walls spin.

I've never had motion sickness, allergies or food poisoning or even got especially lousy puking drunk, so I suspect I have the capacity to down even more odd things in the future.

Looking forward to it, really.

[vixengrl]

54. Oh, and ostrich and kangaroo.

Although they're hardly that exotic these days. But for compleatism's sake, I list'em. Did not get enough of kangaroo to really know what it was about--kind of rabbity but with beefy undertones. Ostrich reminded me of venison, a little, and for what it's worth, alligator really was just like major big frog's legs--which I'll again guess are not that exotic. Or at least no more so than crayfish....

I have not eaten fish bait sold as such or paint chips, if you're wondering.

[lutefisk]

56. lutefisk

but I love it

:hi:

[Aristus]

57. I've had calamari.

It wasn't that bad; a little rubbery, but with enough parmesan cheese, garlic, and olive oil on it, it tasted pretty good. B-)

On the last cruise my wife and I took, I ate escargot - snails! They were actually okay. Again, enough garlic and butter will make anything taste good...

[vixengrl]

59. I have a theory that states that one might eat anything

if breaded with a little parmesan and spices in the mix, deep-fried, and served with marinara sauce. I might even do snails again, if they were served like calimari.

[JeffR]

60. Lasagna made with moose meat.

It was very tasty too.

Haven't touched red meat in almost 20 years, just to atone for it.

[edbermac]

61. A South American rugby player.

Tasted like chicken. :silly:

[KitchenWitch]

62. Deep fried alligator on a stick

[Parche]

76. Thats A Croc

:rofl: :hi: :hug:

[Callalily]

63. I've noticed in above

threads, many people said calamari and escargot. Have eaten both, and when cooked properly both are very tasty. I don't think either are unusual.

I guess the most unusual thing that I have eaten is squirrel. Not your urban squirrel, but the ones that live in the woods. Yes, they hunt them around here.

Had rabbit too, but I don't think that's too unusual either. At least not around here.

[FloridaJudy]

64. I was once served a human tooth in plate of snails

But I didn't eat it. I have my standards.

I eat all kinds of stuff most Americans won't touch - snails, squid, octopus, sheep's brains, frogs, etc. But I'll only eat tripe under duress, i.e. to avoid looking like an Ugly American. Somehow I seem to wind up in parts of the world where tripe is considered a delicacy and I have to eat it to avoid offending the hostess. A hint: if you cut it into small pieces and swallow it fast without chewing, it's not nearly so nasty. The last time I did that though, I got the response "Oh, you finished your serving so fast! You must love it - here, have some more!"

[quakerboy]

65. Banana slug

I was young.

as an older person.. I dunno. Pigs feet were interesting. I'm about 95% sure that I was served sweet and sour cat once, at my parents favorite restaurant. Skunk, thanks to an uncle. A friend once served me some sort of roadkill. He refused to identify species, but assured us he had accidentally run down the critter himself so it was fresh.


Bologna freaks me out, I find that stuff pretty weird. Mayo is pretty freaky weird as well, but I do my damnedest to avoid that stuff.

[Art_from_Ark]

66. Squid is extremely popular in Japan

where they even sell squid chips and dried squid as snacks

[spinbaby]

77. They sell a lot of tentacles in Japan

Also octopus balls, which is probably the weirdest thing I've eaten. Once I was in a restaurant that served whale bacon but I didn't have any.

[Zero Division]

67. Algae chips...

made for human consumption, not fish food. Not terrible, but not something I'd eat again by choice.

[MaggieSwanson]

69. Chicken intestines, threaded on a stick

then barbecued. Duck fetus in the shell. Pig blood stew with entrails.

:hi:

[machI]

70. Well if you include the episodes when I was under the influence of LSD

I did eat an oil pipeline once. Well it was a hot dog, but it was like an old 1960s 8 mm color movie running and ...

It is hard to explain, but it sure was funny.

[sohndrsmith]

71. head cheese, blood sausage, sweetbreads, brains,

Sea urchin, snails (escargot), quail (I swear they were sparrows), and their tiny eggs, fiddleheads (snapped from the stems in the woods or in salads), clover heads, rabbit, limpets right off the sea rocks, cactus, bear stew.

LOVE sweetbreads, snails, both the fresh urchins (I helped gather) and the bear stew was incredible. Head cheese and blood sausage are intolerable unless your intent is to spew.

There's so much more... my guess is all these things attributed to my having a "cast eye-ron" (a la Bugs Bunny) stomach.

[RebelOne]

72. Fried grasshoppers

I was told they were nuts. They tasted like nuts. That is, until I saw the label on the container they were in.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

75. chitlins

x(

[DarkTirade]

78. My e... oh, wait, NOT a sex thread. Nevermind.