What's the strangest thing that you have ever eaten?

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This may offend some of the vegetarians on the board, but I am curious, especially as this forum is international.

I have not eaten anything too strange. I'm sure that we'll hear about some really strange foodstuffs. I'll get it started.

Snails (Like scallops in garlic butter),
Frog Legs (like very lean chicken),
Ostrich (surprisingly like greasy roast beef),
Wild Boar (more like beef than pork and can be served rare)
Beef Tongue (really pretty nasty)

Speaking of Wild Boar, I was in Iowa a year ago and they serve their pork like beef, (rare, med rare, etc.). I'm not sure why you have to cook it well, when they eat it rare in other places.

Now I wait to hear about all the insects, brains, testicles, etc...

This thread already makes me want to go back to not eating meat...

Bill
 
Bill Sikes

Bill Sikes

Crow! ;) Anyway, I like(d) Hog Head cheese, blood sausage, pigs feet, fried European carp...that's as far as I will go. You ought to check the "Man versus Wild" ...if you are survivalist you might develop the taste for Deer or Bear poop.
 
Mark73

Mark73

I don't know if anyone could pay me enough money to eat this.


Or this. No, sure I wouldn't eat this lobster.


Sorry, I don't want to change this thread into What's the strangest thing you would never eat.
 
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That octopus video is offensive just because it tortures the animal for no reason. I'm no PETA supporter and eat my fair share of meat, but you have to draw the line at eating animals alive.
Bill
 
Mark73

Mark73

Agreed, I really wasn't serious about the money. It's gruesome and the cooks who prepare those meals, just like the people who eat the animals alive have got a screw loose, in my humble opinion.
 
mjp

mjp

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I think I swallowed part of an old tooth crown at the dentist about an hour ago...does that count?

It had a chalky, metallic taste, not unlike the scent of the binding on an Al Fogel book.
 
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davisbacon

I've had muktuk(whale blubber) and it was awful. It was raw, and some people fry it, but I can't see it being any better fried. Eskimo ice cream, which is just lard(I didn't ask what kind) mixed with raspberries and blueberries, also an aquired taste. Crocodile was pretty tasty, served fried tasted just like chicken. But the strangest is easily the one pound burrito at a local gas staiton appropiately titled "The Bomb!" I wouldn't wish it on anyone
 
Bukfan

Bukfan

"The law is wrong; I am right"
I was about to say pussy, but I think Calamari. It felt like chewing on a rubber band and it did'nt have much taste. So, no more octopus for me!
 
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zenguru

zenguru

I had beef tongue when I was little. I liked it okay.

Had ostrich at a local seafood restaurant. It's closed down. It's a strip bar now.
 
Gerard K H Love

Gerard K H Love

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Beef tongue is the very best beef. Didn't you see the movie Dances with Wolves? The old time Midwest settlers would shoot a buffalo just to cut out it's tongue for supper.
Raw oysters are the strangest thing for me since beef tongue is so perfectly delicious.
 
zenguru

zenguru

That octopus video is truly disgusting. Not that I wouldn't eat octo. Just not while it's alive. That's torture.
 
mjp

mjp

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You guys do understand that the predators that eat octopus in the ocean don't catch them and humanely kill and prepare them...they just swallow them. Kinda like that guy in the video. The food chain is all about being eaten alive. We're the only ones who have a problem with that.
 
cirerita

cirerita

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I was born a vegetarian (yeah, I know), but beaver is ok by me. Never been big on cocks, tho, I'm afraid to report.
 
C

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A lot of nasty things when I worked in China: dog soup (I thought they say "goat" but later they told me they said "Goh" or somesuch, meaning "dog" in the local dialect); snake; snake blood, snake bile; sea turtle; donkey; an orange with a big worm sticking out with a blade of grass growing through the worm... I finally started telling people I was a vegetarian when I visited. I never figured out if these were delicasies they enjoyed ordering when out to dinner with me on expense accounts, or whether they wanted to see how far they could push me.

My wife is from the Northeast of Thailand, where they make a paste out of mashed water-bugs and chilis, and spoon it over rice. I won't touch it, but I've eaten deep-fried grasshoppers (best after 6 or more beers).

Oh, and I ate at Wendy's once.
 
Black Swan

Black Swan

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The weirdest thing I have ever eaten and possible to mention, was the worm at the bottom of a bottle of mescal. I thing that I have eaten fried baby crabs, eaten like chips and a chocolate covered grasshopper. As far as I can remember, or been aware of. Usually all these were drowned by large amount of alcohol.
I eat calamari as often as I can, I love them.
In Holland, I have eaten 'haringen' quite often, and 'palingen'. They are fresh, raw herrings and smoked eels.
 
Ponder

Ponder

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Black Swan forgot to mention that the Dutch eat raw herring together with raw onions.

An American tries a herring in the tradional Dutch way:

 
Black Swan

Black Swan

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Unkissable, I can tell you that, especially if beer comes with it, not to mention the digesting process. :shutup:
If you haven't eaten it yourself, and your partner has, my advice to you is to drink heavily, or spend your day at the museum.
 
Mark73

Mark73

I remember I've also tried rat food when I was dead broke, some of it is unchewable and most of it tastes awful, so I went for the sunflower seeds in it.

Jesus.
 
Rekrab

Rekrab

Usually wrong.
Chocolate covered ants, when I was a kid. They tasted like ants, if you know what I mean. And chocolate. Not good, but tolerable.
 
1fsh2fsh

1fsh2fsh

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rattle snake, sundried octopus, crocodile. most all North American "game" animals. though I'm a vegetarian now.
 
nervas

nervas

more crickets than friends
Nothing too crazy. Duck and rattlesnake, not together, separately and hated them both.

On another note, I was telling people at work today about Marie Calendar's off the menu 5-cheese grilled cheese sandwich, and they all thought that was strange. I think it's delicious!
 
Bukfan

Bukfan

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This should be pleasing to the palate, Bukfan. Tasty goodness at :21.
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OMG! It's enough to make one a vegetarian monk or something. :biggrin:

Black Swan forgot to mention that the Dutch eat raw herring together with raw onions.
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Right, I saw people eat those raw herrings at the fish stands, when I visited Amsterdam. I was not exactly tempted to try eating one myself. :eek:
 
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