Weirdest thing you ever ate.............(food items only)

[mopaul]

i have eaten possums, and i don't reccommend it. also robins, goats, elks, deers, wild geese, pheasant, pig brains, pig snoot sandwich, lard sandwich, (my mom made those), fried mush, quail eggs, but not quail, and pickled pigs feet.

i've never had a rabbit, or a turtle, or a frog, but many of my friends enjoy them. never ate a snail, never will.

one time when i had a real bad cough, my dad gave me a hot totty with whiskey and honey and lemon and tea and it cured me. one time my mom gave me straight turpentine in a spoon of sugar for the same thing, it damn near killed me. she also made us drink cod liver oil and castor bean oil. extra awful.

[redqueen]

1. Pickled pigs feet here, too

It was a long time ago, but I remember that I liked it. Afraid to try it again, though.

[NewHampshireDem]

2. Fried tripe ..

Nasty, nasty, nasty. But my grandmother loved it. :shrug:

[wtmusic]

3. Snails, sea urchins

Snails tasted like lawnmower clippings

[BlueMole]

4. Guinea Pig

In Ecuador. A delicacy there. mmm tasty

[KayLaw]

5. :Yuck

My worst are the things my mother tried to feed me and my step-brother. Lamb, dandelion greens, baked apples ... ugh, all horrid!

[mopaul]

6. i LOVES me some dandelion greens

no kidding. never had lamb either. if you're hungry, you'll eat damn near anything i guess. and if you'll eat a hot dog, you might as well eat anything

[Bjornsdotter]

7. Weird is relative.....

....I can't eat jello, ketchup or marshmallows.....yuck!

However, I've had rabbit, frog legs, snails, smoked reindeer meat, horse meat, smoked eel, pickled herring, fried herring, smoked herring, moose, caribou, bear....didn't really care for the bear.

Cheers,
Kim

[Philostopher]

8. I think I've got you beat, mopaul.

I had an uncle whose brother lived in the area, and the two of them used to dare each other to eat bizarre things. They'd go through elaborate rituals to prepare them in ways that made them at least remotely palatable, but most of the time it was dreck. I had a piece of deep fried snapping turtle once, and also ... and the thought gags me to this day ... groundhog. The snapping turtle was probably from a pond somewhere nearby, and it tasted like pond mud breaded and deep fried. The groundhog tasted worse.

[mwdem]

9. I've tried pickled pig's feet,

and chitlin's! I've have frog's legs, & tried some rattlesnake meat. Won't go near escargot. (southern heritage).

[Kellanved]

10. weird ? Don't know about that

Locusts, mealworms, boar, pig feet (pied de cochon à la Sainte Menehould), pig knuckle (Haxe), sweetbread, frog, goat, elk, kangaroo, ostrich , snails, quail, quail eggs, lard sandwich(Schmalzbrot), rabbit (why is this strange?), alligator, ...

:shrug:

[mopaul]

11. kangaroo and ostrich.........you win!

i'm just guessing where you lived, or live. they sell ostrich and emu here in k.c., mo. also buffalo and beefalo. i've been so hungry at times, my cat started morphing into a huge bratwurst with saurkraut.................mmmmmmmmmmmmmmgghhhhhhhhhhhhh

[Kellanved]

13. kangaroo and ostrich were pretty common during the BSE scare.

I did not have to leave central Europe to get 'em :hi: .

[stranger_with_candy]

26. Ostrich is good

so is Rabbit

[AgadorSparticus]

28. believe it or not, i got ostrich steaks at costco. Hubby didn't like it.

said it was too gamey for him. But I like it alot. Still have some in my freezer. Also bought buffalo from Costco. it was good too. leaner and far healthier than beef.

[stranger_with_candy]

32. Buffalo is good

much leaner than ground beef.

[scottcsmith]

12. Unidentified meat

I was on leave at Subic Bay, Philippines, back in 1991, and purchased some food from a street vendor. No idea what the meat was. Chicken? Beef? Monkey? Dog? Who knows? I didn't. All I remember was it tasted pretty good.

I'm pretty sure I've had kangaroo.

[mopaul]

14. i thought you meant braunsweiger or bologna or weenies

mostly unidentified meat and meat byproducts

[scottcsmith]

15. Could have been anything

The lesson I learned was, don't purchase food from a street vendor in a third-world country if you do not know what that food is.

It could have been...PEOPLE!

[LDS Jock]

16. worm as a kid and potted meat as an adult

between the two, I'll take the worm. Potted meat ingredients include mechanically separated chicken, partially defatted pork fatty tissue, mechanically separated pork tissue, beef tripe, beef hearts and some other preservatives. YUCK! Thats stuff they wouldn't even put in a hot dog. :puke:

[Richard D]

17. Well . . .

Crickets, Jelly Fish, tree fungus, fish stomach, corn fungus, 1000 year old eggs, bull balls (I didn't know what it was, though I was horney as hell for the next two days.)limpets, chicken feet . . .

[Swamp Rat]

18. Nutrea, rabbits, turtles, frogs, snails, and all the big game critters

you mentioned, including horse meat (in Nicaragua). I raised quail and used to eat the eggs. I also used to eat raw turtle eggs before I went diving for conch. My favorite food is crawfish... a woman puked when she saw me suck out the brains.

Mmmmmm.........

[peekaloo]

44. You ate a swamp rat (nutria), Swamp_Rat?

eeewwwwwww.

[Swamp Rat]

59. HAHAHA! You busted me! I am a cannibal... not like this guy though...

[eleny]

19. Brains

[no_hypocrisy]

20. Calf's brains, reindeer (Rudolf, if you really must know), wild boar, and

rabbit.

[flamingyouth]

21. Sea urchin (uni)

I didn't like it. :puke:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

22. In Asia:

raw horse meat dredged in soy sauce
shark fin soup (surprisingly good)
whole crawfish (did you ever try to eat an uncut crawfish with chopsticks?)
niboshi (small, dried, whole silvery fish, eaten as a snack food in Japan)
octopus
unidentified shellfishy stuff at a Japanese inn
sliced jellyfish
natto (soybeans that are "fermented" --actually rotted--until they're gummy. It tastes like a garbage can smells, but some people just love it.)
ON EDIT: ostrich at a Chinese restaurant in San Francisco

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

23. Haggis

n/t

[MrSandman]

24. As in

"I Married an Axe Murderer," Scottish food was invented on a dare.

[stranger_with_candy]

25. horse

yes horse

[soothsayer]

27. Lion (I kid you not) scallopini

Right here in Virginia.

[RebelOne]

29. Fried grasshoppers.

I was told they were nuts. Then I saw the jar. Yuck!!!!

Also, alligator tail down at the Miccosukee Indian Reservation in the Everglades.

[blindpig]

30. pirahna

while in Amazonian Peru. Fishing gear consisted of supple branch, length of twine, old bass hook & chunks of water buffalo for bait. It was like shooting fish in a barrel. Sweet & boney, like bream.

[achtung_circus]

31. I guess that I'm an omnivore, but you wouldn't know it from this list

I think vegetable matter is universal, which animals we eat is cultural and/or religious.

Bison, elk, moose, venison, rattlesnake, chocolate covered bumblebees, horse, snails, frogs, Muktuk (seal blubber with skin attached, not good but considered a delicacy in some places, the staff of life in others) antelope, dog, porcupine.

Once, as the putative guest of honour at my Portuguese girlfriend's house I was given the head of the rabbit. Although, since Gabriella's family later shipped her back to Portugal in order to break us up, me being neither Portuguese or (gasp) Roman Catholic, maybe it was not a sign I was truly welcome.

[ze_dscherman]

33. Cultural thing

What is strange to one people is a delicacy to others - a friend of mine is married to a philippino lady who (like many Asians) shudders when even thinking of cheese. When he mocks her on this, she threatens him to cook his next meal with fermented fish heads sauce ...

While travelling rural places in Italy, I encountered several strange foods supposed to be delicacies (and liked them):
- raw sea urchin ovaries (crack em open, put some lemon juice on them, eat them with some bread) - very intense, but yummy (also ate sea urchin sauce with curry and fish on pasta in France, delicious).
- dried tuna roe (very tasty)
- tripe (you can buy this from market stalls in Italy)
- murena (like eal, but even more tender, and very delicious)
- octopus, calamaris, mussels of any kind, patella snails, land snails
- fish eyes
- In Germany, horse sausage and horse meat - not very common, but very lean meat, also boiled cows tongue (I actually liked that as a kid).
- Raw crickets, gnats, worms, as part of a "survivalist" dare (not good.

However, I've become vegetarian some years ago, so it's only strange cheese and uncommon plants I try nowadays:

- Corsican aged "brebis" - VERY smelly and very old sheep cheese, the smell came through several layers of plastic bags and tupperware. The crust looked pretty alive, the whole stuff was close to developing intelligence ... but, with white french bread and some ripe pears, it was very delicious after daring to taste it!

- Stinging nettles - these are excellent when still young and can be cooked like spinach. Also, other wild plants like bear's garlic, garlic roquette, dandelions, daisies, spruce needles and others I don't know the english names of.

[JLuckey]

34. Muskrat..........

baked in dutch oven with wine, onions and potatoes. When Dad put it on the table you ate it. French like it.

[AlecBGreen]

35. mmm sounds good

ive had squirrel. I wouldnt reccomend it though. Its very tasty but it ran through me faster than it took to finish the whole meal. NOT pleasant. I thought it was a fluke (I cookd spicy squirrel jambalaya) so i tried making chicken-fried squirrel. Same results *shudder*

Ive also had fish eyes. Pretty chewey but otherwise tasteless.

[midnight armadillo]

36. Puffin

Very tasty. I'm 100% serious.

[Parrcrow]

37. Steak Tartar

raw hamburger with garnish


oh, and haggis.

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39. Turtle

One of the guys, who my mother dated after her divorce from my father, and his family ate turtle every year at their family reunion. It wasn't an ethnic thing or anything. It was just something that they did. I was still fairly young so I ate it even though I thought that it was weird.

[Arcturus]

40. Cow hoof cheese

Tastes as good as it sounds.

[Misunderestimator]

41. Pigs feet, Rattlesnake and Rocky Mountain Oysters

though I admit I just barely tasted the RMOs on a dare... ick, ick, ick... :puke:

[arwalden]

45. You're Nuts!! --- That's disgusting!!

(Nuts. Get it? Get it? Nuts?)

[Misunderestimator]

46. Well, I know you have more experience in that department than I...

:D

[arwalden]

47. Were They Breaded And Deep Fried, Or Roasted, Or Broiled, Or Boiled?

Preparation is the key you know.

-- Allen

[Misunderestimator]

49. They were deep-fried... I couldn't have possibly tried them

any other way. :)

[mopaul]

52. food items ONLY please......jeez alan

show a little decor please

[arwalden]

55. OMG!!! I Said You're Nuts... Not "Your" Nuts...

you crack me up!

[medeak]

42. big horned sheep

not gamey at all

[Endangered Specie]

43. Ants

[WilliamPitt]

48. Alligator

in New Orleans. Tasted like fried rubber bands.

[mopaul]

53. mmmMMMMMM....fried rubber bands....gghhhhhgggghhhhhh

[Mrs. Overall]

50. Black Pudding

It's a type of "sausage" made from pig's blood and oatmeal. We ate it in Ireland and it was very good.

Also had moose roast once (my grandmother's friend was a game hunter and he always brought her interesting foods).

[mopaul]

54. i had blood pudding at my grannie's house

it was good, then she told us what it was. she also made head cheese, aged in a pigs head in the kitchen sink. scared the hell outa of me one night when i went to get a drink.

[Mandate My Ass]

51. smelts

the guy I was dating at the time was at my house and he said he thought they were only used for bait.

I also ate snails. They were cooked in Belgian ale and garlic, everytime I bit into something substantial, I convinced myself it was just a big clove of garlic.

Once in France I ordered what I thought was veal and I think I got kidney instead. :puke:

Mo, you have me beat by a country mile.

[Happy Eddie]

56. Head cheese

It wasn't that bad. And/or I was in a drunken stupor.

Also steak tartare, though that wasn't half as weird as the guy with us who kept saying "steak tarTARRRE, steak tarTARRRE, steak tarTARRRE" until it was all gone.

[Fleshdancer]

57. crab brains. they weren't bad.

[Tsiyu]

58. At an organic farm; rabbit sausage( very mild and tasty)

In Netherlands: curried goat and eel. Former delicious, latter; uh....

Also love bison and deermeat but eat no red meat now. As a kid was tricked into eating squid. Now I love it. Back then it was gross.

[kodi]

60. pickled eel salad

surprisingly like chicken

[FreakinDJ]

61. Dog

1 time in Korea

[mopaul]

62. arf!

i'll bet rover would've loved those bones.