what's the weirdest thing you've ever eaten?

[mrklin]

Octopus - tasty, but very chewy. I like the smoked octopus best.

Cuttlefish - it's dried and packed in salt, so its texture is a bit like beef jerky.

Haggis - Mmmmmmm. Very spicy (lots of black pepper and onions in it) and kind of reminds me of liverwurst.

 

[mrtnmoon]

Octopus - tasty, but very chewy. I like the smoked octopus best.

Cuttlefish - it's dried and packed in salt, so its texture is a bit like beef jerky.

Haggis - Mmmmmmm. Very spicy (lots of black pepper and onions in it) and kind of reminds me of liverwurst.

jay leno tried to eat haggis once and couldn't. it was really hard to tell much from just seeing it on tv, but it looked quite a bit like dogfood. bleh...

 

[mrtnmoon]

scorpion.
it tastes like almond. and thats what i told myself while i was chewing. "it's just an almond..."

I'm curious... how did you come to be eating scorpion? and, did you eat the whole thing? I mean, even the part with the stinger?

 

[KravMaga]

I don't know what made me think of this, but a couple of centuries ago the band I was in played at a bar that was trying to carve out a niche for itself by serving different types of game on its menu. they hosted an outdoor festival with a bunch of different bands and food booths from some of the local restaurants. at their own booth they were serving buffalo burgers, which I think are fairly common now but weren't at the time. they also had alligator meat, and ostrich. possibly they had snake, too, but my memory is kind of hazy.

I got to try a buffalo burger, but by the time I found out about the more exotic fare they were out of it. I don't know if I would have actually eaten it or not, but I think that I really wanted to try it.

so, as far as I can remember the buffalo is still the most out of the ordinary thing I've ever eaten. pretty boring, I know.... I'd be willing to bet there are some people here who have eaten some pretty strange things. this is the place to share your story.

bring on the rocky mountain oysters!

snail sashimi.....Thank God for sake and suntory grand royal.......

 

[Sagittarian]

Aligator in FL.

 

[moana15]

I won't eat bugs.

I have had whale blubber, seal, salmon eggs, soapberries, variety of game animals. I've eaten fiddlehead ferns, critters that are basically barnacles, types of shellfish known as gumboots.

One time an aunt said as she was going through the Seattle Aquarium "they have everything in here that is good to eat." And then she laughed.

 

[Trace_Element]

Some crazy chick that wiggled a lot when she came...

 

[questiongrl]

cow tongue.

*barf*

 

[morewickedfun]

Human thigh.

 

[Killswitch]

aiyee....``

lol....

 

[mrtnmoon]

Human thigh.

cooked, or did you cut it right off of a living person?

 

[blondasian]

Well.. I live in mexico.. so worse/wierdest thing would be brain tacos. No I don't want seconds.. the texture is horrid!!

 

[KravMaga]

scorpion.
it tastes like almond. and thats what i told myself while i was chewing. "it's just an almond..."

Natto is pretty funky too....

 

[SoulWeavinGirl]

One person's weird is another person's norm. So aside from what I would consider the normal wild gave, ie. venison, elf, pheasant, swan, I've had antelope, oh and I've had buffalo, but it wasn't wild.

I've also eaten cow tongue, quail eggs, and fried larvae (I'm not sure what kind of larvae, and I'm not sure I really want to know.)

I would love to eat a lover's ass, but my husband won't let me go there.

 

[Shadowann2]

Shark tacos, octupus (so chewey!), rattle snake, buffulo jerkey, and chocolate covered ants (crunchy!).

 

[Succulence31]

cow tongue.

*barf*

Only the very tip is palatable, IMO....

I once shared a pigs ear with my puppy....Wouldn't do that again.

 

[katiebarthedoor]

I'm curious... how did you come to be eating scorpion? and, did you eat the whole thing? I mean, even the part with the stinger?

i was in thailand for about six weeks. i stayed in pattaya - a southern city a couple hours from bangkok - most of the time.

crickets, snakes, scorpions, centipedes. all sold from street vendors. like a hot-dog cart.
the crickets were painfully spicy.
i didnt eat the tail, but i saw people doing so - so i dont think it's dangerous. either the venom is removed by preparation, or theres not enough to make you sick.

 

[Corruptible]

Raw squid.

And I don't mean calamari. We were dissecting squids in Biology class, and some guy bet me money that I wouldn't eat one.

The worst part was the ink as it slid down my throat...

 

[lifethruphotos]

Well let's see, lots of wild meat, cariboo, moose, deer, red deer. Horse, bison. Snails (escargot), bourgots (a type of barnacle i think), octopus (not great), frogs legs (best to catch them yourself!! fresher you know...) pike livers (from cold water, cook them in garlic butter). Boudin, which is a type of sausage made from pigs blood with onions and spices.

 

[Mansa Musa]

Natto is pretty funky too....

You´ve eaten natto? You´re a far better man than I, so I tip my hat. My personal selection for weirdest food eaten is goat head´s soup. I´d use the traditional name, but this is a porn board.

 

[mrklin]

jay leno tried to eat haggis once and couldn't. it was really hard to tell much from just seeing it on tv, but it looked quite a bit like dogfood. bleh...

Yeah, it does resemble canned dog food now that you mention it. That's the steel cut oats (not the rolled oats Americans are used to) that make up the bulk of a haggis. The rest is liver, kidney, heart, and a few other cuts of meat all ground up together and steamed. It's different in Scotland, in that they use lungs and such. In America, the USDA won't go for that - they say it isn't considered fit for human consumption. Bastids, all of them...

Flavor-wise, think spicy liverwurst.


EDIT: Oh, and I find it funny that Leno couldn't manage to try it. His mother is from Glasgow.

 

[ImpishSeraph]

Gopher turtle

 

[LotusDreamer]

Pussy.

I wanna kiss your tummy.
Just thought I'd let you know that.


Anyway, I've eaten cow tongue, frog legs, oysters, clams, mussels and octopus.

 

[The Gimp]

I guess the strangest thing that I've eaten is chitterlings, or as we call them in my family chit-lins. I can only assume that the tradition of serving a big bucket of boiled pork intestines after rinsing the shit out of them is something that originated in slave days.
Regardless of how the tradition got started add some hot sauce and they're mighty tasty

 

[LotusDreamer]

I guess the strangest thing that I've eaten is chitterlings, or as we call them in my family chit-lins. I can only assume that the tradition of serving a big bucket of boiled pork intestines after rinsing the shit out of them is something that originated in slave days.
Regardless of how the tradition got started add some hot sauce and they're mighty tasty

Chit-lins, yes.
They are so common in my family that it didn't even come to mind.

I only eat two or three a year, by the third one it usually hits me, again, exactly
where this stuff comes from.