Most Unusual Foods You've Eaten

[Gabriel Suarez]

Sea Urchin from a Sushi House on Oahu

Tartufo mushrooms in Rome (now that made for some interesting dreams) washed down with Aqua Vita.

Blood Sausage in Almeria, Spain

Tartar in a bar in the outskirts of Bratislava (washed down with the local version of Rakshi)

Guinea Pig in South America washed down with Pisco.

[ordinarysaint]

Nothing to exciting.Just an emaciated horse and noodles in a former Young Pioneers Camp on the outskirts of Kiev.Also had some sala(I think thats what they called it) or Ukrainian Snickers,just a thick slice of lard.

[AlexSpartan]

I ate goat brains in Crete when I was a child. No, I wasn't told what it was before I ate it. No, I didn't like it. Reminded me of firm fat, or really firm meat-flavored jello.

The usual seafood - shark, sea urchins, raw squid, cuttlefish, etc. Didn't care much for the sea urchins.

Blood sausage is a favorite of mine. Planning a trip for Ireland in the next few years, and it's definitely on my list of things to eat every day.

[ZMB HNTR]

Cow brain and eyes at a small Mexican taco stand

Carp "seasoned" with garlic in Romania

Haggis and blood sausage in Scotland -- tied with a blood concoction at a local Filipino joint

[John Chambers]

Bad sea urchin sushi in the house of a JSDF Intel officer and his family. That and the sake stuck with me for days. Their village was destroyed by the tsunami, hope they made it.

Mystery meat cevapi on a tasty flat bread. It was so fresh I could still taste the diesel fuel that it was cooked over. Slivovitz for a chaser, it was kind of similar to fuel too! :)

[Ryan Acuff]

Slanina (same thing as sala)
Sea Urchin
Escargot
ground hog
gator

[Pokeguyjai]

Sea urchin isn't really all that unusual. Very common on the ocean floor, like ocean weeds! It's pretty much tasteless if dried and rehydrated/washed properly. (most common way for that Asians eat it, apart from those crazy japanese) If you eat it raw from the ocean it just tastes like the ocean floor.

But it's like tripe, it tastes like what you cook it with.

[AlexSpartan]

Slanina (same thing as sala)
Sea Urchin
Escargot
ground hog
gator

Oh yeah, escargot isn't bad. Had it at a neat French restaurant in Madison, Wisconsin a few years back. Good stuff.

[Ryan Acuff]

Sea urchin isn't really all that unusual. Very common on the ocean floor, like ocean weeds! It's pretty much tasteless if dried and rehydrated/washed properly. (most common way for that Asians eat it, apart from those crazy japanese) If you eat it raw from the ocean it just tastes like the ocean floor.

But it's like tripe, it tastes like what you cook it with.

I'm from east Tn. Urchin is pretty dang unusual there.

I totally forgot about tripe soup aka chiorba de burta.

[Greg Nichols]

hog balls, sheep balls, cow tongue, squirrel, possum, raccoon, skunk, crawl fish, frog legs, snapping turtle, gator

Most of these qualify as hillbilly more than Bon Vivant tho :biglaugh:

[AlexSpartan]

Yeah, Greg, I don't think I'll ever eat balls if I don't have to...

Tongue isn't bad, though. Heart is tasty, as well.

[Vigilant]

?Meat on stick?-Roadside stand outside of Comayagua, Honduras (still don't know what it was)
fish head soup-Colon, Panama
Escargot
Gator
Rattlesnake
Shark
Octopus
The worms out of the bottom of a bottle of Dos Gusanos Mezcal
And I'd be willing to bet, a possum or groundhog or two at some Tennessee BBQ's I've been to?

[McTavish]

Shark & Gator were common when I lived in FL, Moose is good and sorta rare to get here, Buffalo is good.
Had Monkey once.

[bae]

You may be able to guess my ethnicity from the first few:

- squirrel brains with eggs, squirrel burgoo, possum stew, muskrat & onions, head cheese, souse, scrapple, lardon, pork cracklin's, oatmeal-blood pudding, well, you get the picture....

- whale, seal

- unmentionable fermented Japanese and Chinese foods

- monkfish liver (ankimo?)

- ortolan

- shark fin soup

- sea cucumber, jellyfish

[s4141]

Whatever the hell my first wife made. It must have resembled the primordial ooze a few billion years ago.

Rattlesnake
Mountain Oysters
chocolate covered crickets

[Greg Nichols]

bae You may be able to guess my ethnicity from the first few:

- squirrel brains with eggs, squirrel burgoo, possum stew, muskrat & onions, head cheese, souse, scrapple, lardon, pork cracklin's, oatmeal-blood pudding, well, you get the picture....

sounds like Gramma so I'm gonna guess Creole

[Pokeguyjai]

- unmentionable fermented Japanese and Chinese foods


Fermenting foods is very every day in Asian cultures. Along with the 1000 year eggs, "fu yu" (cantonese) is pretty common. Fu yu is a form of fermented tofu, different from the stinky tofu from Taiwan.

I'd like to feed this to a liberal vegan for dinner... "Hmm I don't have anything vegan... oh wait I do have some tofu..."

http://www.csupomona.edu/~jskoga/fermentedtofu/ (http://www.csupomona.edu/%7Ejskoga/fermentedtofu/)

Eat it with white rice, it's pretty awesome. Or throw it in a pan with some boiled leafy greens... mmm. And accompany it with some salted fish/duck eggs and bam you got yourself a meal! Talk about eating on a budget!

ETA: bae you got my stomach grumbling at 2 in the morning. Blood sausage... head cheese... cracklin?!?! Definitely sounds creole to me too!


hog balls, sheep balls, cow tongue, squirrel, possum, raccoon, skunk, crawl fish, frog legs, snapping turtle, gator

Most of these qualify as hillbilly more than Bon Vivant tho :biglaugh:

Possum... man you hillbillys are crazy! Next you're going to tell me that you eat raccoon!!

[Dorkface]

The only things I can think of are Rattle snake and then all sorts of game meats. While game meats might not be that unusual it is oddly enough to most people who only know beef, chicken and pork. I wasn't brave enough to try the Haggis when I was in Scotland rofl....

[ReconScout]

Assortment of grubs and crickets,
But the most unusual meal was Cobra.
Most disgusting was definitely Lutefisk :yuck::barf:

[Gabriel Suarez]

Slivovitza!! That was it.

[JeffC]

Durian in Malaysia - OMG!
Mountain oysters - Not too bad
Misc. street food in Thailand - mostly unknown and tasty
Raw sea urchin - Pretty good actually
Tacos de cabesa - supposed to cure hangovers

-jeff

[BigEd63]

Peppered Ostrich Steaks.

Shark, if fresh is something I like baked in butter. Not very unusual for coastal dwellers but hard to get inland.

"Elk Burgers" not very exotic but just different for me.

[AlexSpartan]

Most disgusting was definitely Lutefisk :yuck::barf:
Oh, man, you got that right. Believe it or not, but some of the Scandinavians here in MN still eat that crap, this is more common the further north one goes.

[HamburgO]

I guess strangeness is relative. E.g. blood and tongue sausage were staples growing up in Germany, as were head-cheese (sliced flesh from the pig's or cow's face, pickled and jellied), and jellied eel - all seem normal to me. Sea urchin too, we used to take it right out of the sea in Spain and suck it up raw on the beach.

Two things new and strange in the past few years were molleja and chinchulin in Argentina. That would be thymus gland and lower intestine of the cow, respectively, both grilled to a crisp on the parrilla. Good when washed down with copious amounts of Malbec!

ETA: On second thought - after decades, and even though I like 'em, eating raw fish eggs (ikura, masago, caviar) still seems kinda weird... in a good way!

[jmac_52]

You may be able to guess my ethnicity from the first few:

- squirrel brains with eggs, squirrel burgoo, possum stew, muskrat & onions, head cheese, souse, scrapple, lardon, pork cracklin's, oatmeal-blood pudding, well, you get the picture....


These sure sound familiar to me as well. I can't say that I've ever had oatmeal-blood pudding, but you can include me in the others. I haven't seen boudin mentioned, but it's an old time favorite of mine, too.

[ReconScout]

Oh, man, you got that right. Believe it or not, but some of the Scandinavians here in MN still eat that crap, this is more common the further north one goes.

I had it visiting a great uncle in Denmark... Next to impossible to keep a straight face while eating it. The look on his face was priceless as he bursts out in laughter from my disgustful containment. Home brewed hard cider from apples picked fresh from the orchard out back helped take the edge off! Crazy Vikings.:smashfreak:

[Mossyrock]

Dog, whale blubber, haggis, porcupine, bobcat, cougar, bear, some stuff in Korea I couldn't identify, rat on a stick in Thailand, rattlesnake, aligator, turtle eggs...and probably some other stuff that my mind has blocked out for the sake of my sanity.

[Mossyrock]

Slivovitza!! That was it. Man...that stuff will make you go blind! I don't know what's worse...slivo, rhakia or soju....yech.

[bmp_sbi]

Tongue, eel, raccoon.

[907Thunder]

Jellied Moose nose, like the stuff on spam.

[SUA SPONTE]

Deep Fried Scorpion (on a stick) – while slightly inebriated on a street in Thailand. Tasted kinda like a rotten pork rind.
Snake wine (Cobra) – at a nameless bar in SE Asia. Taste: terrible Reaction: scary
Vampire Bat (Fire Roasted) – while conducting Survival training in Panama. Tasted pretty good

[randyho]

Triggerfish. And perhaps the reason it's unusual is the amount of work needed to get through the skin. They should make body armor from that stuff.

[ReconScout]

Deep Fried Scorpion (on a stick) – while slightly inebriated on a street in Thailand. Tasted kinda like a rotten pork rind.
Snake wine (Cobra) – at a nameless bar in SE Asia. Taste: terrible Reaction: scary
Vampire Bat (Fire Roasted) – while conducting Survival training in Panama. Tasted pretty good

We had snake handlers bring a cobra out of a concrete box, play with it in front of us and then chop it's head off. The blood was drained into a metal pitcher mixed with some sort of hard alcohol. shots were poured all around as we toasted to the vitality of which the cobra blood would bring. ...i think in the future i'll stick to jack and coke.

[ckmcconahay]

Armadillo, fried ants, various grubs, various snake meats, fried grashoopers and crickets, oppossum, raccoon, and some kind of chicken looking bird I shot from a tree in the Kimechee Forest in S.E. Oklahoma. All washed down with copious amounts of water or beer.

[SUA SPONTE]

We had snake handlers bring a cobra out of a concrete box, play with it in front of us and then chop it's head off. The blood was drained into a metal pitcher mixed with some sort of hard alcohol. shots were poured all around as we toasted to the vitality of which the cobra blood would bring. ...i think in the future i'll stick to jack and coke.

I agree 100%.....

Gentelman Jack and Coke is my drink too. It has caused me some rough mornings once or twice but I never thought I was gonna die unlike that Corba stuff.

Cheers
T.

[debate225]

Doubt this qualifies, but the closest I've come to anything exotic is raw chicken liver. (It wasn't nice...especially fresh off the eviscerating table. Good thing we have our own operation.)

[Jack Rumbaugh]

Gator, many different types of turtle, turtle eggs, tried most everything in a sushi bar at least once, snakes of various types but rattlesnake is a fave. Have had tripe, not a fan. Tongue isn't bad.

[JamesOC]

I love that blood sausage is a unusual food! It was a staple for me as a kid.

Fried insects, Dogfish (half cooked of course.), Reindeer.

[dcgnr]

I had a typical redneck/farm upbringing so I learned to eat anything that didn't eat me first! So I have had every kind of thing that can be made from all the common domesticated animals i.e. cows, hogs, sheep, goats, chickens, and ducks. So you have your tongue ,heart, scrapple, head cheese, and all the sausages my german forebearers passed down through the ages. Plus coon, possum, deer, fish, turtle, snake, squirrel (love squirrel brains with fried eggs). Then when I left home I branched out into insects and insect larvae, sushi of all kinds. I will pretty much try anything I see somebody else eat.
I still don't care to much for limburger cheese though.

[foxmeadow]

[QUOTE Most disgusting was definitely Lutefisk :yuck::barf:[/QUOTE]

I have some blonde friends who eat it at Christmas at Their Granpa's house. They call it "Rudefisk"..

I've had most North American critters, deer, elk, moose, pronghorn (my favorite) frogs, rabbits, squirrel, snakes, grasshoppers, ants, gopher, gator, iguana, turtle, goat, horse, most fish available, but my favorite surprise was on the train from Nogales to Tepic. Shrimp tamales. Whole shrimp, eyes, legs, antennae and shells. Larrupin' good..

[thanos2535]

When in China I ate all kinds of fried bugs on a stick, dog, water buffalo, squid pizza (from pizza hut no less), sand worms, urchin, all kinds of birds that were not game birds but tropical forest type birds, but the worst of the bunch which was not that unusual as they are imported from the good ol' US of A is pickled chicken feet. Chinese call them dragon claws worst thing I have ever eaten. I have drank all kinds of home made wines, alcohol or moonshines and nothing was as bad as snake wine. I would rather drink grain alcohol or gasoline than take another shot of snake wine.

[barnetmill]

Armadillo, fried ants, various grubs, various snake meats, fried grashoopers and crickets, oppossum, raccoon, and some kind of chicken looking bird I shot from a tree in the Kimechee Forest in S.E. Oklahoma. All washed down with copious amounts of water or beer.
Was it a sage hen or prairie chicken?

[WalkerAK74M]

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the omelette MREs....:biglaugh::yuck:

[bae]

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the omelette MREs....:biglaugh::yuck:

He asked "food you've eaten"....

[BigEd63]

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the omelette MREs....:biglaugh::yuck:

The one time I've seen "Green Eggs & Ham" for real.:crazy:

[Pict]

Raw mealworms, nasty pop in your mouth blob of goo.

Fried mealworms, with some salt and old bay could be a popular snack food

Roasted grasshoppers, quite good

Large ants, taste like lemon from the formic acid

Sea Cucumber - Not to be repeated

Blood sausage - good but odd texture

Chicken in chicken blood gravy, good but odd for the American palate

Lizard - Very bland, needs salt or hot sauce to be interesting.

Pork preserved in pork fat for six months in tropical heat. AWESOME

Paca, large Guinea pig looking tropical forest animal. Quite possibly my favorite meat.

Capibara - Large river and swamp dwelling rodent, actually the worlds largest. Like strong, dark, greasy pork.

Alligator - Very good, like a cross between chicken and fish.

[TrojanSkyCop1]

Live grasshoppers (both with and w/o chocolate)
Live fireflies
Dead crickets (flavored like potato chips)
Ants (live and dead, in my cereal)
Sea squirt
Jellyfish (in soup)
Filefish
Alligator tail
Pigeon (squab)
Sea urchin
Escargot (too damn garlicky)
Frog legs
Eel
Octopus
Squid and cuttlefish (fried calamari, en su tinta , driied jerky, and sushi [I]ika form)
Buffalo
Elk

[ckmcconahay]

Was it a sage hen or prairie chicken? .......I honestly do not know what kind of bird it was. I saw it in the tree making bird-like noises, I had my .22 rifle with me so I shot it. It was two to three times bigger than a dove so I thought that I'd clean and eat it. It was a light colored meat......very tasty. I was original setting out to hunt squirrels.

[Maddog6]

hog balls, sheep balls, cow tongue, squirrel, possum, raccoon, skunk, crawl fish, frog legs, snapping turtle, gator

Most of these qualify as hillbilly more than Bon Vivant tho :biglaugh:

Greg, it is not "hillbilly". It is Appalachian American!

[BigEd63]

Yeah some of that is not considered "unusual" around these parts here either like ground hog.:yumyum:

[coastalcop]

ludefisk Nasty

Fried Crickets, not so bad

Roaches live (unintentional), still better than ludefisk

[TrojanSkyCop1]

Greg, it is not "hillbilly". It is Appalacian American!

Do Appalachian-Americans qualify for protected minority status and affirmative action? :wink:

[Chris Upchurch]

The most unusual would probably have to be kangaroo (in Australia, naturally) and rattlesnake (in Arizona).

[WVShooter]

Well, I've been to South America, Africa, Asia, and Europe.
Most places I always tried some of the local food, sometimes as a choice and sometimes that was it. LOL
Some of it was outstanding and some of it almost made me puke on the spot. Most of it I didn't want to know what it was.
Ants, and crickets roasted are pretty good.

[Steve Paulson]

I consider my tastes pretty broad, but you guys have shown me how narrow my sampling has been. There may be some things I've forgotten, but here goes...

Gator--excellent.
White tail venison heart--good.
Lutefisk--tastes like fish jello. Could probably acquire the taste, but why?
Tripe--only if I have to.
Raw oyster...not terribly uncommon, but exceedingly vile.

[JFSanders]

I would put ludefisk on my sea cucumber to make it taste better. But Boiled Okra without the pepper sauce is my number one nastiest food. Things I won't eat again unless it is a do or die scenario actually number quite small but boiled okra and sea cucumber top the list. And mountain oysters are actually better to me than raccoon or possum on the half shell. You just should not over cook them.

[KalashMan]

Seal, whale, porcupine.

Mario

[Dr. Dan Choi]

Smoked whale in Norway - way too fishy tasting for my tastes. Rocky mountain oysters at a end of year party during my internship. Chocolate covered crickets in New Orleans, don't ask me why i had them there. Oh yeah, and dried salted octopus and cuttlefish.....it's an asian thing.

[UrbanTiger74]

Crab roe- With rice and patis(fish sauce) it's DAMN GOOD
Crab fat- the yellow and green stuff...mixed in with the roe, rice and patis, GREAT!!!! These two combined = high cholesterol and high blood pressure. That's Flip food for ya.
Escargot- I actually like my backyard friends in butter and garlic.
Pusit- Tagalog for dried squid. With vinegar it rocks. Make it better, just add rice. LOL!!!! WARNING: The wife or gf will not kiss you for days. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Chick on a Stick...NO NOT THAT, THIS.....

17403
I was 5 when I ate it and they didn't tell me about the gullet. BLEH!!!!!

I also had this....balut...fermented duck egg. There are several versions(stages of growth actually) one can eat. Again I was 5 when I saw what it was. I didn't eat the duckling I just ate the yoke and drank the soup that was inside. LOL!!!!
17404

[mudthang]

For those acquainted with southern Africa, you may have seen those bright long-haired orange caterpillars on mopane trees, especially in the Zambezi River valley. Those mopane worms are either deep fried or dried-out and eaten like jerky. Dark green and rubbery, not unlike car tyre!

Also the larger flying ant (termite drones), which emerge after rain are caught in a shallow trap outside a termite mound. Wings shaken off and grubs gently fried in butter or dripping. Actually delicious.

For the uninitiated, IMHO our African "biltong" (dried & spiced meat - beef, venison or ostrich) beats the taste test versus your US jerky. Opinions differ!

On the SA west coast, mullet is salted and wind-dried to make fish biltong known as "bokkoms". Too salty & smelly for me but my grandfather loved it and liked to stink up his train compartment as he chewed it all the way from Cape Town back to Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).

And "droewors" (dried sausage) is also pretty damn good.

In taste, good Scottish haggis tastes a hella lot like "boerewors" (sausage), also made from good bits as well as the spicy scraps and unmentionables like heart, lungs and gizzards but tastes damn good!

All good, all good!

[usmc1986]

Balut in near Manilla. Slimy and a bit stinky, but ok. Monkey on a stick same area. I'd eat that again, as long as the same folks were making it.

Anyone ever in the Phillipines ever notice every bottle of San Miguel tasted a little "different". LOL

I ate some other bizarre things during that deployment, I wanted to try some other things, that looked questionable so I never asked what it was. Ranged from ok to Hell no never again.

[Carolina River Rat]

Zebra, ostrich, crocodile, eland, and some other African critters at the Carnivore restaurant in Nairobi. Those are about the only "exotic" things I've tried. Some of the common local fare that might qualify as exotic or unusual in some parts of the country:

Gator
Rattlesnake
Water Moccasin
Gar
Frog Legs
Snapping Turtle
Raccoon
Possum (don't care for this one much)

[Knowledge]

Mistery meat stew in the Democratic Republic of Congo. I couldn't even chew it it was so tough, you just had to swallow. No telling what it was?

[TrojanSkyCop1]

Zebra, ostrich, crocodile, eland, and some other African critters at the Carnivore restaurant in Nairobi. Those are about the only "exotic" things I've tried. Some of the common local fare that might qualify as exotic or unusual in some parts of the country:

Gator
Rattlesnake
Water Moccasin
Gar
Frog Legs
Snapping Turtle
Raccoon
Possum (don't care for this one much)

How did you like the water moccasin and the 'coon?

[KalashMan]

Mistery meat stew in the Democratic Republic of Congo. I couldn't even chew it it was so tough, you just had to swallow. No telling what it was?

And you're probably better off that way...

Mudthang,

I'm sure biltong is better than jerky. That's because what folks here buy in the store isn't really jerky. More on par with a dried version of the aforementioned Congo Stew.


Mario

Mario

[Carolina River Rat]

How did you like the water moccasin and the 'coon?

Moccasin's actually my favorite snake to eat, cause they're so thick-bodied. Lots of meat on one. Tastes like rattlesnake...or like chicken. I've only eaten coon hashed up with taters and onions, and it was very good that way, but just about anything tastes good in a hash. Can't speak for other coon recipes. Perhaps I'll trap a couple when the weather cools off and try some different things with them.

[Averageman]

Distant memory of my Grandmother baking a 'coon in a large roasting pot...I thought it was a baby; yeah that will lead to some therapy right there.
Blood Sausage in Germany.
Drank Kuwati Moonshine called Sadiki,...I thought I would go blind.
A Bobcat leg when trapping one winter.
I dont know how many Squirrels when I was a kid, always served with some salty brown gravy and rice or potatoes.
My Ex used to make some sort of Spanish Pig's head soup that was pretty good considering everything but the "Oink" was in there.
Rattlesnake.
Those old cans of C Ration Beef and Potatoes that always had a nasty artery or something veiny looking in the meat. I'm not really sure who made that stuff, but if you checked the date on the box it was often older than I was at the time.

[Texican_gal]

Distant memory of my Grandmother baking a 'coon in a large roasting pot...I thought it was a baby; yeah that will lead to some therapy right there.

When I was a kid I remember my grandma describing to me that "a skinned possum looks jes' like a nakerd baby". :ugh:

[Carolina River Rat]

"a skinned possum looks jes' like a nakerd baby". :ugh:

That's quote of the year material right there.:biglaugh:

[saddlebum]

Well, what usual for one maybe strange to another;

scrapple, horse, porcupine, beaver, racoon, cougar, all the deer family (north america), tripe, headcheese, blood pudding, seal, seal with seal oil, salmon shark, skate fish, all kinds of fish eggs, grizzly bear, black bear, turkey, peacock, hog jowls.

There's probably more, like I said usual to one-strange to another.

[Fitpro]

Kangaroo and ostrich. An Aussie buddy of mine told me later that kangaroo is considered road kill down under and no one eats it. The chef did a good job with both. Very tasty!

[chad newton]

Sea Urchin from a Sushi House on Oahu

Tartufo mushrooms in Rome (now that made for some interesting dreams) washed down with Aqua Vita.

Blood Sausage in Almeria, Spain

Tartar in a bar in the outskirts of Bratislava (washed down with the local version of Rakshi)

Guinea Pig in South America washed down with Pisco.

Well, on my first tour with the under 21 national team, we went to Barbados for a jr world cup qualifier. The first breakfast was great, all you can eat eggs, fish, potatos, fruit, you name it. Fit for a king. The next day, runny eggs(I mean like just ate taco bell runny) and rolled fish skin. Yes, I did eat it, I was hungry and 14 years old. You can only imagine, me trying to be the first man even then, I decided to cook all my food from there out. It took a few days, but everyone fallowed soon after. It was a good story I just had to tell. The funniest part was the guys watching me cook my own food in disbelieve, were 19-21 and were so amazed on how you could make your own food.:)

[chad newton]

To add, even though off topic, I wouldn't recommend going to Barbados unless you get a good deal on a really nice resort. And if you decide to vier off the beaten path into town, watch out for crack and weed dealers, they are everywhere.

[Pokeguyjai]

Well, on my first tour with the under 21 national team, we went to Barbados for a jr world cup qualifier. The first breakfast was great, all you can eat eggs, fish, potatos, fruit, you name it. Fit for a king. The next day, runny eggs(I mean like just ate taco bell runny) and rolled fish skin. Yes, I did eat it, I was hungry and 14 years old. You can only imagine, me trying to be the first man even then, I decided to cook all my food from there out. It took a few days, but everyone fallowed soon after. It was a good story I just had to tell. The funniest part was the guys watching me cook my own food in disbelieve, were 19-21 and were so amazed on how you could make your own food.:)

After the eye balls, the skin is the best part of the fish.

[chad newton]

Lol..... The Asians definitely coming out in that comment bro.:)

[kid_couteau]

Had grass snake once on a survival camping trip

Not bad when cooked right

Cut it up first though, it wiggles while cooking if you leave it one piece

Kid

[darwin25]

beetle larvae

[jamgusmc]

Mystery Meat on a stick, Kinville Okinawa.. Delicious! (called Mystery Meat for a reason...)

[darwin25]

Chick on a Stick...NO NOT THAT, THIS.....

17403


It's called Day-old chick. Even in Filipino that's how we call it,. It's literally what it's called.

[DC950]

Maj. Gustafson's chili. Chili like I should say because it sure wasn't chili. I have no idea what it was made from but do know he was an amateur taxidermist. Even 20 years later all bad food is compared to it. Nothing has been as bad, thank the Lord.

[RobbieB]

Muktuk.... whale blubber...ugh! :yuck:
Muskox ..... kinda like extra-gamy sheep!:eek:

[baker]

This is a fun thread! Since I am a chef, graduated from the French Culinary Institute in '87, I have eaten my share of strange foods:
Pig's ears, oxtails, pig's feet, kidneys, thyroid glands, wild game, hearts, lamb intestines, and all sorts of seafood. Unidentifiable fare in China, rare chicken, pickled squid, mystery meat, but perhaps the strangest of all is right under our noses:


Hot Dogs!

[Jons999]

I cant help but think that what we think of as foreign delicacies the foreigners only eat because thats all they have. I doubt they would eat that stuff if there country had steak! I had alligator once which tasted a lot like frog legs.

[SheepDog68]

Surviving four years of boarding school cafeteria food was a bit of an adventure! (Probably one of the reasons I learned to cook so well!!)

Many around here seem to think my Kifer is pretty strange, but I guess it is all where you are at the time.

SD

[Tom Cornelius]

Raw, freshly killed conch that I smashed open on a rock in the Turk & Caicos.

[Lew Wetzel]

escargot--okay
Pate'--not bad
foie gras--pretty bad

[Gadsden11]

I recently had the opportunity to try coyote done two different ways, and neither offering was bad. The first was like coyote sloppy joes and it tasted like sloppy joes. The second was little meat medallions wrapped in bacon. It was a bit chewy, but overall not to bad.

In my house beef and pork are odd as all my family eats is venison.

[grumpy437]

BBQ Black Bear.
Grasshoppers

[TrojanSkyCop1]

A couple of fairly exotic (read: haven't found 'em on any seafood restaurant menu back in the US of A), not mention tasty, species of fish that I've recently eaten in the UAE are Jack Pomfret fish (pictured) and Sea Bream.

18953

[TrojanSkyCop1]

Live grasshoppers (both with and w/o chocolate)
Live fireflies
Dead crickets (flavored like potato chips)
Ants (live and dead, in my cereal)
Sea squirt
Jellyfish (in soup)
Filefish
Alligator tail
Pigeon (squab)
Sea urchin
Escargot (too damn garlicky)
Frog legs
Eel
Octopus
Squid and cuttlefish (fried calamari, en su tinta , driied jerky, and sushi [I]ika form)
Buffalo
Elk



The most unusual would probably have to be kangaroo (in Australia, naturally) and rattlesnake (in Arizona).

Okay, now add kangaroo to my list as well (courtesy of the Australian National Day buffet at the Danat Resort in Al Ain, UAE), yummy....

20007


20008

[buckcz]

I have recently eaten whole cooked Muskrat ( pretty gamey & greasy). I also ate squirrel, woodchuck, snakes, and frogs ( that i hunted and killed) while growing up. We had a rule in the house, any animal killed would be eaten or used for its fur. Given that by real name is Buck, I guess this diet may be expected of me. 8)

[foxytwo]

Chocolate covered ants and roasted grashoppers. Nothing fancy.

[OdieWon]

So this morning I'm watching "The Ladies Man" and there is a scene where the ladies man tricks this jerk into eating human poo. Of course he did it by challenging the guy to try the pickled pigs feet, and then the chitlins' and 3 or 4 other gross dishes they served at the bar. Until they came to the last jar. If you haven't seen it, look it up on YouTube. The movie is stupid, but that scene about made me fall out of my chair.

[Ringo]

Lessee... Oddest things that I've ever eaten:

Babaluci, fichi d'india, fritta, nespoli, and some sort of haggis-like goat offal compliation, while visiting relatives in Sicilia. Some were better than others.

In an upcoming episode of Fear Factor, the contestants chug some donkey spunk, followed by donkey whiz.

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/television/fear-factor-donkey-semen-sipping-stunt-censored-nbc-report-article-1.1012890

Amazing what one will do under the influence of Avarice.

[librarian45]

Duck fat french fries
Brain taco
Tongue taco

Raw Egg in rice (persian)

Pig face/ear/eyes (So. Fla/Cuban pork roast)

Most of the food I ate in Korea
Most of the food I ate in Taiwan

[TrojanSkyCop1]

A couple of fairly exotic (read: haven't found 'em on any seafood restaurant menu back in the US of A), not mention tasty, species of fish that I've recently eaten in the UAE are Jack Pomfret fish (pictured) and Sea Bream.

18953

And now add Fugu (Japanese blowfish) to the list. No ill effects (remember that one episode of "The Simpsons": "Poison...poison...tasty fish!" "FUGU ME, FUGU ME!") and quite delish. If it weren't for the big order of sushi that was on the way as my main course for the evening, I'd have ordered a second helping. This was at the Aqua Roma (AKA Aqua Tokyo) in Hong Kong:

21260

21261

[uurys]

Tuesday night I had veal sweetbreads. Delicious.

[TrojanSkyCop1]

TSC, Don't forget to eat Boiled Camel neck soup while your over there!! Yummy!!!:notworthy:

Damn, I never did get to eat camel while I was out there.

[David43515]

Raccoon, bear, sea urchin, sea snails, fish gonads (didn't know exactly what it was at first, later I didn't care. Nothing to write home about.),beaver (no, no, the animal that makes dams.), bees, crickets, rattle snake,and the wierdest of all....a salted plum called a saladito (sp?) out in AZ. That was by far the worst.

[niten]

TSC1,

It's not bad, if they cook it right, doesn't taste anything like chicken:tongue: Personally, I preferred the goat.

Jim
ISA 6:8

[JustMe]

as a previous poster said, i think it is all relative.

the ones that stick out in my mind are; fried crickets, raw lamb lightly mixed with some spices, and a type of middle east yogurt (not kefir) with a 3 day ferment.

[Windwalker]

Crab roe- With rice and patis(fish sauce) it's DAMN GOOD
Crab fat- the yellow and green stuff...mixed in with the roe, rice and patis, GREAT!!!! These two combined = high cholesterol and high blood pressure. That's Flip food for ya.
Escargot- I actually like my backyard friends in butter and garlic.
Pusit- Tagalog for dried squid. With vinegar it rocks. Make it better, just add rice. LOL!!!! WARNING: The wife or gf will not kiss you for days. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Chick on a Stick...NO NOT THAT, THIS.....

17403
I was 5 when I ate it and they didn't tell me about the gullet. BLEH!!!!!

I also had this....balut...fermented duck egg. There are several versions(stages of growth actually) one can eat. Again I was 5 when I saw what it was. I didn't eat the duckling I just ate the yoke and drank the soup that was inside. LOL!!!!
17404

Hot Vit Lon, good stuff. Had a "C" Team Green Beany come to our place once (Probably a Supply Sargeant), brand new starched Jungle Fatques. He was sitting at the bar drinking a Ba Muoi Ba, as me and one of the Bar Maids were sucking snails, you could tell he was getting grossed out. I told Ma Ma San to get some Hot Vit Lon, when she got them, I gave one to the old Boy and grabbed me one. Cracked the top off, lifted the flap covering the head and showed the Sarge, saying here's looking at you and took a big bite. Sarge got up, ran for the door. started puking about half way there, lol. He got on the next bird out

[AlexSpartan]

Damn, I never did get to eat camel while I was out there.

Really? Hell, I can pick up camel in my local souk. It's not bad, but by the time it's reached Minnesota it's probably not the freshest...

[Mr. Anthony]

Guinea pig in Peru is up there, but I'm sure I've eaten weirder stuff. I'm what people call an "adventurous eater". I'll say "just bring me whatever" in other countries, and it's usually good.

http://i747.photobucket.com/albums/xx114/antman451/Peru/GuineaPig.jpg

[bonehedz]

Hudskaar...putrified shark, wrapped in its own skin, and left to rot in a stone cairn downwind of the vllage...absolutely disgusting. Tastes like swampy catfish and a dirty cat box...wreaks of ammonia (which is what preserves it). A traditional Viking dish, which may explain their horrible attitude...just sayin'...

[BESEPUL]

"Balut" in the Phillipines. That was quite a "treat".




"It''s not because I'm a lawyer, it's because I have many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany..."

[CB3]

Porpoise, caught accidentally and drowned in a cod net off a small fishing village in Newfoundland. Raw it was a dark red meat that looked like roast beef. Oven roasted it was almost black with the consistency and texture of beef that tasted like fish. A true shock to the senses.

[Kyosogi]

Live goldfish. These: 27457

Not these: 27458

[Foxpup]

Escargot, calamari, cow brain and tongue, ostrich, warthog, impala, gator- I eat so much "weird stuff" I don't even remember it all. Willing to try almost anything at least once ;)

[BeardedPelican]

Crickets, grubworms, heart of palm, banana heart, shark, pine needles, smilax leaves and stalks, white pine bark (yes it's edible), dandelions (the roots make coffee!), Cattail roots/stalks (taste like potatoes), wild carrots (my favorite), Hemlock needles, Partridge berries, May Apples, Burdock, wild blackberries, wild black raspberries, wild blueberries, Velvet Bananas, Papaya salad (awesome), Breadfruit

there's more but that's what I can think of right now...

[TrojanSkyCop1]

Meanwhile, over here in Japan:

Kujira (whalemeat): https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/10409237_10152401760286402_8670464685430049321_n.j pg?oh=751a6cba35a3db972fb4b55d22c431a7&oe=5508606E



Basashi (horsemeat): https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xaf1/v/t1.0-9/10624639_10152412864781402_3947706022199277097_n.j pg?oh=4d3389e826eefedb62f62a8ed62e6e48&oe=553A7196&__gda__=1430018850_79193905b03fd15b5ebdbe70b1e712c 3

[Rick Klopp]

Cat ... the other white meat. No seriously, when I worked in Africa, whatever was ran over in the street during the day, was dinner that night. To be honest, several times.

[wcy]

Zebra and giraffe while in Kenya ('89).

[Sammy]

They had whale at a native festival thing we participated in at work. It was disgusting.

[Danneskjold]

Jellyfish doesn't taste like jelly or fish. But maybe being past its expiry date had something to do with how disgusting it seemed.

[Greg Nichols]

Jellyfish doesn't taste like jelly or fish. But maybe being past its expiry date had something to do with how disgusting it seemed.

Never eat sushi from a gas station

[clintofio]

I had Toro Tartar at Mizumi at the Wynn Las Vegas earlier this year, that was awesome. Lots of cool stuff on their tasting menu.

Ummm.. too much else to list but here's a few memorable ones...

Filet'd Rocky Mountain Oysters in Leadville, CO
Guinea Pig and Cayman in Peru
Zebra, Giraffe, and all kinds of African plains game at various wild game dinners here in TX
Rattlesnake, Alligator, Snapping Turtles, Frogs, all the American Redneck Classics...
Giant Grub Worms on Skewers in the Amazon Rainforest
Every kind of crazy sushi I could get my hands on at numerous good Japanese restaurants

[Mr. Anthony]

Meanwhile, over here in Japan:

Kujira (whalemeat):



Basashi (horsemeat):

TSC, what did you think of these two? I've heard a lot of good things about horse meat. I've never had it (well...I'm positive I've eaten it, but I've never had it prepared and sold as horsemeat).


They had whale at a native festival thing we participated in at work. It was disgusting.

That's disappointing; I've always assumed I'd like whale. I'll still try it if I get a shot at it.

[Greg Nichols]

I've always wanted to club and eat a baby seal, dolphin, Bald Eagle (so I can taste freedom once before I die), and fried CA Condor.. Just think it would be nice to eat off of the endangered/protected list.

[TrojanSkyCop1]

TSC, what did you think of these two? I've heard a lot of good things about horse meat. I've never had it (well...I'm positive I've eaten it, but I've never had it prepared and sold as horsemeat).



That's disappointing; I've always assumed I'd like whale. I'll still try it if I get a shot at it.

They weren't bad, IMHO. The horse was fairly bland--it was served almost frozen. The whale had the texture of pork with a slightly fishy, pickled flavor.

[BeardedPelican]

I recently had some Hakarl, was quite interesting

[Vigilant]

I've always wanted to club and eat a baby seal, dolphin, Bald Eagle (so I can taste freedom once before I die), and fried CA Condor.. Just think it would be nice to eat off of the endangered/protected list.
I wanted to try Unicorn, once...

[Sammy]

That's disappointing; I've always assumed I'd like whale. I'll still try it if I get a shot at it.

Maybe it was the type of whale (beluga), but not only was it bad, it stuck to your teeth like crazy. It was the flavor that wouldn't stop for quite some time.

[Custom II]

Calamari doesn't count.

Other than that, Rocky Mountain Oysters, and Haggis.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk