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! :)

[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.

[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.

[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

[Ryan Acuff]

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

[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.