Most Unusual Foods You've Eaten

[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

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.

[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.