Most Unusual Foods You've Eaten

[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....

[bae]

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the omelette MREs....

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

[BigEd63]

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the omelette MREs....

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

[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 [in its ink], driied jerky, and sushi 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

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.