Most Unusual Foods You've Eaten

[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?

[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.....

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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!!!!
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[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!