Weirdest thing you have ever eaten!!

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  • catcrazy
    catcrazy Posts: 1,740 Member
    I tried jellied eel...chewed it once and the lady behind the counter saw the look on my face and handed me a tissue. The grossest thing I have ever tasted...it tasted like......the smell of urine or how you might expect urine to taste like (not that I have tasted urine). Truly truly awful! :sick:

    Sorry to any jellied eel fans out there...I definitely think its a thing you would either love or hate
  • BryanAir
    BryanAir Posts: 434
    Once on vacation we stopped at a place in rural Georgia and I ate a pickled pig's foot.
  • TDGee
    TDGee Posts: 2,209 Member
    Balut, bagong, any number of things I can't quite recall because mercifully the memories have faded some. My Dad's from the Philippines and we learned pretty early on NOT to look in a pot cooking on the stove if Pop was cooking. To this day I have issues with tilapia, because it was a regular in the cooking on Pop's side of the family. Just now, I thought of the smell of whole boiled squid and how the smell permeates the neighborhood. Andrew Zimmern has nothing on my Dad!
    It's pretty unnerving to lift a pot lid and see all of these fish lying on their sides staring up at you. I call it boiled aquarium now.
  • Newmammaluv
    Newmammaluv Posts: 379 Member
    Chicken garlic pizza with hummus and peanut butter.... I was having REALLY odd cravings that month.....
  • Tamelaine
    Tamelaine Posts: 37
    Definitely roasted grasshopper--I was living in Uganda for the summer at the time with a host family. Let's see, I have a few more things that they fed me.
    Matooke (bitter mashed cooked banana) with fish and g-nut (peanut) butter sauce (YUCK!!!)
    Spaghetti with top up (their fake jellied ketchup)
    Spaghetti noodles with brown gravy on them.
    I'm sure I can think of others if I really wanted too. I probably am purposely blocking out some of the worst times out of my memories. I was extremely sick for the first few weeks I was there because of some of teh foods we were given.
    Oh, I forgot one! The second night we were there our host mom plopped an entire Nile perch on the table in front of us--skin and all and commanded us to eat. Not extremely unusual, but for us 19 year old girls it was a bit of a shock--particularly when the family started eating the head and eyeballs.
  • carriecolleen
    carriecolleen Posts: 65
    balut.

    OMG!!! Are you serious?


    OMG I just googled balut.....OMG!!!!
  • tammyquinnlmt
    tammyquinnlmt Posts: 680 Member
    Gator, cajun style...was actually pretty good! :smile:

    I have had 2 cajan step-fathers....Aligator was served regularly at our house! I had to draw the line at the Nutra rat. I refuse to eat anything with the word rat in it. I think the weirdest thing I ever ate though, was a concoction of scrambled eggs with apples that my dad created one Sunday morning. I was a kid and it was AWFUL!
  • LuckyLeprechaun
    LuckyLeprechaun Posts: 6,296 Member
    speaking of weird food, I bought a food that I don't know what to do with. It came from the asian grocery, and it's called banana sauce, but it is red, and tastes vaguely like ketchup. IDK what to do with it, but it looked weird/interesting and was only 79cents, so....anyone? LOL
  • UpToAnyCool
    UpToAnyCool Posts: 1,673
    Well when I was a baby, my mom put me on the grass and I crawled over and ate a piece of dog poop. Does that count? Other than that...I got nothing! .....

    I did eat a very weird veggie this winter that came in my CSA box.....called Romanesco. It was new and strange and weird to me. but very tasty!

    ooo - romanesco - that's that very cool fractally spiral green-yellow cauliflower right? WOW! <== i'm jealous about the
    veggie, not the poop. :sick:
  • Sunny_Lexie
    Sunny_Lexie Posts: 114
    Frog legs, Oysters and Kangaroo... (not at the same time)
  • Gary1977
    Gary1977 Posts: 804 Member
    As a country boy, I've had rabbit, squirrel, robin, deer(not weird at all), quail, bear, river turtle, & rattle snake.
  • jimjamsjet
    jimjamsjet Posts: 57 Member
    Human Flesh
  • LuckyLeprechaun
    LuckyLeprechaun Posts: 6,296 Member
    Human Flesh

    liar liar pants on fire
  • carriecolleen
    carriecolleen Posts: 65
    Human Flesh

    liar liar pants on fire

    I'd rather that than balut...omg...sometimes it's better to not know things!
  • tammyquinnlmt
    tammyquinnlmt Posts: 680 Member
    As a country boy, I've had rabbit, squirrel, robin, deer(not weird at all), quail, bear, river turtle, & rattle snake.

    I've eaten all of those with the exception of the snake and bear...and I can cook most of it!
  • cleigh86
    cleigh86 Posts: 25
    When my boyfriend and I were in France we had pig's tail...he ate it...I couldn't finish it haha.
  • samcee
    samcee Posts: 307
    I'm probably going to lose some friends for this. But here it goes. this is also a reason i kept my diary private i eat weird things. Coming from a Asian background. We eat everything. i have had about every organ in pig ,cow , chicken . hearts kidney liver everything. pig tongue, pig face, pig ears, pig feet, i even had crocodile. type of turtle, frog, duck tongue,eel ,birds nest/ split. Just felt like sharing What's the weirdest or oddest thing you've ever eaten?

    I'm asian too and I grew up being made to eat all sorts of strange things. I learned its easier to just not question it. haha. Even to this day I still don't know half the things they make me eat at home :P
    Yes! Jellyfish for me, too.
    It's a Korean side dish and I didn't even know what it was until after I ate it... very squeaky and rubbery.

    I love that jelly stuff!! :P

    My friend recently went to Korea and ate moving octopus tentacles. Bleurgh. Its like that movie 'old boy'. I was grossed out at first but thinking about it now... I think the moving sensation in my mouth might be interesting :P I think the one thing I can't stand people eating are turtles. They're my favorite animal and becoming extinct. Why would you eat them :cry:
  • JenniferH81
    JenniferH81 Posts: 285 Member
    I have ducks for pets, so it kills me to see people eating them!! stop it! xD

    Probably fried grasshopper when I was on some class camping trip in elementary school. I am just not an adventurous eater.
  • RoadDog
    RoadDog Posts: 2,946 Member
    Monkey in the Phillipines. Cat and Dog in Southeast Asia. Goat. Gator. Horsemeat hamburgers in Fresno -- until they closed the place down. Habu in Okinawa. Have eaten almost everything that slithers, crawls or swims.

    I'll try anything once.

    Had some insect once that was still moving. Don't know what it was. It was dark in the little Korean Bar . It was a party to celebrate Master Im's wedding. My TKD Master.
  • blueliss26
    blueliss26 Posts: 79 Member
    barbecued snake lol
  • blueliss26
    blueliss26 Posts: 79 Member
    Ewww I just looked up Balut. Ewwwwwwww
  • TheGoktor
    TheGoktor Posts: 1,138 Member
    Squid and it was digusting

    I love squid - I cook it probably once a week/10 days!

    I think the oddest thing I've ever had was some sea urchin in a sushi restaurant in LA. It wasn't unpleasant but I'm not sure I'd want it again. Oh, and sea cucumber - it was a bit like snot... definitely not an experience I'd care to repeat!

    Romanesco, BTW is lovely - it's quite common in the UK.

    I had to Google balut as well :noway: :noway: :noway:
  • Mad_Dog_Muscle
    Mad_Dog_Muscle Posts: 1,251 Member
    Monkey Brain............ hands down!:sick: :sick:
  • TheGoktor
    TheGoktor Posts: 1,138 Member
    Monkey Brain............ hands down!:sick: :sick:

    Were they chilled monkey brains, served in monkey heads, Indiana Jones-style?!
  • Mad_Dog_Muscle
    Mad_Dog_Muscle Posts: 1,251 Member
    Monkey Brain............ hands down!:sick: :sick:

    Were they chilled monkey brains, served in monkey heads, Indiana Jones-style?!

    Pretty close to it.... Except I didn't have my Fedora and whip with me at the time! Left it at the hotel! lol
  • melliebee
    melliebee Posts: 187 Member
    I ate cow brain/ intestine tacos in Tijuana, Mexico. Interesting texture. Also, I ate two meal worms on a dare when I was fishing with my friends. Those had a nice chunchiness, as long as you didn't let the legs touch your tongue. :)
  • Mad_Dog_Muscle
    Mad_Dog_Muscle Posts: 1,251 Member
    I ate cow brain/ intestine tacos in Tijuana, Mexico. Interesting texture. Also, I ate two meal worms on a dare when I was fishing with my friends. Those had a nice chunchiness, as long as you didn't let the legs touch your tongue. :)

    I think you outdid me for sure! :sick: :sick: :tongue:
  • TheGoktor
    TheGoktor Posts: 1,138 Member
    Monkey Brain............ hands down!:sick: :sick:

    Were they chilled monkey brains, served in monkey heads, Indiana Jones-style?!

    Pretty close to it.... Except I didn't have my Fedora and whip with me at the time! Left it at the hotel! lol

    You missed a trick there, then!

    **Sigh...Indy! :love:
  • TheGoktor
    TheGoktor Posts: 1,138 Member
    I ate cow brain/ intestine tacos in Tijuana, Mexico. Interesting texture. Also, I ate two meal worms on a dare when I was fishing with my friends. Those had a nice chunchiness, as long as you didn't let the legs touch your tongue. :)

    Y'know, there is not enough money - or alcohol - in the world to induce me to put worms in my mouth! :laugh:
  • helenium
    helenium Posts: 546 Member
    When I went to Japan a restaurant served me an eye.
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