Weirdest thing you have ever eaten!!

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  • bethrs
    bethrs Posts: 664 Member
    The strangest thing I've eaten are these tiny (whole) dried fish that my professor's brother brought back from Asia, and in the same day a flower right off a tree in his back yard- maybe a holly hock??

    My dad, however, used to eat pig brains in his scrambled eggs. And pickled balogna. Eck.
  • um snails and
    ...
    roadkill pheasant....
  • helenium
    helenium Posts: 546 Member
    Oh. Almost forgot. When I was younger, I bought a bunch of flowers from a flower stall and then sat in a nearby cafe and ate all the flower heads... :blushing:
  • sammybey
    sammybey Posts: 72 Member
    Crispy fried pigs' tails
    Pork heart sausage
    Confitted/roasted pig's head-- I only ate the jowl.

    These dishes were all from the same restaurant, very "nose to tail" cooking style.
  • I've eaten all the weird sushi stuff, squid, jellyfish, eel, ect. and love it all.

    When I was 9 I really enjoyed eating dry cat-food and uncooked ramen noodles.

    But the weirdest thing I ate as an adult was emu summer-sausage.
  • UpToAnyCool
    UpToAnyCool Posts: 1,673
    But the weirdest thing I ate as an adult was emu summer-sausage.

    that would be weird, b/c that would you make you, um, a cannibal.
    like a toucan eating fried chicken - DOH! :noway: :ohwell: :embarassed:
  • UpToAnyCool
    UpToAnyCool Posts: 1,673
    When I went to Japan a restaurant served me an eye.

    ok whoa. how is that no one else wants to know what kind of eye - and was it looking at you?
    fish eye, no big deal. but other kinds....tell me more!!
  • bigmamma3
    bigmamma3 Posts: 134
    kangaroo, squid and cat food the last was a dare from my sister have to say its nicer than McDonald's
  • helenium
    helenium Posts: 546 Member
    ok whoa. how is that no one else wants to know what kind of eye - and was it looking at you?
    fish eye, no big deal. but other kinds....tell me more!!

    It was big enough to be a horse or cow's eye, but I didn't (still don't) know enough Japanese to ask politely what animal the eye came from or indeed enough to understand the answer!

    It was not quite looking at me, but I rotated it until it did. It has a tough exterior and a viscous fluid in the centre. I think the hardest thing about it - other than the weirdest (but not unpleasant) taste I've experienced - was trying to manipulate the thing with chopsticks!
  • fitnessjch
    fitnessjch Posts: 449 Member
    I ate snake, and drank snake blood when on holiday in China.

    Have also eaten horse, ostrich and crocodile (all one offs apart from Ostrich!)
  • Heather75
    Heather75 Posts: 3,386 Member
    ok whoa. how is that no one else wants to know what kind of eye - and was it looking at you?
    fish eye, no big deal. but other kinds....tell me more!!

    It was big enough to be a horse or cow's eye, but I didn't (still don't) know enough Japanese to ask politely what animal the eye came from or indeed enough to understand the answer!

    It was not quite looking at me, but I rotated it until it did. It has a tough exterior and a viscous fluid in the centre. I think the hardest thing about it - other than the weirdest (but not unpleasant) taste I've experienced - was trying to manipulate the thing with chopsticks!

    *pukes*
  • Delicate
    Delicate Posts: 625 Member
    Banana wrapped in bacon which was cooked on a bbq

    Mega tastey
  • taso42_DELETED
    taso42_DELETED Posts: 3,394 Member
    At a party a few months ago I ate a turkey neck and people made a big spectacle of it.
  • koosdel
    koosdel Posts: 3,317 Member
    I got a bee sting on my tounge one time. Does that count?
  • Heather75
    Heather75 Posts: 3,386 Member
    At a party a few months ago I ate a turkey neck and people made a big spectacle of it.

    My grandmother used to eat turkey necks and the striking similarity to her own neck made it horrible to watch. I'm still trying to get over it.
  • Awineburg
    Awineburg Posts: 196
    Sea urchin was probably the weirdest, the slimiest too! :tongue:
  • Clonekuh
    Clonekuh Posts: 92 Member
    Neither of these are weird, but a little weird together. But delicious!

    Cheetoes + Hummus.

    /drool
  • Thomasm198
    Thomasm198 Posts: 3,189 Member
    The meat that was served for dinner in the Police Training College. As I lovingly called it (in reference to an episode of The Simpsons), "the universal meat".

    No matter what it was supposed to be, it was a horrible grey colour full of fat and gristle. The sauce or the vegetables that was served with it decided what it was supposed to be. It is the only time in my life I have ever seen "beef" look exactly like "pork" and also look like "ham".

    Apart from that, nothing really out of the ordinary. :ohwell:
  • anubis609
    anubis609 Posts: 3,966 Member
    Southern CA backyard squirrel that my uncle killed, cleaned, and cooked...I ate it not knowing what it was...it was pretty good.

    Weirdest condiment: wasabi + Sriracha on sushi.

    Oh...and "Red Surprise" in county... no one knows what's in it.
  • i dont really know about me since im so damn picky but my husband swears he ate cat.

    he was working in a really shading section of the city (aka, prostitutes, crack dealers, copper stealers, etc. etc) and he was starving so he went to the chinese joint and got pork fried rice...he is pretty positive it wasnt pork...

    i said "so you still ate it????!!" he said, "yeah, i was freakin' starving"

    ewww.
  • outersoul
    outersoul Posts: 711
    balut.

    Whoa...that's serious. I'll pass! Mine was turtle.
  • biddysaurus
    biddysaurus Posts: 156 Member
    Earwax, but it wasn't on purpose.


    LOL!!! :P
  • Aesop101
    Aesop101 Posts: 758 Member
    Groundhog! I don't want to talk about it. <G>
  • reepobob
    reepobob Posts: 1,172 Member
    When I was in Australia in 2008 I ate a kangaroo steak medium rare. It was slightly gamey but VERY TASTY! I hopped all over my hotel room and kicked the **** out of the furniture after I was done...the locals consider 'roo to be just a step above vermin and would rather eat angus steak, but I had to eat it...where else in the world can you eat kangaroo???

    Also, I have had alligator tail...I am not joking when I say it "tastes just like chicken" but has a different texture...
  • Awineburg
    Awineburg Posts: 196
    balut.

    Whoa...that's serious. I'll pass! Mine was turtle.

    I had to Bing this, one word. EWWWWWWWWWWW!
  • LovelySnugs
    LovelySnugs Posts: 389
    i've had jackrabbit stew, squirrel, catfish i'd caught myself (stepdad fried it up for me). but those are all normal, country-style upbringing meals.

    the weirdest thing i've ever eaten was a chicken panini with balsamic glaze, red roasted bell peppers, onions, a scoop of apple-walnut tuna salad, and two kinds of cheeses. i was working at Camille's at the time, and my manager told me that if i could make and eat something that would gross him out, he would add an hour to my clock time for the night, and i wouldn't have to pay for the food. it was a hot, gooey mess by the time i'd nuked it, grilled it, and baked it - but it immediately became my favorite meal. i ate one every week for like 6 months straight. and my manager added TWO hours to my clock for that night.
  • anubis609
    anubis609 Posts: 3,966 Member
    balut.

    Whoa...that's serious. I'll pass! Mine was turtle.

    I had to Bing this, one word. EWWWWWWWWWWW!

    It's not that bad. Just don't look at it while you eat it...and wash it down with beer. Haha.
    It's actually okay... as long as you don't look at it and wash it down with some beer. Lol.
  • SaraTonin
    SaraTonin Posts: 551 Member
    You guys have officially outdone me. Here in Wyoming though it's uncommon if you've eaten squid, sushi, mussels, etc.

    Grossest thing to me was still a "traditional omelette" I had in France outside the Mont Saint-Michel. Not to turn you away, because it just wasn't cooked properly. They whipped the eggs wayy too much, so it was basically uncooked egg foam.

    Not tasty.
  • taso42_DELETED
    taso42_DELETED Posts: 3,394 Member
    Grossest thing to me was still a "traditional omelette" I had in France outside the Mont Saint-Michel. Not to turn you away, because it just wasn't cooked properly. They whipped the eggs wayy too much, so it was basically uncooked egg foam.

    They also way undercook their bacon. At least at the place I had bacon.
  • SaraTonin
    SaraTonin Posts: 551 Member
    Oops, thought of something way more gross! I was about 7 years old and opened up a new bag of Lucky Charms at my friend's house. On the top was a giant gray mass. I thought maybe it was a batch of marshmallows all gobbed into one.

    It was likely part of a mouse. I still can't eat Lucky Charms without thinking about it, and it was by far the worst thing I've ever put in my mouth.

    I should have sued...
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