What's the weirdest grossest thing you ever ate?

Chocolate cockroaches and grasshoppers

I'm from South Louisiana. We eat nutria. Weird is relative. :laugh:

Blech

Trinidad Black Pudding. Black Pudding in general.

I had octopus tentacles once. But they were put in a pressure cooker to break down the elasticity in the flesh and then stripped of skin and chopped. After that they were marinated in soy sauce and spices for flavor and tenderizing and fried in a skillet. They were very tender and tasty if you overlooked the suckers on the tentacles!:

Octopus tentacle...rubbery and nasty. I hate clams too, they're salty and tend to be inedible and have to be swallowed whole, from what i can tell. At least, that was my experience.

Now, i have loved almost every single type of sushi I've tried. The fish, the vegetarian, the random....yum. i want some peanut avocado sushi SO BAD. NOW.

snakes, worms, crocodile, kangaroo, shark head, turtles, ostrich, spiders etc... Pretty much anything crawls, flies, moves, walks is on the menu except pets and some other animals.

I just wanted to pop back in here and thank you all for grossing me out so much that my appetite is gone. Gonna be a breeze to stay within my calorie limit today! Anytime I feel hungry, I'll just click back over here and catch up... :sick:

Chapulines and other bugs in the south of Mexico. Fried, delicious.
Strange meats in China (you can guess, not going to spell it out).
Snails, frog, cervela, rognon and other abats in France.
Cheese with fly larvae in France.

And then there is Chang, a fermented barley "beer" in the Zanskar region of India has to be the grossest thing. Guaranteed to clear the passage.
But I would sell a child for some mok mok - or Tibetan raviolis of doubtful content. Just very tasty, don't look too closely.

Hmmm...I'm a chef...and an adventurous eater/Army veteran...so some things i've eaten would probably gross some people out. My philosophy is I will eat anything that doesn't eat me first...the grossest thing I've eaten was a live Jerusalem cricket. This thing is actually trying to bite you as you are eating it...it's very primal. The crunch wasn't bad, and the flavor was very earthy, and feral...not my cuppa tea. THe best way, just in case you are curious, is to bite the head off first, so it doesn't try to chew its way out of your mouth.

I've also eaten live baby octopus...that's just a weird experience -the flavor was fine -the tentacles curling its way out of your mouth as you chew. The ink was a fabulous accompaniment, too...I had to brush my teeth and swish with peroxide afterwards.

i've had yellow jacket larvae stew in northern Alaska with an Innuit community potlach...like warm, salty, lumpy vanilla pudding. I actually liked that one, seal blubber for the first time there...and it tastes just like a mouthful of slightly fishy fat. I had a texture issue with that one, more than a flavor issue.

I actually like toasted insects...ants, crickets more...cockroaches have a weird rancid oily flavor, i'll eat them if need be, but I'd look for termites or wood lice first.

Something new that I tried, and I think it'll be an acquired taste, is corn smut. It's a Mexican delicacy...a fungus that infects a corn crop and is used as a filling for quesadillas. I tried it and it did have the rich, earthy, pungency of a truffle, but the aftertaste wasn't as mellow, more of a rot flavor than an earthy one. I'm chalking that one up to the smut being canned vs from the field. I'll try is a few more times to be sure, though.

The grossest food I've ever heard of ***Not Eaten it and no desire to*** (and bear in mind I've studied a lot of anthropology, including people eating all kinds of insect larvae) is this kind of cheese that's basically moldy, maggoty and fermented - not normal moldy cheese that you get in posh delis, but completely decomposing disgusting cheese that apparently smells worse than any gross smell you can think of. There have actually been official health warnings given against eating this cheese, because there's quite a high risk of getting gastroenteritis or parasitic infections from eating it. Yet some people eat it. No, I have no intention of eating it.

I can't remember the name of the cheese, I'm hoping someone on here has heard of it. Or can top it with an even more disgusting food. (whether they've eaten it or not)

parasites? maggots? wth? why would anyone eat that?

edit: btw, i was so curious about this i just had to google it. i think the cheese you are talking about is called "Casu Marzu". and they really do use maggots to make the cheese. :sick:

I would say the strangest would be Takoyaki."Takoyaki is a ball-shaped Japanese snack made of a wheat flour-based batter and cooked in a special takoyaki pan. It is typically filled with minced or diced octopus, tempura scraps, pickled ginger, and green onion"

The nastiest thing I have ate were olives :S lol

I am not that adventurous when it comes to food....

I don't think tongue, brain, squid or octopus are weird (the octopus cooked, though).

Weirdest (to me) : pickled raw pig skin
Grossest : okra, not even close