Strangest this you ever ate...

HelloSweetie4
HelloSweetie4 Posts: 1,214 Member
edited December 16 in Chit-Chat
Just wondering what are some of the crazy things people have eaten. Mine's not too exciting, I ate squid tenticles (thats tenticles not testicles!)

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  • carol989
    carol989 Posts: 19
    haha Ive had quail eggs before, they're a lot smaller than normal too.
  • HelloSweetie4
    HelloSweetie4 Posts: 1,214 Member
    that was supposed to be thing not this... one hand types faster than the other lol
  • SexyCook
    SexyCook Posts: 2,249 Member
    Egg whites....and stuff them with Ground Turkey....delish....
  • elenathegreat
    elenathegreat Posts: 3,988 Member
    Fresh beef testicles on the branding fire....mmmm
  • Bison
  • dmoses
    dmoses Posts: 786 Member
    Uni - sea urchin gonads. Quite tasty sushi, actually!
  • LemonsAndCoffee
    LemonsAndCoffee Posts: 313 Member
    I'm not an adventerous eater...at all. The strangest thing was probably when I tasted calamari - which isn't really that strange!
  • crazydv
    crazydv Posts: 160 Member
    frog legs
  • karenjoy
    karenjoy Posts: 1,840 Member
    Some Canadian guy I met on the internet
  • beccyleigh
    beccyleigh Posts: 846 Member
    squid, all of it & quails eggs are a standard part of our diet at home. chicken feet, deep fried a personal fav of mine.

    My husband is from thailand so we eat all sorts of weird stuff. My mother in law makes an interesting small frog soup, whole small frogs cooked in a broth, their little bodies bloat up & they float on top of the soup. I wasn't keen, my son who was 2 at the time quite liked it though. We were invited to a neighbours place one time, they make silk & as a special honour of our visit took the silk worms & fried them up in hot oil or us.

    Other normal foods is buying insect on sticks from roadside vendor when on car trips. I have tried the grasshopper but the specially bred cockroaches were a step too far for me.
  • beccyleigh
    beccyleigh Posts: 846 Member
    oh & forgot, when i traveled south africa I ate crocodile, emu, ostrich & kangaroo.
  • OH_matt
    OH_matt Posts: 228 Member
    fried alligator. wasn't half bad
  • doorki
    doorki Posts: 2,576 Member
    Some Canadian guy I met on the internet

    /highfive
  • ScottyNoHotty
    ScottyNoHotty Posts: 1,957 Member
    Some Canadian guy I met on the internet

    /highfive

    For the Win!!! OH Canada!!

    BTW , props for the picture of Billy Mitchell..
  • doorki
    doorki Posts: 2,576 Member
    Some Canadian guy I met on the internet

    /highfive

    For the Win!!! OH Canada!!

    BTW , props for the picture of Billy Mitchell..

    Thank you, sir. /highfive
  • BAMFMeredith
    BAMFMeredith Posts: 2,810 Member
    Hmm I'm a pretty adventurous eater so there are things I've had that I wouldn't consider strange, but most probably would...

    I've had foie gras, beef tartare, roasted bone marrow, eel, squid, sea urchin, rocky mountain oysters (yep, bulls' balls)...OH! When I was 16 I went on a theatre trip to NYC with a bunch of friends and we tried chocolate covered grasshoppers in Chinatown. They were crunchy.
  • BAMFMeredith
    BAMFMeredith Posts: 2,810 Member
    fried alligator. wasn't half bad

    Omg they have fried alligator on a stick at this semi-annual festival here, and it's SO GOOD!
  • TheRoadDog
    TheRoadDog Posts: 11,788 Member
    Habu (member of the cobra family; indigenous to Okinawa)
    Cat
    Dog
    Monkey
    Alligator
    Sea Urchin
    Goat
    Bear
    Rattlesnake
    Crickets
    Squirrel
    Sea Snails
    Moose
    Elk
    I could go on and on. I'll try anything. Anytime I pick up a menu and see something I've never had; that's what I order. I've had the good fortune to travel the world and found that one culture's pets are another cultures sustenance.
  • Tree72
    Tree72 Posts: 942 Member
    I'd have to say it was the congealed pig blood. When I was travelling in China we went to a "fish head hot pot" restaurant. You basically cook at your own table. It starts with broth placed into a basin set into the middle of the table (which is heated). To that they add large fish heads. Then you select other items off the menu. The various varieties of fungus were all tasty, as were the fish heads themselves. (Though I wasn't quite brave enough to try the eyes.) But I did not like the cubes of congealed blood.
  • Tangerine302
    Tangerine302 Posts: 1,509 Member
    squid, all of it & quails eggs are a standard part of our diet at home. chicken feet, deep fried a personal fav of mine.

    My husband is from thailand so we eat all sorts of weird stuff. My mother in law makes an interesting small frog soup, whole small frogs cooked in a broth, their little bodies bloat up & they float on top of the soup. I wasn't keen, my son who was 2 at the time quite liked it though. We were invited to a neighbours place one time, they make silk & as a special honour of our visit took the silk worms & fried them up in hot oil or us.

    Other normal foods is buying insect on sticks from roadside vendor when on car trips. I have tried the grasshopper but the specially bred cockroaches were a step too far for me.

    I think you won. Bloated frog soup. Oh my.....
  • shazzannon
    shazzannon Posts: 117 Member
    Frogs legs, escargot, foie gras, ox, and lamprodotto (cow stomach). And they were all delicious. My semester abroad in Italy was basically a culinary tour of Europe. Oh, how I miss it...
  • Nothing I would call strange but I've eaten snake. It was pretty good.
  • BillyC96
    BillyC96 Posts: 7,560 Member
    I will order anything on a menu that I haven't had before, with a few minor exceptions.

    Alligator
    Octopus
    Frog legs - home caught for breakfast
    Caribou
    Moose


    PS - I'm the Canadian guy from the previous post. :flowerforyou: I see you've met my wife. :love:
  • BAMFMeredith
    BAMFMeredith Posts: 2,810 Member
    Habu (member of the cobra family; indigenous to Okinawa)
    Cat
    Dog
    Monkey
    Alligator
    Sea Urchin
    Goat
    Bear
    Rattlesnake
    Crickets
    Squirrel
    Sea Snails
    Moose
    Elk
    I could go on and on. I'll try anything. Anytime I pick up a menu and see something I've never had; that's what I order. I've had the good fortune to travel the world and found that one culture's pets are another cultures sustenance.

    I'm with you. I'm not super well traveled or anything, but I do enjoy fine dining and always wanna try something new. Also, I'm from the south, and we eat random stuff sometimes. If you can fry it, we'll eat it. I've tried snake, elk, bison, rabbit, and frog legs as well.
  • beccyleigh
    beccyleigh Posts: 846 Member
    ah forgot the snake, pig & ox blood, tripe,cow intestines, fish head & eyes & varous other local delicaies but then we don't actually consider any of that weird just usual ingredients in noodle soup & roadside food.

    Some burmese workers near our old house on koh samui stole my puppy & had her in a cage ready for the soup pot. thankfully i found her in time to save her from becoming dinner but had to deal with 7 very pissed off burmese guys, hongaray after a hard days construction work.

    Sea Turlte is another one, didn't actually like that though as they are endangered but we were guests of a local bigwig so didn't really have any say in it.
  • mikey1976
    mikey1976 Posts: 1,005 Member
    thats pretty gross i had cougar it was ground up like beef hamburger its real tasty. but yeah i don't eat strange things very often
  • MILICA1986
    MILICA1986 Posts: 168 Member
    I've had this Mopane worms for a bet! :bigsmile:

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  • rileamoyer
    rileamoyer Posts: 2,412 Member
    Smoked Mountain Lion, last week. Good but kind of tough.
  • catfish9
    catfish9 Posts: 138
    Reading some of these is making my skin feel all creepy-crawly. Eugh!

    Does accidental ingestion count? If so, mine would be various insects- gnats, mosquitoes, and nearly a moth once. :tongue:
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