What weird foods have you eaten?

[trof]

Not that you preferred it, but you ate it anyway.

I'll go first.
A sheep's brains and eyeball.
In Rome, on a restaurant's antipasto table, a half sheep's (lamb's?) head.
Right down the middle of the head.
Front to back.
Even had the teeth.
I was showing off.
Don't remember what it tasted like.

You?

[msongs]

1. fried grasshoppers - like those over cooked french fry bits, all crunch and salt nt

[Freddie]

2. Squab

Not sure if that qualifies as “weird”. Tastes like…chicken.

[RFCalifornia]

5. Aka Pigeon

And it was used in ancient Rome instead of chicken for years

Yum!

[yellowdogintexas]

18. Squab is same as quail, right?

I love those tiny little things. Their legs are about the size of my pinky finger

[RFCalifornia]

20. Sorta. They're farm raised pigeons...

And as such, they taste very much like chicken, Cornish game hens, quail, etc etc etc

[secondwind]

3. Witchetty grub, Australia outback.........

It was placed on a fry pan, and cut up in pieces, not everyone took a piece. My husband didn't.

Tasted like chicken!

[RFCalifornia]

4. Hmmmm I served in the Peace Corps so...

Water beetles, water beetle garlic pepper paste (much better,) grasshoppers, raw pork, tarantulas (fried,) and dog (I still feel guilty for that one)

[secondwind]

10. Raw pork, and you're still around to talk about it???? wow

[RFCalifornia]

11. Lime juice can kill a hell of a lot of bugs

But yeah, it tasted great

[smirkymonkey]

40. Raw pork was the least offensive thing on that list.

[Duppers]

24. Where did you eat dog & why?

[RFCalifornia]

32. Kudbak, Sakhon Nakhon, Thailand

It was in the soup

Long story, but I didn't know it was dog at the time

At the same time, it was a cultural exchange so I am not sure I was in a position to refuse

Peace Corps is an experience, not a destination

[Duppers]

33. Thanks!

I understand.

[Bantamfancier]

6. Chitlins, lamb fries

Raccoon
Opossum
Souse

We didn’t waste anything on the farm.

[Glorfindel]

13. I forgot about souse! Delicious...

Never had the opportunity to try oposum.

[rsdsharp]

7. Water buffalo foreskin, and stewed eels. Different dishes, but at the same meal.

This was in Xian China in August 1991. We were supposed to be flying to Beijing, but the flight was delayed 5 hours. We didn’t know it at the time, but China was nervous, because Gorbachev was in trouble in the Soviet Union.

The “airport” in Xian looked like a condemned bus station in a bad section of town. Sooo they loaded us back on the bus an took us to a restaurant normally reserved for government officials. Talk about taking dinner on the economy!

[Duppers]

28. In China...

We were being served fried chicken and our good Chinese friend, whom we had known for decades, sudden picked a small piece off my plate, saying "you don't want to eat this."

It was batter-fried & at first unrecognizable to me - it was a fried chichen head, beak included!

I thanked him.

[rsdsharp]

30. Our American Express guide, a guy from Peru, but who

specialized in China tours, took one look at the water buffalo and yelled not to eat it. Too late, Roberto!

Looks like cabbage. Chews like rubber.

[unblock]

8. Cricket tacos. Kinda like crunchy chicken

[jpak]

9. Sea cucumbers, jellyfish

Tiny inch-long New Zealand minnows - white bait

Cold fish and swine in Denmark

Sea urchin roe

Any and all matter of sushi

Norwegian shrimp paste in a toothpaste tube and air dried goat (on a Norwegian ship in Antarctica).

Frog legs and pig feet in Quebec

Boudin in Newfoundland

I'll try to think of some more



PS I consider souse and chitlins to be normal foods you could find at a grocery store.

Yum

[Glorfindel]

12. Several things that grow wild in the southern Appalachians

Creases (wild water cress)
Polk salad
Ramps (wild leeks)
Wild boar
Squirrel
Raccoon
Rabbit
Mud turtle

Also:
Pork brains scrambled with eggs (yuck)
Chitterlings (double yuck)
Guinea hen
Tripe
Sea urchin

[jpak]

14. Ramps are the best

But you will smell like ramps for days

We have them in Maine but most people don't know what they are .

[yellowdogintexas]

25. fried or barbecued rabbit

fried squirrel
Squirrel stew (made by my great grandmother with homemade dumplings )

Poke Sallet but only mixed in with turnip greens.

Fresh sardines and anchovies in Spain (you could not pay me to eat the canned versions of either one)

River eel which was actually not bad since the water in the river was really clean. Pain in the ass to prep for cooking though. It was a bigass thing.

Carp. A tasty fish with a zillion bones which are all scattered randomly throughout the fish. Little teeny bones, that sneak up on you.

Wood sorrel. It looks like tiny clover, and in the fall it sprouts these cute little seed pods. We used to call it sourgrass and we munched on it all the time. We loved the seed pods.


There was a BBQ place in Owensboro KY where I went to college which would barbecue anything you brought in and not ask what it was or how you acquired it. I used to wonder how much was road kill and how much was hunted. Interestingly the place also made a pretty good pizza.

There is not enough money in the world to make me eat souse, brains, mountain oysters, menudo, chittlins, all the organ meats (cept I will eat calves liver or veal liver if I can find it)

[WhiteTara]

15. oxtail

It was rubbery and chewy.

[cloudbase]

31. Swingin' sirloin.

It's great when it's cooked properly. It's also a great base for soup.

[El Supremo]

16. Menudo.

I think I spit it out.

I've also eaten Rocky Mountain Oysters. Didn't like them.

[jpak]

17. Menudo is a classic hangover breakfast

If you can believe that.

True

[justgamma]

19. I love

pork brains and scrambled eggs. Chitterlings and Rocky Mountain Oysters are also really good.

[a kennedy]

21. I swear i'm gonna hurl on ALL THE STUFF POSTED HERE.......

🤮 🤮 🤮 🤮 🤮. Sorry, I haven’t eaten anything weird, and all this stuff posted here.....I swear i’m gonna throw up.

[jpak]

39. I was an oceanographer

And traveled to some remote parts of the planet.

When the locals offered their favorite delicacies, you ate it.

Diplomacy

[smirkymonkey]

41. Seriously! There goes my appetite for the day.

And I thought maybe I was adventurous for trying goat (pretty good), conch (good), sea urchin (awful), sweetbreads (awful - texture), snails (same), probably a few other things that I'm spacing on right now.

Oh yeah - Moose. Specifically moose meatballs at a holiday party in Maine. They were actually pretty good. And venison, but I guess that isn't all that unusual these days. Also pretty good.

[TreasonousBastard]

22. A couple of things in Chinatown that I chose not to ask about...

and scrapple.

Scrapple I did ask about, and was told the long string was the snout.

[Freddie]

27. Hey I'm Pennsylvania Dutch!

Do not insult our scrapple!
Actually have never been crazy about it. Must be fried crispy. Some (me) eat it with ketchup and some like it with pancake syrup.

[TreasonousBastard]

35. Pancake syrup? Well, I guess if it's crispy...

[3catwoman3]

42. It must be so crispy that you have to...

…scrap it from the bottom of the skillet.

[Kaleva]

23. Alive grasshoppers and white grubs.

[Duppers]

26. ...

I'd eat insects first. Sorry.

[pansypoo53219]

29. chicken hearts.

i kept it normal when i did a tennasee wild game dinner.

[Ocelot II]

34. Rocky mountain oysters.

Rubbery and gamy. Not recommended.

[TreasonousBastard]

36. A small quote I found on the subject of cojones del toro...

So are they a regional delicacy or a stomach-curdling novelty that has long stopped being funny? The question is almost beside the point. A single festival dedicated to the bivalve impersonators can go through 50,000 pounds of bull testicles in a single weekend. Whether you love them or loathe them, people are certainly gobbling them up. And that’s no bull.

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[Goonch]

37. Spanish Black Squid Ink

[MuseRider]

38. Nothing like most of these

but I have not seen alligator mentioned yet. Yes, it really did taste like chicken. It was at a catered party that was held at my house for New Years eve 1999-2000. I did not expect it but the group that did the food did not tell me. Also all kinds of seafood but I believe most of that, even the kind of odd stuff has been mentioned. I no longer eat meat so....

[3catwoman3]

43. I once had uni at a sushi restaurant -sea urchin gonads

It felt fuzzy and tasted vile. Never again. I love most other sushi/sashimi.

I’ve had haggis while in Edinburgh on a 10 day soccer trip my sons were on. I liked it.

Not much of a mammal-eater anymore, but I used to like scrapple.

[bluecollar2]

44. Guinea pig and beef heart

Neither are weird in Peru but are considered weird here.

[Texasgal]

45. Tomally

spread on crusty french bread with butter!

Tomally: the green stuff inside the lobster that is part of the liver and pancreas.

[Mosby]

46. If you ate traditional chorizo, store bought, whatever

You've eaten pork lymph nodes and salivary glands. That's the main meat ingredients.