What's the wierdest food you've ever eaten?

[Joe Fields]

I used to eat cow brains, when my family would go to visit my grandad on his farm, when I was growing up. He raised a few black Angus. So, he liked to eat brains, and I liked to do anything he did.

[Redstone]

1. I dunno. Is it weird to have eaten rattlesnake, gator, and probably

dog?

Redstone

[spacelady]

6. Eaten gator & have beef tongue in the freezer. n/t

[Redstone]

10. So, somewhere out there, there's a cow going "uh, uh, uh" instead of

"Moo, moo, moo," because you have her tongue in your freezer.

Redstone

[spacelady]

27. It's probably more like Gnuh, gnuh , gnuh & I'm going to try to make the

best of it. :b

[Joe Fields]

9. I've eaten rattlesnake once, at a fancy restaurant. I didn't much

care for it. Too tough to chew. Had buffalo steaks once, also.

[Redstone]

12. Buffler's great meat. Lower fat than even chicken.

Redstone

[Joe Fields]

14. I only had it once, but I liked it.

[greatauntoftriplets]

2. Was that in Texas???

There is a memorable scene in the movie Giant where the Elizabeth Taylor character passes out when being fed cow brains at a barbecue.

Weirdest thing I ever age were sea cucumbers in China. They tasted about like rubbers bands would....had I ever eaten a rubber band.

[Joe Fields]

13. I remember that scene. God, she was a beauty! No, it wasn't in

Texas. Booneville, Mo. My grandad owned a farm and had grape and cherry orchards, and ran about fifty head of Black Angus cattle. It was a neat farm.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

3. Sea urchin.

I didn't like it.

[Joe Fields]

11. Seriously, what is sea urchin?

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

19. This is sea urchin...

I had it as sushi.


It's just weird. Not really bad, but really weird. Not a fan. It got really weird when I tried it this way...



Yes, that is sea urchin and a raw quail egg.

[Joe Fields]

21. Did you have to drink a lot of alcohol to down it?

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

24. Nah, I only had a little bit of sake before trying it.

It was at a really upscale Japanese restaurant and my stepdad was pretty much daring me to try some of the weird stuff on the menu. I suffered no ill effects and I'm up for trying most things that don't involve flesh from a bird, reptile, amphibian (although I have eaten frog legs several times) or mammal. I'm just a pescarian at this point in my life.

I guess I've eaten other weird stuff. I eat a lot of seaweed and I ate a couple crickets once (they were in chocolate).

[Porcupine]

52. Hey, that's my favorite! It's yummy really. n/t

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[NMMNG]

56. This sounds really gross....

but when you look very quickly at the sea urchin and raw quail egg, it looks like little fetuses wraped in seaweed. x(

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

71. Yes! Fetuses and seaweed! Mmmmmmmm......

:9

[NMMNG]

74. I knew it!

Pat Robertson warned me about you lesbian feminist types. :scared:

[Rabrrrrrr]

36. Ooh - sea urchin is wonderful! Especially grilled, but even raw.

YUMMY!

Better than the sazae, IMO.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

39. I would try it again grilled.

I've never had sazae, but it looks pretty yummy.

[mainegreen]

63. Sea urchin is good stuff! Don't knock our produce!

[lost-in-nj]

4. I don't eat weird

I try to avoid it

:)

lost

[politicat]

5. Durian fruit.

How anyone ever realized that under that stink there's a nice tasty custard, I don't know.

[Redstone]

7. It was a damn brave son of a bitch who figured that out.

Same with the first one to eat an oyster...which, face it, looks like ox snot.

Redstone

[Joe Fields]

17. I could never force myself to eat an oyster.

[Redstone]

20. I'm allergic to shellfish, but if I wasn't, I'd not eat an oyster.

Nor a shrimp. Have you ever seen one of those with the legs on?

Redstone

[Joe Fields]

22. I don't know if I'm allergic, or not. Can't get past the smell.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

32. I don't think they smell bad. At least fresh ones don't.

Then again, I come from a family that will go to the beach and have some fresh-dug raw clams for lunch that day to compliment whatever we brought for lunch. And let's face it, you can't get any fresher than that.

[koneko]

8. I tried Durian in Bali. The stank is atrocious!!!

And other not-so-common to where I grew up delicacies such as:

Cobra soup in Hong Kong.

Soy-basted crickets in Japan. I gagged up the crickets but downed them quickly with some homemade sake. The natives were laughing that I wouldn't be able to pull it off, so I was determined to make it happen. . .

[Joe Fields]

18. Ah, sake cures everything!

[koneko]

25. Yep, it sure does

:toast:

[Joe Fields]

15. Is that from South America?

[Redstone]

16. No, Asia. You can't get it here, for obvious reasons.

Redstone

[spindrifter]

23. You can get it in some Asian markets on the

West Coast. Also, specialties like durian ice cream.

[politicat]

26. I can get it in Colorado at the Asian markets.

If I was crazy and wanted that stink in my house.

[Redstone]

28. I'll be damned. Wonder if they ship it in hermetically-sealed containers?

Redstone

[politicat]

31. Frozen.

That kills the odor while it's frozen. But when it defrosts, it's worse.... cellular rupture!

[Redstone]

34. EeeeYowzah! That's gotta be an event that registers

on the Richter scale.

Redstone

[Quantess]

53. Durian? Gross! Smells like rotting road kill.

No, I've never dared try it.

A roommate brought home a durian once. He was just grinning "yeah, it stinks, huh." I wanted to throw them both out.

[deucemagnet]

29. I ate a cuttlefish once.

I was living in Greece at the time and ordered calamari at a restaurant. The waiter brought me something that resembled a giant paramecium on a plate. I called the waiter over, told him I ordered calamari, and asked what it was. "Is cousin from squid," he said. Good enough for me. I shrugged and ate my giant paramecium. It was delicious. It was much later that I figured out it was a cuttlefish.

On edit: Here's a cuttlefish.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

35. I've had cuttlefish chips.

They were pretty good. Like shrimp chips.

[deucemagnet]

37. They taste much better than they look, don't they?

It tasted just like calamari.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

40. I'll have to try cuttlefish that way sometime, because I do like calamari.

I judge my food on taste, not looks. Considering the fact that I eat tempeh, which is actually "fermented soybean cake" regularly, it's safe to say I go by mere taste. And tempeh is pretty damn tasty when cooked right.

[Rabrrrrrr]

30. Sazae Sperm

[Joe Fields]

33. Okay. I'll bite.

[RevCheesehead]

38. Frog legs, beef tongue, and ox tail (soup).

We had rabbit once, but I just couldn't eat it. I told my parents I felt like I was eating someone's pet. :(

[LynneSin]

67. I love Frog Legs - tastes just like chicken

:D

[RevCheesehead]

69. LOL.

I literally was just thinking about you!
I was gonna post in the "there's something that disturbs me about the Lounge" thread.

Not enough cowbell!

:D

[SnohoDem]

41. Calf brains and eggs

hogshead cheese, rattlesnake, shark fin soup (I regret that) frog legs, snails, octopus, squid, cuttlefish in its ink. Never ate bugs intentionally, sea urchins or cucumbers.

[XemaSab]

42. Mud snake and natto

:P

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

43. Even I'm scared of natto.

:scared:

[XemaSab]

48. You should be

It's the only food I've ever eaten where I had to run out on the front porch and spit it out IMMEDIATELY. And then do inside and rise my mouth out and spit THAT out. And then eat something else so I wouldn't retch.

:scared:

[gkdmaths]

44. Baked Goat Testicle

when in Mexico.

My dad told me that I used to eat dried flies from the windowsill when I was a toddler.

:mmmmmm:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

46. I've seen my sister eat raw squid eggs.

She was about three or four. We went crabbing and that's what we had as bait. We turned around and she was popping them like candy.

[gkdmaths]

47. mmmm

good stuff!

I had a dog once that liked Poutske's Ball-O-Fire salmon eggs. Last time she did it was still on the hook and we had to take her to the vet for a little dance under the knife.

We didnt take her fishing much after that.

[Road Scholar]

57. I bet they taste a lot like Siberian yak nuts. mmmmm.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Common Sense Party]

45. Blood sausage. Stomach soup. Cow tongue--cold. Intestines.

Mmmmmm...Argentina.

[Ouabache]

49. Kentucky Oysters

yep, Hog Balls.

[Porcupine]

50. Big red beetles, bark, spider webs, ginger, crickets and what all

boiled in a pot until the 2 quarts is reduced to a cup. Then drink the resulting mud with as much honey as it takes to get it down.

Note: only the brave or foolish go to a traditional Chinese Herbalist twice. I visited on twice a month for years. Some of the stuff was weirder than that listed above. One time I got a lump of what looked and smelled exactly like really cheap blond hash. Didn't get loaded drinking it though.

[Joe Fields]

64. I've been interested in seeing a Chinese herbologist.

[Haole Girl]

51. Frog legs

Yes, they really do taste like chicken!

[Quantess]

54. I got tricked into eating horse meat, at age 10

"oh yeah...this is um, STEAK!"
I think I might have said "this doesn't look like steak", or something, because then someone said, "It's deer meat. Yeah, we uh, killed a deer. Good meat. Eat up."

After a long car ride and an ice cream cone, I had to make them pull over so I could barf. Then they felt guilty and had to confess they actually served me horse meat.

[JCMach1]

55. Goat's Feet Masala

Spicy Pakistani dish... supposed to be good for the libido

[nosillies]

58. Springbok

Ashamed to say I found it dee-licious.

[RebelOne]

59. Fried grasshoppers.

I ate them thinking they were nuts. Then I looked at the jar. Yuck!!! I've also had alligator tail. That wasn't too bad. A little like a combination of chicken and veal.

[BlueIris]

60. Emu.

Chewy.

[querelle]

61. Frog Legs

A French Canadian delicacy. Although I haven't eaten them for many years because too many species of frogs are becoming endangered and I also think the little critters are kinda cute. Tastes like chicken.

Q

[NewWaveChick1981]

62. Chocolate-covered ants and fried grasshoppers.

Mom had taken us to an international festival at our church when I was a kid, and there was a table with all kinds of delicious-looking food on it. I can't remember which country it represented, but I remember asking the man behind the table if I could have some. He said, "Sure! They are delicacies in my country. Not many people have been eating this, so help yourself." I asked him what they were, and he gave me the term in his language. They had a good flavor, and of course chocolate is always welcome. They were a little crunchy, and he said, "Would you be surprised if I told you you just ate chocolate-covered ants and fried grasshoppers?" I just kind of stopped and said, "Yes, I would." They weren't bad, and I didn't throw up or die or anything. I just smiled at him and said, "They weren't bad, though."

I didn't like the idea that I had just eaten insects, but it made me realize that people in other places ate different things than we did. :) I never ate any more insects after that, but I'm not grossed out by it.

[Joe Fields]

65. You may not be, but I am.

[Left Is Write]

66. I haven't eaten any weird food, really. I've had snails and alligator.

[bif]

68. Blackened pig lips

Tapas in Spain.

[Cathyclysmic]

70. Escargot- I don't have an adventurous palate.

[azmouse]

72. Octopus, rattlesnake, ostrich

I'm fairly adventurous but won't eat the insides of animals... things like brains, hearts, kidneys.
Sorry but that stuff just wasn't meant to be eaten. :puke:

[LSK]

73. Octopus or Buffalo

[Initech]

75. Chicken feet

[auntAgonist]

76. I happen to love haggis, some say it's weird

or gross but I really enjoy it.

Tripe is good too.

Ox tail soup also.

aA

[RebelOne]

77. I have had haggis. When I went to Scotland, I took a tour

to Loch Ness and the guide gave us haggis. It was quite tasty.

[RumpusCat]

78. I ate haggis lately, and it was delish!

Then again, I have a reputation amongst my friends for enjoying 'gross' foods. Fine, more for me--pass that haggis right over! Give me a nice dark beer on the side and it's a meal. :beer: :7

[tyedyeto]

79. Jellyfish

Not much texture to it and very little flavor.

Would I eat it again? Yes.