What is the strangest, weirdest thing you've ever eaten?

[Jeni]

But was it good?

some items were some not .... know there were frogs/ alligator and perhaps some snake.... everything mostly deep fried ....
but very different taste and texture past the breading.....

 

[Chet]

Ants when I was a kid. My mother panicked. Raw ground beef in Germany. Calamari (squid). You chew and chew and chew some more until you are tired of chewing and swallow.

 

[Lewkat]

I once ate frog legs....once was enough.

There was a small restaurant in Princeton, NJ that had a special every week on frogs legs, all you can eat. Place was mobbed and they were delicious.

 

[Alligatorob]

Ants when I was a kid

I ate in a place in Mexico City that specialized in insect cuisine. Had ants a number of different ways, all good. https://lacocinadesanjuan.com.mx/menú

 

[Pappy]

Kangaroo tail stew. Was very good. I hated goats milk.

 

[IKE]

1. Coatimundi, monkey and iguana in Panama.......good.

2. Dog, rice field rats and big beetles in Vietnam.......good.

3. Fruit bats in Indonesia.......good.

Cooked like they were all of the above were good and eaten on more than one occasion.

Probably one of the worst tasting things I ever ate was while sitting on the ground in a olive orchard eating couscous from a large communal bowl, with 1/2 dozen crusty Libyan soldiers, that had some sort of fermented very pungent chunks of mystery meat in it.......for appearances I ate my fair share but it was hard.

 

[Murrmurr]

Dirt, low calorie and filling, but not much taste...

If you have a strong immune system, could be because you ate dirt. I liked the taste. Ate it every chance I got. My oldest brother liked to lick tires. If not for the baby-teeth, he might have eaten them.

 

[Tish]

Emu, crocodile, kangaroo, and the weirdest would have to be witchetty grub.

 

[win231]

Ants when I was a kid. My mother panicked. Raw ground beef in Germany. Calamari (squid). You chew and chew and chew some more until you are tired of chewing and swallow.

Years ago, I let a friend talk me into eating Calamari. I stopped after one bite & said, "Ya know, I have an old tire in the garage..........."

 

[Capt Lightning]

I love squid and octopus though you don't get many in the UK. I also like Whitebait (very small fish cooked and eaten whole including head, fins, bones and innards).
Of the more unusual things I've eaten
Bear
Reindeer
Water buffalo
Hare
Whelks

I remember when I worked in Amsterdam, there was a Vietnamese restaurant that we named,, "Wok the dog"

 

[Colleen]

Squid! Tastes like wet rubber bands...YUK!

 

[Paco Dennis]

Squid! Tastes like wet rubber bands...YUK!

Yep. I was just going to say Oysters for the same reason.

 

[jujube]

Roasted grubs (surprisingly tasty), lemon ants ( they do taste like lemon, but then so do lemons...), fried earthworms (on a par with fried shoelaces) and some kind of incredibly nasty Amazonian alcoholic beverage traditionally made by someone chewing some kind of plant and then spitting the juice into a bowl, where it ferments but which I was solemnly assured that this batch was produced in a more hygienic method (if I was dying of thirst in the Amazon basin and this was all there was to drink, I'd die of thirst).