What's the weirdest thing you've ever eaten?

Escargot in garlic-butter. Tasted like....garlic. So, Yum.

Then I planted marigolds and caught these little "escargots" slithering around eating all the leaves! UGH... never wanted to eat them again.

(a few half-full bottles of beer in the garden traps them. They are lushes, crawl into the bottle and drown)
 
My Jamaican friends introduced me to goat curry, which was delicious. My Chinese girlfriend's mother made cow's tongue one time, and I had a taste - not a fan. I like squid and octopus, but don't go out of my way to order it. It's tender and chewy if prepared correctly. One time, a bunch of us were at a friend's house and she brought out a box of chocolate covered insects .. can't remember what, exactly. Everyone was dared to try them. I bowed out.
 
oldman said:
The deep fried chicken feet were very crunchy, but OK. The prawns were the largest that I ever saw. It was a very interesting and educational trip. When I went back a few months later, I was more experienced and ordered my own food.
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I am reminded of a story my dad told me. He and my uncle would go to the local butcher shop and ask if they could have all the feet from the butchered chickens...to put in the garden to keep pests out. So they got them for free,. They would deep fry them and eat them.
 
I've eaten my way through quite a few countries. Even in the US there are regional differences in food. I love food and will try anything twice. I guess the only thing I think of as odd are insects. Grasshoppers are ok, always bite down on the legs first, otherwise the little barbs get stuck on the inside of your mouth.

I do like crickets. They are crunchy, a bit peppery and also a bit of chlorophyll taste (like new green grass). Make great croutons.
 
toffee said:
I used to live near the coast in my early days of growing up so we had plenty of sea food stalls ''
so I tried whelks ''and boy I loved them salted with vinegar yummm bit grissly -but now I think OMG
did I actually eat them yuKKKKKKK ' now I feel sicky typing this ' lol .
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Mm i love whelks...still have them now !
 
I ate horse meat a couple of times when I was in Germany....in the early 1960's....tasted ok. I used to really like calf brains when I was growing up...my Mom mixed some of that up with scrambled eggs....delicious....but I haven't seen any brains in the stores in decades....probably as a result of the "Mad Cow" disease scare.
I ate some really strange stuff when I was in Thailand in 1967...probably best not to describe some of that. The One thing I could never bring myself to try over there was the Rice Bugs....those huge bugs infested the rice fields, and the rice farmers would grab one, pop off its head, and suck out the rice the bug had consumed.
 
LOL, you have to wonder about the first guy who ever tried some of these weird foods. I am pretty sure it was a man as women generally have better sense. I also surmise that some alcohol was involved.
Imagine sitting around the old campfire and announcing that those chicken feet were looking really yummy. Yes, alcohol was probably involved.
 
Quickly I'd a couple sisters with me or they with me whatever and they were from Qing or Qi oh I forget what place but they were Chinese; anyhoo>>> some evenings we had specially purchased old black eggs and ? oh COW'S TONGUE ! NO we were not drinking. @Pecos
 
I've never eaten this, but once at the supermarket meat dept., I looked down at the packages of meat and saw a pig's face looking up at me! I think it's traditional in some European countries around New Year's.
 
Reading this brought back memories of years ago. My Husband worked with a guy who asked us out to dinner with him and his wife. When they were reading the menu he said to my husband that he should try the "Sweetbread". My husband had no idea what it was but he ordered it. After he ate it he said it was good. A few weeks later we went out to dinner with them again and my husband ate the Sweetbread again. It wasn't until later that my husband found out what "Sweetbread" was made of.
sweetbreads are the organ meat from the thymus gland and pancreas.
They are most commonly from veal or lamb, but beef and pork sweetbreads can also be found.


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I've eaten so many odd things, altho' being European and travelling to so many countries we don't think of them as Odd. ..we're so used to an international diet..

Snails (Escargot) , frogs legs.. Crocodile, kangaroo, Boar , ostrich, horse meat but in my defence I didn't know it was horse meat ( that was in Italy) and it was served up as a burger...and I was sick as a dog!! All sorts of shellfish (which I love).... but no way would I knowingly eat, pigs feet or Chicken feet or some other yucky stuff mentioned here..

ETA..Sassycakes, sweetbreads are very popular here, I don't like them but my o/h used to love them before he gave up eating meat !!
 
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