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

barnwife · August 2009

I'm really hungry today, so that got me thinking about foods. The strangest thing I've ever eaten would have to be a worm. (I know, I know, it's not usually considered a food around here!) I worked at a summer camp one summer and the camp director dared the staff to eat a worm. So one other counselor and I went outside, dug up some worms, and ate them!

MissNikki007 · August 2009

Escargot.

A buttery, slippery, cooked snail.

Temp356619000002780 · August 2009

LOL the only worm I have ever eaten came out of the tequila bottle! So I guess that's mine!

Blasianlove · August 2009

MissNikki007:

Escargot.

A buttery, slippery, cooked snail.

Ick!

I used to eat chitlins as a little girl.... Ick!

williaw · August 2009

Escargot, squid, and everyone thinks that my love for fried chicken livers is weird.

EDIT: I forgot pig's feet. I was made to eat one as my initiation into my high school sorority...

LOVEDBYD · August 2009

MissNikki007:

Escargot.

A buttery, slippery, cooked snail.

Mmmm I Love escargot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

For me it was octopus! I was gross!

MrsDonk · August 2009

Honestly, I can't think of anything. I'm a pretty picky eater.

ondjima · August 2009

Let's see, on my adventures in Africa I have eaten: Lamb's brain (tastes like bland fish), Goat liver, and lungs (story and pic in blog, in siggy), mopani worms friend in garlic butter (super chewy, tastes like grass), ostrich egg Ick! , machicha (basically fried weeds), palm fruit (rotten saw dust, really really nasty stuff), oxtail (deish), but the worst is the African beverage of choice, it goes by many names: Lashorro, maswi, etc. It is basically rotten milk which they shake up all day. It is so rotten it is almost fizzy, you can smell it when they bring it into the room, this one ladies is truly awful.

I have also eaten any african animal you can think of. Giraffe is greasy, elephant is chewy, zebra is nasty, crocodile is like chicken, rhino is like eating leather, but warthog is delicious!!!

arrie · August 2009

I've also eaten escargot... I couldn't get the image of snails out of my mind when I was chewing. Bleh.

And I had a lot of interesting game meat when I was in South Africa... like kudu, impala, ostrich (delish!). But I'd say those are more exotic than strange

EDIT: Also, biltong is great (like fresh beef jerky, but not necessarily cow meat). Warthog biltong has a very earthy taste, but it's good! Regular NA jerky has been ruined for me. It's so sweet in comparison to biltong.

k-mart · August 2009

I LOVE escargot!

I have to confess that I will try anything once, so I have tried, sea urchin, beef tounge, almost any of the insides of a cow (there is a soup my family will make and the broth is really good, but it comes with all this "extra stuff"), I think I even tried the brain once. There is probably a long list, but I just can't remember since I'll eat anything!

hopefulhoney · August 2009

For me it was probably Squid Jerkey (Like Beef Jerky) or Octopus. BUT DH has eaten dog before...yes you read that correctly. We lived in Korea for a year and over there it is considered a 'treat' and they believe it to increase male stamina

I was not impressed that he ate it but he said "when in Rome..."

Blasianlove · August 2009

ondjima:

Let's see, on my adventures in Africa I have eaten: Lamb's brain (tastes like bland fish), Goat liver, and lungs (story and pic in blog, in siggy), mopani worms friend in garlic butter (super chewy, tastes like grass), ostrich egg , machicha (basically fried weeds), palm fruit (rotten saw dust, really really nasty stuff), oxtail (deish), but the worst is the African beverage of choice, it goes by many names: Lashorro, maswi, etc. It is basically rotten milk which they shake up all day. It is so rotten it is almost fizzy, you can smell it when they bring it into the room, this one ladies is truly awful.

I have also eaten any african animal you can think of. Giraffe is greasy, elephant is chewy, zebra is nasty, crocodile is like chicken, rhino is like eating leather, but warthog is delicious!!!

Um.. ew, ew, ewww, ew, ew, ew ewwwew, and ew.

I saw that milk thing with Andrew Zimmerman, he couldn't even have more than 2 sips. Ick!

sroszc · August 2009

Cow tongue. I think my mom was trying to torture me. I will honestly never forget the texture. bleck!

rlscheck · August 2009

Squirrel. My dad hunts and we were having what I though were chicken thighs for dinner. They were delicious! They informed me aftewards of what I had actually just eaten!

williaw · August 2009

sroszc:
Cow tongue. I think my mom was trying to torture me. I will honestly never forget the texture. bleck!

This reminds me of Ramona Quimby

juietbride · August 2009

I have escargot, I have had tripas (tripe), lingua (tongue), most fish raw, nopales (cactus, yummy). My great aunt does this awesome dish nopales and these fried egg whites with dried shrimp powder in a yummy red sauce ::drools::. I have eaten many different items and I am open to nearly anything once.

anderson_moore2008 · August 2009

Oh my gosh Iived with south american chef and it was like a episode of fear factor at our house:

Tripe

Calves Brains

Aligator

Tounge

Sweet Breads

Veal Cheek

Secaidas (sp? the bugs that only come out of the ground ever 17 years)

Pigs feet

Bear

Squirl

Blood Pudding

Black Pudding

Haggis

Anasara · August 2009

Fried locuts sprinkled with chili powder in Niger. It was 2004 when they were having a famine because the locusts ate most of the crops. There wasn't much else to eat. I'm normally a vegetarian too.

MissNikki007 · August 2009

xxbblueangelxx:
MissNikki007:

Escargot.

A buttery, slippery, cooked snail.

I used to eat chitlins as a little girl....

Oh hell no!! I refuse to eat anything that smells like that!

k-mart · August 2009

Wow! What an adventurous group of ladies we have!

Blasianlove · August 2009

MissNikki007:
xxbblueangelxx:
MissNikki007:

Escargot.

A buttery, slippery, cooked snail.

I used to eat chitlins as a little girl....

Oh hell no!! I refuse to eat anything that smells like that!

if cleaned properly they don't smell like poo. But it still smells weird. I can't eat them now.

I guess the craziest is chicken feet and squid.

wlknsnlrn · August 2009

Aligator. I am a picky eater but DH decided to order this as an appetizer once. It was DELICIOUS!!!

canthardlywait426 · August 2009

I'm a pretty picky eater so my wierd things aren't that wierd. I've had escargot, ostrich, quail eggs, squid, octopus, I love buffalo and venisen jerky!

andrea1103 · August 2009

My cousins brought back vegemite from Australia. I couldn't get the taste out of my mouth for days! No vegemite sandwiches for me!

wlknsnlrn · August 2009

Oh, I forgot to add Cow Fries ( fried cow balls). Along with dove and quail...yumm, yumm.

rlscheck · August 2009

anderson_moore2008:

Oh my gosh Iived with south american chef and it was like a episode of fear factor at our house:

Tripe

Calves Brains

Aligator

Tounge

Sweet Breads

Veal Cheek

Secaidas (sp? the bugs that only come out of the ground ever 17 years)

Pigs feet

Bear

Squirl

Blood Pudding

Black Pudding

Haggis

I can not imagine eating this! You wonder who comes up with some of these foods!

Beadgirl · August 2009

I've had stomach, intestine, cabeza & something that my SIL puts on a sandwich that I swear is grass from her back yard that I could barely stand to eat.

canthardlywait426 · August 2009

wlknsnlrn:
Aligator. I am a picky eater but DH decided to order this as an appetizer once. It was DELICIOUS!!!

Oooooh! I love gator tail!

bbjoys · August 2009

It might be a cultural thing for me, but I've tried pretty much everything that a lot of people might think is gross (and I like a lot of it, lol). Pig brain, cow tongue, tripas, sea urchin, escargot, chitlins, rooster fries, squid, octopus, pig feet, chicken hearts, etc.

I eat pretty much everything. Stick out tongue

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