Off topic-Weirdest food you ever ate?

[plantlvr]

In honor of Leafords 'different' dinner post, I thought it would be fun to share the strangest [to you ] food you ever had.
Mine has to be at a restaurant near the Central Coast here in Cal. There were four of us vacationing together and we ended up at this restaurant that featured turkeys as their special. Everywhere you looked there were turkeys, stuffed and mounted on the walls, pictures, decorations etc.
We all had a couple of drinks and were having a grand time, when I excused myself to use the restroom. When I returned my friends had ordered me an appetizer of deep fried turkey testicles8-o
Well I ate one and it was ok, but never did finish them.
Oh yeah and another time I ate a Mexican jumping bean with the little larvae inside, that one was a bet and I won

 

[leaford]

Great idea, Plantlvr! I'm really dying to hear somebody else's bizarre food stories!

 

[Hellen A. Handbasket]

Rattlesnake... mmmmm tastes like chicken (I live in Arizona... we have to say that. sighhhh).

I've eaten almost every game meat that there is (dad hunted). Javenlina (aka Peccaries, the best BBQ ever!), Bear, Buffalo, Elk, Antelope, Quail, Dove, Squirrel (ukkkk), most fresh water fish. Not much I won't try (though I draw the line at private parts on animals... ewwwww!!).

 

[JohnnyVapor]

Oh man, where do I start?

Yuk Hwae, a Korean dish of raw beef and raw eggs with pear, garlic, and soy sauce? Totally delicious.
Calf's brains? Meh, not so great.
Sushi from fish that were alive just 30 seconds ago? Absolutely fabulous.
Natto, a Japanese food made from fermented soybeans? Horrible, but not the weirdest.
How about raw deer heart? Now that was pretty strange.

 

[calla2]

Having been born in Jamaica, we grew up eating things like pig ear and pigs feet, beef tongue, ox tail, conch (salt water snails), fish eyes (eaten with the whole fish), tripe (cow stomach), and chicken feet, hearts, and gizzards. Needless to say I do not eat the vast majority of these in adulthood, LOL. There are also a ton of less common tropical fruits (e.g., gnips, breadfruit, ackee, soursop, and cassava, the latter of which is poisonous if not prepared properly), vegetables (e.g., arrowroot, pawpaw, and chow chow), and herbs (e.g., sorrel, mawby bark, and cerasee leaf) that I still enjoy. Otherwise, the weirdest foods I've tried as an adult mostly came when eating sushi (e.g., eel, octopus, squid, sea cucumber, sea urchin, roe/fish eggs, etc.). I passed on an opportunity to eat dolphin in Key West... just didn't seem right, LOL. I'm sure there is more but that's all I can think of right now. Though still adventurous, I tend to shy away from the most extreme stuff nowadays.

 

[JenJen]

I have to honestly say, I have never eaten anything remotely wierd. I really have a thing about wierd meat, I just can't do it. Meatwise, if it isn't Chicken or Turkey (white meat only) or beef or pork - I won't eat it. No organ meat of any kind! At age 7 I once sat at my grandmothers table for 3 hours because I wouldn't eat my liver! I would honestly go hungry before eating anything like Leaford has been eating lol! I also have to cut all the fat off steak before I eat it, and if it is a fatty part of the beef that I can't cut the fat off, I won't eat it. I never eat the skin of the turkey or chicken either, even though hubby insists it's the best part lol.

My hubby once tried rattlesnake and I refused to kiss him until he brushed his teeth. Ok, so we all have our little quirks and this is mine... I don't do strange meats!

 

[chrisl317]

Balut would have been. Glad I didn't though. Plus, I eat some things that'd make a billy goat puke. But, never, never will I eat balut. Not even if it's served by "The Cat in the Hat"!

 

[emus]

Maggots in fermented fish. Tastes as bad as it sounds. The natives love it. Go figure.

 

[maaron]

I have to say mine was when I was in culinary school and we cooked sweetbreads......which isn't what it sounds like. It is the thymus gland of a calf. I suppose it isn't too weird since people eat it all the time in France but it is weird for Americans I think. Honestly it didn't taste that bad but I don't think I would eat it again! Oh and calla the dolphin you were asked to try wasn't a dolphin like flipper. It was probobly a dolphin fish which is totally different! A lot of places in the tropics sell it but just out dolphin on the menu instead of dolphin fish.

 

[emus]

Balut would have been. Glad I didn't though. Plus, I eat some things that'd make a billy goat puke. But, never, never will I eat balut. Not even if it's served by "The Cat in the Hat"!

Yeah...it's hard to even watch one eat balut...tends to run down their fingers and drip on the ground...yuk.

 

[Pugzley]

I tried balut, but sans the fur. It was mostly just yolk, depends on how long they let it go before they destroy the little duck, how much fuzz there is, I guess.

Also, I ate beef tongue, which I know isn't so strange, but I was also drinking pisco sours with it and once I found out what I was eating... well, I got sick and I couldn't believe I was actually tossed out of a Peruvian bar! I don't really remember all that much about it, except when I woke up, my lungs were full of alcohol breath and I probably almost died. I was hung over for 3 days.

 

[chrisl317]

I tried balut, but sans the fur. It was mostly just yolk, depends on how long they let it go before they destroy the little duck, how much fuzz there is, I guess.

Also, I ate beef tongue, which I know isn't so strange, but I was also drinking pisco sours with it and once I found out what I was eating... well, I got sick and I couldn't believe I was actually tossed out of a Peruvian bar! I don't really remember all that much about it, except when I woke up, my lungs were full of alcohol breath and I probably almost died. I was hung over for 3 days.

I was in Lima, Peru for about a week. Don't remember much except seeing Indianna Jones and the Temple of Doom, hooking up with a very hot and ready female Peruvian cop, buying a dead tarantula and going to some bar in the town square. Hungover, nope, just stayed drunk.
UNITAS Float '84

 

[ETsmokinandvapin]

Growing up my best friend was Lebanese, and we would have raw lamb that you would just slice a piece off and wrap a piece of pita bread around. It was my favorite treat at their house!

Eating baby octopus at the sushi bar is probably the strangest food lately.

 

[SmilingSlasher]

I've had Durian. Fabulous.......That is the only word that comes to mind. For those wanting to try it, You can usually get it from your local Asian Market. It stinks to high heaven, but the taste is to die for!!!!

 

[JenJen]

Balut would have been. Glad I didn't though. Plus, I eat some things that'd make a billy goat puke. But, never, never will I eat balut. Not even if it's served by "The Cat in the Hat"!

Ok, Being the discriminate meat eater that I am, I had to look up to see what balut was! All I can say is Ewwwwww!

 

[SmilingSlasher]

I wouldn't mind trying a 1000 year old egg........Doesn't look too bad.....

 

[V4Lis4me]

i dont know of the weirdest food that i have eaten....

but i do like to try most any new food item myself (as far as meat is concerned), off the top of my head heres a few (some not weird to all, maybe others are... and i'll likely forget a few in the list)

squirrel
bear
lamb
rattlesnake
bison
alligator
duck
goose
deer
any possible sushi grade fish there is (my favorite food by far, and tried it all)
rabbit
..........and im sure there is a few more, but im drawing a blank at the moment!

 

[Pawpaw]

I can't think of any particularly weird things I've eaten.

squirrel
bear
lamb
rattlesnake
alligator
duck
goose
deer
Are all good.

Carabou (a.k.a. reindeer) is VERY tasty!

 

[V4Lis4me]

I can't think of any particularly weird things I've eaten.

squirrel
bear
lamb
rattlesnake
alligator
duck
goose
deer
Are all good.

Carabou (a.k.a. reindeer) is VERY tasty!

nice, now if only i could find that at my local Publix!

 

[dgriego]

Snails, rattlesnake, turtle, frog legs, alligator and I tried raccoon once.