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

04/17/2009 06:54:44 PM · #76

Originally posted by JimiRose:

I think there's a challenge suggestion in this - "Advanced editing: The weirdest thing I've ever eaten". Even if you make it up it'd make for some interesting pics!

I'd love to see someone shoehorn a landscape into that...

Mud pies?

R.

04/17/2009 06:59:36 PM · #77

Originally posted by kirbic:

And some I haven't seen listed:
Beef tongue - known as lengua in Mexico. Great in tacos, tortas, burritos... and wonderful slow simmered and sliced in a sandwich

I'm always confused that people consider tongue "weird"; I can't imagine why. It's just a muscle, and a very lean and supple one at that. But you never see it for sale anymore, it seems. I used to eat tongue sandwiches all the time.

Regarding snakes, that's probably my "most weird" dining experience, if not the weirdest *thing* I've eaten: I was privileged to join a Chinese family in a private dining room in a great Chinese restaurant in San Francisco where a live snake was brought out and displayed, then skinned alive in front of we diners, quickly hacked into medallions while still squirming wildly, and the medallions were dropped into a simmering broth, which we then partook of minutes later... It was absolutely delicious, one of the finest dishes I've ever had.

R.

Dr.Confuser

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04/17/2009 07:05:51 PM · #78

Having enjoyed crepes from many many crepe stands in Paris, I came across one that was apparently making "whole wheat" crepes with a very dark batter. I ordered one, and they cooked it up for me. It didn't taste much like whole wheat, rather it tasted sort ... of meaty.

Turned out it was pigs's blood cooked up like a crepe.

Not bad, but an acquired taste to be sure.

ETA: I make it a rule not to eat anything still moving. Words to live by!

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JimiRose

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04/17/2009 07:09:44 PM · #79

Originally posted by Dr.Confuser:

Nice... sounds a bit like British black pudding which is basically fried blood. Perfect hangover cure!

kirbic

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04/17/2009 09:14:57 PM · #80

Originally posted by Bear_Music:

Me too, I used to take them for lunch when I was in grade school, and I guarantee, no one ever stole my lunch! Dang, now I want a beef tongue sandwich!

cpanaioti

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04/17/2009 09:18:59 PM · #81

Haggis, blood sausage, ....

Yum.

Not really weird but things people usually turn their nose up at. Ya don't know what you're missing.

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sfalice

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04/17/2009 09:32:44 PM · #82

Originally posted by kirbic:

Originally posted by Bear_Music:
I'm always confused that people consider tongue "weird"; I can't imagine why. It's just a muscle, and a very lean and supple one at that. But you never see it for sale anymore, it seems. I used to eat tongue sandwiches all the time...

Me too, I used to take them for lunch when I was in grade school, and I guarantee, no one ever stole my lunch! Dang, now I want a beef tongue sandwich!

Yes, they used to come in those cans the size that the (er) Hormel product and Corned Beef come in. Stick cloves in the top, bake 'em for awhile, and yum.

rodneyg

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04/17/2009 09:36:24 PM · #83

It would be a toss-up between chicken feet soup or chicken tongue. These were considered delicacies when I visited China last year. Man, was I ever glad to get home!!!

Covert_Oddity

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04/17/2009 09:51:07 PM · #84

It's funny to me that a few people here have listed Haggis, and blood sausage (what we call black pudding)! Both can be picked up in any chip shop in Scotland, and both very popular!

kirbic

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04/17/2009 10:02:19 PM · #85

Originally posted by sfalice:

Yes, they used to come in those cans the size that the (er) Hormel product and Corned Beef come in. Stick cloves in the top, bake 'em for awhile, and yum.

My Mom used to get a whole tongue form the butcher, and simmer it with just salt for seasoning. Outstanding.

eqsite

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04/17/2009 10:13:29 PM · #86

Originally posted by Covert_Oddity:

It's funny to me that a few people here have listed Haggis, and blood sausage (what we call black pudding)! Both can be picked up in any chip shop in Scotland, and both very popular!

I loved both of them, but I couldn't convice any of my travelling companions to try them. Yet they all eat hot dogs without complaint -- go figure!

04/17/2009 10:20:17 PM · #87

Originally posted by sfalice:

In the "once was enough" category:

seal meat
puffin
grasshoppers.

I had heard that puffin was tasty.
Also, the buffalo I've had has been great. But then, what I'm referring to is bison, and I think everybody else is talking about water buffalo. If you've never had bison (called buffalo here), you should. It's tasty, low in fat and low in cholesterol.
In regard to

BeeCee, I live in Colorado... soo.... no dice on that whole Chinatown thing. I guess I could try to find an asian grocer in Denver, there might be one, but I'm not too optimistic. I'll have to remember that if I ever go visit my friend in Seattle again.

Stagolee

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04/17/2009 10:22:01 PM · #88

Originally posted by kirbic:

Originally posted by sfalice:

Yes, they used to come in those cans the size that the (er) Hormel product and Corned Beef come in. Stick cloves in the top, bake 'em for awhile, and yum.

My Mom used to get a whole tongue form the butcher, and simmer it with just salt for seasoning. Outstanding.

Yes.. I had similiar childhood meals, tongue is still widely available here from butchers. My mother made a lovely "lambs fry" which is a lambs liver dish.

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04/17/2009 10:22:45 PM · #89

Originally posted by eqsite:

Originally posted by Covert_Oddity:
It's funny to me that a few people here have listed Haggis, and blood sausage (what we call black pudding)! Both can be picked up in any chip shop in Scotland, and both very popular!

I loved both of them, but I couldn't convice any of my travelling companions to try them. Yet they all eat hot dogs without complaint -- go figure!

Your comment about hotdogs reminds me of a high school teacher I had...
Every year, when the class got to that point in history, he would have a day where he grilled up a bunch of hotdogs for the class and then read excerpts of Upton Sinclaire's The Jungle aloud to the class. It was great.

ETA: I've never tried tongue, but I'll always remember how peculiar a giant cow tongue looks when it's in a styrofoam tray and shrinkwrapped. Just the texture and size of it, totally blew my little 5 year old mind at the time.

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vawendy

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04/17/2009 10:58:19 PM · #90

Originally posted by spiritualspatula:

Originally posted by eqsite:

Originally posted by Covert_Oddity:
It's funny to me that a few people here have listed Haggis, and blood sausage (what we call black pudding)! Both can be picked up in any chip shop in Scotland, and both very popular!

I loved both of them, but I couldn't convice any of my travelling companions to try them. Yet they all eat hot dogs without complaint -- go figure!

Your comment about hotdogs reminds me of a high school teacher I had...
Every year, when the class got to that point in history, he would have a day where he grilled up a bunch of hotdogs for the class and then read excerpts of Upton Sinclaire's The Jungle aloud to the class. It was great.

ETA: I've never tried tongue, but I'll always remember how peculiar a giant cow tongue looks when it's in a styrofoam tray and shrinkwrapped. Just the texture and size of it, totally blew my little 5 year old mind at the time.

ugh! I remember reading the jungle on a day they served hot dogs at lunch. I don't think I ate hot dogs for about 6 months after that book!

04/17/2009 11:53:08 PM · #91

I'm surprised none of the Colorado people have mentioned "Rocky Mountain Oysters"... Now, THAT's delicious :-)

R.

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04/18/2009 12:29:05 AM · #92

Originally posted by Bear_Music:

I'm surprised none of the Colorado people have mentioned "Rocky Mountain Oysters"... Now, THAT's delicious :-)

R.

Alanfreed beat us to it!

Originally posted by alanfreed:

Originally posted by karmat:
has anyone pointed Alanfreed to this thread?

I found it myself, thank you :) Obviously bull testicles will have to be mentioned here somewhere.

PaulE

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04/18/2009 12:44:27 AM · #93

Originally posted by pncowley:

Dried smoked mopane worms (actually a type of caterpillar) while living in northern South Africa. Tasted okay once you got past the thought of eating a crunchy caterpillar.

Yeah - I had these when I was a kid.

Strangely the smell of durian has slowly ben growing on me over my foru years in Singapore. I can now almost get why some of my chinese friends are such addicts.

Here is Singapore I have had chicken feet, and pig-organ soup; and insects in Thailand.

Prawns are regarded as pretty normel, and I absolutely love them - but when you think about it they are pretty wierd buggers. Any crustatean in fact. When you think in this way lots of things are odd - eggs for example - an unborn fetus. But because it is so commonplace we don't think it is wierd.

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04/18/2009 12:55:17 AM · #94

And so goes the saying "It was a brave man who first ate an oyster." Of course, oysters are common fare these days, yet sea squirts resist popularity in the western world. No matter where you go, there is something that locals all eat because of culture/custom, and anybody outside of that area finds peculiar/grotesque. Definitely one of the best parts about an international forum- learning all these things.

vawendy

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04/18/2009 05:31:28 PM · #95

I always thought that the first person who ate a lobster must have been quite desperate. After all, it's just a giant cockroach.

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04/18/2009 06:00:01 PM · #96

Originally posted by vawendy:

I always thought that the first person who ate a lobster must have been quite desperate. After all, it's just a giant cockroach.

As is a crab... It makes me laugh that these are more or less universally regarded as delicacies, when in fact they are the garbage disposals of the undersea world... And did you know that cockroaches are about the purest protein hit you can acquire? Or so I've heard, I make haste to add... Maybe it's an urban myth?

R.

ETA: besides, the "first" person to eat a lobster would've lived in a time when *anything* that was edible was good eats, right? I mean, presumably this person would've been pleased enough with a healthy serving of nice, squirmy grubs, right?

Speaking of grubs, I have several times eaten the worm from a bottle of tequila :-)

R.

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tiffanyleski

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04/18/2009 07:44:06 PM · #97

Weirdest thing I've ever eaten is probably chocolate covered grasshoppers and crickets. Had those at Bug Bowl at Purdue University. They also had a cricket spitting contest there where you spat out a live cricket as far as you could, and my friend swallowed his on accident. :P

Stagolee

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04/26/2009 06:57:21 AM · #98

Finally uploaded some weird food photos that I have found in my travels most of which I have eaten.

Here are the wasp larvae I had

This is a type of mushroom that the Northern Vietnamese put in their green tea. No hallucinations and tasted quite pleasant used for some sort of medicinal purposes.

mmmm chicken

Frogs

Plenty of other stuff here. I love eating street food I must have a cast iron stomach as I never seem to get sick from it.

sacredspirit

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04/26/2009 08:01:35 AM · #99

***SHROOMS***

Yeah, nastiest little bugers I have ever put in my mouth, but had a heck of a time. And an increase to my artist nobility of course. LOL.

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kirbic