Peacocks, armadillos, woodchucks...

[ntsammy5]

what’s the most unusual thing you’ve ever eaten willingly? I’ve eaten grubs (lots of protein), grasshoppers (legs get stuck in your throat), rocky mountain oysters (won’t even go there) and many other things. Some of them I even ate at FW, well OK just 2 love bugs – can’t eat just one!

What’s your most unusual dish?

I know there’s lot of campers and hunters out there who’d like to share their stories, so here’s your chance…….

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I always wanted to use this smilie, but never had a reason before, I don't actually have a reason now.

 

[GOOFY4DONALD]

what’s the most unusual thing you’ve ever eaten willingly? I’ve eaten grubs (lots of protein), grasshoppers (legs get stuck in your throat), rocky mountain oysters (won’t even go there) and many other things. Some of them I even ate at FW, well OK just 2 love bugs – can’t eat just one!

What’s your most unusual dish?

I know there’s lot of campers and hunters out there who’d like to share their stories, so here’s your chance…….

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I always wanted to use this smilie, but never had a reason before, I don't actually have a reason now.

When I moved to Montana I tried Rocky Mountain Oysters. My DH (then DBF) told me they were just meatballs (I had never heard of them before). I guess I should have listened more carefully when he said meatballs.

 

[loriandmatt]

i was a guest at an Asian wedding once. the reception was basically 5 hours of eating strange things. course after course of oddities were brought before us.

we most unusual of them were:

shark fin soup - not bad actually.
sea urchin - oh please stay away from this one if you are even the slightest bit of a texture freak. it was like eating a mouth full of rubber bands. just would not break down into something i could swallow without choking on. I love calimari in all it's forms, so that slightly firm "rubbery" texture is something i am cool with....but sea urchin just takes that to an entirely new level. skeevy!

 

[big kahuna1]

I have tried ONCE...Opossum. Not a dish I would order out. I have also had Rattlesnake which really is not that bad and most recently just tried fried Mullet gizzard. This is another dish I would not order out either unless you like chewing on rubber tires. Although not really out of the ordinary, I love Escargo and Soft Shell Crabs. One thing I will NEVER try again is YAGERMEISTER! I think I would rather eat Opossum topped with fried Mullet gizzards than drink that stuff (putting it politely) ever again.

 

[Rhonda]

I've had rattlesnake. Not a big deal -- just another "white" meat. Tasted like chicken!

I've also had ostrich and alligator.

 

[LarryJ]

Beside the standard "strange" meats you can get here like alligator, frog legs, venison, buffalo, snails, calamari, armadillo chili, squirrel, rabbit, wild boar, etc. ... I have never and won't eat rocky mountain oysters BTW the only of those I really didn't care for was the wild boar, just too "gamey" Some of the "MORE" strange stuff was when I was in the Navy overseas and had stuff like Shark fin, soup, snake, turtle soup, and pigeon in places like Hong Kong and Singapore and I'm sure some that I wasn't even aware of when eating in some of the side walk restaurants in Singapore. It even got stranger when we got to the Indian Ocean and hit places like Iran, Sri Lanka, Kenya and Somalia. There I had camel, ostrich, gazelle, water buffalo and I'm almost sure it had to have been dog in Somalia. Many times the host countries Navy or local military hosted banquets for us and there was some really strange food served at those so I probably ate some stuff even more disgusting and never knew it.

Larry

 

[des1954]

Okay.... Wild Hog, Alligator, Octopus (nasty, nasty), dried kelp (seaweed),
Mourning Dove, Swamp Cabbage. I would NOT eat the opossum & raccoon cooked by the ex-husband of my DH's cousin.

I've also eaten unknown things at various Chinese Restaurants .

The "mystery meat" dinners served at Summer Girl Scout Camp!

 

[PIERCEDRN]

I was a camp counselor at a YMCA camp and we had to run activities every day for our troops, but after 6 weeks with the same kids you run out of creative things to do... so I gave 30 kids 30 minutes to find a bug and I promised to EAT IT! They returned triumphantly with a 3 inch long live wood roach! Well after you make a promise to a kid...you better go thru with it!
The wings were a little tough...uggh..
BOB

 

[wdwbound]

uh...okay....my gag reflex is working overtime here. The most exotic thing I have ever eaten is bear meat. My BIL is a Maine Guide and he did have some meat after a hunt which my sister did NOT tell us ahead of time what it was. Since she was very used to cooking game it actually was a good meal.

 

[ftwildernessguy]

what’s the most unusual thing you’ve ever eaten willingly? I’ve eaten grubs (lots of protein), grasshoppers (legs get stuck in your throat), rocky mountain oysters (won’t even go there) and many other things. Some of them I even ate at FW, well OK just 2 love bugs – can’t eat just one!

What’s your most unusual dish?

I know there’s lot of campers and hunters out there who’d like to share their stories, so here’s your chance…….

​

I always wanted to use this smilie, but never had a reason before, I don't actually have a reason now.

Army survival training should have taught you to remove the legs and wings from the grasshoppers - they can block your intestinal tract.

I have eaten grubs, bugs, worms, rattlesnake, gator, a wide variety of wild plants, iguana eggs, iguana themselves, something I am pretty sure was horse, something I believe was dog, frog, something I think may have been monkey, and a variety of things that natives eat that I was afraid to ask.

I have found that chicken tastes a lot like snake and gator. Gator jerky is most excellent. Ants roasted are SUPER as a snack - crunchy and kind of smokey tasting. Big grasshoppers roasted or sauteed - now THAT's eating. Worms should be soaked first - preferably in salt water, as should snails - gets rid of the gritty dirt inside of them. Iguana eggs scrambled are okay if you mix something with them like hot sauce. Iguana is kind of strange and dark meat. Horse was served as steak but in an area where there were no cows, only skinny horses - kind of tough. Dog - we won't go there, but the Koreans enjoy it. Monkey was dark meat and kind of gamey, I didn't like that much.

I will eat almost anything.

 

[Tent Camping Mom]

Caught and ate piranha. Lots of piranha! They don't have a lot of flesh so it takes several to make a meal. That was the scariest fishing I have ever, ever, done...in a canoe, no life jackets on the Amazon River. There were schools of piranha everywhere. They are vicious little boogers. A couple didn't make it in the bucket right away so they flopped around the canoe with their teeth still munching!

 

[Gatordad]

about the grossest thing i ever had was THIS

 

[big kahuna1]

I have eaten grubs, bugs, worms, rattlesnake, gator, a wide variety of wild plants, iguana eggs, iguana themselves, something I am pretty sure was horse, something I believe was dog, frog, something I think may have been monkey, and a variety of things that natives eat that I was afraid to ask.

I have found that chicken tastes a lot like snake and gator. Gator jerky is most excellent. Ants roasted are SUPER as a snack - crunchy and kind of smokey tasting. Big grasshoppers roasted or sauteed - now THAT's eating. Worms should be soaked first - preferably in salt water, as should snails - gets rid of the gritty dirt inside of them. Iguana eggs scrambled are okay if you mix something with them like hot sauce. Iguana is kind of strange and dark meat. Horse was served as steak but in an area where there were no cows, only skinny horses - kind of tough. Dog - we won't go there, but the Koreans enjoy it. Monkey was dark meat and kind of gamey, I didn't like that much.

I will eat almost anything.

Okay, remind me not to accept your offer of a "KUNGALOOSH" should we meet one day at the Fort!

 

[ftwildernessguy]

Okay, remind me not to accept your offer of a "KUNGALOOSH" should we meet one day at the Fort!

Gotta have something to wash all that down with. Kungaloosh is a pretty conventional recipe, so no worries.

 

[tungpo1]

I would have to say Mc Donalds!! That stuff is worse then anything posted yet!!!!

 

[Colson39]

I love me some alligator. Yumm................