What is the strangest food you have eaten?

[Ephany]

Rocky Mountain Oysters and baby octopus. The octopus were on pizza and were still in one piece; very odd and I probably wouldn't eat again. The rocky mountain oysters were pretty good until I learned what I was eating. My 10 year old self was not impressed!

I had a hamburger at the Hard Rock Cafe in Dubai, but we all agreed it wasn't like any hamburger we'd ever had. It was very chewy and un-hamburger-like. Not sure I want to know what it actually was. Oh, and I had sea cucumber once on a field trip, tasted like chewy butter.

 

[zachnsamsmommy]

Fried cicadas (yup...the big fly-looking bug)...

We had a cicada fry about 4 years ago when the 10 yr cicadas emerged. My dad's idea. I only ate one...it tasted like a potato chip. I think when you eat anything deep fried to a crisp, it would taste like a potato chip.

 

[DonaldTDuck]

At Ralph Brennan's Jazz Kitchen at DL I (after several beers) had the crawfish mashed potatoes. They were fantastic.

 

[dis-happy]

MIL ordered jelly fish salad one time during dim sum. I decided to taste it. Imagine long strips of cold jelly fish....put it in my mouth and it was slimy, fishy, and tasted exactly as bad as one would think jellyfish would taste! (what was I thinking????) Had to quietly spit it out into my napkin, too nasty to try and swallow. OTOH, my MIL enjoyed every bit. Go figure.

 

[C.Ann]

Moose meat.. My dad was an avid hunter (for food) and I thought we would never, ever see the last piece come out of the freezer! I've had bear, squirrel, deer, rabbit, and pheasant too, but I don't consider them too out of the ordinary..

The moose meat was very "gamey", but not particularly bad if you knew how to cook it right..

Other than that, I'm not terribly adventurous about "odd" foods..

 

[ginna74]

hubby isn't here so I don't know what country he was at. in his words ...He ordered balut and waitress did something to egg and baby chick fell out and he almost hurled. She asked if he was gonna eat it and he said heck nooooooo and she slurped it up!!!! EEEEEK so he really didn't eat it but he ordered it not knowing what it was lol. SOOOOOO not quite what was asked but it was really close lol.

it is a fertilized duck (or chicken) egg with a nearly-developed embryo inside that is boiled and eaten in the shell.


I too had moose meat when I was in alaska. Was given to family as a gift so had it a lot. Mixed it in with ground beef and it wasn't so bad but alone was reall gamey as stated above.

 

[raysnkaysmom]

Dog and snake - not a fan of either one.

DOG??

scorpion I wouldnt do it again
followed by crickets...crunchy not bad.

omg...what is there to eat out of those two, besides a bone to crunch

I've eaten alligator tail (very good ) deer jerky (too gamey) and bison. I thought it was regular prime rib when I ate the bison, just tasted a bit different. It wasn't bad, not great...
And, I love calamari and such...

 

[CourtasanSatine]

Cholocate covered cricket

 

[LuvOrlando]

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[KristaTX]

I'm not an adventurous eater at all, and I'm just fine with that. A DIS friend once made me eat sushi at Kimono's at the Swan. I had a great time, but didn't like the sushi at all .

 

[DLR29]

For a project one of my friends had salted Columbian ants (like 2 in long. yeah, not your normal size ant) that her dad had gotten. I tried one..... blech! It was so bitter and salty.

(BTW, the crazy2 smilie should definitely be the "blech" smilie)

 

[JessicaR]

Goat, Alligator, Tiger, Octopus, Sweet Breads, Venison, Buffalo, Ostrich, Blood Sausage, Shark, Conch. Probably others I'm forgetting.

I'll try most anything once. My husband will not. If I say something tastes like chicken he says, "so eat chicken"!

 

[binny]

reindeer and then most game (cousins are avid hunters) so moose, elk, deer, bear, etc Ive tried it all.

Not a huge game fan though, which is a shame because my mum has a freezer full of it.


I also tried a bunch of stuff while living in Yukon that I didnt want to know what it was at the time and still dont. I tell myself it was chicken.....

 

[MizTink]

i'm not a brave eater. i don't even like dark meat chicken or pork. and i really don't like meat on the bone, no seafood either.

i once had barbacoa tacos. when i asked what kind of meat barbacoa is, i was just told that "it's cow". i ate 3 tacos. they were good, but i knew something was "different" about the meat.
a few months later i found out that it's not just beef. it's the bull's head....brains and all

 

[Nickimouse]

Fried octopus -- a whole, tiny octopus. I thought I would never get it down - the more I chewed, the bigger it felt. Will never do that again!

My husband used to get these when we went to the beach in Italy. I would eat a little piece but just couldn't eat a whole one.

I have also had reindeer pate.

 

[MinnyGranny62]

I ate muskrat once and barffed for a week. Would not eat it again as it has a very wild taste.

 

[Rebelmom67]

I like pretty much all food and would be a great contestant on Survivor - I'll eat anything, lol. The strangest things I have eaten are cat, in Vietnam (which I felt badly about later) and roasted grasshoppers in Mexico.

I liked both food items. The cat was heavily seasoned and like a dark meat chicken, the roasted grass hopper was crispy and salty and didn't taste offensive, just like flour breading with salt and pepper, lol.

 

[disney1990]

I had garlic sauteed crickets on saltines. They weren't too bad -- just crunchy.

This was for Maryland Agriculture Day. If you ate them, they gave you a certificate.

I'll try almost anything once.

 

[poohlover]

I love knowing others have eaten Rocky Mountain Oysters! We loved them too, didn't tell the kids (then middle school and younger) what they were and they asked for more! We have it on tape telling the two 8th grade girls what they were the next morning...yeah we are bad!

Otherwise I like to forget most of the raw types of fish stuff we ate for 2 yrs in Japan. Blow fish I actually liked!

The one that stands out was the deep fried sparrow...whole bird...on a stick...yeah it was crunchy but you could still tell you were eating a beak or feet.

Shark fin soup and birds nest soup are great! I'm prolly forgetting a lot more.

 

[Tinker'n'Fun]

When I was younger my Uncle thought it was funny to test me...

Pig's feet, snout, and ears.....