What is the strangest food you have eaten?

[Bolanette87]

For me, it would have to be Curry Ice Cream..... Yup, thats right! I can assure you it was every bit as disgusting as it sounds. There was an ice cream bar in Carnac, France when we went on holiday that did something like 130 different flavours (Including Carrot, English Breakfast, Tomato Soup, etc)... My Dad bought the curry one as a bit of a joke, but he loved it! I however had one bite and was eternally grateful I was next to a bin! I love curry, and I love Ice Cream, but together its just wrong!

My Fiance is saying Ostrich is his weirdest thing.......... He had it at the Blue Lagoon in Disneyland Paris last year... He says its basically very similar to beef.... And heres a picture of the dish for your pleasure!

Bob xoxoxox

 

[OceanAnnie]

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.

I'll double that!
Not my cup of tea.

 

[Fifinella]

On my recent trip Down Under, we had a meal at a restaurant (Tukka, in Brisbane) serving bush foods. Along with various plants and fruits, we had crocodile, emu, kangaroo and Tasmanian possum. It was all pretty good.

Amusingly, that was the same day we'd spent at Australia Zoo, seeing (and occasionally petting) the same critters. We felt we'd come full circle.

Ate elk instead of beef for a year once, when Dad had been on a hunting trip. It was leaner and gamier than beef, but not bad.

 

[dis-happy]

I almost forgot to add....

while living in France my host family served me a delicious food one night from the grill....one of the best things I've ever tasted. They kept calling it "seche", a word not in my vocabulary. Looked it up later to find out it was cuttlefish. Watched a PBS documentary a few years later about how intelligent they are, oops.

 

[chell]

Ooh, I'm a little shocked to see a posting here about balut. I'm glad he didn't eat it. They look so nasty. I wonder if a DISer has eaten one. That's not something I could ever eat.

I do need to add that I have eaten shark that was caught in the Gulf of Mexico. My grandmother used to eat opossum. Well, I guess her and my grandfather ate it. I didn't eat the meat when she made that weird stuff.

 

[TheBigBadWolf]

The strangest food I've ever eaten is turtle. My neighbor had told me that a turtle has seven different flavors of meat in one turtle. One day she called asking me to come over, saying she had something she wanted to show me. She was cooking when I arrived and had a big platter of meat she was frying. She told me it was chicken nuggets. After I tried a bite or two, she admitted it was turtle and asked if I could tell the difference in the flavors of the meat. Ugh, just the thought of it makes me gag! The seven meats are supposed to be beef, pork, lamb, fish, duck, chicken, and maybe turkey?? My neighbor was actually a wonderful cook, but I never trusted her after that and never again ate anything she cooked.

 

[OceanAnnie]

I had a conch fritter while in the Bahamas. It didn't wasn't awful. Don't care to repeat it though.

 

[OceanAnnie]

The strangest food I've ever eaten is turtle. My neighbor had told me that a turtle has seven different flavors of meat in one turtle. One day she called asking me to come over, saying she had something she wanted to show me. She was cooking when I arrived and had a big platter of meat she was frying. She told me it was chicken nuggets. After I tried a bite or two, she admitted it was turtle and asked if I could tell the difference in the flavors of the meat. Ugh, just the thought of it makes me gag! The seven meats are supposed to be beef, pork, lamb, fish, duck, chicken, and maybe turkey?? My neighbor was actually a wonderful cook, but I never trusted her after that and never again ate anything she cooked.

That's a dirty trick!

 

[Mandy_in_NC]

I tried frog legs. It is not something I ever want to eat again. I have had frogs as pets before and I have frog figures that I collect and I just felt so guilty eating a poor frog's leg. But I really did think it tasted nasty. But I have no problem eating a cute lamb or deer.

 

[flying_babyb]

roasted crickets, roasted june bugs

 

[scrapquilter]

When I was an exchange student in Ecuador....

Roasted Guinea Pig

And dare I say, it tasted like chicken!!!