What is the strangest thing you have eaten in your life. I am a foodie and will try almost anything. I have had rattlesnake. I like chicken feet, and head cheese.
In Haiti we loved cow tongue for sandwich meat-considered a delicacy, and scrambled cow brains for breakfast, marinated squid.
In Thailand, deep-fried grubs..delicious!
@kjsgenie Good. Most Americans act like steak is all there is to eating beef.
@MattTeter Yup, and of course the liver..smothered in onions (sigh). I don't eat beef now, but wish I could.
fermented shark and don't try it unless you want a memory that makes you throw up a little each time you remember the flavour
Is that the same "pissed-on shark" from the Kit Harrington anecdote?
Sqirrel brains
Snapping turtle
Homemade Souse
Homemade Scrapple
Snake
Poke sallet
@MattTeter i don't think of snails as weird. In my mind they're are more of a delicacy.
Scrapple - good old Pennsylvania Dutch food.
Jellyfish.
My daughter ate that in Thailand. I asked how can you pick it up?
@Beowulfsfriend It cooks up with a nice texture once you've gotten most of the water out of it.
I was in the Filipines, and I know i ate strange food, but was afraid to ask what it was...
Did you try Balut? Hard boiled duck egg which has been allowed to gestate for a while. Saw them. Didn't try, although I had a friend who would crunch through one or two a night.
@Beowulfsfriend I am aware of Balut, but have never tried it. I ws in a relatinship with a Filino guy for five years and he loved it
Personally, I found most Filipino food to be overly salted, using too much MSG and swimming in fat and grease, and it took me three years to lose the weight I gained while in that relationship. (He insisted on doing most of the cooking). My "Ex" and I are still friends. His doctor put him on a healthy diet and blood thinners, because he was diagnosed with hyper-tension (high blood pressure).
Frogs legs is the weirdest thing I was willing to have eaten. They kind of taste like salty chicken.
Frog legs are the bomb. Real frog legs can't be beat...and seeing them jump in the frying pan is kewl. BTW...I'm from Tennessee...so frog legs, squirrel, deer, and anything else running through the back yard or in the pond is open game!
@jondspen Yeah, I actually like them. I don't care much for watching them in the frying pan though lol
I've had deer before, but not squirrel.
Under pressure to taste it, I took a tiny bite of Lutefisk at a Norwegian festival in Seattle.
Promptly spit it out. Hearty laughter.
HAH! I was in a similar situation at a "bring something which represents your ethnicity" pot luck. That stuff was HORRIBLE! I pretended a coughing attack and quietly left!
Pigeon & lava bread - the bread was actually gravy
Dogfish - will never throw them away again!
Habanero cheese fritters - the place now offers a Carolina reaper version (no thanks)
I don't eat much meat at all but for 20 years I was a strict vegetarian. I heard dandelions were healthy to eat. Since I did not use pesticides in my yard, I pulled all the dandelions in my yard and with a food processor, some tofu, garlic, breadcrumbs and seasonings made dandelion burgers. They were actually pretty tasty.
Uni-sea urchin gonads. Taste like licking the inside of a very dirty fish tank
I get gags from people all the time but I love fried chicken gizzards hearts and livers and the old standby beef liver and onions
Spleen sandwiches ... sounds better In Italian, I’ve gone vegan so perhaps now it’s faux duck in a can or nooch
In the Philippines mountains I had monkey, deep fried pieces on sticks similar to the pork sticks they sell in the city. I knew it really was because they had some future meals hanging.
I haven't had it, the closest restaurant serving it that I knew of closed. But I still think I might, if I run across it: guinea pig.
Having a hard time thinking of anything I've ever eaten that I consider strange. Many people would think boiled okra is strange. My bf shook his head night when I had rice crackers with strawberry jelly, hot sauce, and soy sauce. BTW they're not that great. ?