maize Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 Mine are: live grasshopper whale sashimi pickled pigs feet The only thing I can remember trying and simply not being able to choke down was escargot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustEm Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 hmm live ants that tasted like lemons when I was in the rain forest in Ecuador. And another flavored ant but can't remember the flavor at the moment. Possibly mint. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plain jane Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 Duck tongue but that's not really all that odd, is it? I'm sure others will have much odder things. I had frogs legs while in France. Yum! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Mungo Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 Ants, probably. I don't think sushi is an odd thing at all, lol! I have eaten lots and lots of that! Also, abalone, escargot, all kinds of stuff like that, yum, not odd. Eta: I don't know if I would count gator. Maybe you should do a poll to see how many people have eaten it. I have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chocolatechip Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 I think for me it was calamari or these mini octopuses that were in this seafood stew I had once. I'm not terribly adventurous. Wait!! Maybe it was those roasted seaweed snacks! :ack2: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Mungo Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 I don't really think sushi is odd because it's so popular. But it's odd to me that it's so popular LOL Mine was raw salmon :ack2: Lomi lomi salmon is extremely common here. http://gohawaii.about.com/od/luaurecipes/r/lomi_lomi.htm Yum! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneStepAtATime Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 Not sure these are considered odd by everyone but rattlesnake and escargot. And chicken claw soup with the claws floating around. And 1000 Year Old Eggs. I don't think of sushi as odd at all because I have eaten it for years, but before I did it seemed a bit intimidating. And a twig with a worm on it. But that was on a dare, I was trying to look tough, and I was 6. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plain jane Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 I've also had shark. Is that odd? Mmmmm. I love escargot. This thread is making me hungry. Lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneStepAtATime Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 I've also had shark. Is that odd? Mmmmm. I love escargot. This thread is making me hungry. Lol Me, too! I may have to snack then brush my teeth again.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGHEALTHYMOM Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 Alligator snapping turtle, escargot, shark, rabbit, gator, buffalo, duck, cow tongue, calamari, caviar...this is making me hungry too. Most recently I ate the raw salmon and it was ok Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dory Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 escargot was the strangest thing I tried. It was like eating a chunk of rubber. I threw up afterwards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 Abalone. Amazing! Escargot. Loved it. (But I cannot stand calamari--yucky texture.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chocolatechip Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 And 1000 Year Old Eggs. Ok. I finally googled this. . . Can I just say :eek: :blink: :ack2: !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Corin Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 Sea slug. I gagged. L Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoughCollie Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 Scrapple. It's odd to me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mergath Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 Probably lutefisk. It's not unusual here for people to eat it during the holidays, but people in other parts seem to think eating lye-soaked gelatinous fish is a little strange. I would live on sushi and sashimi if I could. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heather in Neverland Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 Fish head curry (including the eyeball!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThisIsTheDay Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 I can't remember if it was rattlesnake or alligator. (That sounds silly that I can't remember.) But it tasted like chicken. The nastiest odd thing was beef tongue. I don't remember the taste, but the texture was soooo gross--just like chewing on your own tongue. Blech. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustEm Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 Oh and guinea pig. This was also in Ecuador.I was amazed by the sight of a guinea pig farm. They can really make those guys huge! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mama Geek Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 Gator sausage, reindeer, elk burgers, mud bugs (crawfish), snapping turtle soup (when I was a young kid), pickled pigs feet, sushi, duck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trulycrabby Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 Snot on a cracker; I was six. :ack2: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gentlemommy Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 Wow. I am so incredibly boring and NOT adventurous. I have a very active gag reflex and a very sensitive sense of smell. When I visited Japan, I lived on avocado and rice soup, because I was weary of the meat (hunks of meat hanging in open air markets) and do not eat seafood. I think the bravest thing I've tried is sushi. And I think it was the basic California roll. I almost threw up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Marmalade Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 Oak leaves. But we were playing around with Miracle Fruit tablets. They really did work- sour foods were quite sweet. After we sampled the array of foods we had brought along, we started nibbling on some non-food items to see if there was any effect. The fresh oak leaves tasted remarkably like grapes. The dried and dead oak leaves tasted like dried and dead oak leaves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneStepAtATime Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 Snot on a cracker; I was six. :ack2: What is it with 6 year olds? I was willing to eat some crazy stuff at 6...makes me thankful both of my own kids survived the age of 6. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spryte Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 Snot on a cracker; I was six. :ack2: You win! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 Probably dog. I really didn't know that's what it was and I'm still not completely sure. Chinese people have this way of telling the truth as if it's a joke. It was in a stew. It's a long story. I also had a congee flavored with the 1000 year old eggs once. The expat I was with was like, try this, and then she told me it was thousand year old something something congee. I was like, ugh, do you know what that is because let me tell you... If not those, ketchup on chocolate cake? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dory Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 Probably lutefisk. It's not unusual here for people to eat it during the holidays, but people in other parts seem to think eating lye-soaked gelatinous fish is a little strange. I would live on sushi and sashimi if I could. I didn't even think to say lutefisk since it's so common here, but you're right, it is pretty strange and rather overly strong. I can't stand it at all. I don't mind pickled herring though so my father in law has starting bringing that out during the holidays instead of lutefisk. I won't wrap it in leftse though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mama Geek Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 My dh really thinks I am crazy because I eat ketchup on lunchmeat sandwiches. Even after 20 years he just doesn't get it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneStepAtATime Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 My dh really thinks I am crazy because I eat ketchup on lunchmeat sandwiches. Even after 20 years he just doesn't get it. My husband smothers everything in peanut butter. I like p.b. up to a point but...he likes p.b. so much my dad had the caterer put peanut butter in the grooms cake for our wedding. Thankfully, he announced it or we might have had allergy issues with some of the guests. :tongue_smilie: I went through a phase in my early 20's where I loved Milky Way Midnight (the dark chocolate version with white nougat) and I would smear margarine all over the thing. I weighed about 100 pounds and didn't think there was an issue at all with this choice of food. What in the world was I thinking? :thumbdown: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eagle Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 Most of the things listed by others are normal foods here! Some odd ones for me include chicken feet, horse (that one I didn't know what it was when I ate it), chocolate covered grasshoppers and ants, and pine needle soup (yuck). But the one I had trouble eating was live eel soup. I don't want my food to be moving. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annie G Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 I am happy to say I have never eaten ANY of the above listed foods. And I don't plan to start eating them now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
almondbutterandjelly Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 Every time I see the title of this post, I think it says "Oldest" thing you have ever eaten. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 Every time I see the title of this post, I think it says "Oldest" thing you have ever eaten. Well, the thousand year old eggs would still qualify. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prairiewindmomma Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 chocolate covered crickets tripe rocky mountain oysters (calf testicles) some stuff that I'm not sure what it was and I'm still pretty sure I don't want to know Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrittanyM Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 I ate some weird things in India, but thankfully I successfully avoided the blood sausage in Argentina! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plain jane Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 Well, the thousand year old eggs would still qualify. Ewww. Except they are not really that old anymore. They cheat and ferment the eggs in horse urine to speed up the process. Bleh. I used to love those as a kid and would ask my parents to find them and make them for me. I also loved liver and beef tongue. So weird, I know. Now... I'm not as adventurous. Lol. I've been offered camel milk but I just. Could. Not. Do. It. Lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plain jane Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 chocolate covered crickets tripe rocky mountain oysters (calf testicles) some stuff that I'm not sure what it was and I'm still pretty sure I don't want to know Oh! Rocky Mountain oysters!! Been offered those too but couldn't do it. How are they? I hear they're good. Ack! I'm a big fan of ostrich meat but again, that's probably not that odd. My husband has had bear. Not sure I could go there... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 Ewww. Except they are not really that old anymore. They cheat and ferment the eggs in horse urine to speed up the process. Bleh. I used to love those as a kid and would ask my parents to find them and make them for me. I also loved liver and beef tongue. So weird, I know. Now... I'm not as adventurous. Lol. I've been offered camel milk but I just. Could. Not. Do. It. Lol No. They're only like a month old or so. Still. I'm also not that adventurous. Dh ate the mopani worm when we were in Africa. I wouldn't touch it. And most of the truly weird things I ate when I lived in China were sort of by accident. I did eat zebra and warthog and oryx and so forth when I was in Namibia. But that seems really normal. Warthog is really delicious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneStepAtATime Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 I love this thread. I get nauseated and hungry at the same time. Its actually kind of funny... :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SemiSweet Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 Bear (yummy), moose (also yummy), sea urchin (not good). I love sushi but don't consider it odd. Dh went to an evening market in China a couple years ago and had silkworm, he said it was the most disgusting thing he'd ever eaten. He also tried dog but felt horrible about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strawberries Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 Blood sausage. Not a fan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 Well, I grew up in Africa so I am not sure what is odd.....hahaha! We drank a drink called Mursik which is fermented milk in a gourd with charcoal. http://sciafrique.wordpress.com/tag/mursik/ We ate a lot of goat meat, goat intestines, impala, kudu, all sorts of game meats. I have eaten dog. I didn't know it was dog until after I ate it. (good thing!) I have eaten a century egg......never again! I tried some sort of duck egg in Asia with a fertilized duck inside.......blech! never again! We ate a lot of flying termites. We used to gather them in jars after the rains. We took off their wings and fried them up. The boys in my school would let them crawl down their throats (they pinch) as a sign of being cool. (idiots). I am sure there are more, but that is what is coming to my mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheryl Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 shark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 Alligator, if that counts. Raw oysters are probably odd to some, but they are common here. I don't like them, though. When I was a kid, we were kinda poor. Sometimes we had a soup mom called "Gumdrop Soup." The "gumdrops" were eel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ausmumof3 Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 I've also had shark. Is that odd? Mmmmm. I love escargot. This thread is making me hungry. Lol I think half the time in aus it's what you used to get if you ordered fish and chips from the corner deli Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ausmumof3 Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 You are all far more adventurous than me. Escargot is as far as I got and only because dh ordered it. Actually I think the weirdest things I've eaten are probably whatever's in mcdonalds round here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lanabug Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 Does cat food count? In my defense, I was a child on a dare. :ack2: Rocky mountain oysters, although I didn't know what they were at the time. Lana Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucy Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 Cow tongue, "rocky mountain oysters" (bull testicles), lutefisk, escargot and... the one thing I was supposed to eat but just couldn't : balut. Look it up on Wikipedia. Blech! Now I really, really want to go brush my teeth! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aug17girl Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 When I was in Amsterdam, I ate Indonesian food that I bought from a fast food vending machine. This turned out to be more disgusting than any other odd thing I have ever eaten. Dutch-Indonesian vending machine fast food is definitely not for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prairiewindmomma Posted July 17, 2014 Share Posted July 17, 2014 If prepared correctly, they are ok. Breaded, fried, and piping hot....decently good. Not my choice of delicacy here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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