All the recent threads about eating have food on my mind, so I'm wondering what the strangest thing you folks out there have eaten is. I have a couple of possibilities, depending on perspective. I'm originally from Mississippi (near the Louisiana border), so I've had most of the "swamp meats" -- snake, aligator, turtle, frog, etc. That's one possibility. At Brazilian BBQ places, my favorite thing is the chicken hearts, which most people find very strange. Finally, when I was in Singapore in 2009, I tried durian (probably the worst thing I've ever eaten) and buah keluak (moderately famous from being in an episode of Bizarre Foods on the Travel Channel). How about you?
Bull testicles are the "Eeewww-isest" thing I have eaten. Outside of that nothing stands out... maybe bear sausage that my cousin made from a bear he hit with his truck in Brainerd, MN. The dog ate most of that though.
Larva pupae. I picked up a can of them at an Asian market near me. I took them home and opened them. They taste like deep soil, that is really the only way I can describe them. I them proceeded to put them on a pan and roast them with a little salt and sugar. They weren't too bad.
Mine would probably be a little tempura fried lamb brain at a restaurant here in San Francisco, which was served alongside a heart and kidney with a lamb tenderloin and sausage. It was really interesting, like a little pocket of gently flavoured water in the crisp tempura shell. I'd definitely have it again. And the kidney was so very, very good, forward with its flavour. After that, probably blood sausage, quite good, and snails are weird to some, I guess.
In a different direction, there was a caramelised chocolate cake. Very different, almost enough to get me to think cake's a worthy dessert.
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My anecdotal evidence disagrees with yours! EXPLAIN THAT!
As a huge offal fan, I've eaten mya way through just about any mammal (and most seafoods). But the insects and snails are the ones that seem to have the biggest reaction.
Quick notes: tripe is great in soups (like pho), snails taste amazing, sweetbreads are great when cooked right (just like brains), bone marrow is godly, sea urchin is even more so, roasted insects make great snack foods, larger insects are pretty gross but definitely edible, sea cucumber is pretty grody, blood cake and pudding are fantastic (especially with an egg yolk), and terrines pâtés & headcheese are brilliant in the right chef's hands.
As an introduction to innards, Cooks Illustrated has a brilliant bolognese recipie update using finely blended chicken livers (a common supermarket item) to make an amazing meat sauce.
My people will eat anything in the sky but aeroplanes, anything in the sea but subs, and anything with four legs but tables. (The other my people are European eaters of vanilla cuisine.)
Strangest thing I've eaten? There's plenty of things and plenty of live things (e.g., shortly-before-its-gory-execution-live snake, which even cooked is a dumb-arse idea, considering the number of diseases I could get from it), so it's probably not a big deal, but I'm sort of appalled at the eating of brains and other offal at home. Ever tried a brain sandwich? (Probably no, so me neither.)
It's not only not culturally established food but it's probably not a great idea what with vCJD (but I do digress).
I don't go out of my way to try strange or too-novel-for-my-taste things.
My grandmother's Dead Cat Alfred. When it died, she cooked it for us, served it to us and said "Alfred would want it that way".
Yeah I was 4 years old and I still have not forgiven her.
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Grew up eating venision (deer meat), some feel thats strange. Have eaten rattlesnake, gator, frog legs, bison, moose, bear, elk, seal, rabbit, grasshoppers, ants, worms, just to name a few.
Sorry, I may he irrational about it, but I would never eat lamb brain or eyeball, because of the fear of BSE (mad cow) actually any brain tissue in general. The risk is low, but prions fill me with terror.
actually seems like they would all be available in australia somewhere at some mainstream restaurant. Local ingredients are always gonna be freshest. Eating skeletal muscle meats from vertebrates in general doesn't seem too disturbing at all.
actually seems like they would all be available in australia somewhere at some mainstream restaurant. Local ingredients are always gonna be freshest. Eating skeletal muscle meats from vertebrates in general doesn't seem too disturbing at all.
Kangaroo is farmed and the sausages made out of them are the strangest thing ever.... the tail of a Kangaroo is the tastiest meat I have ever eaten. You are all missing out! Snake I've had twice camping and tastes like chicken, dingo I was unaware of and did not like the taste or thought and platypus and koala were both a bit.... different.
I've had kangaroo before and it was very decent, but it's pretty common. Same with ostrich or other game animals (probably about as weird as eating bison).
Sorry, I may he irrational about it, but I would never eat lamb brain or eyeball, because of the fear of BSE (mad cow) actually any brain tissue in general. The risk is low, but prions fill me with terror.
You would hate the amount of raw and unpasteurized foods I have had.
I don't know if I've had anything truly strange, so I'll just list some medium level stuff:
I'm told I was given lamb brains as a ~3 month old, apparently I liked it...
I recall having part of a witchetty grub. Despite what I was told, it didn't taste like peanuts.
Some Australian wildlife. Kangaroo, emu, and something else I forget (It was some sort of indigenous culture display thing my school did).
Dirt, but every kid eats that from time to time.
Once ate one of my scabs. Tasted bad, I wouldn't recommend it.
Birthday candles, ~10 of them. My brother convinced me they were marzipan (I was ~4).
I had a sake, quail egg, uni shot once. It was awesome. Uni is my favorite thing to order at sushi places though.
I like tendon in my pho, I've had a jellyfish salad, chicken gizzards, livers and feet, cheese flavored crickets and headcheese. The only thing that was gross were the crunchy crickets. I will eat anything but those thousand year old eggs.
I ate a beaver once. And NO, it's not a sexual euphamism! An actual beaver.
Was visiting my Grandmother's for Thanksgiving one year, she lives at the tip of the lower peninsula of Michigan, and her brother (my Mom's Uncle) had a trapper friend who caught a beaver, kept the fur and gave the carcass to my Mom's uncle. We had it for Thanksgiving, in addition to the wild turkey he had shot. I've had game before, such as venison and rabbit (and the mentioned wild turkey), but the beaver was DISGUSTING. Everybody had about 2 bites of it and no one wanted it.
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I also had yak butter tea and yak cheese in the Tibetan Highlands. Conceptually not so gross, but definitely an acquired taste.
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In a different direction, there was a caramelised chocolate cake. Very different, almost enough to get me to think cake's a worthy dessert.
Quick notes: tripe is great in soups (like pho), snails taste amazing, sweetbreads are great when cooked right (just like brains), bone marrow is godly, sea urchin is even more so, roasted insects make great snack foods, larger insects are pretty gross but definitely edible, sea cucumber is pretty grody, blood cake and pudding are fantastic (especially with an egg yolk), and terrines pâtés & headcheese are brilliant in the right chef's hands.
As an introduction to innards, Cooks Illustrated has a brilliant bolognese recipie update using finely blended chicken livers (a common supermarket item) to make an amazing meat sauce.
Dog isn't bad, ordered it by mistake one night.
Strangest thing I've eaten? There's plenty of things and plenty of live things (e.g., shortly-before-its-gory-execution-live snake, which even cooked is a dumb-arse idea, considering the number of diseases I could get from it), so it's probably not a big deal, but I'm sort of appalled at the eating of brains and other offal at home. Ever tried a brain sandwich? (Probably no, so me neither.)
It's not only not culturally established food but it's probably not a great idea what with vCJD (but I do digress).
I don't go out of my way to try strange or too-novel-for-my-taste things.
Yeah I was 4 years old and I still have not forgiven her.
Tried to pull away, but now I'm Back At it
Love is Emphatic, cards need to be played
Hailing from the BA, accumulating CA"
Best of the bunch is the sea urchin sahimi (uni). Totally blows my mind away every time I eat it.
http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajournal/doc/biohaz_op_ej442_qra_sheep_en,3.pdf
I have eaten venison (neighbors hunt), gator (at the summer fair), ostrich (at REDRUM burger in Davis), freshly chopped octopi still wriggling (gross), and fried caterpillar (Korean delicacy beondaegi - don't like).
Not that adventuresome when it comes to food. But I'll eat anything I think is safe.
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Kangaroo is farmed and the sausages made out of them are the strangest thing ever.... the tail of a Kangaroo is the tastiest meat I have ever eaten. You are all missing out! Snake I've had twice camping and tastes like chicken, dingo I was unaware of and did not like the taste or thought and platypus and koala were both a bit.... different.
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You would hate the amount of raw and unpasteurized foods I have had.
I'm told I was given lamb brains as a ~3 month old, apparently I liked it...
I recall having part of a witchetty grub. Despite what I was told, it didn't taste like peanuts.
Some Australian wildlife. Kangaroo, emu, and something else I forget (It was some sort of indigenous culture display thing my school did).
Dirt, but every kid eats that from time to time.
Once ate one of my scabs. Tasted bad, I wouldn't recommend it.
Birthday candles, ~10 of them. My brother convinced me they were marzipan (I was ~4).
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I like tendon in my pho, I've had a jellyfish salad, chicken gizzards, livers and feet, cheese flavored crickets and headcheese. The only thing that was gross were the crunchy crickets. I will eat anything but those thousand year old eggs.
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You're so wrong on both accounts! Geoduck is great, and sea urchin is one of the best foods there is on Earth!
Was visiting my Grandmother's for Thanksgiving one year, she lives at the tip of the lower peninsula of Michigan, and her brother (my Mom's Uncle) had a trapper friend who caught a beaver, kept the fur and gave the carcass to my Mom's uncle. We had it for Thanksgiving, in addition to the wild turkey he had shot. I've had game before, such as venison and rabbit (and the mentioned wild turkey), but the beaver was DISGUSTING. Everybody had about 2 bites of it and no one wanted it.