Strangest thing or things you have ever eaten

[Mermaid Muir]

It just has to be outside the "norm" to work.

I recently had this amazing fruit that I had never heard of called a Pluot. It's a cross between a plum and an apricot and its SO good. Very sweet!

[Marlin]

Ate live squid in Korea one time. Was still wiggling and everything. It....Was...DELICIOUS.

[Gem Stone]

Well, I've had possum, raccoon, turtle, alligator, and I personally enjoy the taste of banana tree leaves.

[Mermaid Jaffa]

Crocodile soup in Singapore and sea urchin roe.

Croc soup was quite nice but pretty strong taste. Sea urchin roe smells like poop and the taste is very unusual. Of the two, croc soup I would have again, sea urchin no.

[Marlin]

Well, I've had possum, raccoon, turtle, alligator, and I personally enjoy the taste of banana tree leaves.


LOVE the taste of gator. Had it blackened in a burger... :drool:

[Kishiko]

Well I ate cows tongue In Japan. They cut it in thin slices like pepperoni and then you grill the slices yourself. It was actually quite delicious. I also ate a whole horse mackerel, it was literally cut open, grilled or baked, then served on a plate which was cool.

[Mermaid Muir]

LOVE the taste of gator. Had it blackened in a burger... :drool:

Sweet! I had some in a bratwurst!

[Mermaid Jaffa]

Almost tried black pudding once when i went to the UK year ago... The someone told me what it was actually made of... Blergh! I had thought it was some kind of sweet dessert!

[Winged Mermaid]

I tried black pudding. I knew what it was and my friend thought he was pranking me :P He was impressed when he's asked, "Do you knew what you just ate?" And I told him exactly what I just ate, and didn't care :P

Let's see.. I've had gator and kangaroo jerky, and conch fritters. Nothing crazy.

[Anahita]

It turns out normal food for me usually falls into the range of "strange" for a lot of Western people.

Like my favorite breakfast, it's sheep cheek and tongue with the brains used like butter. I never thought it was strange until I came to America and could not, for the life of me, find the flipping sheep heads in the grocery store. Thankfully my new grocer carries them, so it's all good.

The thing I did eat that I found strange was done on accident (because I am near positive it's actually banned religiously for me). It was called kutti pi. I was told it was a goat curry, which it is, but I wasn't told how young the goat was that I was eating. It actually tasted pretty close to regular goat, if a bit more tender, but I won't eat it again just because my religion is pretty clear about not eating animals that are too young, for moral reasons. And kutti pi is WAY too young. I'm good with regular goat. It's got a better flavor.

I've also had bear (greasy, ew), and eat alligator (lean and yummy) elk, deer, bison, buffalo, ostrich, and pigeon with some regularity. I'm trying to figure out what it is that I eat that actually qualifies as strange, because I'm so used to stuff I forget how it sounds to others.

Oh, I also ate a starfish. My mom told me to hold it so she could take a picture of her little baby sea-faerie with the sea-star, and while she was getting the camera, I ate one of its legs... Ok, two of its legs. I think I liked it because it was crunchy.... I can't really recall my logic because I was only three years old at the time. But it being crunchy seems to make sense. My mom was horrified.

[MermaidSidian]

Squid jerky, didnt realize that was a thing until on of my workout crazy shipmates showed me.. the smell of fish is way over powering and it taste just like it smells plus salt.

[Merman Dan]

Standard sushi fare: octopus, eel, urchin, and conch as well as "live" scallop and urchin roe.

Trips to China and Taiwan: century egg, jellyfish, sea cucumber, whole river shrimp, stinky tofu... though I still crave simple congee with scallions and peanuts

edible.com: toasted leafcutter ants, thai curry crickets, pearl dust

[Kishiko]

Squid jerky, didnt realize that was a thing until on of my workout crazy shipmates showed me.. the smell of fish is way over powering and it taste just like it smells plus salt.

Yeah I had that in Japan its super popular over there. It was actually one of my favorite snacks.

[PearlieMae]

When I had my motorcycle, I would end up eating a lot of bugs, but not on purpose. Does that count?

[Raayvhen]

Haha balut! I'll spare those of you that are blissfully unaware of what it is.

Never again.

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[Yulia]

I think the oddest thing I've eaten or tasted is "Svartsoppa" (translates to Black soup, but it's not the same thing as the greek Blacksoup).
You eat it on a Scanian holiday called "Mårten Gås", which is the day before Saint Martins eve which is on the 11th of november.
It's basically a soup made of goose blood. (Gås is goose)
You eat it as a starter course, followed by the main course which is a fully roasted goose. (Like americans eat their turkey)
It tastes... Like iron.

[Aziara]

I've had cow tongue as well, though my family's recipe is to stuff, brown, and then roast it. I love it.
Another family recipe is debris (pronounced day-bree with a rolled r), which is most of the organs of a cow in brown gravy.
Sea urchin sushi (not that great)
Raw egg yolks as an energy boost blended in milk with molasses (yum!)
Steak tar tar (raw beef pate. Really love it)
I've had alligator (fried, barbecued, and in red gravy) and snapping turtle. Hope to one day try rattlesnake.
Stingray (my husband's favorite fish. Too bad you can't buy it and can only catch your own)shark and eel.
There's probably more I'm forgetting right now. Does it count that my family once gathered local wild edibles and cooked them up like spinach?

[SeaMansa]

So thanks to this thread, I know what black pudding is...and I wish I hadn't known xD I don't think I could ever eat that but hey, to each their own. The weirdest thing I ever ate was deer ribs and a deer burger. I was at a family get together (in the southern parts of south Carolina) and was eating some thanksgiving dinner. Me and my cousin argued over what we were eating, my family member told us it as Deer. Worst diarrhea of my life.
About 3 or 4 years after that, I was back in south Carolina at another get together and had a bite of a burger, only to find out it was deer burger >> Yeah, not for me. It's not that it wasn't good, I just have no interested in eating bambi.

[Merman Dan]

Stingray (my husband's favorite fish. Too bad you can't buy it and can only catch your own)shark and eel

Look for a local Asian food market. The local one here has stingray from time to time. For the record, some places serve stingray and call them scallops, since they taste the same.

[Aziara]

So thanks to this thread, I know what black pudding is...and I wish I hadn't known xD I don't think I could ever eat that but hey, to each their own. The weirdest thing I ever ate was deer ribs and a deer burger. I was at a family get together (in the southern parts of south Carolina) and was eating some thanksgiving dinner. Me and my cousin argued over what we were eating, my family member told us it as Deer. Worst diarrhea of my life.
About 3 or 4 years after that, I was back in south Carolina at another get together and had a bite of a burger, only to find out it was deer burger >> Yeah, not for me. It's not that it wasn't good, I just have no interested in eating bambi. lol.... as a kid, when I finally figured out what happened to Bambi's mother, my only comment was "oh, must have been tasty!" Being raised on a farm, with a family that hunts, youisorta have a very different viewpoint on stuff.

[Mermaid Wesley]

I have had intestine, tongue, and a whole little fried fish, fins eyes and all! It was good but I couldn't handle eating the head. I


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[Meilyn]

I love pig brain and chicken brain? Quite delicious :| and in some Asian stores they have this pork skin thing that looks and feels like carpet lol. I call it carpet. I like it too.

[Kishiko]

Oh! They also served this stuff in Japan (it was like the qui alert of bread on the table at a restaurant) where they bring this cup full of little tiny white raw fish that are whole. They soak in some marinade/seasoned juice and you just eat a bite of several with your chopsticks. They were actually quite good.

[Mermaid Kate Silverfin]

Strangest thing I have eaten is jellyfish cut into little noodle like strips... The taste and texture is pretty much like you would expect, very rubbery!

[Mermaid Jaffa]

Strangest thing I have eaten is jellyfish cut into little noodle like strips... The taste and texture is pretty much like you would expect, very rubbery!
I've eaten raw jellyfish before. Its quite tasty. During Chinese New Year, there is a dish made with cooked jellyfish, its made in a huge plate. Everyone gets a pair of chopsticks and the higher you toss it, the better your luck will be for the coming year.

[Anahita]

Look for a local Asian food market. The local one here has stingray from time to time. For the record, some places serve stingray and call them scallops, since they taste the same.

I hate it when I pay for scallops, like, actual scallops, and then they trick me with ray fin. I know you're not supposed to tell the difference, but I really can. It's not that one tastes better than the other so much as one is more expensive, and damn it, I want my money's worth!

[SeaGlass Siren]

i'd say.. sea urchin.

i lied. Beef liver and onions. ew...

[Aziara]

Look for a local Asian food market. The local one here has stingray from time to time. For the record, some places serve stingray and call them scallops, since they taste the same.

I've actually checked- there are three local asian markets, and they all told me that if I DID find a source, they want to kmow about it, lol.
Can't belive I forgot about haggis! It's a traditional Scottish dish that consists of the heart, liver, lungs and some suet of a sheep stuffed into the stomach along with herbs, onions, and oatmeal, then you boil the whole thing. It's a VERY fatty dish (due to the suet) and if you try drinking something cold with the meal your entire mouth with be coated in hardened fat! But if you can avoid that, it's very tasty. Although, the frickin' FDA doesn't consider sheep lungs as edible, so to make it you have to butcher your own sheep.

[Merman Dan]

I hate it when I pay for scallops, like, actual scallops, and then they trick me with ray fin. I know you're not supposed to tell the difference, but I really can. It's not that one tastes better than the other so much as one is more expensive, and damn it, I want my money's worth!

Typically if you cut the scallop in half and the meat flakes vertically it's scallop, otherwise it's a ray. Though once I tried that and the scallop meat unrolled like toilet paper. Processed whitefish I'd assume.

[Mermaid Morgann]

I've had some pretty strange things. The more "mild" ones include pickled chicken's feet, pickled pig's ear, squid ink french toast, and rocky mountain oysters (also known as the "best of the bull").

Then there's the weird stuff. Blood pudding (also known as black pudding), thousand-year-old egg (an egg fermented underground), and, the worst, balut. Balut is a hard-boiled duck embryo which, in my opinion, is absolutely nasdisgusting. It's feathery and crunchy and I do not recommend it.

[SeaGlass Siren]

oo i want to try haggis

[Mermaid Viktoria]

I've had beef tongue, chicken feet, goose neck, jellyfish and some other things I actually wasn't quite sure what it was haha. I lived in China a while back, so that's where the majority of my strange food eats came from. I tasted shark fin soup too, which I never want to do again after I learned about the issue with finning ages ago.
I also refuse to eat lamb or deer though haha, they're just some of my favourite animals so I couldn't imagine consuming them.

I almost had monkey brains at one time. It was a local restaurant in a village a few hours outside Beijing, but the method was horrible. It wasn't hard for me to decide to not even go into the place. Couldn't even imagine.

Besides that, I really do love jellyfish. I thought they were clear beef flavoured noodles from the taste and appearance, but it was jellyfish.

[SeaGlass Siren]

yeah mainland china is pretty disgusting (been there done that, I'M HALF) down to they way they cook their food, to what they eat... yeech...

[Merman Dan]

When we went to China on our first adoption, our guide said "we eat everything with wings except an airplane, everything with legs except a table, and everything that swims except a boat."

[Mermaid Viktoria]

I loved China though. They really do have some of the best food. I cringe every time my friends here in the states order 'Chinese' and I just have to laugh. They have no idea what real Chinese food is.
Some is terrible (just like every other place has off putting food) but what is good, is delicious! I've found very few authentic places here, and I never want them to leave hahah!

Oh I've also had alligator. Not too fond of that. Comparable to chicken and fish all at once. Chicken-y flavour, fish texture. My mouth was so confused.

[Mermaid Jaffa]

Its like watching adults eat raw oysters on youtube. Most gag and spew before they've even tasted it!

I'll try every food at least once, if I don't like it, I never eat it again. Ya never know until you try it, is what I always tell my nephew and niece when they turn their noses up at unfamiliar foods.

[Anahita]

Typically if you cut the scallop in half and the meat flakes vertically it's scallop, otherwise it's a ray. Though once I tried that and the scallop meat unrolled like toilet paper. Processed whitefish I'd assume.

Damn. What a way to get gypped. :(

[Aziara]

Its like watching adults eat raw oysters on youtube. Most gag and spew before they've even tasted it!

I'll try every food at least once, if I don't like it, I never eat it again. Ya never know until you try it, is what I always tell my nephew and niece when they turn their noses up at unfamiliar foods.

This reminds me of my cousin the first time she ate tongue. She didn't want any, but her mom made her try one little bite. She ran back to the kitchen and demanded a full serving, lol.
Raw oysters are literally the only local delicacy I haven't tried. I just have a hard time with the fact that it's technically alive.

[SeaGlass Siren]

I've had some pretty strange things. The more "mild" ones include pickled chicken's feet, pickled pig's ear, squid ink french toast, and rocky mountain oysters (also known as the "best of the bull").

Then there's the weird stuff. Blood pudding (also known as black pudding), thousand-year-old egg (an egg fermented underground), and, the worst, balut. Balut is a hard-boiled duck embryo which, in my opinion, is absolutely nasdisgusting. It's feathery and crunchy and I do not recommend it.



fyi fermented egg these days they just put chemicals so that the egg ferments faster... technically its cancerous but EEEYYYY CHINA!
not sure how it is in canada tho. i hear rules for making fermented eggs are stricter here.

[Drake]

Balut was interesting... also had tarantula, while down in the Amazon... fried locust, chocolate covered ants, alligator, yellowjacket stew... and of course, frog legs

[MermaidSidian]

Yeah I had that in Japan its super popular over there. It was actually one of my favorite snacks.

how do you get past the saltiness of it?

[Kishiko]

The stuff I ate wasn't that salty, compared to other things. I actually liked to suck the seasoning off before chewing it. I actually have a package in my kitchen my host family sent me after I got back lol

[AniaR]

My dad raised me on wild animals, we didnt have a lot of money and always ate bear and deer every year. But I have tried animals he trapped. (he'd sell the fur, and use the meat to bait a bear that we'd later eat) I've tried beaver (I know that sounds so wrong) squirrel, and duck, and pheasant. Not really a fan. but with deer and bear I grew up one it, it always seemed normal

[AniaR]

Oh I've tried cured char, (arctic fish) and bison, and seal meat (from up North where they live on it). I also tried emu.

[Seraphina Suds]

Oh, I also ate a starfish. My mom told me to hold it so she could take a picture of her little baby sea-faerie with the sea-star, and while she was getting the camera, I ate one of its legs... Ok, two of its legs. I think I liked it because it was crunchy.... I can't really recall my logic because I was only three years old at the time. But it being crunchy seems to make sense. My mom was horrified.

You are one of my favorite people lol. That is too funny. :p

I really can't think of anything I've eaten that would be strange... like Anahita said, strange to one person is a cultural norm for others. My gf sometimes has filipino food that she loves, but I don't much care for. There's a shrimp/brine paste that you spread on sour mangoes that is her favorite. I tried it and was not a fan. I had "mushy peas" while in England and although it's a lot tamer than what most people have posted, it was weird to me.

[Mermaid Jaffa]

I know of that shrimp brine paste! We have it in Singapore and in Asian food shops here in Australia too. Eat it with green mangos with a squeeze of lime. MMMM! Mum also uses it to make a type of fermented roasted chilli paste. We call it Blachan. It stinks up the whole place when cooking, but it tastes sooo good!

[Anahita]

I want to add to the beaver joke so bad, but I won't. :D

Duck is a tricky bird, because it really needs to be "undercooked" to taste good. I think most people try to cook it like chicken, and in reality, duck breast should be cooked like Americans cook steak. I love duck l'orange. The Court of Two Sisters in New Orleans makes really good duck l'orange. They also make an excellent turtle soup.

Oh, yeah, I've eaten turtle, duh, that one is weird, even for me. Persians don't eat reptiles (I want to explain why, but I think it'd sound racist in English, so I'd better not), and here I am eating gator and turtle and frogs legs.... They don't know what they're missing.

I like sour mangoes, but I think the shrimp brine paste would be too much for me.

I also forgot to say I've eaten a peacock. I didn't think that was odd since they're related to pheasants and turkeys, but since pheasant got listed, maybe I should mention the peacock. I've eaten pheasant, too, at a few historical events. I liked it. Maybe it was because I was in costume that made me like it a lot. Atmosphere really affects how I perceive things tasting. It won't make my final judgement, but it has the ability to make something that tastes good normally taste SPECTACULAR if the setting is right.

Don't ask me about the peacock though, I feel bad about it :( Actually, I'll just admit it, because I feel better confessing to how it happened than pretending someone offered it to me like the circumstances were normal.

My cousin accidentally hit it when she was reversing, and it died. So she asked me what we should do with it, and I said "I don't know, I can't believe we've just killed him." and she said "Well, maybe let's not let him go to waste? It's not forbidden...." Her husband was kind of pissed, because he loved that bird, but she kept telling him that he needed to hire a contractor to build an enclosure for him (the bird had a habit of hanging around their cars as well as tormenting their dogs) and he never did it. So... that's that. I still feel bad about eating Freddie (her husband had actually named the bird after himself, that's how much he loved it) but on the other hand.... He didn't go to waste I guess.

Their new peacock has an enclosure now, needless to say.

[SeaGlass Siren]

roast peking duck is fully cooked, but it's pressure cooked so all the fat sits under the skin and all the meat is at the bottom and it becomes super moist and sooo good.

i want to know about the reptile eating, anahita :P expect an inbox message

[Sherielle]

The only weird things that I have eaten are Nilgai and Oryx (types of antelopes). The Nilgai was ok but the Oryx was delicious.

[AniaR]

oh caribou I've tried too

[Merman Dan]

Once when we were in Beijing, we ate at a restaurant that served duck. I don't eat birds (48 year old fussy eater, here) but others did. Our driver requested and and was served the head of the duck.

"Look" I said "He got stuck with the bill."

[SeaGlass Siren]

OH OH BISON MEATLOAF. first time ever tried it and i fell in love with it. SOOOOO YUMMY...

[SeaGlass Siren]

Once when we were in Beijing, we ate at a restaurant that served duck. I don't eat birds (48 year old fussy eater, here) but others did. Our driver requested and and was served the head of the duck.

"Look" I said "He got stuck with the bill."


:lol::lol ^::rotfl: oh man that was a good one.

[Anahita]

roast peking duck is fully cooked, but it's pressure cooked so all the fat sits under the skin and all the meat is at the bottom and it becomes super moist and sooo good.

i want to know about the reptile eating, anahita :P expect an inbox message

I forgot about Peking duck! Yeah, that's the only fully cooked duck I think I've had that I liked it fully cooked. My dad's ex-gf used to bring it over for dinner every so often.

[SeaGlass Siren]

love peking duck. LOOOOVE.

[-Annwyn-]

I've had crocodile and sea cucumber as the most strange I have eaten. I would also list kangaroo, but it's normal to eat that here and we eat it often!

I've always craved coal-roasted goanna though. One day....

[Vixy]

I've had jellyfish with noodles. I thought the noodles tasted a bit odd and managed to find the packet and found I was eating jellyfish.

Different and weird for me is shellfish. Recently retried scallops and found them really nice.

Horse in Holland, deer, ostrich, pheasant, pigeon, kangaroo, ants. I've got zebra in the freezer to try with some pirate buddies one day. Might get some camel, crocodile and some other exotic meats.

I do really like seaweed, had flowers too and been in a wild foraging try out. So ate a few 'weeds' and plants.

[SeaGlass Siren]

dandelion leaves are quite nice. loads of health benefits too. dont understand why anyone would want to get rid of them. if there was a zombie apocalypse you'd have an endless food supply!

[Vixy]

Dandelion jam is something what I want to one day make. That and stinging nettle soup and tea.

[Sherielle]

roses actually taste pretty good

[PearlieMae]

Does Johnny Depp qualify as strange?



I'M KIDDING!

[Mermaid Wesley]

*dies* XD


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[Merman Dan]

This came to mind..


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B8FR6xMFRo

[Mermaid Neri Elvina]

I used to eat leaves when I was in infant school. I don't even know what leaves they were! They didn't make me ill luckily.

[Miyu]

Mmm, everything on here sounds tasty and I want to try it all... :3

Well, for starters, the "weird" things I eat on a regular basis... I eat seaweed daily. Seriously, I can't get enough of it. Bee pollen occasionally. I regularly eat beef liver (sometimes calf liver). I haven't met a seafood I didn't like, but I haven't gotten to try as wide a variety as some other mers here... all sorts of sushi. Scallops, oysters, and mussels as regularly as I can get them. Fish sauce on everything. I love eel as well! I've tried calamari and it was ok, but I still have mental images of the live squids and octopi so I have to get over that at some point haha...

Elk, deer, buffalo, haggis, many types of sausages and I'm sure I've had black pudding at some point (I had a best friend in high school whose grandparents are Scottish LOL). I put plain gelatin in beef broth as a drink before bed. Pickled eggs and sausage.

I once had one of those "miracle berry" tablets that makes other things taste all funny - that was kind of a trip!

Oh, and I eat raw cacao nibs - chocolate in its purest form! That stuff is seriously amazing, I got hooked on it (and raw local honey) when I was a raw vegan.

[SeaGlass Siren]

Ohoh!! .... Fermented Thousand year old egg...

[Miyu]

oh, and as a kid I used to eat dog biscuits.

[Drake]

thanks for reminding me, Miyu.. I used to eat the alfalfa pellets that we fed the rabbits

[Mermaid Jaffa]

Mmm dog biscuits! My fave when I was little were the bone shaped ones!

Other strange thing I have eaten, I so miss it here in Australia, only ever seen the palm sized ones in the fish shop are blood cockles.

[Mermaid Morgann]

Ohoh!! .... Fermented Thousand year old egg...


That stuff is nasty! Though after Balut I think I could tackle any weird egg foods.

[Miyu]

Oh, and I love organ meat... I grew up in Oklahoma where fried gizzards and chitlins are the norm (though I prefer things like heart or liver just because of what gizzards and chitlins are). Head cheese is also pretty tasty.

[SeaGlass Siren]

That stuff is nasty! Though after Balut I think I could tackle any weird egg foods.

i dunno it kinda tastes like jelly to me. the yolk part is super salty tho :S

[Mermaid Jaffa]

Gah! You're not suppose to eat thousand year old eggs by itself! You eat it with sliced pickled ginger, and in Chinese congee.

[Merman Dan]

I like my congee with peanuts and scallions.

[SeaGlass Siren]

I only had it once at a Chinese banquet hall. I didn't say I ate it by itself >.>

[The Water Phoenix]

I ate fried wasp larvae for the first time when I went on exchange to Réunion Island for 4 weeks.
I know this is an old thread but I would like to throw in my two cents!

[Ocoree]

Lessee, I have had fried gator slathered in way too much ketchup, and again when a coworker at my last job hunted a 200lb gator and brought some of the meat in. The whole store smelled like fried 'water chicken' within half an hour all day, and it's not a small store.

I LOVE smoked eel, especially on a sushi roll with some soy sauce on it. Not so much fun if the fillet strips is riddled with the needle-thin bone, but yummy all the same.

Also enjoy the hunting, and eating of calimari and squid. Our dock draws in a swarm of longfin squid that I'll fish up a half dozen or so of, skin them, clean out the mantle, chop off the tentacles to enjoy seared in a pan with some spices. Roasted straight on an open fire oddly gives the mantle a jerky-like taste. I also find tenderizing the mantle, particularly the fins, helps its edibility. Supposedly there's a way to clean the skin and cartilage rings off the tentacles, but I have yet to figure that out. Was really looking forward to catching some this year to try stuffed mantle, but there were none each time I went to the dock :C

On a truly weird factor I actually dipped a sugar snap pea in dipping caramel and ate it on a whim. Was surprisingly quite yummy with the crispy juciness of the pea.

[MorningSun]

Well I ate cows tongue In Japan. They cut it in thin slices like pepperoni and then you grill the slices yourself. It was actually quite delicious. I also ate a whole horse mackerel, it was literally cut open, grilled or baked, then served on a plate which was cool.

Wow, that sounds like it could really be a topping for pepperoni pizza, thanks for the idea. By the way, an actual classic pepperoni, I mean California-style one, would be neat. The local restaurants still deliver but they are overwhelmed now. I guess it's time make own pizza in my portable oven like this (https://pizzaovenradar.com/p/presto-03430-review-features-that-make-this-pizza-maker-exceptional/) :p
So the strangest food I had were fried crickets and octopus...

[linda]

Friends, I've never tasted weird food, but I think it's pretty interesting. It's very cool that you had such an experience. Please advise what I can try to really enjoy the taste.

[phinie]

Hmm, I am an American and it was strange for me to taste German bread, but I think this experience was nice. I ordered sourdough bread here https://www.edelweissbakeryfl.com/ because I wanted bread to be baked following age-old traditions. Surprisingly, it was tasty, so now it is not a strange thing for me. Now I often order German bread there.

[Calisai]

Ignore the two bots right before me and don't click on any links.

Still, this thread is fascinating. There are a lot of things I want to try, as I'm pretty open-minded and brave. I DON'T want to try balut, fried tarantulas, scorpions, and bugs/insects that aren't in larvae form, but I'd definitely be interested in trying sea urchin, cow's tongue, rattlesnake, cat poop coffee, EntoMilk ice cream, etc. Again, I REALLY WANT TO TRY ENTOMILK ICE CREAM.

As an American who has never traveled outside of my country apart from some Caribbean islands, the most unusual foods (imo) I've tried were ajitama, fried calamari, octopus legs, and kombucha. They're all delicious, especially the kombucha drink, which I have pretty often. However, as a kid I once tried eating a dog biscuit, which smelled stinky, the texture was hard to crunch, and it tasted so awful--like chalk--that I immediately spat it out.

[Mermaid Fina]

Interesting topic.

Yeah I've tried cats food young because best friend thinks it was delicious...i didnt think so hated it i agree it's an awful taste i spat it out also.

For insects i do loved each i tried, few admittingly like fried crickets, and liked it, snails off course but since i'm french that isnt in weird category to me i heard that people in the us find it strange that we love it, cheese with moisture in it (my fave "bleu d'auvergne, roquefort, fourme d'ambert fuck i'm hungry now) and frogs but i dont know maybe american dont think it's weird and it's just a urban legend and they eat it too you tell me, and fly maggots in a very special occasion, loved it all my overall impression is that insect are lovely to eat. Now for the whole eating fly maggots story :

The strangest thing i ever eaten comes from Corsica my home region, it's our most famous weird culinary speciality the Casgiu Marzu it's a cheese made with maggots in it. The name means rotten cheese because we let it freely mature in the outisde somewhere they are a lot of flies purposefuly in order to let them get their larvae in the cheese holes (it's a tome with holes) then we let the maggots grow till their almost adult flies and if you eat the larvae alive within the cheese as i did in fact (was the only one of the family to dare because well the cheese as it mature a lot and is eaten quite old just has a strong enough scent that my aunt has a garden and a big house and closed the fridge but it was still stinking outside the house in the beginning of the garden and my uncle was uneased quite a lot by the "perfume" of old rotten cheese...but it's freaking delicious thought scared for health consequences he forbid me to eat more of it so i cannot have a lot of it in fact the sanitary authorities tends to say it's dangerous but locals says it's not when as i did you eat the larvae alive in the cheese and as i did it with zero issue my opinion tends to be that locals are right...would recommand to anyone who dares to try i understand the disgust and survival instict could make people say "well no thanks" but it's so delicious if you really like strong cheese that you would miss something not to ever taste it in my opinion.

What else...tried durian tasted chewing gum the fruit but disliked scent and taste. Even thought it's only weird to a western taste i guess since lot of asians love it and hate our strong cheese i guess it's very cultural a thing what food is "weird" to us or not. With what weird food i tasted could i end? Well seaweed toasts, maté, roses (and other cooked flowers) and stuff like that are not that weird to me their just regular ecologists kind of crowd food i eat as often as money authorize me and i found delicious...but not "weird" enough to be the final boasting of all the "weird" stuff i eated...it will be humm...oh yes that time a hostory reconstructionist group made us taste roman plates they found the recipes and cooked as close as possible to the antiquity version...time travel meal ....roman hydromel, wine with honey and their food were indeed very tasty i would recommend it to anyone if it was easier to find. Probably my funniest weird food experience.