Weirdest food you've eaten

[breadstick]

Like I've mentioned previously, I'm living in South Korea for a year. I was out with a friend and went to a restaurant that had pig rectum on the menu. I didn't really want to eat it, but I had to try it, you know, for the story. I ordered it and it came looking exactly how you think cooked pig rectum would look. It was really rubbery with a subtle pork flavor, but the aftertaste was exactly like a stable smells. I ate it, but it was not the greatest thing I've had. I have pictures but it will be a little bit before I can get them up.

What other weird foods have you guys had and how were they?

 

[Obsessed]

What other weird foods have you guys had and how were they?

Mopane worm.

Not good.

 

[Confuzius]

Crickets, Grasshoppers, Mealworm Flour, Tripe, Tendon. I've also had mopane worm, fried then dried and seasoned, I didn't find it that terrible.

If you think about it, Cheese is probably one of the weirdest things we've eaten. Lets take lactation from a cow and spoil it then eat it, YUM!

Next on my list is Balut and Century Eggs, but I haven't found a good place to try them yet.

 

[RichGem]

Flaczki (Polish tripe soup)
Eel (sushi)

 

[rm71]

Eel
Chicken feet at a local Dim Sum

 

[bradyarz]

well among my friends i'm known as the one who will fearlessly eat just about any sushi/sashimi i come in contact with, but i'm sure that won't impress my fellow B&Bers.

my wife and i have juiced wheatgrass, which if you think about it is pretty weird. i have a feeling that's not the 'weird' that the op is looking for though.

other than that, back in high school we played a game called 'eat that cracker'. i had to eat a cracker with tuna, cottage cheese, mandarin oranges, chili, marshmallows, hot sauce, and a few other bits i'm forgetting. separately, i like all of those foods, but something about having them all together made me start heaving as soon as it was in my mouth. i didn't win.

 

[The Nid Hog]

Witchetty grubs, various snakes, gator (not all that strange), ants and termites, just about everything from a pig and a chicken, dog, cat soup, century egg (also not very strange), goat and horse sashimi, some kind of little bird served in a teacup.

Can't remember exactly if I've had balut or not. I think that a couple went downrange during a night of heavy drinking.

 

[RichGem]

well among my friends i'm known as the one who will fearlessly eat just about any sushi/sashimi i come in contact with, but i'm sure that won't impress my fellow B&Bers.

my wife and i have juiced wheatgrass, which if you think about it is pretty weird. i have a feeling that's not the 'weird' that the op is looking for though.

other than that, back in high school we played a game called 'eat that cracker'. i had to eat a cracker with tuna, cottage cheese, mandarin oranges, chili, marshmallows, hot sauce, and a few other bits i'm forgetting. separately, i like all of those foods, but something about having them all together made me start heaving as soon as it was in my mouth. i didn't win.

I'm not sure if that's really weird or just really horrible tasting. But, each to his own.

On the subject of really weird tasting... I can't remember the name of it, but there's a Japanese root veg that tastes... well, never mind, let's just say like rotten biological matter and leave it at that.

 

[luvmysuper]

Scorpions (on rice with rice wine)
Sea Worm Jelly (mashed up sea worms chilled to perfection)
Bug Soup
Rat Wine (rice wine with baby rats in the bottle)
Snake Wine (rice wine with snakes in the bottle)
Balut
Dried Jellyfish
Dog
Lizard

That's the more exotic stuff anyway.

If I remember anything else, I'll post it.

 

[damooshki]

The only things that even qualify for me are grub worms and guinea pig I ate in Peru. Grubs both roasted and blanched(still squirming around on the plate). The roasted grubs were actually really good, they reminded me of a bacon wrapped stuffed mushrooms, didn't care for the blanched grubs though. The guinea pig over rice with some sort of brown gravy was pretty good. Though I wasn't a fan of the guinea pig soup.

After reading other replies, I think the veterans will probably have eaten the strangest foods (at least strangest to Western culture). I mean, I haven't even heard of some of those things.

 

[Dude123]

Gator and eel are probably the strangest, so not too much. I don't think I could eat some of the things mentioned so far, like dog or pig rectum. Or rat wine.

 

[lightnin]

Monkey: Viet Nam.

Stringy

 

[bradyarz]

I'm not sure if that's really weird or just really horrible tasting. But, each to his own.

eh, it's supposed to be healthy for you. something like a 3oz shot of wheatgrass has the equivalent of 18 servings of vegetables.

 

[RichGem]

eh, it's supposed to be healthy for you. something like a 3oz shot of wheatgrass has the equivalent of 18 servings of vegetables.

Yeah true. Still, I'll go for the tablet form.

 

[_MementoMori_]

You guys are frickin' rock stars. I'm known as the guy who'll eat anything amongst my friends, but I can't touch this stuff. Hell, I'd never have physical access to 90% of it!

 

[arghblech]

I've had many/most of the things listed here but I've got one that hasn't been listed yet.

Horse steak. Delicious!

 

[luvmysuper]

I've had many/most of the things listed here but I've got one that hasn't been listed yet.

Horse steak. Delicious!

Have not had a steak, but had the sashimi in Osaka.

 

[beginish]

Chicken heart and liver curry in Thailand. Pretty tasty, and I got it when I walked into an open air eating area in the dark, pointed and said "That one."

 

[Beardo]

When I was a kid, my grandmother used to make raw kibbeh (lamb, bulgur, spices, ground to a dough like consistency) with some frequency. The only time in my life I ever tried it was when I was fifteen, and I think it's safe to say that I became a vegetarian shortly thereafter as a consequence.

Don't get me wrong, I very occasionally still eat meat (once or twice a year) and kibbeh can be and is delicious when it's fried, baked, or stuffed, but the idea of eating it raw still makes my stomach churn.

 

[damooshki]

I find it strange that there's no mention of Rocky Mountain Oysters. Which are delicious by the way. Battered and fried with some ranch or honey mustard dipping sauce. Yummy. Anyone else?