What's the weirdest thing you've ever eaten..

[Brenda Starrr]

Do you still eat or drink said weirdness? Share with us!

[Soulrev]

Umm I guess the wierdest thing was sushi.. Had it at a Japanese restaurant in Epcot Center in Disney World.. Was very good, I'd eat it again if I had the chance.

[The_Dark]

Alligator Jerky. It was white... very odd. Tasted good though.

Fried Grasshoppers in Chocolate Sauce...mmmmmmmm

[Fierce Critter]

Eaten - toss-up between emu burger (not very interesting), rattlesnake cakes (so much breading you could barely taste there was anything else there), alligator (tastes like gummy chicken - my thing is, if you wanna eat something that tastes like chicken, why would you want it to be gummy), and czarnina - Polish soup made from duck blood (I can only take a spoonful or two, and only from a certain restaurant, and not often).

Drank... Nothing unusual I don't think. Maybe lapsang souchong tea or 151 proof rum & tequila. Nothing terribly unusual at all.

[Onyx]

nothing terribly unusual? :blink

Emu burger, rattlesnake cakes?

DUCK BLOOD SOUP?

[Jarodaka]

I ate pig intestines at a Chinese restaurant. Once was enough for me.

[JaneDead]

i guess frog legs when i was a kid. i am not really into eating any weird animal things. makes me feel weird. so i don't eat weird stuff like that any more. i eat stuff though that i think is NOT weird that other people think IS weird. so i guess i just don't know the difference.

[Fierce Critter]

nothing terribly unusual?  :blink

Emu burger, rattlesnake cakes?

DUCK BLOOD SOUP?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Heh. I was referring to the DRINKS not being unusual.

The emu burger was at the NC State fair. I didn't mind trying, as my sister & her husband raised emus for a while, and I know about the products you can obtain from them.

The rattlesnake cakes were from a restaurant in Sterling Heights my husband and I went to for our anniversary one year. They specialized in seasonal game dishes, and we thought it would be adventurous to try those. I still can't tell you what rattlesnake tastes like 'cause of all the filler, which I thought was kinda lame for an "expensive" restaurant.

Oh, an addition. Headcheese. My mother used to get a couple thin slices once in a blue moon from our butcher. She didn't call it that, though. The Polish term was something like gziltz. She'd put it in a bowl with vinegar and tons of pepper, and she'd share a few pieces with me. I didn't know what it was, I was very young. I recall liking the taste, and the texture was very interesting. But you couldn't pay me to try it again now - particularly not after my most recent bout of food poisoning. Anything less bland than clear broth is making me retch right now.

[Shade Everdark]

Let's see....squid jerky would probably be up there. Very good, when spiced.

Takoyaki (sort of an octopus dumpling, with seaweed)

Egg custard (bleah)

Niku jaga (sort of a stew made with chicken or beef, potato, onion, and carrot) made with Coca-Cola for the seasoning. (It was a home recipe, and it actually tasted just like the stuff I'd had in restaurants. Go figure.)

Manju (sweetened red bean paste wrapped in fried dough; better than chocolate)

[Brenda Starrr]

I like to drink dill pickle juice.

[Fierce Critter]

BS - you need the recipe for Dill Pickle soup I make. Not my recipe (though I make alterations) but if you drink the juice straight, this soup is right up your alley. It's more subtle than you might think, but damned tasty.

[Soulrev]

Hey I want that recipe too, I drink pickle juice! Mmm...

[Brenda Starrr]

GET OUT, Rev!! Do you really? I've never known anyone in my whole life who drinks it straight from the jar besides me! See?? I really WAS switched at birth!

FC, PM me that recipe, please!!

[Fierce Critter]

I already have it typed-out on the PC, but I'm on the laptop right now.

Next time I'm on the PC, I'll post it here in case anyone else is interested.

Just so you know, it's basically a simple potato soup recipe. It's not harshly dill flavored, but pleasantly so.

The local slushy place has a dill pickle flavor available. I tried it once, it wasn't so bad.

[Ginevra]

Hmm. . . .let's see. . . .

A soy burger at a KFC in Germany when I thought it was real hamburger meat.

I was tricked into eating sushi in California with HOT HOT mustard on it, all the while being told "Oh, no, it's very mild".

Ordering blind off of a menu in a language you're not fluent is not a good idea. Ended up with some rabbit platter and it wasn't *nearly* as done as I like my meat to be.

Brenda, no, you're not the only one. And I used to do the olive jar juice when I was younger, too.

[Black Sunday]

taco bell

[phee]

No comment...(what qualifies as eaten?)

[Brenda Starrr]

omg, Phee....

[Hermine]

Let's see:

I eat soy burgers all the time. Also soy chicken, tofu, wheat gluten, and several types of soy sausage Morningstar Farms fake sausage links, btw, are awesome. Even some of my carnivore friends like it, though they say it's nothing like the real thing (it's just still good). Actually, they don't really use soy for most of it anymore.

I've started eating fish again, so I eat sushi whenever I have the money.

Extremely rare (warm on the outside) tuna steak is my fave thing in the whole

world.

I gave up eating squid when I found out how smart they are.

I love fried plantain, but it is soo fattening.

Squash blossom quesadillas are yummy too.

Weirdest eaten: I had jellyfish once, when I was 12. Tasted sort of like spicy cabbage.

Chickened out on eating chapulines (crunchy fried grasshopers with salt and/or chile) in Oaxaca. I draw the line at bugs.

Weirdest drank: That "tapioca pearl tea" it's this Southeast Asian(?) drink with blobs of tapioca in it. Some of it has fake grass made out of jell-o or something. Very tasty but very, very weird.

Or that orbitz stuff that was popular for a while a few years back. Same thing, but the blobs are smaller.

[Hermine]

Dude, how'd that happen?

[Bpage]

It's funny to me that people think that sushi is weird when it's something I eat at least once a week.

I guess the most unique things I have eaten have been sweetbreads (an animals thymus gland), jellyfish, birdsnest, tripe, pickled pigs feet and something called and "eggfish" that was in a seaweed salad. Looked like a vegetable but tasted like tobiko. I love trying unique and different things.

Two things I will never try though are veal and foie gras, just the thought of stuffing a goose until it dies is a bit unsavory.

By the way Herminie, I LOVE tapioca shakes. I have to get them everytime I'm around Chinatown. It's a little bit disconcerning sucking out of a straw that large though!!!!

[Nerdcore]

the weirdest thing was

cow toung -cooked with read wine ( sweet sweet sweet red wine hahahaha)

lol

do not ask

my grandma was from the old country ....... :doh: :ermm:

[gothicmom]

I had beef tongue once. I don't know how it was made. But it was very good-moist.

I had some little octopus last week. they were also good. Chewy and soft.

[Kit Kat P]

I'm a meat & potatoes (and bread and veggies and...) kinda gal so whenever I'm eating tofu or vegi-burgers I just find it weird

[odims_sphere]

sushi - BLECH! disgusting.