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Weirdest/oddest foods you've eaten
Posted on 10/1/22 at 2:01 am
Posted on 10/1/22 at 2:01 am
Currently in Seattle for the next 5 days, so we went to a Filipino fusion spot with some friends. Ended up ordering the Maeng Da aka giant water beetle as a starter:
Pluck the legs, then the wings (4 total), then pop the head off and suck the insides of the body out. (You do not eat the legs, wings or head). It wasn't bad at all, just EXTREMELY salty.. like you've eaten a spoonful of soy sauce or vegemite.
Got me thinking of all the oddities I've tried over the years and here is my list:
1: Kangaroo lasagna (delicious, told it was kangaroo after the fact, taste like beef)
2: Giant water beetle (salty AF)
3: Scorpion lollipops (scorpion tasted like cardboard)
4: Squirrel head (gamey, weird, but good)
5: Baby octopus that was still "nerve twitching" (Imagine calamari without the breading, yet you're eating the tentacles and head too, the size of a half dollar)
What are some of the weirder foods y'all have eaten in your travels?
Pluck the legs, then the wings (4 total), then pop the head off and suck the insides of the body out. (You do not eat the legs, wings or head). It wasn't bad at all, just EXTREMELY salty.. like you've eaten a spoonful of soy sauce or vegemite.
Got me thinking of all the oddities I've tried over the years and here is my list:
1: Kangaroo lasagna (delicious, told it was kangaroo after the fact, taste like beef)
2: Giant water beetle (salty AF)
3: Scorpion lollipops (scorpion tasted like cardboard)
4: Squirrel head (gamey, weird, but good)
5: Baby octopus that was still "nerve twitching" (Imagine calamari without the breading, yet you're eating the tentacles and head too, the size of a half dollar)
What are some of the weirder foods y'all have eaten in your travels?
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Posted on 10/1/22 at 5:40 am to WeirdFlex
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WeirdFlex
Posted on 10/2/22 at 12:37 am to Alyosha
Great contribution to the thread! 
Posted on 10/3/22 at 8:46 am to WeirdFlex
Pig rectum
Most Calamari served in restaurants is actually a pig's a-hole.
Most Calamari served in restaurants is actually a pig's a-hole.
Posted on 10/3/22 at 9:23 am to Animal
While already killed with fire, I have no desire to munch on these.
Posted on 10/3/22 at 12:57 pm to Cheese Grits
Noooooo thank you. The water beetle is about my limit
Posted on 10/3/22 at 1:06 pm to WeirdFlex
chitlins
general food in Canada I guess
that's all I got
general food in Canada I guess
that's all I got
Posted on 10/3/22 at 2:26 pm to WeirdFlex
I'll eat just about anything, but the only dish I will never eat again is duck terrine aspic. I had it in France and it remains the only dish in my life that I've spit it out on the first bite.
I was young at this point and did not understand "terrine" and "aspic" and the description said something about duck confit and a few other things. I had no idea I was about to get duck liver jello
I was young at this point and did not understand "terrine" and "aspic" and the description said something about duck confit and a few other things. I had no idea I was about to get duck liver jello
Posted on 10/3/22 at 11:18 pm to Bama Bird
Pig brain … you picked up the raw brain then put it in hot oil pot sitting in middle of table like a fondue pot…
Another meal was served boiled duck feet.. toes were crunchy and webs were chewy
Had what we would consider good thick cracklings… but they just boiled it and put a sweet syrup on it… solid fat..
I ate a lot of vegetables when in China.
Have had bugs but they were all fried so just crispy and spicy.
Posted on 10/4/22 at 12:38 am to WeirdFlex
Harkal
It is Fermented SharkMeat (word spacing intentional) that is eaten in Iceland. Apparently the water near there is so cold that the sharks have a certain type of antifreeze type substance in their circulatory system. If eaten fresh it is lethal. So to prepare to eat, it must be hung to rot until that substance drains out. Then it is prepared. Smelled and tasted faintly of ammonia.
It is Fermented SharkMeat (word spacing intentional) that is eaten in Iceland. Apparently the water near there is so cold that the sharks have a certain type of antifreeze type substance in their circulatory system. If eaten fresh it is lethal. So to prepare to eat, it must be hung to rot until that substance drains out. Then it is prepared. Smelled and tasted faintly of ammonia.
This post was edited on 10/4/22 at 12:40 am
Posted on 10/4/22 at 10:02 am to Harry Rex Vonner
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general food in Canada I guess
Just seems like everything is covered in syrup (including fish) or that brown sauce which seems to not add flavor
Posted on 10/4/22 at 10:36 am to Cheese Grits
Nothing too crazy
Camel burger
Horse Steak
Chocolate Covered Crickets
Hush "buggies" at Audubon
Shark
Camel burger
Horse Steak
Chocolate Covered Crickets
Hush "buggies" at Audubon
Shark
Posted on 10/13/22 at 10:25 am to WeirdFlex
Broccoli. Vile weed.
Posted on 10/13/22 at 3:37 pm to Rex Feral
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Broccoli. Vile weed.
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Rex Feral
Upvote for the Seinfeld reference
Posted on 10/13/22 at 4:23 pm to WeirdFlex
pig's blood cake. duck blood pudding. stinky tofu.
Posted on 10/13/22 at 6:46 pm to Hogwarts
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Upvote for the Seinfeld reference
Under rated quote from the Kenny Rogers Roasters episode. That episode was full of great ones.
Posted on 10/14/22 at 6:30 am to WeirdFlex
Pussy. Love it but dare you to find something that makes less sense.
Posted on 10/15/22 at 4:08 pm to WeirdFlex
Hair pie, smells like tuna but tastes like birthday cake.
Posted on 10/16/22 at 9:11 am to greenbean
Posted on 10/16/22 at 9:43 pm to OlGrandad
Yep, ate that at the Rattlesnake Rodeo in Opp. I've also eaten fried eel, it was good, but once cool, blood (or something like it) ran out of it, and it returned to a raw like state. Not bad when warm, though, indistinguishable from catfish. Also had a Seafood Hot Pot (sort of a stew) at a Chinese Restaurant once. I asked what something in it was, and the waiter informed me it was "fish maw". When I inquired what "fish maw" was, he said in a very Chinese accent "fish maw, dried fish stomach, very good".
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