What is the strangest food you've ever tried?

so what is it? Most of us have tried some pretty crazy foods... some of which might utterly disgust everyone else on here... so what are your stories???


I've tried two that really stick out..

This is going to seriously disgust some people here but yes I have tried cat with vegetables on a shiscabob or whatever they're called... and no I absolutely did NOT like it. I was younger when I tried it and will never eat it again.

I've also tried a raw quail egg broken over salmon eggs at a sushi place... I love sushi, but I can tell you that IMO raw quail eggs and salmon eggs just do not mix well together. Now I would be curious to try the quail egg over rice.

my wierest thing is alligator, which isnt verry wierd lol

Chicken feet "for good luck" at a Chinese restaurant.

chicken feet? you have to tell me how that tasted. I'm so curious

Tasted mostly like tough chicken skin. It was chewy. Not too much flavor.

I've eaten other "non normal" things (like gator and ostrich), too, but the chicken feet things was the weirdest, I'd say.

I have never tried anything wierd.

When you say you ate Cat... do you mean like "here kitty kitty" kind of cat?

I'd have to say a Ruben sandwich.

I know, sounds silly...but I'd never had one and the idea of corned beef and SAUERKRAUT (puke!) made me say "Yuck"... until I tried it. I love me some Rubens now.

haha! thats not wierd.

You should try a Turkey Ruben... turkey and sauerkraut and swiss cheese with some mustard and russian dressing all on rye bread...

Can you say YUMMY... yep thats right Renee YUMMY.

School lunches - when they changed the spaghetti from sauce and meatballs to oily, greasy, bright reddish-orange mystery meat on top of noodles. I've had alligator before, and that was downright normal compared to the crap they're feeding kids at school. I have found better meals in the woods than I have gotten some days in school cafeterias..

The most "out there" food for me was Ostrich, it's delicious.... throw in a pan with a ton of cream butter *drools*

Or a frikandel. Some of the smaller snack shops are very vague about what's in them, one owner openly says it's the "tits and ass" of pork, horse, etc. :rofl1: I was drunk, don't really remember it going down but coming back up :yikes:

Shark and octopus, which I guess isn't all that weird either.

The two that stand out right now are ostrich jerky and sea urchin.

I guess BBQ ants and grasshoppers. I forget what they taste like since I was a kid at the time. Since then I haven't ventured much farther than steak and potatoes in the strangeness scale.

I saw something quite interesting on a documentary on Horses last night...

Horse Tenderloin... now, before ya get into a tiff about it...

The places they showed on the documentary only got meat from horses that died of natural causes. None were slaughtered to have this meat, and the guy said that none ever will as long as he is around.

So... horse... anyone tried it?

OH!

I remember I had Tiger Shark Steak when I was younger. GOOD STUFF.

We eat kibbee nayee a few times a year and that can gross people out because it is freshly ground raw lamb...but it's is delectable on flat bread with garlic sauce and a big ol' onion slice and dipped in olive oil. I like it baked too, but there is nothing like raw kibbee. I need mine with the wheat, pine nuts and a hint o-mint.

On the other hand, I had Dinty Moore beef stew over toast for lunch and that's pretty nasty stuff right there. And yes, I like White Castle burgers, ants-on-a-log and peanut butter/bacon sammiches

My uncle married a Japanese lady, so I have tried some odd things from the ocean.

But IMO the strangest thing would have to be Kevin's best friend's girlfriend's (wow, that was a mouth full) cooking..........she claimed it was chili, but I am not so sure

Mountain oysters.

Amazing what we'll put in our mouths, isn't it? :rofl1:

Haha.. I'm from Vietnam where food is scarce, everything remotely edible is eaten.. the weirdest to you maybe the ballut(chicken/duck embryos?), dog meat (it tasted great the way I remembered it, but when I came back for a visit in 2003, I had it again, but it did not taste as good this time. I'm not sure if it was the quality of the meat, or the way it was being prepared, or maybe because I hadn't had it for so long, i no longer have the appetite for it), and mice meat (mice that feeds on the rice field. They tasted exactly like chicken. In fact, if you're not told it's mice, you won't be able to tell the different!!)

My dad, being the prisoner-of-war in the infamous Communist's re-education camp, was left hungry for days at times so he ate everything he could find including earth worms, crickets, scorpions, grasshoppers, wild mushrooms, etc..

Hehe does not sound too strange at first unless you know what mountain oysters are.

LOL so how were they?