Post things you've eaten that you think others would consider strange.
- Raw oysters
- Escargot
- Steak tartare
- Frog's legs
- Veal tongue
- Oxtail
- Whale meat
- Haggis
- Sashimi
- Almost every part of the pig: trotters, ears, tail, brain, heart, liver, stomach, small and large intestines
- Some bits of chicken: gizzard, heart, liver, feet
- Whale meat
- Century eggs
- Bird's nest soup
- Durian
- Bee larvae and pupae
Let's think... I've eaten half of a sheep's face at a bus station in Iceland, including the eyeball (surprisingly I was NOT in a berserker rage at the time). Brought the jawbone back as a trophy.
I wouldn't call haggis particularly "strange", but that's just me. Langoustine doesn't really count either, since that's just fresh scampi.
Physalis and lychee are two different out-of-the-ordinary fruits I've eaten.
Oh, and escargot. Had that a long time ago.
But one thing I really want to try is frog's legs. Really want to get my hands on some of those...
Haggis is strange? I suppose most people when they first hear what it's made from recoil in horror, but it's filled with oatmeal, spices and has an incredibly savoury flavour.
Can't remember if I've ever had a proper stomach bound Haggis before. I've been to enough posh dinners where I've ordered the haggis that I probably have, but never to a dinner where some kilted psychopath stands up to recite Burns and then splits a ewe's digestive system with his claymore.
I had Oxtails during the BSE crisis in this country, which I'm going to count because it was like playing meat roulette.
Besides that I've had a lot of liver in the past, goose livers in caramelised apples in Bulgaria was more notable because it was probably one of the best meals I've ever eaten.
I've also ate a boiled house-spider... unintentionally. I think one crawled into my kettle. I was drinking a hot chocolate and came to a chewy lump, I thought it was just a clump of undissolved chocolate powder so I kept chewing, until I was hit by this overwhelming taste of grass. Yes, house spiders taste like grass. Of course, I spat it into my hand and that's how I know it wasn't chocolate.
[QUOTE=El Burro;51098588]Haggis is strange? I suppose most people when they first hear what it's made from recoil in horror, but it's filled with oatmeal, spices and has an incredibly savoury flavour.
Can't remember if I've ever had a proper stomach bound Haggis before. I've been to enough posh dinners where I've ordered the haggis that I probably have, but never to a dinner where some kilted psychopath stands up to recite Burns and then splits a ewe's digestive system with his claymore.
I had Oxtails during the BSE crisis in this country, which I'm going to count because it was like playing meat roulette.
Besides that I've had a lot of liver in the past, goose livers in caramelised apples in Bulgaria was more notable because it was probably one of the best meals I've ever eaten.
I've also ate a boiled house-spider... unintentionally. I think one crawled into my kettle. I was drinking a hot chocolate and came to a chewy lump, I thought it was just a clump of undissolved chocolate powder so I kept chewing, until I was hit by this overwhelming taste of grass. Yes, house spiders taste like grass. Of course, I spat it into my hand and that's how I know it wasn't chocolate.[/QUOTE]
I don't find it strange at all, it's pretty much a normal sausage but for someone without prior experience it certainly sounds strange.
ironman17 reminds me that a lot of tropical fruits would be considered strange elsewhere. Other than durian, I've had jackfruit, mangosteen, rambutan, jambu air, starfruit, feijoa, dragonfruit, and horned melon.
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also, that spider story
:scream:
[QUOTE=Headhumpy;51098677]
also, that spider story
:scream:[/QUOTE]
At least,we know how spider taste like :v:
Oh, speaking of arachnids, one strange thing I ate was a vodka-infused yellow scorpion. One of those little ones with the poison removed. I can't quite remember the taste, though I vaguely remember its texture being good.
I've also eaten seasoned mealworms. They weren't so good, they were too thin and the stuffing they came with pretty much ruined them. Now, if I could get my hands on some sizeable, meaty grubs, I imagine I wouldn't be too put off.
Dog
Horse dick (or was it deer? I forget)
Raw meat with flour (some sorta tibetan delicacy)
Butter tea
I'm Chinese okay
[URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastilla"]Sweet pigeon pie[/URL]
Banana gratin (spoiler: it wasn't good)
Salty liquorice
Wasabi chocolate
Horse tartare (not too strange to me but it probably is to you Anglo-Saxons)
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I've had haggis as well but I wouldn't consider it strange. Bone marrow too.
In recent years grandma got hardcore into making green smoothies, god knows what goes into that other than confirmed dandelions and sorrel.
Drinking that goop was a mistake I shall never repeat.
Fermented shark
Tripe
Pickled pig feet
Starfruit
Grilled alligator
Ostrich burgers
Kohlrabi looks weird so I'll count that
I rarely ever eat strange food,because im a goddamned picky eater.
I recall,my friend stuff some weird shit in his milk,it is:
-Strawberry milk
-Pepper powder
-Salt
-Chili (not powder,but the goddamned real one)
-Ketchup
Obviously,he didn't feel good afterward :v:
my own words
Andouille, it's a smoked pork sausage, it smelled kinda like shit but tasted not too bad apart from the strange and overpowering aftertaste.
I ate a piece of Soy-Sauce covered Broccoli once. It almost made me throw up at Denny's since I'm not used to eating veggies :v:
pineapple pizza
(its not the best pizza around but its still good)
[QUOTE=cplcollas;51102871]Andouille, it's a smoked pork sausage, it smelled kinda like shit but tasted not too bad apart from the strange and overpowering aftertaste.[/QUOTE]
Andouille sausage is strange in Ausland? :huh:
I've had:
alligator
frog legs (genuinely taste like chicken)
squirrel
opossum
oxtail
rabbit
bone marrow
scrapple
Oh, I just remembered. Not really a strange thing but I was walking along a seawall in Hvar, Croatia once. The water looked really clean and there were limpets on the seawall so I plucked one off and ate it. Probably the freshest seafood I've ever had.
what does brain taste like
[QUOTE=Daniel Smith;51104064]what does brain taste like[/QUOTE]
It tastes a bit like liver but nowhere near as strong, and it's very rich and fatty. There's no fibrous tissue whatsoever (assuming you clean out the blood vessels) so it has a soft and fluffy texture not unlike steamed eggs, but even lighter. In my opinion it's the best organ meat you can get your hands on. Unfortunately it has an absolutely unholy amount of cholesterol. A single pig's brain (roughly 6 oz in weight) contains 12 times the recommended daily intake of cholesterol.
Whatever heaps of chemicals go into gummy sweets and colas.
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This guy.
All you have to do is pull out all its organ and then grill it a bit just to make sure it cooked and all. After that, you mince it up, and mix all the minced stuff with whatever you want, like fish sauce, chill powder etc. etc., and it's done.
Used to constantly eat paper when I was young
I found an abandoned pizza in the box at a bus stop (looked relatively fresh) but spit it out immediately when I noticed it was covered by something that looked like either egg white or semen
Snail and whole squid, the small ones.
I've also tried Buffalo and Antelope a few times, they were really nice... The buffalo tasted like beef and the antelope tasted like chicken.
Chicken head and feet. Frog leg. Dog meat.
Camel steak.
Didn't taste bad, but was very stringy.
[I]I once ate an Angus burger and knew right then I was gonna be vegan for life.[/I]
SAVE THE ANIMALS!@#!$#$@%
[QUOTE=Propane Addict;51104010]Andouille sausage is strange in Ausland? :huh:
I've had:
alligator
frog legs (genuinely taste like chicken)
squirrel
opossum
oxtail
rabbit
bone marrow
scrapple[/QUOTE]
Nah, I had it in Brittany at a creperie, I saw it on the menu and asked what it was so the waiter brought me a piece to try.
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