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What's the weirdest food you have eaten.

163 replies

ICanSeeTheSun · 10/07/2014 22:42

I know it's not technically aibu.

Mine has to be a deep fried mars bar, so sickly but so nice.

OP posts:
StrawberryCheese · 11/07/2014 00:34

Foie gras and chocolate tart. It was a canapé in an afternoon tea and because the pastry tart bit was obviously chocolate, I assumed the brown creamy stuff in it was coffee or chocolate too. It wasn't!

Madamecastafiore · 11/07/2014 00:37

Onion ice cream was rank but you guys beat me hands Dow.

Eating a fertilised egg ?? makes me want to vom just thinking about it.

goodbyeyellowbrickroad · 11/07/2014 00:49

I've eaten century egg. Was utterly vile. And I was hungover. Never to be repeated.

Other than that the weirdest thing was guinea pig (sorry to those that have one as a pet) in Peru where it's a local delicacy. It was deep fried like crispy duck and tasted like porky chicken.

NickiFury · 11/07/2014 00:49

Jelly fish. It was beyond grim.

NotTheKitchenAgainPlease · 11/07/2014 02:16

Everyone's eaten horse Grin

lettertoherms · 11/07/2014 02:49

Garlic ice cream. It was good.

ShadowsShadowsEverywhere · 11/07/2014 03:03

We live up the road from a crocodile farm. You can go and see the crocodiles in their house thingy and then walk into the farm shop where they have beef and pork alongside crocodile and other weird and wonderful meats.

MaMaPo · 11/07/2014 03:42

The fertilised egg was pretty grim. Disturbingly crunchy.

Apart from that I'm not sure the weirdest thing I've eaten. The same mutton stew 3 meals a day for a week in the middle of nowhere with Mongolian nomadic families? Or maybe the South Australian delicacy, a pie floater (meat pie served - sometimes upside down - in a shallow bowl, filled with pea soup).

I could totally go a pie floater right now, actually.

steff13 · 11/07/2014 03:51

Crocodile, deep fried

HidingUnderMyDuvet · 11/07/2014 05:35

I've eaten bees and bee larvae!

MooseBeTimeForSpring · 11/07/2014 05:57

Come on! Has no one mentioned Durian yet? Bastard thin repeated on me too. Didn't taste any better.

MaMaPo · 11/07/2014 06:04

I don't mind durian or jackfruit - the smell is worse than the taste!

Theodorous · 11/07/2014 06:15

We had hooves at Qatari dinner the other night. They were especially cooked by our close friend for my husband so we had to wade through them. Very strong flavour (apparently good for the sperm!)

Hoppinggreen · 11/07/2014 08:04

Snake, sea urchin, alligator, antelope, zebra, frogs legs

sashh · 11/07/2014 08:11

Why does everything taste if chicken. Is it default taste

I know a vegetarian who brought her kids up veggi. One of her teenagers had chicken at someone's house and she asked him what he thought.

"It tastes like quorn"

vixsatis · 11/07/2014 08:11

Sea urchin. Cannot recommend

ouryve · 11/07/2014 08:13

It's a toss up between the chocolate covered crickets and chocolate ant lolly.

BarbarianMum · 11/07/2014 08:16

Locusts. Was told they tasted a bit like bacon frazzles. They don't.

bakingaddict · 11/07/2014 08:29

Durian is lovely.....you can get Durian jam and biscuits too. One of the best cakes I ever tried was a Durian fudge cake. MIL gave me a packet but they do kinda stink out the biscuit cupboard

Have eaten jellyfish didnt really taste of much and chicken gizzards which were nasty. I have gone off century eggs but I eat chicken feet fairly regularly at dim sum. I draw the line at insects though

Callani · 11/07/2014 08:29

I ate spicy ants in Vietnam - it is not an experience I wish to repeat. They got stuck in my throat and my back teeth - felt like there were creepy crawlies in my mouth for hours. shudder

bakingaddict · 11/07/2014 08:30

Durian is lovely.....you can get Durian jam and biscuits too. One of the best cakes I ever tried was a Durian fudge cake. MIL gave me a packet but they do kinda stink out the biscuit cupboard

Have eaten jellyfish didnt really taste of much and chicken gizzards which were nasty. I have gone off century eggs but I eat chicken feet fairly regularly at dim sum. I draw the line at insects though

KikitheKitKat · 11/07/2014 08:33

I second andouillettes Verity, had that once and it was a white sausage that managed to stay white during cooking and was all stringy and chewy inside. Bleurgh!

mawinter · 11/07/2014 08:34

Kangaroo

FraidyCat · 11/07/2014 08:44

People here have eaten plenty of stuff I wouldn't touch.

Mopani worms are caterpillars [shudder]. I turned them down in favour of giraffe, zebra meat etc. Don't really recommend those either, a bit tough.

I ate some dried (very dried) elephant meat, that was nice.

Someone served me what I though was a peeled and cooked apricot in a dish with lots of other stuff in a Chinese restaurant. I don't mind that it turned out to be a sea slug, was just disappointed that it wasn't an apricot.

I don't think a Durian is extreme food, but to the delight of someone else who fed me some, I gagged and spat out the piece they gave me. What else would you do when something with the taste and smell of concentrated vomit is in your mouth?

ephemeralfairy · 11/07/2014 09:00

Chicken's feet in China. Actually not too bad, a bit glutinous and you had to avoid the claws/toenails...but essentially it just tasted like chicken.

And fermented mare's milk in Mongolia. Really the most revolting thing. Like rotting liquid feta cheese, but about ten times worse than that. Even cow's milk makes me gag so this was the stuff of nightmares. I didn't even attempt to finish it; I reasoned that my hosts would probably be more offended by me vomiting on the floor of their home than not finishing it...!

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