to ask what is the craziest thing you’ve ever eaten?

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I can’t sleep and I’m watching a tv show on really unique delicacies across the world.

It’s got me thinking, what is the most crazy thing you’ve ever eaten?

(I feel like it’s the last day of the 6 weeks holidays and I’m up watching odd stuff all night!)

Kangaroo burger, which wasn't great after spending all day prior petting them at a zoo..
Also ate two ghost chillis and a carolina reaper as a bet. I can't turn down a challenge

Humble pie.

Balut. It tasted nice, but even as an adventurous eater I couldn’t get past the sight of it. Yuck.

Brains, tongues, hearts, sweetbreads are all some of my favourite foods! So not generally squeamish, but that was a step too far.

Sea cucumber at a Chinese wedding banquet.
Not that I (or any of us at our non-Chinese table) did actually eat it - there were valiant efforts before discreetly transferring it to tissue and pocket or bag.

I’m not at all a fussy eater but it was truly vile - orange slime with a revolting texture. The bride in question told me later that none of them really like it but it’s traditional - my guess is that it’s a fertility symbol. (Fat cucumber shape!)

Goose feet and fish lips in the same Chinese dish. Not good at all.

In the same meal I had pigs intestines. Came with a hoi sin dip. That was pretty good, kind of like a softer version of pork scratchings.

Sea slug when I was abroad. Yuck.

Pickled snakeskin. Business trip to Mexico. I nibbled the edge, don't really remember what it was like other than I didn't want to go further than a nibble.

My mum once had a dolphin sandwich in Florida - about 20 years ago and I never let her forget.

No idea where to logic is ordering that.

Squirrel. Not very interesting.

I'm not very squeamish but couldn't choke down andouillettes. Or tripe.

I had Cobra in Vietnam, different parts get made into different dishes - bile is drunk, blood went in a soup and the flesh was fried.
There's a restaurant we visited in Nairobi called 'carnivore' which is famous for serving wild game - croc, ostrich, antelope, buffalo zebra etc. You can try it all. Zebra was delicious.

The eyeball on a huge, have ge fish head - I was working in Japan and elderly male colleagues ordered for me and didn't think I would eat it - so I did, and drank lots of sake...

Natō - fermented soya beans - slimey and stinky. Ordered by mistake in Japan because I couldn't read the menu, ate thrm anyway because I was hungry and not well off, and young and polite. Found out what they were at work the next day because a student's cousin was a waiter in the restaurant unbeknown to me, and apparently my eating habits were gossip worthy.

Fried whole sparrow (maybe... some kind of small bird) feet in Thailand but those were fine, just crunchy.

I've eaten various types of fried street food without knowing exactly what it was in Thailand and Taiwan. Frying probably neutralises everything, was my logic!

Chickens Foot.

English me wouldn't dream of spitting things out at the table so I ate it, little bones and all (thinking I just got a bad one)

Turns out you're meant to eat the meat around the little bones and spit them out, much to the amusement of the people I was with after I swallowed them all (not envy!)

@Chopbob

Duck tongues at a chinese restaurant in UK- they tasted really good but it blew my mind they have a bone in them! Also a Malaysian dessert that was made from wood pulp when on honeymoon in Malaysia. Its tasted like wood pulp 🤮

They have a bone in them??

Well now I have no desire to eat anything.

Maybe re read every morning - stop me eating biscuits!

Not envy.
Once ate shark as a dc but didn't know until I had eaten it. Was quite upset tbh.

Nothing too unusual - ostrich, wild boar, shark

Ostrich and kangaroo - both farmed - and horse (I think) when in France as a teenager. I wasn't told it was horse but it had a stronger flavour than beef. It was very nice! I was with my grandmother who was totally mad about horses so I never discussed it with her.

Rarely available things I've eaten only once

• Snails in garlic (at the end of the first night I ever went out drinking... enjoyed it. Accidentally hurled one at the proprietor when digging it out of the shell with a small fork. I apologised, he said it happened all the time.)
• Frogs legs in honey (delicious, in a Thai restaurant, also at the end of a boozy night though)
• Various African large animals in mixed platter, e.g giraffe, zebra etc. (surprisingly, none of these various red meats were nice enough that I'd want to eat them again. The giraffe meat was very tough.)
• Elephant biltong (dried meat) (Not something you can usually get, a lot of elephants had died during a drought, so someone though to use the meat.)
• Orange sea cucumber, and probably many similar items in the same Chinese restaurant dish. I though it was going to be an apricot. It was therefore disappointing, but not horrible. Rubbery and not much taste.
• A durian fed to me be mischievous MIL. Immediately spat it out, much to her amusement. Smelled and tasted strongly of vomit, triggering gag reflex.
• Lobster. Not strange or exotic, but I've only eaten it once
• Raw Oysters, same comments a Lobster. (Though lobster was nice, oysters I wouldn't have again.)

The only think served in restaurant that I have encountered and have no intention of intentionally ordering: Mopani worms. (Apparently it's a type of caterpillar.)

I don't think I could ever voluntarily eat locusts, however nutritious they are supposed to be.

Although the way I feel about Mopani worms is the way I felt about snails, before a few beers changed my perspective. Maybe the real problem was that I was stone cold sober when they were on offer.

how can anyone stomach a Carolina reaper?! Even reading the name gives me the 💩

@SoDiorDarling

My mum once had a dolphin sandwich in Florida - about 20 years ago and I never let her forget.

No idea where to logic is ordering that.

It might not have been actual dolphin. In Florida I was offered Dolphin fish, when I questioned it they explained it has nothing to do with a dolphin

I was offered beaver jerky in Sweden but no way!

Not sure if octopus counts. But it’s common in my home
country

Jellyfish tentacles. Ate at a very posh restaurant in China. They were quite nice - sort of a cross between a noodle and a beansprout.

Friends were tired of my constant banging on about how much weight I was losing and my smugness at refusing cake, alcohol, crisps etc. On my birthday, I was presented with a large, sherbety looking , strawberry flavoured sweet. Not wanting to annoy them, I took a massive chomp. It was a bath bomb!