What is the weirdest thing you've ever eaten?

Question

Something you've had perhaps while in a foreign country, while spending time with someone of a foreign culture, at a restaurant, or by accident.

Mine was sea anemone... at a sushi bar...It was not as tasty as the octopus though.

• you are awake?? lol, me too!! - sunshinzmomm Jun 8, 2010
• till nearly 3 am actually! heehee. - dreamweaver Jun 8, 2010
• too hot to sleep! - sunshinzmomm Jun 8, 2010

Answer 1

How do you answer that without stepping on someone else's toes?

The children's joke: "What is worse than biting into an apple and finding a worm? Only finding half of a worm!" loses it's humor in a society that enjoys worms.

One man's meat is another man's poison. Things that one culture would step on and wipe up with a tissue may be considered a staple or even a delicacy in another. The difference between 'yum' and 'yuk' goes way beyond one letter.

As a child I had zero interest in eating raw fish eggs and now I can get dressed in a tuxedo and be expected to eat them. To this day, you can have my caviar if I can have your beef!

I think that once you are weaned from your mother's milk, everything else is weird - unless you like it! Remember that the next time you bite into an apple and don't find any worm at all!

As much as I like chocolate, I cannot get my mind around eating chocolate-covered ants - much less ant-covered chocolate.

But to answer your question, sort of, the weirdest thing I've eaten is crow. I hate having to eat my own words.

• why did you eat crow? what did it taste like...chicken? - dreamweaver Jun 8, 2010
• Or even chocolate covered worms lol hahhaha Yuck ! - FELIZ77 Jun 8, 2010
• Chicken is what 'they' always promise you it's going to taste like! - LateToDinner Jun 8, 2010
• so true...promises promise....LOL - dreamweaver Jun 8, 2010

Answer 2

There's a huhu grub that lives in trees here in New Zealand and grows into a beetle, the native Maori apparently ate the grubs and when i was a child my father took me on a survival trip into the bush and had me eat one of the grubs - not too bad, a bit like peanut butter.

Years later after living for some years in Australia I returned back to NZ and some of my friends thought it'd be a great joke to gather some of these grubs for me and offer them to me at a welcome home BBQ.

With great gusto I grabbed a handful and popped them into my mouth (you eat them alive by the way) but i forgot that usually you hold them by their heads and bite the bodies off. The heads are very hard and have nippers so to save face i had to stand there and crunch up a whole mouthful of live, nipping huhu grubs as they wriggled around in my mouth. Not that pleasant!

• As a child in the bush we used to eat the honey ants by holding the head and sucking out the honey from their belly sack ,they were deliscious. - ray76 Jun 8, 2010
• haha ok you win. - 003487d6 Jun 8, 2010

Answer 3

I enjoy eating many different types of cuisine. However, when it comes to the strange, scary and super spicy foods, you can count me out.

This probably sounds boring, but the most exotic food I remember eating is chocolate lavender macaroons from Kee's Bakery. (A famous bakery in Soho, NYC) People line up down the block to buy these chocolates.

• That's my kind of exotic! - 003487d6 Jun 8, 2010
• Have you never eaten "Chilli chocolate " that is the greatest . - ray76 Jun 8, 2010
• I took one bite and I felt like my mouth was on fire. They are also sold at this bakery. - Nicole-B Jun 8, 2010
• Yes Iam more adventurous in trying New sweet foods than savoury ones as I hate spicy foods like curry I do like mild chili concani with grated cheese though - FELIZ77 Jun 8, 2010
• I want one of these>>>so bad!! Lavender cookies rock! - sunshinzmomm Jun 8, 2010
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Answer 4

Besides eating a few fried ants when I was much younger, the weirdest things I've eaten recently were three appetizers served together in a restaurant outside the city of Oaxaca, Mexico.

The three items were: ant eggs/larvae (escamoles), roasted worms from agave plants (gusanos) and roasted crickets (chapulines).

Here is a photo of escamoles (foreground) and gusanos (background, left)

These are photos of chapulines

• Hot sauce makes them taste great ...I´m sure.. - dreamweaver Jun 8, 2010
• Wow, they look disgusting.. These would take major guts for me to try. - Deanski Jun 8, 2010

Answer 5

As a Hindu, i'm not supposed to eat beef.

Once when i went out with my friends to a restaurent, i accidently tasted it and it was so good. And from that day i started eating beef almost twice in a week without my family's knowledge.

• Lmaorof, you go girl :0) - sfrenchie Jun 8, 2010
• I shall not tell my friend "Soami"she watches my eating like a hawk, so go for it and enjoy. - ray76 Jun 8, 2010
• You should think about what happens before that comes to your plate though. Environmentally and morally, that is a big decision :) - 003487d6 Jun 8, 2010
• Dandi problem is if we followed that principle there would be little left that we could eat - FELIZ77 Jun 8, 2010
• jeje no entiendo. - 003487d6 Jun 8, 2010

Answer 6

Wild Pig, thrown on an open fire in "New Guinea " It was uncooked and full of worms which lodged in my Liver making me quite ill for many years. It is not high on my list of gourmet delights. OH the entre was live grubs eaten by holding the head and biting off the squishy body ,trying hard to swallow them whole rather than have them burst in the mouth ,this was all done whilst smiling at the hosts and nodding in praise at the feast for fear of offending which may have been nastier than the meal.

• That sounds horrible kudos to you for being so brave and respectful to your host. - Jill_A Jun 8, 2010
• Kill me now, I just don't think I could do it. - sfrenchie Jun 8, 2010
• Very respectful of you :) - sunshinzmomm Jun 8, 2010

Answer 7

It's depends on where your from i've had some frog legs and some people think that's weird but I thought they were good, it was kinda like fishy chicken. I've also had sushi with octopus in it and calamari (fried squid) I think that's how you spell it. It all depends on the individual person as to what kind of reaction they are going to have about different foods. I'm a little adventurous i'll try anything once if it looks good and twice or more if it taste good.

• Well if you like frogs legs, next time go with garlic snails, yummo! :) - Kiwi_Girl Jun 8, 2010
• Thanks for the suggestion i'm allways open to new things. - Jill_A Jun 8, 2010
• And boiled then deep fried chicken legs they are delish. - ray76 Jun 8, 2010
• Oh yes...Now I remember going bullfrog hunting so we could eat their legs. They did taste like chicken! - dreamweaver Jun 8, 2010

Answer 8

I had eaten some snake soup before. Its taste is not bad. But when you know it is snake soup, you will not enjoy it. Do you drink some wine which has been soaked with the field mice ? Some women will drink it after giving birth to a baby.

• Hmm. I tried Rattlesnake sausage... they serve it at the Rodizio Grill...a nationwide restaurant. It's delish! - dreamweaver Jun 8, 2010

Answer 9

Come to think of it...there was something that I ate that was even weirder than sea anemone!. AND VERY GROSS so if you have a low tolerance for gross things, Don't Read Any Further.

One day, my mother found a butcher that would sell her a whole goat's head. Now my mum is from Sonora, Mexico where it is considered a delicacy. So, she cooked it and put the whole head on the table for us while gleeming pridefully. The object was to take the meat off the face and make little tacos with it. IT WAS DISGUSTING not only visually but it tasted like liver! Now I love tacos, but not liver tacos...plus the optical effect of a goat's head at the dinner table was more than I could handle. I hated to offend my mom, but I ended up eating Top Ramen for dinner. I suppose it tastes great to some, just like I love sushi, and others gag at the thought. It's all subjective.

• Yes I once tasted cold sushi while helping in a local primary school.A teacher offered me some during a lunch break she laughed to see my facial response yes you guessed it I hated it - FELIZ77 Jun 8, 2010
• The first time I had sushi, I remember thinking, okay, but I'd rather eat a corndog...but 3 days later, like a drug, I was craving it.. so weird...It's an expensive addiction. - dreamweaver Jun 8, 2010

Answer 10

cola de castor

The weirdest thing I have eaten was smoked Beaver tail. The mountain men in the Rocky Mountains always ate them as a delicacy so I thought I would try one. I smoked it over a fire for several hours and then the outer skin peels off and you are left with white meat. The texture was like beef fat but it melted in my mouth. It wasn't bad but never had much flavor and was not worth the time it took to prepare it.

• it looks like a big tongue...I've had beef tongue...but it was too chewy...me no likie... - dreamweaver Jun 8, 2010

Answer 11

Goat in an Indian restaurant, not bad but sooooo greasy yuk.

• Goat is the most widely eaten meat in the World. - ray76 Jun 8, 2010
• Then you just have to show them how to cut it into smaller pieces. - LateToDinner Jun 8, 2010
• Oh I dont know, saves on cuttlery and dinner ware. - ray76 Jun 8, 2010

Answer 12

Wow, good question, I am not adventurous when it comes to food......let me jump from a plane or zip-line in a foreign country, but keep your raw meats and strange foods away from my mouth

• Where's your sense of adventure? Enjoy the fragrant exotic spices of the East ,there are places I go to where the senses are afire with the sights and smells of food cooking . - ray76 Jun 8, 2010
• I L O V E indian food :) - sunshinzmomm Jun 8, 2010

Answer 13

I ate goat brain at a friend's Armenian wedding reception, without really knowing what it was. I just wanted to say I ate something that weird. He got back from his honeymoon and I finally got up the nerve to ask him what it was. Btw, I didn't care for it!!

• goats look better than they taste. - dreamweaver Jun 8, 2010
• Amen to that! - amykay Jun 8, 2010

Answer 14

I think the strangest thing I've ever eaten was groundhog.

We regularly eat rabbit here, which many find odd or disgusting, but I love it.

• I ate rabbit at boarding school once without knowing it I hated it it didnt help that the cook had left some pellets in it - FELIZ77 Jun 8, 2010
• tastes great with barbeque sauce on streak rolls! - dreamweaver Jun 8, 2010
• Ach, ja! Hasenpfeffer! - LateToDinner Jun 9, 2010

Answer 15

So long ago that I had completely forgotten:

My mom overhead some colleagues discussing what a great deal the supermarket had on artichokes so she brought some home for dinner. I have chewed on pencil ends that tasted better. We dipped them in drawn butter, we tried them with mayonnaise and probably several other concoctions that I have long since forgotten, and they still tasted like wood.

The next day at work she when she was looking for clarification, they asked her how long she had cooked them.

The whole office heard her exclaim: "C o o k t h e m!?!"

• jejejejej, this is a great story!! - Heidita Jun 9, 2010
• hilarious!!!!! like leaving the giblet bag in the turkey thinking it's the stuffing... - dreamweaver Jun 9, 2010