What's the WEIRDEST thing you've EATEN?

[Guinness Boy]

Every now and then my wife gets some fresh goat from Henry's Meat Market and makes a spicy Caribbean curry with it. My son thinks this is disgusting and refuses to touch it, so last night I grossed him out with some of the other "weird" things I'd eaten (quite a lot as I lived in Asia for over three years). This included Octopus Beak (actually quite like squid, lovely in a good sauce), stinky tofu (tastes as bad as it smells), snake blood (strictly just for the tourists but combined with the booze it gives you a great buzz) and emu (needs to be cooked no more than rare, ideally blue). I did draw the line at the chicken arse on a stick that the Taiwanese munch while walking round night markets.

So what's the weirdest / most gross out / most unexpectedly good thing you've EATEN. And yes ENREST I said eaten and not just put in your MOUTH.

 

[Beach Hut]

Has to be snails for me, I thought they would be like whelks but sadly they were not and pretty unpleasant.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

A 1901 lasagne.

 

[Beach Hut]

A 1901 lasagne.

Here we go........

 

[pastafarian]

odd pub nibble from Africa was Grasshoppers fried up with chilli........surprisingly tasty.

sort of like spicy twiglets.

 

[BN9 BHA]

Pigs trotters.
My mother has a lot to answer for, I would not keep on giving my kids something they hate but we used to be fed pigs trotters when I was a kid.

 

[cardboard]

In Brussels a few weeks ago I had hot brains and then sweetbreads. Prob won't be having that combo again!!

 

[Leighgull]

I'll give most things a bash but the Japanese eat these crabs ( I forget the mame of them) that are covered in thick barnacles and whatnot. Blighters eat them like toffee apples and I couldn't even bite through the shell it was so hard. How they don't break every tooth in their heads is a minor miracle.

How did they lose the war? They're nails.

 

[red star portslade]

A tampon string i didnt know was there.

 

[surrey jim]

Durian fruit. Not weird for the taste, but the smell is horrendous.

 

[BHseagull]

Pigeon soup in Marrakech, snails in Paris or cat food when I was a child and crawling!!

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Here we go........

 

[cheshunt seagull]

I was presented with an 'uni' (a sea urchin) in Tokyo. It looked like a large speckled bogey but, as I had been given it as guest of honour, I had no choice but to eat it. Actually once I got over the texture and appearance I found it quite tasty. However, what I ate of a pickled pigs head in Cyprus (complete with hairs) tasted every bit as foul as it looked.

 

[Norman Baker suck my lozenge]

When I was in Tokyo I got what I thought was a can of fizzy lime drink from a vending machine,turned out to be sparkling seaweed juice,disgusting,like consuming an effervescent fart.

 

[Eeyore]

Kangaroo & Ale Pie at a tiny petrol station in the outback.

The meat was very tough and a bit bland. Can't see it as an AMEX special anytime soon.

 

[Nibble]

I liked sea urchin. I've also tried crocodile, buffalo, zebra and Ostrich, scorpion, ants, and other numerous bugs All quite nice really.

I think the worst stuff I've tasted is probably my Step father's cooking because being a war child he freezes months worth of meat so that the only thing it's good for by the time he gets round to cooking it is slow cooking in a stew. All the flavour is gone from months in the freezer and it's a watery, garlicky. sloppy soup by the time it gets to the table. He also insists on boiling every vegetable for literally 40 mins. Grim.

 

[Spanish Seagull]

My Wifes Cooking.....

 

[lawros left foot]

I have eaten alligator, sea slug, ducks feet, kangaroo burger, not altogether tho

 

[Goring-by-Seagull]

Kangaroo burger for me as well. Not exactly KER-azy weird but also not something you buy a bag of 20 of from tescos for your barbecue.

 

[in the sticks]

Squirrel, on survival training in the army , very lean and did taste nutty !