What's the Weirdest Food You've Eaten?

[Kathryn]

You know what - I don't care that much for meat myself. I mean, I am not morally opposed to eating meat in moderation, but it's my least favorite food group.

I also don't like the way our meat industry treats animals. Not at all. I feel a bit guilty supporting it in any way.

Anyone ever taken a tour of a meat packing plant? That will put you off beef for awhile.

And you thought eating grasshoppers was weird.

 

[Primordial Annihilator]

Especially Lamb and other young animals...I find eating that particularly sickening...emotionally unsettling.
A new scientific report came out recently in Britain that warned against eating red meat for they have confirmed a biochemical link between bowel cancer in humans and eating red meat.
No wonder developing worlds who dont have a lot of red meat in their diets if any in some areas don't suffer from bowl cancer to anything like the degree we meat eating westerners do...statistical data confirms it perhaps.

 

[Kathryn]

And don't even get me started on chicken farms - and veal.

 

[Primordial Annihilator]

Battery chicken farms are an abomination. :meditate:

 

[Perry456]

I guess the foods that I eat are not that weird, by themselves. However, the combinations that I make are usually rather interesting. I will mix pretty much anything together and think that it tastes good. Throw any and all vegetables together with a sauce, burn it, whatever, and I love it. This is why I tend to not cook for others because I think everything tastes good, so I have no gauge of what is actually good.
The farthest out I have gone in the meat department though was eating duck. I got it at one of the top restaurants in Miami to make sure it was going to be of good quality when I try it for the first time - it was delicious! Served with mango and so good!

 

[Bismillah]

Anyone try tongue? It is actually one of the most underrated meats IMO.

 

[croak]

Anyone try tongue? It is actually one of the most underrated meats IMO.

I have. It's all right, but not amazing.

 

[Caladan]

Locusts.
Boiled them, then threw them in a frying pan with butter and olive oil.
They're marvellous.
Photos are posted on the 'What are you eating?' thread.

 

[Gaura Priya]

Dinuguan, or pork blood stew... Pork pieces simmered in its own blood, and spiced with soy sauce and other spices. A Filipino cuisine!

Or how about balut, fertilised duck egg?

Or beef tripe... never liked the stuff.

And now I'm a vegetarian.

 

[Skwim]

Lutefisk

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Lutefisk is made from dried whitefish (normally cod in Norway, but ling is also used) prepared with lye in a sequence of particular treatments. The watering steps of these treatments differ slightly for salted/dried whitefish because of its high salt content.
The first treatment is to soak the stockfish in cold water for five to six days (with the water changed daily). The saturated stockfish is then soaked in an unchanged solution of cold water and lye for an additional two days. The fish swells during this soaking, and its protein content decreases by more than 50 percent, producing its famous jelly-like consistency. When this treatment is finished, the fish (saturated with lye) has a pH value of 11–12 and is therefore caustic. To make the fish edible, a final treatment of yet another four to six days of soaking in cold water (also changed daily) is needed. Eventually, the lutefisk is ready to be cooked.
Source: Wikipedia


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[Rakhel]

My cousins almost had me convinced into eating chitterlings, but when i found out what it was I said "NO!!!"

I think the only weird thing I have ever eaten(and didn't find out about this until after there was national media about it) was the McDonald's restaurant closest to the US air base at Landstauhl, Germany. Turns out they were making their burgers out of ground worms because it .was cheaper.
My mother refused ever go to a McDonald's ever again

 

[Kathryn]

I've had fried locusts myself, and to be honest, I didn't care for them. To me, they tasted like - well, like BUGS.

I also have tried chitlins and they tasted like - poop!

Same with menudo, which is, as far as I can tell, the Lation equivalent of chitlins.

Just give me something normal, like crawdads:

 

[Gaura Priya]

I've had fried locusts myself, and to be honest, I didn't care for them. To me, they tasted like - well, like BUGS.

I also have tried chitlins and they tasted like - poop!

Same with menudo, which is, as far as I can tell, the Lation equivalent of chitlins.

Just give me something normal, like crawdads:

They all look like dead animals to me. And crawfish aren't very typical up in here parts of Canada.

 

[Kathryn]

Yeah, my husband just got back from a hunting trip, and I asked him how many dead animals he brought back. He said, "What?" and I said, "You know, how many things with faces did you kill?"

I'm bad that way.

 

[Gaura Priya]

Yeah, my husband just got back from a hunting trip, and I asked him how many dead animals he brought back. He said, "What?" and I said, "You know, how many things with faces did you kill?"

I'm bad that way.

Well, nothing is sexier than a hunting man, I'm sure! And you're such a doll, LOL.

I think sushi has become the standard meat source in Westernmost Canada.

 

[Kathryn]

Ahhh, sushi, the world's most beautiful food!

 

[croak]

Well, nothing is sexier than a hunting man, I'm sure! And you're such a doll, LOL.

I think sushi has become the standard meat source in Westernmost Canada.

I miss bubble tea! Maybe slightly off-topic, but the tapioca pearls are rather weird.

 

[MysticSang'ha]

LOL great thread!

Rabbit
Ostrich
Eel - my absolute favorite sushi :yes:

 

[Kathryn]

My son eating sea urchin in Korea recently:

A bit off topic but I love this photo of his fiancee smoking a hookah:

 

[Gaura Priya]

I miss bubble tea! Maybe slightly off-topic, but the tapioca pearls are rather weird.

Really? I love sucking on those tapioca pearls! Big, black and chewy!