What are the three strangest things you've eaten in your lifetime?

[shroomgirl]

I adore congee with 1000 year old eggs, salt pork and crullers....it is comfort food....I discovered it a couple of years ago and get it whenever I can.
* anyone got a good recipe for the congee and/or crullers?

[marthaoncrack]

I've just had yet another bad food memory: When I was in the third grade elementary, my teacher asked us to bring in a food for a science experiment on molds. I brought in raw bacon and left it in my desk for about one week. Finally, I couldn't take it any more and I took a bite of it. I didn't die, but I didn't feel so well for quite a few days. I have never told anyone about this until now....

I suppose this isn't the kind of thing that you had in mind for this thread, huh?

-Martha-

[marthaoncrack]

Can you enlighten me on 1,000-year-old eggs? How does that happen?

Thanks!

[Suzanne]

What's weird to some is normal to others. Differences make life interesting. Be not afraid. Food is love (happy v-day, all!). Let's eat!!!!

[BillyG60]

Boy we are an adventurious bunch!!!

I will eat almost anything(and have) but 2 things I cannot stand are Beets and a Watergate salad my mom makes at Easter, Christmas, and Thanksgiving (basicly green jello with all kinds of fruits and nuts mixed in with cream cheese also)


1. Sea Urchin and I liked it
2 Rattlesnake--ok but chewy tasted like chicken.
3 Vegimite from Australia, before i knew it was basicly a salty mold.


Billy

[momoreg]

Dog food.

Hah!

Not bad, really!

[shroomgirl]

I cannot figure out how the bone meal cleans teeth.....I ate um as a dare when I was pre-5.
My brother ate spiders for a penny, and banana peels....tough being a little brother.

[Svadhisthana]

Put me down for dog biscuits. I was 6 maybe? My older sister ate one too. Amazing how easy it is to forget these things...........




I've had watergate salad too-Yuuuuuuuuuuuck!

Velveta fudge- another one I've mentaly misplaced as a defence mechanism no doubt.

Actually most of my mothers cooking could be classified as strange to those who had mothers who didn't think "Fluffernutters" and any recipe printed on the back of a can of Campbells soup was good eats.

[kuan]

Speaking of dog biscuits, my Mother-in-law once made some dog biscuits for sasha and kodi. I walked in and said "wow! Those look good!" so I picked one up and bit into it!

Anyway, as far as human food is concerned, I think the weirdest thing I ever consumed was whole roasted sheep head at a theme party. I didn't eat the whole thing, just what was given to me which was a little bit of meat. I think it was there for shock value, nobody really ate any of it. I just had to get used to the thing staring at me.

Kuan

[CanStandTheHeat]

I was at a superbowl party where they served Hormel "chili" with Velveeta "cheese" melted on it with Tostida "tortilla' chips. Talk about disgusing. Bring on the moldy bacon, squirming snails in rice wine, chicken feet, and greyish blue cylincrical dim sum thingy!

[Athenaeus]

Originally posted by kuan
Anyway, as far as human food is concerned, I think the weirdest thing I ever consumed was whole roasted sheep head at a theme party. I didn't eat the whole thing, just what was given to me which was a little bit of meat. I think it was there for shock value, nobody really ate any of it. I just had to get used to the thing staring at me.

Kuan

Kuan, in Greece, in Easter, we fight who is going to have the sheep's head ... and of xourse we eat it ALL

[Suzanne]

Many, many years ago, I went out to eat at a Greek restaurant with some friends. One of the other girls (yes, it was so long ago that we were "girls") ordered the half of a sheep's head, roasted. We all ended up picking at it -- it was actually pretty good. Roast lamb, after all, what's to be bad? (That plus enough retsina!!)

[marthaoncrack]

Thanks, cchiu, for the info on 1,000-year-old eggs!

Okay, this one isn't too weird, but it is one that most of us don't admit to liking: some call it "the Pope's nose", some call it "the last thing over the fence", but I just call it "the chicken's butt". It's that wonderfully flavorful, chewy tail piece of a chicken or -even better- turkey. Yum, Yum, Yum. Wish I could buy them by the pound...

[thebighat]

Saw a show on the food channel about a place in nyc that served whole lamb's head. Wonder if this the place Suzanne went?

[catciao]

I can't say that I'm as adventurous as some of you, in fact, I don't think I want to be. The top of my wierdest food list includes Giant Clam from a sushi bar - not much taste and was like biting into cartalidge. Fried Rattlesnake - tastes somewhat like chicken and so being, I'll stay with the fowl. Kimchee - my dad loves this rotten cabbage he discovered while in Korea. I'm sorry I tasted it.