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

[kokopuffs]

The strangest thing I've ever eaten: barbecued hippopotamus lips.

[chef from va]

YUM! that is the strangest one i have heard yet

[AzRaeL]

sheeesh! most of this stuff i'd eat without blinking.
I like Thai chicken feet salad.
Sea urchin roe? uni....GIMMMIE i can't get enough of that stuff.
cow's tongue in aspic is pretty okay.

I will not eat, however, IGUANA..ICK!!!!

Strangest thing I've eaten?

Horse Shoe Crab *YUMMY* at that a Phuket
ate some ants inadvertently..don't know if that counts.
Is the spit of a Swallow (no spit or swallow jokes) considered exotic? they market it as Bird's Nest
Snake bile, supposedly medicinal, but it tasted really really bad.

[Radish]

ooh lots of yummy yummy things!!
My wierdest ould have to be

alligator
tripe
horse meat
snails
gizzards
raw quails eggs
haggis

[Xaleto]

My Italian grandmother grew up in a poor family and during WW2 nobody had too much money so any body part of an animal was consumed. Even later she kept cooking occasionally some of the things she used to eat while younger. My father, her son, still cooks the most outrageous things to this day.

Here some of the things I tasted as a kid...

Beef coagulated blood sauteed with onions (similar recipe to the Venetian "Fegato alla Veneziana"). BLAH!

Bull t@sticle (ok, I guess, but I will never have it again)

Fried brain of some animal (YUCK)

Little escargout (sp?) that tasted like the ton of garlic they add to them (not anymore)

Kidney (I actually liked it)

Lung (YUCK!)

Beef heart

Chicken feet

I love Beef tongue!

Dolphin meat, it was dried, like beef jerky

I am sure I am forgetting something....


Laura

[Phoenix-TheReal]

Interesting thread.

Ohmigoodness, over 6+ decades and having traveled or lived over about half the world's surface, I've eaten so many strange things... many that have already been mentioned. So, I'm trying to think of a few that have not.

1. Whole oven roasted cow's head. Sweet meat, good... pick it clean to nibble on and use to make some really good Mexican tamales.

2. Monkey Balls, yummy.... chewy lil morsels roasted on bamboo sticks over the coals of a brazier (actually, we were told that they were monkey balls but never knew what kind of meat they might have been... probably dog).

3. Cow's hoof, not too shabby. Used to thicken and flavor a GOOD menudo, gnaw on it a bit to eat off the soft gelatinous parts after cooked.

4. A handful of chiltepines that some guy I didn't know dropped into my palm one night in a bar--consequences were effluently devastating in every manner one can imagine. Had I been able to find him later (several hours to recover) I would have maimed him for life. LOL, they look like red-skinned Spanish peanuts under dim light. They aren't.

One thing that I was offered but did not eat was whole monkey rotisseried over a bed of coals.... ummm, it just looked too much like bar-b-qued baby on a spit.

Heh, nor would I eat some of those thangs they have had the 'contestants' consume on the various survivor shows on TV.

[Tee]

1. Frog taste great but when you trhink about it it will gross you out IMO.
2. chicken intestine(BBQ) taste great.
3. oax tongue cooked with cream of mushroom. It has a soft texture that is nice when you chew it.
4. Duck egg! When the egg is starting to form the baby and it was boil.

By the way I eat them when I was in Philippines before I move here four years ago.

[onehsancare]

Strangest things ever eaten:

tapeworm larvae in sushi (unknowing, but the grossness factor is astronomical!)

natto (gag)

Unusual protein I love: escargot, tongue, frogs' legs

[leezachris]

wow, some of these are crazy!!

When my husband was in China for a visit he ate Dragon Phoenix - aka Cat Chicken Snake soup!! (I wasn't married to him at the time, thank goodness as I LOVE cats, and it made me sad to think that he tried one ).

[rasputin1072]

Is fried squirl brains a common dish in the south? I guess I don't live far enough south for that one myself.

[thebighat]

I was sitting alone in the dark one night, watching the Red Sox lose, drinking beer and eating Triscuits, when I became aware of a tickling sensation on my hands and lips. When I snapped on the light, the Triscuit box was full of ants and now they were walking all over me. Don't remember what they tasted like, as I was just hammered enough not to freak out.

[leezachris]

OOOHHHggggghhh - that's what nightmares are made of.....

[Basil Baker]

Originally Posted by Risa

Seitan and other meat substitutes (strange if you're not a vegetarian)

I'm a vegitarrien and one of the oddest things I ever ate was when my friend and I tried to make chocolate flovored tofu. Yes, we are crazy and It was very gross.

[Frizbee]

Originally Posted by rasputin1072

Is fried squirl brains a common dish in the south? I guess I don't live far enough south for that one myself.

Umm I live in SC and i am sure i have Never seen that on any menu....LOL

[Phoenix-TheReal]

In Mexico, where I spent quite a lot of time after retiring from the Army, out in the 'campo' on the 'ranchos' when they hang a goat up to a rafter to kill it, as they slit its throat (with the typically dull knife that has been 'sharpened' on a rock...requiring a sawing motion during the jugular sticking process) they will hold a basin underneath to catch all the blood as it spurts out. Then they just toss it as coagulating into a frying pan over a fire and fry it up simple like that. Salted with a rather coarse salt that sorta clumps together, it tastes quite good... eaten with tortillas... and everybody has a good time.

I just thought I'd add that as Xaleto had mentioned beef coagulated blood sauteed up with onions... I reckon those 'venezolanos' just ain't purists.