Weirdest Thing You've Ever Eaten

[Gerald Wilgus]

Moldy chickpeas, commonly known as "tempeh."

Make sure you cook it thoroughly - otherwise they taste exactly like you'd expect.

One thing that I had in Japan and never again is Natto. Fermented soy beans - definitely an acquired taste and very sticky and gooey. I call it snotto.

 

[FayetheAspie]

I think it was probably a pinch out of my early childhood sandbox (for science you know?). Just in case you're wondering, it's not worth trying. It tastes like dirt.

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

@Yeshuasdaughter, wow, I can only tick off about 20 of those! Different places, different weird - here, you can get shark in the local chippie (just ask for “flake”) and, as @Outdated noted, you can buy kangaroo in the local supermarket - but you seem to have taken your engagement with the environment to another level.

I grew up in the desert in a trailer with almost no running water and minimal electricity. We also did a lot of ocean fishing. I grew up and traveled a lot. I think new foods are an adventure.

 

[maleonolo]

Has anyone eaten a fried cockroach? I often see ants carrying their corpses around so they might actually be quite tasty

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

Here's something cool- foods cooked in unique ways. I've eaten several solar cooked meals. I used to build and help build solar powered parabolic cookers.

I've had food cooked the following ways. We're talking sizzling, boiling hot. :

*On an old dish network satellite dish lined with reflective foil. This was almost like cooking with a laser. You wouldn't believe how it boiled.

*Inside a (sterile) fish aquarium lined with styrofoam, black paper and foil. With a big wardrobe mirror reflecting the sun down at it. Better for stews.

*inside a box lined with thick pendleton blankets. After first boiling it on a stove and then setting the cookpot in the blanket box for a few hours to simmer. Like a crock pot.

*fish cooked with the acid from lemon juice "ceviche"

I've made the following ferments in my life:

Kombucha
Jun
Water Kefir
Milk Kefir
Yoghurt
Buttermilk
Filmjolk
Miso
and many others too

 

[tree]

Has anyone eaten a fried cockroach? I often see ants carrying their corpses around so they might actually be quite tasty

The Case for Cockroach Consumption, Sustainable Superfood

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

If you like eating chorizo for breakfast, you've been eating (delicious) offal. Here are the ingredients for Cacique brand chorizo.



Pork Chorizo:

INGREDIENTS: PORK SALIVARY GLANDS, LYMPH NODES AND FAT, SEASONING (PAPRIKA, SALT, MUSTARD, SPICES, GARLIC POWDER), PORK, WATER, DISTILLED VINEGAR, DEFATTED SOY GRITS, SODIUM NITRITE (TO MAINTAIN FRESHNESS). CONTAINS SOY

 

[Dagan]

I've been keeping an eye on this thread to make sure none of you are like Hannibal Lecter, by the way. Haha.

 

[Aspychata]

Vegan chorizo is actually tasty.

 

[Metalhead]

Reading this thread has me realize how conservative I am when it comes to food choices.

 

[Tired]

Snow (white one!)

 

[Mary Terry]

Here's something cool- foods cooked in unique ways. I've eaten several solar cooked meals. I used to build and help build solar powered parabolic cookers.

I've had food cooked the following ways:

*On an old dish network satellite dish lined with reflective foil.

*Inside an a fish aquarium lined with strofoam, black paper and foil.

*inside a box lined with thick pendleton blankets.

*fish cooked with the acid from lemon juice "ceviche"

I've made the following ferments in my life:

Kombucha
Jun
Water Kefir
Milk Kefir
Yoghurt
Buttermilk
Filmjolk
Miso
and others too

I've made ceviche, fermented cabbage to make sauerkraut, and made a lot of sun tea over the years. I've also made barbacoa beef buried in a hole in the ground on top of coals but these days I just use the crockpot or outdoor smoker to make it.

 

[RemyZee]

I find it incomprehensible in my sensory world that a person would ever eat something that tasted bad to them. If it tastes bad, you don't eat it. But some people intentionally eat things that taste bad!

 

[Mary Terry]

I find it incomprehensible in my sensory world that a person would ever eat something that tasted bad to them. If it tastes bad, you don't eat it. But some people intentionally eat things that taste bad!

I hated olives when I was a kid. Now I love them. Our tastes change over time so something that once tasted bad to you might become something you love. Another example is cilantro which is called coriander in Europe and Asia. I used to hate it but gradually learned to like it.
Now I crave it with many dishes, especially Mexican and Indian dishes.

 

[FayetheAspie]

I hated olives when I was a kid. Now I love them. Our tastes change over time so something that once tasted bad to you might become something you love. Another example is cilantro which is called coriander in Europe and Asia. I used to hate it but gradually learned to like it.
Now I crave it with many dishes, especially Mexican and Indian dishes.

I always loved olives.

 

[RemyZee]

I hated olives when I was a kid. Now I love them. Our tastes change over time so something that once tasted bad to you might become something you love. Another example is cilantro which is called coriander in Europe and Asia. I used to hate it but gradually learned to like it.
Now I crave it with many dishes, especially Mexican and Indian dishes.

They taste so strong to me.

 

[AuAL]

I hated olives when I was a kid. Now I love them. Our tastes change over time so something that once tasted bad to you might become something you love. Another example is cilantro which is called coriander in Europe and Asia. I used to hate it but gradually learned to like it.
Now I crave it with many dishes, especially Mexican and Indian dishes.

My wife had never eaten olives before she met me. Now we both love them. I still have not been able to persuade her to try oysters.

 

[RemyZee]

Here's something cool- foods cooked in unique ways. I've eaten several solar cooked meals. I used to build and help build solar powered parabolic cookers.

I've had food cooked the following ways. We're talking sizzling, boiling hot. :

*On an old dish network satellite dish lined with reflective foil. This was almost like cooking with a laser. You wouldn't believe how it boiled.

*Inside a (sterile) fish aquarium lined with styrofoam, black paper and foil. With a big wardrobe mirror reflecting the sun down at it. Better for stews.

*inside a box lined with thick pendleton blankets. After first boiling it on a stove and then setting the cookpot in the blanket box for a few hours to simmer. Like a crock pot.

*fish cooked with the acid from lemon juice "ceviche"

I've made the following ferments in my life:

Kombucha
Jun
Water Kefir
Milk Kefir
Yoghurt
Buttermilk
Filmjolk
Miso
and many others too

When I was a kid I heard that you can fry an egg on the sidewalk if it's hot enough—tried it. Didn't work.

 

[Masked Man]

Weirdest for me:

Chapulines in Mexico (they were in bits - I thought they were bacon bits!)
Icelandic salt licorice - the only thing I have ever spit right out. Nasty

 

[AuAL]

When I was a kid I heard that you can fry an egg on the sidewalk if it's hot enough—tried it. Didn't work.

When I was a kid, in summer the road would melt. It was blue-metal set in tar. No concrete, just gravel gutters, so we could lift up the edges of the road. We’d get tar all over our fingernails, and Mum would have to clean them off using margarine. Sorry, no weird food - you just triggered a memory from 60 years ago.