Weirdest Thing You've Ever Eaten

[RemyZee]

Nestle Brand Hagelslag

(recipe for your enjoyment)
1. Create a "compound butter" by mixing sprinkles into margarine.
2. Extrude sprinkle/margarine spread onto benzoyl peroxide treated Wonderbread
3, Package the Hagelslag in single use non-biodegradable plastic
4. Profit.

 

[Gerald Wilgus]

I don't know which is weirder?
- Durian, the king of fruits. At night markets in Malaysia, there were piles of them for sale. They smell like rotting flesh and you see "No Durian" signs on public buildings and transportation. I liken it to eating peaches and cream in an outhouse.
- Lion Fish Pizza. Lion fish have toxins injected through fin rays and are now invasive in the Caribbean. On Bonaire they decided to eat the invasive Lion Fish and they even have courses on catching and preparing them safely. They are delicious. You can get a lot of preparations of Lion Fish at restaurants there. My favorite is the Lion Fish Pizza with Spinach at Pasa Bon Pizza in Kralendijk.

 

[IXxTchxXI]

Grasshopers with chili powder (very good)

Lamb brain (tastes kinda like butter)

Cow tongue in green salsa (I love this dish)

Cow eye tacos (didn't like it)

Rocky mountain oysters (breaded and deep fried, cooked freshly cut over burning coal, fried with potatoes and onions they're very good)

Pig blood (morcon, I liked it but didn't love it)

Cow stomach, rumen (we call it menudo and it's basically a spicy soup, I like it)

Cow tripe tacos (typical food here where I live, they fry them and they're very, very good)

And that's all I can remember from the top of my head

Strange food I wanna try: escamoles (ant eggs)

 

[Shamar]

Nestle Brand Hagelslag

(recipe for your enjoyment)
1. Create a "compound butter" by mixing sprinkles into margarine.
2. Extrude sprinkle/margarine spread onto benzoyl peroxide treated Wonderbread
3, Package the Hagelslag in single use non-biodegradable plastic
4. Profit.

Some of you may remember a game called The Secret of Monkey Island. In one scene, the main character finds a very peculiar rump roast. I had one when I was in north Borneo. What made it peculiar was that it was the only rump roast I ever had with a prehensile tail. Not bad, really, but not sure if I want to eat another one.

 

[Gerald Wilgus]

Grasshopers with chili powder (very good)

Lamb brain (tastes kinda like butter)

Cow tongue in green salsa (I love this dish)

Cow eye tacos (didn't like it)

Rocky mountain oysters (breaded and deep fried, cooked freshly cut over burning coal, fried with potatoes and onions they're very good)

Pig blood (morcon, I liked it but didn't love it)

Cow stomach, rumen (we call it menudo and it's basically a spicy soup, I like it)

Cow tripe tacos (typical food here where I live, they fry them and they're very, very good)

And that's all I can remember from the top of my head

Strange food I wanna try: escamoles (ant eggs)

I have enjoyed Chapulines in Oaxaca, along with a flavorful sal de Gusano with my Mescal. I had menudo and I enjoyed it with Tepin Chili. One takes the chili and crushes it against the inside of the bowl then discards it . . . it makes the soup fiery hot.

 

[Outdated]

I'm not that adventurous. I've had Goanna and Crocodile but I turned my nose up at Turtle when I was offered it. Literally turned my nose, it smells terrible. Horse meat is really nice. And of course Kangaroo meat is common here, you can even buy it in the supermarkets, but I prefer Wallaby's milder flavour. Magpie Goose is really nice too but it looks a bit funny because the meat is black.

 

[8398]

Gerald and Tch I can't top that. Lionfish pizza and insects!!!

I have had a scorpion lolipop and chocolate covered mealworms. Too much hard chitin.

 

[RemyZee]

Grasshopers with chili powder (very good)

Lamb brain (tastes kinda like butter)

Cow tongue in green salsa (I love this dish)

Cow eye tacos (didn't like it)

Rocky mountain oysters (breaded and deep fried, cooked freshly cut over burning coal, fried with potatoes and onions they're very good)

Pig blood (morcon, I liked it but didn't love it)

Cow stomach, rumen (we call it menudo and it's basically a spicy soup, I like it)

Cow tripe tacos (typical food here where I live, they fry them and they're very, very good)

And that's all I can remember from the top of my head

Strange food I wanna try: escamoles (ant eggs)

Oh my. I think you win.

 

[AuAL]

Fried crickets

Lamb’s brains were a common dish when I was a child, as was tripe. My grandmother also fed us brawn, which was offal - heart, liver and lights (lungs) - boiled and set in aspic. And fried black pudding goes well as part of breakfast. I never thought of any of this as being “weird”; it was just what we ate.

 

[RemyZee]

nooooooooo

 

[Aspychata]

Oh boy. In Finland, blood sausage with linberry jam. Sweet breads at Le E'toile restaurant in Frisco. Oh wait, yeah, in my twenties l agreed to go to dinner, it was raw lobster sushi dinner which was really weird to look at.In Hawaii, you can buy tiny little octopus at Star Market. But they are so smart, l feel guilty eating them. Escargot in butter, it does taste good, but no to frog legs. My boyfriend in Hawaii speared octopus and
slipper lobster which is sweeter then lobster on mainland.

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

Durian
Jackfruit
Durian Smoothie
Avocado Smoothie
Chocolate Covered Ants
Just Regular Ants
Bee Pollen
Royal Jelly
Cricket
Grasshopper
Rattlesnake
Deer
Elk
Reindeer
Moose
Jackrabbit
Bunny Rabbit
Bison
Camel
Alligator
Kangaroo
Horse
Goat
Garlic Ice Cream
Raw Beef
Raw Venison
Raw Lamb
Raw Liver
Tongue (Lengua)
Head Cheese
Homemade Kefir
Kombucha Scoby
Blood Pudding
Invasive and Native Weeds Galore. Basically if it grows wild and it's not gonna kill me, it's food.
Tree Leaves, such as maple, oak, willow, pine needles, etc..
Seaweed
Lichens
Tree Bark and Roots
Sea Urchin
Octopus, Squid, and Cuttlefish
Shark
Swordfish
Snails
Turtle
Bullfrog
Menudo/ Chitlins
Rocky Mountain Oysters
Lots of different organ meats
etc etc etc

 

[AuAL]

@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.

 

[Mary Terry]

I have enjoyed Chapulines in Oaxaca, along with a flavorful sal de Gusano with my Mescal. I had menudo and I enjoyed it with Tepin Chili. One takes the chili and crushes it against the inside of the bowl then discards it . . . it makes the soup fiery hot.

I have some dried chiltepine chilis from Mexico that are so hot that I use just one or two, crushed, in Mexican food. I like hot, spicy food but those little things can be deadly!

 

[Mary Terry]

I don't know which is weirder?
- Durian, the king of fruits. At night markets in Malaysia, there were piles of them for sale. They smell like rotting flesh and you see "No Durian" signs on public buildings and transportation. I liken it to eating peaches and cream in an outhouse.
- Lion Fish Pizza. Lion fish have toxins injected through fin rays and are now invasive in the Caribbean. On Bonaire they decided to eat the invasive Lion Fish and they even have courses on catching and preparing them safely. They are delicious. You can get a lot of preparations of Lion Fish at restaurants there. My favorite is the Lion Fish Pizza with Spinach at Pasa Bon Pizza in Kralendijk.

I've eaten lionfish many times. It's pretty common on restaurant menus along the Gulf of Mexico. Tasty!

 

[Gerald Wilgus]

I have some dried chiltepine chilis from Mexico that are so hot that I use just one or two, crushed, in Mexican food. I like hot, spicy food but those little things can be deadly!

I really was amazed at the variety of chilis in Oaxaca. A favorite of mine is Pasilla Oaxaqueño. I had that menudo at an outdoor diner when I visited the workshop of Jacobo y Maria Angeles in San Martin Tilcajete. Visiting Oaxaca was a feast for the senses.

Your answer about Lionfish is how we can manage invasives . . . by eating them.

 

[TBRS1]

Moldy chickpeas, commonly known as "tempeh."

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

 

[maleonolo]

Do dried mushrooms from the supermarket grow if you water them and plant them in soil?

 

[Judge]

LOL. I was born far too picky an eater to eat anything that might be considered "weird".

I know. Bite me.

 

[TBRS1]

Do dried mushrooms from the supermarket grow if you water them and plant them in soil?

Kindda, but not really.

You CAN make zombie mushrooms, if you are careful and lucky. Dried mushrooms will start growing again if they were gently dried (no heat) and the grower is willing to have a 90% failure rate.

But you can't usually just stick them in the garden. This is done on sterile petri dishes.

Fresh mushroom trim (the parts one cuts off before cooking) will often grow & fruit when tossed into the compost pile, though.