Strangest Foods

This has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with coins. If it's not acceptable thread than a mod can go ahead and delete it. But I'm bored (and mildly drunk), sooooo.... Free discussion forum, right? What's the strangest foods you've eaten?

Scorpion, tarantula, and these huge 2 inch water bugs (those were really gross, the others were ok)...


Third from the end tray has Boa Constrictor. Kinda tasted like pork.


Crocodile. Have had alligator as well in the past.


"Cuy" from Peru. I really want some here in the USA, but I don't think Pet Smart would like me grilling up their Guinea Pigs. But they're really delicious.


Things I don't have pictures of, jellyfish, fish eyeballs (kinda taste like rice but more sticky), lama, alpaca (super delicious), ants, crickets, snails, rabbit (cottontail and jack rabbit are very different actually), cat (never had dog though), horse, squirrel, raccoon, rattlesnake, bear

First off, its free discussion, so this is fair game.

Second, you're weird

Third, I would like to try all those things...
Except cat

I studied survival in the wilderness in high-school. We ate a lot of stuff, just about every edible plant, wood snails, snake, beaver, mice.
I set up dead fall traps for chipmunks, but all I got was mouse, and you cook what you kill, especially when you're hungry.

Citeer: "redsmithstudios"​Second, your weird
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​Third, I would like to try all those things...
​ Except cat

​Yes that is true, I am weird.

But also it was bobcat, not domestic. The 4 years I lived in Nevada, I spent a week each winter in the Gold Butte area, there was this old trapper who camped nearby, he caught fox and coyote (neither of which are particularly edible) and also bobcat. So he'd give me the meat and I'd cook up a stew for us for when he got back to camp. I spent most of the days going after Rabbit and quail, sometime fishing and sometimes just beating my jeep on the rocks. But never the 18 hours a day he spent on his trap lines so I'd have time to cook up some stew. It was funny, he grew up 15 miles from me in South Carolina, just 40 years earlier

I guess if I'm going to have Rednek as my screen name, can you get much better picture than this?

Beaver and mice, never eaten those. What's beaver taste like? But mice, I usually pick them up and try to befriend them, especially those little round ones, they're the tiny less than 1 inch ones, so cute.

Great photo, I'm guessing you had some method to shoot three rabbits a the same time with all those guns? I've only ever managed one shotgun at a time

Rabbit is on my top five best meats.

Beaver must be prepared correctly, you have to cut out some glands, if not it taints the meat. I am nt sure how this is done, so my meat tasted terrible.

Bobcat I might try, especially if I was living in the bush, thanks for that story, got any more form your time with a trapper?

When I was in East Asia (Singapore) I remember this once they had grilled scorpions and locusts on sticks; I would've tried some, but I wasn't willing to pay the price they were asking to eat bugs, so at least I tried (kind of), right?



(All the pictures online I can find are from China, so maybe I saw them in Hong Kong or Shanghai instead?)

Citeer: "redsmithstudios"​Great photo, I'm guessing you had some method to shoot three rabbits a the same time with all those guns? I've only ever managed one shotgun at a time
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​ Rabbit is on my top five best meats.
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​ Beaver must be prepared correctly, you have to cut out some glands, if not it taints the meat. I am nt sure how this is done, so my meat tasted terrible.
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​ Bobcat I might try, especially if I was living in the bush, thanks for that story, got any more form your time with a trapper?

​I was out there with a friend, the shotgun leaning on the bumper was his. And the gun on my back is a .22 not a shotgun, if we spotted one at distance was much preferable to use that over a shotgun. So no, not three rabbits at one time!

Bobcat also has a gland in the back of the leg that has to be removed before cooking. And I'm in TN now, not NV so I can't get you any from him.

Are those sea horse on a stick? What do they taste like?

I haven't been to any exotic countries yet, so the most unusual thing I've ever eaten is raw mince meat called 'filet americain'.

Citeer: "sc.rednek"​Are those sea horse on a stick? What do they taste like?

​I wouldn't know, I haven't tasted them either.

This summer i went to Scotland where i ate "haggis" which was surprisingly delicious, but you'd better not know what's inside.

In Belgium there are intestines, they are washed (hopefully), cook on the bbq and eaten. I won't say the name of the meal because it is raw walloon and while looking on the internet I'm not even finding a spot of this name lol. I'm not a huge fan of this meal.

Also I ate sheep brain once. Taste is okay, but the feeling in your mouth is awkward when you chew.

Maybe not too weird but i also ate kangaroo and ostrich once, as well as snails (i'm eating this several times a year, for special occasions, it's good with garlic sauce. Once my father also caught some of them in the garden, it takes a lot of time to prepare them by yourself but that's good), frogs or mealworms.

Not me, but back in the 39-45 war, my great-grandmother cooked rats because of necessity. She also said that some people were eating cats but she didn't. Well, that's not really about cooking anymore but more like just surviving.

But well, these meals are still far more acceptable than what you are showing us sc.rednek.

Snails, snakes, coffee + tea (we call it yin-yang), chicken feet, bird's nest soup (which is a swallow or some other bird's saliva), turtle jelly, shark fin (I've tried once but quit when I was small for the benefit of the environment), pig intestines, pretty much any chicken/cow intestines, pig blood, thousand year eggs, etc.

Here in Finland we have a few

"almost strange foods" (The laatikot,
karjalanpiirakka, kalakukko, runeberg torte, korvapuusti and blood sossage)

"strange foods" (different versions of salmiakki, liver laatikko, sima and leipäjuusto (squeaky cheese thing),

and

"why do you eat that -foods" (Mämmi, wood tar candies, reindeer, black liquorice youghurt and cockroach bread)

And finally, what you MUST taste, really weird but good: mignon (easter) eggs! They are 90% real almond-hazelnut nougat in a REAL eggshell. And a sugar button on the top on the place where it was filled.

so i guess you all have a good reason to travel to Finland in the easter. Buy a thousand of mignon eggs and then travel back to where you live. Unique and tasty.
Also if you happen to visit Finland, eat a couple of runeberg tortes. Buy 2 korvapuustis. And eat a whole liter of salmakki youghurt. Or salmiakki koskenkorva.

Y'all may have much weirder ones, but no one else has got a chicken egg filled with chocolate.

Rednecks... The closest to the bizarre I tried was Alligator when I was down in New Orleans.

Quite some strange delicacies in Iceland when I went a few years ago.

People usually refer to it as rotten shark, which is not correct, it's fremented and then spends a few months drying out so it seems like it's rotting during the process

sheep's head-it literally is a sheep's head, apparently you eat everything except the brain

ram's testicles-no further explanation for that.

I think they're cutting down on the puffin consumption but I think you can still eat them.

Blood pudding is basically an Icelandic version of haggis, it's usually an appetizer for your sheep's head

And there's some god-awful alcohol called Brennivin which I think means black death, and then an alcohol called Opal, which is supposedly based off some kind of candy they have. It basically tastes like cough drop with an aftertaste of cough syrup.

I grew up in he North of England so strange food is pretty ordinary fare for me. I remember very well the great smell coming from a large pan boiling away in my grandmother's kitchen, with a sheep's head in it. We lived three miles north of Bury, the black pudding capital of the world. I quite enjoy it fried as a breakfast meat but never could get the taste for it boiled. There are street vendors selling it hot and ready to eat on market days. It's a great way to keep your hands warm on a cold winter's day. Tripe was very popular despite being the lining of a cow's stomach eaten raw. The white variety is easy enough to get down with lots of black pepper and malt vinegar but the strongly flavoured dark brown types I don't care for. If you're feeling very adventurous look up "sweetmeats".

I've had frog's legs and yeah, they really do taste like chicken. Also pigeon at an Egyptian wedding. In general though I try to avoid anything which might give me leprosy or cause me to puke. I tried crawdads but just couldn't get over their similarity to roaches. I reckon if food became scarce I'd have to rethink matters but until then I'll take the Porterhouse steak thanks.

I do like learning primitive skills and the whole idea of self reliance so I'm a member of a few bushcraft and survivalist communities. Quite apart from a knife fetishism which I just don't get, there an obsession amongst many for eating bugs. I seem to have made myself somewhat unwelcome by pointing out old Indian proverb - "man who eats bugs, shitty hunter". I remember a classic reply - "if things ever get that bad, the woods are going to be full of chubby city boys. They taste like chicken and you can make them squeal like a pig." Deliverance on steroids eh?

Barack Obama ate my cat. He was staying about 1/2 mile away at the Biltmore during the 2012 campaign when our lovely old tomcat Mitzy disappeared. Coincidence? I don't think so.

Citeer: "pnightingale"​I grew up in he North of England so strange food is pretty ordinary fare for me. I remember very well the great smell coming from a large pan boiling away in my grandmother's kitchen, with a sheep's head in it. We lived three miles north of Bury, the black pudding capital of the world. I quite enjoy it fried as a breakfast meat but never could get the taste for it boiled. There are street vendors selling it hot and ready to eat on market days. It's a great way to keep your hands warm on a cold winter's day. Tripe was very popular despite being the lining of a cow's stomach eaten raw. The white variety is easy enough to get down with lots of black pepper and malt vinegar but the strongly flavoured dark brown types I don't care for. If you're feeling very adventurous look up "sweetmeats".
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​I've had frog's legs and yeah, they really do taste like chicken. Also pigeon at an Egyptian wedding. In general though I try to avoid anything which might give me leprosy or cause me to puke. I tried crawdads but just couldn't get over their similarity to roaches. I reckon if food became scarce I'd have to rethink matters but until then I'll take the Porterhouse steak thanks.
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​I do like learning primitive skills and the whole idea of self reliance so I'm a member of a few bushcraft and survivalist communities. Quite apart from a knife fetishism which I just don't get, there an obsession amongst many for eating bugs. I seem to have made myself somewhat unwelcome by pointing out old Indian proverb - "man who eats bugs, shitty hunter". I remember a classic reply - "if things ever get that bad, the woods are going to be full of chubby city boys. They taste like chicken and you can make them squeal like a pig." Deliverance on steroids eh?
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​Barack Obama ate my cat. He was staying about 1/2 mile away at the Biltmore during the 2012 campaign when our lovely old tomcat Mitzy disappeared. Coincidence? I don't think so.
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​Obama eats like...well...everything he finds. Obama has eaten many dogs too.

This is just gross! feeling a bit queasy now...

This thread reminds me of an old one you might like!
https://en.numista.com/forum/topic21167.html

Citeer: "Tovarich"​Quite some strange delicacies in Iceland when I went a few years ago.
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​People usually refer to it as rotten shark, which is not correct, it's fremented and then spends a few months drying out so it seems like it's rotting during the process
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​sheep's head-it literally is a sheep's head, apparently you eat everything except the brain
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​ram's testicles-no further explanation for that.
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​I think they're cutting down on the puffin consumption but I think you can still eat them.
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​Blood pudding is basically an Icelandic version of haggis, it's usually an appetizer for your sheep's head
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​And there's some god-awful alcohol called Brennivin which I think means black death, and then an alcohol called Opal, which is supposedly based off some kind of candy they have. It basically tastes like cough drop with an aftertaste of cough syrup.

​here in India ,(at least in my region )
sheep's brain is a delicacy.
Sheep's blood is prepared (l don't know the process )and eaten in solid form
squid's tentacles are also enjoyed here

Here in Spain we eat pretty weird things. Rabbit and snails are par for the course, along octupus. Then we have what is called "casquería": sheep's brains, bull's testicles, cow and goat's tripes, cow's tongue, pig's kidneys and liver, and I could go on.

Citeer: "fryant"​Here in Spain we eat pretty weird things. Rabbit and snails are par for the course, along octupus. Then we have what is called "casquería": sheep's brains, bull's testicles, cow and goat's tripes, cow's tongue, pig's kidneys and liver, and I could go on.

​octopus, squid, brains, blood, etc are pretty normal in "odd" dishes all over the world I've found. I try to avoid (successfully so far) kidney and testicles. Never had tripe though, I'd give it a try.

The only strange thing I had in Spain was at a tapas place in Barcelona, I forget what it was called but it had little baby eels on top.


Another thing I've never seen in America is these sitting out in bars. Not really a "weird" food, but we Americans prefer everything processed and packaged and not looking like a whole animal part. And we have a thing about ham being all pre-cooked and stuff, a ridiculous fear of trichinosis.

But, perhaps the most disgusting food ever, water chestnuts. Absolutely gross, just thinking about them makes me want to vomit

Not important, but I would like to add:
Ice cream and jelly! (ones with gelatin)
And well...Gelatin is made of...
pig brain, bones, skin and organs.
Jello is a weird food, I guess

Reading through this thread is honestly making me more hungry than repulsed. I guess it's the adventurer in me!

Certain cheap donuts even have E910
Human hair.

So, let me present to you, salty liquorice donut. Weird stuff from Finland.

I would the the strangest food I ever ate was alligator. It wasn't bad tasting.

Cow tongue, intestines, and head cheese can be found if you can locate the truly authentic Mexican restaurant. The restaurant where no one speaks English and when you walk in the door, everyone stops to look at you and wonder if some gringos got lost, they certainly were not expecting you. If cow tongue is cooked well it tast like the most flavorful tender roast beef!

Citeer: "redsmithstudios"​Cow tongue, intestines, and head cheese can be found if you can locate the truly authentic Mexican restaurant. The restaurant where no one speaks English and when you walk in the door, everyone stops to look at you and wonder if some gringos got lost, they certainly were not expecting you. If cow tongue is cooked well it tast like the most flavorful tender roast beef!

​There is a Mexican place in a gas station here in Tenessee that has cow tongue and intestines tacos. Haven't tried it. The weirdest thing that I have had is an oyster. Yuk, slimy and tasteless. Don't know why anyone would like them. But they definitely weren't fresh, so...

It's a long cry from spuds and mince!

Citeer: "nthn"​

Citeer: "redsmithstudios"​Cow tongue, intestines, and head cheese can be found if you can locate the truly authentic Mexican restaurant. The restaurant where no one speaks English and when you walk in the door, everyone stops to look at you and wonder if some gringos got lost, they certainly were not expecting you. If cow tongue is cooked well it tast like the most flavorful tender roast beef!

​​There is a Mexican place in a gas station here in Tenessee that has cow tongue and intestines tacos. Haven't tried it. The weirdest thing that I have had is an oyster. Yuk, slimy and tasteless. Don't know why anyone would like them. But they definitely weren't fresh, so...

​You've got to try the cow tongue, trust me!

Citeer: "sc.rednek"​

Citeer: "fryant"​Here in Spain we eat pretty weird things. Rabbit and snails are par for the course, along octupus. Then we have what is called "casquería": sheep's brains, bull's testicles, cow and goat's tripes, cow's tongue, pig's kidneys and liver, and I could go on.

​​octopus, squid, brains, blood, etc are pretty normal in "odd" dishes all over the world I've found. I try to avoid (successfully so far) kidney and testicles. Never had tripe though, I'd give it a try.
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​The only strange thing I had in Spain was at a tapas place in Barcelona, I forget what it was called but it had little baby eels on top.
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​Those are called "angulas", and they are supposed to be a delicacy. You ca eat them raw or grilled, and they are pretty good, especially grilled with some garlic.

Citeer ​​Those are called "angulas", and they are supposed to be a delicacy. You ca eat them raw or grilled, and they are pretty good, especially grilled with some garlic.

​They are delicious, I think I had 4 of them that night.