What's the weirdest thing you ever ate?

[mbhandy]

being what many think the quintessential Hillbilly i've ate a few things such as rattlesnake and Raccoon. I eat sushi on a semi regular basis and have tried some things most people would consider to be just Guts.

That is just Haggis.

MrBill

[MacGuffin]

I would have to say the weirdest thing I have ever eaten is a tie between beef tongue tacos or lambs tongues (slow cooked with veggies).

[Downunder Kilt]

Originally Posted by CDNSushi
And one thing I've always wanted to try, being a coffee lover, is kopi luwak (affectionately known as civet-s**t coffee) Raw coffee berries are fed to a specific breed of civet, allowed to pass through its digestive system, then harvested and roasted. My local specialty coffee shop sells vacuum-packed bags of the stuff, but at $50 for a 50g bag, it's STEEP!


Having just returned from Bali CDNSushi, I happen to have 1kg of the said product (well a little less since have 2 - 3 cups a day of it.) Cost to local Balinese is around A$3.50 per 100g, which is the same for me as I have my balinese friends buy it for me. Cost to tourists is A$10.00 per 100g

[CDNSushi]

Having just returned from Bali CDNSushi, I happen to have 1kg of the said product (well a little less since have 2 - 3 cups a day of it.) Cost to local Balinese is around A$3.50 per 100g, which is the same for me as I have my balinese friends buy it for me. Cost to tourists is A$10.00 per 100g

Wow! Gratz on being able to acquire it so inexpensively!

[Dixiecat]

What we consider weird is personal perspective of course, but I can offer:

In Newfoundland:
cod tongues
tootons
caribou
moose
murre (Newfoundlanders call these sea birds turrs)
flipper pie (seal)

In the US:
alligator (tastes like chicken!)
crawdad (omg, sooooo good eaten fresh out of the paper bag while sitting on the curb people watching)

In Tunisia:
blebi (hot broth on bread with fresh egg, tuna, chili powder)
lambs head

I no longer consider sushi strange as there's almost 20(!) sushi restaurants or stalls in Halifax.

[sydnie7]

I'm not an adventuresome eater, altho raised with occasional game courtesy of my hunting grandfather (venison, pheasant, duck, and a freezer full of moose memorable mostly for the fact that its low fat content meant you chewed. . . and chewed. . . and chewed some more. . .). During business trips to Tokyo in the late '80s/early '90s, I mostly survived on beer and the granola bars that I would pack along and devour upon returning to the hotel after "dinner."

I lived in east San Jose, CA in the mid-'70s. The local Ralphs grocery not only had a wide selection of Mirassou wines, being just a few miles from the winery, but also catered to the local Latino population. I thought it was really funny to see lamb's heads, chicken feet, and the like carefully arranged on a white styrofoam tray, covered in plastic, and priced with a computer label just like my packages of hamburger and pork chops.

During that same time, one of my sisters remarried to a fellow she met through our Triumph sports car club. James likes to explore the deserts of the Southwest, dry camping and checking out old mining and military sites. When he introduced Lorie to all this fun, their typical menu was out-of-date C-rats. For their wedding, I went through the food section at Cost Plus -- which was quite exotic for its time -- and collected every bizarre canned or jarred item available. The two I remember are reindeer meatballs in gravy and baby bees in soy sauce. I think they sampled most everything but the only feedback I recall is that the meatballs were "greasy."

During the '90s and early '00s I volunteered at what used to be called Recording for the Blind. We mostly worked on textbooks but would record pretty much anything that a user requested. One such tome was a Transylvanian cookbook. I worked on the "variety meats" chapter where each recipe began with "Take the heart, lungs, and kidneys of a young lamb. . ." and went on to cook everything in copious amounts of goose grease. All sauces were "finished" with a quarter-pound of butter. I could feel my arteries clogging as I read it!

So -- nothing stranger than hard-boiled quail eggs in Tokyo and a really icky bite of calimari in Solvang, but plenty of stories about other people's taste!

[Mickey]

cod tongues
tootons

crawdad (omg, sooooo good eaten fresh out of the paper bag while sitting on the curb people watching)

I've cooked up my own duck tongues, but never heard of cod tongue. What is it like? Anything comparable? And what the HEY is a tooton?

crawdads is normal food in our house. Nothing like a good old fashioned Sunday crawdad boil!

[Bugbear]

I have a large sack of chicken feet in the freezer. I plan on roasting a few some time soon.

[The Thing]

Baby ducks inside the eggs and fried crickets.

[Cowher]

Ok so today I was given cynar. I don't know anything more than it's Italian and it's retched. It tastes like old dumpster juice.