What's the weirdest thing you've eaten?

[E1am]

After reading about that Sardinian cheeze with maggots, casu marzu, in Ober's resurected Bison thread I figured I'd ask you guys this question. If I'm ever in Italy I'm going out of my way to try that stuff. I'm always up for a challenge. Here's my list:

Japan: Raw chicken, raw liver, raw pig testicles, grasshoppers, live sashimi (the fish's tail was still moving), natto (rotten soy beans)

Laos: Fresh raw duck blood with roast duck meat, peanuts, and greens mixed in

Korea: Dog stew, steamed silk worms

Mongolia: Drank fermented horse milk (actualy don't think it's all that strange but a lot of other people seem to)

[YeLLa-TiGeR]

ox tail soup (if you think its weird)

raw crab fermented in soy sauce

dried cow dick (beef jerky)

[Ryu (non-working password]

Crayons...

I win

Ryu

[YeLLa-TiGeR]

oh some things that ARENT food....
Windex
pepper spray
I tried to eat a bullet couple of times

[Oberleutnant]

E1: you've got balls... I wouldn't have touched most of the stuff you mentioned. (I dig natto tho, and sashimi, when it's not moving!)

I haven't really eaten anything "out there"...est cargo is the "wildest," but it isn't that wild I guess.

[EJ]

Ober...

Go to the Rustlers Roost in the Tempe area. The specialty is RATTLESNAKE!!!

It tastes like chicken.... YUM!!!

[SweepEm]

Reports from my brother and sister, they told me that when I was young, I used to eat all kinds of things around the yard, bugs, dirt, leaves...etc.

But as an adult, I haven't been in the position to eat many unusal delicacies except at a sushi bar, and that isn't very exotic these days.

I do try exotic dishes, but well, I haven't done much traveling and nothing out of the country, so I haven't eaten any maggots, horse, dog, cat, snake...etc.
(at least, I haven't eaten any of those meats knowingly)

I've even given up beef.
Where's Da Beef?
Not on my plate.

[Oberleutnant]

Oh wait I remember! Once while I was swimming years ago, after a sustained dive I came up to the surface gasping for air and inadvertently swallowed a swimming cockroach along with a mouthfull of pool water. Then it happened again a few years later...ugh!

EJ: I'd have no qualms about eating snake! But I've heard it's kinda pricey? Then again, the name "rustler's roost"...I don't dig redneck restauwrawnts :P

[bobby_steeles]

ober, why are you swimming with cockroaches?

and how the HELL can anybody eat a cow dick?!

[Trust]

When I was in Malaysia one day I went to lunch at an open air hawkers market. The Malaysian engineers I went with told me to just walk around and get whatever looked good. Well, nothing looked good, and the place, to me, stank.

Finally I saw one guy cooking what appeared to be some kind of stir-fry with veggies and beef. So I pointed at what he was cooking and held up one finger. He gave me a dish and charged me the equivalent of about $1.50 US. I went back to the table where the other guys were eating. They took one look at what I got and said "you gonna eat THAT?". Being the clueless American I am, and confident I had made the right choice, I said "sure" and took a mouthfull. Everything was fine until I got to a piece of the "meat".

I don't know what the hell it was, but it was NOT beef. I think it was some kind of fermented yak organ or something. I spit it out and staved off a gag reflex. The other guys sort of laughed, but were polite about it. They tried to translate what it was I had just (almost) eaten, but when I saw them having trouble coming up with a nice way of saying it, I just told them I didn't want to know.

[Edited by Trust on 10-18-2000 at 12:44 PM]

[YeLLa-TiGeR]

I had no idea it was cow dick. I just thought it was normal beef jerky. It was a a bit too tender for jerky though.