Weird Food you have eaten

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  1. LeanMan profile image72
    LeanManposted 14 years ago

    I am still craving for a Bacon Buttie as they are illegal where I am, I could be deported for owning one, unless I ate the evidence..

    Anyway, what is the strangest food you have eaten;

    I've eaten Kangaroo, ostrich, crocodile, snake(not sure about variety), zebra, and wildebeast to name a few...

  2. tobey100 profile image61
    tobey100posted 14 years ago

    Ant eggs and monkey.
    Not too bad really

  3. Betty Reid profile image61
    Betty Reidposted 14 years ago

    spam ice cream

    1. LeanMan profile image72
      LeanManposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      True Monty Python food....

      Was it good???

  4. TheGlassSpider profile image65
    TheGlassSpiderposted 14 years ago

    I've eaten alligator...dove...squirrel. All kinds of cheeses with rinds and such (which some consider strange).

    My grandfather swore I used to eat cow brains scrambled in eggs with him when I was a very young child (i.e. less than five years old). I have no memory of this though, and can't imagine that I would have been okay with eating brains - sounds pretty nasty to me, at least now. I didn't totally believe that you could get them! He said you could order them from the butcher. *shrug* Maybe someone else knows more about that? He says I ate froglegs with him once as well, which I can believe.

    1. LeanMan profile image72
      LeanManposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Any symptoms of mad cow??

      My ex-wife used to swear by whole pigs heads - eyes, brains, the lot... I could not even watch (sorry if anyone just visualised this..)

      1. TheGlassSpider profile image65
        TheGlassSpiderposted 14 years agoin reply to this

        Goodness...I don't know! What ARE symptoms of mad cow!? I'm still alive...this would have been over 20 years ago. LOL

        1. LeanMan profile image72
          LeanManposted 14 years agoin reply to this

          Not sure what the symptoms are...udders and talking bull??

          I thought spiders ate flies, how do they taste??

          1. TheGlassSpider profile image65
            TheGlassSpiderposted 14 years agoin reply to this

            LOL...well, I can talk bull, but I always thought that was a talent, not a symptom.

            As to flies: It depends on what they've eaten. wink

  5. Obscure Divine profile image61
    Obscure Divineposted 14 years ago

    Some of the strangest stuff we consume, may be hidden in our bologna, hot dogs, potted meat, vienna sausages, etc.  Who knows just "what all" is actually in there?  yikes

    1. manlypoetryman profile image81
      manlypoetrymanposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      UUUrp...yeah...something really doesn't look right with vienna sausages...let alone...what may be in them hot dogs!

    2. LeanMan profile image72
      LeanManposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      I remeber an email I recieved years ago with pictures of two guys sat out the back of a restaurant butchering rats to make them look like bits of chicken...

      My ex also used to work in a sausage and pie factory, she always told me not to eat them!!!!

  6. manlypoetryman profile image81
    manlypoetrymanposted 14 years ago

    Cat Fryes = Oklahoma (really...don't need to explain that one...think of all the parts of a Cow's anatomy you see at a butcher shop...and the ones you don't. Yep...it's those...?!Needless to say...for me it was just a sample...some folks were going back for seconds and thirds...Yikes!)
    Bullfrog legs=Louisiana (probably not that weird to the locals)
    Timber Rattlesnake=North Carolina (taste like chicken...but then so does everything when you try to describe it...right? lol)
    Reindeer = Norway...(probably not too unusual from venison...but try buying it at the supermarket in the U.S.)
    Flowers=Costa Rica (don't know what kind of flower it was...but they were good with eggs!)
    A Goldfish=College Party...back in the day...Thank God...I don't remember what it taste like hmm)

    That's all I can think of...and these are plenty enough!

    Do they really have chocolate covered ants, and do they eat big bugs, and monkey brains in some places...? Yikes!

  7. Lymond profile image64
    Lymondposted 14 years ago

    oh definitely the rotten shark, marinated for two months in beach sand and seawater. Visit Iceland, its the local delicacy. Apparently, opening the tub on Icelandic Air violates their carriage rules.

  8. CrystalStarWoman profile image57
    CrystalStarWomanposted 14 years ago

    Maybe you should change the title of this topic to "Weird dead animals you have eaten"...?

    1. LeanMan profile image72
      LeanManposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      still waiting for the vegetarian version.....

      I ate a daffodil flower once... found out afterwards that the stem is poisonous, glad I only ate the yellow pretty bit..

  9. mega1 profile image77
    mega1posted 14 years ago

    I haven't eaten many weird things that I remember - once in awhile a fly, but not on purpose.   I had beans n ham for lunch.  had it for dinner last night and lunch yesterday. Had it for breakfast on Sunday and dinner Saturday night. I can't keep any friends for long.

  10. habee profile image93
    habeeposted 14 years ago

    Rattlesnake and gator tail.

  11. profile image0
    Crazdwriterposted 14 years ago

    let's see...a lot of different kind of animal in jerky like alligator, bison, pheasant, etc.

    then I tried two millworms

    and when I was younger I ate chips that fell into car grease big_smile Yes I am werid what can I say...also tried an ant once..they are nasty!

  12. Hmrjmr1 profile image68
    Hmrjmr1posted 14 years ago

    vietnam - Dog rice Stew, laos - Monkey brain

  13. profile image0
    PrettyPantherposted 14 years ago

    I haven't personally eaten anything that weird, but my fiance' has eaten pig's blood soup and monkey testicles. 

    {{{{{shudder}}}}}

    1. mega1 profile image77
      mega1posted 14 years agoin reply to this

      and you still feel like kissing him?

      1. profile image0
        PrettyPantherposted 14 years agoin reply to this

        LOL!  Well, it was many years ago....

  14. Hmrjmr1 profile image68
    Hmrjmr1posted 14 years ago

    Rocky Mountain Oyster are good sliced and fried

  15. Hmrjmr1 profile image68
    Hmrjmr1posted 14 years ago

    beside eatin that stuff guys like us do lots of other fun stuff with food too

    1. profile image0
      PrettyPantherposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Yes, well, you know, if a man is adventurous about food, he's probably adventurous about other things too.  wink

      1. Hmrjmr1 profile image68
        Hmrjmr1posted 14 years agoin reply to this

        worked for me cool heh heh

  16. goldenpath profile image67
    goldenpathposted 14 years ago

    I had poi when I was in Hawaii.  It is revolting.  It is wrong.  It is the epitamy of evil.  It is thrust regurgitation from the bowels of death.  It's a disgrace to be created, let alone digested, underneath the American flag.  It must be burned at the stake! sad

    1. Hmrjmr1 profile image68
      Hmrjmr1posted 14 years agoin reply to this

      poi?? I thought it was good Are we thinking of the same thing its just taro root paste, pretty bland by itself.

      1. goldenpath profile image67
        goldenpathposted 14 years agoin reply to this

        I had it when stationed there.  Bland is the word!  Perhaps I ate it wrong or with the wrong thing, but the way I did take it was an abomination. sad

        1. profile image0
          Crazdwriterposted 14 years agoin reply to this

          Hey golden you should have tried it with some juicy pork. that is what made it so darn good.

  17. _cheryl_ profile image83
    _cheryl_posted 14 years ago

    Wow, some interesting answers here! I'm a big chicken when it comes to trying different foods. However, my mother-in-law has eaten possum...I've been at (filipino) parties where they were cooking goat meat. Not a great aroma at all...so I couldn't ever bring myself to tasting it. LOL!

    1. LeanMan profile image72
      LeanManposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      I think goat depends how it is cooked.. Eaten it several times, more taste than mutton or lamb..
      As to the filipino parties... pigs intestines with pigs blood, cant't remember what they call it, but I could not force myself to try it..

  18. earnestshub profile image71
    earnestshubposted 14 years ago

    Apart from some pretty weird food when travelling in South East Asia like tiny little spicy bony fish, I have eaten Kangaroo, witchetty grubs, snake and field mice in Australia.

    1. LeanMan profile image72
      LeanManposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      How was the field mouse? I think the edible field mouse is now on the endangered list in the UK..

      1. earnestshub profile image71
        earnestshubposted 14 years agoin reply to this

        The field mice were sweet, not gamey. I think they are endangered here now. I hope I did not contribute too much to that! lol

        1. LeanMan profile image72
          LeanManposted 14 years agoin reply to this

          Not tried them, do you eat them whole with the bones??

          As to the edanged.. they should learn to run faster... Survival of the fitest and all that..

  19. ddsurfsca profile image70
    ddsurfscaposted 14 years ago

    I have eaten squirrel, bear, elk, deer, goat, donkey, rabbit, and possibly dog, not sure what it was

    1. LeanMan profile image72
      LeanManposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Sounds like a list of road kill.... was it????

      Waste not want not..............

 
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