DiningBuzz! - What is the weirdest thing you've ever tried?

And please don't say oyster or sea urchin or Mickey D's fries with mayo. I'm talking about real stuff here.

Mine is liquor soaked with rats. Yup. It's a healing drink in China. I was young and I didn't see the jar and was given to me by my grandpa. And compared to that, snake liquor seems like nothing. Whatever didn't kill me makes me strong. :)

What's yours?

cow brains...before the mad cow stuff.

Relatively minor stuff in my case:

Rattlesnake
Alligator
Rocky Mountain Oysters
Durian

Fernet Branca.

Grilled goat udder.

It was delicious :eek:

An unopened nepenthe Ventricosa trap.

Live maggots

(My Dad took me fishing when I was very little and showed them to me. Apparantly I was very quick:))

Rattlesnake
Armadillo
Pickled mangoes (the worst of the three by far)

A plastic picnic fork (by the way of a drunken bet). Not the worst thing I have tasted...

Cheers,
T.

I eat dog from time to time and ate a balut (duck abortion) one time when I was too drunk to care. In Thailand I ate some insect street food also.

Bull testicle.

I was a little kid and my Mom told me to eat it. So I've only been told I've had them.

OP's title is misleading.

After reading the complete post. I learned he meant: "What's the wierdest substance you've ingested??

Answer: Stuff I purchased on the streets of HK and BKK.

BTW this would be my answer if the question referred to non-food.

I eat dog from time to time and ate a balut (duck abortion) one time when I was too drunk to care. In Thailand I ate some insect street food also.


A friend on mine had Balut in the Philippines, it looks pretty terrible: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balut

Fish head curry

OP's title is misleading.

After reading the complete post. I learned he meant: "What's the wierdest substance you've ingested??

Answer: Stuff I purchased on the streets of HK and BKK.

BTW this would be my answer if the question referred to non-food.

in HK the worst you can get is flavored flour.
try china. ha ha ha. rotten rats mixed with overdue lotus seed paste.. ewww...

Whale meat. Kind of like raw bacon but fattier, with a fishy taste.

in HK the worst you can get is flavored flour.
. In 1982?

Not a wierd food, but a weird combination: a few months ago hubby and I enjoyed a tasting menu at a D.C. restaurant. One of the items was presented to us with the suggestion that we eat it all in one bite. One of those large ceramic spoons, like a chinese soup spoon containing a piece of white chocolate, a little trout roe, and some grated fresh wasabe. Upon putting it in my mouth, I said "wow!" out loud. The white chocolate was warm and soft, and together the flavors were pretty interesting.

I eat dog from time to time and ate a balut (duck abortion) one time when I was too drunk to care. In Thailand I ate some insect street food also.


Balut for me, too. I had that while drinking in Boracay. Wasn't so bad. I've tried various snails, worms etc. in Asia. Alligator meat in the south, but that doesn't really seem so exotic to me. I tried Rocky Mountain Oysters, actually prepared as a soup. And my all time favorite, squirrel brain.

Carbon paper.

Glass pipet, on a dare.

There was a vegetarian Buddist place in chinatown in SF where they tried to make tofo/wheat gluten items to resemble meat items.They dye the thiings is outrageously bright hues.It was prtty horrible.
Did try a 1000 year egg-disgusting I promptly rushed to the toilet and vomited.

Did try a 1000 year egg-disgusting I promptly rushed to the toilet and vomited.

That's basically a spoiled egg that has been preserved, right? I've seen that but have never felt tempted to try it. I'd probably give it a try if I was drunk. :cool:

Witchetty grubs in central Australia. Almost edible when cooked if you are hungry enough but raw, they are extraordinarily unpleasant.
I've eaten snake, which is fine, also honey ants which are nice.

Rated from 1-5 stars

1) Kyrgyzstan: Kumis, fermented mare's milk. 0 stars

2) Chile: Ñachi, cuagulated fresh blood from a lamb. 4 stars

3) Uzbekistan: grilled sheep's brains. 3 stars

4) Kazahkstan: Kurdaik, roasted sheep innards. 3 stars

5) Thailand: tiet cahn, raw blood soup from ducks. 2 stars

6) S. Korea: boshintang, dog soup. 0 stars

Guinea pig.

Sheep testicles in Shiraz, Iran. I thought those things in the deli/butcher case were :eek: eye balls, got the second word right! Only one bite but that was 30 years ago.

I love Morton Bay Bugs. Yummy.

Grilled octopus leg (pretty chewy, about a meter long) in Korea.
Dog -- though unconsciously, it's really like very tender beef.

Anybody had Durian on a plane??? :p

That's basically a spoiled egg that has been preserved, right? I've seen that but have never felt tempted to try it. I'd probably give it a try if I was drunk. :cool:

No, they're not spoiled. 1000 year old egg is just preserved duck eggs. They are not really 1000 year old, and not that disgusting. It's a acquired taste though. I love slices of it in my congee. If you can handle stinky blue cheese, you can probably do this.

Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans, especially dirt, grass and booger flavors.

That's basically a spoiled egg that has been preserved, right? I've seen that but have never felt tempted to try it. I'd probably give it a try if I was drunk. :cool:They're not spoiled -- at least they certainly don't have a rotten smell or taste. The quite gelid and run from black to dark-green. They're delicious with pork in congee.

Chicken testicles, seaweed soup...and a dish that doesn't sound that weird but I'm the only one in my circle of friends who likes it...

There's a chinese dish, fried prawns with honeyed walnuts. The prawns and deep-fried and smothered with a mayo-like sauce, only sweeter. There's nothing else like it anywhere.

Quite common, but nobody has posted this yet:

Haggis
Escargot
(Insert name here) Some kind of citrus fruit from Australia that gets crunchy when you add sugar to it but is sweet/tart at the same time ?

Escargot

Quite common, but nobody has posted this yet:

Haggis
Escargot
(Insert name here) Some kind of citrus fruit from Australia that gets crunchy when you add sugar to it but is sweet/tart at the same time ?

I liked Escargot until the time I ate so much it made me sick. Now even the smell makes me temporarily lose my appetite. :(

I had raw horse two different times in Tokyo. Really pretty good. Served sashmi style with soy for a little salty flavor.

Sea cucumbers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_cucumber). I was okay with it till I found out they're bottom feeders. Somehow, that made it less pleasant.

Sea cucumbers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_cucumber). I was okay with it till I found out they're bottom feeders. Somehow, that made it less pleasant.

I know what you mean but I don't like to think too much about the feeding habits of my food. If every critter we ate was fed a steady diet of Purina puppy chow, it would all taste like farmed trout.

Catfish are scavengers and would eat a long list of things I wouldn't. But I certainly find them delicious, and don't want to spoil my enjoyment by thinking of them schooled up at the end of a sewage pipe with their mouths open. :eek:

Catfish are scavengers and would eat a long list of things I wouldn't. But I certainly find them delicious, and don't want to spoil my enjoyment by thinking of them schooled up at the end of a sewage pipe with their mouths open. :eek:

Yum!

As for me, food items:
Obscure: Grilled Porcupine
Thought provoking: Live Snake Hearts (still beating!)

Japanese "Dancing Shrimp"

The guy pulls a live shrip from the tank, and with four knife strokes removes the head, shell, sandline/veins, and tail. He then flips it onto a sizzling grill for about 10-12 seconds to heat, and flips the still wriggling shrimp onto your plate...to be immediately gobbled down. I was told that one should eat them as one bite, and feel them wriggle all the way down...

...but momma taught me to chew my food. ;)

I've not tried them, and don't plan to, but the description here of eating live octopus tentacles (http://www.deependdining.com/2005/07/rude-food-live-octopus-tentacles.html) is pretty interesting.

Search for "live octopus" and read from there.

And here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv_OxuZzIxY)is a video of someone trying the same.