Well that's why i put it in a thread about weird things to eat ;)

In reality the salmonella depends on how the chicken is raised, processed and handled. This wasn't grocery store chicken. Chicken sashimi is common in Japanese yakatori places, which is where I had it.

In Japan, the sanitary conditions are amazing and so eating raw anything is totally fine. SURE, there is that once in a blue moon someone gets sick, but I think that's no matter what the conditions are.
We often eat raw egg, raw chicken, rare pork, raw beef, etc.

Sooooo delicious! I miss eating raw egg on everything. You can't do that in the US. Nor can you eat raw beef!!! There are a few places that serve beef sushi. Raw beef on rice with wasabi. Sooooo delicious!!!

I just made myself hungry....
:eek:

I know the feeling :D

Raw beef is quite commonly eaten here in Belgium though, so I'm quite used to eating that (and I love eating raw beef).

Raw beef, steak tartare, is common in Europe as you point out and it is pretty easy to find at restaurants in NY as well. Not sure about other parts of the US.

Someone once fed me something called a "chillito" from Taco Bell. Not sure what was in it, but I don't believe any of the ingredients occur naturally. Compared to that, testicles, bugs, and fermented blubber were pretty de rigeur.

Duck feet served as a dish in dim sum breakfast. It was yummy like chicken feet.

Camel is very stringy. We were in an Iranian town where we were served "lamb". Later when someone who spoke English came by to say it was Camel that they were all out of lamb.

I had a (whole) frog stew in Hong Kong somewhere. Chili-stewed snails too, in the same restaurant.

Also tried a kudu steak in Botswana. It was actually pretty tasty.

I ate the worm at the bottom of the tequilla bottle. Slightly crunchy but soft when the innards squished out in my mouth.

Ate some bull testicles at a colorado restaurant (rocky mountain oysters).

Pickled goose webs, with horse radish. Yummmm!

Strangest food
 

Strangest food I've eaten, mostly in S. Korea.

Live Cctopus (well, rigor mortis cephalopod really), San Nakji.

Bonus, video of me eating it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV_vY...0&feature=plcp

Loach/Mudskipper Stew, Chueotang.

Congealed Oxblood Soup, Haejangguk/seonjiguk.

Fermented Soybean Soup, Cheonggukjang

Raw beef w/ spring onion, minced garlic, pepper, oil, honey, pine nuts, sesame, and salt, Yukhoe.

Smothered/fermented raw crab, GeiJang.

Fermented fish roe, Myeongran.

Japan.

Raw chicken, sashimi style.

Natto (fermented slimy soybean, w/rice & a raw egg.

Colombia.

Milk/Brandy/Fruit/Live crabs + blender = Berraquillo.

Mexico.

Corn fungus, huitlacoche.

China.

Cold beef honeycomb tripe.

Assorted offal: Sheep/Cow brain, trotters, tripe, face meat, etc.

Cheese.

Chimay Vieux, Tête de Moine.

Others I'm sure.

MRS: pigeon brains in China (delicious)

MR: live monkey brains, straight out of the skull case, in Vietnam during the war (not delicious)

They must have been absolutely tiny! How did they serve them up?

Dog burgers.
 

Before dog meat was outlawed in Baguio and the rest of Benguet province, I bought some and had it ground in the market and made dog burgers on the grill. :p

How does dog actually taste? Eating domnestic animals like cats or dogs is generally frowned upon here (not sure if it's illegal), but I'm still curious as to how it tastes. I've heard cat tastes similar to rabbit though.

Never had cat. Dog is similar to other carnivores, but less gamy.

The Chilito from Taco Bell is just a Chili-cheese burrito. Chilito is slang for "little penis" so maybe some rumor got started about it. Incidently, Taco Bell had to change the name of it for this reason. They now call it the "Chili-cheese burrito". Does anyone remember when they served the bell burgers? I miss those.

"Yo Quiero Taco bell"^

I drank some soup we made from our dirty socks once on a dare.

I saw a girl swallow a cup chewing tobacco chaw. she barely kept it down.

They were actually still in the pigeons... whole birds split in half (beak to tail), so the brains were just sitting there saying EAT ME!

It was easy (and fun) to just suck the brains right out of the head. Yum!:)

A man's weird is another's delicacy ;)

Growing up in Southeast Asia, I have eaten:

Deep fried pig colon (炸大腸)
Colon noodle-thread (大腸麵線) soup
Stir-fried cock testicles (scallions, ginger and sesame oil)
Pan fried pork brains and pork brain omelette
Deep-fried (or stewed) pig's lungs

.. and plenty more.

Yep, I've had cat too. Picked it fresh from the cage outside, in Zhongshan, China. Fresh Cat, definitely my new band name.

They asked if I wanted it in a hotpot or grilled. I wish I could've changed the response to grilled, alas, the pepper sauce they served it with did it well. Actually, I couldn't finish it, so it's probably still in the fridge beckoning my call, a year.5 later.

Had a balut experience in Manila last December, and I'd rather not turn the page back to that one.

Also, the (non-alcoholic; I don't drink) beverage I had most difficulty consuming wasn't a durian shake in Singapore. Or the mesquite plum shake in Rockville, Maryland (USA). It was cucumber juice. Cukes are brilliant, but for some reason, in liquid form, it just wasn't happening. Anybody else have this experience?

I actually think a lot of the foods on here is normal. Fresh is where it's at! :o Not sure what that says about me. :o

Chicken and waffles I think is one of the strangest things I had. I asked if the server was joking at first because I had never heard of eating them together.

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Yum. Chicken and waffles. Amy Ruths in New York. Yum. :)

I've never had balut or durian but I have had dog, cat, emu, ikangaroo, crocodile, wichetty grubs, goanna/bungarra, sea turtle, dugong, monkey and bird eating spider among a few other things.

Balut is the ONLY thing that I've been offered that I've refused to eat. I suppose I have to man up and try it one day....

I didn't know what Balut was, and in doing some research came up with these to go along with your balut. Uuggghhh...

http://www.cracked.com/article_14979...-in-world.html

Is ikangaroo something made by Apple? :)

Piure may possibly be the weirdest thing. But I might recall weirder at another time.

Yeah but available in Australia only.

Used to eat fish eyes and diniguan when I was little. I've had dog stew (보신탕) in Korea; dog adobo and snails plucked straight from the rice paddies in the Philippines.

The most memorable was in Wichita, Kansas. There was a chili cook off and everyone said I had to try to chili from pot #8. I opened the lid and I saw chili and women's underwear in it. Tasted ok and won 3rd place. :D

Gefilte Frog in Cambodia.

That chili is usually made with used underwear and is called "Undy-chili" or "Hairy-chili"

Duck in Maastricht. Don't laugh it was excellent. I'd eat it again.

They have a place here in Bali (not sure if it is other places too, I have only noticed it here) and it is called Flapjacks but I misread the tagline as I drove by in a cab and swore it said Flapjacks - Homemade Pancakes and Chicken from the Ghetto. LOL, turned out to be Pancakes and Homemade Gelato so I never did try the place!

testicle soup. I had no idea what I was drinking until after the fact.