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

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. 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:

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 is pretty interesting.

Search for "live octopus" and read from there.

And here is a video of someone trying the same.