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Strangest food/thing eaten???????

matwormatwor Member Posts: 20,594
edited June 2003 in General Discussion
What is the strangest food you have eaten?

I've had alligator, rattlesnake, calf-fries, raccoon would probably have to be the strangest, kinda like roast beef, not bad, edible.
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    susiesusie Member Posts: 7,304 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Sashimi. Also had calamari rings (sort of like eating fried rubber). Ate eel, racoon, and a lot of other wild things growing up. Never ate possum though or snake.

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    woodsrunnerwoodsrunner Member Posts: 5,378 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Escargo(sp),rattle snake, calamari, mountain oysters, pigs feet, tripe, headcheese, ox tails.

    I'm one of those guys that keep the exotic jerky dealers at gunshows in business too.

    It's so late there are probably a few things I've forgotten.

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    rpo242rpo242 Member Posts: 570 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Probably Calamari,both squid AND octopus. Mountain oysters.
    Octopus make a real good chowder.

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    pickenuppickenup Member Posts: 22,844 ✭✭✭✭
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    Putt'n down the highway, I have eaten a few bugs. Don't know what they were. [:0]

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    rldowns3rldowns3 Member Posts: 6,096
    edited November -1
    "What is the strangest food you have eaten?"

    The heel of an old jump boot.....errrrr....I mean my ex-wifes hamburger...errrr..thingies....not really sure what it was, OK.....but it was tough and tasteless.
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    DancesWithSheepDancesWithSheep Member Posts: 12,938 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    C-Ration B3 unit. Ham n' Limas. Color and taste are found nowhere else in nature.
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    PRZNCOP110PRZNCOP110 Member Posts: 947 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    [xx(]PRISON FOOD[xx(]

    Who the hell knows what is in that crap.



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    bigdaddyjuniorbigdaddyjunior Member Posts: 11,233
    edited November -1
    Feral Feline over an open fire.
    Got to laugh when I hear folks say things like"Oh,that's digusting", or " I'd never eat Fluffy!" Sure you would if you were ever hungry.When your body uses up the fat reserves and starts processing tissue to sustain itself the civilized cells are the first to go.If you've never been to 'starvation outpost', you can't understand.It's like the cartoons where your buddy starts to look like a standing rib roast.

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    makdaddy03makdaddy03 Member Posts: 19 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Alligator, Rattle Snake, Emu, And what is wrong with "Pigs Feet"? LOL![:)]

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    Instant KarmaInstant Karma Member Posts: 302 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Got to be the abalone(sea snail)I tried once,green meat but good done tempura style.Tried mako shark too,and it was like sword-fish,only gamier.Bear was not too bad,greasy though.
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    DIRTYRATDIRTYRAT Member Posts: 2,167 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Fried Muskrat, Barb-b-q Beaver, Woodchucks, Got drunked-up one night fishing and ate some minnows and night crawlers and took a bite out of a live catfish on a dare.[xx(]

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    powdersmokepowdersmoke Member Posts: 3,241
    edited November -1
    Got to agree with BigDaddyJunior,

    If it moves, someone, somewhere eats it. Bugs, grubs, cats, dogs, horses, monkies, sea slugs, etc.[xx(] If your hungry enough you WILL!! eat anything.[V][:0]

    My strangest things were 'dillo and rattlesnake.

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    Horse Plains DrifterHorse Plains Drifter Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 39,383 ***** Forums Admin
    edited November -1
    Cougar would be the strangest I ever ate.

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    cbxjeffcbxjeff Member Posts: 17,435 ✭✭✭✭
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    My uncle Bill told me to try some cow brain at dinner one night. Nobody said no to uncle Bill. That was 44 years ago and I still remember!

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    IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Think I've had most everything others have mentioned - escargot and calamari are on the menu whenever I can find them on sale at the grocery store. My parents loved tripe, but I could never stomach it (sorry about the pun). Raised my kids the same way. I bet I was the only parent within 100 miles whose kids would whoop & holler with joy at age six when I told them we were having calamri, tongue, chicken hearts or steamed clams for dinner!

    Sea urchin roe sashimi is incredibly delicious.

    Tried 'gator & shark fin soup, wasn't impressed with either, but the one thing I actually spit out was jellyfish. I don't remember if it was sour or bitter, but it was awful.
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    n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427
    edited November -1
    When in Viet Nam, and attached to a group of Mountain Tribesmen, roasted Crickets, and Boiled Monkey,,

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    ATFATF Member Posts: 11,683 ✭✭✭
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    Went to a game supper about 40yrs ago put on by a large Fish and Game Club a friend of mine belonged to. Had Whale Meat, it tasted like pot roast with a slightly fishy flavor,not bad.Matwor,good topic.
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    interstatepawnllcinterstatepawnllc Member Posts: 9,390
    edited November -1
    Balut, take a almost hatched chicken egg and bury it in the ground for a few weeks, dig it up and bon appetit![:D]

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    bigdaddyjuniorbigdaddyjunior Member Posts: 11,233
    edited November -1
    I recall as a small boy going to one of my Chinese friends' house for dinner.Chick soup. Not chicken soup.Unborn baby chicks floating around in a steaming pot of broth.Didn't like the way they kept looking at me while I was eating them.

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    HAIRYHAIRY Member Posts: 23,606
    edited November -1
    Our Chinese friends in Tawian treated us to steamed puppy. Wasn't bad, either.[}:)]

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    bigdaddyjuniorbigdaddyjunior Member Posts: 11,233
    edited November -1
    We 'lost' alot of family pets in Taiwan.

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    dheffleydheffley Member Posts: 25,000
    edited November -1
    Something they called "blister tail eel" in Argentina. Fish that tasted like fishy chicken. It wasn't that good.

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    FrancFFrancF Member Posts: 35,278 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Beef brains, Sweet breads, Sea urchin wraped with eel toped with a raw Quail egg,(that tasted like a tide pool) Salmon liver pate, and what the call a 1,000 year old egg (its not realy that old) Its buried in the ground and cooked, sinks like Sh-- and tasts the same.


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    bigdaddyjuniorbigdaddyjunior Member Posts: 11,233
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    You ever have a guest from overseas and take them to an American Grocery Store.They've never seen so much food in one place.There eyes bug out. It's sad and funny at the same time.It's the first place they want to go whenever they visit.

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    BOBBYWINSBOBBYWINS Member Posts: 7,810
    edited November -1
    Bobcat tamales.
    Armadillo(cooked on grill whole)
    Looks and tastes like a little pig.[:p][:p][:p]


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    HappyNanoqHappyNanoq Member Posts: 12,023
    edited November -1
    Not counting food from MacDonalds restaurants.....
    I'd say the weirdest would be...
    Fried cochroaches
    Squid
    Dog
    Cat
    Cobra
    Rat
    Some sort of Lizzard, about a foot in length.
    PolarBear (Would rather see them alive than on a plate)


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    jjmitchell60jjmitchell60 Member Posts: 3,887
    edited November -1
    Here in the U.S. it would be Hogs Brains, rattle snake, deer heart, buffalo tongue, ground hog (excellent on a grill), snapping turtle, mule, craw dads, Alligator, and dog cooked on an open fire pit.

    In China it would be dog, a type rat, several species of snake, turtle soupe (head floating in soup), duck bill from Peking Duck, fish eyes, carp dipped in horse radish sause that would set a wet log on fire, stripped pork (or so I was told), goat on a stick from a street vender, and drank Raw Egg Beer.

    In Mexico it was cat meat in what could be best decribed as a cross between a taco, burrito, with corn tortilla bread or flat bread.

    The worst was anything my mother cooked except pork brains and scrammbled eggs. That is the only thing she could cook that tasted good. Now my7 granmother was a diferent story!
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    armed_ femalearmed_ female Member Posts: 1,222 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Barbqued black bear..was yummy...

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    matwormatwor Member Posts: 20,594
    edited November -1
    I forgot about the escargot on my honeymoon, that was 10 yrs. ago this Thurs., forgot about the calamari, eaten at Olive Garden every time we go, (at least once every 6 wks. or so), forgot about the mountain oysters too.


    Thought all this stuff was halfway "normal".[;)][;)][:D][:D] Not to mention the sardines in mustard for lunch once in awhile, and the smoked oysters too.
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    offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    The strangest, hands down, is chickenfoot, a course in a Chinese Dim Sum meal I once had. I was with a group of friends, and I was sure I had misunderstood the lady with the heavy accent when she offered the next course, but sure enough she showed up with a plate of whole fried chicken feet. Nobody even tried them but me ..... My guess is that Dim Sum in most Chinese restaurants does not include the chickenfoot.

    I've also had calimari when it was whole and looked just like squid, which was not a lot of fun either, but chickenfoot takes the honors because it really has no meat on it at all, just skin and bone. Oh, and I once had half a lobster at a restaurant called Jack's at the Beach, and ate the brains by mistake -- they tasted very bad.

    In Baton Rouge, I enjoyed popcorn fried mudbugs and a nice alligator steak (a little dry), but I consider that interesting eating, not strange. I also love sushi, which is not strange to me either.

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    rogue_robrogue_rob Member Posts: 7,033 ✭✭✭
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    Ive had the "normal assortment" of calamari and such. The strangest thing I have had is Cow Tongue. It was sliced up like roast beef. They served it while I was in Italy at a friends wedding.
    wasnt too bad though[:p]

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    salzosalzo Member Posts: 6,396 ✭✭
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    I find it interesting that Calamari is considered by so many to be "strange food". When I was a kid we ate it all the time(not literally, at least once a week), and we have it today at least a couple of times a month. Its great stuff, and I am suprised that so many consider it weird.

    Besides Calamari, the weirdest food I have eaten would be robbins. We used to shoot them, fill a backpack up with them, skin them and cook them on a little barbecue we kept in the woods. I w2ouldnt say it tasted all that good, but it was a lot of fun.

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    concealedG36concealedG36 Member Posts: 3,566 ✭✭
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    My wife and I once ate bone marrow in Austria. Terrible stuff.

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    redcedarsredcedars Member Posts: 919 ✭✭✭✭
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    Not really weird, but no one has mentioned it, I don't think: Crawdads. Don't forget to squeeze the head! Caught 'em and boiled 'em in an old coffee can when we were kids; the creek and the lake were full of them. I still get them occasionally when I go to Dick's Last Resort; served in a stainless bucket. You can really gross out the folks at the next table when you squeeze the head!

    Brain sandwiches for breakfast at Bruce's in Bloomington, back when I was in college. A redneck delicacy.

    Squid, octopus, snails (escargot); not anything really that weird I guess.

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    He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 50,958 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Besides the usual alligator, rattlesnake, opossum, *, etc. How about sea cucumber, jellyfish, elephant, hippo, whale?

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    susiesusie Member Posts: 7,304 ✭✭✭✭
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    Fried things I forgot about, my mom used to fry the tails of the fish we caught and we would eat those. I mentioned calamari and sashimi because being in Arkansas, lots of folks turn up their noses and go eeewww, but would eat a crawdad in a heartbeat, go figure[xx(]. Ask my kids what they want to go out to eat and it's sashimi and sushi bound for a night out. We can use a set of chopsticks better than a fork and knife. Funny thing though, my lefty uses her right hand for chopsticks and her left for her fork.

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    elect1mikeelect1mike Member Posts: 4,585 ✭✭✭
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    Rice bugs and grubs

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    aby80aby80 Member Posts: 245 ✭✭✭
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    Calamari rings (like chewing rubber bands) honeycomb tripe in menudo ( very good and I'll eat it anytime) Javelina jerky (just as good as venison jerky). Roasted grasshoppers. When in Korea I refused to eat dried squid and kimchi.

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    SkydiveSkydive Member Posts: 737 ✭✭✭✭
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    Why do so many people hate calamari, I love the stuff.

    My wife's mother is Filipino. I don't know what the heck it was but it was called Blood Pudding. The Balut didn't seem so bad. Who knows what else, but when I was living with my in-laws I did notice there were no stray cats... weird.


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    FrancFFrancF Member Posts: 35,278 ✭✭✭
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    Skydive I was wondering the same, Here on the monteray bay that is a cash crop! next to anchovies and I love the stuff, easy to clean and cook (most places in the midwest wayyyyy over cook it.) Calamari steaks are the best! little lemon & garlic [:p][:p][:p][:p].

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