What is the wierdest thing you ever ate?

Mine is octopus.

 

My Chinese ex-girlfriend made eel casserole for me (a whole week's worth-I ate it for lunch for a whole week)-it wasn't bad, really. She also used to make jellyfish salad, which was really pretty good. (This is starting to make me miss her and her cooking, too!) And the porridge she used to make for breakfast with 'thousand-year egg' in it. A couple times she made chicken feet soup with the poor chicken's feet sticking up out of the soup bowl (they had almost no meat on them-this was in my pre-vegetarian days.) All of these things tasted much better than they sound! When I was a kid, I ate chocolate covered ants and grasshoppers that my father got at an import store.

 

That would be the candy-coated caterpillars... no wait, maybe it was the deep fried spiders... or perhaps it was the grilled earthworm... and then there were those locusts, but they were tasty... but that live salamander was pretty weird...

Nope, I've got it! It was the barbecued cockroach!

Yeah, I grew up with a few world-travelling friends that brought some pretty strange cuisine home.
love,
mom

 

EGADS! That makes my diet seem really tame....

 

"porridge she used to make for breakfast with 'thousand-year egg' "

EW!!! That is so gross! We made a dinner many years ago for friends, and along with shrimp-flavored chips, had thousand-year eggs for kicks. One person had the gall to eat them-we were all very impressed. I can't imagine using them in any dish.

 

Ah..the thousand year egg. While working in China I ate these a couple of times. The old Chinese saying that they will eat anything with "back to sky" is true they will eat anything that is not human.

While there I ate many snakes, many odd wormlike sea critters, cat of some wild nature, and dog and more dog (which was actually at a Korean restaurant in NE China). After a while I just quit asking what we were eating until after I had finished.

 

I was good friends with this Chinese guy who once made me snake soup! It tasted so good but I didn't know it was made of snakes until way after I ate it.... If I did I probably wouldn't've tried it!

 

a slug my grandad made me eate it alive

 

Rattle snake and squrill BBQ.

 

nothing as weird as what's been mentioned....

 

Pork & Bean sandwiches with mayo...

 

on whole wheat of course.

 

In 7th grade, we had to pick a country to do a presentation on and bring in a food from that country. This one kid brought cucumber slices stuffed with crab (or maybe it was lobster, I don't remember) and mayonnaise (I don't remember what country it was even supposed to be from) and the teacher made everyone eat it. I guess that's not as weird as some of the things that were mentioned, but it was gross.

 

various leaves, tops of clovers, flowers, ummm, i once found a sour candy on the ground and ate it...

 

lollipop with a cricket

 

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probably curried shark. Actually, it might have just been rancid.

 

I've eaten a lot of bear.

 

Marinated ducks feet.

 

Same! My friends and I ate an uncooked Octopus, bought it from a shop in Falmouth. We only ate part of the tenticle, but still I was put off by the idea of ever eating it again.