What's weirdest thing you've eaten or seen someone eat?

Catire · 07-11-2009, 02:16 AM

I lived in Louisiana a few years ago and got invited to a friend's house where i was offered stewed squirrel

I tried it but couldn't bring myself to eat it for some reason.

I have also eaten fried alligator, fried piranha, armadillo stew and iguana eggs.

HarryT · 07-11-2009, 04:11 AM

Toasted locusts, in Morocco. "Crunchy", but they don't really taste of anything.

dreams · 07-11-2009, 04:27 AM

Fried grasshopper (only tasted crunchy), chocolate covered ants (like pepper-flavored chocolate, pickled pigs feet, and alligator (nothing unique).

kacir · 07-11-2009, 06:14 AM

I ate Nutria http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutria
They are considered the finest meat around here. (by people that are willing to try to eat what my mother calls "the giant water rat) Sadly, people do not farm those any more. They were kept for their fur. But that is not profitable today.

I also ate roadkill. Several times. It was always freshly killed roadkill. ;-)
Like wild pheasant, or wild rabbit

I also tried octopus, clams, ... but those are not *that* exotic

Oh, when we were kids we ate flowers from the Black Locust tree. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinia_pseudoacacia
I just looked it up in Wikipedia

Quote:

In fact, every part of the tree, especially the bark, is considered toxic, with the exception of the flowers.

Shudder

Sparrow · 07-11-2009, 06:19 AM

One of our celebrity chef's made a 'special' meal to celebrate the birth of a baby - it was on TV a few years ago.

(The birth was a prerequisite for the the dish.

)

zelda_pinwheel · 07-11-2009, 06:21 AM

being vegetarian precludes eating many of the dishes considered most exotic for me, and to be perfectly honest, i can't say i'm frustrated by that at all.

kacir · 07-11-2009, 07:52 AM

When I was little kid my mum used to cook pigs brain. With onion and eggs - like when you make scrambled eggs. Yummy!

I have remarked recently that I would like to cook that and my wife threatened that she would throw out the pan I use to cook that ;-)

kacir · 07-11-2009, 07:56 AM

Quite recently I made ice cream. Fried bacon flavoured ice cream. Recipe invented by Heston Blumenthall. It is served with salty butter caramel.

I have also cooked ham in CocaCola - the way Nigela Lawson does. I have used the resulting CocaCola flavoured sweet broth as a base for a bean soup. Very nice!

Verencat · 07-11-2009, 09:44 AM

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Originally Posted by kacir

Quite recently I made ice cream. Fried bacon flavoured ice cream. Recipe invented by Heston Blumenthall. It is served with salty butter caramel.

I have also cooked ham in CocaCola - the way Nigela Lawson does. I have used the resulting CocaCola flavoured sweet broth as a base for a bean soup. Very nice!

Nigella's coke ham is the best! When it comes to ice cream, I say fresh ginger and green tea are the best flavours ever. But that's not weird, it's just good!

kacir · 07-11-2009, 09:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Verencat

... ice cream, I say fresh ginger ...

Where can I find recipe?

HarryT · 07-11-2009, 10:18 AM

Ginger ice cream is not at all unusual. My local supermarket sells it!

Verencat · 07-11-2009, 10:22 AM

We don't have it around here, so I just let soften a tub of vanilla ice cream for about 15 minutes and add about a quarter cup of grated ginger per litre. Blend in, pop in the freezer and you're done!
For green tea: add 2 table spoons of matcha per liter of ice cream.

RickyMaveety · 07-11-2009, 11:06 AM

I guess it would have to be human flesh, but that's only from a cultural perspective.

krisk · 07-13-2009, 03:05 PM

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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety

I guess it would have to be human flesh, but that's only from a cultural perspective.

you consumed or viewed the consumption?

I've eaten the normal oddities, grasshoppers, pickled pigs feet, snake, etc. saw plenty of horse flesh in the Parisian markets, normal for them disturbing to me.

I've had lung soup, fried brains and cow tit schnitzel in Germany. in each case I did not know what I was eating, but found the texture revolting. when told I ate a few more bites so my hosts did not have the pleasure of "grossing" me out, I had already indicated I was not fond of it.

never eat wild sea gull eggs. taste like rotten fish!

KoKoPuff · 07-13-2009, 03:12 PM

I've had frog ovaries once at a family dinner. We all thought it was tapiocca .. >.<

07-11-2009, 02:16 AM	#1
Catire Lord of the Universe Posts: 670 Karma: 737849 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Maturin , Venezuela Device: Sony Reader PRS-505 / PSP	What's weirdest thing you've eaten or seen someone eat? I lived in Louisiana a few years ago and got invited to a friend's house where i was offered stewed squirrel I tried it but couldn't bring myself to eat it for some reason. I have also eaten fried alligator, fried piranha, armadillo stew and iguana eggs.

07-11-2009, 07:56 AM	#8
kacir Wizard Posts: 3,450 Karma: 10484861 Join Date: May 2006 Device: PocketBook 360, before it was Sony Reader, cassiopeia A-20	Quite recently I made ice cream. Fried bacon flavoured ice cream. Recipe invented by Heston Blumenthall. It is served with salty butter caramel. I have also cooked ham in CocaCola - the way Nigela Lawson does. I have used the resulting CocaCola flavoured sweet broth as a base for a bean soup. Very nice! Last edited by kacir; 07-11-2009 at 08:06 AM.

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HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 85,544 Karma: 93383043 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6	Toasted locusts, in Morocco. "Crunchy", but they don't really taste of anything.

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dreams It's about the umbrella Posts: 25,112 Karma: 56250158 Join Date: Jan 2009 Device: Sony 505\| K Fire \| KK 3G+Wi-Fi \| iPhone 3Gs \|Vista 32-bit Hm Prem w/FF	Fried grasshopper (only tasted crunchy), chocolate covered ants (like pepper-flavored chocolate, pickled pigs feet, and alligator (nothing unique).

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Sparrow Wizard Posts: 4,395 Karma: 1358132 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: UK Device: Palm TX, CyBook Gen3	One of our celebrity chef's made a 'special' meal to celebrate the birth of a baby - it was on TV a few years ago. (The birth was a prerequisite for the the dish. )

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zelda_pinwheel zeldinha zippy zeldissima Posts: 27,827 Karma: 921169 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Paris, France Device: eb1150 & is that a nook in her pocket, or she just happy to see you?	being vegetarian precludes eating many of the dishes considered most exotic for me, and to be perfectly honest, i can't say i'm frustrated by that at all.

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kacir Wizard Posts: 3,450 Karma: 10484861 Join Date: May 2006 Device: PocketBook 360, before it was Sony Reader, cassiopeia A-20	When I was little kid my mum used to cook pigs brain. With onion and eggs - like when you make scrambled eggs. Yummy! I have remarked recently that I would like to cook that and my wife threatened that she would throw out the pan I use to cook that ;-)

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HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 85,544 Karma: 93383043 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6	Ginger ice cream is not at all unusual. My local supermarket sells it!

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Verencat Wizard Posts: 2,615 Karma: 96491 Join Date: May 2009 Location: Montreal, Qc Device: xxx	We don't have it around here, so I just let soften a tub of vanilla ice cream for about 15 minutes and add about a quarter cup of grated ginger per litre. Blend in, pop in the freezer and you're done! For green tea: add 2 table spoons of matcha per liter of ice cream.

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RickyMaveety Holy S**T!!! Posts: 5,213 Karma: 108401 Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: San Diego, California!! Device: Kindle and iPad	I guess it would have to be human flesh, but that's only from a cultural perspective.

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KoKoPuff Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2009 Device: Sony PRS-505	I've had frog ovaries once at a family dinner. We all thought it was tapiocca .. >.<