I've eaten 5 how many have you?

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http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-ideas/is-this-the-worlds-weirdest-food/story-fnjpja3r-1227247719894

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They missed this which I've also eaten - NEVER AGAIN

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_egg

[Serk]

...and here I thought I was pretty advanced for having eaten Haggis!

(And comic relief reply - Pffft, I've topped all of those! I've eaten McDonalds!)

[old2soon]

When I was in the P I I attempted to have a balut! Could NOT get past the smell-it reeked. I ate Kishka-blood sausage-growing up. Some Kishka some black bread and some raw onions ya gots a fine noon meal!  Same black bread same onions BUT with limburger cheese now!  And keep in mind I grew up near Chicago. RIDE SAFE.

[The emperor has no clothes]

1,8,9,14. Plan on trying #3 in 6 weeks on our trip to Ireland. O2S, the worst part of balut wasn't the smell it was the crunchiness of the newly formed bones . I think the weirdest thing I've had was Walrus tongue. The nastiest was dried salmon strips dipped in seal oil. Something that I wouldn't do was stink head. Salmon heads in burlap bag buried in the muskeg bog for a couple weeks.

[Kep]

And people cringe when I eat Oysters on the half-shell !

[Jess from VA]

Frankly guys, I'd rather eat a couple M8 bolts, even oily ones (maybe a windshield wiper blade with pesto). 

[R J]

Grew up on the farm so we ate a lot of mountain oysters.

The one American Legion Post near where I live has 2 Mountain Oyster cook outs every year.       12 of us from my Post we go for the Oyster feast every year at least once.    Depending on the weather whether we hit the winter cookout.

Father-in-law had a farm and a lot of cattle, so we had oysters, but mother-in-law made them taste flat, she put them in a pressure cooker before deep frying them.

Ate them once from her cooking, and we always planned not to make the trip to the farm if she was going to fix oysters.    That pressure cooker killed the taste.

Tried to tell mom they shouldn't be put in a pressure cooker, but her mom taught her to cook them that way, so, that was the way she cooked them.    Out of the 45 years mom and I were married, and her mom was alive, we probably ate Oysters less than a dozen time there.

[Gavin_Sons]

Would love me some mice wine.

[indybobm]

I'm going to be very careful if I have lunch with any of you guys!

[musclehead]

Would love me some mice wine.

sounds like it might pair with the south American guinea pig dish.

[RainMaker]

I thought I ate some weird dishes when I traveled in Taiwan and Japan for business, but my hosts must have steered me to the more palatable choices after seeing these. 

[Crackerborn]

On that list, I have sampled six.
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3
5
11
14
15 (but using crayfish or grass shrimp, depending on location)

Not on the list includes tripe, hog jowl, ceviche, and an old favorite, pan fried armadillo. The armadillo was served every year the first day of gun deer season to anybody at the hunt camp that didn’t get a deer on opening day. Those that took a deer got venison kidney (also pan fried) instead. I seem to remember that several of my uncles would not come to camp opening day. 

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On that list, I have sampled six.
1
3
5
11
14
15 (but using crayfish or grass shrimp, depending on location)

Not on the list includes tripe, hog jowl, ceviche, and an old favorite, pan fried armadillo. The armadillo was served every year the first day of gun deer season to anybody at the hunt camp that didn’t get a deer on opening day. Those that took a deer got venison kidney (also pan fried) instead. I seem to remember that several of my uncles would not come to camp opening day. 

I like chinese prepared tripe. Not the large tripe but the smaller - less chewy.

One more to add to the list.

Bitter melon.

http://www.nutrition-and-you.com/bitter-gourd.html

[Crackerborn]

I like chinese prepared tripe. Not the large tripe but the smaller - less chewy.

Chinese prepared tripe sounds better than Aunt Winsom prepared tripe, she could cook any wild game exceptionally well but collard greens and tripe were never on my list of favorite things to eat when visiting her house.

[Strider]

4 here - 1,3,5 and 14.

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One more to add to the list.

My dear deceased mothers roast beef.

It used to be customary in the UK a long time ago to cook a piece of beef until it was grey in color. A slice could be used to put a sole on a shoe.

Stringy enough that pieces could be used as bolas 

[John Schmidt]

Had some head cheese as a kid on the farm. My German grandmother made it and demanded I eat some. Well, at 8-9 yrs. old you don't defy granny so I tried it. After puking up everything I had eaten since the day I was born, she decided it wasn't her cooking....I had a bug of some kind. The middle of the summer, where do I get a bug? We didn't get along real well.

Back about 50 yrs. I was working part time in a small meat packing plant and had a big old German shift supervisor, huge man. During breaks, he'd go sit in the cooler and eat raw blood sausage and big chunks of plain bread, would come out with it dripping off the corners of his mouth. He could stand 5' away and talk to you and you could still smell that crap on his breath.

[Patrick]

I'm wondering if our more modern mundane diet has anything to do with our longer lifespan.

[old2soon]

When I lived in Lamar Colorado I had and enjoyed Rocky Mountain Oysters. And as an over the road trucker had R M O in other locations. My ex B I L was a cook in Lamar at the T/S and he KNOWS HOW to prepare R M Os.   When I was stationed in Japan my Japanese girlfriend took me to some out of the way places to eat-Japanese style-to this day I still wonder WHAT some of the stuff I ate WAS!   Same wonderment in the P I Hong Kong Thailand Mexico Canada and truthfully-some places in the good ole U S of A.   If it don't bite me first or make me regret it later food wise i'll try most things-long as they don't look TOO disgusting!   RIDE SAFE.

[Patrick]

I wonder if anyone here has 'harvested' rocky mountain oysters in the tradition manner.

[BF]

Just one.

5. Birds nest soup

[bigguy]

1 & 14. And some other stuff that I'm sure some would find as gross as I do some of those.
I suspect that that South American guinea pig is really a capybara.


I had heard that at one time the Catholic Church declared the capybara to be a fish for the purpose of Lint.
It is suggested on Snopes that this may have been more of a local Jesuit tradition.
http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=44035

[Crackerborn]

Better have a big stick for a capybara, the worlds largest rodent. They weigh in as adults from 70 to over 120 pounds. My dad had a devil of a time with a breeding pair on his property in Alachua county that had escaped someones exotic game farm. They root and cause even more damage than feral pigs. 

[john]

                       1 3 5 and 14         

[Patrick]

1 & 14. And some other stuff that I'm sure some would find as gross as I do some of those.
I suspect that that South American guinea pig is really a capybara.


I had heard that at one time the Catholic Church declared the capybara to be a fish for the purpose of Lint.
It is suggested on Snopes that this may have been more of a local Jesuit tradition.
http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=44035

LOL !  the purpose of Lint !

[Gavin_Sons]

I wonder if anyone here has 'harvested' rocky mountain oysters in the tradition manner.

You mean by biting them off? No, but a family friend has a big 4th of july party every year and fries up 10 pounds. Whatever he breads them with makes them taste great. Have also had head cheese many times and blood pudding.

[Jess from VA]

I'd post a pic of the wildest thing I've ever eaten..... but then I'd get thrown out of here (and would miss all you wild and crazy guys).   

[The emperor has no clothes]

I'd post a pic of the wildest thing I've ever eaten..... but then I'd get thrown out of here (and would miss all you wild and crazy guys).   

[Strider]

So, 4 on the official list and ate rat mixed with rice and HOT peppers in the backcountry of Thailand once and Lord knows what I eat here in Africa.  Sometimes, better to just not ask.    May have a strange texture, but sometimes, it sure is tasty.  Of course, most of the time, NOT.  That is why when I come here, my SMALL suitcase has all my clothes and stuff for a month and my LARGE check in luggage is nothing but food.  TSA must laugh everytime they look inside my bag coming over here.  I know the Walmart check out girl does when I put $200 - $300 of garbage food up on the counter at check out.  She must think, what does a guy do with 4 pounds of peanut butter, 4 huge boxes of pop tarts, 6 pounds of coffee and 40 pounds of peanut butter crackers and crap? 

[cookiedough]

I'm a whuss,  I won't even eat sushi. 

I did get my now deceased uncle growing up to eat a live nightcrawler after we went fishing for a quarter.     No sense in letting 1 worm left go to waste I guess? 

Nothing on that list appeals to me nor will anyone get me to try any of it.  I'm a fussy eater.

[Patrick]

Sushi ? The only sushi I'll eat is what I catch. The first tuna in the boat gets chunked up and put on crackers.  It was quite awhile before I found out thats a bad thing to do, the fish is supposed to be cooled down first to kill some kind of bacteria. Kinda backwards by my thinking, but...  No one ever got sick from doing that.

[henry 008]

you could always come to this tiny little town near where I live. every year they have a "testicle festival"

http://ohiofestivals.net/4-tiro-testicle-festival-may-19-2013/

 

[R J]

I'm a whuss,  I won't even eat sushi. 

I did get my now deceased uncle growing up to eat a live nightcrawler after we went fishing for a quarter.     No sense in letting 1 worm left go to waste I guess? 

Nothing on that list appeals to me nor will anyone get me to try any of it.  I'm a fussy eater.

We can tell you never spent time in the Military.

Otherwise you'd eat anything.    I was a picky eater when I went in the service, but it didn't take long for me to get used to liking that junk they called food.     Otherwise I would of starved to death.

I can remember when I was a kid, I'd set at the table for hours, learning to like some food on the table so I could get down and go play.    My Grandma said she didn't fix food to throw out, it was to be eaten, and she was a strick lady on that one.     You also asked to be excused from the table before you could get down.

Got my ass blistered several times for not getting permission to leave the table.   Especially if I left it pissed to the gill and letting people know about it.

[solo1]

Only had one close to the list.  Blood pudding, German style. ./we got it at the local grocery, Richter's, (figures).

One not on the list...........Brains.  We ate it regularly when i was a kid. Tried serving it to my kids, my favorite way, fried in cracker crumbs, quite good, sorta like bone marrow.  They wouldn't eat it.

Reminds me of a scene in "Giant' where Liz Taylor passes out.

[da prez]

  Tried 7 snake wiskey , roasted guinee pig ,goat ,bear,caribou , deer ,elk , snapping turtle ,road runner (little buggar did not get away) blood sausage , kielbasa , kangaroo , shark ,ginsing wiskey,
  and still had room for desert.  This is not a full list.


                                   da prez

[R J]

  Tried 7 snake wiskey , roasted guinee pig ,goat ,bear,caribou , deer ,elk , snapping turtle ,road runner (little buggar did not get away) blood sausage , kielbasa , kangaroo , shark ,ginsing wiskey,
  and still had room for desert.  This is not a full list.


                                   da prez

Add to it Brother...........   I'd say the original poster won't be hurt if ya do.

[3fan4life]

I'd post a pic of the wildest thing I've ever eaten..... but then I'd get thrown out of here (and would miss all you wild and crazy guys).   

Wouldn't be Turkish would it ?

[Jess from VA]

I'd post a pic of the wildest thing I've ever eaten..... but then I'd get thrown out of here (and would miss all you wild and crazy guys).   

Wouldn't be Turkish would it ?

Indeed.... but I was equal opportunity for many years before that. 

[crow]

Back on the day, when I was an apprentice, worked with a crew where I,  a white guy from Texas and a black kid from the city were the only Americans on the crew.   The others were from many places around the world, we would all try each others food.  One night, I was offered some meat with a spicy  sauce on it.  I really did not care for it but I did not say or show my displeasure. Asked what it was and he said German Shepherd.  He was from the Philippines.