Bizarre food you ever ate?

I ate Iguana stew in Zihuatanejo, Mexico....tasted like chicken but you could totally tell it was a reptile from its bone structure. 

I got kicked out of the Cub Scouts for eatin' a brownie.
Does that count?

Pablito was never the same after that incident 

monitor lizard, duck tongues, chicken feet, insects, century eggs, sea cucumber, snails, rats, etc...all good

the 2 most bizzare and yucky food i have eaten are papaitan-which translates to bitter...it is goat innards cooked w the juice squeezed from the contents of the stomach..and i swear there was bile in there too

the other one i ate (or tried to eat) just to be polite to my hosts was ceviche dog liver and dog skin (to those that find this offensive, fyi it's a cultural thing), the hair on the skin was just burnt off on the fire... could not swallow the raw sh*t...almost puked

I will try anything once, I have eaten all the game animals of north American,  and birds, not Bizarre. I have eaten snails, frog legs, and rattlesnake,  not bizarre. But I tried Cicken feet, that was bizarre !!! I wasn't bad, but don't think I will try it again.   
Jeff

A Twinkie. What is that?

my wife likes balut called something else in cambodian. but i tried the duck version. yuck bad juju for my stomach. sand crabs .. theyre deeeerishous dusted with cornstarch and deep fried. i tried the pinapaitan(smells like sh1t, literally) spit it out so fast almost lost a tooth in the process.  thats all for my bizarre foods.

Vin

I'm pretty vanilla when it comes to strange foods, but I have tried:
giant keyhole limpet, tasted like shoeleather dipped in tar
Owl limpet, excellent
Alligator stew, yummy
rattlesnake stew, also yummy
sea palm (commercially gathered) really good
wild duck eggs scrambled, smelled and tasted like what i imagine duck crap tastes like

Balut isn't that bad squeeze if lime n salt pepper couldn't be as bad as caviar aside from the soft bones n feathers lmao.  True story. Family friends butchers cow calls me up hey we got BBQ and soup. I try the BBQ awesome, then I try the curry soup pretty good. But what's with the eyeballs ? Friend says " oh we found a cow fetus and added it to the soup." O.0 ? Wtf lol all I can say was it was tender .

I once had a surreal meal in Vanuatu eating a flying fox, cooked french style in a red wine reduction.

-Allen

whoa- i had a similar thing in Palau- Giant Fruit Bat

Grossest thing I've ever eaten are sour cream, mayo and cottage cheese.   

Gimme balut, iguana, python, monkey, armadillo, bull balls, sea turtle eggs, cab belly digested abs, live octopus, ab gonads, beating fish hearts, uni, lancet fish, pig blood sausage etc any day over sour cream, mayo or cottage cheese. 

Sincerely,

Jim

I used to consume every live garden snail I could get my hands on as a child. I spent a lot of time in a large garden between Salinas and Castroville, so consumption was probably in the hundreds. My mother said that I would hold the snail like an Apple and "shuck" the shell with my teeth until I could get at the meat inside.

Anybody try beaver?

I used to consume every live garden snail I could get my hands on as a child. I spent a lot of time in a large garden between Salinas and Castroville, so consumption was probably in the hundreds. My mother said that I would hold the snail like an Apple and "shuck" the shell with my teeth until I could get at the meat inside.

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I've tried every critter ever offered to me, tongue to bung.

I've gone to places asking for a particular food because I've read it on Nat Geo or  a guidebook only to have the locals look at me with that "you're nasty..." look because they don't even eat it, probably just their ancestors.  I've asked locals to write for me the name of some obscure food so I can show taxi drivers to help me locate it.  My girlfriend would come along and usually try these foods, but she was never not supportive even when inordinate amounts of our meager resources went to me hunting for obscure foods. 

I was stopped cold in my cultural culinary track by a mug of saliva brewed chicha in the jungles of South America. 

The smiling old women showing me her rotted teeth handing me the mug of warm spit brewed delicacy almost pushed me to be that "ugly American" tourist. 

Nate

I've had chitlins a couple times in GA, and once I ate a big Mountain oyster on a dare. Balut was yummy. I could not handle the chicken heart tho.

I've tried every critter ever offered to me, tongue to bung.

I've gone to places asking for a particular food because I've read it on Nat Geo or  a guidebook only to have the locals look at me with that "you're nasty..." look because they don't even eat it, probably just their ancestors.  I've asked locals to write for me the name of some obscure food so I can show taxi drivers to help me locate it.  My girlfriend would come along and usually try these foods, but she was never not supportive even when inordinate amounts of our meager resources went to me hunting for obscure foods. 

I was stopped cold in my cultural culinary track by a mug of saliva brewed chicha in the jungles of South America. 

The smiling old women showing me her rotted teeth handing me the mug of warm spit brewed delicacy almost pushed me to be that "ugly American" tourist. 

Nate

Awesome!

 

Sincerely,

Jim