weirdest foods you have eaten thread

[frmthegrav]

me:

    - durian
    - field mouse
   -  crocodile
   - bat
   - dog (eaten in north vietnam- i regret it now for obvious reasons
   - sea cucumber
   - roasted grasshoppers (thailand)

[oujour76]

May 11, 2017 19:52:19 GMT -5 frmthegrav said:

me:

    - durian
    - field mouse
   -  crocodile
   - bat
   - dog (eaten in north vietnam- i regret it now for obvious reasons
   - sea cucumber
   - roasted grasshoppers (thailand)

Possum. Did it on a dare.

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Jackrabbit
Bull balls sliced into lunch meat (Spain)

[frmthegrav]

May 11, 2017 20:27:35 GMT -5 @kelliers said:

Jackrabbit
Bull balls sliced into lunch meat (Spain)

     howd them balls taste?

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May 11, 2017 21:12:55 GMT -5 frmthegrav said:

May 11, 2017 20:27:35 GMT -5 @kelliers said:

Jackrabbit
Bull balls sliced into lunch meat (Spain)

     howd them balls taste?

I didn't know what it was until after I ate a sandwich of it and asked. It was sort of Spam-like in consistency and fairly bland. I guess they eat it all the time there.

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   I ate a lot of fried jack rabbit growing up.  (My uncle was a hunter.)

   Ate goat meat ("cabrito") at a restaurant in Mexico when I was 15-- attended a school there one summer.

   Elk steaks.  (Often, in childhood.)

   Ate horse meat once.  Yuck.

   Fried frogs legs-- on a seafood platter in Puerto Vallarta.

   Octopus soup ("pulpo") in Mexico.  (It's like calamari.)

   Ate a lot of homemade rhubarb pie in childhood.  Love rhubarb pie.

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My brother and I were camping up in the high country in my teens-- around the Continental Divide in the Collegiate Peaks wilderness. (10-12,000 feet altitude.)

Huge storm hit after dark, and our gear got swamped in the middle of the night.  We decided to hike out of a place called Mineral Basin to stay warm-- in pouring rain that lasted for hours.

To make a long story short, I got lost in a fairly vast national forest area the next day, and had nothing to eat for almost 24 hours (before I finally made it back to Taylor Park and flagged a ride to our cabin) because we had ditched our gear during our miserable night slog in the rain.

I was so f*cking hungry by the next afternoon, I tried to eat a green pine cone bud.  It tasted like turpentine.

[frmthegrav]

May 11, 2017 21:53:58 GMT -5 DrSchadenfreude said:

My brother and I were camping up in the high country in my teens-- around the Continental Divide in the Collegiate Peaks wilderness. (10-12,000 feet altitude.)

Huge storm hit after dark, and our gear got swamped in the middle of the night.  We decided to hike out of a place called Mineral Basin to stay warm-- in pouring rain that lasted for hours.

To make a long story short, I got lost in a fairly vast national forest area the next day, and had nothing to eat for almost 24 hours (before I finally made it back to Taylor Park and flagged a ride to our cabin) because we had ditched our gear during our miserable night slog in the rain.

I was so f*cking hungry by the next afternoon, I tried to eat a green pine cone bud.  It tasted like turpentine.

        i recall reading a book about the soviet gulag camps-- they would routinely grab handfuls of pine needles and boil them in water, then drink the brown sludge water.  the author said it tasted awful, but was loaded with vitamin C.

    when you go on a fast, the first 3 days are tough.  afterwards, the hunger subsides and you dont think about it.

[oldgraylady]

May 11, 2017 21:37:02 GMT -5 DrSchadenfreude said:

   I ate a lot of fried jack rabbit growing up.  (My uncle was a hunter.)

   Ate goat meat ("cabrito") at a restaurant in Mexico when I was 15-- attended a school there one summer.

   Elk steaks.  (Often, in childhood.)

   Ate horse meat once.  Yuck.

   Fried frogs legs-- on a seafood platter in Puerto Vallarta.

   Octopus soup ("pulpo") in Mexico.  (It's like calamari.)

   Ate a lot of homemade rhubarb pie in childhood.  Love rhubarb pie.

Love rhubarb pie!

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May 12, 2017 20:42:03 GMT -5 frmthegrav said:

May 11, 2017 21:53:58 GMT -5 DrSchadenfreude said:

My brother and I were camping up in the high country in my teens-- around the Continental Divide in the Collegiate Peaks wilderness. (10-12,000 feet altitude.)

Huge storm hit after dark, and our gear got swamped in the middle of the night.  We decided to hike out of a place called Mineral Basin to stay warm-- in pouring rain that lasted for hours.

To make a long story short, I got lost in a fairly vast national forest area the next day, and had nothing to eat for almost 24 hours (before I finally made it back to Taylor Park and flagged a ride to our cabin) because we had ditched our gear during our miserable night slog in the rain.

I was so f*cking hungry by the next afternoon, I tried to eat a green pine cone bud.  It tasted like turpentine.

        i recall reading a book about the soviet gulag camps-- they would routinely grab handfuls of pine needles and boil them in water, then drink the brown sludge water.  the author said it tasted awful, but was loaded with vitamin C.

    when you go on a fast, the first 3 days are tough.  afterwards, the hunger subsides and you dont think about it.

The problem with my 24 hour "fast" on that disastrous camping trip was that I was hiking for at least 12 straight hours on day 2-- including a trek over the Continental Divide just south of Mount Kreutzer (13,000 feet.)

[oldgraylady]

Oxtails, beef tongue, beef kidney.

[frmthegrav]

May 12, 2017 20:50:13 GMT -5 DrSchadenfreude said:

May 12, 2017 20:42:03 GMT -5 frmthegrav said:

        i recall reading a book about the soviet gulag camps-- they would routinely grab handfuls of pine needles and boil them in water, then drink the brown sludge water.  the author said it tasted awful, but was loaded with vitamin C.

    when you go on a fast, the first 3 days are tough.  afterwards, the hunger subsides and you dont think about it.

The problem with my 24 hour "fast" on that disastrous camping trip was that I was hiking for at least 12 straight hours on day 2-- including a trek over the Continental Divide just south of Mount Kreutzer (13,000 feet.)

      well, you couldve boiled and eaten your leather gear.

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May 12, 2017 20:53:13 GMT -5 frmthegrav said:

May 12, 2017 20:50:13 GMT -5 DrSchadenfreude said:

The problem with my 24 hour "fast" on that disastrous camping trip was that I was hiking for at least 12 straight hours on day 2-- including a trek over the Continental Divide just south of Mount Kreutzer (13,000 feet.)

      well, you couldve boiled and eaten your leather gear.

My brother still ribs me about trying to eat a pine cone.

[Coaltrain]

I've eaten:
frog legs, cooked of course.
escargot ( totally disgusting)
clover
dandelion flowers - straight upp
octopus
Deer liver and heart - cooked

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I don't consider frog legs weird. I've eaten a ton of them and they're quite tasty, like chicken wings. Damn near exterminated the whole pond on the property and the ones that survived my pellet gun succumbed to a drought one year when the pond completely dried up.
Graveur, how is durian? I've wanted to try that sometime. Is it true that it smells like rotting flesh but tastes amazing?