Weirdest Food You've Eaten
The Telltale community is scattered all over the globe, it seems. And we all probably have favorite foods that are wildly different from one another, as well as equally different foods that we can't stand. But what's the STRANGEST thing you've eaten? It can be delicious or revolting, it just needs to be weird.
As for me, I have a few. I visited Florida in the USA once and had alligator, which was delicious. It was dipped in spicy sauce and served with baked potato wedges and Cole slaw. In Beijing, my roommate got me to eat boiled congealed pigs' blood (was there for 6 weeks on a school exchange), which was pretty much eating maroon salty Jello. Not doing that again.
And about six years ago, when i was in high school, when on a trip to visit Hakone (a city in the mountains about 2 hours via bus from where I live) I got to try jellyfish for dinner. Weird texture, but it was in a miso broth. That I would eat again.
As for me, I have a few. I visited Florida in the USA once and had alligator, which was delicious. It was dipped in spicy sauce and served with baked potato wedges and Cole slaw. In Beijing, my roommate got me to eat boiled congealed pigs' blood (was there for 6 weeks on a school exchange), which was pretty much eating maroon salty Jello. Not doing that again.
And about six years ago, when i was in high school, when on a trip to visit Hakone (a city in the mountains about 2 hours via bus from where I live) I got to try jellyfish for dinner. Weird texture, but it was in a miso broth. That I would eat again.
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I ate it.
My father ate bugs once IIRC, though they're a typical food around some parts in this country.
well we all are eating a lot of insects while we are sleeping.
Yeah but these were cooked I think.
EDIT: Oh, and my brother has eaten french fries with ice cream, eww, I just can't imagine how those tastes could be combined >__>
Like LordKat and Chris Wreckless.
I love takoyaki like a fat kid loves cake. My dorm is full of people from Kansai (the kyoto and oosaka region) and they can make awesome takoyaki!
I've have alligator, bear, horse, donkey, snails, frogs, oysters (alive, which is why I put them there. Had lots of other shellfish, couldn't name them all, nor do I think it's particularly weird), rabbit, lamb, veal, elk, bison, duck, goose... Mmh, can't think of much else. Lots of types of fish including eel, which might be weird to some people. Had octopus as well as squid, too.
Non-animal, I think the weirdest thing have eaten was century eggs. They look weird, and they taste weird, too.
Most of what I eat regularly would also be considered weird by some people - quinoa, millet, seaweeds, and I've even known people who think of lentils as weird. And vegetable and fruit-wise, I've also had lots that might be more exotic but just seem normal to me. Like endives, I used to have them all the time but lots of people haven't heard of them here.
There might be some weird foods I've had from my more native countries but I can't think of any I've had, probably because I'm used to them.
Also weirdest food I've eat is human with chilli sauce. I mean could you imagine those tastes combined.
I'm jealous! I only got to try a piece of it that an Asian market was sampling during the cherry blossom festival downtown this year. My friend wants to learn to make it, and I wish her the best of luck for both our sakes.
You're acting as if black pudding isn't disgusting. Being an American, I can't say that I've actually tried black pudding, but I can't say it sounds appealing either. Not on my list of foods to try if I ever find myself in England.
We have a winner! I don't think anybody's going to beat long pork.
I've had black pudding too, didn't think to mention it. And andouille, which is a type of intestine sausage. Actually, I used to have an iron problem so my parents wanted me to eat black pudding pretty much every meal. I got really tired of it.
Otherwise it's pretty tasty.
I'm surprised that you found takoyaki was weird, but I guess it's because you are not used to eat octopus.
For people who don't know what takoyaki is, Dominic Armato wrote about it in his blog;
http://www.skilletdoux.com/2006/05/takoyaki.html
Yep, octopus is a bit irregular around here.
Yeah, I often hear people from other countries say Natto is disgusting, but for Japanese it's tasty and healthy:)
Guess you guys will just have to come crash here sometime. Going out to eat in Japan is equivalent to climbing Mt. Everest- you make many, many stops to see the sights, you wonder why the heck you signed up for it in the first place, and you start running out of breath near the end.
Err... wait, I'm pretty sire that came out REALLY wrong.
*waves hand* Love 'em.
I can't recall any truly weird foods I've eaten off-hand, but I've recently grown an insatiable taste for sashimi and calamari, which is definitely outside of my norm.
I once ate pineapple pizza. It was no bad, but not my favourite either.
I once ate a dish resembling cold Crème Brûlée (That is, without the Brûlée) in a restaurant, which was weird. (And disappointing - it was cold!)
Another strange thing was chicken cooked with lemon, (before I became vegetarian,) which was much stranger than it seems.
My Brother likes to eat French Toasts with hummus, but I guess it doesn't count since I didn't try it.
My question would be why doesn't his? (the dirt question. Not the MOM question)
I should specify that the blood sausage I mentioned wasn't the British type, but the French type. It has a different texture and the French one has no flour in it.
Speaking of which, I've also had white pudding/white sausage, which is ground white meat (usually pork, sometimes bird) with eggs, milk and bread. The whole thing in intestines of course since it's a sausage. It's weird too I guess?
I think it's funny how "weird" can be so different from one person to the next. For me rabbit for instance is barely less common than beef and yet lots of people find it weird.
Elaine would DEFINITELY eat shark.
Weirdest thing I have eaten...hmmm.....escargot a.k.a snails in Morocco.
They have street vendors selling them on little sticks.
Don't worry, he's a lagomorph.
I know that.... I got the point and don't be a jerk. Purcell himself has called him a "hyperkinetic rabbity thing" It was a joke guy.