I know we have a recipe forum but I just thought we might have a little fun with this.
What is/are some of the strangest foods you have eaten?
Mine are:
1. Boiled chicken feet, also good in tomatoe sauce. We use to raise and sell chickens.
2. Snails. We use to go to Beverly Harbor in Mass. and get them by the bucket full. Just boiled them and took the snail out with a pin.
3. Pickled tripe
4. Pickled Pigs Feet. Kids leave the room if I open a jar.
5. Boiled Kidney
6. Ostrich with a cranberry sauce. Had that in a restaurant.
7. Steak and kidney pie. That is a British favorite.
GeneFI have eaten a lot of different game meat but my personal fav is frogs legs, especially when I was kid. We would catch them, clean them and eat them. My uncle Leonard would cook them for us and he use to refer to the cleaning as taking off it s leotards, so because I was the only girl around, that was my job![:D] I m also looking forward to trying Cod Lips this summer out East
GeneFHaving once been in the Boy Scouts, I ve eaten many things that should never be consumed by humans..... so I ll just tell you that my middle son likes peanut butter and pickle sandwiches. Kinda strange, but he really likes them.
GeneFMy first wife (met while I was in hs) was Philipino, so their family gatherrings always had " odd" stuff. The only thing they told me what it actually was was some type of meat in pigs blood. They never told me what the other stuff was, but after that...I always went to the gatherings full.
GeneFHere in the Arizona one of our restaurants serves rattlesnake meat (tastes like chicken!)
Mary Romeo
GeneFThe whole concept of " strange" depends on what you grew up with. I ll bet some of our American foods sound pretty weird to folks in Asia.
That said, I ve had certain types of seaweed, scallops, and sea urchins--- raw, right out in the water (and sometimes while underwater). If that sounds weird or strange, think about it... ever been to an oyster bar? [;)]
Then again, how many of you have ever brought a 10" *snail* home to eat? (insert " licking chops" smiley here)
GeneFDave
Is that 10 inch snail a " Geoduck" ? Heard of them when I was in Washington state but never saw one.
GeneFGene, those " gooey-ducks" (as we called them when kids[;)]) are large clams. And dang good eatin ones, too! Clams are bi-valves, or two-shelled mollusks. Snails have only one shell.
Hmmmm.... bet you can guess the answer now. [:D]
" Abalone Diver" Davie
GeneFPotted possum - comes in a can. I ve never had it and never will but it makes a great gift for someone you re not sure you love.
GeneFAB
Thanks for the marine biology lesson.
GeneFMy mom was from a holler in West Virginia and married an Okie, so our dinners were normal to me, but not to a lot of people that visited us.
On Sundays we always had Tomato Gravy. In the summer we couldn t wait to get some good ole pickled corn!! Those are probably the two things people thought was odd.
GeneFIt is good to know that my cyber friends have some interesting tastes [: (][8D]
The weirdest thing I ate was in Australia, sort of like a caterpillar but a lot fatter and 3" long. They fried it and served it in a plate all by itself, a rare delicacy I was told by my " mates" . The last one the restaurant had that night, unfortunately (or fortunately) they were out of kangoroo meat. They watched me eat it, and gulp it down wit a glass of wibe, a sour tasting thing which stuck to my mouth.
A rare delicay, I was sick until morning !!!! I will never eat stuff I don t know anymore.
If we are ever camping, and visit us,you will see us eating good old steaks and sausages !
Birol
GeneFOk, so I ll mention a few items I ve eaten for the sake of a Boy Scout merit badge. I ve eaten fried cactus and alligator (really tasty, but very tough).
GeneFAnybody ate shark ????? Once we had them in an open buffet, I couldn t eat any, too crunchy, my wife ate a whole shark I think.
GeneFguinnea hen (we raised them)
alligator
raw clams
escargot
snake
sushi
buffalo burger
eat shark all the time (heavy flavor, delicate texture)
eel
fried grasshopper
pickled okra(yum yum my favorite!!)
chocolate covered crickets
head cheese
Made Tuna Twinkie Souffle (old boards)
" eaten" many flying insects while riding my bike
And I keep telling y all this!!! One of my favorite weird foods.... pasta with peanut butter and Red-hot
GeneFChocolate covered bumble bees. Once.
GeneFhomecrew, I think once would be enough for me too.
GeneFNever ate them myself, but my uncle and cousins used to fight over who got to eat the lamb eyes at Easter. Then there was the Easter soup made by my grandmom which was based on the intestines of the same spit roasted lamb that was cooked for hours in my uncle s back yard. Probably other parts were eaten but I stuck to the chops.
Maybe not strange, but we eat dandelion leaves boiled then mixed with a little olive oil and lemon juice. DH s mom used to embarass him by pulling over the car when she d see a big field of dandelions.
GeneFEwwww, lamb eyes. Back in Turkey (My origins), people cook head of a cow/sheep and eat it, the whole meaty sections, and of course the eyes. It is considered a delicacy by some [: (], do not mention the tongue, eeeewwwwwww
GeneFAlmost forgot...
Once when drunk I ate someone else s toenail on a $10 bet!
Had to be drunk for that one!
GeneFRocky Mountains Oysters!
MtnCamperJust rememberred this one. In my military days..went out with some K-9 handlers, and they drank beer out of a dirty ash tray. They tried to get me to also, but I refused. Told them I didn t want to be a honory K-9 handler...glad just to be a patrolman (and the idiot who let the K-9 attack me for training purposes).