RE: Strange Foods

[GeneF]

 
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.

[fivegonefishing]

 GeneF
I 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![] I m also looking forward to trying Cod Lips this summer out East

[Gamecock Camper]

 GeneF
Having 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.

[rednekrubbrduck]

 GeneF
My 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.

[maromeo]

 GeneF
Here in the Arizona one of our restaurants serves rattlesnake meat (tastes like chicken!)
 
 Mary Romeo

[Ab Diver]

 GeneF
The 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)

[GeneF]

 GeneF
Dave
 
 Is that 10 inch snail a " Geoduck" ?  Heard of them when I was in Washington state but never saw one.

[Ab Diver]

 GeneF
Gene, 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. []
 
 " Abalone Diver"  Davie

[slowpez]

 GeneF
Potted 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.

[GeneF]

 GeneF
AB
 
 Thanks for the marine biology lesson.

[ShirleyT]

 GeneF
My 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.
 

[birol]

 GeneF
It 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
 

[Gamecock Camper]

 GeneF
Ok, 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).

[birol]

 GeneF
Anybody 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.

[MommaMia]

 GeneF
guinnea 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