The strangest thing you have ever eaten

When I was growing up, you never asked what something was, you just ate it and either liked it or didn't. Let me see here, what do I know for sure I've eaten...
raccoon, squirrel, rabbit (wild and farm raised), deer, bear, buffalo, ox, horse, cow, pig, chicken, pheasant, quail, peacock, nutria, beaver, seal (didn't care much for that one even before I knew what it was. Native Inuit neighbor who had been back home for a family reunion brought back some smoked seal
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but I was brave enough to try), turtle, armadillo, snake, gator (yummy!!!), pickled eggs, pickled sausage (
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), pickled pigs feet, pickled cow tongue, pickled brussel sprouts, pickled okra, pickled pig lips (had to be drunk to do this one), pickled beet (yummy), pickled prunes (I won the bet so hush
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), that cheese with all the bugs in it (actually quite good if you don't look at it), fried green tomatoes, fried pickles, and fried green beans. I prefer my beef very very rare and I have enjoyed deer penis soup as well as black chicken balls soup (both of those are Oriental and I cannot remember what the heck those soups are called). The dark green egg thing was good too. I admit to sampling balut but never completely finished it.

I'll also eat pretty much anything that swims in water including sushi and sashimi (I prefer the traditional raw forms instead of the Americanized cooked forms), live shrimp, raw and cooked oysters, mussels, and clams (I like the raw over the cooked, regardless of how it is cooked), crawfish, shark, stingray, and frog legs.

Oh, and fried beer at the Texas State Fair last year. Do not ask... it is right up there with chicken fried bacon, deep fried salsa, and fried coke, you have to experience it to explain it.

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lol I made my sisters eat dry cat food...once I folded a mustard packet in 1/2 & talked one of them into biting down on it
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...the same one also ate a peanut butter, jelly & mayo sandwich--but in my defense, she asked me to make it for her
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WORST thing I ever ate was lamb spleen sausage. A Greek herdsman bought it for me when we went out together to a taverna - it was a test of manhood and I passed. But I nearly puked and couldn't eat for a couple days. My wife said I actually looked green. Texture and color were like what my dog leaves in the yard, and it tasted like I imagine that same stuff would taste like. All wrapped in a white casing. Ugh.

Strangest, though? I've eaten worms, snails, slugs, ants, crickets, grasshoppers, beetles, grass, and a rabbit eyeball... all in the same week (during survival training). Only thing that was gross was the slug - like eating tasteless slimy rubber - and chewing the eyeball, which had some sort of gristly part (I think it was the lens). Ants aren't bad at all, and my son actually looks for big fat carpenters to eat.

Traditional fish soup in Japan was interesting - the whole fish was in there, including the head (quartered). It tasted great, but trying to figure out how to eat the head with just a spoon and chopsticks was a challenge.

Fire-roasted rat in Thailand - wasn't bad. Fried grasshoppers actually were good.

Rattlesnake at the Sweetwater roundup. Bony, but flavor OK.

Guinea pig in Ecuador. They called it Cui ("Quee"), I think because of the noise they make. Stringy and gamey - sort of like squirrel. They served slow-roasted Llama also, which was extraordinary.

Camel shishkabobs in Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Not bad 'tall.

In a lot of places, some of the stuff we eat would gross them out. A prof in NH I know said that a Massai he worked with in Africa was absolutely disgusted when he saw a picture of him eating Lobster. These guys normally drink goat blood fresh out of the animal.

But since people mentioned Calf Fries, this brings me to one of my favorite stories...

Seems Francois was visiting Texas and he asked the waitress what Calf Fries were.

"Well, Sir. They're calf testicles. We dip 'em in batter and deep fry 'em. Most folks like 'em with ketchup."

Francois turns pale.

"What's the matter, sir?"

"I zee you also serve ze 'French Fries!'"
 
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to some people,eating dog is the same as western countries eating chicken/pig/cow etc,their culture does not believe it is immoral to eat cats,dogs etc.
one of the common criticisms of this thinking,is whats the difference in eating a dog,to a cow or chicken for example?
a cow and chicken can both be good pets just like the common pets we have in the western world- cats,dogs,horse etc,its just that society has attached the pet label to one group but not to another.

in a lot of poorer or less developed countries,people tend to make use of everything and anything,usualy only stopping at cannibalism.
like in africa,ghana etc-they like eating cows hooves because of jelly inside them and cows tongues as they never let anything go to waste,western countries can afford to be picky.

korea and japan are bad ones for cat,dog.. eating though,the cruelty towards them and any other animal knows no bounds,same with halal based meat though thats more the end bit,whereas they very often live an awful life in korea et al.
can remember watching some UK based childrens program some years ago on japan,and being a childrens thing-woud think itd be all nice and innocent,next thing they show is a live fish being thrown into a wok full of hot oil and a chicken given a slight cut to the carotid artery,being held over a bucket to slowly bleed out,god knows how they got that one past censors.


anyway,back to the original topic,weirdest thing have ever eaten-a stick or grass,used to have pica quite bad and woud habitualy eat certain items-sticks,grass,chalk and washing up liquid.
have had a lot of help with it in the residential home am living in so dont often do it anymore.
have lived with many with pica who eat a lot worse than that-lets just say excreted food is top of the eugh list from own view.
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