Weird and bizarre foods

[RealChic1999]

What is the weirdest and most bizarre food you've ever had or heard of? I had a frog dish a few weeks ago at a Chinese place...I wished the pieces were bigger...hell, I could've eaten a whole frog!

I watched a show on Travel about bizarre foods in Asia and the guy tried everything from fried bat (ugh...and it still had its face!) to bird's nest soup (which looked interesting...until it was revealed that they put bird saliva and excrement in it to give it flavor).

And more "traditional": on the Apprentice Monday the teams had to sell P'EatZZas at 7-11, which were two slices of pepperoni pizza with turkey or beef and lettuce in the middle...kinda like a sandwich. On other boards this is mentioned at it was called gross...but I would try it. Reminds me of the "poor food" I'd create when there was nothing else to eat in the fridge.

[graymillais]

I had a frog dish a few weeks ago at a Chinese place...I wished the pieces were bigger...hell, I could've eaten a whole frog!

I couldn't think of a weird food yet, but may I be the first to say:

"Frog pieces?!?! Chong that check!"

[graymillais]

I thought of one . . . it's really not all that weird, but the circumstances made it a strange surprise:

I was in Spain, eating lunch at a nice restaurant with some friends, one of whom was Portuguese and trying to explain the things on the menu to us. One of the things seemed relatively safe -- from her description, we assumed it was beef with roast vegetables.

It got to the table and there didn't seem to be enough meat on the plate to make it a beef cut of any sort. At that point she said, "Oh! Haha! No! Not cow! Ahh, how you say . . . with," and then she started making this gesture of pulling her fingers down from her chin.

"A beard?" someone said quizzically.

"Yes! What is, little animal with beard?"

I was chewing on my first bite of little animal with beard when the whole table went silent until someone finally said:

"You mean, a goat? We're eating GOAT? You let us all order goat???"

"Haha, yes . . . I was wondering why you all got that. You all thought cow! Ha ha! That's funny!"

[wordsmith]

I'm all about eating "unusual" foods...spending time in other countries will do it...

I was served:

-impala (same as venison, basically, impala being the white tailed deer of South Africa)

-warthog sausage (pretty much your standard pork, they're just little wild boars)

-crocodile tail (don't kill me, but..."tastes like chicken.")

-ostrich (that's really good stuff)

Back at home, I was writing a feature on an elk farm, and the guy who ran the place fired up the grill and hooked me up with an elk burger and elk bratwurst. It pretty much ruled.

[grneyedmustang]

-crocodile tail (don't kill me, but..."tastes like chicken.")

Sounds like it tastes just like gator tail. Man, I LOVE gator tail. I figured it would be little fried green pieces of "tail". But it wasn't. And it was soooooo good!!!

[old_school_soul]

I was at a Spanish Tapas restaurant here in DC.. I ordered the squid cooked in it's own juices.. Which I was to find out was the "ink" it spits out when it's being chased by a predator. I've never eaten something so black, it looked like hot tar. It tasted good, but getting over the look of it was tough.

[Illuminous]

mmmmmm squid. tasty tasty,

[quietmood80]

weird and bizarre food!! heck, this is my topic! i actually tried jelly fish...and it was very good. it had this very stringy jelly like texture to it...but still good...

[wordsmith]

My issue with calamari is not the taste, but the fact that it's like gnawing on rubber bands.

[old_school_soul]

My issue with calamari is not the taste, but the fact that it's like gnawing on rubber bands.

That means you're eating shitty old calamari. The calamari I've had (I had some for brunch on Saturday, grilled) was very very tender.

[wordsmith]

Naw, it was fresh from the sea in S. Africa. I just didn't like the texture. The lobster was cool, and I've never liked that.

[Illuminous]

That means you're eating shitty old calamari. The calamari I've had (I had some for brunch on Saturday, grilled) was very very tender.


that's what I've always experienced. Words, overcooking it can also make it really gummy. Maybe it wasn't cooked right.

I've eaten 90 percent of things under the sun it seems. Eel, alligator, most any organ in a cow or pig....I think it comes from being Asian.

[wordsmith]

Or just in a different style, most likely.

[SmilesSoSweet]

I've eaten 90 percent of things under the sun it seems. Eel, alligator, most any organ in a cow or pig....I think it comes from being Asian.

Same here. I'm Filipino and we have some weird foods that I won't even eat, but culturally other people do. And some of the weird food is good to me and I don't care if someone else thinks it's bizarre or gross. I love my ethnic foods!

[LakeJay]

Same here. I'm Filipino and we have some weird foods that I won't even eat, but culturally other people do. And some of the weird food is good to me and I don't care if someone else thinks it's bizarre or gross. I love my ethnic foods!

On that note, observe the following. My family loves this stuff.

http://www.nbc.com/Fear_Factor/stunts/stunt_203_balut.shtml

[SmilesSoSweet]

On that note, observe the following. My family loves this stuff.

http://www.nbc.com/Fear_Factor/stunts/stunt_203_balut.shtml

That's the one thing I can't eat. But if I was on Fear Factor, I think it would have been easy for me to eat that. :)

Some of my family will eat that and the "chocolate meat" too. (And it's not even chocolate, either!) hehe

[LakeJay]

That's the one thing I can't eat. But if I was on Fear Factor, I think it would have been easy for me to eat that. :)

Some of my family will eat that and the "chocolate meat" too. (And it's not even chocolate, either!) hehe

Yeah I don't eat those 2 items either. For those who are curious, that chocolate meat is dinuguan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinuguan

[Illuminous]

I eat the duck's eggs (balut, right?), but just the yolk part. Not the little baby duck. The eyes scare me.

And i eat blood sausage. My family sometimes eats blood clots in their Pho....I'm not a big fan cuz they're jiggly like Jell-O.

[SmilesSoSweet]

I eat the duck's eggs (balut, right?), but just the yolk part. Not the little baby duck. The eyes scare me.

And i eat blood sausage. My family sometimes eats blood clots in their Pho....I'm not a big fan cuz they're jiggly like Jell-O.

Yup, it's balut. I just can't eat it. My cousin-in-law likes to get the whole thing. He's Vietnamese and finds balut a great meal. Eww. LOL

[wordsmith]

Irish eat blood sausage. The call it black pudding, b/c that's so much more poetic.

[ebruening]

Irish eat blood sausage. The call it black pudding, b/c that's so much more poetic.

My Irish granny makes that, except she calls it blood sausage. I think her family's usage of the phrase "black pudding" died out long ago. I wouldn't ever eat it as a kid, so I can't vouch for its taste. I was never offered any while in Ireland, likely because all of my housemates and my hostess knew that I was a vegetarian. My current roommate thinks my love of homemade sauerkraut is odd. My German granny made it all the time when I was a kid; I still love it. I was always jealous of my friends who had Czech grandparents; they got homemade kolaces.

[Kitty]

I don't do weird meats. I don't really eat meat in general aside from the occasional chicken and seafood. Otherwise, I'll eat anything.