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So im in a candy store today and im just looking around when i see "gummi chicken legs imported from spain"

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they even taste odd...

menudo? haggis? earthworm?

I don't know I have eaten a lot of weird things.

A cockroach on a bet when I was a kid.

They were horrible!

What are they? Some kind of fish sweet?:confused:

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They were horrible!

Either goat, or some small dried worm that was being offered as a snack food sample at the Little Shop of Science. It tasted like popcorn.

menudo? haggis? earthworm?

I don't know I have eaten a lot of weird things.

haggis isn't weird! haggis is yummy!!

i'm not sure what especially weird thing i've eaten, i generally eat whatever is presented to me as food as long as it doesn't smell too bad. pigs trotters are pretty odd, and i gagged a little the first time i ate a whole octopus but it was actually really nice, just the tentacles freaked me out a little.

Either goat, or some small dried worm that was being offered as a snack food sample at the Little Shop of Science. It tasted like popcorn.

mm, i've had goat. it was oddly slimy but quite tasty. nothing like what i was expecting, i really thought it would taste more like lamb.

they even taste odd...

Probably the Sulphur Dioxide.
Seriously, what the fuck.

What are they? Some kind of fish sweet?:confused:

Like this (http://www.fotothing.com/photos/726/726ada627b5cb90906bb507f486be907.jpg). But mine have seeds on them.

They're dried fish.

I'd go get a pack out the kitchen and take more pictures, but I can walk right now..

*offers to send you some*

Like this (http://www.fotothing.com/photos/726/726ada627b5cb90906bb507f486be907.jpg). But mine have seeds on them.

They're dried fish.

I'd go get a pack out the kitchen and take more pictures, but I can walk right now..

*offers to send you some*
that looks like whitebait. they're good fried in breadcrumbs and then in a sandwhich with a bit of salt and pepper. athough i wouldn't like to have them just dried and out of a packet like that.

Like this (http://www.fotothing.com/photos/726/726ada627b5cb90906bb507f486be907.jpg). But mine have seeds on them.

They're dried fish.

I'd go get a pack out the kitchen and take more pictures, but I can walk right now..

*offers to send you some*

Thanks for the offer but I really hate fish. I'll have to politely decline.;)

Like this (http://www.fotothing.com/photos/726/726ada627b5cb90906bb507f486be907.jpg). But mine have seeds on them.

They're dried fish.

I'd go get a pack out the kitchen and take more pictures, but I can walk right now..

*offers to send you some*
... those arn't so bad.

a little sweet for my taste.


for me... Tuna salad sushi. yep. tuna mixed with mayo on sushi rice and nori.

Pizza-flavored dried larvae. That and an ant that fell into my mouth when I was camping.

I dont know what is weird to some may not be wierd to others.

oysters...worms...ants...locust...snake...octopus...squid...none of it really sounds weird to me.

I have eaten all manner of asian candies from my local grocery...I am never really certain what it is so I cant say.

I did recently make a tuna fish, spam, fresh pickle sandwhich covered with Sriracha chili Sause and toped with sharp cheddar cheese on whole wheat toast...I suppose that was weird.

Thanks for the offer but I really hate fish. I'll have to politely decline.;)
Meh. I bought them for the packaging anyway.
... those arn't so bad.

a little sweet for my taste.

You probably see a lot of Japanese products on your little island? Oh, hey, send me Hello Kitty pineapple marshmallows!
for me... Tuna salad sushi. yep. tuna mixed with mayo on sushi rice and nori.

I could totally eat some sushi right now.

Probably the Sulphur Dioxide.
Seriously, what the fuck.

yea what's up with that???

menudo? haggis? earthworm?

I don't know I have eaten a lot of weird things.
If the menudo you're talking about is the same menudo I am talking about... Menudo is not weird!!! I can eat it everyday!

(But then, I am in a totally different country.)

One of the weirdest things I ate... cola candy mixed with oranges. I puked right after.

yea what's up with that???
To turn your internal organs into brimstone.

I've heard from some science teacher along the line that we eat about 8 spiders a year in our sleep.

So that or the time when I accidently swallowed a dandelion when I was 6.

Pizza-flavored dried larvae. That and an ant that fell into my mouth when I was camping.:p

I've heard from some science teacher along the line that we eat about 8 spiders a year in our sleep.Ha! This is for everybody who ever tries to freak me out with this story again: FALSE! (http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/spiders.htm)

If the menudo you're talking about is the same menudo I am talking about... Menudo is not weird!!! I can eat it everyday!

(But then, I am in a totally different country.)

in my 'culture' those are the parts of the animal you don't eat (or we do, but we call it hot dogs)

same with haggis.....they told me what that was after I ate some......:mad:

Kangaroo and Emu when i was a kid

:p

Ha! This is for everybody who ever tries to freak me out with this story again: FALSE! (http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/spiders.htm)

thanks so much for posting that link! the thought of those spiders was making me not want to go to bed. not that i'm going to bed tonight, but next time i go to bed i mean.

I ate pig intestines at a restaurant before. They actually tasted pretty good....until my aunt told me what they were.

I ate pig intestines at a restaurant before. They actually tasted pretty good....until my aunt told me what they were.

yeah.....I know the feeling. When I was younger my parents tricked me into eating sweetbreads.......that is so a misleading name :(

same with haggis.....they told me what that was after I ate some......:mad:

but the bit that you eat is the good stuff, you aren't supposed to eat what it's cooked in :)

but the bit that you eat is the good stuff, you aren't supposed to eat what it's cooked in :)

it's what I was told that was cooked in the stomach that grossed me out more...

there is a reason I was told not to eat things like livers, kidneys, intestines, ect.

yeah.....I know the feeling. When I was younger my parents tricked me into eating sweetbreads.......that is so a misleading name :(

Ah, the hypocrisy of (most) people who eat meat...

Not having a go, obviously (seriously), I just find it amusing how picky people are about what bit of the animal they're eating.:p

there is a reason I was told not to eat things like livers, kidneys, intestines, ect.

What's wrong with liver or kidney? What reason?

Forgot to answer the question.

Nothing exactly exotic: tripe (http://www.narren-spiegel.de/Grafiken/kutteln.jpg) (comes in a gravy-like sauce), kidneys (also in similar sauce), brain soup :p (literally; it's a simple broth with small pieces of (pig's?) brains in it; regional specialty - but probably not anymore today with Mad Cow disease...), frog legs, snails.

I've resolved to never eat lung and I never liked tongue because it's fucking creepy to see one whole at the butchers. :S

it's what I was told that was cooked in the stomach that grossed me out more...

there is a reason I was told not to eat things like livers, kidneys, intestines, ect.

well it's generally liver, heart and lungs. addmitedly the lungs bit is rather strange but heart's just muscle same as any 'normal' meat and liver's a treat. have you never had steak and kidney pie? that was a favourite of mine when i was a kid, it's really good :)

what was the reason you were told not to eat those things? is it cuz of your illness?

thanks so much for posting that link! the thought of those spiders was making me not want to go to bed. not that i'm going to bed tonight, but next time i go to bed i mean.I know!

there is a reason I was told not to eat things like livers, kidneys, intestines, ect.Why?

Ah, the hypocrisy of (most) people who eat meat...
for 6 years I was actually a vegan.....so I am still really picky.

Not having a go, obviously (seriously), I just find it amusing how picky people are about what bit of the animal they're eating.:p
people are picky about all types of stuff. ;) I like peas but not green beans.....etc.



What's wrong with liver or kidney? What reason?
they are waste organs....you aren't supposed to eat waste organs (according to how I was raised.....which I am finding out had a lot of arbitrary "supposed to" rules)

people are picky about all types of stuff. ;) I like peas but not green beans.....etc.

It's a fair point. :p


they are waste organs....you aren't supposed to eat waste organs (according to how I was raised.....which I am finding out had a lot of arbitrary "supposed to" rules)

Odd... mind you, if I search through myself I'm sure there's things I'm funny about in the same way.

Like I said, it wasn't any kind of serious inquiry, just a little observation...:)

there's so many things people are listing that i think are entirely normal! liver, kidneys, tongue, tripe, haggis, whitebait, sushi. and then the more unusual but no more strange, kangaroo and emu.

but then i suppose i shouldn't find it odd. i've a friend who won't eat onions cuz "they're like skin", or eggs cuz "they're chicken farts", or lamb or rabbit cuz "they're cute". fussy eaters have always confused me though. one thing i find very odd about british people is that they think somehow that eating horse meat is "wrong". why? it's just another herbivore. people say it's cuz they're intelligent. pigs are intelligent, i remember not long ago there was a pig that was taught to play computer games. people say it's cuz they're like companions. my family had a pet lamb when i was a baby, we ate it (well my parents did) when it got too big. people say they're "noble". they're not, they're evil little blighters. eat horses!

/rant :)

*snip*

I'd imagine people just take on the assumption that since they're mainly eaten in siege situations and/or if there's nothing else, they're not really that appetising.:p

The worm at the bottom of a genuine bottle of Tequila from the Oaxaca area.

Man, what a night.

there's so many things people are listing that i think are entirely normal! liver, kidneys, tongue, tripe, haggisWell, all the internal organ stuff (is there a word for them in English? Entrails or something?) are things that are "traditional dishes" here, belonging into the hearty dishes of traditional, regional cooking.

I just read up on it after Smunkee's post and turns out that pretty much all interior organs are very high in cholesterol and liver and kidneys really are laced with heavy metals and pollutants and stuff. And, the article said, since we have so many different sources of iron and protein in our time, as well as the money to buy them, we don't really need to eat that stuff anymore, so it has largely fallen out of fashion as "country" and "poor people" and "icky" food.

I think Great Britain is hanging on to their hearty old-timey cooking a bit more than we are here in Germany, where we often had kidneys and tripe and brain soup when I was a kid (even though even then my sister wouldn't eat it and it was a tad odd) but nowadays the only thing that really still survived in everyday cooking is liver.

A few exotic things I suppose, Ostrich, Zebra, crocodile, Camel. Drank piss once.

Well, all the internal organ stuff (is there a word for them in English? Entrails or something?) are things that are "traditional dishes" here, belonging into the hearty dishes of traditional, regional cooking.

I just read up on it after Smunkee's post and turns out that pretty much all interior organs are very high in cholesterol and liver and kidneys really are laced with heavy metals and pollutants and stuff. And, the article said, since we have so many different sources of iron and protein in our time, as well as the money to buy them, we don't really need to eat that stuff anymore, so it has largely fallen out of fashion as "country" and "poor people" and "icky" food.

I think Great Britain is hanging on to their hearty old-timey cooking a bit more than we are here in Germany, where we often had kidneys and tripe and brain soup when I was a kid (even though even then my sister wouldn't eat it and it was a tad odd) but nowadays the only thing that really still survived in everyday cooking is liver.

well i guess it makes sense that liver and kidneys would have all the nasty stuff in them. but i like old-timey cooking! :p

entrails is right, although offal would be more proper in the context of food i think.

:p

Ha! This is for everybody who ever tries to freak me out with this story again: FALSE! (http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/spiders.htm)

Thank goodness. We have a slight ant problem right now. I woke up four times last night to ants going for a nature walk on my arm and this morning I was wondering how many decided to visit the museum of internal organs. Much relief.

Oh... and I almost forgot about frog leg soup and escargot in chocolate fondue sauce.

well i guess it makes sense that liver and kidneys would have all the nasty stuff in them. but i like old-timey cooking! :p

entrails is right, although offal would be more proper in the context of food i think.I like it, too. And offal sounds so awful!

Thank goodness. We have a slight ant problem right now. I woke up four times last night to ants going for a nature walk on my arm and this morning I was wondering how many decided to visit the museum of internal organs. Much relief.You're welcome.:p
escargot in chocolate fondue sauce.:eek:

I just ate fermented soy beans. Yummy :)

I just ate fermented soy beans. Yummy :)

:p I should try that. I had Kimchi before, after I got over the "OMG my mouth is burning!" it was quite nice......although I really always liked cabbage, sour kraut and all. ;)

I got dared to eat the scorpion from scorpion vodka (http://www.firebox.com/?dir=firebox&action=product&aff=1108&pid=1468) once... it got halfway into my mouth before I ran away to be sick. I don't like weird foods :P

:p I should try that. I had Kimchi before, after I got over the "OMG my mouth is burning!" it was quite nice......although I really always liked cabbage, sour kraut and all. ;)

Kimchi is delicious. :)

Actually, the strangest thing i've ever had is a cricket in a lollipop. The cricket part took forever to eat. It takes a lot of licks to get to the center of a cricket.

I got dared to eat the scorpion from scorpion vodka (http://www.firebox.com/?dir=firebox&action=product&aff=1108&pid=1468) once... it got halfway into my mouth before I ran away to be sick. I don't like weird foods :P

that's not weird food, that's frightening food! i don't think i'd even be able to drink the vodka. i'd be convinced that somehow i'd get scorpions hatchng in me! :S

well i guess it makes sense that liver and kidneys would have all the nasty stuff in them. but i like old-timey cooking! :p

entrails is right, although offal would be more proper in the context of food i think.

just check no one trying to kill you with Polar Bear liver

:p I should try that. I had Kimchi before, after I got over the "OMG my mouth is burning!" it was quite nice......although I really always liked cabbage, sour kraut and all. ;)
Hey, where's my pepper jelly?
I got dared to eat the scorpion from scorpion vodka (http://www.firebox.com/?dir=firebox&action=product&aff=1108&pid=1468) once... it got halfway into my mouth before I ran away to be sick. I don't like weird foods :P

I need to find that. How much was it?

I like it, too. And offal sounds so awful!


heh! yeh, i always thought the word was just designed to make people not want to eat the stuff. maybe it was, who knows?! although i think most people associate the word with just the intestines rather than all the internal organs. well, i do anyway.

just check no one trying to kill you with Polar Bear liver

oh i know about bear livers, although i can quite imagine i'd forget if i got drunk. fortunately i don't know many murderous people, and the ones i do know i don't eat or drink with. i rekon i'm safe for now ;)

Hey, where's my pepper jelly?
well, I was gonna send you some of last summer's batch but by the time I remembered after I forgot, I decided to make you some fresh........I should be able to send it sometime before Memorial day.

oh i know about bear livers, although i can quite imagine i'd forget if i got drunk. fortunately i don't know many murderous people, and the ones i do know i don't eat or drink with. i rekon i'm safe for now ;)

it make a odd murder case

well, I was gonna send you some of last summer's batch but by the time I remembered after I forgot, I decided to make you some fresh........I should be able to send it sometime before Memorial day.

Yay!

Would you like anything from me?

it make a odd murder case

it certainly would! i reckon they'd get away with it too. i mean, bear livers don't have serial numbers after all!

that's not weird food, that's frightening food! i don't think i'd even be able to drink the vodka. i'd be convinced that somehow i'd get scorpions hatchng in me! :S
The vodka tastes....odd. Scorpion-y.

I need to find that. How much was it?
I got it for about £10ish from Selfridges. I have no idea where you'd find it in the US, I think you can order online from http://www.edible.com/shop/ They do a whole range of odd foods (great Xmas presents btw :D)

Weirdest thing I have ever eaten?

http://www.ripnroll.com/images/undies.jpg

Believe me....they were not very tasty at all, although they were 1st generation edibles.

Weirdest thing I have ever eaten?

http://www.ripnroll.com/images/undies.jpg

Believe me....they were not very tasty at all, although they were 1st generation edibles.


i think they're more meant for fun rather than taste :p

When I am eating Blue Crab, I like to suck the crab-fat from the intestines.

Delicious!

http://www.hillspet.com/media/WEURG/images/products/feline/sd/small/en/SP_FL_D_sen_NA_HAIR_150_en.jpg

I have eaten all manner of asian candies from my local grocery...I am never really certain what it is so I cant say.
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I had a vietnamese freind in elemetary school. One day he brought in one of the native "candies". It tasted like a mucusy cough, and I had to spit it out in front of him.

http://www.hillspet.com/media/WEURG/images/products/feline/sd/small/en/SP_FL_D_sen_NA_HAIR_150_en.jpg

Seriously?

:p

I have eaten a lot of strange food (mostly from Africa or Eastern Asia.) The strangest food that I enjoyed though would be live ants. They taste pretty good.

I have eaten a lot of strange food (mostly from Africa or Eastern Asia.) The strangest food that I enjoyed though would be live ants. They taste pretty good.

that has to be an odd feeling....0.o

Seriously?

:p

Standing in the kitchen.

A handful of peanuts for me in one hand.

A handful of dry catfood for the cat in the other.

Walk into the other room.

Eat from the wrong hand.

It is no wonder cats are grumpy.

I live in Japan, weird food is just par for the course.

Let me see, I've had Japanese pizzas (weird in and of themselves), tacos with hotdogs in them, squid guts, dried squid, live sea snails, sea cucumber, beef and pork entrails, horse (both cooked and raw), fugu (the poisonous blowfish), curry bread, and enough raw fish to open up my own fish store.

I've been offered, but passed on, the fride crickets and bee larve that people around here eat for breakfast.

The worst that I've eaten still has to be natto, fermented soy beans.

On the American side... um... well, I've had haggis and loved it. I also had a Rocky Mountain Oyster and don't plan on having one again.

I live in Japan, weird food is just par for the course.

Let me see, I've had Japanese pizzas (weird in and of themselves), tacos with hotdogs in them, squid guts, dried squid, live sea snails, sea cucumber, beef and pork entrails, horse (both cooked and raw), fugu (the poisonous blowfish), curry bread, and enough raw fish to open up my own fish store.

I've been offered, but passed on, the fride crickets and bee larve that people around here eat for breakfast.

The worst that I've eaten still has to be natto, fermented soy beans.

On the American side... um... well, I've had haggis and loved it. I also had a Rocky Mountain Oyster and don't plan on having one again.

Haggis is scottish.

I ate a cow's head once. Mmmmm, cow's head...

(Seriously. And it really was good.)

menudo? haggis? earthworm?

I don't know I have eaten a lot of weird things.

I'm sorry, but am I the only person who thinks this means Smunkee might have been handing out blowjobs to a Puerto Rican boyband?


More seriously....

When I was living in Iceland, I occasionally faced smoked sheep's head (which doesn't sound so bad until you watch people popping the eyeballs) and rancid shark meat buried in the beach for months for 'preservation'.

In what used to be Zaire, we were offered raw termites (hmmmm, termite season) just plucked up off the 'road', and these giant pulsating tree grub-maggot things fried in palm oil. Hmmmmm, fresh deep fried tree grub-maggot things....

Most definitely lap-lap. It was the main dish made by the Vanuatans; it was brightly colored green, red, and most predominantly, purple. It also had pretty little decorations on it. It felt like stiff pudding in your mouth. And it tasted like... nothing. It was extremely bland, and you couldn't tell whether you wanted sugar or salt to help it out. I'm not even sure what the heck it was made out of.

The worst that I've eaten still has to be natto, fermented soy beans.

Ugh. It tastes like barf and smells even better. Quite possibly the nastiest tasting thing I've ever put in my mouth.

Haggis is scottish.
Well, the chef who served it to me was a Scots-American so... ;)

I ate a cow's head once. Mmmmm, cow's head...

(Seriously. And it really was good.)

I concur. Quite tasty... my Hispanic friend made it authentically. We were all munching happily until Scott spit out an eyeball.

I ate a cow's head once. Mmmmm, cow's head...

(Seriously. And it really was good.)

head cheese is good indeed.

I concur. Quite tasty... my Hispanic friend made it authentically. We were all munching happily until Scott spit out an eyeball.

Where's your friend from? I ate it in Paraguay, en el campo.

Octopus, squid, sea urchin (looks like baby poop).

sea urchin (looks like baby poop).
I always thought it looked more like silly putty.

Live crabs in a bowl of chilli sauce in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

I've never had such epic food poisoning

Octopus, squid, sea urchin (looks like baby poop).
you don't get out much if they're the weirdest things you've had. especially since they're not weird, but bloody delicious.

as for weird - fried pigs entrails are truly revolting. But not as bad as fried pigs entrails. And they come a distant third to the most disgusting dish ever, fried pigs entrails.

cow's guts aren't nice either. not inside the cow, outside the cow nor on my plate, thank you very much.

Yak is pretty nice, especially dried yak. Yak butter is really weird. It's like mottled congealed yellowed cream, runny as well, smells and tastes like blue vein cheese. Yak butter tea is horrendous (tea mixed with yak butter - tastes like yak).

chicken feet are nasty, mainly cause they look like deformed baby's hands. Waste of time eating them imo - almost zero meat on them and too many bones.

I forgot that I eat lamb fries......I am pretty sure that makes up for my not liking haggis.......I mean I am sure the haggis people think I am gross right?

What exactly is a lamb fry?

I forgot that I eat lamb fries......I am pretty sure that makes up for my not liking haggis.......I mean I am sure the haggis people think I am gross right?

Live crabs in a bowl of chilli sauce in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

I've never had such epic food poisoning

how do you go about eating that?

What exactly is a lamb fry?

lamb testicles breaded and deep fried.

A spliff. A burning spliff.

It was passed to me strangely, on an open palm, and I thought it was a pill so I grabbed it, tossed it into my mouth and swallowed. It was soft and the burning end suddenly burned the back of my mouth, so I choked it back up. My mates laughing their guts up, me gagging like I was going to die.

Then one of my mates broke the nasty wet thing open and dried all the contents out with a lighter, and we started again.

Took a while to live that down!

how do you go about eating that?

You eat it fast before they bite back although the guy that served them kept holding them between his teeth for ages before finishing them off.

He only told me afterwards though that western stomachs aren't used to them so I should only eat one. Too bad i'd already eaten 10

lamb testicles breaded and deep fried.

Hmmm well I suppose its not too bad. For some reason that seems better to me than haggis. I just dont like the idea of eating something that has basically been turned inside out

lamb testicles breaded and deep fried.

In Australia, "lambs fry" is fried lambs kidneys. Or so I thought when I ate it?

how do you go about eating that?

Use your imagination! Sheesh, gotta be told everything?

You have two hands. Crab has two claws. Do to the crab what it would do to something a tenth of it's size!

Use your imagination! Sheesh, gotta be told everything?

You have two hands. Crab has two claws. Do to the crab what it would do to something a tenth of it's size!
Polka dancing?

Use your imagination! Sheesh, gotta be told everything?

You have two hands. Crab has two claws. Do to the crab what it would do to something a tenth of it's size!

Mate with it?

Use your imagination! Sheesh, gotta be told everything?

You have two hands. Crab has two claws. Do to the crab what it would do to something a tenth of it's size!

i would just smack it with a spoon and crack its shell but want to find out how Dundee-Fienn did it.............................GAWD Napolean! :p

Mate with it?

maybe its just me but i don't think putting a crab in your pants will ever be a good idea...

i would just smack it with a spoon and crack its shell but want to find out how Dundee-Fienn did it.............................GAWD Napolean! :p



maybe its just me but i don't think putting a crab in your pants will ever be a good idea...

They're not huge crabs. Maybe a couple of centimeters wide. Kind of like Fun-size

They're not huge crabs. Maybe a couple of centimeters wide. Kind of like Fun-size

oh i though u meant like blue crabs still that has to hurt if you don't eat them right