What is the weirdest/grossest thing you've eaten?
 

The other day I was reminded of a story....A year ago, my boss/friend went to a farm and slaughtered his own lamb. He brought the body back to his deli and put it in the fridge. Cut off the lambs nads, and put them in a frying pan, and fried em up. He asked me if I wanted to try them and I figured why not since I've eaten tongue, brain, liver, kidneys, just about everything, so this is one more on my list. It didn't taste bad at all, it was actually pretty decent. Well my girlfriend came in and I told her there was a cake in the freezer so when she opened it she saw the dead carcass hanging there. She got pissed, so when I finally got her forgiveness I was going to give her a kiss and my boss yells "Don't kiss him, he just had balls in his mouth!!!"
That was pointless but I felt the need to tell it.
So yeah, anyways, I would say the weirdest thing I have eaten is lamb testicles. What about you?

I learnt on my trip to New Caledonia for a French trip at high school that lambs' testicles are considered something of a delicacy by the French. I passed.

Grossest thing I can think of off the top of my head was on that same trip. It was kind of a crosss between a pizza and a pancake, with 4 raw egg yolks on it. I threw it up.

The grossest is probably this curry chicken i had in san diego. It tasted terrible but i didnt want to seem rude so tried my best to hold back from puking it up

horse shashimi and natto one meal

a writeup i stole:
Basashi (馬刺し, lit. "sliced horse") is frozen raw horse meat, sliced very thinly and served on a bed of ice, usually with some daikon shavings and a heavy dollop of garlic paste on the side. If you like sashimi and can overcome your prejudices, you will find that good basashi tastes as smooth and creamy as the best tuna belly. However, if the dish thaws too much, the tasty morsels will degenerate into stringy red strips that taste way too much like, well, raw horse meat.

Delicious in a traditional Japanese breakfast. This would usually be served with a bowl of plain white Japanese short grain rice, a bowl of miso shiru, some sheets of toasted nori, some Tsukemono (Japanese Pickles) or Kimchi and perhaps some grilled tofu or fish.

With the tips of your hashi (chopsticks), whip the natto about until it becomes lacy. Pick up a bit of rice with a sheet of nori and put a bit of natto on top. Close the nori and pop the package in your mouth.

Natto has a strong flavour, much like a Stilton or Roquefort cheese. If you find the flavour too potent, add some shoyu (soy sauce) and minced scallions. Also, the more that you whip it, the more that the ammonia element of the fragrance dissipates and the "sliminess" vanishes. The Nihon Hoso Kyokai (NHK, the Japan Broadcasting Corporation) aired a special program on natto in late 1998 which said that mixing natto 424 times (don't ask) removes its "sliminess".

The beans which are used are soy. The fermentation process makes natto a rich source of vitamin B and other nutrients. It is thought to be effective in prevention of heart attacks, strokes and osteoporosis, as well as food poisoning and intestinal disorders. It can be heated but an enzyme called nattokinase, natto's blood clot dissolving agent, is destroyed at temperatures above 70 degrees C, so it is best eaten raw.

Balut with another meal.

another writeup i stole:
Balut is the name for an embryonic duck egg that is boiled and consumed. Considered a delicacy in its native Philippines and oft-celebrated by the Filipino diaspora, balut is unfortunately lampooned by many outsiders though some other cultures in Southeast Asia consider embryonic eggs a delicacy.

Making the balut

To produce balut, a duck farmer incubates fertilized eggs in layers of hay or rice husks insulated by burlap. After six days, the eggs are checked for embryonic development. Unfertilized eggs are culled and cured in brine while dead embryos are discarded. Slow-developing embryonic eggs are culled, boiled, and sold by the name of penoy. The remaining, healthy embryos are placed back in incubation. Those remaining healthy and alive at the two week mark are boiled and sold as balut.

Off to market

Much like an ice cream man, a balut vendor will take a cart of freshly boiled balut through neighborhoods at dusk, crying, "Balut! Balut! Penoy! Balut!" Wallets will open, money will exchange hands, and a lucky consumer will take a some warm balut back to his family or eat one on the spot.

Eating balut

Gently tap the bottom of the egg and peel off just a thumb's width to access the succulent and nutritious amniotic sac, adding salt to taste. Drink the amniotic fluid then continue to peel the shell and savor the balut.

According to my family, balut with just a hint of soft down is considered culinary perfection; that is when the embryonic duckling is at its most tender.


Mmm.. Mmm.. good

I had alligator on a stick once.....I also had calamari which isn't tha wierd except I took whole squid frozen and made it.

When I was a kid I used to smash ants with my thumb and gross out my bro by licking my fingers. Other than that, the other grossest thing I ever ate is brussel sprouts. I can eat anything else.

ate a june bug when it floated in my mouth in a pool.eaten alligator that was ok.once had fluid fly in my lip when working on a frog in biology.the bad ting was here were no sinks,trashcans, and i couldnt go to the bathroom so the whole class period i held that crap to one sid of my mouth.

I ate some "chicken wings" at this bar once. MAn, I think they were monkey ears or something. I swear there was hair on the wings. I was so hungry I ate them.

Man, I was sick for a week.

I dated this girl a few years ago...

One day when I was in the Army. We were getting ready to deploy over to Saudi Arabia. We were all waiting in a hallway for a bus to come pick up. Well, someone had a bag of marshmellows to snack on, but he decided to start throwing them around at people... we had been there for about 2 hours so we were all bored so slinging marshmellows at each other seemed like a good distraction. 2 hours later we were still at it, but we were down to one marshmellow. I got bored and started reading a book.... In the next hour or so that marshmellow bounced off me about 5 more times. Well, finally it came skidding to a stop right by my foot. well, I picked it up and popped it in my mouth. It was covered with dirt and was pretty nasty. BUT I ate it. Everyone in the hallway just sat there stunned. They couldn't believe that I munched that marshmellow that had been thrown around for about 3 and a half hours.

Oh yeah, I forgot, I used to eat my boogers when I was younger.:o

cabrito-young goat is pretty good at a mexican food place. It tastes like beef, but has the consistency of chicken.

Sushi. I really can't understand how people like that crap =\

Bea Arthur.

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as for me, when i was a tender young lad, i had an odd tendency to grab a nugget or two from the dogfood bowl and ingest it. no real reason, it certianly wasn't uber-tasty, it was just something i did. i probably wouldn't repeat this excecise for anything less than monetary recompense, but it did give me the opputunity to respond to queries such as this one

I try to stay away from things that are too gross and disgusting, but everyonce in a while my grandma slips crap in. I tell her just not to tell me so I dont get sick, so I dont know what it was exactly, but it was nasty.

oh ya and my dad got me to try oysters at the Outback, lets just say I like my oysters fried, not raw and right outta the shell. *shudder* Happy thoughts, pink bunnies, puffy clouds. . .

Drastic times call for drastic measures!!!

I don't think I've ever eaten anything truly disturbing, but a friend of mine is a swimming teacher and she once got a chunk of human shit in her mouth when in the pool with a bunch of kids. Teaches you to swim with your mouth closed.

when i was a kid me and my sister would snatch handfuls of cat food (dried) from tweedle's bowl....

wasn't too bad to my recollection, I think I desparately wanted to be a cat.

I had some sort of goat stew at an Indian resteraunt. Not gross...a little gamey, but not bad.

Marinated whole baby octopus.

Friend dared me to eat it after a few drinks, said I couldn't do it, was almost right as I was struggling to keep the thing down.

Dragon Sushi.. had eel or somthing in it.. wasn't the nicest thing I've ever had... then again I can eat a anchovie straight from the bottle :D

I like sushi, but i went to this local sushi bar and tried like theyre tuna, it was the worst tuna like, ever, it probably wasnt even tuna, probably something they caught out of the willamette river in Oregon

I ate turtle once...

Snake,kangaro,turtle,buffulo,dugong.-Ya gotta live in Australia to really get down to it.
(Lived next door to tribal aboriginals in Darwin for eight years.)

Never had anything that really grossed me out, but the weirdest I have eaten would probably be shark. It was not bad tasting at all.

almost every veggie i've tried.

This bean curd pudding I had in a Chinese restaurant.

Agreed.

Sea Urchin....I have learned not to trust seafood that starts melting on your plate

i've had cougar....quite tasty

bear.......dis-fucking-gusting

i'll try anything out once.

if it's good.....i'll give it another go.

I ate a live earthworm once for ten bucks.

frog legs in indonesia? in china they had all kinds of weird food but i don't know/remember what it was.. it all tasted good though :)

While in the service I was involved in a gross-out contest. I won when I slid my finger around the rim of the urinal, wiped the slime and hair on a urinal deoderant cake then took a bite out of the cake, chewed it and swallowed it. It wasn't to bad. The others didn't even try to top that they all figured if I would do that I would eat anything. I got the nickname Mikey for a while.

no more needs to be said.

When I was in Germany with my high school orchestra, we had an authentic German dinner one night. I'm not really sure what half of what I attempted to eat that night was. :p The weirdest thing that sticks out in my mind was this sort of ball shaped thing. It was yellowish in color, but had the texture of a wet sponge sorta. I tired one bite and that was more than enough. I still have no idea what that was. :) How the people who bring us bratwurst managed to come up with that food item I will never understand.:)

:lol: So sad, yet so true.

being raised on a farm, fall slaughter meant capturing the pig blood, from which my daddy would make blood sausage, sunday morning brought blood pancakes, and sunday desert would be blod and chocolate cake. honest!
once in college, i ate a grape-jelly and sardine sandwhich for a dollar. i do love squid and other sea-food. rattlesnake is ok if it is not over-cooked (it gets real dry). but best of all is fresh caught brook-trout while it is still quivvering.

Blasphemy!

:p

Damn you I just had to read that shit right when I was shoving a spoonful of wet soggy Honey Comb in my mouth. You bastard!

Well I'm not sure I don't usually eat nasty or weird shit. I taste it but that isn't eating it. However in college you almost have to sometimes. They have this whole 50 cent meal thing at this church by the campus and my friend Sergio would ask me to go and eat with him there. I don't wanna be rude to him cause he's a nice dude and I don't wanna be rude to the people who cooked the food at that church and do what I wanted to do which was run puking over to the trash can and spit out all the food in there and toss the whole plate but nope I continued eating this nasty ass flavorless I dunno what the fuck it was. I guess it was some sort a caserole it had corn, cellary, cheese, and I think it was ham cubes or some shit I dunno it was horrible. I just remember showering it with salt and shoving whole slices of bread in my mouth with every spoonfull and I ate about half and spread it around the plate to look like I ate much more and then threw it away and left and got some real food somewhere else. I don't remember where though.

Asta!!

Maggot. Tenth grade chemistry - we got 1 point on our final average for that.

Goldfish. Same class. Three points on our average, and an additional 2 if we chewed.

Potatoes/water in a blender. Same class. 2 bonus points on average. The lesson was that the enzymes in it makes it almost impossible not to hurl.

Our teacher was a sick dude, but the best teacher I've ever had.

Okay, I've had eel and sea snails before but they were both quite tasty.

Nastiest stuff I've ever had must have been over-aged tofu, the stuff stinks to high heaven.

oh and I almost forgot: grape nuts

Wierd things I eat regularly:
Sushi, eel and snail is a weekly occurence for me.
Fish eyes, beef tripe, grilled octopus
Sea urchin, wasabi tobiko (flying fish eggs marinated in wasabi).
Oysters on the half shell.


Fish intestine, however, is not part of my normal bill of fare. I thought it was squid, but it was waay too soft. Someone told me what it was two days after, and I didn't feel too good.

I would try Rocky Mountain Oysters, if the opportunity arose.

a green olive...eewww... it was some years ago, my mom knew I hated them and offered me a (whole!!) dollar to eat one. I couldn't do it, not even for a (whole!!) dollar... I spit it out.

Well, a few months ago, in the heat of the summer, a spider felt is was his duty to attempt to wrap me up as a meal. In his attempt, I smashed him as he had been at it for some time, and I was growing tired of the webbing on my crew cut head. Once smashed, I gave an evil laugh...then ate him.

Mountain Oysters i.e. cow balls - they are actually very good.

I spent some time traveling throughout Asia and had some particularly weird stuff including fish head soup, pig heart, boiled fat, marinated bugs of some sort, dog and cat(though I did not know it at the time) and I drank snake blood directly from a snake that had been slit down the middle. These were just the some of the highlights. I primarily stayed with familes, and ate whatever they served. The snake was on a dare.

Frankly, I will try anything once, and have had the opportunity to try many, many things.

Carrots. Honest to god, every time I try to eat a carrot it makes me gag. I can't think of anything else that I just can't eat.

I tried Beefaroni as a kid. Fuggin nasty!

Also, accidently swallowed a fly.

Guinea pig. While visiting a friend's home in Peru, her mom prepared a feast. The cuy (coo-e) tasted like...guinea pig.

Pizza....in the UK...never again. bleh

Haring, it's salty raw fish. It's quite nice (weird Dutchman).

I would have to say baby squid it was pretty gross

i have to admit weird and gross food happens mostly to pregnant women and their significant other(sorry for the sympathy cravings guys) ! but my most disgusting craving came when i was pregnant with my last child. I have never had sardines but that day i wanted some so... i mixed chocolate ice cream, sardines and ranch dressing!! thinking about it now makes me sick, then it was awesome!! i tg i cant get pregnant anymore because of the craving factor!!

I am a sushi/sashimi junky, and have tried alittle bit of everything, but I would have to say the worst thing I have ever tried is squid jerky...WTF!

Yeah, I tried that while in Renosa, Mexico. I thought it was way too greasy for me.

When I was a kid I had Rocky Mountain Oysters. I loved fried oysters so I was eating them like crazy until someone told me what they really were.

I read some trivia that said the average person eats 8 spiders in their lifetime. They are supposed to crawl in your mouth while you're sleeping. Now, how in the hell did they figure that one out!

... moist towelette from KFC......

Sea Urchin...a most vomitous experience!

2 things I sampled... didn't find them gross, but when I recount to others they find it quite gross... so...
Balut *smile* quite good actually...
Monkey brain... also quite good.

i have eaten chocolate covered crickets, and chocolate covered mealworms... also the worm in a bottle of tequila

I agree with Mr. Moe, I have eaten a lot of weird animals when I visited Australia (emu, gator, etc) and other places, octopus, squid, tons of sushi, but raw Sea Urchin just blew me away. I mean, hands down, the vilest thing I have ever tasted. I don't throw up, ever, but after sea urchin was the closest I've come in 10 years. It was in a traditional japanese restaurant. This is disgusting in terms of taste and texture, not social connotations, of course.

In camp they had these fishing bait vending machines and some kid was buying buckets of nightcrawlers to throw at people. As a slightly off, 13 year old I took a bet to eat as many as I could for 20$. I think I ended up doing about 5 nightcrawlers before I gagged.

OK,
Uni (sea urchin roe) is perhaps the nastiest thing I have ever eaten. It smells like low tide, has the consistency of baby shit, tastes like naugahide marinated in swamp water with a Ty-d-bowl puck. And the best part is, once you choke down the uni and rinse it with the suchi rice, there's this loop of sushi nori soaked in essence of uni stuck to the roof of your mouth like a piece of electrical tape used to trim Roseanne's bikini line. Absolutely foul.

Tobiko, however, is good stuff. Same with Eel (but I think I'll skip the whole one - fish bones don't make it in my book. Like eating an eyebrow.) I also had a concotion of sushi rice, chopped scallops, scallion, smelt roe and mayonnaise that tasted very much like blackberry ice cream.

Strangest cut of meat I ever had was Calf's Thyroid: Sweetbreads. Texture of a liver souffle, taste of veal lightly dusted with malt sugar. Good stuff.

Finally, the oddest thing I ever ate was a mouthful of naugahyde and foam rubber; Someone said a couch was eating me, so I retaliated.

Chicken feet. Tame compared to some others, but some people think it's weird. Actually not too bad, my sister loves them.

I have eaten many things that i didnt know what was.

One thing i did know was octopus prepared in its own ink, served with spaghetti rice and bread. It was very good...if somewhat monochrome. :D

One of my favorite dishes is called "Øllebrød" (directly translated: "Beerbread) It is made by taking some bread, preferably Dark Rye Bread, and soak it in beer or a mix of beer and water. When the bread is almost totally disolved in the beer, you boil it and get a porridge like substance that is then sweetened with sugar. It is served with either milk, cream or my favorite; whipped cream . :D

hahaha that's hilarious man. What did they say when you did that?

goat in goat blood soup

I've had them. I don't care much for them; there's no meat.

So is being pregnant like being stoned?!?!

does toenail count as food?

Escargot

When I was teaching one of the students in our school was actually form China. His parents could not speak much English but he could fairly well. He was about 7 years old so couldn't do that much interpreting for them yet. They were taking classes to learn at least. They owned a Chinese restaurant downtown and invited us the other teacher, myself, and hubby to join them for their Chinese New Year Celebration. It was an amazing evening. Only one adult there could speak much English and there were about 30 of them. We had traditional Chinese foods not the "American Chinese" food that they normally served in the restaurant. There were big trays of seaweed and whole fish, shrimp whole (eyes and everything) a Dumpling/fish soup, Sushi with their "hot" sauce, escargo, and some things that I still don't know what it was. The woman who could speak english explained a lot about the dishes and translated the names where she could. There were a couple dishes that had no English translation. The dumpling soup was special. They served that at new years and would try to serve the dumpling in it (only one) to the youngest member of the family because tradition said that whoever got the dumpling would have good luck in the new year. There was one dish that was "desert". It looked much like eyeballs floating in clear syrup without the irises. In other words smooth white eyeball sized balls floating in a sweet syrup that looked like the syrup that canned pears come in. It was EXTREMELY sweet and the balls were kindof the texture of liver, if you know what I mean. The woman could not translate this dish at all so I have no idea what it was. I loved it and ate it all. In fact I didn't turn down anything they gave me - which was everything. I was so stuffed. They were so eager for me to try all that they had made. To be immersed in that environment - surrounded by the foods, and the people, and the language - Not knowing fully everything that was going on and getting just a taste of it all - It was an amazing experience. When we walked out it seemed like we were stepping out of a dream or coming back from another country. It was strange and wonderful. I can hardly imagine what it must be like to actually MOVE to another country like that. That was the strangest experience with food that I have had.

Other than that I have helped to kill and butcher, chicken, sheep, rabbit, deer, and pheasant - all of which I've eaten. Some people I suppose could not stand eating what they've seen walking around. Maybe I sound perverted but when I was 16 after butchering the sheep I chased my little brother around the kitchen with the washed heart in my hands squirting water at him with it. Later we ate it. Wierd enough?

I think the weirdest things I've eaten are probably things I have no idea I've eaten. I would imagine I've consumed a reasonable amount of roach shit and bugs just due to the vast number of times I've eaten out in my life. There's probably some domestic animal thrown in there too. Nasty just to think about it which is why I try not to. :p

I've eaten cow mammaries, and as far as I can remember, they weren't that bad.

i was waiting for this one. You know, maybe we dated the same girl. . .

The grossest thing I've ever eaten is a toss up between either a chocolate covered cricket or undercooked meat. Yuck!

I once ate dirt when I was like 6 as part of a dare.

Living in china, does I don't know count?:)
by far the worst tasteing thing I've ever had in century egg/hundred year egg/thousand year egg
"eggs that have been preserved by being covered with a coating of lime, ashes and salt before being shallowly buried for 100 days. The lime "petrifies" the egg, making it look like it's been buried for at least a century. The black outer coating and shell are removed to reveal a firm, amber-colored white and creamy, dark green yolk. The flavor is pungent and cheeselike."
The way I'd descibe the taste is like eating sulfer. most horrid thing I've ever eaten, don't understand how my girlfriend can like it.
Just talked to my roomate (also in china obviosul;y) worst thing he's had would be waterbuffalo stomache, which he just had recently, said it was the consistancy of rubber, with a taste like cows smell.
Being where we are in china one of the local delicasy's is hawgou (spellings wrong, but hey)
basically hot pot, they throw shit into an oily spicy soup, and then serve it what they put in we don't know half the time.
what we do know: pig brains, river fish (any fish they pull outta the rivers here.. very very dirty rivers) several dozen different kinds of fungus (not mushrooms) and probably more I'm forgetting.

Chicken hearts, chicken feet, intestine lining, brussel sprouts, fish eyes, hippy pussy.

Sounds like you've been on FEAR FACTOR...

I don't remember eating too many weird things... maybe that time I was tricked into eating a cupcake with toothpaste frosting. I'm such a puss.

I ate a Lego astronaut once. I even pooped him out.

Hmm...In high school we used to have the Death Drink which was a mixture that the entire table contributed to. We put in money for the "pot." Everyone at the table had to go before the year was over. My turn came, and my friend grabbed a cup and spit a huge snot hocker in it. Then the entire table put in every condiment known, popcorn, coke, grape juice, egg, chicken, cookies, pizza...it was all in there. I drank a nice gulp of it for the pot. I got $3.00 for it! Ha ha. That was fucking sick. It was nothing compared to what the rest of the table drank and one time or another.

My brother had to eat 3 servings of cheesed broccoli at once. He crammed it all in his mouth, and then puked it up all over his plate. That was what started the whole idiotic deal. A friend dared me to eat the puked up broccoli, and I did for $.50. :) Other than that, I'll have to say Deviled Ham and Spam are the worst things I've ever ate.

-Lasereth

A guy I knew in class went back to his original home in Japan. He brought back these authentic Japanese Candies. They were green, round as big as a silver dollar, and half and inch thick.

It tasted like an ashtray (I'm assuming it tasted like one since it was that bad!)

I kept half of it to let my friend try it :lol:

Umm I quoted this from another thread would it qualify?<p> <p>Shurgs, I got nothin.

Raw freshly killed moose liver.

Don't ask.

The worst thing I have eaten was badly spoiled ground beef at a Mexican restraunt in Austin. I was hungry and eating fast, so I managed to eat most of it before I realized just how nasty it tasted. I was sick with food poisoning for two weeks.

i really cant think of anything as weird as some of the shit that i've read here, but i can think of the nastiest thing i have seen people eat.

one show that come to mind is "travel sick", a show that was on comedy central a while back. this guy had to eat some nasty crap.

i was also watching a show on the food network. this guy was somewhere in asia (i dont know exactly where) and he consumed some sort of squid LIVE. he picked it up out of the water it was in, dipped it in some sauce, and popped it in his mouth. the whole time it's tentacles where flapping around, clinging to his cheeks. i was thoroughly sickened by it.

poi is the weirdest thing, its like eating glue

And this one time at band camp...


I'm a foodie, so I'll try anything once. I do, however, regret trying some of the more adventurous flavored jelly beans by Jelly Belly, marketed during the Harry Potter marketing frenzy. Grass was ok, dirt was passable, but booger and vomit certainly left something to be desired (like an airsick bag).

Canned Rattlesnake meat from some wannabe cowboy store. Dunno how authentic the meat was but it wasn't too bad.

I had a witchety grub once, and while it didn't taste that bad, I also had a 'live' one and that was kinda freaky.

dog and whale--neither was particularly nice to eat.

hmm,
lets think out of all of the things that I've eaten in my life, I think that eating Taco Poki (aka octopus) was by FAR the worst!

it still had the little suction cups on it, and chewing it was like chewing gristly rubber...it was disgusting, but I felt like I couldn't pass up on the chance to try it. I didn't throw up, but I won't ever try it again, and I don't recommend that you try it either!

I've also had alligator and calamari, but that wasn't quite so bad, it was just the consistancy of the octopus that made it so gross!

Mushrooms... of a special variety...


SO DISGUSTING.


but in chili... only the texture will get to you... *shudder*

These foods except hippy pussy are considered normal delicacies in most asian cultures.

Blah, plain caviar on nothing but a spoon. Delecacy? I think not...

I live in Malaysia and tried some of the stuff you guys mentioned here. That beancurd pudding is called "taufufa"... love it a lot. Usually these hawkers by the roadside sell it together with soyabean milk. Century egg is one of my favourites! :P The iris-less eyeballs in sweet soup should be "thong yuan" or something... they're made of flour. I like it when it's served in the sweet soup, but sometimes it's served in ginger soup too.

The strangest stuff I've ever eaten has to be some strange mixture which the seniors forced us to eat during scouts.

It was something like, tomato sauce,chili sauce, mayonaise, noodles, cream soup, tooth paste, some liquid that people use for headaches and stomach aches, sticks, leaves, sand, stones and much more. There was a pot of it, and a pail to barf into once you down a few spoons.