Strangest thing you have eaten

[TooTallMike]

Baby octopus dipped in some soy kinda sauce. Was tangy like lime but just dropped that bad boy in the sauce and then it was bony apple feet

[zwickeyman]

Rat stew in Belize. Everyone else was eating Lobster and Grouper but not me, I had to try the Rat. Actually wasnt bad

[nwwanderer]

Ceviche on a trip to El Salvador, most everything in it was still moving.  Tasty, good.  For those wanting moose tongue try a young one pre rut, not so good the other way around.  And the thing was snake length.  Would still be chewing and that was 1976.

[Oldguy]

I came close to eating a Balut, but didn't go through with it. The flight surgeon said I was smart to turn it down. Alpaca was very nice but a little chewy having just been killed. Birds nest soup was good, rattlesnake o k , and flying squirrel for a snack during survival training.

[trophyhunt]

I probably don't want to know what the strangest thing I've eaten before, but i did eat one of those fat maggot looking bugs you find in trees when your spliting it up.  Yup, I was dared to, it actually tasted kinda sweet, except the head was bitter.

[Russ McDonald]

Shark I BBQ'd

[Okanagan]

Our family often eats what other folks consider unusual.  A family story is that when my dad was young, a neighbor lady told another that she wouldn't eat at the “Okanagans.”  “Why not?” asked the second lady.  “Mrs. Okanagan is a fine cook.”

The first lady said, “You never know what you might be eating!  Those Okanagan boys hunt anything their dogs will chase and they eat everything they catch!”

A few years ago at a family breakfast at our house when we lived in Canada, our 11 year old granddaughter mused that we should eat something really unusual and out of the ordinary.  Her mother, our DIL, rolled her eyes and said, ”Bre, we are eating lynx chops, whitetail, caribou and moose...  most people would think that is unusual.”

No rattlesnake that day, nor frogs, nor the water buffalo hooves I ate in Pakistan...   

[Boss .300 winmag]

Loki made racoon sloppy joes. No bueno.

 

[elkboy]

When I was younger,  I worked on some forestry projects in southern Chile. The huasos (cowboys) would go down onto the beach of the Straits of Magellan at low tide and eat fresh shellfish. I'd had sea urchin on sushi,  but it is a way different ballgame when you chop the sea urchin open and scoop the yellow egg masses right into your mouth. Taste was good, texture made me want to hurl.

Sometimes while working up in the woods here, I'll chop open a stump and gather termite or carpenter ant larvae. Fry those up in butter and salt... not bad... a million pileated woodpeckers can't be wrong!

[NW SURVEYOR]

As a kid in Kelso I ran a trapline.
Once cooked up a muskrat braised in lard with onions like rabbit.
Added salt and pepper and it tasted every bit as good as the cottontails we shot.
The best thing was no BBs to spit out.

I regret not trying some of the bobcats I caught.
Dad wanted to cook some up, but we never did.
I looked like veal, real lean.

Bon Appetit!!!
Rob.

[Bullkllr]

Stink eggs in a village up in AK. Locals ferment salmon eggs in a crock, usually under the porch. The Native gal who got me to try them thought it was pretty funny that I didn't like them. I asked if they would be better fresh and she replied, "NO...you gotta stink 'em" 

[lokidog]

Also....a sushi chef made fresh monkfish liver pate. No terrible,  not good, very interesting.

I'd eat absolutely anything raccoon before this....   

Also, that sloppy joe was slightly burnt.

The nastiest thing I have tried was Icelandic fermented shark, just a bite... three shots of Brennevin, the national "vodka" couldn't clear that stank....   

[pianoman9701]

Cod sperm. Excellent.

[Bill W]

Also.in the Philippines. Ate sun dried fish dipped in a red sauce.these were finger long fish salted then dried in the sun and eaten whole dipped in a red sauce, kinda like a potato chip dipped in salsa. The whole fish... kinda weird. I've had goats milk. Also in the Philippines pig brain as a delicatessen.

I had a candy bar over on the island of Midway that tasted real tangy.  I ate about half of it before I looked closely at it and noticed it was coated with ants.  Checked my candy bars closely for the last 52 years.

[CoryTDF]

Here is my list:

Rock Chuck
Badger- Worst thing I have ever put in my mouth!
Coyote
Moth
Grasshopper
Worm
Live fish
Various other bugs