Strangest thing you have eaten

[jackelope]

since i started trapping two seasons ago now, weve made it a point to try some of the meat. Highly highly highly recommend beaver meat. its awesome. whole family loves it. we also tried otter...a lot of bites were ok, but if you got a gamey piece, oh good lord. it is the most awful tasting thing i have ever eaten! next year we are gonna save all the legs off the muskrats and cook them up like chicken wings. should be good

Born2late has a bunch of beaver sausage made and gave me a package to grub on. It was great.

[HillHound]

Rocky Mountain oysters

[Stein]

Other than eating half a bar of soap that I though was a gummy candy when I was a kid, most of my adventurous dining came from when I was traveling regularly to China.  Here are the ones that stick out in my mind.

100 year old egg - take a raw egg, wrap it in pine needles and bury it until the whites turn translucent brown and the yolk is greenish.  It's ok, not bad after a few beers.

Fermented tofu - my co-workers all refer to it as a**-fu.  Real bad, smells horrible and tastes worse.

Dog - actually not too bad, I didn't know what it was until a guy said "don't eat that pot there" after I had several pieces.  They ensured it wasn't a "pet" dog, just a meat dog.

Horse - real dry, not a great taste not my cup of tea.

Cow stomach soup - real good, strange texture that grew on me.

Insects - bbq, fried, crushed, they are all about the same, crunchy and no reason to go there.  Southern China is known for bugs and other stuff the rest of China won't touch.  In one province, the local saying is that they eat anything that walks, flies, swims or slithers with it's back to the sun - which only leaves out people.

Raw goat stones - tastes like grass, a dirty barn and iron from the blood.  I think it's a gag dish for foreigners as no locals seem to ever partake.

Salmon head soup - tastes like you would think.  Interesting fact is the head costs more than the rest of the fish.

Pig face - half a face of a pig cut down the middle and bbq'd.  Seems to be a novelty where you get a souvenir hat, bib and plenty of beer.

Maotai - some sort of rice liquor, always served in a tiny shot glass with a stem like a wine glass and routinely turns into a drinking game where the guest gets challenged by people all around the table.  My company actually gave us a lesson on it as it's a huge part of doing business with traditional companies and older Chinese.  It is absolutely horrible both the smell and taste are repulsive, 99% of people will gag and after enough times you develop enough of a taste to not embarrass yourself.  The worst part is the shots are tiny, so you get to do a couple dozen instead of just a few.

Salmon eggs - I accidentally ate some Pautzke's when I was a kid and that turned me off for 40 years.  I cured my own last year and they were great.  I can't believe how many I have thrown away over the years.

[Redstar]

Green ants in Australia. They weren't bad, tasted like sprite soda. Also ate kangaroo while I was there, it's good when not overcooked.

Ostrich in Madrid. It was weird, it's red, very lean, kinda tough, reminded me of buffalo meat.

[Jonathan_S]

Bat soup in Wuhan

[Widgeondeke]

While stationed in Korea - dog, didn't know it was dog until I finish my meat on a stick.
beef brains - scrambled with eggs. wasn't bad
seal jerky and whale blubber from an Alaska native while working in Barrow. makes you fell warm inside, similar to a shot of whiskey

[OutHouse]

Flies and bugs. No joke. When I started walking/early toddler stage, my mom caught me several times cornering flies in the window sills, catching them, and eating them. Was also caught finding insects in the yard and chowing on those as well. My sweet mother had to disabuse me of this habit, but the funny thing is when she told me about this many years later she said I appeared to like what I was eating.

Other than that squirrel and cow stomach in a bowl of pho which I really like.

[NOCK NOCK]

Other than eating half a bar of soap that I though was a gummy candy when I was a kid, most of my adventurous dining came from when I was traveling regularly to China.  Here are the ones that stick out in my mind.

100 year old egg - take a raw egg, wrap it in pine needles and bury it until the whites turn translucent brown and the yolk is greenish.  It's ok, not bad after a few beers.

Fermented tofu - my co-workers all refer to it as a**-fu.  Real bad, smells horrible and tastes worse.

Dog - actually not too bad, I didn't know what it was until a guy said "don't eat that pot there" after I had several pieces.  They ensured it wasn't a "pet" dog, just a meat dog.

Horse - real dry, not a great taste not my cup of tea.

Cow stomach soup - real good, strange texture that grew on me.

Insects - bbq, fried, crushed, they are all about the same, crunchy and no reason to go there.  Southern China is known for bugs and other stuff the rest of China won't touch.  In one province, the local saying is that they eat anything that walks, flies, swims or slithers with it's back to the sun - which only leaves out people.

Raw goat stones - tastes like grass, a dirty barn and iron from the blood.  I think it's a gag dish for foreigners as no locals seem to ever partake.

Salmon head soup - tastes like you would think.  Interesting fact is the head costs more than the rest of the fish.

Pig face - half a face of a pig cut down the middle and bbq'd.  Seems to be a novelty where you get a souvenir hat, bib and plenty of beer.

Maotai - some sort of rice liquor, always served in a tiny shot glass with a stem like a wine glass and routinely turns into a drinking game where the guest gets challenged by people all around the table.  My company actually gave us a lesson on it as it's a huge part of doing business with traditional companies and older Chinese.  It is absolutely horrible both the smell and taste are repulsive, 99% of people will gag and after enough times you develop enough of a taste to not embarrass yourself.  The worst part is the shots are tiny, so you get to do a couple dozen instead of just a few.

Salmon eggs - I accidentally ate some Pautzke's when I was a kid and that turned me off for 40 years.  I cured my own last year and they were great.  I can't believe how many I have thrown away over the years.

Accidently?    Gotta be a story there.

[Gobble]

A slug 

[jackelope]

A slug 

Anddddd I just puked in my mouth a little bit.

[rasbo]

Rock chuck

[Bango skank]

A slug 

When i was a teenager a friend of mine would get blackout drunk and do weird things.  I watched him pick up a garden slug and eat it.  I tried yelling at him about them being poisonous, but it was too late.  This wasnt a banana slug, it was one of the non native, bright orange ring around the underbelly ones.  Watched him eat a big gnarly spider once too.

[JimmyHoffa]

Nobody's eaten a tide pod?

[HillHound]

Those that have don’t stick around very long and if they do they probably don’t have the motor function anymore to still use the keyboard or their phone

[Bango skank]

Those that have don’t stick around very long and if they do they probably don’t have the motor function anymore to still use the keyboard or their phone

And the world loses nothing of value.