What do you like to eat that other people might find odd? Or weird?

I love to eat haggis. Especially the version that has a bit of spice to it. My girlfriend loves chicken livers in peri sauce and I just find that strange.

Wait a minute…I feel like this has already been answered.

Cream cheese and jelly with walnuts, sandwich (white bread).

Sourdough bread.

Salad without any dressing.

@jca, that sammy sounds fantastic!

Well, as most of the old timers know, I am a vegetarian, so pretty much everything sounds weird to a lot of people that I’ve known my entire life, and people that I’ve just met.

Two things that really seem to freak out meat eaters, at least here in the U.S., is tofu. It doesn’t seem that weird to me. It’s been around since the 70’s as a staple in lots of vegetarian and vegan diets.

Another thing that seems to freak out a lot of people is Japanese Seaweed Salad. It may be less common, but pretty much every Japanese restaurant serves it.

Fake bacon. It tastes so close to the real thing that my father, who is nowhere near being a vegetarian, quite the contrary, actually eats it and likes it. A lot of people simply shake their heads in disbelief that such a product even exists. I remember what bacon tastes like, from my youth. It had a nice taste, so fake bacon is a nice thing to eat occasionally. The two brands that I really like are Morningstar Farms and Lightlife

Instant coffee. I drink that at home. I buy the cheapest brand at the 99 Cents Only store. All coffee pretty much tastes the same to me and I don’t particularly like it or dislike it, I just drink it to wake me up in the morning. Some people think it’s sacrilege.

Pickled jalapeños. Some people think they’re too hot. I like them on pizza, as well as on nachos.

Most “ethnic” food except for Mexican. A lot of people are not familiar with Thai, Indian, Ethiopian, or Vietnamese food and they’re afraid to try it. These particular cuisines are terrific for me, as a vegetarian, because they have lots of options.

Fried pieces of old bread, usually one or two days old at most. Tried it once, it was tasty. It’s like chips, but potato-free.
Minced raw meat, especially if it’s prepared with spices and about to be fried/baked. I always have to try a bit, it’s legit tasty,
Egg omelet with salt, black or white pepper, sesame, cumin, sweet paprika and all other spices I can find except cinnamon and sugar. I even put bread crumbs in there once. Cover it with sour cream afterwards, or eaten with yogurt. I’ve no idea how exactly do you make an omelet, but that’s how I make it, and I like to think it’s a recipe I came up with.
Empty pancakes.
Cold potato salad. (I never knew you’re supposed to eat it warm until I was told so here.)
I also eat raw salad sometimes and drink instant coffee on daily basis.

Liver. My family are truly horrified. Oh well.

I like things like Dandelion and Burdock too.

Cottage Cheese and Baked Beans mixed together

Some of these really need to be elaborated upon on what could become the The Official Fluther Cookbook Thread

Boiled crawfish. With so much spice it’s practically mace.

Orange Jello and creamed pickled Walleye cheeks…just gently stir the two together and sit back enjoy and wait for the tip-ups to scream “Fish On”...you are livin large!

I like pipian sauce. I think it would be odd to most Americans. It’s a Mexican dish. Depending what part of MX it can be made various ways. I do it with tomatoes, toasted sesame, and a little peanut butter. Often it’s made with tomato and pumpkin seeds. It’s all blended together into a sauce that is usually served over chicken, or the chicken is actually cooked in the sauce (that’s how I do it). My MIL makes it very thick, she adds more peanut butter than I do.

I like lox and bagels no cream cheese. This seems to be very odd to a lot of people.

@jca I thought I was odd, because I don’t like sour dough bread. My husband doesn’t either.

I eat salad with no dressing sometimes. Especially, when it’s served with something else. Some other meat or fish or pasta salad. Sometimes I just put lemon, but lemon I would count as a dressing for this Q. When I was younger I hated all dressing. I have a another friend who doesn’t use dressing at all.

Nothing wrong with haggis especially at this time of year. Haggis neeps and tatties, you can’t beat it.

Durian, century egg, jellyfish, sea cucumber, and Chinese herbal soup.

Cream cheese and pimento olive sandwiches when I have both in the refrigerator. As a kid I must have eaten it as an hors d’oeuvre at some party and have loved the combo ever since.

When I was little, my grandmother used to make me noodles and cottage cheese. I know it sounds weird but it’s good. Just simple egg noodles with cottage cheese mixed in. My mom used to make it for me, too. Then we had German friends and the boy’s mom used to make noodles, cottage cheese and sliced pears. Very good as well.

My grandmother (Czech) used to take boiled bone marrow and put it on a Ritz cracker. I ate that when I was little, too. It was something special I’d get when she was cooking. Now in many fancy restaurants, bone marrow is a delicacy very expensive.

My background, ethnically, is really mixed through strange white people getting together because they were all Catholic, so I grew up eating pickled pigs feet (my Polish roots) and ground round, raw, on toast with raw onion, (my French roots), pickled herring in an assortment of sauces, I think he called them mops(?) (something my father adopted after spending time in Scandinavia just after WW2). I used to eat peanut butter and bean sprout sandwiches, but my body doesn’t like peanut butter anymore. We were also hunters, collectors (Native American on my mother’s side quite a few generations ago) and my mother’s rabbit stew was delicious and she could make all sorts of yummy things with squirrel and venison.
I currently live in Scandinavia, so the weirder things I eat are whale, reindeer, moose, lamb, brown cheese, and rakfisk, Lamb isn’t that weird I guess. I ate lots of lamb in New Zealand. In New Zealand they have an indigenous fresh water eel that gets absolutely massive. It’s very tasty smoked.

@cazzie barf

My work here is done. *turns the light out as she leaves the room.

@cazzie has left the building. ~

(I guess I shouldn’t mention that kilos of seal fat I have in my freezer for soapmaking)

Really, @anniereborn, “barf” as a reply to what a fellow jelly eats for enjoyment and by custom?! Really?

I was just thinking that when I was little my father rarely cooked, but one thing I used to always make with him was breaded smelts. I haven’t had that in over 35 years! I wonder if I would still like them.

Oh, @JLeslie I forgot about the breaded smelts I ate as a kid. Thank you for the memory. I also helped prepare them. I gutted those fish….. probably over a hundred of them.

@cazzie I have to call my dad and tell him I was thinking about it.

I like eating/drinking pickle juice as a snack. Also like eating tuna right out of the can.

Not really weird but I’ve had people cringe their nose up at my.

I’m still waiting for someone to try mac and pb. I used to like buttermilk and canned smoked oysters.

Thanks @RedDeerGuy1 I’ll go grab and eat one of the cans of smoked oysters in the kitchen cabinet.

@Tropical_Willie I don’t eat oysters before I inspect them first. Just a heads up.

We eat oysters by the shit ton here in Charleston. Only the right months though. Usually cold. I think it’s every month that ends with “er.” That’s oyster season.

Vegan.

I tasted Svensk surströmming once on a dare. It has been a midsummer favorite in Northern Sweden since at least the 16th century. It’s made from slices of Baltic sea herring filets that have been placed in open oak casks and “soured” by a tricky fermentation process for six months in open air under cheese cloth. Nowadays it comes in a can. It smells like baby shit from a colicky baby with really bad digestive problems who’s had way too much milk.

I almost puked when I opened the can and the room immediately filled with that smell. My SIL opened the sliding glass doors to her balcony. The neighbors on the balcony above us, southern Swedes, immediately knew exactly what it was and you could hear the men growling at each other in angered confusion as to which djävligt skitstövel opened a can of surströmming!—which is pretty harsh wording for Swedes in mixed company. But a dare is a dare and I got one piece down, then promptly puked all over my sister-in-law’s hand made living room throw rug. Projectile vomiting. All over the place until my stomach contents were completely gone. Then the bile, then the dry wretching

That is the only food that has every made me puke and, I swear to God Almighty if there is one, if I was 118 days at sea with no food, I still wouldn’t touch that shit with a ten foot gaff hook—and I’ll shoot anybody who tries to bring it aboard my vessel.

@Espiritus_Corvus That is a story I can relate to, but I’ve never eaten it. One thing that made me projectile vomit when I tried it was kina, or raw sea urchin. Clients of the firm in New Zealand were fishermen and they also loved to take us out on their leisure launch and we’d dive for paua and sea urchins and drag net for scallops. She assured me it was delicious raw. Nope. You can google it and see what it looks like, but I take no responsibility.