What is the strangest food you have ever eaten?

Koreans eat live octopus. I’ve had it before but had a hard time to swallow it.

Yes, I have had balut. It was the nastiest thing I have ever had.
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A farmer once served me brains and eggs. He also like tongue sandwiches. Brains were like very salty sausage. Tongue looked gross but tasted fine.

@CrankMonkey Wow! You must have a strong stomach.

Cow tongue really just tastes like beef. My grandmother cooks it everyone once in a blue moon.

I prepared and ate Rocky Mountain Oysters.

Rattlesnake. . . Tasted like Chicken. . .

Whale meat. Probably 40 years ago. So I don’t really remember what it tasted like. Probably kind of an oily beef.

Rattlesnake. Tastes nothing like chicken, but it’s a pain in the arse to eat. Too many bones.

A small spider. On my ice cream.

@Seek_Kolinahr Depends on how it’s prepared. I’ve had it twice. The first time it seemed rather greasy. No bones just a lot of bite size chunks of meat. The second time was on skewers with veggies over an open flame.

Cougar and elk.Oh, and black pudding.

I guess I’m a bit of a cannibal, because I once had a jellyfish stew.

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Ah. Well, mine was prepared by shooting the thing in the head when it tried to attack my cat in my garage, and later skinned, chopped, breaded, and panfried.

Wierdest thing I can think of now is buffalo. I lived in ND and it was or is popular up there. It is not all that bad.

Jellyfish tentacles, which I had as part of a chinese banquet. They were kind of like noodles but fishy-tasting. Strange texture, quite pleasant. The octopus, which I had at the same banquet, was like eating slices of rubber.

I’ve had Balut in Philippines (partially developed duck embryo), very yuck. I’ve been served sheeps eyeball at a tribal feast in Pakistan, swallowed whole with a gulp of tea.

Hard to answer, because so many of the delicacies I now love, including caviar, beef tartare, shellfish and sushi, looked so yucky when I first tried them.

But the one that stands out is uni (sea urchin), which I always order when I eat sushi. I love its taste and texture, but it looks like a dab of vomit, and not one of my friends, even the ones who love sushi as much as I do, will touch it. That’s good for me because it’s very expensive.

@Austinlad I’ve had uni before. Dragon rolls with the eel is very good too. Caviar isn’t so odd. I’ve had gator nuggets, and kangaroo jerky. Balut, and opihi.