What is the strangest food you've ever eaten?

[lnf]

I'm not particularly adventurous, so my strangest foods are pretty mild...escargot and ox tail soup.  But I did enjoy both very much.

 

[Izdaari]

http://youtu.be/wOy2QCssTaI

 

[BALAAM]

My grandmother was an old country farm lady who did not throw anything away. They canned and froze everything. Now this has nothing to do with eating but there is nothing more gross than walking down into their cellar and looking at all the jars of canned food and seeing several with chicken feet in them!

 

[rsc2a]

I'd rather have a fork in the eye than drink "sweet" tea.

God shall redeem even this part of your fallen nature.

 

[maki12a]

I have seen and eaten most of the things posted here.  Nobody mentioned raccoon.  Slightly sweet but very good.  Ground hog is also good, if properly prepared.  I agree with T-Bone on tea and coffee.  If you add anything to it, you really aren't drinking tea or coffee.  While stationed in Germany many many many years ago I used to eat gehacktes.  Basically, raw hamburg on a delicious roll with spicy mustard.  In Hawaii, I went to a little restaurant on a corner with benches outside to wait in line on.  Not many tables inside but authentic Hawaiian cooking.  Stuff that looked like toad eggs.  Stuff wrapped in leaves of some sort.  Poke ????  Kimche.  Then there are "100 year old eggs".  Strange stuff.  Some good, some not so good.  Octopus, squid, snails, not so strange.  There.

 

[The Rogue Tomato]

I agree with T-Bone on tea and coffee.  If you add anything to it, you really aren't drinking tea or coffee. 

I don't like coffee that much, which explains why I need to add milk to it at least. 

Good tea is best without anything added.  My favorite is Pu Ehr.  With cheap tea (Tetley, Lipton), I need milk and maybe honey.

 

[lnf]

I like coffee and tea...plain.  But I like cream in flavored coffee and sugar in flavored tea.

You can call me inconsistent and I will agree with you. 

 

[The Rogue Tomato]

I like coffee and tea...plain.  But I like cream in flavored coffee and sugar in flavored tea.

You can call me inconsistent and I will agree with you. 

You can call me inconsistent and I will NOT agree with you.

Wait, no, yes I will.

 

[rsc2a]

They make medicine for that.

 

[lnf]

Well, I may be inconsistent, but I've never been indecisive. 

Mr. Tomato, take your medicine!! 

 

[Bob H]

I don't like coffee that much, which explains why I need to add milk to it at least. 

It's called sissy coffee.

 

[ThatGirl]

Cow tongue.  Except I didn't actually eat it once I realized what it was.  Seriously?  Cow tongue?  There wasn't enough on the rest of the cow so we had to resort to the tongue?  I now have a strict policy against eating anything that can taste me back.  ;D

 

[Holy Mole]

I've eaten fish eyes (not as a separate dish, but along with the rest of the fish). 

I've had balut (boiled fertilized duck egg, with the duck already having feathers on it).

I've had gibnut (a big rodent) in Belize. 

And I've had more traditional Chinese foods that might be considered strange (chicken feet, duck feet).

How about you?

I've had the last but you win this competition I'm sure!

 

[prophet]

I'd rather have a fork in the eye than drink "sweet" tea.

Amen.

Anishinabe

Tea like coffee was meant to be consumed in it purest form...any additions turn them into something other than tea or coffee. 8)

I always tell people:"If I had wanted hot chocolate, I would have ordered it".

Anishinabe

 

[prophet]

Cow tongue.  Except I didn't actually eat it once I realized what it was.  Seriously?  Cow tongue?  There wasn't enough on the rest of the cow so we had to resort to the tongue?  I now have a strict policy against eating anything that can taste me back.  ;D

My wife's grandmother bought a cow's head, and put it in the fridge, once a month or so.  Just pull a little off, when you need some meat,  and so on.  It was cheap.  Didn't seem strange to the  Aztec.  By the way, the lengua is the softest meat on the adult bovine.  And it can't taste you, once it's dead. 

Anishinabe

 

[Timothy]

I'd rather have a fork in the eye than drink "sweet" tea.

Iced Sweet Tea is the best! Little lemon ... maybe mix in some pink lemonade ... Mmmmmm

There's pretty good "sweet tea" flavored vodka to be had today. Took a taste of some sweet potato vodka a few months ago. Tasted just like raw sweet potatoes.

Russian vodka is made from potatoes, right?  So vodka is in a healthy food group.

I throw away rotten potatoes.

 

[prophet]

I bit completely through my tongue once. I did not notice much of a taste.

how was the consistency?

Anishinaabe

 

[lnf]

I would imagine it was much more tender after the first bite.  ;D

 

[subllibrm]

Tea tastes like boiled sock water.

There is not enough you can put in coffee to take away the coffee flavor.

 

[lnf]

Tea tastes like boiled sock water.

There is not enough you can put in coffee to take away the coffee flavor.

So, what do you like to drink?  I like coffee and tea...and enjoy the flavor of both, without additives.