Strangest thing you have ever eaten

Pica.
My friend at junior school used to eat raw sausages. 😱

I was pregnant and got strange cravings... Oddest was a hunk of fresh, crusty white bread spread thickly with unsalted butter, raspberry conserve and a layer of silver skin pickled onions. It was absolutely delicious. Well, at the time, anyway.

Pica. Gnawing on lumps and coal and sometimes for a delicacy - bricks

During pregnancy, I chewed and sucked elastic bands, especially the older, slightly shrivelled ones. Didn't swallow them, though!

I used to love black dog biscuits.

We used dog biscuits at school to learn to count I used to eat them as I was hungry.
Tartex vegetarian pate my first husband was a vegetarian there really wasn’t much choice then. I had to go to specialist shop for it. A tube like tomato paste or toothpaste it was tasteless and pointless but he liked it.

I liked some Tartex varieties - but some flavours were dull.

Chocolate Chip Cricket Cookies.
Biscuits made with powdered crickets.
A friend brought them to a coffee morning, so I thought, I'd give them a try.
Maybe I was swayed by the knowledge that they were made from dried insects but I did find the texture different. Not exactly melt in the mouth. 🥴

A “thousand year old” egg. I was persuaded to try one when we lived in the Far East and only took a small bite which was quite enough. It tasted faintly of blue cheese and smelled of ammonia and was a sort of blue green colour, which in itself was off putting.

I was presented with a sheep’s skull eyes ‘n all in Albania many years ago. I only managed a taste 🤢 (to be polite)

Pig's Trotter soup in the Alps decades ago with a pig's trotter in the middle of a plate of paprika soup.

Just to comment about food products - I was shopping recently in the local Co-op when I asked a lady if she needed help? She was picking up food items off the shelf. She explained that she was checking (using an app from her phone) if there were insects in the packets and tins of food from the shelves! Apparently manufacturers are including insects to bulk out ingredients and for cheapness! 😳🪳🕷️🦗

Most people will have eaten things containing insects - a red colouring used in lipstick, sweets and some foods comes from cochineal beetles.

Aged 14 and on a school trip to France we were served horse meat. It was like very chewy beef.

At someone's home in China my friend was served cold soup with miniscule fish swimming in it!

Andouillette, strangest and also the worst thing I've eaten. French sausage made from innards, an acquired taste, very acquired, it smells vile like a latrine. Although I hasten to add, that alone is contrary to pretty much
the other food I've eaten in France, which has generally been delicious.

I liked eating the heads of used matches in my teens, not the red ones, goodness knows why!

Some interesting stuff here. As a teenager I used to love ice lollies before they froze in the fridge. I guess you would call them slushies now but I would steal them when no one was looking and spoon out the slushy bits before putting them back!
Don't ask about my sniffing habits lol!

Ants that taste of lemon in Queensland. Live ones,too.

Did anyone eat red clover as a child, it has a purple flower. I remember eating this with my pals whenever we went adventuring in the countryside. Am not sure how we knew it was edible but it can be added to salads so definitely is.

Oh yes, TerriBull - andouillette! We were told in Amiens that it was a particular local delicacy and decided to try it. It came in a very strongly flavoured mustard sauce but even that couldn't mask the appalling smell and taste of the sausage. The restaurant manager was quite distressed at our lack of appreciation for this fine cuisine!

I ate white chalk with all my pregnancies and loved it so much I carried on eating it afterwards until it was too hard to get hold of the proper stuff. I remember taking my toddler to nursery and he sat and ate the box of chalks supplied to draw with because he thought that was what you did 😂

I didn’t actually eat it - I transferred it as unobtrusively as possible from mouth to a tissue and my bag.

It was a slice of sea cucumber at a Chinese wedding banquet. It wasn’t just the taste, it was the texture - absolutely revolting. Hardly any of the non-Chinese present managed to get it down.

My Singaporean-Chinese SiL told me later that none of them actually like it, but it’s traditional at wedding banquets. Having seen plenty of sea cucumbers in the wild, I’d imagine from their size and shape that they’re a fertility thing!

Oh, and I once at a Bonio, after a dd said I never would. In fact it was quite nice, so I never really understood why our dog never actually ate them - she’d bury them in the garden for a rainy day.

Jaxjacky

I liked eating the heads of used matches in my teens, not the red ones, goodness knows why!

I liked licking the strike strip on match boxes when I was very little.