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Babs03 Wed 31-Jul-24 21:44:51

I remember eating raw potato as a child, not sure why but I went through a phase of eating this. I also once had cat food on a sandwich, I didn’t know it was cat food, we were holidaying in Italy and I picked up a can of what I thought was tinned tuna from a small mini market and made sandwiches with it, one bite told that all was not well so I showed the tin to an Italian man sitting near us on a bench and he just shrugged and meowed pointing to a very small picture of a cat on the back of the can.
I also had a friend who would eat tippex.

dogsmother Thu 01-Aug-24 22:44:14

Lucky enough to have traveled a fair bit. Did a foodie tour in Ho Chin Minh. That included fermented eggs and various other delights. I tried crocodile in Australia. The most unusual was cat food after a night out with my flat mate…..we came home hungry and searched the cupboard opened what we thought was a can of seafood something that she’d brought back from Lanzarote, as we were eating it and looking more intently at the can we realised. Not nice.

midgey Thu 01-Aug-24 16:53:06

In the Seventies I went to a party organised by some Australian girls. It was a bleak do to say the least, but the food was something else……spam wrapped around cold mashed potato and spiked with a cocktail stick!

pascal30 Thu 01-Aug-24 16:43:43

TerriBull

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.shock 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 agree it is absolutely disgusting Terribull

I used to like horsecake when I was a teenager with a pony

kittylester Thu 01-Aug-24 15:34:13

Whale and raw horse meat in Japan.

All my children ate dog biscuits.

JaneJudge Thu 01-Aug-24 15:29:10

me and a friend used to eat her dogs chocolate buttons

Hellogirl1 Thu 01-Aug-24 15:27:12

Many years ago, we had supper at some neighbours house. She produced a book of unusual recipes, and supper came from there. Apple, egg and onion fried up together. Not the best thing I`ve ever tasted!

Pippa000 Thu 01-Aug-24 13:35:52

Camel, as a child in Egypt, my father ordered a steak and this was served, and Python, caught by the gardener under our house in Penang. My mother had a handbag and shoes made from the skin !

Witzend Thu 01-Aug-24 11:12:29

Scribbles

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!

My French SiL tried to warn me off andouilettes once, but I’ll give (almost) anything a go once.
There was certainly an ‘interestingly’ strong flavour, but I didn’t find them too bad.
I wouldn’t bother again, though.

MissAdventure Thu 01-Aug-24 10:49:07

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.

Witzend Thu 01-Aug-24 10:44:40

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.

Witzend Thu 01-Aug-24 10:41:28

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!

Elless Thu 01-Aug-24 09:33:16

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 😂

Scribbles Thu 01-Aug-24 09:32:23

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!

Babs03 Thu 01-Aug-24 09:19:47

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.

nanna8 Thu 01-Aug-24 09:18:10

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

keepingquiet Thu 01-Aug-24 09:12:14

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!

Jaxjacky Thu 01-Aug-24 09:06:18

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

TerriBull Thu 01-Aug-24 08:43:13

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.shock 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.

Mizuna Thu 01-Aug-24 08:33:18

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!

Farmor15 Thu 01-Aug-24 08:27:35

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

Carenza123 Thu 01-Aug-24 08:05:01

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! 😳🪳🕷️🦗

Tuaim Thu 01-Aug-24 08:01:15

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

Marmight Thu 01-Aug-24 07:47:54

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

Greyduster Thu 01-Aug-24 07:23:53

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.

fiorentina51 Thu 01-Aug-24 06:39:16

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. 🥴