Strangest thing you have ever eaten

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.

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!

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. 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

Whale and raw horse meat in Japan.

All my children ate dog biscuits.

me and a friend used to eat her dogs chocolate buttons

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!

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 !

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.

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.

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.

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!

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 😂

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!

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.

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

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!

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

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.

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!

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

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! 😳🪳🕷️🦗

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

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

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.

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. 🥴