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Strangest food?

What's the strangest food/dish you've ever eaten?

When I was a kid, we'd have "pot-luck" dinners at church once a month on Wednesday night prayer meetin'. Hence, everybody who came would a dish or two they'd prepared. Typically, for example, one family might bring a big bowl of potato salad and some baked beans. Someone else might bring a chocolate cake; a tuna fish casserole; etc. All in all, these were tasty affairs with a great variety of food spread out on tables for grazing and outright gluttony.

Ruby Allensworth was one of the cooks at our school cafeteria. She was up in years and had worked there for many years. Well, one such Wednesday evening, there was a casserole dish on one of the tables with an unidentifiable, dark brown mound in it. From a distance, it looked roughly similar to an overdone meatloaf. Upon closer inspection, however, it was clear the "mound" had four small appendages and . . . a tail.

This well-baked critter was surrounded by a moat of orangy-brown, opaque grease at least 1 1/2 inches deep in the dish. Turned out that earlier that day, Ruby had killed a possum in her back yard. Hence, she cleaned it, baked the bo-jeebus out of it, and brought it to our pot-luck dinner.

Did I try it? Oh yes. Did I like it? I'll just say it's something I'll never forget.

At least she didn't put the possum in the blender and surprise us all with some possum pate'. Amen.

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Cow brain in 7th grade. My evil spanish teacher wouldn't tell what was in this spanish dish until after we ate it.

BASTARD. :/

Oh, I did not like it either. Especially after finding out what it was.

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Steamed Herring eggs right off pine bows. Deer hoof soup.

It was served at a tribal dinner my youth
group attended in Hoonah, Alaska.

Anyone ever had Rocky Mountain Oysters?


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hog's head cheese. (stinky)
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I have also eaten gator, snake, cow's tongue and turtle, but thats not odd for a cajun.
oh ya, and frog (legs).



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I cannot compete.

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Szhuhan frog.

I worked in a Chinese restaraunt. The cooks said it was chicken.

Im sorry frog does not taste like chicken.

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Not strange to some, I know....

Rattlesnake.
I shot one in boot camp at Lackland when we were out on the shooting range and the TI deep-fried it for our camp dinner. It was Ok, I guess. nothing special, that's for sure. Perhaps we needed some spices or something. Oh well.


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Deep Fried Guniea pig.

Very big in the Andes. Not bad really.


okay.


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quote:

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Originally posted by Princess_Heather:

Anyone ever had Rocky Mountain Oysters?

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Dead: what does it taste like, then?

Weirdest thing I ever had was baked chicken's feet that was served at a dim-sum lunch my school went to years ago. It's really weird. . . it's a chicken foot, but you EAT IT.

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quote:

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Originally posted by Princess_Heather:
. . .Anyone ever had Rocky Mountain Oysters?

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Originally posted by SocialParasite:
My dad tried to get me to eat those, once. I told him that under no circumstances would I eat cow balls.

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quote:

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Originally posted by SocialParasite:
My dad tried to get me to eat those, once. I told him that under no circumstances would I eat cow balls.

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Originally posted by bowmore:
Deep Fried Guniea pig.

Very big in the Andes. Not bad really.


okay.

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Freelance, it has this really fucked up after taste. Hard to describe, gamey I guess.

And these werent any fancy store bought French frogs. These, I later found out came from a local pond.

Ive done the chicken feet thing too. :/

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I thought they were sheep sacks...


Bahaaaahaaaahaaaad no matter what they are.

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I've gone out of my way to avoid unidentified foods. Never even liked Chinese food till an ex made me try it. Still don't eat much of it, tho...

Had some broiled kangaroo at a wine-tasting once, was pretty tasty. Buffalo is big around here, not too far off from beef, but a little more tender.

Had some octopus once, chewy. I'm not a fan.

No bull balls here, nope.

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Whale ... Japan 1975 --- really sucked... tasted a lot like ... like... like... well it sucked ...!!!

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Buffalo is tasty.

Octopus not so much.

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THOSE TESTY FESTS SIMPLY GET OUT OF CONTROL!



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Someone fed me a frog once. I was HOPPING MAD!

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There's also certain soul foods. In that regard, the all-time delicacy is chitterlings a/k/a chitlin's.

A few years ago, my good friend T-Bone invited me to his grandfather's 100th birthday bash. The family rented a large building in town and it was a big event with well over 400 mostly family members in attendance. BTW, T-Bone is black and, by my best count, I was one of maybe four people of caucasion persuasion in attendance.

Prior to the big feast, there was much entertainment, which concluded with a few blues guitar numbers provided courtesy T-Bone and yours truly. When we played our last number, the people began getting in line to fill their plates.

Well, T-Bone insisted I take a seat and his sister filled my plate for me and brought it to the table. When she brought it to me, most everything on my plate looked familiar (fried chicken breast, candied yams, fried okra, hot roll), with one exception--right in the center was a pile of what looked like steaming hot, pale grey broad and flat pasta, or noodles.

Of course, I knew what the steamin' hot pile was. Grinning from ear to ear, T-Bone and several of his kin sat and watched for my reaction as I ate the chitlin's. Oh, and it was a very large helping, too.

I managed to choke 'em down, with the help of generous douses of Tabasco Sauce, keeping a straight face the whole time. When I finished, however, I politely declined their offer for seconds.

Oh, just in case you didn't know, chitlin's are boiled hog intestines. To this day, my stomach gets kinda queasy just thinkin' about it. Amen.

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"I ate the chitlin's"
Youre a better man than I.
I stayed with a black family for a while, every sunday was "chitlin" and greens w/ chicken necks day.
My foster mother would have to bleach them before she cooked em.
Guess I was too much of a honkey.
I did eat the greens though.

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'No thank you' to the chitlins, 'Yes, may I have seconds' to the Greens and fried Okra!!! Yummers!

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What possess people to eat such fucked up stuff?

I know, I know, culture. Still. Gag.

I heard