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What's the weirdest thing you've ever eaten?

posted 2 years ago by chilone (18269)
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For me, probably frogs legs (not bad) and escargot (skateboard bushings in butter and garlic).

When I go for sushi, I regularly have uni (sea urchin roe) an I like it, so I don't consider it weird, although many people do.

I'd like to know if anyone has tried hakarl ("rotten" shark) or Surstromming (lightly salted fermented Baltic Sea herring) that make some people throw up just from smelling the can being opened.

Gordon Ramsey puked on TV, trying hakarl and there are numerous videos of people puking from both of them.

So MC, what's the weirdest thing you're tried?

[–] blue1981 (8161) 2 years ago

I had beef tongue in a taco once. I don't think I'd eat it again though. Also I've eaten shark meat before. It's really salty.

[–] chilone (18269) 2 years ago

My parents used to make tongue when I was a kid. I was very tender and good, but I have never had the desire to eat it sense.

Hakarl is I'm sure nothing like the shark that most people eat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A1karl

[–] ItsGood2BeRight (3879) 2 years ago

Lengua isn't weird. It's one of the best parts of the cow.

[–] MartyDeniro (4185) 2 years ago

A nickel.

[–] Ticketsplease (4024) 2 years ago

Lamb. I'm literally eating a child.

[–] Padeen (6459) 2 years ago

I've plucked sea urchins off the rocks a few times while snorkeling, but I'm not sure if its the same species found in Japanese restaurants. They probably all tastes similar though.

I've also collected and steamed periwinkles, which tastes similar to a clam. You eat them with a toothpick or safety pin.

I'll try anything fresh that comes out of the ocean, but surstromming and harkarl I'd probably steer clear of.

[–] InquiringMind (2272) 2 years ago

A person's liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

[–] OnanTheBarbarian (13055) 2 years ago

Sea cucumber. I had it in soup in a Korean restaurant. Seriously, it looked and tasted like uncircumcised penis covered with nubs.

Sea urchin roe is delicious. However, in term of weirdness, it's not really roe, it's the sea urchin's gonad's, its testicles and its ovaries.

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[–] Bateman (605) 2 years ago

Capybara.

Tastes like a weird cross between pork and fish. Also, cooking it fills your entire kitchen with this incredibly pervasive gamey funk.

Can't really say I'd recommend it.

[–] Otter (24464) 2 years ago

Let's see... back when I ate meat I had roasted boar, braised Llama, sea urchin sushi, and turtle soup with a big hunk of unprocessed turtle.

But the weirdest thing were probably the alligator dumplings. Dumplings stuffed with alligator tail meat.