weirdest/grossest thing ever eaten?

Elheru Aran · Post by **Elheru Aran** » 2004-03-26 11:47am

you get the idea...

and me? hmm... just let me put it this way-- livin' in Africa, you meet some very interesting food indeed...

weirdest would definitely have to be termites. very good though, especially fried with a lighter! (incidentally, i'm not talking about the kind you find in big piles of dirt around trees-- this is the reproductive stage that flies about at night during rainy season in a lot of places). kind of a nutty flavor to 'em, if slightly soft sometimes... but hey, can't beat 'em fried up and salted!

and grossest? i'll only say that once i took a bite of something and thought i'd hurl... i don't know what it was, and i don't want to ever know!!!!

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » 2004-03-26 11:56am

I don't think it's gross, but oysters certainly feel weird. I only ever had them once, though.

I'm fairly open minded when it comes to food. I don't think I've seen anything I wouldn't eat (except for McDonalds, but we're talking "food" here - maccas hardly counts

). The grossest thing I've seen is a guy eat bugs. That was pretty freaky.

Tolya · Post by **Tolya** » 2004-03-26 12:40pm

McDonalds.

salm · Post by **salm** » 2004-03-26 12:46pm

fish & chips

Post by **Dalton** » 2004-03-26 01:29pm

Sand-covered hot dog.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2004-03-26 01:30pm

A variety of soups in Korea that aren't exactly made from.......regular meat stock

Korvan · Post by **Korvan** » 2004-03-26 03:56pm

Sea cucumber.

BoredShirtless · Post by **BoredShirtless** » 2004-03-26 04:00pm

Truth or dare...I chose dare and had to eat a cup of oil, coffee, soya sauce, honey, chili and some other stuff I can't remember...but I do remember throwing it up a couple of minutes later.

CDiehl · Post by **CDiehl** » 2004-03-26 04:02pm

This isn't much, but I've had Kraft mac and cheese with tuna, spaghetti sauce and salsa in it. It's only weird in the sense that one doesn't usually put these things together.

Superman · Post by **Superman** » 2004-03-26 04:02pm

Ants.

BoredShirtless · Post by **BoredShirtless** » 2004-03-26 04:14pm

Superman wrote:Ants.

Tangy.

dworkin · Post by **dworkin** » 2004-03-26 04:19pm

There was this stuff called 'Bawn' which my flatmate cooked once. One of our friends came in and ordered us pizzas because he thought we had raided the jellimeat (cat fud) for dinner.

Sriad · Post by **Sriad** » 2004-03-26 05:11pm

A big nasty glob of my semi-congeled bloody booger-mucus.

...hey, I was young!

Oni Koneko Damien · Post by **Oni Koneko Damien** » 2004-03-26 05:18pm

Superman wrote:Ants.

Same here, that is until one day I tried eating a fire ant and the bastard stung me on the tongue.

Other than that, I've eaten raw squid on a dare, and some insanely hot and spicy vegetable matter, I can even remember what it was, except for the fact that it was sitting in some co-ed's refridgerator for the better part of a year.

-Damien

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2004-03-26 05:23pm

this is easily one of the nastiest thing i've ever had. i don't see how people can stand these things.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2004-03-26 05:44pm

Chinese Moon Cakes from San Francisco. They sounded really tasty and I was really looking forward to trying one out, but when I took a bite and tasted it I gagged and could barely swallow the stuff. It tasted so goddamned bad my eyes were watering up as I spit the stuff out over the sink.

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2004-03-26 06:19pm

Chinese food from that restaurant that's under the abortion clinic.

Not exactly gross but gives me ideas.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2004-03-26 06:25pm

A cherry tomato that was part of a salad.

It was a perfectly normal cherry tomato, but it just recomfirmed that I absolutely hated tomatoes.

Dahak · Post by **Dahak** » 2004-03-26 08:26pm

Pasta with Ketchup.
A vile combination, and I only tried it because I was hungry, and it was the only thing the Youth hostel offered. After the first bite, I prefered to stay hungry.
Yuck.

Nathan F · Post by **Nathan F** » 2004-03-26 09:16pm

Mudfish...yes...mudfish. Stuff smells like crap, litereally. Looks about like it, too. I'd also imagine it is a fair facsimile of the taste.

The Kernel · Post by **The Kernel** » 2004-03-26 09:43pm

Joe wrote:Chinese Moon Cakes from San Francisco. They sounded really tasty and I was really looking forward to trying one out, but when I took a bite and tasted it I gagged and could barely swallow the stuff. It tasted so goddamned bad my eyes were watering up as I spit the stuff out over the sink.

*groan*, yeah Chinese baked food in general is pretty nasty.

As for me, I'd have to say Marmite. Vile stuff.

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2004-03-26 10:08pm

When I was young I use to swallow pill bugs.

Other than that, well, hmmm... I guess it would be a pizza I cooked in a hotel and then fell cheese down on the floor, but I paid 6 bucks for it and was really hungry so I decided not to let it go to waste.

They apparently don't pay those maids to sweep.

Pablo Sanchez · Post by **Pablo Sanchez** » 2004-03-26 10:22pm

[latin accent]
It was, I am thinking, the strangest thing I had ever eaten when I was the young man and I took the first taste of the female flower with it's viscous love nectar. In the time since eating the first--how do they call it in your country? "kitty?"--since the first time I am eating that, I have many opportunities to have the taste and it is not so strange to me.
[/latin accent]

Ahem...

Well, I think probably the grossest thing I ever ate was once when I was really starving one Sunday, and the only thing left in the fridge was an elderly ham. So I take it out of the tupperware and find it coated with a sort of translucent sticky goo. I didn't know what it meant, and it smelled alright, so I just sliced off the part which was coated and cooked it up for consumption. There was just something odd about the taste, so I only finished half of it and threw the rest away.

Now, it wasn't exactly terrible, and it didn't really taste so bad, but it was just... weird.

Bertie Wooster · Post by **Bertie Wooster** » 2004-03-26 10:28pm

I ate this little, tiny dried fish once. I didn't want to but my Auntie made me try one. I ate it, and it tasted like I was eating a dried up unwanted fetus.

AnimeJet · Post by **AnimeJet** » 2004-03-26 10:41pm

The Kernel wrote:
Joe wrote:Chinese Moon Cakes from San Francisco. They sounded really tasty and I was really looking forward to trying one out, but when I took a bite and tasted it I gagged and could barely swallow the stuff. It tasted so goddamned bad my eyes were watering up as I spit the stuff out over the sink.
*groan*, yeah Chinese baked food in general is pretty nasty.

Ewww.. You guys totally suck! Or maybe you've been going to crap restuarants, psssh...

As for me... i'm a pretty picky person, so its kinda of hard to chose. Food eaten on accident would probably an ant... yeap.. bitter.

Eaten "willingingly" would probably be durian...or this new cranberry + grape carbonated drink, just gross!