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



Joined: 08 Feb 2003

PostPosted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 6:22 pm    Post subject: What's the weirdest thing you've ever eaten? Reply with quote

I had fried aligator tail when I was in Orlando. Served with honey mustard dipping sauce. Tasted like chicken...

I had quail once (at a Minneapolis restaurant). Good, but not much meat... Served with an orange glaze.
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bignate



Joined: 30 Apr 2003
Location: Hell's Ditch

PostPosted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 6:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Raccoon and Ground Hog (Woodchuck) .... Moose and Snapping Turtle all kinds of stuff.....
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Summer Wine



Joined: 20 Mar 2005
Location: Next to a River

PostPosted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 7:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Grasshopper and a mole like creature.
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Xian



Joined: 08 Jan 2006

PostPosted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 8:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Very Happy This should be quite an interesting thread.

I have a few. Maybe they are not strange to everyone though.
Probably the strangest one was this food called Kimchee Wink

On the lighter side of things, I ate Reindeer and Moose in Norway.

In Bali I ate frogs legs (tasted like chicken). My friend yelled at me and left the table gagging when he saw it. All these little legs in some sauce over the plate. Not the most appetizing of scenes, but quite nice. (Big risk eating stuff like that in Bali, but that was fine.)

In Australia I drove over a Racehorse Goanna in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. For those not in the know, a Racehorse Goanna is long, maybe over a metre long and runs very fast, hence the name. Like a giant lizard.
So my friends thought it was a good idea to stop, make a fire and cook it on the coals. Again, white meat, something like chicken.
BTW, didn't mean to run it over.

Anyway, its lunch time. Must go now Laughing
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VanIslander



Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!

PostPosted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 8:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You haven't lived until you've bitten, chewed and swallowed
a big meaty chunk of a bear's rear end
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Tough and smelly.

No kidding.

Bear rump roast stew
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mole



Joined: 06 Feb 2003
Location: Act III

PostPosted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 8:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Summer Wine wrote:
Grasshopper and a mole like creature.

hmmMMmm?? Mad
Grasshoppers and raw beef are nice at the buffet (booeepey.)
They sometimes bring unusual items at the raw fish restaurants.
Gae Bul, apparently refers to a male dog's urogenital organ, and is
a pinkish wormy sea animal.

The chef brought us two huge jumbo
shrimp, which I assumed had been chilled into submission. I went to
grab one and it flopped violently around the table. The server girl
wouldn't touch it, but the chef came and offered to boil it for me.

Raw pufferfish is way expensive, not tasty and toxic if the chef isn't careful.
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bignate



Joined: 30 Apr 2003
Location: Hell's Ditch

PostPosted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 8:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

mole wrote:

The chef brought us two huge jumbo
shrimp, which I assumed had been chilled into submission. I went to
grab one and it flopped violently around the table. The server girl
wouldn't touch it, but the chef came and offered to boil it for me.


Boil? Son you are in Korea....rip the carapace and vien off, and dip the thing in ������ and eat the poor sucker....savour it's essence man.....
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Swiss James



Joined: 26 Nov 2003
Location: Shanghai

PostPosted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 8:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

toad / frog meat in China, not bad but it had a lot of bones. Live fish in Chuncheon, the juice of a tuna eye (lots of times) in a sushi restaurant, san nakji (the octopus that's still moving) and bundaeggi.
Only bundaeggi tasted bad, it actually made me dry heave.
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peppermint



Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.

PostPosted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 9:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

mock hedgehog- vegetarian restaurant in Beijing
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the eye



Joined: 29 Jan 2004

PostPosted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 9:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

grilled alligator wrapped in a grapevine leaf....
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Bulsajo



Joined: 16 Jan 2003

PostPosted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 9:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

roast guinea pig.
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ChimpumCallao



Joined: 17 May 2005
Location: your mom

PostPosted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 9:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

1) dog

2) dolphin (a LOT of times)

3) guinea pig

4) shark

5) buffalo

6) sea lion




busaljo, did you have guinea pig in south america?? its very popular in arequipa, peru.
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Xerxes



Joined: 10 Jan 2006
Location: Down a certain (rabbit) hole, apparently

PostPosted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 9:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

1) Dog (with a Frenchman and his German girlfriend and my wife, then my fiancee)

2) Blowfish

3) fresh/salt water eel

4) Chinese Weatherfish (English for �̲ٶ��� according to google)

5) Sea Urchin

6) Bear Gall

7) Cow tongue (smoked)

Cool chicken feet

That's just Korea. My wife is native here so she takes me to eat all the weird stuff. I get a laugh or blow chunks over it all.
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periwinkle



Joined: 08 Feb 2003

PostPosted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 10:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

C'mon- it's boring if you just list what you ate~ circumstances, people! Like the bear rump roast. I mean, did you hunt it, eat it in a restaurant, or what?

Where I'm from (WI), deer hunting is big, so lots of people eating venison jerky. I heard it's gamey, so I won't touch it.

My dad said the worst thing he ever ate was wild boar. Had it in Nicaragua when he was living in a small village doing tropical medicine.
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SPINOZA



Joined: 10 Jun 2005
Location: $eoul

PostPosted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 10:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dog soup
Frogs' legs

The latter is a filthy practise and it doesn't even taste great.

I wanted the live octopus thingie on Saturday night but sadly obsoyoh apparently. I wanted to try horse when I was in Italy in summer '04 but couldn't find it despite being told it's rather common there.
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