Snakes! I went to this shop called "King Cobra" and they stock dozens of live snakes of various type for medicine and food. Me and my gf back then ordered to have their specials. A cup of the squeezed livers and blood of 3 different snakes. That's 6 snakes for the both of us. I forgot all type of the snake but one of them, as you can guess is cobra. So, we actually get to pick our snakes, but we let HER - the shop keeper to choose and she did. We watched behind the glass "showroom" standing as she picked the snake with a long grappling wood, get a big o chop knife and decapitated it's head. She then took it's STILL squirming body, hook it up, and skin it while it's still wiggling - headless - yuck! She took it's liver out, it about the size of a small peeble. Sqeeze a small amount of it's blood from it's decapitated neck on small cup along with the liver + some kind of liquer. Same goes with the rest of 5 snakes and we're then at our table looking at these cups of mixed snake blood, and I'm thinking on how she make these... lol. Well, one big gulp done it.

I've tried snake soup before that, and it tasted like chicken but IMO it's not as good as chicken.

A turtle soup. Hmm.. this is my fave, it's like a mix of chicken, fish, and squid? Expensive though. Lol, don't throw up now - Here in Asia we got lot's of weird food. There's a place I've not visit here who serve baby shark, sounds interesting but I'm not that interested.

Enough weird food from me.

I don't think that I would be able to keep from gagging from that. I find liver disgusting. Not that I wouldn't try it once, though. How expensive was the meal? It doesn't sound very filling.

This one isn't too weird, but I love it. Kibbeh nayeh (sp?) - raw ground up lamb mixed with spices. It's a middle eastern dish and they serve it with onions and assorted vegetables.

Posters are going to have a hard time coming up with one that will top yours.

I have eatten ants when I was about 3-4 years old.. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

Just want to add another bizzare "food" from the stories I heard. Monkeys! I probably will kick the seller ass for selling this and the sick person who buys it.

I was told that there is a place somewhere here for eating monkey brain. Stop reading if this going to disgust you, but I think this one might be true.


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These are mountain monkeys - caged - and the customer choose the monkey they want, then the seller will grab and put this monkey on some kind of special table where it traps the monkey neck, and with a kind of sharp hammer blow a hole on its head.
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Now, I was told that the monkey ain't dead yet and will cry and squirm with most agony as the customer sit and sip it's brain with a damn straw.

SICK!

Ok, you can throw up now.

That's sick.....

I think those Truffles drive me crazy (IMG:style_emoticons/default/fie.gif) taste potent!

I have eaten squid in it's own ink. May be normal for some but it was weird and disgusting for me.
Also swordfish. Texture; rubber.

Prairie Oysters...lets see if anyone knows what those are!

The monkey bit is horrible, personnally, if I ever met anyone cruel enough to do that, I'd make damn sure they'd be tortured good and well before their much deserved death. Sounds harsh, but I have this thing against animal torture...a big thing.

But I've had squid, calamari, love it if it's cooked properlly. If it's over cooked, it gets rubbery and gross.

Escargot is a big fave of mine, snails either in the shell or stuffed in mushroom heads.

I've had shark before too, and I highly recommend it, it's so incrediably tender.

I've tried rattlesnake meat cooked over an old fashioned outdoor fire. That was pretty delicious.

This post has been edited by DollHouseKitty: Aug 13 2005, 03:29 PM

When my father was in my place the other day, he bought a rare delicacy home he won't let me have too much - since it's rare and he bought it for himself lol. Guess what - Fried Cow's eye!

It's not the eyeball but the muscles and tissues just behind the eye. I was disgusted when I first knew what it was - reminds me of soup human eyes on that Indiana Jones movie, but it's fried and... it look tasty - lol - and I have an eye just to taste it. I have to admit that it was delicious though I can't have more of it though (IMG:style_emoticons/default/13.gif)

Another "rare delicacy" is a LIVE newly born mice - live, wiggling, still red - hold it by it's tail, open wide up and you swallow it live with a gulp of chinese liqouer. The old chinese would say is say it will bring vitality, health, and long life. I'd never have the guts to do it, yet to find a newly born mice. Anyone? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

I totally respect most Eastern healing practices, but the eating of live friggen baby mice! That's horrible...long life. There are much better and humane ways to extend your mortality.

I have eatin quite a few things. Rattle snake, Copperheads, Racoons, deer, Bear, Wolf, it was very interesting, and if there is any truth to taking on the properties of what you eat or to say you become what you eat, that would explain a lot for me (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) but it was very intresting and very good.

KoiRana (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

Copperheads, racoon, bear, wolf - now these I've never try - what is it tasted like?

Fried cow's brain and tounge is actually a delicious traditional food in where I came from. Never tried any soup made from these, but sounds interesting. Cow's brain is not so bad, but the fried tounge tasted very delicious if it's prepared right.

Shark's fin is a favorite, but the cost of it oh...!

Anyone tried crododile's?

Absolutely!
Right up there with 'gator ribs...in a nice hot sauce! The meat is tender when prepared properly. LOL! I guess that humans are pretty omnivorous! Jeez, they eat puffer fish in the pacific, and if you don't know exactly what you are doing...ZAP! you're dead! My old Chinese Herbal/apothecary is loaded with bizarre foodstuffs and medicibes. Quite a fascinating read! As far as Rocky Mountain Oysters...nope! too close for comfort there...LOL! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

Crocodile
Ostrich
Quail
Squirrel (!!)
Shark
Goat (delicious)
Frogs legs in hot chilli sauce
Raw bacon
Raw fish
Snake ...... yuk! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rofl.gif)

The weirdest food I've had is Cow's Tongue. My dad loves it. I did try it a couple of times. Btw, this thread is making me lose my appetite.





-Jessica [aka Whitewolf]

i'd say: any kind of meat i've ever eaten. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

†still can't get over the horrible mental image of the agonizing cries and fight for life given in the monkeys last moments....† (IMG:style_emoticons/default/shok.gif)
From one standpoint I can understand eating a monkeys brains, as we are what we eat, and ...but...WHILE ITS ALIVE?!!....thats...umm....well...umm.....A good damn reason to add a throw up smiley..... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/fie.gif)
†Christopher Raven†
PS~ Thanks for the nightmares!!
PSS~ sadly enough, the mice thing as well as they cow eye thing sound rather doable...

I'd have to say Pig ears, and blood pudding...But I love 'em! Nothing like Pig ears, with nonnas stuffing on thanksgiving to hit the spot ;-).

-Chris.

This may sound wierd but I actuly like snakes when ground up with earthworm. and if you think thats screwed up well I got more. but dont eat it plane i get it off a cheff! So please dont just mix them thanks!

i have eaten:
Lamb: tongue and brain ( yuck )
Pig:tail ( double yuck) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

Dont really know if this counts, but doing a lot of bodybuilding, I starting blending tuna and drinking it. Yes, as my once colleague stated, I was "drinking fish".

Good stuff:)

I lived in China after I finished university for three years. I had 2 rules about food.
1) I don't eat anything that looks back at me.
2) Don't tell me what it is until later.
I had turtle, cat, and dog that I know of. Probably other weird things, but I didn't ask, they didn't tell.
In China they say that they eat anything wiuth four legs except for a chair and anything with wings, except an airplane.

I dont know if its the done in other countries, but over here, when goats/lambs are killed for food, the testicles are taken and fried normally with onion... the stomach and the intestines are also cooked.. the blood is poured into boiled salt water till it coagulates and forms a hard liver like substance.. All these things are cooked/fried together and its really tasty..

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bats, minus the wings(looks like a rat), marinated in soysauce with a little onion and vinegar---very little meat in it, but taste good

Hmm..

Bear (actually this is very good, very rich meat)

Beaver..(yeah yeah, laugh it up, but it is a very tender meat, actually a lot like lamb.)

Muskrat..(*shudders*)

Rabbit (Ok..but not my favorite..)

Deer (I'm from wisconsin..so deer is our main dinner here..yeah, cow is a delicacy.)

Squid (rubber)

Octapus (rubber)

I've NEVER eaten racoon..blech. I can only imagine how greasy they'd be..

i tried that coagulated blood mystck mentioned, and cant say i liked it, tried to kill taste with ketchup, it didn't help. taste of animal blood just couldn't be killed.
fried octopus is tasty. (boil it first)
cow tongue -boiled in salt water and served cold, in slices
and those baby mices i imagine look like gummy bears, yum (definitely have to try one day (IMG:style_emoticons/default/13.gif) )

When I was in Thailand I ate deep-fried grasshopper, cricket, and the larva of what seemed to be some kind of beetle. Not too bad. It would have tasted better if it were fried in oil that probably wasn't days old. The grasshopper exo-skeleton got caught in my teeth like popcorn kernels. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mf_popcorn.gif)

ive had some "wierd foods"...

deer
elk
moose
buffalo
guinea fowl
goose
duck
sea urchin
brains of various animals (chicken being most vile)
chicken foot, various organs
pig foot, ear, tail, smoked "raw" bacon, organs, blood
goat
doves and pigeons (not ratty city pigeons)
baby octopians
dried cuttlefish (tho i loathe squid/calamari)
tatar beefsteak (raw beef)
blood of various animals, cooked and uncooked

oh and its recently come to light that rubio's chain of restaurants were selling lobster burritos that were actually hermit crab, so ive had a bite of hermit crab as well, not particularly good, btw... hahah. i would still like to try scorpion and various snake.

also, once at a sushi place inm southerna california i saw someone order what looked like a small lobster, still living with the tail deskelatonized/detatched in pieces so that he can "see you eat him" it was rather disturbing...

the one type of wierd food that i would rather die than be forced to eat is that wretched balut (duck embryo while still in egg) or the ever more filthy jungle food "1000 year eggs". oh dear ghods... that craps as vile as it gets. ***heebie-jeebie shivers***

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_egg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balut

"wierd meat" is an interesting site i found yeaterday that seems to fit here well, enjoy:

http://www.weirdmeat.com/2006/02/shanghai-...ken-shrimp.html

This post has been edited by vulnera: Jan 18 2007, 01:22 PM

The live monkey brains story tops them all. Those images will be stuck in my mind for a long time.

Foods that some may think are strange but I grew up with are:
frog legs (sort of rubbery chicken)
squirel (very tender and flavorful chicken)
crawfish (tastes like little lobsters)

I actually really like liver if it's fried right.

The nastiest thing I have ever ever had was sea urchin and salmon roe. Too salty and slimey and tastes like fish guts. But I guess it kind of is.

I couldn't eat rocky mountain oysters or bully balls.

My grandfather grew up in the Ozarks. He ate lots of weird things. Pickeled eggs, head cheese (that's cheese made from milk and brains), pickled pigs feet etc.

In Arkansas and further south they have pickled watermelon rine and fried pickels. I like pickels but ... fried? Not so sure about that. The county fairs also have fried twinkies and candybars. Too much for me, no thanks.

On of my grandmothers from the midwest said as a kid during the depression they didn't waste anything. If they caught a fish that was filled with eggs, they fried the eggs in some oil.

This post has been edited by Masery: Jan 18 2007, 06:24 PM