What’s the most unusual thing you’ve ever eaten?

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I've eaten a rabbit in Malta, spiders in Cambodia, Jadoh in India, Lindung in Indonesia and Grasshopers in Thailand.

tiffany_g · Accepted Answer

Kind of hard to say. What people consider unusual is normal cuisine for others. For instance, people talk about squirrel and rabbit like they're either exotic meats or last resort verge of starvation survival food. But I grew up on it, just like my dad, his parents, and their parents did.

Sunday afternoons I watch Beverly Hillbilly reruns with my parents when I go over for Sunday dinner. A lot of the humor revolved around "hillbilly cuisine," characters reacting to Granny's invitation to go to the kitchen for some grits and hog jowls, like it was an unthinkable meal to "civilized" America. And I often hear those jokes while holding a plate of grits and hog jowls.

But to me the most unusual thing I've eaten, as in I wouldn't have even tried them if I didn't mistake them for another kind of meat at a family reunion, is mountain oysters. Fried (deep fried in this case) bull testes. But that's only weird to me. All of the small towns around here have annual festivals in the fall. The apple festival, the turkey festival, the creatively named fall festival (or Fallfest), cow days, and one town has the testicle festival. Their main focus is mountain oysters.

Paris13 · Accepted Answer

Sugury Plant from Egypt. Asda, Something Like That.

AviatorTom · Accepted Answer

I had some raw snake bites at the snake market in Taipei Taiwan.

andreasderjuengere · Accepted Answer

I accidentally once ate at KFC.

Yannae · Answer

I've lost count on the rabbits I've eaten. I ate squid in Greece, that one is more rare to me. Thing was still in one piece, prepared but in one piece. I don't even know what Jadoh is

BonzoInBitburg · Answer

Balut. It's a fertilized duck egg

Kulotz · Answer

crocodile egg ice cream. but Im not sure if it was real crocodile egg

Unycorn · Answer

Shrimps - Seafood is disgusting for me. Really. Couldnt swallow it or bite on it

Redstang88 · Answer

I dunno, what’s weird? I’ve had squirrel, squid, snails, gator, bear, probably some I’m forgetting too

exitseven · Answer

My grandmother cooked som squirrels that my father shot.

DarkWinterNights · Answer

One thing I would never willingly eat no matter the circumstances would be spiders.

sheikalana · Answer

I've eaten snails as a kid. It disgusts me just to think about it.

Massageman · Answer

BBQ goat in Haiti (kind of like dark meat duck).  Turtle soup in Hawaii.

Jessica405 · Answer

Pizza with pineapple! Way too sweet! 🤢🤢

NathanDavis · Answer

probably horse... I don't even want to know

4ngelic · Answer

frog legs, duck fat

WaddleGirl · Answer

Deep fried alligator. 🐊

laly520 · Answer

snails when travelled

Pohjolan · Answer

Reindeer hooves soup.

Simslover92 · Answer

Avocados. Yuck 🤮

LavLavLuv · Answer

Balut

BLP11520 · Answer

Muskrat

Anonymous · Answer

Alligator.

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