The weirdest things I ever ate were...

[jiveturkey]

You can make it without burying it ... my wife makes it quite often and it's quite tasty.

I love the stuff. It does take a certain amount of time to get used to korean food but it's extremely addictive once you do.

 

[chickdiver]

Fruit Bat (a Chammorro delicacy)
octopus kelagiun (the tentacles suck to your mouth)
live baby octopus (see above- nothing like food that fights back)
escargot (OK it was weird to me)
cooter soup and pie (for those of you not from the Gulf Coastal regions... that would be turtle)
squirrel
quail (and quail eggs)

my all time favorite (available in any grocery in the states...) turkey bacon. Turkey bacon??? Bacon should be pork, preferably apple wood smoked!

 

[scubagun]

That thing is more of a "dare" than a delicacy. Blah!

Though, I have eaten Filipino blood pudding and fish eyeballs, when I was 8-9 years old.

balut is duck's eggs. it is best at 17 days old. it's usually hardboiled.

how to eat:

the balut is best eaten hot and fresh from the pot. you make a hole on one end, about 1cm in diameter, put in a pinch of salt, sip the liquid through that hole (the liquid is like soup), then after you sip all the "soup", widen the hole to expose the hardboiled yolk. the yolk usually partially enrobes the the chick, you eat it whole! if you want, you can also eat the hardened white (it's hard but its edible, just put a little salt to taste). that's it! yummy.

in the philippines, this stuff is viagra!

 

[spog]

In China, I was served snake - the White Mountain Cobra.

Now, I have had snake before, so this didn't seem like a big deal - but the serving method was a little weird.

Firstly, they brought out a shot glass filled with fresh blood. This was poured out into the glasses of all the diners (so you got about 1/4 glass each). The glass was then topped off with rather potent rice wine (actually a spirit). I was a little nervous about the taste of the blood sitting at the bottom of the glass, but the rice wine made a flaming trail down my throat and I couldn't taste anything.

Next they bought out the prepared snakemeat. The snake was gutted and cut into 4" lengths and these were laid out on the plate. Still moving. The reflexes kept them squirming. These were tipped into a cooking pot on the table and boiled for about 30 mins.

I can't say the meat was great - once you managed to get the skin off (using your teeth and chopsticks), it sort of tasted like tough chicken.

Once we had finished that, they brought out a metal tray with surgical instruments on it and a cloth covered bowl. Inside was a tiny little organ from the snake (I believe it was the gall bladder). Carefully using the tools, they cut it open and squeezed out the liquid therein. It was bright green.

This was proclaimed to be great for men and was mixed with more rice wine and drank. I can't say that I felt a rise in my virility, but that may have been due to the rice wine.

All things considered, I think I would have preferred a KFC

spog

 

[Fitzy]

Since this is a VERY international board and a lot of people travel I thought this would be interesting.

Here is my list

Tarantula on a stick. Cambodia
deep fried grasshoppers. Thailand
buffalo gallbladder salad. Laos.
Cucumber and Chili icecream. Mexico

Now tell the truth OK, Did you keep them all down?

 

[durian]

dog meat twice in China
varieties of insects in Thailand
Water Buffalo Thailand
3 snake soup Hong Kong
bone marrow Hong Kong
frogs Hong Kong
Turtle soup Hong Kong
durian love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[teknitroxdiver]

These aren't really 'exotic' for me but they could be for yall:

At one of our school's FFA cookouts:
Rocky mountain oysters
fresh rabbit
fresh squirrel
very fresh deer
coon
crawdads (mudbugs, crayfish, crawfish, etc)
All of which is quite good. (By fresh i mean killed the night [i mean, day; of course we aren't road hunting, officer] before, week before for deer)

Internationally:

Snails, snake, kangaroo.

I've learned that most everything is really good if you just try it.

 

[Mako Mark]

I am a cow scientist, and I never even realized that cows had lips.

I never realised that cows had scientists!
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[GoBlue!]

My wife's a Pediatric RN, and she say's it's not uncommon at all for hospitals to give charcoal to kids who've ingested a poison. On a side note, they also have a stock of sterile leaches that (I believe) are sometimes used to keep a wound clean.

I'm not a plastic surgeon, but I've consulted on some of their patients, and it seems that leaches are used in the post-surgical settings for wounds that have a substantial amount of venous congestion. Leaches are placed (alive) on the wound, and they suck the blood out of the wound, so that the pressure doesn't build up too much.

As far as I know, they are NOT sterile, as the patients are generally placed on prophylactic antibiotics that would kill the most common bugs carried by leaches.

In the few patients that I've seen with leaches on, they sure did a darn good job. Can't say I'd be thrilled to have leaches applied to my nose & ears though!

Jim

 

[Mako Mark]

As far as I know, they are NOT sterile,

Jim

But what do they taste like Jim?