watchu got in yuh mouth there?

This is weird in the way that it's not very popular in most places, but I had deep fried snake in China when I was 12. It was actually delicious but my cousin got a rash all over her arm afterwards so I dodged that bullet.

Tried seasoned freeze-dried worms once, just to see what it was like. They weren't actually too bad, didn't have much of a taste aside from the seasoning. I've also eaten baby octopus salad, which I don't actually think is that strange, but other people around here seem to think it is. And alligator and goat - I love them, but people seem to think it's weird to eat them.

I guess nothing really weird comes to mind.. just stuff that's considered weird in my local culture.

I am not an adventurous eater at all I think the "weirdest" thing I've had was a cornish game hen lmfao

Canned silkworm larvae. They taste like dust bunnies.

I ate a gummy dog treat on a dare back in high school. I don't recommend it.

For real food? Uh... I don't know what constitutes weird anymore. Tried sea urchin once. I don't recommend that either.

Oh yeah, I've tasted dog and cat food before. When I was little I actually used to like eating cat food (the soft kibble kind) and small dog treats. I'm really not sure why; it's a terrible idea. XD

Well I just finished having jellyfish about an hour or so ago. It was interesting to say the least, had a very different flavor. Not bad though.

Oooh, what was the texture like? Was it like blobby jelly or was it chewy? XD

My 7th grade Challenge class did an assignment where we all prepared some kind of cooked insect or worm dish and brought them to class and sampled them all. Most people chose worms, except the one girl who used crickets. We tried worms that were fried, sun-dried, baked, and blended into a paté. And fried crickets. The fried worms and crickets were alright, the other preparations were pretty awful.

I like trying new and weird things, so I've eaten all sorts of shit. Ants are tangy and sharp and tasty, probably my favorite of the insects I've eaten, but like all bugs the exoskeleton texture reminds me of popcorn kernels and I don't like it. I like the flavor of those fried mealworms they sell next to the chips at some gas stations, but they have the same texture problem. I've liked all the unusual meats I've had - alligator and buffalo are standouts. Goat is reliably good, but sometimes places will cook it too tough.

My dad and I used to pop a couple kibbles whenever we went to feed the dogs, and the kind of dog food we had wasn't that bad. Grainy texture, but lots of savory glutamate flavor. The dog biscuits were much preferred, though. Cat food is awful, it's not even worth trying for curiosity, it's just horrid.

Weirdest thing I ever ate was probably a cracker covered in live ants that somebody dared me to eat in high school. It sucked. The upside was that the ants didn't taste that bad; the downside was that they did not like being eaten and a couple of them got in a bite or two on my lip and tongue.

Bulls nuts

I dunno what you should call 'weird'. One man's weird food is another man's delicacy. (So I start googling weird food to see at others on the Internet think)

I like trying all kinds of European meats and cheeses. Had some 10-year-old cave aged cheddar that was stupidly strong.

Scrapple or black pudding have a bit of an iron flavor, but you get that from blood puddings. Fried chicken livers or gizzards also have that strong taste. Duck and emu are very rich meats, same for lamb in its own way. Deer meat is a little gamey, but bison meat tastes like the best beef you've ever had. I feel like I've had either snake or gator meat once, but I can't recall which. Steak tartare is really just high-quality raw ground beef, so I don't think that's so weird.

For "weird" US food, there's always boiled peanuts, grits, deep-fried Kool-Aid/Oreos/Butterfingers at the fair. Red-eye gravy (made with coffee and cola) at the diner.

I did eat some raw canned oysters on a dare once. Also had a peanut butter and Vegemite sandwich when I first met someone from Australia.

Now that you mention it, I've had Alligator. It was a gamey and dense white meat--no surprises there; it's a predator, after all. But it's largely unremarkable. I imagine snake would be lighter and perhaps less gamey, but I'm just guessing based on it's anatomy and the stuff they eat.

And boiled peanuts and grits aren't weird foods. Not like low-country boiled crayfish are, anyway. It's just quite hard to find good grits, even in the South.



Off topic, because this wasn't me and isn't exactly food, but in middle school a classmate of mine--who was too smart for his own good--ate three pages of his homework saying "it's only cellulose!"

Yes, it is. It's cellulose...treated with bleach.

Being smart and being wise are two completely different things.

I don't think crayfish to be weird, any moreso than eating shrimp, lobster, or crab. But I'll admit that I won't do soft shell crab. The idea of taking a live crab, corn-battering it, frying it in a pan, then eating the whole thing? Nah, I'll just stick to the normal meaty bits.