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(10) Lico-Rice Ice cream from the Orient
( 9) Sauce-Sage
( 8) Life Savers for suicidal diabetics
( 7) I'm not even touching this one
( 6) Another sucker trying to snort cocaine
( 5) Great for when you need to sneak a coffee break at work
( 4) Comes with self-contained antidote (i.e., Do NOT Open)
( 3) Designed to keep sweat shop employees busy for 12 hours
( 2) In large quantities, the snack food becomes meal worms
( 1) If you like water beds, you'll love these since they usually don't bite

P.S. The weirdest thing I've ever eaten is something that came from the WalMart hot foods sections

Great post.

The weirdest thing I ever ate was pig knuckles. It was like eating cartiledge and it was disgusting texture. The sauce was good though.

Coming from Australia, I never thought there was anything wierd about musk lifesavers... my favorite flavor, though i guess they could taste a little like sweet, sweet perfume straight from the bottle to some...

Weirdest thing i ever ate...

Several i guess.

- lamb-brain with rice and yoghurt-sauce
- lamb-eye (in vodka-shot. Quite common on gotland, and island off the east coast of Sweden)
- Rotten fish (national dish in Sweden. Its called "surstromming" which translates to "sour-cob")
- Pigs feet (traditional christmas food for swedes)
- 4 karat gold (in a shot)
- loaf made of pigs bloodand flour (called bloodpudding in sweden)

Im part persian and part swedish so its really not that strange to me.

do you mean Persian Cat? That might explain why you like pig's feet, etc.

I am curious to what brain tastes like. It sit squishy or meaty?

it apparently is dry and crunchy and it tastes like straw or hay. (Didn't you see the Scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz?)

The strangest thing I've eaten once is a snack (like US hotdogs) sold by street vendors in the Philippines. It even showed up on an episode of Fear Factor. It's called balut. Basically it's a half developed duck egg that is bioled, then boilded some more. Nothing is more gross than to see veins in an egg, other than....hmm...maybe pulling a small beak or maybe an occasional foot out from between your teeth.
Yes, I ate this once....but ONLY once!

Why? Were you that hungry?

No, my wife is from the Philippines and she said, "Here, try this fun snack that we eat in the Philippines....it's sooo good. Tastes like chicken."
Hmm....more like half developed chicken!

Are you now divorced or just hen-pecked?

Hen-pecked....of course.

And you are a good sport.

I regularly eat fermented soybeans. In Japanese it's called "Nattou". Peopl say it looks like beans and snot.

when i was in Hong Kong, i ate some weird shit, my Hongkonese friends took me to this "dirty noodles" where they dont think to much about hygiene, i had noodle soup with some weird meat in it, it turned out to be pig rectom. And i also had some dog. And i tell you the dog was good.

I've actually had musk flavoured lifesavers. I like 'em.

I remember eating "kidneys and gravy"--I presume they were from a cow. There's no sophisticated way to say this but, while they were cooking/boiling, the house smelled like piss!!!! And they had to cook a long time...yuk. With gravy, the finished dish was quite good. I wonder, though, if I'd still like them now.

Ok I come from Iceland and I can tell you that the people here eat pretty weird shit. Once a year there's a festival here where we eat all the old food people used to eat when there was hardly any food on this little island, and on that dish we have sour ram testicles, sheep head without the brain but my mother f.x. her favourite part are the eyes, also we eat rotten shark and many other things (I'm a very special Icelandic and I hate all that shit, it tastes terrible)

Anyone else out there willing to spill your guts? Some of you sound like you'd make good contestants on "Fear Factor" since it is really "Gross Factor."

I'm from the south of Portugal (Algarve) and we eat some strange things too (Well... strange for the people that aren´t from here), for example:
- Snails (cooked alive) - the little ones are the most delicious, everyone should try it and the best time to doi dit is from the end of April until the end of June;
- Pork ears and feet (Very, very good);
- Veal and lamb brains - There are some meals using these ingredients but not my favorites, definetly;
- Veal tripe - It's used on the most famous dish from Oporto (Tripas à moda do Porto) and is the dish after the Porto people are named (tripeiros);

The grossest food I ever ate was snake. It was actually good, a bit like eel but chewier.

For me, the wackiest foods are some of the stuff here in America that they sell which are all sugar and chemicals. That to me is unappetizing.

I admit we have a lot of junk that is called candy, but I have a sweet tooth and must defend the sugar and chemicals.

I have also eaten pigs feet and think they are pretty good. I know of family members who eat tripe, but I've never tried it.

What I remember being gross was watching my elderly uncles and their friends try to outdo one another at a pig roast. They'd pop out an eyeball and squish it in their mouths and pick at the nose or whatever. Needless to say, they were intoxicated and didn't seem to care....they had a good time and were really laughing and rolling on the ground.

The pig itself was the most civilized.

A new article about the gross flvours of ice cream in Japan.

"The cow tongue ice cream is a mixture of vanilla and beef broth with small red chunks of tongue."

You can read the rest at Yahoo

Thanks to Arboth for highlighting the article.

Now, I really do feel like puking.

the strangest food i have seen (note, not TRIED), is a whole cooked sparrow on a metal skewer. skull, beak, wings and all. the sauce actually smelt good but there was no way i could try it. it was psychological. watching the little skull with empty eye sockets, uh so creepy. apparently the way it is cooked makes the bones soft and pliable, but that didnt stop me hearing the occassional crunch.

the strangest food i have HEARD of... a friend of mine lived in thailand for 4 months.... he said he was freaked out by 1. fried spiders.... we all know fried grasshoppers but spiders? too freaky... and 2. still-beating snake heart. basically, they get a live snake, slit it open, remove the heart, and the idea is to consume it while its still beating... apparently it makes you powerful or something.... i think itd just make me sick :)

I actually was hungry enough to eat my wife's meatloaf one time. ;)

http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/cat_steve_dont_eat_it.php

The link above is a website where the guy goes and finds weird things
from the grocery store, tries them and describes his "experience"
He once tried the fermented soybeans

You are the love of my life and I will do anything I can to make you happy. I know how much you love my meatloaf, so I am planning on making you an extra large one on Father's Day. I can't wait to see the surprised look on your face when I pulled it out of the oven and bring it to the table. I guess it really is true that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach.

Love,

Your wife

PS By the way, how does the meatloaf feel going through your stomach?

Thanks anonymous for the sneeze link. I have seen his site before and loved it and couldn't find it again.

I will also tell Amused to take a look.

Thanks,

Michelle
American Inventor Spot Team

Smalahove

Lutefisk

Both are very nasty tbh.

Unless we got the story wrong, the weasel-coffee (chon is what I'd heard it as)
isn't regurgitated.. the beans are eaten by the weasels (traditionally civets,
but civets turn out to be too tasty themselves, locally, so with numbers down
they've switched over to weasels) which then.. process.. the beans naturally,
poop them out and then the droppings are collected and cleaned and the beans
are saved. The coffee ends up being some of the strongest stuff I've ever tasted
with a very musky sort of flavor, unsurprisingly. Almost a rich, chocolate/
liquory sort of taste. In Vietnam they serve it with sweetened milk. Man, that's
some good stuff.
For weird foods, by the by... avoid restaurants advertising 'thit cho'
(literally 'flesh dog') Not-so tender vittles

It is interesting how this gross and disgusting topic got so many readers--over 40,000 and on its way to 50,000!

I don't think it takes much for all of us to unwittingly be eating something gross: the "All American" hotdog supposedly has all kinds of junk in it. I don't know about today, but I once read that some hot dogs had horse hooves and eyeballs in them. At least they still taste good!

I have acctually tasted number four on the list. It was one of my less wonderfull experiences...
After four glasses of whiskey the taste was still stuck in my mouth. It really did taste like you imagine a snake would, only slightly worse.

Guinea pig, a delicacy in Peru

I'm from the States, i think the oddest thing I've had was Rabbit, i had it once at some expensive returant, it was really good!

My father used to hunt rabbits in the 1960s-1970s, and I ate it when I was a child. I haven't had it in decades, but I remember that it was very good--it had a sweet taste to it. The worst part, though, was the stray BBs that were in it from the gunshot.

I wouldn't eat rabbit now. I used to have a pet Dutch bunny and the thought of eating a rabbit today is disgusting. Rabbits have gone from being food to being pets. We also see guinea pigs as pets, not sources of protein.

10) Squid ink is used in a pasta dish, and is considered a delicacy. I don't think it tastes all that strong though, if I remember correctly. I'd only say it'd be pukey if it had something like ribbons of frozen ink in the ice cream. As for the cow tongue ice cream, cow tongue is used for Japanese BBQ a lot and is pretty good (lots of green onions on top); the taste that tastes you back I say. When you eat it, it just looks like a circle of meat(does -not- look like a tongue at all), so there's no psychological problem there. In fact, I'm interested in that ice cream, mainly because I have a dream of making bacon ice cream some day.

9) Sounds fine - how different would it be from maple bacon or sausage? Is it just the color that puts you off?

8) Meh. Sounds fine. I mean, there's black licorice. How could this be nastier than that?

6) Well, lots of people put gold flakes in food too, and that's messed up(and wasteful).

5) You know there's the cat poop coffee, right? In some jungle-y place, there's a cat called the Luwak/Luak(or just civet cat) that "passes" coffee beans, which are then harvested. Apparently, the cats like to eat the best coffee beans(red 'n bright), but can't digest it. The process takes away some of the acidity and adds an "interesting" flavor to the coffee. Tough choice though - drinking coffee from bulemic weasels, or from cats with diarrhea?

I have a whole menu of "interesting" things from a specialty restaurant near my place in Taiwan - I'll post it someday...

I come frome Iceland and we eate strange stuff.. f.ex. buck testicle, sheep heads (the eye is the best part they say), dry fish and the make this sheep jello also wich is a strange thing hehe. The buck is called "hrúts pungur" the head we call "svið" dry fish "harðfiskur" and the jello is "sviðasulta",
and many people eat those half developed duck eggs "strokkuð egg"
I have only tasted the jello, dry fish and sheep head wich I loved when I was little (still love the fish ;) )

What's wrong with Musk Lifesavers?

used to be my favourite flavour until Strawberries and Cream came out in Aus-land.

I like chocolate-covered insects, although I'm more partial to crickets than roaches. But I also ate ants as a kid, so take that for what it's worth.

Once worked a big-game hunter's dinner (as a roulette croupier - it was a "Monte Carlo" night, if you're familiar with those sorts of things) and we help were allowed to sample some of the gustatory delights prepared. Among them - steamship roast of hippo, braised lion, breaded and deep-fried rattlesnake, etc.

The hippo was actually quite good. Very similar to a good roast of beef. The lion was gamey. The rattlesnake was crunchy.

I couldn't bring myself to try any of the various insects being offered.

Well i come from a mexican family and beef brains are a delicacy in mexico. i know a local taco shop that sell beef brain tacos. with some salt, lemon, and chile its not too bad

I have eaten snake (sidewinder), dog, cat, eel, crickets, grasshoppers, ants, giant maggots, monkey meat (including brains), Moose brains and eyeballs, many animal testicles, cheeses with mould (like blue cheese) and many other foods.
Many were good, some were bad.
It is only the way you were brought up that sets your limitations.
I will try almost anything.
The snake was very good!
I can pass on the giant maggots.
A funny note about this is that I don't like peanut butter.

- Scorpions (cooked in a pan, the best of all the list, tastes a bit like a mix between shrimps and chicken)
- Ants (in coconut... it tasted like... coconut)
- Larvaes (cooked in a pan with peppers... spicy and surprisingly good!)
- Dried crickets (tastes like seeds or nuts (I guess they were salted), but crispier and flakier... Freak out your girlfriend with a leg stuck between your teeth... It worked to the point of regurgitation in my case... but my ex used to have quite a phobia about insects).

I ate all of this in an Insectarium which offered a "special lunch". Except for the ants that tasted like coconut (which I don't like much), the rest was absolutely delicious.

I think the worst thing I've tried to eat is pork brains in milk gravy back in the early 1990's, and sold in a can by Armour here in the US. They were something like soft pulp, and I'll warn you- don't try to heat them in the microwave. They pop all over and make a mess. The taste isn't that great either. I'll also give a special mention to squid packed in its own ink (by Goya Foods), and haggus.

I forgot to ask in my previous post- does anyone know where they sell Lavender Lifesavers? I saw them advertised on an Aussie website and tried to order them about 5 years ago, but they emailed back saying they were no longer available! They even had a picture of a roll, as they do with all their items. I do like the Musk flavored, thought I'd try these too.

I had ant eggs a couple of years ago. Went to visit my Thai family in law for the first time and what did they serve? Ant eggs with chill. It's not a great dish :(

can you actually describe what the texture and taste are like, so I can get a good idea of what it would be like toeat it?

I am curious but not brave. :) 

In some parts of Mexico there's this pig blood cooked inside the guts of the same Pig, it's called moronga.

i once ate alligater and it was all chewy and i tried to stick it to the bottom of the table it stuck there like it was superglued on.

Speaking of chili, my brother entered a chili contest at his office one year with a buddy. They went to the local chinese market and purchased duck's tounges, pork pancreas, etc. and whipped up a batch of chili that their co-workers just couldn't get enough of. They kept the source of the meat to themselves.

A have another friend that ran out of nacho's at a party he was throwing, so served Alpo (US Dog Food) to all his guests without telling them. He said they went quickly.

I've had aligator, frogs legs, cow tounge, cow face (barbacoa - mexican dish), rattlesnake, beef heart, beef kidneys, and beef and pork liver. All were good. I have not had my brother's chili, or Alpo nachos.