Strangest/most exotic thing you've eaten.

[bigbadwolf]

Shark. Don't know which type.

Kangaroo burger.

I ate a spider as part of a dare.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Just had steak pie from Tesco.

[giggirl]

Tripe

[bigbadwolf]

Come on you two you can do better than that.

[Annasfield]

You know this thread will be full of double entendres by this time tomorrow?

Conger eel - it's a bit boney.

[Eliza.D]

Roasted dove. Ate it in Israel.

How about cow foot stew, good for aching bones. Partners mum swear's by it. Very salty.

[mockney piers]

Braaaaaiiiinnnn... but my zombie days are firmly behind me.

TBH in china I often had no idea what I was eating, but most of it scared me, and I'm pretty sure some of it still moved.

I believe Huguenot can top me on this one, he knew!!!!

[matthew123]

Pig's trotter in Frankfurt after 12 glasses of apfelwein

[red devil]

Ditto Mockney, but I remember Bird's Nest Soup and 1000 year old eggs in Hong Kong were actually ok...

[giggirl]

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Ditto Mockney...

I?m suffering from either early alzheimers or late dyslexia because I thought that you'd written that you'd eaten Donkey. I was momentarily distraught.

[tommy]

Half a Mr Men book (Mr Strong) - but that was some years back

[ratty]

I once had an Alligator steak and forgot to say ............. Get me an alligator and make it snappy!

Fooking gutted maaaaaaaaaaaaan!

[PeckhamRose]

Horse.

Delicious.

Was not aware it was horse at the time.

[Marmora Man]

Alligator

Crocodile

Elk

Horse

Elephants Footprints (Spam Fritters - naval delicacy, don't ask about Black Pudding)

[Bellenden Belle]

Flying ants - deep fried they tasted rather like twiglets.

Guinea pig - it arrived flattened on my plate, complete with a full set of teeth, and tasted rather like kentucky fried chicken.

[Xena Worried prince]

Raw Worms when I was 3

Apparently I had quite a thing for the little blighters... still at the same time my sibling also ate soap from the bathroom.

[candj]

Duck tongues - China

duck bill (you have to put the whole thing in your mouth and spit out the bones) - China

chicken gizzards - China

mystery meat (to this day still don't know what it was) - China

clover (like the Irish stuff) - China

shark fin stir fried with chrysanthemums - China

horse, frog legs and snails - France, where else?

warthog, kudu - S. Africa, delicious especially kudu carpaccio

Birds nest - Hong Kong

oh yes, and 1000 year old eggs, pickled in lye, how absolutely fantastic they are!

[Michael Palaeologus]

Deep fried assorted bugs - Bangkok street food. Tasted of deep friend ... stuff.

I teethed on dog biscuits. I particularly liked the black ones apparently.

[Huguenot]

Hmm... yep China's pretty bizarre. Eating obscure things profers status, so it's a culinary art!

I had dog penis, and Bird's Nest Soup (which is mainly sparrow vomit in milk). I actually saw guys harvesting the nests in Borneo just before Christmas. 150 metres up on the roof of a cave balanced on 15cm wide bamboo ladders that balanced on each other. It was so precarious I almost sh@t myself watching.

I had a mate who had mouse foetus straight from the uterus (apologies to the sensitive amongst us), but I opted out.

Plenty of cat, which was interchangeable with pork and chicken in fried dishes. They sold them packed into mesh cages in fresh meat markets with their little paws sticking out the side. Very cute, and appetising.

The Chinese call the Koreans 'dog eaters' which I take to be ironic wit of the highest calibre.

Scorpions and silkworms were straightforward, but I didn't much like the one where they skinned a live snake in front of you and threw it still wiggling into the wok. Just unnecessary.

Drunken prawns were wierd. They threw the live prawns into a glass of Baijiu (pronounced By - Joe, literally 'white spirit'). As they became progressively pissed, you dragged 'em out, peeled their sluggish bodies and popped them into your mouth, washing them down with a slug from the tumbler.

[jaybee82]

Im with you there Michael...although my location was less exotic. I was paid a fiver to eat a deep fried locust in Lakeside shopping centre. Was so disgusting that I had to use my winnings to buy a cheese baguette to get rid of the taste.

[candj]

Huguenot,

I don't like drunken prawns because I find it a bit unnerving, but think they taste delicious. I once had lobster tail cut from a live, moving lobster in Japan (I didn't know they served it this way). Not for the sensitive!

And apparently, pink birds nest is quite a delicacy as it's tainted with the birds own blood which occasionally happens.

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Edited to add, I very recently ate dog food accidentally whilst drinking champagne at a friend's house.... silly man, kept his dog nibbles in a beautiful Georgian silver bowl for his little runty chihuahua on the kitchen counter!

[TillieTrotter]

Hugo, you've put me off my breakfast. Keep them coming, this could be the diet I'm looking for!

[Xena Worried prince]

candj Wrote:

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> Duck tongues - China

The Dragons Castle at Elephant and Castle does these as well, I found the Cartilage in them a little crunchy (ask for the alternative menu)

[Asset]

blimey, not one for the veggies. the most exotic thing I can come up with, not eating things that once breathed, is gold leaf.

[giggirl]

Note to self - all future holidays to be taken somewhere no more exotic than Margate.