Inspired by a certain carton eating veggie vampire.

Most atypical thing you've eaten

Candied scorpion. (So much hard candy around it, I never tasted the scorpion.)

most atypical thing you've eaten that you liked

No longer atypical, it's a three way tie between broiled eel sushi, raw conch sushi, and natto sushi. (Natto is a soybean fermented with a bacteria that makes it smell like an old gym sock. But if you eat it first without smelling it, the taste is quite good.)

Most atypical thing I've eaten

Hmm, well you've already mentioned the carton, so I don't need to be repetative, lets see, in my lifetime I have eaten three worms (before I was a vegetarian). I ate an apple dipped in ketchup, absolutely disgusting.

Most atypical thing I've eaten

I ate a chocolate chip ant cookie (this was before I was vegetarian), I've eaten a chocolate covered cricket (also before I was vegetarian), and both of those cases I couldn't taste the bug in question, but they were still good.

That's all can think of at the moment.

I had fish liver sushi.
The lady kept telling me riber, riber, and pointed at her midsection. I finally got what she was saying. It was awuful. Tasted like the floor of a dirty fish market. That was 5 years ago, and I can STILL taste it.
Other stuff like: Mountain Oysters, Turkey Nuts, Brains, Mustard on Chocolate cake, Pickles and Peanut Butter, Smoked Oysters washed down w/ Strawberry Quick..Ugggh! OH, and something that definitely WASN'T Beef in my Spicy Beef w/ Broccoli at a little run down Chinese place (in a bad part of the city)that my friends and I used to eat at. (It was closed down by the health department for SERIOUS violations of the health codes, not limited to THE TYPES OF "MEAT" they had stored in their fridge.*woof*):barf:

Something I ate and liked was a Ritz cracker, with deviled ham spread, a slice of cheddar, a dollop of peanut butter topped with an olive slice. Nice little appetizer!

And I agree Natto Sushi is good!

Oooooh, ooooooh, just remembered, I have dipped in potato chips in icing, and that's actually really good.

Now stupid things I ate as bets:

Mayonnaise, Barbeque sauce, salad dressing (Italian and French), ketchup, mustard, a few various other condiments, many of those on that list were mixed together.

Most atypical thing you've eaten

Limburger cheese. Very strong tasting, but not unpleasant. The smell, on the otherhand, is not unlike ass.

Most atypical thing you've eaten that you liked

Sushi would fall under this. Haven't tried urchin though. Goat, rabbit, conch, carpaccio (thin raw beef)

I remember an episode of Mystery Science Theater where the boys were passing a slow afternoon designing homemade ipecac. The winner: circus peanuts soaked in milk of magnesia plus a swift punch in the stomach.

I guess sushi in all its forms is not that exotic a thing anymore, but that's about the wildest thing I've had and/or liked. I especially go for tentacles -- it's like chewing bacon fat that takes an extra long time.

D.

Do I have to name names???

I've had a lot of strange meats, like kangaroo and donkey (I think), but I guess a particularly weird one was earlier this summer, in Spain, when I had fried fish. Not the way you'd think of it, but tiny fish, fried whole, with the eyes and everything still there.

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Harrison,

Are you a student at Oberlin College, or is there some other inexplicable reason for listing it as one of your homes? I grew up in Wellington, Ohio, the next town over from Oberlin.

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I'll have to give the "weird stuff I've eaten" some more thought. I've had rabbit, deer, squid, dog biscuits, plenty of sushi...but nothing really stands out as a grand prize winner.

Ooooh, I forgot dog biscuits (disgusting).

I also had a piece of fudge rapped in bacon (which was surprising good).

Yep, I'm an Obie. Heading back there in a couple of weeks.

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The most atypical things I've eaten were calimari and Rocky Mountain Oysters. Neither were bad, but I don't a habit of eating them either.

I had some calamari on my birthday a couple of months ago. My ladyfriend was giving me crap about how we were at a seafood place and I was planning on the sirloin, so I ordered the calamari appetizer. I liked the ringy parts, but the squiggly bits tasted like sand.

I had some escargot that was quite good, as was goat and whole foie gras. Foie gras mousse, though, was not good. It tasted like a dollop of butter until about 4 seconds after you swallowed it, then you were acutely aware it was whipped goose liver.

The first time I ever had calamari was at a Korean restaurant in Edmonton - one of the girls I was there with had ordered it, and I just grabbed one (it was that kind of dinner) without knowing what it was. If I had known, I probably wouldn't have had it.

It was amazing. The second-best calamari dish I have ever had in my life.

Oddly enough, the single best calamari dish I have ever had in my life was the very next day, in a Greek restaurant in Drumheller.

So, that was the 'atypical thing that I liked' bit.

um, I think the just plain 'atypical thing' was this weird herbal drink that my girlfriends' mom suggested I try (I was having a period of bad heartburn/stomach troubles at the time). You just put this stuff in a tall glass of water, and slowly drink it.

Well, that is what I was told, anyway. See, I was also told that it would taste horrible. So, being the proud owner of an idiot dog brain, I decided 'Hey, if I just drain the glass quickly, I won't have to taste it at all!'.

It kinda worked. Until the glass was empty, and the aftertaste kicked in. I'm really really surprised the entire drink didn't suddenly reappear in the glass at approximately the speed of light. Wow, was that vile. Rotten-egg-buried-in-a-shoe-under-a-pig-farm vile.

This was all nine years ago. Every single calamari dish I've had since then has only served to remind me of how good those two dishes were, without being terribly good themselves (although I recently had some at a Vietnamese restaurant here in Winnipeg that wasn't too bad...).

Lambs brains (poached and crumbed) and escargots.

Frogs legs (remarkably like quail)

I'd post an answer, but then we'd have to move the whole thread to the WANderground....

Oh... I just remembered an atypical food that wasn't too bad when I had it.

Haggis. It was minced in such a way that it really was easy on the palate.

See my answer above....

You remember names?

I've had Rocky Mountain Oysters, rattlesnake, pig testicles (that oughtta shake a few constitutions), and tongue. Calamari is a regular morsel, and not atypical at all.
The only one I wouldn't recommend is the tongue; I hate liver, so this was really no surprise.

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Tongue doesn’t taste like liver.

(I like tongue with a little garlic stuffed inside. Served with rice and mustard greens.)

We obviously aren't dating the same type of women.....