Whats The Strangest Thing Youve Seen Someone Eat?

[glenbat]

Camel (in middle east) and hegdehog, fox, pidgeon all in the uk

[The Dan Sai Kid]

Barbequed cow's udder - weirdest thing I've eaten.

Live River Prawns - weirdest thing I can't bring myself to eat.

[totlanh]

Dog meat in Vietnam (actually thought i had ordered steak )

Also they believe a nearly mature duck egg(feathers and all)is a treat

Strangest thing ive eaten would have to be Pigs testicles in China,yummy

[toptuan]

A large, live fish that quivered on its platter every time you picked the meat off its bones with your chopsticks.

Raw horse meat

Raw chicken

Raw sea urchin (just squishy, smelly guts everywhere)

...all in Japan...

Edited December 6, 2006 by toptuan

[dantilley]

Raw chicken

Surely not? What about the risk of food poisoning?

[toptuan]

Raw chicken

Surely not? What about the risk of food poisoning?

Surely yes.

Nevertheless, my thoughts exactly.

This was the featured dish of the mountain restaurant in Kyushu where I attended a business lunch. All the chickens were considered "wild" (caught on the surrounding mountain area) and the preparation/serving was purported to be under the strictest sanitary supervision. They claimed the "wild" chickens were free of the common diseases (particularly salmonella) plagued by their domesticated relatives.

The business deal at stake required my wholehearted participation in the meal. Either way, I lived (and clinched the deal).

Edited December 6, 2006 by toptuan

[ashacat]

The worst thing I have eaten was in Cambo a few years ago.

Fertilised duck egg. Just crack the top open as with a normal hard boiled egg but inside is a soft little duckling with feathers, beak etc.

Had a taste and couldn't eat any more...

Edited December 6, 2006 by ashacat

[PhilHarries]

The worst thing I have eaten was in Cambo a few years ago.

Fertilised duck egg. Just crack the top open as with a normal hard boiled egg but inside is a soft little duckling with feathers, beak etc.

Had a taste and couldn't eat any more...

My gf comes back from the Philippines Saturday and has promised to bring me the same thing but I think she said they were chickens eggs. I kinda hope she forgets.

Anyway in an Indonesian restaurant I had cow brains curry. I thought it would come all chopped up with bits of veggies etc. Wrong! Half a cow brain in a bowl with curry sauce, yum yum. Can't remember if it was right or left hemisphere so I don't know if I'll go mad logically or artistically.

I've had the maeng da, locusts, ant pupae etc etc mostly when p1ssed all of which I've tried again when sober but it takes maeng da to really get the retch muscles in tone. The locusts are quite good, a bit like light grade pork scratchings but you need to wash them down with a beer to clear all the casings, legs and feet out from between your teeth.

Cobra curry, illegal I know but I didn't know what it was 'till after, was OK but could have been anything with the sauce. Main trouble was the myriad of little bones.

Sea cucumber, or sea slug if you are in mixed company , was another thing like jellyfish that tasted of nothing but the chilly dip.

[Axel]

Try some pigs' penises in Vietnam. Normally served six per plate.

[ashacat]

A large, live fish that quivered on its platter every time you picked the meat off its bones with your chopsticks.

Eurgh!! Thats gotta be the worst so far. Well harsh (for the fish)

Edited December 6, 2006 by ashacat

[Nignoy]

A large, live fish that quivered on its platter every time you picked the meat off its bones with your chopsticks.

Eurgh!! Thats gotta be the worst so far. Well harsh (for the fish)

All these things sound gruesome but are still edible, but the most daunting for me is still the Aussie Meat Pie Nignoy

[lawling]

The worst thing I have eaten was in Cambo a few years ago.

Fertilised duck egg. Just crack the top open as with a normal hard boiled egg but inside is a soft little duckling with feathers, beak etc.

Had a taste and couldn't eat any more...

I was offered one of those jokingly by women coming from the market on a songtao in S Laos and they had a good laugh at the look on my face. I have been told by several South Isaan ladies that back home they eat fertilised chicken eggs - boiled for about 10 minutes. Anyone know the name - kai something, naturally, but I can't remember what?

[toptuan]

A large, live fish that quivered on its platter every time you picked the meat off its bones with your chopsticks.

Eurgh!! Thats gotta be the worst so far. Well harsh (for the fish)

Yeah, pretty guilt-inducing....

[toptuan]

I ask my Thai students the same question. ("What's the strangest or worst thing you've ever eaten?")

They come up with gawd-awful things like...

"pizza with lots of cheese"

"hamburger with cheese"

"lasagne"

The most infamous dishes usually include some kind of cheese.

Sigh.

P.S. I took an Isaan friend to a McDonald's for his first ever "all-American meal" (I know, that moniker could be disputed). He politely ate about 1/4 of his BigMac, Strawberry Shake, and fries, when I then asked him: "OK, on a scale of 1 to 10 (ten being "arroy mak"), how would you rate it?"

His answer: "Off the scale!"

I beamed.

He continued, "...on the negative end."

His first and last McDonald's meal.

Edited December 6, 2006 by toptuan

[tutsiwarrior]

I ask my Thai students the same question. ("What's the strangest or worst thing you've ever eaten?")

They come up with gawd-awful things like...

"pizza with lots of cheese"

"hamburger with cheese"

"lasagne"

The most infamous dishes usually include some kind of cheese.

Sigh.

P.S. I took an Isaan friend to a McDonald's for his first ever "all-American meal" (I know, that moniker could be disputed). He politely ate about 1/4 of his BigMac, Strawberry Shake, and fries, when I then asked him: "OK, on a scale of 1 to 10 (ten being "arroy mak"), how would you rate it?"

His answer: "Off the scale!"

I beamed.

He continued, "...on the negative end."

His first and last McDonald's meal.

I think asians got sum sorta lactose intolerance...when in Vietnam I went and got a pizza across the road from the apartment (they advertised spaghetti and fried chicken as well) and it had tomato sauce but no cheese (???) That being said the local fast food chain Lotteria appeared to do a brisk business in cheeseburgers, they were always sold out (or maybe they had to make a couple special for the clazy roundeye)...cheeseburgers were on the menu, but there did not appear to be a lot of foreigners around to eat them...

[PhilHarries]

P.S. I took an Isaan friend to a McDonald's for his first ever "all-American meal" (I know, that moniker could be disputed). He politely ate about 1/4 of his BigMac, Strawberry Shake, and fries, when I then asked him: "OK, on a scale of 1 to 10 (ten being "arroy mak"), how would you rate it?"

His answer: "Off the scale!"

I beamed.

He continued, "...on the negative end."

His first and last McDonald's meal.

A man of true taste and class. Why people in Thailand, the country with probably the best range of tastfull food, have to resort to eating McDonalds is totally beyond my comprehension.

I am told, so don't quote me on this (can't be ar5ed Googling it just to satisfy the TV nitpickers), that France has the world's largest number of McDonalds per head of population. So much for French cuisine.

[toptuan]

A man of true taste and class.

HEY! I didn't say I ate it!

(Unless, of course, your compliment is genuine... )

[tutsiwarrior]

P.S. I took an Isaan friend to a McDonald's for his first ever "all-American meal" (I know, that moniker could be disputed). He politely ate about 1/4 of his BigMac, Strawberry Shake, and fries, when I then asked him: "OK, on a scale of 1 to 10 (ten being "arroy mak"), how would you rate it?"

His answer: "Off the scale!"

I beamed.

He continued, "...on the negative end."

His first and last McDonald's meal.

A man of true taste and class. Why people in Thailand, the country with probably the best range of tastfull food, have to resort to eating McDonalds is totally beyond my comprehension.

I am told, so don't quote me on this (can't be ar5ed Googling it just to satisfy the TV nitpickers), that France has the world's largest number of McDonalds per head of population. So much for French cuisine.

you can get beer and wine at McD's in France...might be a cheaper place to hang than the cafe down the street...

with respect, thai food sucks...

[toptuan]

...respect...sucks...

...interesting inclusion of both these words in the same sentence...

[Junglejerk]

Love khao pad with chips

[sensei]

The worst thing I have eaten was in Cambo a few years ago.

Fertilised duck egg. Just crack the top open as with a normal hard boiled egg but inside is a soft little duckling with feathers, beak etc.

Had a taste and couldn't eat any more...

My gf comes back from the Philippines Saturday and has promised to bring me the same thing but I think she said they were chickens eggs. I kinda hope she forgets.

Anyway in an Indonesian restaurant I had cow brains curry. I thought it would come all chopped up with bits of veggies etc. Wrong! Half a cow brain in a bowl with curry sauce, yum yum. Can't remember if it was right or left hemisphere so I don't know if I'll go mad logically or artistically.

I've had the maeng da, locusts, ant pupae etc etc mostly when p1ssed all of which I've tried again when sober but it takes maeng da to really get the retch muscles in tone. The locusts are quite good, a bit like light grade pork scratchings but you need to wash them down with a beer to clear all the casings, legs and feet out from between your teeth.

Cobra curry, illegal I know but I didn't know what it was 'till after, was OK but could have been anything with the sauce. Main trouble was the myriad of little bones.

Sea cucumber, or sea slug if you are in mixed company , was another thing like jellyfish that tasted of nothing but the chilly dip.

fertilized duck eggs... it's called Balut

only the shell is left uneaten

eater downs the beak, feathers, and whachamacallit in there

[tutsiwarrior]

...respect...sucks...

...interesting inclusion of both these words in the same sentence...

the grammatical description is 'ironical hyperbole' I believe...but I was just tryin' to be polite...

Edited December 7, 2006 by tutsiwarrior

[ourmanflint]

I tried the cow brains in Jakarta, a few insects here and there, snake, lizards, crocs, fish eyes, fish lips....

but when it comes to weird China has it every time... I think they have them here as well, moth pupa! before they hatch into moths... eeuurgh!! But the weirdest was some kind of soup in China made with the uterus of frogs!! But Why!!

I forgot one... hardly food really but the dead caterpillars that are turned into fungus, really famous stuff, gives you an erection for two days! And makes you run like the wind!! Tibet.

Edited December 8, 2006 by ourmanflint

[OneeyedJohn]

has it been mentioned already .. Afterbirth from a pig or cow.

It is braised in wok of boiling water and lots of herbs and spices added, especially the Laab powder.

For nutritional value it can't be beat

[toptuan]

...gives you an erection for two days! And makes you run like the wind!! Tibet.

Sounds cheaper than Viagra.

Clarification: Is the "running" part directly because of the first symptom, or an indirect cause of the first symptom?

[tutsiwarrior]

...gives you an erection for two days! And makes you run like the wind!! Tibet.

Sounds cheaper than Viagra.

Clarification: Is the "running" part directly because of the first symptom, or an indirect cause of the first symptom?

more to the point...'running' as in feets, do yer stuff or as in forever miserable on the throne in the toilet?

[Totster]

A mate once ate rabbit poo.. but it was for a bet, and he won his 50p fair and square.. !

totster

[glenbat]

I was amazed at how many of the girls we met in LOS weren't into Maccy D's (as opposed to 99.9% of the chubby mingers over here in UK)

Stupidly took them to McD's thinking it a treat and they hardly touched the stuff, 'too mud make mu ton' they tell me

Within minutes of stepping off the plane at Heathrow 3 weeks later, I had to agree

[ourmanflint]

...gives you an erection for two days! And makes you run like the wind!! Tibet.

Sounds cheaper than Viagra.

Clarification: Is the "running" part directly because of the first symptom, or an indirect cause of the first symptom?

ha ha!! no!! apparently its the Chinese Olympic tems secret weapon, massive endurance and stamina.! And it's not cheap either much more expensive than viagra I reckon.

Edited December 9, 2006 by ourmanflint

[Tolley]

I was in Japan riding on the train when the girl opposite started combing her hair.

As she continued to comb dandruff started to fall out of her hair onto a piece of paper she has strategically placed on her lap.

She then pushed all the dandruff together in a lump and proceeded to eat it.