Thread: What have you eaten?

Blood soup. Nasty, not everything should be tried once

I swallowed a moth once. It slowly fluttered all the way down, ick

Originally Posted by mhailey

I've eaten ants, grub worms, meal worms, crickets, grasshoppers, earth worms, an assortment of flying insetcs. All of the above were thanks to the Boy Scouts, and the older scounts paying me $5 to $10 to eat somthing.

Did you eat them raw? How did they taste?

Chris L

Originally Posted by Chris L

Did you eat them raw? How did they taste?

Chris L

The meal worms and grubs were not that big of a deal, but the grasshoppers, crickets and other insects were tough because the legs and hard parts ended up getting stuck in my teeth, and they were sour. The earthworm just tasted like slime and dirt, and I just swallowed it whole, no chewing. This was about 20 years ago, so I my memory of the exact taste is a little foggy.

I do remember one bug that really tated like tobasco sauce. I can't tell you which one it was, or if they just dunked it in tobasco sauce just be mean, but my mouth really burned.

Matt

Edit: and yes I ate them raw.

One time my mom found meal worms in the cereal that she fed me, after I ate two bowls, so I don't know if that would be considered for this thread because it was unintentional, and masked by the cereal and milk flavors.

When I was young, my mother told me that English food was not meant for consumption, and she certainly had a point there. On the other hand, German food has its idiosyncrasies, too: Saumagen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mahlzeit, Männer!

Rattle snake is pretty good, especially if you kill it yourself!
I got bit by a rattlesnake I was planning on having for dinner because I had forgotten my knife at home...but that's another story!

I always thought that chicken tasted a lot like rattlesnake.

In my writer days, I got around a lot and ate a lot of interesting stuff. In Norway, I had lutefisk in Oslo (don't ask -- it's kind of like Norwegian chemical warfare), and smalehove (don't know the actual spelling, but it's a smoked sheep's head) in Voss. I ate reindeer tongues with vodka with the Sami (Laplanders) over the Russian border from Finland by the arctic circle, and muktuk with the Inuit on Baffin Island.

Oh, yeah -- and rattlesnake out in Colorado.

I might draw the line at some Icelandic stuff. They're said to have a shark dish that consists of burying the fish in the sand for a year or so, digging it up, and eating it. It's said to be rather gelatinous with a smell that would take your head off.

And haggis? What's that about?

I've always been fond of game, and as an editor, I've often found writer submissions for cooking it amusing -- why do they always want to "take the gamey flavor out" of it? If that's the case, why not buy beef or chicken? My favorites are caribou and grouse, though bear can be interesting on occasion.

Sushi? That's for sissies.

j

Forget everything. Try this: Surströmming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

And they say Chinese cuisine is interesting...

Originally Posted by BeBerlin

Forget everything. Try this: Surströmming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

And they say Chinese cuisine is interesting...

I think I would try it.

Chris L

Originally Posted by Doc

Brother if it walks crawls or fly's I either have tried it or would not mind trying it under the right circumstances. I love watching No Reservations

+1

The most dangerous thing was the local water in Iraq.

Yeah, I had an Icelandic friends at uni and he always used to joke about his 'putrid shark' although he never managed to bring any over he did bring some terrible dried white fish. When I say dry, I mean it was like eating a ball of wool - really salty and stringy and probably the most disgusting thing I have ever tried!