Thread: What's the weirdest thing you have eaten?

Originally Posted by Deerhunter1995

Ive had groundhog

So that is why they have to keep Punxsutawney Phil under guard..

i do believe you couldnt call it totally wierd, but scrapple, is pretty much my overall limit, i guess im pretty tame, but if you know what its actually made of, yould get the point.

Originally Posted by nickedNsliced

you guys all have me beat the wierdest thing I've ever eaten is mountain oysters...also known as calf fries or fried testicles

when I mention them to people I'm still amazed that so many people have never heard of them.

I haven't gotten around it yet!

Mollejas = calf or young bull testicles.

Here sitting in a plate with some chinchulines.

Originally Posted by silks

Haggis. Never again.

I would definitely give balut a try. A Filipino friend of mine says it is absolutely delightful.

Anybody try sannakji? That's something on my list.

Must've been some bad Haggis.

I lived in Scotland for 2 years and good haggis is GREAT and bad haggis is AWFUL. It all depends on who makes it, how they did it and what's in it. In general cheap haggis is not very good.

Also had Escargots....snail. Not very interesting. Not much taste at all. It's mainly the sauce that give snails the taste.

And also, for me Lobster is kind of weird and I've had that. Another case of great when done well and terrible when not done well.

Originally Posted by Troggie

I would say if it is truly No meat.. and not just no red meat.. I would not eat it as it is a moving living muscle which I would consider meat. Sounds like you need to be eating vegetarian for the remainder of Lent.

Yeah, it's a living muscle but then so are clams and oysters. Guess I'll have to e-mail the Vatican for advice.

Fried pig's ass.

Pretty rubbery and not very tasty. Not bad, mind you, but not great.

Originally Posted by leadduck

Yeah, it's a living muscle but then so are clams and oysters. Guess I'll have to e-mail the Vatican for advice.

Taxonomically, snails are in the phylum Mollusca (making them mollusks like clams and oysters). They are further refined into the class Gastropoda along with abalone and conch to name two common, edible ocean-faring close relatives. Clams and oysters are in the class Bivalvia. So, while they are not from the same taxonomic class, they do share a common evolutionary lineage and are fairly closely related. Mollusks are evolutionarily more different from cows and pigs than any fish, since fish have spinal columns, thus placing them in the same phylum as mammals (Chordata).

That's a long answer, but as a biologist, it's the kind of thing that I've spent years learning. I understand the irony of using biological taxonomy to clear up an issue of Catholic Church Doctrine, but it may help and it's more than the office of the Pope would tell you .


As for the weirdest thing I've ever eaten, I'd have to also say balut. I thought it was awesome though. Perhaps the stuff I had (from a Vietnamese friend) was fresher or something. I was also schooled on eating it from him and he told me not to eat the hard part. Apparently, you are supposed to crack the shell and suck out the juice, then peel out the embryo and eat that next. The juice was delicious duck broth and the embryo was tender and flavorful. Apparently it is eaten as a type of drinking snack when Vietnamese old timers are chilling out and having some beers. Seems like a hit to me.

The second weirdest thing I ever ate was my first balut. The very weirdest thing I ever ate was my second balut.

Pig's uterus....

It was served as part of a "miscellaneous meats" dish (seemed like a good idea at the time) at a chinese restaurant, 3 am. Didn't know what exactly it was other than it was whitish, chewy like overcooked calamari but with a slight porky taste.

I came to realize what they were weeks later when I saw them for sale at a chinese butcher shop.

Originally Posted by Ogershok

The second weirdest thing I ever ate was my first balut. The very weirdest thing I ever ate was my second balut.

The after effects are pretty cool. It's like a huge nasty viagra.