Craziest things you have eaten?

jsnake
jsnake Posts: 5,979 ✭✭✭✭✭
Another thread got me to thinking what are the craziest things you have ever eaten. Here is my list:

Dog
Monkey
Squid prepared all sorts of different ways
Octopus
Iguana on a stick
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  • gmill880
    gmill880 Posts: 5,936 ✭✭
    Is that what happened to the front leg of the dog in your avatar ??? ;)
  • kaspera79
    kaspera79 Posts: 7,250 ✭✭✭
    Why the Fvck would you ever need to eat a Monkey... that sounds like the most repugnant thing ever. No, it's just wrong !
  • jsnake
    jsnake Posts: 5,979 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Tripod in my photo is an Alice in Chains album cover and the dog of guitarist Jerry Cantrell. I was tricked into eating a small portion of dog meat when I was in Korea.

    When I was in Panama I would eat at the little kabob grills they would set up outside of bars and nightclubs. For $1.00 you would get 2 "beef" kabobs and a Coke. When you asked them what the meat was they would reply in Spanish "Carne" which is the word for meat. So we think it must be beef right. Well after eating these for several months and loving them I later learned it was monkey meat. My then I had consumed so much I just didn't give a **** any more.
  • TatuajeVI
    TatuajeVI Posts: 2,378
    Nothing too crazy, but here's a few of the not-your-everyday-dinners I've had:

    Ostrich (delicious)
    Bear Ribs (delicious)
    Antelope (delicious)
    Can't think of anything else totally strange...
  • jsnake
    jsnake Posts: 5,979 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I forgot to list Buffalo, alligator, snake.
  • j0z3r
    j0z3r Posts: 9,397 ✭✭✭
    Wow...the most exotic meat I've eaten is goat. Pretty tasty if I do say so.
  • BStayer
    BStayer Posts: 317
    I think I know what thread snake is thinking of, so I'll say this...while it's not technically crazy, it sure is gross(imo) - calamari, I don't plan on eating that again! I know its popular, this is just my own opinion.

    While in Peru, I ate a seaweed based salad, the viney seaweed. While that's not terrible, nothing in this salad was cooked. It included several variants of fish, shell fish, cephalapods, and I was too afraid to ask what else.

    Elk is excellent; I prefer it to a beef steak of any cut. Bear is also very good and not overly 'gamey'. Buffalo is great if it's not over cooked. I've never heard a bad word about alligator, I need to try it sometime.
  • jsnake
    jsnake Posts: 5,979 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I love me some calamari but like you I do not like it when the pieces have the legs on them. Freaks me out.
  • Lasabar
    Lasabar Posts: 4,464 ✭✭✭
    kaspera79:
    Why the Fvck would you ever need to eat a Monkey... that sounds like the most repugnant thing ever. No, it's just wrong !
    How else are you supposed to hide the evidence after you accidentally kill it from too much spankings?
  • Hays
    Hays Posts: 2,335 ✭✭✭
    Lasabar:
    kaspera79:
    Why the Fvck would you ever need to eat a Monkey... that sounds like the most repugnant thing ever. No, it's just wrong !
    How else are you supposed to hide the evidence after you accidentally kill it from too much spankings?
    Lassy you're on a roll tonight. You have successfully managed to crack me up twice in 5 minutes..
    ¨The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea¨ - Isak Dinesen

    ¨Only two people walk around in this world beardless - boys and women - and I am neither one.¨
  • Lasabar
    Lasabar Posts: 4,464 ✭✭✭
    Craziest thing that I have eaten would be:
    Drunk one night I happened to order pizza for the drunk walk home... on the way my friends were at ANOTHER bar and I knew the bartender would hook it up with free drinks... I proceeded to not be rude and put the pizza in a nearby dumpster, go drink more, and then an hour or two later picked up my pizza and ate it on the way home...

    It's kinda hard to explain to all your drunk friends that the dumpster pizza is yours and you planned to pick it up later :/
  • Hays
    Hays Posts: 2,335 ✭✭✭
    Lasabar:
    Craziest thing that I have eaten would be:
    Drunk one night I happened to order pizza for the drunk walk home... on the way my friends were at ANOTHER bar and I knew the bartender would hook it up with free drinks... I proceeded to not be rude and put the pizza in a nearby dumpster, go drink more, and then an hour or two later picked up my pizza and ate it on the way home...

    It's kinda hard to explain to all your drunk friends that the dumpster pizza is yours and you planned to pick it up later :/
    For the three!
    ¨The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea¨ - Isak Dinesen

    ¨Only two people walk around in this world beardless - boys and women - and I am neither one.¨
  • kuzi16
    kuzi16 Posts: 14,625 ✭✭✭✭
    wild boar
    dove
    squirrel
    snail
    alligator
    shrimp heads
    rosemary ice cream
    live octopus
    raw quail eggs
    eel
    raw scallops
    cicada
    Cricket (in a candy none the less)
    i am looking to try camel next time i am in cincinnati ( i found a place that sells it)
    I would like to try Tarantula... bet it tastes like crab.
    i would eat just about anything that is safe to eat just to say i did.
    i hear racoon is quite good if done right.


    i kinda draw the line at eating human
    dont dig on that so much....
  • j0z3r
    j0z3r Posts: 9,397 ✭✭✭
    kuzi16:
    i kinda draw the line at eating human
    dont dig on that so much....
    Aww c'mon guy.
    It's people. Soylent Green is made out of people. They're making our food out of people. Next thing they'll be breeding us like cattle for food. You've gotta tell them. You've gotta tell them!
  • clearlysuspect
    clearlysuspect Posts: 2,122 ✭✭✭✭
    kuzi16:
    wild boar
    dove
    squirrel
    snail
    alligator
    shrimp heads
    rosemary ice cream
    live octopus
    raw quail eggs
    eel
    raw scallops
    cicada
    Cricket (in a candy none the less)
    i am looking to try camel next time i am in cincinnati ( i found a place that sells it)
    I would like to try Tarantula... bet it tastes like crab.
    i would eat just about anything that is safe to eat just to say i did.
    i hear racoon is quite good if done right.


    i kinda draw the line at eating human
    dont dig on that so much....




    Kuzi, I'm sure you're an excellent manager, but I am never eating at your restaurant. That's one crazy list!
  • kuzi16
    kuzi16 Posts: 14,625 ✭✭✭✭
    clearlysuspect:
    kuzi16:
    wild boar
    dove
    squirrel
    snail
    alligator
    shrimp heads
    rosemary ice cream
    live octopus
    raw quail eggs
    eel
    raw scallops
    cicada
    Cricket (in a candy none the less)
    i am looking to try camel next time i am in cincinnati ( i found a place that sells it)
    I would like to try Tarantula... bet it tastes like crab.
    i would eat just about anything that is safe to eat just to say i did.
    i hear racoon is quite good if done right.


    i kinda draw the line at eating human
    dont dig on that so much....




    Kuzi, I'm sure you're an excellent manager, but I am never eating at your restaurant. That's one crazy list!
    not a single one at applebees...

    on a side note...


    anyone ever hear of maggot steak?
  • cabinetmaker
    cabinetmaker Posts: 2,557 ✭✭
    Possum
    Squirrel
    Cat and Dog - a chinese food place I used to frequent was shut down. The health dept inspected them and found cat/dog meat in the kitchen. I was wondering where Fluffy had gotten off to.
    Alligator
    Rattlesnake
    Scorpions(Dried)
    Chocolate covered ants
    I ate a Katydid once in a cheeseburger, well half of one. I saw it after I swallowed that bite (and half the bug) and did not eat the rest.

    And that's just what I know about.
  • Luko
    Luko Posts: 1,995 ✭✭
    Once when I was visiting friends in Milwaukee, we met the weirdest guy named Jeffrey at a bar and went back to his place for dinner. He served Stew but wouldn't tell us what was in it, but it was definitely something crazy. Oddly enough, I never got back together with those friends...they fell off the face of the earth after that night.
  • Lasabar
    Lasabar Posts: 4,464 ✭✭✭
    Luko:
    Once when I was visiting friends in Milwaukee, we met the weirdest guy named Jeffrey at a bar and went back to his place for dinner. He served Stew but wouldn't tell us what was in it, but it was definitely something crazy. Oddly enough, I never got back together with those friends...they fell off the face of the earth after that night.
    Lemme guess... you are the only one that didn't drink the Kool-Aid
  • Matt Marvel
    Matt Marvel Posts: 928
    I guess the weirdest thing I've eaten is calamari, which is delicious. I've had wild boar as well. If you want some good meat, eat some boar that's been been put on the smoker. A lot of people think eating crawfish is weird, especially if you suck the spices and juices out of the head. I don't find it weird, just damn good eatin'.
  • YankeeMan
    YankeeMan Posts: 2,651 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Lassy, thank you. As soon as I saw the title of this thread, I had to look for your response.
  • Lasabar
    Lasabar Posts: 4,464 ✭✭✭
    YankeeMan:
    Lassy, thank you. As soon as I saw the title of this thread, I had to look for your response.
    Glad to oblige!
  • bacon.jay
    bacon.jay Posts: 718 ✭✭✭
    Beaver
    Snapping turtle
    Alligator
    Pidgeon/Dove
    Canada goose
    Wild hog
    Buffalo
    Water snake
    Rattlesnake

    A lot of people up by the marshes in northern Ohio where I am eat muskrat, but i've never had it before. Apparently it's really good if done right. The article I read about it was in the Wild Ohio publication just recently.
  • BStayer
    BStayer Posts: 317
    bacon.jay:
    Beaver
    Snapping turtle
    Alligator
    Pidgeon/Dove
    Canada goose
    Wild hog
    Buffalo
    Water snake
    Rattlesnake

    A lot of people up by the marshes in northern Ohio where I am eat muskrat, but i've never had it before. Apparently it's really good if done right. The article I read about it was in the Wild Ohio publication just recently.

    Now I've heard it called beaver before and that's not too crazy, but snapping turtle? Eating beaver can be bad enough, but I won't touch it if it has enough teeth to be called a snapping turtle!! (never thought anyone would post that as a foodstuff).
  • bacon.jay
    bacon.jay Posts: 718 ✭✭✭
    BStayer:
    bacon.jay:
    Beaver
    Snapping turtle
    Alligator
    Pidgeon/Dove
    Canada goose
    Wild hog
    Buffalo
    Water snake
    Rattlesnake

    A lot of people up by the marshes in northern Ohio where I am eat muskrat, but i've never had it before. Apparently it's really good if done right. The article I read about it was in the Wild Ohio publication just recently.

    Now I've heard it called beaver before and that's not too crazy, but snapping turtle? Eating beaver can be bad enough, but I won't touch it if it has enough teeth to be called a snapping turtle!! (never thought anyone would post that as a foodstuff).


    Now that you mention it, I do remember that they both were a little greasy...

  • stephen_hannibal
    stephen_hannibal Posts: 4,316 ✭✭✭
    An African silk worm...
  • gmill880
    gmill880 Posts: 5,936 ✭✭
    Luko:
    Once when I was visiting friends in Milwaukee, we met the weirdest guy named Jeffrey at a bar and went back to his place for dinner. He served Stew but wouldn't tell us what was in it, but it was definitely something crazy. Oddly enough, I never got back together with those friends...they fell off the face of the earth after that night.

    Oh my god he killed Stew ...who's gonna tell his mom and dad !!!
  • gmill880
    gmill880 Posts: 5,936 ✭✭
    Not really too much crazy stuff ...I bid eat bear which I thought was very good. Also had a full blooded Cherokee indian guy I used to work with years ago bring me some Rattlesnake stew which was also very good and I would eat again.
  • I would have to say anything Afghani-made. probably dont want to know what it consisted of lol
  • Russ55
    Russ55 Posts: 2,762 ✭✭✭
    My Mother-In-Law's cooking. The last time I did (over 2 years ago) I got horrible diarrhea.