What strange things have you eaten?

[Hornbein]

I've eaten large intestine of some animal (possibly beef). Very fatty and chewy.

I've eaten chitlins, which are the large intestines of pigs. They smell like what they used to contain. Not too strong, though.

 

[Silicon Waffle]

... They smell like what they used to contain. Not too strong, though.

There are special ways to wash them such that after cooked, they won't smell bad at all anymore.
From time to time I eat those stuffed with pork mixed with different sorts of ingredients e.g mushrooms, black fungus, black peppers, chilly etc. They can be made like big sausages.

 

[Borek]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripe_soups anyone?

 

[wolram]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripe_soups anyone?

You made me almost gag with that

 

[meBigGuy]

A lot of people don't know about this east coast USA delicacy. Scrapple. Makes Spam look like steak.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrapple

 

[alw34]

Bison in Kansas City is about as adventurous as I have gotten.

But a meal I remember best: We were anchored in an an isolated part of Hurricane Sound, Maine, near Vinalhaven Island, off a nearby channel and back past huge rock obstructions. Must have been nuts going back there with my boat. Anyway, we could see seals swimming by now and then and when exploring in a small outboard noticed huge clusters of mussels [clams] on old granite walls. We pulled off some clumps, no mud because they were near the surface, scrubbed them and steamed with some garlic and wine as the sun went down. Doesn't get any better.

 

[Hornbein]

Alfred Wallace of Darwin-Wallace fame on the durian.

"When brought into a house the smell is often so offensive that some persons can never bear to taste it. This was my own case when I first tried it in Malacca, but in Borneo I found a ripe fruit on the ground, and, eating it out of doors, I at once became a confirmed Durian eater," he writes. Having declared the taste almost impossible to describe, he offers "a rich butter-like custard, highly flavoured with almonds gives the best general idea of it, but intermingled with it come wafts of flavour that call to mind cream-cheese, onion-sauce, brown sherry, and other incongruities".

I found that each durian has a unique taste. The ideal fruit for those who are easily bored. There is nothing else like it.

I loved the smell right from the beginning. I even kept one in my room as an air freshener. Others find it so intolerably nauseating that durians are banned on public transport and in hotels. The human race splits about 50/50 on this. Genetics don't matter. It's a mystery.

On the other hand I never liked jackfruit, which is also covered with thorns and is about as large as a small beer keg. I recently saw a jackfruit in a local supermarket in the US, which was a big surprise.

 

[DrDu]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripe_soups anyone?

Of course. Cook it myself every now and then. Prefer it to be made from mutton. Have some secret catalan recipe. You also have to cook a cow's foot with it to get the right consistency.

 

[boneh3ad]

I once ate jellyfish. It's just as bad as it sounds. Imagine a slightly dry-rotted rubber band such that it is stretchy and hard to chew but has just a little bit of crunch. That's how I'd describe jellyfish.

I also once made a conscious decision to just try everything they offered at a churrascaria in Rio de Janeiro. I am not sure what all of the items were, but at least one of them was a surprisingly tasty, I know organ meat based on its density and texture.

I also was once tricked into eating fried Rocky Mountain oysters. Those were surprisingly tasty as well, though I gags when I found out what they were and definitely did not have seconds.

 

[DrDu]

I once got a nice cookbook (spanish):
http://www.amazon.es/dp/8408081098/

 

[wolram]

Bonah3ad did it make a difference?
Rocky Mountain Oysters Recipe - What's Cooking America


whatscookingamerica.net/History/RockyMtnOyster.htm
Anything that walks, swims, crawls, or flies can be eaten. It just takes an open mind and a willing stomach. Of course, there are some people who will eat anything. Rocky Mountains oysters - also known as prairieoysters, Montana tendergroins, cowboy caviar, swinging beef, and calf fries - are true Western delicacies.

I wonder what they taste like tar tare.

 

[boneh3ad]

I'm not even 100% sure which animal the ones I had were from (though I have reason to believe it was sheep or goat). I just know that no one told us first and that they were fried into oblivion so really it just tasted like fried, slightly chewy, slightly spicy meat.