What's the strangest thing you have ever eaten?

Alligator tail.

Dirt.
it doesn’t taste like chicken ;)

Oooh… good one.

Fried rattlesnake is definitely up there, but more because the rattlesnake was in my garage when it was still living, my stepfather shot it, and I had to clean it myself. I don’t think it tastes like chicken at all.

I’ve also had alligator tail and alligator jerky, but I live in Florida, and that’s pretty common here (We even have a restaurant called R.J. Gator’s that specialises in alligator tail sammiches).

I had raw octopus tentacle at a sushi bar once. Really tasty, but the texture was a little too rubbery for my taste. I’d eat it again.

When I was a kid, I loved getting the bug lollipops from the MOSI gift shop. I’ve had cricket lollipops, caterpillar lollipops, and locust lollipops. Also, the ubiquitous chocolate-covered ants and grasshoppers.

I’ll eat pretty much anything once.

Lobster brains
Lobster roe
Crab roe
Dried fish fins (beer fish)
Live black ants (accident)

Is there a flavor difference between gator tail and other parts of the critter?

I had gator once at a chain called “Alligator Grill”. I wasn’t that impressed. I suspect it came from a can. I’ll bet it’s quite different when fresh.

Turtle.

Bear (at least that’s what they told me it was.)

Bear, frog legs, snails, Rocky Mountain oysters, cow tongue, brain pudding, squirrel, rabbit and turtle.

Deep fried Mars bar :¬( Not good & certainly not clever!

Tastes like chicken

The very first time I ate steamed clams, which I now love. Not knowing any better, I ate the stringy part. Yuck.

@YoBob Tail is softer, and less gamey. Not by much, but it’s enough of a difference to make you never want to eat the rest of the alligator if you have a choice. Chewing a piece of gator leg is hard work.

Moro shark sashimi. It was very… chewy. I won’t be having that again.

Scorpion

Jellyfish (tentacles). I was at a Chinese banquet and I thought they were noodles. Very fishy tasting noodles. And quite delicious. I’ve since discovered that I can buy them in Chinatown and I got them once but I really have no idea how to prepare them to be the same as at that banquet. Mine came out kind of bland and a bit rubbery.

I would think that jellyfish tentacles would sting. I guess the cooking takes care of that.

I once had chicken feet at a dim sum restaurant. Not bad, but a little gelatinous. Perhaps jellyfish tentacles do actually taste like chicken…

@YoBob They didn’t sting at all. They looked like noodles, slightly translucent, tasted fishy and had a texture similar to squid but in thinner, softer strips. They weren’t anything like chicken.

@downtide: Yum! One of my favorite salads is jellyfish tentacles tossed with octopus slices on a bed of greens and sesame ginger chili dressing.

@Neizvestnaya perhaps you can tell me how to prepare them properly? How should they be cooked? Or are they eaten as they are straight out of the packet?

@downtide: That I know of, the jellyfish strips are soaked in water til “al dente” then pan seared or braised with the octopus and then let to cool down before serving. When at the restaurant, the outside of the tentacles were cool but the inner warm so maybe them dipped them in cool water at the end and the pan char was for flavor?

Pickled jellyfish tentacles @downtide beat me to it. It was ordered for me at a Japanese sushi bar.

Taste of the ocean!

Barnacles but not the gooseneck type. Eat them right out of the shell.

I tried horse meat in Japan once. Never again.

I lived in Japan and once drank a beverage that caused consternation among my Japanese friends. I have posted about this before, but it was a beverage that had a picture of a snake on the front. I never thought the beverage had a think to do with snakes but my Japanese neighbor girl was surprised I enjoyed the beverage as I later learned it is supposed to enhance male potency which, as a female, I need not at all. I think it may have been snake pee, but I guess I will never know for sure . . . .

Jellyfish doesnt really taste that great imo. It just tastes like whatever you marinate it in.

Weirdest thing id have to say is Urchin gonads :P yay uni

Jellyfish???... cannibals!!!

Fried tarantulas.

Lutefisk. I know it’s common in some cultures, but it’s strange. Also, cougar.

Spam

The strangest thing that I ever ate was cow tounge. It actually was pretty good.

@tearsxsolitude Tongue was a popular lunch meat when I was a kid. I don’t know if it was because of the decade or the location but I don’t see it so much now.

Strangest thing… pig brains. Tasted like salmon.
@JilltheTooth Oh, lutefisk!! I wonder how the Norwegians came up with fermented cod dipped in lye as food?