This topic spawned from a lengthy conversation in one of my clans: What is the stranges/most disgusting/innocent sounding but actually nasty food you have ever eaten? Why did you eat it? Did you know what it was beforehand? Just curious.

Dried blood clots,
I thought they were dried fish balls at the time, though upon finding out what they really were, i kept eating them cause they tasted good.

I didn't know fish had balls....

Fish meat rolled into balls....gawd boys.. *roll*

*masterfully un-hijacks own thread* The strangest food I have eaten (currently) would have to be Rocky Mountain Prairie Oysters, which turned out to be deep-fried bull testicles.

Hey, this wasn't something I ate, but some guy just came down after cleaning his room with a closed package of something resembling a pop tart that had 5 different types of mold growing on it. He asked me to smell it, and for whatever reason I agreed. He opened it, I wafted gently, and almost vomited and now my nostril is burning .

But as for nastiest thing eaten...I'm not that adventurous. I'd say steamers because I personally don't like them and think they are disgusting.

Steamers?

You didn't know that?!

Hmm...strangest food...probably raw octapus. Didn't really taste like anything though. Grossest food: poorly made, americanised pad thai. You kow it can't be that great when the waiters are all white, but I ordered it anyways. MISTAKE.

You poor poor thing...here let me make you some REAL pad thai...
*comforts Kait, having suffered the shame of poseur thai food before*
It is ok...the hurt will go away...in time... =(
love-mimi

The hurt might, but the shame never will. *sad head shake*

I was about 9 when I tried Rocky Mountain Oysters. I was living in Colorado, and someone prought them to a party we went to and thought it would be amusing to have me try one without telling me what they were. Mind you, he wasn't so amused when I shoved him into the swimming pool.

So true...that shame will live with you forever, just imagine how i feel, as a Thai who ate poseur thai food...I'll be workin off that karma for a few lifetimes...
love-mimi
on a side note...I have also consumed the following products in my lifetime...
crickets,wasps,grasshoppers,ants,termites,silk worms, earth worms, beetles, a spider, a cokroach, some meunstral blood (not my own),said dried blood clots, cow's blood, and a maggot.

yea you guys can't touch me....just bow down and get it over with
love-mimi

http://www.eathufu.com/home.asp

Never eaten it though. Just a link worth sharing

If that were real, I would eat it too.
love-mimi

So, all those things you ate, was there a reason you ate them, like a bet or something?
And regarding the Hufu site, I SOOO want one of those baby seal shirts

rattlesnake, it tastes a lot like chicken. No, it really does.

Hmm, I think I've had ostrich jerkey

Wild Foods Festival

Huhu! (Native NZ beetle's grub)

You ever try them, Shikari?

They weren't too bad, actually. The cow's udders were ick, magpie pies were nice. Possum = yummy.