whats the weirdest thing you've ever eaten?

[evedawn]

mine was frogs legs.....yeugh!!

[kira000]

1,000 year old egg in a restaurant in Hong Kong.
Yes, i know it wasnt REAAAAALLLY 1,000 years old, but it looked and tasted like it!
The "white" was a yellowy jelly colour with green mottled patches, and the yolk was a greeny blue sludge colour.

Utterly revolting, but offered to us a valued visitors, so we had to grin and bear it!

[evedawn]

YOu must've had alot of respect for your hosts to eat it with a smile :-)
is that a delicacy in hong kong then? what type of bird was it from?

[kira000]

It was just a bog standard chicken egg. God knows what hey do to them to turn them like that, or how long it takes!
I dont think it is just a HK thing- i have seen it in other chinese restaurants as well.

Put it this way, i had ALOT of pickled ginger with it to take the taste away!

[ChuckFickens]

It *only* takes a few months to prepare them.

Still not sure I would want to eat an egg a few months old though!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_egg

[evedawn]

Hmm Chuck - as i'd never heard of 1000 yr old egg b4 i found that link very interesting thanks :-)

but...not very appetising!)

[brionon]

Meat, once eughhh.

[evedawn]

brionon - moral and ethical reasons aside ....i just couldn't live without my meat. A carnivore me!!

[evedawn]

brionon - WHAT meat was it out of curiosity?

[raysparx1]

The only things I have eaten that I would never eat again are. Tripe and onions, (like eating an innertube) jellied eels (tasted like tramps snot.) and Kidneys, they must be the most gross thing in the world, and should be banned.

[blackcat77]

Snails - like little bits of rubber with a garlic flavour!
Also tripe - absolutely disgusting! I think that I would throw up if someone offered me jellied eels!

[green dragon]

Mine has to be a sheeps head in Turkey. My husband and I had half each, so we had an eye, brain , cheek and half the tongue each all done in a spicey tom sauce - rather good!

[hammerman]

Anything my wife cooks is bloody weird !!!!

[raysparx1]

Only had the one try at it nk, trust you to notice, lol, might have had more had he not had the flu bug at the same time. :-)

[oculist]

Chicken's feet, and they tasted just as you might expect!

[spudqueen]

I once had boiled egg soup in Russia, which consisted of greasy dishwater (I think it might have been meant to be chicken stock) with a (shelled!) hard boiled egg in the bottom of the dish. You had to mash the egg into the greasy water. Lovely.

[enfable]

Whilst in Malaysia I tried a fruit, call darrian (probably spelt wrong) which all the locals ate.

It smells that bad that you're not allowed to eat it on public transport! I was told that the smell was worth putting up with for the taste. However, it tasted as bad as it smelt and I was retching whilst trying to eat it.

If you ever get the chance to taste it my advice would be to throw it away instead.

[sn�gged]

A Balut egg in SE Asia. Never again :-(

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balut

[gelda]

What puzzles me is why anyone would WANT to eat anything weird, couldn't you all have said no thankyou!