Do you have the strange habit of eating some foods raw which are usually cooked?

A friend of mine used to order extra of a certain fish bait so he could give me some to eat, imagine using prawns for fishbait!

Hi mermaidivy, is sashimi the same as sushi. I've never had it and am dying to try it and have been promised a home made uncooked meal of it soon and I know I'm going to love it. But no, it does not count, way too normal. Dough does not count either. Now you're the first one to come up with raw batter. Do you mean like pancake before it's cooked or the stuff you make to fry things in?

Sashimi is just the fish, sushi is the fish with that sticky rice they use. Both can be quite tasty.

I'm talking about every type of dough from biscuits till pizza and so on. Also I sometimes eate a small amount or cocoa powder. Also there's a type of pasta so thin that it needs less than 1 minute to boil and i like to eat it raw too. Ok now I'm geting hunry here...

Hi sunchild, well I don't thnk the dough is an unusual habit. If we're talking biscuit dough here I eat much more of that raw than ever makes it into the oven as it is so good. Then I usually only half bake one tray of biscuits so I still have that dough taste instead of the meant to be crispy way the others like. Italian raw meat - not sure if that counts as it's a sort of traditional thing there. Now egg yolk with sugar, I think that definitely qualifies as a strange habit so well done

Ah unadventurous here I see Stvasile, still you've got all those nice herbs to munch on, do you find them less offensive cooked or raw, at least it's easier to pick out the raw ones. I expected to hear of some Romanian delicacy here but yet again all I get is raw potato.

Oh, so THAT'S how it is then is it? Personally I'm exceptionally adventurous when it comes to food and I'll try pretty much anything within reason. A few examples are snake, ostrich, emu, crocodile, kangaroo, witchetty grub, duck fetus, sea urchin, snails and pigs ears..... None of these were raw at the time mind you!

I ate the sea urchin raw too actually now that I think about it! It wasn't something I overly enjoyed, but I'd eat it again. The witchetty grub I ate was cooked, but the Australian Aboriginals do often eat them raw. The one I ate tasted just like egg.

Oh, so THAT'S how it is then is it? Personally I'm exceptionally adventurous when it comes to food and I'll try pretty much anything within reason. A few examples are snake, ostrich, emu, crocodile, kangaroo, witchetty grub, duck fetus, sea urchin, snails and pigs ears..... None of these were raw at the time mind you! + - ! Well I really thought that Hiccup had the most strange thing to eat so far, water buffalo. That was cooked too. I'm going to let you and Hic off the raw bit as you really do eat some strange things over there in Aus. Actually though I thought witchetty grubs were meant to be eaten raw, I've seen them eaten on TV quite a few times but always raw. I can match you on snails, but I did eat my sea urchin raw not cooked, it was delicious but I had someone else cut it open for me.

Hello glesil, well there's nothing remotely strange about eating raw vegetables or shrimp, in fact I've never heard of anyone actually cooking a radish and carrots and cabbage are of course raw when they go into a yummy coleslaw. But you've definitely got the strange habit with the rice, how can you eat raw rice, I hate it even when I test it in the pan to see if it's cooked properly and it isn't. So yes a definite strange habit.

That vegetable maybe not that strange habit but among us five i am the one who can eat that vegetables and shrimps without salt or vinegar, or mayonnaise in vegetable. First time i eat raw vegetable that was a salad, and there is nothing to dip, but i like it. Radish is cook and can be eater raw and we put vinegar in it with salt, sugar and ground pepper and onions, but even without them i can. I am not the only one that can eat raw vegetable like this.

Hi glesil, a good radish should be hot and peppery enough to eat raw but I'm not having much luck this year, they don't seem to b.e hot at all, so maybe I'll try your idea of vinegar on it

Hi Hatley, there is nothing remotely strange in eating raw vegetables, they are very good for us. My young son eats a whole raw green pepper every day, whereas I prefer cooked red ones after they've been blackened. You are quite right that it is risky to eat raw meat, though one game chap on here has admitted to raw pig skin.

Hi Gerty, zucchinis are courgettes i believe, nothing at all strange about eating those raw, they are really tasty either way. Over here we batter them and fry them in olive oil as an appetizer. Raw beans and peas, nothing strange there at all. I'm still in agreement though that eating raw potatoes is a bit strange though when we think about it they often dug them up and ate them raw in times of famine.

Hello samson, well I'm with you on the onions and the prawns, in fact prawns raw are heaven when dipped in mayonaisse or a lemon and olive oil dip. They are things though that are often eaten raw wheras your strange habit of raw pork skin has got to be a first. Do you pluck the hairs out first? I couldn't do that one, I suppose it resembles human flesh a bit too much.

It is very tasty, here they burn out the hair and wash the skin with hot water, before slicing and marketing.

gosh that's interesting, I never knew that. wish I'd looked to see where you are from before starting this response now. I thought you were talking about a personal habit of eating raw pig skin,not something done on a large scale. It raises the question though that if the pig is raw it isn't really pork, as pig only becomes pork when it is cooked. Not sure about that though. And also when they burn the hairs off it's sort of cooking it, or at least singeing in.

Hello cher, so your daughter shares the same odd eating habit as my son, I thought he was the only one. I really can't see the attraction myself of snacking on raw spaghetti sticks but it doesn't seem to do any harm. It's more annoying than anything with the continual cruching and then the little bits of spaghetti pieces which break off and land all over the floor.

Hi snugglebunnies, I don't think squash counts, I think any vegetable can be eaten raw without being considered unusual. In fact I think it would be an improvement raw, I've never eaten it myself but used to buy butternut squash and steam it when my son was a toddler and give it to him, it looked most unappetising but toddlers aren't that fussy. Now raw noodles definitely count but I have to add a yuck to it,

Hi Jo, if you classify yourself as boring for not eating strange foods raw you'll be joining the majority on here, there's only been a few daring replies so far. The raw biscuit dough is not in the slightest bit strange, I often do it myself and much prefer it to baked as it's meant to be. Now the oat thing I would classify odd if your son ate them neat but by putting milk on them then they are just normal

Morning Sandra, come on I really expected more, raw mushrooms are not in the slightest bit strange unless they've started to go slimy. Now think back to what they are eating in Spain at this moment, there must be something unusual there which other cultures would squirm at, I'm going to have to expand this topic to not what you would eat raw but what do people you know eat raw, everyone here is coming across as normal

Hi yogambal, I wonder where our children get these strange ideas from such as eating raw noodles. When my son started helping himself to raw spaghetti sticks I worried a bit that it might not be good for him but he came to no harm. Carrots and tomaotes definitely don't count as strange foods to eat raw though, everyone does it, probably because they are better than cooked.