what kinds of odd foods have you eaten?

Perhaps the one exotic food that I remember trying first was fresh banana. During the war, fresh bananas weren't available in England (well, I think that they were but they were rarer than caviar!) What we had until I was about five was dried banana which was blackish-brown and moist - something like dried figs or dates - not these cute little crisp banana slices that one can get in dried fruit mixes. The smell and the flavour are quite different to fresh bananas and I suppose that, since that was all I knew, I grew to like them. They came packed in wooden boxes which happened to be a very useful size and shape for storing things in. I remember the smell of the boxes vividly but I can't recall actually eating the stuff! Well, when I was no more than two, someone gave my mother a fresh banana. To her this was a pre-war delicacy that merited special attention so she mashed it and made sandwiches of it for all the family. I am told (though I don't remember it) that I took one bite and spat it out. Of course, that was a shocking and wasteful thing to do but I was just an infant! Since then I have tried many exotic foods. Perhaps Steak Tartare (raw ground fillet of beef mixed with raw egg) was the most adventurous but I have also eaten ostrich burger, kudu steak and haggis, all of which I liked. Ostrich meat is a red meat (it comes from the leg of the ostrich) and is like very lean beef. In fact it has so little fat that one has to add oil in order to fry it. Kudu steak is delicious and like very fine grained and lean beef, remarkably tender and with a very slight gaminess about it (kudu is, after all, an antelope and therefore, technically, game). Haggis is found wild in Scotland and is reputed to have shorter legs on one side than on the other on account of living on sloping ground. This, of course, is all a pretty lie just as the story about what Scotsmen wear under their kilts is. Haggis is actually made from the liver, lights and various other unmentionable bits of sheep mixed with oatmeal and spices stuffed into a sheep's stomach and boiled. It is actually very rich and quite delicious, if properly made. Unfortunately, most people have never encountered the real thing and pronounce it insipid, stodgy and inedible.

hi bucketkid! if i can recall the strange food ate lately is starfish, i'll never have that odd delicacy again, it taste weird in my taste buds, like your eating deep fried sandy taste sponge...

When I was small, my father brought me to a state near the beach. The state name is Terengganu. In Terengganu, at that time turtle eggs can be found easily because many people were selling them at a price. My father bought a dozen of the eggs, brought them home and asked my mom to boil it. The eggs were amazing because no matter how long we boil them, it could not get hard. So at last my father said, what the heck, why don't we just eat them even though it is not harden. At least it is perfectly cooked. At first only my father ate one, then I decided to eat one too since the eggs were rare and I don't know when I could taste turtle egg again. Most probably it would be the first and last time. So I ate one and it tasted pretty good. It was not that tasty, but it was not bad either. I was in the middle, not favoring it nor disliking it. My mother never wanted to eat one because she felt disgusted. Well, let her be because she is the one on the losing side. At least now my father and I can tell others we have tasted turtle eggs.

hi bucketkid. the odd foods that i have tasted are ostrich, dog, horse, duck eggs with embryo inside (balut) and snake. goat is not so odd here. turkey is not so common either. if you don't know what you're eating i guess you'll just say that they do taste nice.

ive eaten a grub,the kind that you see Bear Grylls eat. yup that one, i ate during my survival camping trip and it was mucous like in texture...

Sure, I have had swamp cabbage, squirrel, deer, dove, rattlesnake, squid, octopus, oppossum, buffalo, dandelion greens, poke salad, frog legs, pigs feet, beef tongue, chittlins, fish roe, ummmmm all sorts of goodies.