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What's the most bizarre food you have ever eaten?

CreativeWoman posted on Mar 24, 2007 | views: 2736 | Tags: bizarre foods, food, foodie, travel, foods, weird foods, single, person, Philippines

I have discovered Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern on the Travel Channel. He travels the world sampling all kinds of bizarre foods.  Many of them make me cringe as I watch, but Zimmern is so engaging that I really enjoy the show.

Courtesy of the Travel Channel, here is a list of Andrew Zimmern’s most worst palatable foods he has ever eaten.


Durian is an extremely odoriferous fruit with custard-like flesh.

Klia is a mystery meat that is salted, dried and preserved in its own fat.

Mangrove Worms live off of dead wood pulp – they are eaten raw.

Callos is a casserole made with blood sausage and tripe.

Coconut Grubs is larvae that live in dead palm trees.

Coconut Grubs is larvae that live in dead palm trees.

Goose Intestines on Bean Sprouts is essentially Goose guts.

Nutria in Sauce Piquant is a large semi-aquatic rodent.

Soup No. 5 is a soup made from the back and testicles of a cow.

Haggis is sheep heart, lungs, liver mixed with oatmeal and stuffed in the sheep's stomach bag.


I say YUCK to all of them!

Have you ever tried any of these foods?  What’s the most bizarre food you’ve ever eaten?  Were you able to keep it down?

CW

 



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  • Lucytorial said on Mar 24, 2007....

    Strange but true I have eaten the following from your list.

    Durian is an extremely odoriferous fruit with custard-like flesh.  (Very nice for curries actually)

    Callos is a casserole made with blood sausage and tripe.  (Old fashioned but still a tasty rich meal)

    Mangrove Worms live off of dead wood pulp – they are eaten raw. (chicken)

    Haggis is sheep heart, lungs, liver mixed with oatmeal and stuffed in the sheep's stomach bag. (grew up on it father is a mason, did the whole scotish nine yards thing - actually love haggis it is very rich though)

     

    I have also eaten witchedie grubs (similar to mangrove worms)

    Cow tongue (beef pate) its really soft and done well is quite tasty with the right accompaniments.

     

  • beyondtheveil said on Mar 24, 2007....
    CW- I'm good at trying new foods, but they have to be food by my description.
     
    Haggis is four internal organs with oatmeal, and I won't even eat oatmeal.
     
    The Nutrea is a rat.
     
    And it would take a disturbed mind to think of placing bean sprouts in goose intestines.
     
    I'm with you on the yuck part.
  • MissMimi said on Mar 24, 2007....

    My husband sampled haggis when he went to Scotland.

    I watched that show tonight.  He ate pig testicles.  Tasty little orbs!   Ewww.

  • CreativeWoman said on Mar 24, 2007....
    Lucy,
    I guess it does make a difference if the foods are common as a delicacy where you come from.  I've never been exposed to them and they don't sound good to me at all. 

    beyond,
    I don't think I could keep any of those down.  The thought of it makes me shiver with nausea.

    Mimi,
    I'm looking forward to the coming week's episode.  He is supposed to eat opossum.  That should be interesting.  A few episodes ago, he ate rotted meat mixed with eggs.  He must have a cast iron stomach.

    CW
  • pickersplock said on Mar 24, 2007....
    I have actually eaten Haggis. It tastes like the mashed potatos and gravy
    you get at KFC!
  • Lucytorial said on Mar 24, 2007....
    pickers! lol love to see you hope your well. 
     
    Haggis does not taste like that.... if its done right it's spicy (herbs) it is also so righ you only ever eat about a tablespoon of it.  The flavour is very much like......gritty soft wheaty, kidneyish, liverish.... internal organish.... well it doesn't sound nice but its good... yum yum.
     
    You know grubs though are quite a delicacy up here, the indiginous always eat them... hell I even eat green ants..... the only thing I haven't tasted is sheeps brain...... ewwee don't think I could.
  • momsrock said on Mar 24, 2007....

    CW, I have never tried any of the ones you've listed and I don't know if I could! lol

  • mom said on Mar 24, 2007....
    CW- great minds think alike again.  I wouldn't eat any of that, gross.  It doesn't even sound tasty.  The worst or strangest thing I have ever eaten was raw oysters.  They were nasty too.  I am not a seafood person.
  • CreativeWoman said on Mar 24, 2007....
    pickers,
    It sounds like you liked it.  I don't know if I could try it or not.  :-)

    Lucy,
    What kind of a meal is Haggis served with?

    moms,
    I don't think I could either.  lol

    mom,
    I haven't even been brave enough for that!

    CW
  • MissMimi said on Mar 24, 2007....
    CW, sounds like something he'd find in the back of my fridge! LOL
  • MissMimi said on Mar 24, 2007....
    I'm kind of a weenie about sushi too. No thank you.
  • Ladyfly said on Mar 24, 2007....

    CW: I haven't tried anything on your list, nor would I ever. I once had fried shark meat that was being passed off as chips. They looked and tasted like Lays Potato Chips. But they were really shark chips. Leave it to my parents to take me to a seafood restaurant in San Francisco and NOT tell me what I was eating. I was maybe 7 at the time. I don't eat seafood because of that. I like to say I was traumatized. :)

    I did eat the parts of a male chicken on more than one occasion. They were fried. They have a name but my memory is failing me at the moment. And I must say, very good. But once again, leave it to my parents to NOT tell me what I was eating until it was too late. I didn't eat fried anything for a VERY long time. *laughs*

  • mom said on Mar 25, 2007....
    Lady- why would your parents feed you shark chips, are those like cow chips?
  • botoni said on Mar 25, 2007....
    An interesting thoiught here.....what may be bizarre to me may not be anything more than the usual mundane food to someone who has grown up with it.
    Haggis was sprung on me without my knowledge. I loved it, thought it was delicious and related it to the stuffing I serve with turkey. (It gets al th organ meats that come with the bird....liver, gizzard, heat etc.
    Pickled beef tongue, heart, liver are all familiar foods to me...and I find them taste. Liver pate, blood pudding, blood sausage ...all a tasty treat. Testicles! ...on the Canadian prairies we call them prairie oysters....delicious. A restaurant here even has a Testicle Festival when they are in season.
    Chocolate coated ants, honey coated baby bees, and of courst caviar! I d come close to trying most of your list CW. Yet, the odor of durian just didnt cut it for me.
    Hehehehe mom.....cow chips you say!.....lol....excellent for fuel but a little low on the list of delicacies....hehehe.
  • botoni said on Mar 25, 2007....
    OHhhhh darn......we forgot road apples mom!
  • queenparanoia said on Mar 25, 2007....
    i love durian!!! there's so many herein the philippines...
     
    i also love to eat balut. it's an egg of a duck boiled. the egg is almost a duck inside. bizzare eh?
  • mom said on Mar 25, 2007....
    bot- cow chips can't be any worse than rice cakes :)
  • MissMimi said on Mar 25, 2007....
    well, maybe not mom, but you don't have to pick the bits of hay out of your teeth with rice cakes.
  • gingersoul said on Mar 25, 2007....

    CW...lets see...strange food....

    *fried bull testicles

    *fried lamb brain

    *boiled cow tongue

    *horse steak

    *armadillo soup

    *cheese with live worms in it ( i mean you can see them crawling)

    I dont know if they can be classified as bizarre.....they are pretty common in Italy and Texas...... 

    I didn't eat any of the food you listed and i dont even intend to...:-)

  • Ladyfly said on Mar 25, 2007....
    Shark chips are chips made out of thinly sliced shark meat. I got sick after eating a whole basket full. That's when my mom told me and my sister what they were. I remember them being really good, but I'll never try them again. *smiles*
  • mom said on Mar 25, 2007....
    Thanks Lady-  It doesn't sound very good.
  • silverwhisper said on Mar 25, 2007....
    i'm a very adventurous eater, but i draw the line at insects. i've always been curious to try durian but i don't know if i could ever get past the smell, which i understand is horrible.

    ed
  • Alyss said on Mar 25, 2007....
    I've eaten Haggis and have no intention of ever doing so again. Same goes for heart & any other kind of offal. I was served brains once while in France but that I couldn't bring myself to taste at all. Yeuck.

    But the strangest food I've ever eaten has to be jellyfish. It was like chewing on elastic bands.
  • Ormocanon said on Mar 25, 2007....
    Durian may smell awful, but it's a very delicious fruit. People from Davao, in the Philippines, call it the "fruit of understanding"...because when a man eats it, the thing "under" his pants will "stand". In short, the durian fruit is considered an aphrodisiac.
    There's some truth  to it , I suppose, (or was it just the placebo effect?) because once when I ate some, my wife was in a very good mood the morning after.

  • botoni said on Mar 25, 2007....
    botoni streaks to local asian market for Durian....will report effects!
  • MissMimi said on Mar 25, 2007....
    LOL All in the name of scientific discovery, botoni? Let me know if it's something I should feed to my hubby, okay? :D
  • Zayda said on Mar 25, 2007....
    I haven't eaten any of the foods you listed. Probably the strangest food I have eaten is octopus, snails, and squid. And I don't mean fried calamari. Although, I have eaten plenty of fried calamari (but that's not really strange.)
  • D6fer said on Mar 25, 2007....
    I recently accidentally had some tripe in some ceviche I was eating....didn't know at 1st what it was....but knew something was not right! After finding out what it was....I really was grossed out....couldn't eat anymore of it....wasn't that good anyway....so I created my own recipe for it and will never have to take that risk again! ;)
  • kruuyai said on Mar 25, 2007....
    I've eaten silkworms and ants in Thailand, just by not paying attention to what I was eating.  I passed on the grasshoppers and other miscellaneous flying insects, though.  There was a lot of durian there, too, but I don't think I tried it.   Does anyone know if durian and noni are the same fruit?
  • Zayda said on Mar 25, 2007....
    Oh, wait, I completely forgot until Kruuyai mentioned ants. I've tried chocolate covered ants and chocolate covered grasshoppers.

    There's really not much taste to the chocolate covered ants aside from the chocolate itself. The grasshoppers are pretty crunchy but I don't think I would eat them again.
  • soullessbutstillhavebrain said on Mar 25, 2007....
    My little sister likes to eat grapes with mayonaisse and spray butter... she puts them in a ziplock bag and then puts in the mayo and spray butter.
  • Ormocanon said on Mar 25, 2007....
    Kruuyai, no,noni is quiet different from durian. Noni is a lot smaller, smells awful and the extract tastes just as bad, but it's considered medicinal. I guess you'd be better off tasting the commercially processed ones, in bottles.
  • lioneljay said on Mar 25, 2007....
    My list includes chocolate-covered grasshoppers, frogs' legs, octopus, snails, squid, beef tongue, beef brain, all manner of livers and giblets, pigs feet, and new york pizza.
  • agentPit said on Mar 25, 2007....
    Grill Scorpio from inner China. Taste yummy as Long as you close your eyes on our 1st bite.

    Ceviche from Peru, seafood cook by lemon, usually fish. Make sure you got a stong stomach.

    SmellyBean with pawnChilli in Malaysia. Taste great but the smell of the beans worst than smell in rotten sewage.




  • CreativeWoman said on Mar 25, 2007....
    Wow!

    This post has gotten a little away from me.  Forgive me for not responding individually.

    One truly awful thing that my dad had around when I was a kid was a luncheon meat called head cheese.  We also had beef heart, beef tongue, oxtail, beef kidney.and beef brains.  I had swordfish once.  I've also tasted some sort of reptile sausage.  I don't know if it was crocodile or alligator, but it was from a southern friend. The only bug I've ever eaten was a mosquito I swallowed accidentally.  :-D

    CW
  • CreativeWoman said on Mar 25, 2007....
    BTW, Lionel,  :-D  New York Pizza?  lol  I remember your bet with ed.

    CW


  • mlw32785 said on Mar 25, 2007....
    honestly i can't hink of anything bizarre. I need to get out more!
  • Tappa said on Mar 25, 2007....
    Haggis - I've had it twice, each time complete with the ceremony with it piped in with its attendants, then the reading of the Robert Burns poem to the haggis, the attendants being blessed with a drahm of Scottish Whiskey, the ceremonial slicing and serving, then the haggis piped back to the kitchen for the general slicing and serving to the other people present.
    Now, those involved in the ceremony get to eat the haggis while it's piping hot - when it's odour is heavy with herbs and rich flavour, and the fat is still warm and melted. Those of us who are commoners get it when it's cooled/cold, when the odours have dissipated, and the texture is heavy (not the flavour; that's almost gone). It can at that stage feel "gluggy" in your mouth, or if it's a really poor one, dry.
    BUT the Ceremony makes it all worthwhile, especially when the attendants and poem reader are all proudly in their full highand gear and the scottish accent is real and broad - and the whiskey also gets offered to the commoners!
    Well worth trying at least once in your lifetime.
  • gnoodle said on Mar 25, 2007....

    Rabbit, squirrel, deer, alligator, quail, elk (forced sort of as a kid to taste it).  But I like ceviche, certain Mexican foods that I don't want to know what they are...I love raw oysters.

    Thank goodness nobody ate possums or armadillos or definately not horse here.  I think the worst was boiled crawfish--you suck the heads to get the flavor out but I couldn't get over the look.  I do like the tailmeat though.  The alligator meat--I was told after the fact but I don't remember it being too bad.

  • CreativeWoman said on Mar 25, 2007....
    mlw,
    Not to worry.  :-)

    Tappa,
    Thanks for explaining about the Haggis.  I had no idea there was a cermony attached to it.  :-)

    gnoodle,
    I have had rabbit, squirrel and deer too.  I've also had buffalo.

    CW
  • Zayda said on Mar 26, 2007....
    I've had buffalo too CW. Some of restaurants in Texas serve it as a lower fat alternative to beef. One of the regional Mexican chains serve buffalo meat fajitas.

    My parents reminded me tonight that I had bear meat when we lived in Alaska. I also had grilled dove when we lived in Texas. That was before I knew what it was. And I've had deep-fried rattlesnake. I even have a recipe for how to make it around somewhere. I'll have to dig it out and post it.

    It's funny how I recall more strange foods the more I think about it.

    Although, I suppose I don't think of deer as strange food. We have it regularly when we visit the in-laws especially if their annual deer hunt was successful.


  • silverwhisper said on Mar 26, 2007....
    OK, i wanna try bear some day. ?

    i did once have wild boar sausage. that was quite tasty.

    ed
  • CreativeWoman said on Mar 26, 2007....
    Zayda,
    There are two buffalo herds near me.  There are a couple of butcher shops in the area that offer the buffalo meat for sale in the same cuts as beef.  It is quite good.  You used to be able to get buffalo burgers at restaurant in my home town.

    How did the bear taste?

    ed,
    Did it taste like regular pork?
  • silverwhisper said on Mar 26, 2007....
    somewhat, but it was a bit gamier, i think. but really tasty!

    ed
  • AlisonMarie19 said on Mar 26, 2007....

    Now, I'm not much of a picky eater, but some of this stuff sounds like Fear Factor! I get a little weirded out by the thought of eating some of those things. The weirdest things that I have eaten would be earthworm cookies (not bad, kinda crunchy, like nuts), and head cheese (made the old fashioned way, with brains). The head cheese made me want to barf, but that's probably a mental thing. I've had bear too, but that's not THAT weird.

                           ^-^ ali m.

  • CreativeWoman said on Mar 26, 2007....
    Ed,

    I suppose I might try it depending upon how it was cooked.

    Alison,
    No can do on the earth worm cookies.  I have a mental thing with head cheese too.

    CW
  • janna179 said on Dec 16, 2008....
    durian is an delicious food. you fool!!
  • writergrrl said on Oct 25, 2009....
    Anthony Bourdain's show is my favorite then Andrews.

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