What Strange Foods Have You Eaten ?
Depending on what your cultural background may be, one type of food may be normal for you, but come across as out of the norm for others !
As for me, i'm predominantly Filipino and we have a lot of, what you foreigners call, strange food.
"Kare-Kare" is a stew made from oxtail, pig's feet, pork, beef, tripe, and peanut butter.
"Papaitan" is a soup composed of the stomach lining "tripe" of cows or goats.
&my favorite, "Dinuguan" is a meat stew simmered in a rich gravy of pig's blood, garlic, chili, and vinegar. <3.
So what are some foods that you guys have eaten that others think are weird ? Also, what are your countries of origin :'D ?
I would love to try them out, cause hey, you won't know unless you try ya' feel ?
Have a nice day ! ^ u ^
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I personally, have never eaten anything unusual. I'm an all out adventure boy but not when it comes to food.
I'm from the Netherlands. Two years ago I went to France and ate brain. It was... interesting.
Oh yeah, normal for me but maybe not for many others: I [i]love[/i] the traditional raw herring with onions. Delicious.
@Cloudshadowv dude posole is so good. good thing the holidays are near cause im going to be eating that a lot, along with tamales. regarding the meat, practically any meat from an animal is turned into a dish in mexico. cow tongue is a meat that i tend to eat a lot of whenever i go to a restaurant.
mole, a type of mexican sauce, tastes very well with meat dipped with it. i would say goat and chicken combines well with mole. then there's pipian, another sauce, that also combines well with meat. goat meat that has been boiled with avocado leaves has a nice taste. i have also eaten fruits that are native to the region where my parents come from in mexico but their name escapes my mind at the moment. when i went to mexico last year, i had ice cream that was made from the fruit of cactus of the area and i really loved it.
I had alligator tacos when I was down in Georgia but that's as weird as it get.
I guess rabbit hearts too but I only ate one.
weirdest thing i've had was ox small intestine
can't think of anything else really
Kare kare is soooo good. That's probably the only Filipino dish I've eaten that's kind of strange. Although, I have tried dog...
some weird things ive eaten:
cow tongue
shark fin
duck tongues
All of these have already been stated, but I've eaten raw beef (it's a German dish called hackepeter), escargot, alligator, and squid (calamari, but that's pretty common here. Idk if there are other countries where people find it weird). I live in the US. I'd like to try some other weird dishes sometime
I had a conversation about this with my friend last week and it got kind of weird lol but anyway I've had rabbit, turtle egg, frog legs, cow stomach, chicken liver, chicken heart, possibly other things I can't recall right now. Never had the opportunity for escargot, insects, and such but I'd be willing to give lots of things a try
@SomeJello: probably? i don't eat it often lol. raw cookie dough is dangerous too does that stop anyone?
i dont eat anything Culturally Weird, just stuff ppl think is weird
peanut butter and pickle and onion sandwiches
pickles with salsa
raw hamburger
slaw and french fries on burgers (this is weird outside of my state?)
avocado smoothies
raspberries dipped in horseradish mustard
bacon dipped in sour cream
"burgers" with patties as buns
microwaved, hardened cheese
chocolate soda poured over ice & heavy cream
orange soda poured over ice & heavy cream
half a wedge of brie in one sitting
baby dills wrapped in a small bit of cream cheese & salami
probably other stuff? iunno i just kind of eat whatever sounds good. i'm pretty open to eating anything edible though it takes a lot to gross me out
Those things a lot of you mentions is in every single Chinese restaurant in the E coast
Especially Tripe A LOT OF IT!
For my the weirdest thing is Turtle Soup NASTY
I got to eat some pretty weird food when I went to China this summer. I ate a sea cucumber, which is apparently quite expensive for its average taste. Also my grandma ground deer antler into water as medicine for my sister's acne... lol.
The weirdest food I've eaten locally is probably century egg. They're pretty common in Chinatown. I still have no idea why Americans hate it so much though, it's delicious.
@SirKibbleX2 I love chicken feet! Like chinese-style dishes from dimsum right? yummmm, with lots of soy sauce <3 <3
I've had a lot of 'weird' food. I'm Filipino as well I love all of the aforementioned dishes~ though I prefer penoy over balut. I like durian too. As for other 'acquired tastes', I really like kimchi, I can eat it with anything <3 <3 I consider myself to be an adventurous eater, but there are just some foods, like natto (japanese fermented beans - pretty much rotten, mushy, sticky beans), I just can't handle... I like sashimi, but only a few pieces at a time. Though I have a lot of friends that can just eat tons of sashimi, as for me, I get sick of the texture and flavour after a couple of pieces.
Last summer a friend of my dads asked if I could help them move up to California by following behind them in his truck, everything being paid for, so of course I was like heck yeah, let's do it! Well, while we were passing through New Mexico, we stopped at this really run down looking place that served Mexican food. The guys wife was from Mexico originally so I guess she wanted a taste from home. Anyways, I didn't know what to order because everything was in Spanish, I just ordered some random dish lol. Turns out it was a burrito made with beef tongue and stomach I believe. It was actually pretty delicious, and I remember she was so proud of me for eating the whole thing haha. After we got to her daughters place in Cali, she made Posole. I don't know how weird that is, but man that stuff was amazing! I'd love to have that again real soon.
Someone mentioned this earlier but I've also had alligator.
Can confirm it's kinda like chicken.
My friends took me to get some "real" Chinese food and we ended up having chicken feet and duck head. </3
Pig tail (not ox), tripe, and maybe Foi Gras (not that crazy but still out of the norm for most)
@RLxBellz: Its pretty much just like eating an oyster or scallop, it doesn't even look like anything distinguishable either and it'll be so sauced you usually can't even taste it.
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The strangest thing I've eaten is vegetable chips which are seriously tasty but not really strange at all
I'm adventurous but not when it comes to food
Also what is up with Brits and blood pudding? I thought the UK was first world why is that a thing
@RLxBellz: yeah as a kid shortly after i at it /i was like "nuh." and then threw up. It was really salty and absolutely disgusting man, never again
Peanut butter, mayo, lettuce sandwich, thought my friend was crazy but it was surprisingly pretty good
fried dried squid
nutella is pretty weird too.. chocolate on bread. <3 <3 <3
@Elasmobranch: I've always wanted to go to France &i'm sure that I should at least try escargot once .. but what does it taste like ?
@Liam: BRUH, I freak out when I see balut. Crazy right ? Like the head'll just be dangling and I can't. You've tried it though right ?
Country of origin? I'm gonna say Ireland.
I had an alligator burger once. It was unusual. It's true that it does taste like chicken, but it's only similar. I told someone that if I was told it was chicken I would believe it, but ask if it was expired or something. It's definitely out of the norm for me.
you mention dinuguan but you don't talk about balut?
which is boiled duck fetus. bleugh
I had a rice dish with cow stomach once, I thought it was some kind of mushroom.
Other than that escargot is pretty much the most bizzare thing I've had.