Today’s question, I hope, will open up some interesting comments… because I know you people are weird enough to have some good answers… don’t let me down.
What is the weirdest thing you ever ate?
Being a guy, I obviously have an advantage when it comes to answering this particular question. Guys eat more weird stuff than girls do. That is a scientific fact. I am not even going to tell you some of the stuff I ate when I was a kid or a teenager because someone dared me to do it. I am going to stick to things I ate as a mature, responsible adult. HA!!!
I have one other advantage here. My mom was not a big believer in ‘expiration dates’ on food packaging. She thinks they are just suggestions. Now, as she gets older, and forgets stuff, it has gotten worse. When I go home, the first thing I do is go through the cheese drawer in her fridge and throw away the stuff that is more than two years past the ‘suggested’ date. Let me just say that my whole young life was basically a training camp for making my stomach immune to most types of mold, fungus, rot and food poisoning.
I once came home from a vacation, and this was just ten or so years ago, and found a lasagna in the fridge that was so old that the top layer of cheese had turned semi translucent… that means it was clear, sort of, like a piece of really old glass from a ghost town window. I ate it… I love lasagna… I was fine… more or less.
One time I came home from work and there was a can on the kitchen counter. It was a can of Cling peaches… you know, the kind in the thick, sweet syrup? The peaches were gone, but the syrup was still there. I took a big swig. Two things should have warned me of what was wrong with this idea. The fact that the house smelled like freshly cooked chicken, and the fact that the can was warm.
Yeah, you guessed it. It wasn’t syrup. My wife had just drained the hot fat out of they frying pan and used the can to cool it down. Instead of cool, sweet, fruity goodness, I burned the crap out of my mouth with hot chicken fat.
I have eaten ostrich and alligator. I ate rattlesnake in Texas. I have also eaten chocolate covered ants. And I went to a sushi bar with a friend who likes weird sushi and tried some really weird parts of sea creatures that I can’t even remember.
And, I have eaten scorpion…
That is a picture of Mollie and me… I…? taken a few years ago at a 4th of July party on my mom’s street. Those suckers have scorpions in them. Mollie didn’t finish all of hers, but I did. It was a big one. It was very crunchy. And right now, as I look to my right, I can see another of those scorpion lollipops sitting on my desk. I got it for Christmas. So I am going to eat another one.
Now… wow me with your nastiness!!!
Pouring My Art Out 
Apparently I used to play in and eat my own poop when I was a baby. I would finger paint the walls in my own poop. So yea….I used to eat my own shit and I didn’t die. Shhh don’t tell anyone or nobody else will ever kiss me.
I was not expecting that…
Neither was my mom lol
HA! You kill me!
I once ate a roasted guinea pig in Peru. They decorated the plate with little vegetables and shoved a tiny tomato into its mouth. It was nice. Obviously it tasted like chicken. I remember cracking apart these tiny little ribs to get to the last of the meat – I was hungry. What else? On a trek in Chang Mai to a little (filthy) village in the hills, a guy (who was off his head on opium) cooked up a feed of fried maggoty grubs of some sort. They were delicious. They tasted like little salty nuts. When I was a kid, my brother made me eat some dog food – does that count?
You lead an interesting life and aren’t afraid to explore off the grid… you are my new hero!
Yay for being someone’s hero! Sadly, the truth is I’m just very easily led astray. Loving your blog.
I used to be like that, but I mostly did it to myself… sigh…
I’ve eaten fried flying ants (yum), octopus (gag) and raw shrimp (on purpose, but under duress).
Wow… even I don’t think I would eat raw shrimp… and certainly not in a dress…
When I was a kid I would eat bone marrow out of steak bones, especially if it was a little crispy! I wouldn’t be caught dead eating it now.
It isn’t good for you, but it sounds tasty!
It looks like snot or brains though!
Some of the best foods are ugly.
Cow’s heart. It’s a delicacy… or so they said when I wouldn’t open my mouth.
My mother on the other hand had monkey. In her defense they didn’t tell her until she was done, fingers licked and all.. those rat bastard
But she loved it! Go figure!
It is funny how we eat some animals without thinking twice, and others make us freak out. It is all just what we are used to. And how cute the animal is.
I honestly have no idea how to begin answering this question. And that’s even just limiting myself to stuff I’ve deliberately eaten.
I know, right? Girls can’t beat us at this game. I had to tone my answer down a lot.
Kangaroo, giraffe, elephant, ostrich, snails… Note to self: Must try chocolate-covered ants. Anything covered in chocolate must be good, right?
Yes… I thought elephant was endangered… and did you eat the whole thing all by yourself? Without dipping it in chocolate???
They actually cull elephants in Southern Africa due to overpopulation. I was tempted, but that would’ve just ruined the taste of chicken.
Why does everything taste like chicken, but chicken eggs don’t taste like chicken???
You know, I’ve never even thought about that?! You know how to promote deeper thinking. This, right here, is why I follow your blog.
Well don’t tell anybody, but I have sort of mastered the art of sounding deeper than I really am…
Nothing I have ever eaten could be considered weird or gross really. I am such a picky eater that I’m to scared to try anything adventurous. Although, I’ve accidently swallowed a fly before.
Pretty sure I did that on purpose at least once when I was a kid.
My kid almost ate a cheeto that had fallen in the dirt at the park. Mind you, it wasn’t one she dropped. She found it and had it to her lips. She cringes when I share that story.
Kids put everything in their mouths. Why did nature think that was a good idea?
I haven’t got a clue. Speaking of Nature though, when I was teaching one of my students wrote a story called Nature Girl and (insert other cool name, but i forgot it…so sue me) It was about two kid superheroes kind of like Shark Boy and Lava Girl, but really interesting.
Encourage the future writers!
Oh I did! I loved what they could come up with. I had told them the story of my parent’s first date and the same girl wrote a story about it. I still have it.
Nice.
Where do I start… fried grasshoppers, lamb brains, jelly made from cow’s hooves, alligator, cactus, ostrich, snails, frog legs. I even eat the apples whole, including the core. And I’m actually a very picky eater.
Frog legs are sort of okay, nothing to get excited about. but the hoof thing is cool.
Where I originally come from, people would probably say just the opposite about hooves and frog legs.
Tell me more…
Not without my attorney present.
I told you, one of the squirrels is a lawyer…
He is, but he keeps running around all over the internet, so I can’t really say he’s present.
They come when I call them… if I set out a saucer of crack…
Colostrum pudding from our cow’s colostrum. Ok, I made it but only tasted a slurp on a spoon.
I don’t even know what a colostrum is… but eeeeewwwwww… good answer. We make plum pudding on Christmas that has the fat from around a goat’s liver or a sheep’s spleen or something like that. It is so pure it keeps stuff from going bad.
Gross!! Abalone and alligator are the extent of what I’ve eaten that’s different. Boy that was one long question…since when do you get to answer your own questions?
I am interviewing all of us, and I am one of us… so…
no you’re you and we’re us
Can’t I be one of you too???
okay
yay
Beer from a can with cigarette butts in it the morning after the night before.
We have all been there…
Lung casserole…
Lung from what… or who???
An unspecified animal in the Austrian Alps.
marmoset!!!
Shark, Kangaroo, Ostrich. Not really weird but just not common over here. I did have to wrestle each one to the ground myself first though. 😀 Yeah, no one’s falling for that.
I eat things some people find gross I suppose, liver and kidneys I love. An Iraqi guy at work was raving about brains recently, but he may just be going all Hannibal Lector on us.
I had a pretty disgusting drink the other day. I had filled a glass of tap water to drink whilst I was cleaning and left it half full in the sink as I had already wiped down the surfaces. Then I wrung my cloth out that I had been wiping the floor with, then carried on cleaning and then took a gulp of my water but I had obviously wrung the dirty cloth out over the sink and into my glass. It did not taste nice.
I have shark a lot. Try grilling it with Italian salad dressing… mmmmm…
That water thing sounds like one of those dares I was talking about…
It was ok, I just drank the floor cleaner detergent to clean my insides out 😉
I will call you Mr. Sparkly Guts.
I hope that catches on, I like it
You are like Elton John or Liberace… but on the inside… ha
I may rethink that name then.
What is the man version of the vagazzle?
Vanozzle
Penoozzle… dicoozzle… cocoozzle… schlongoozzle…
the last one is a winner!
yeah it is.
WOW! Great question. I wish I could compete or offer anything remotely as disgusting as you have. My kids were given scorpion suckers when they were toddlers. TODDLERS!! I threw them out. I had wasabi-flavored chocolate. There, take that. Oh, and sturgeon.
Umm… you could have eaten the suckers yourself… and you need to get out more… HA!
I have a very sensitive “yuck” reflex.
And yet you come here…. hmmmmmmmmmmm