what is the most unusual food you have eaten?

Question

did it taste good? and is there any unusual food combinations you have tried that somehow worked?

Answer 1

Being from Lapland we use all the parts of a reindeer... few I won't manetion, but how about soup made from reindeer hooves or the eyes as a sandwich spread?

Answer 2

Nothing already said that was that unusual - apart from the bull's testicles, that is! Haven't tried them - was that for real????

Had kangaroo steaks - really yummy! Quails eggs - same as chickens eggs only smaller!

Love squid - fried, battered, stewed - but still not unusual. Anyway, I love most seafood, oysters, raw and scallops, cooked. Delicious Moreton Bay Bugs in Australia, but despite the name they are just like a big prawn (or a small lobster). Love snails in garlic, too.

But you also mentioned unusual food combinations!

So, for something unusual, try this - unless you are a migraine sufferer!

I make my own chocolate liqueur using the sloes that I seeped in gin before making the sloe gin.

Take the pits out of the sloes and melt Toblerone chocolate and the sloes together. They are really good on their own! Now? Make up little cocktail sticks with a chocolate and a good mature cheese - cheddar is good! You won't believe how well these flavours go together!

Answer 3

I just made Buffalo Spaghetti last night. I've never tried buffalo meat before but a friend of mine likes it alot so I thought I'd give it a try. I was very surprised to find just how lean it is, I didn't have to drain any fat from it before adding it to the sauce like I do when I use regular ground beef. WOW. It definitely has a different taste to it, but it's good. Not gamey or tough, very mild in flavor. The spaghetti turned out pretty good.

This might not fall under the category of most unusual for some people, but so far, it does for me!

Answer 4

Garlic ice-cream - really - in a restaurant in Riga, Latvia called "Kiploks Krog" - Garlic Pub, where everything has garlic in it. Wonderful, but the ice-cream was a bit wierd.

Another thing I had in Riga was a dish called "Mama raud, Meita raud!" which means Mother cries, daughter cries in a restaurant called Cao Rasma - turned out to be bulls' testicles! Would have thought the bulls were crying!

Also in the same restaurant I was presented with dripping on bread. I often read historical novels and thought that dripping would be disgustingly greasy, but with tiny snippets of chopped, smoked bacon it was lovely!

Answer 5

I haven't eaten any "unusual" foods, but I do have a quite interesting combination. Pickles and Whipped Cream! Trust me, it sounds gross, especially to people that don't like pickles, but it's actually really good.

Answer 6

Hands down the most bizarre... I'm an American living in S. Korea, they have a food here that is a "macho man" thing, it is fermented fish (skate, a kind of stingray) Basically, it is rotten fish.
It smells like ammonia and if you bite into it you're very likely to puke! Even the locals say that it smells like piss but the guys eat it! The woman shy away.
Truly nasty ****!

Answer 7

I've had raw horse on a few occasions, since moving to Japan - always in sushi form. It tastes pretty good, but it freaks my mom out because she grew up on a farm and had a horse as a pet.

Answer 8

I have tried a lot of different foods in my life!
In the meat department, I would have to say Kangaroo. It was ok!
I hated Shark. In a vegetable, I would have to say Polk salad. It was nasty.
In a fruit, it would be a persimmon. I love them. they make great preserves.
I have also had chocolate covered ants. That is one thing that even chocolate can not help!

Answer 9

Fried Artichoke Hearts from "The Secret Garden" in Utica, NY.

Answer 10

Once, a few years ago, in North London, I got some Chinese takeaway. It was supposed to have been chicken, but it was oily and gamey and otherwise quite vile. I took some of the bones to a friend of mine, a Vet, who identied the bones as cat!