have you ever eaten a odd food?

Answer 1

raw clams, snails, cooked cow hoof, moldy cheese...

Answer 2

I didn't think so till I read some of those complaints on Yahoo about odd foods. Evidently there are people who think pickled herring is odd (I guess they have never been to a Swedish restaurant). Some think that chopped liver pate is odd (probably from never having been in a French restaurant). Some think pickled calves feet are odd (No experience in Russian restaurants). I have eaten everyone of those so I guess I have had the odd ones by those definitions.

Even in the responses to this question, someone said calamari is odd. Not in Italian restaurants or in New England fish places it isn't. Someone else said that spinach dip is odd (but TGI Friday has that as a standard appetizer and it is sold frozen in the chain supermarkets). Frog legs are on southern buffet tables especially those that are near the Mississippi which has enough bull frogs to permit frying up mountains of those legs. Most authentic German sausages are stuffed into pigs intestines including those sausages you find in supermarkets.

Answer 3

Cuy - guinea pig - - in Ecuador ( I had been told that this is the national meat). I was chaperoning a group of high school students throughout the Country whom believed at the time of eating the meal it was a special bbq chicken or pork, or they may not have eaten it. I carefully avoided their various questions during the meal regarding the size/color/bones of the meat.....
All agreed it was tasty, however were glad they partook before knowing what it was. New experiences, especially in cousine, are what make travel so very interesting!!

Having visited 27 countries, I am always anxious to try any new food - it may be considered "odd" to us, but nothing more than a hamburger is to us to the citizens of the area. I have tried ants and grasshoppers, stews with sexual parts (bull's penis) and intestine, but find myself drawing the line at eating something still alive!

Answer 4

Yes. I travel a lot, plus I've always had a penchant for eating odd foods, so I eat "odd" food more than I eat cereal or mashed potatoes. I love all kinds of ethnic and exotic food.
The weirdest thing would have to be tripe soup, and blood and brain sausage (not eaten together).

Answer 5

I think "odd" is all relative. Where I live, most people are "meat and potatoes" folks, so anything ethnic is odd to them. But I love ethnic food!

Personally, I don't think calamari is odd - I've eaten since I was a child. See what I mean about relative? Probably the least traditional would be:

Lamb carpaccio (raw lamb with rosemary, garlic, olive oil)
Cheval carpaccio (raw horse with balsamic, olive oil and herbs)
Kangaroo fillets (wonderful on a Thai influenced salad!)

Answer 6

The oddest food I've eaten are Rocky Mountain Oysters...

My husband's eaten that live octopus they serve as a delicacy in Korea, and snake in Okinawa.

Answer 7

What exactly do you mean by "odd"? I have eaten alligator, Caribou, bear, grubs, ants, snake, ostrich steaks, various root, rat, tadpoles, frog legs, and many other things that most people haven't had to eat. Put it ths way, most people will eat ANYTHING if they are hungry enough

Answer 8

I regularly eat escargot, sweetbreads, crispy fried intestine, cuitlacoche (corn smut), eel. I have tried cuy (guinea pig), prairie oysters, vestedde (spleen), sea cucumber (I hate that), kangaroo teriyaki, chocolate covered ants, rattlesnake s and pickled cow brains. I had the chance to try canned grasshoppers, but the smell was awful.

Answer 9

Balut, field rat, and rooster gonads. The first two are considered delicacies in Filippines.

My personal favorites are chou tofu (stinky tofu) which you can smell half way down the street, and century eggs - have one with breakfast every day.

Answer 10

Yes, pig intestines, frog legs, pig stomach , stinky tofu , century egg,pig's heart and much more