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What's the weirdest thing you ever ate?

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One place I worked, the 'Chef' in the staff restaurant served up roast lamb in coffee sauce,so everyone had to try it (It's disgusting), so next week, he offered roast beef in chocolate sauce (Also disgusting)
 
no one said:
I will try anything once.
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Only joking, my friend, but it was too easy; Not the quote you want following you around for a lifetime!:p

So I'm 12 YO or so, Dad and I are walking around on the docks, and he sees an old college buddy.

This guy is now an urchin diver out in the channel; These guys dive down, grab all they can, every single day, and (then unregulated) devastate the ecosystem(but yada, yada, yada) and then ship them all 100% quick as a bunny, off to Japan. Where they go for big bucks, and are valued for protein content (and also odd, unique flavor.)

So the guy on the docks sez' to my Dad.......Ya' wanna' try some?.............He reaches into the purse seine net filled with 1,000 Lbs. of (still moving and wriggling ) purple, spiney, fist sized Echinoderm specimens, hanging from the crane; Out of the boat's hold, now hanging over the truck, he picks one lucky sea urchin out. He splits it in half with the back of his dive knife, picks the (somehow offensive) slimy orange stuff out of the slimy (somehow delightful) purple stuff, and says "give it a try".

I'll just say, it was very, very interesting; I held it down, (at the time, it was no problem, I didn't give it a moment's thought then......But not sure I could do it again today).....And I still loves me some sushi; But consider swallowing that still wiggling mass of purple, salty, uncooked, gritty mass of reproductive organ some advanced material.



Then there was that time I deep fried a Ho-Bo's flip-flop, but that's another story entirely; And in my defense, I was really hungry.
 
On the subject of sea food, I've never understood the fascination with Oysters. They must taste heavenly, because they look disgusting.
 
Use Caution When Eating Escolar

Escolar is a type of snake mackerel that cannot metabolize the wax esters naturally found in its diet. These esters are called gempylotoxin, and are very similar to castor or mineral oil. This is what gives the flesh of escolar its oily texture. As a result, when full portions of escolar are consumed, these wax esters cause gastrointestinal symptoms.

To be frankly and bluntly specific - and I'm sorry for this - consumption of escolar causes explosive, oily, orange diarrhea. People have reported that the discharges are often difficult to control and accidents can happen while passing gas. I personally know someone who ate an escolar steak one night, unaware of its side effects. The next day he was riding the elevator to his office when out of nowhere his bowels unleashed a surprise attack on his pants. As he said later, "Thank God I had my gym bag with me, which had a clean pair of underwear in it." This explains why escolar is also called the "olestra fish" and the "ex-lax fish."​
 
Chitterlings. I only ate my mom's, though. I didn't trust anyone else's because they may not clean them enough before cooking. And with her gone, I guess I'll never have them again.
 
Shandong cuisine.

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Fried golden cicada.
 
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Chitterlings. I only ate my mom's, though. I didn't trust anyone else's because they may not clean them enough before cooking. And with her gone, I guess I'll never have them again.
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I can't even stand the smell of those things. They were a tradition at my late Grandma's house for Easter and Christmas. Never did eat them.
 
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