What weird foods have you eaten on your travels? (freezing, healthy, consume)

[Trimac20]

Speaking of raw bacon (yes I know it's cured and all that) when camping with some Germans, they were eating it raw, thought it was perfectly ok. Maybe they thought it was ham, or that is the custom in Germany? I always thought it was harmful to eat any pig product that wasn't properly cooked.

[Tempranillo]

I use to eat snails, in my city is very common to eat them as "tapa" with your beer.

[robertpolyglot]

NONE.

I went to a party for Y2K in Italy (found a round-trip airfare from SEA for $700, but left on Christmas Eve and stayed a week)

There was a lot of finger food. I asked "What is this?" I thought I heard "pollo" (chicken). So, I took some, and it tasted weird. I asked again. Then I heard "polpo" (octopus). I went into the other room and spit it out into the trash bin.

[Mooseketeer]

Originally Posted by DandJ

This is it. This is a diet aid.

Any time that I want to eat when I shouldn't -- not because I'm hungry, but just because it's something to do -- I'm going to come back and read "cheese with live maggots in it" and I'll lose my urge to eat anything and everything.

Good job. Well done. Thank you. Really, I thank you.

You're Welcome Darling ! If only it would work for me. Hubby always makes fun of me for giving almost everything a go but even I have my limits. I might even welcome the Peach and Mayonnaise Salad with a Hershey's bar and marshmallows for dessert rather than that delightful delicacy !

[SUPERCHIC]

london Kangaroo , Paris Horse meat Steak Tar Tar

[lubby]

My DH had ostrich steak, kangaroo at a brazilian BBQ place we used to go to on LI, it closed down 6 years ago. He's more adventurous than I am. He loves octopus, snails, conch.

[JustJulia]

I had canned silkworms but that was in Irvine, California. A Korean coworker brought them to gross us out. He dared us to eat one, so of course it was on. My coworkers wussed out.

The Sneeze - Half zine. Half blog. Half not good with fractions.

The pupa themselves are like oversized sunflower seeds with their shells, just sort of crunchy and nondescript. The broth they are in, though, is stench-o-riffic. As he handed me the spoon, my friend even said, "Don't smell the juice."

[Mooseketeer]

Originally Posted by JustJulia

I had canned silkworms but that was in Irvine, California. A Korean coworker brought them to gross us out. He dared us to eat one, so of course it was on. My coworkers wussed out.

The Sneeze - Half zine. Half blog. Half not good with fractions.

The pupa themselves are like oversized sunflower seeds with their shells, just sort of crunchy and nondescript. The broth they are in, though, is stench-o-riffic. As he handed me the spoon, my friend even said, "Don't smell the juice."

See I knew you were a brave soul.

I have never had silkworms ( "normal" earthworms were chewy and gritty so not something I would be keen to try again) but grubs I have had a few times and I genuinely thought they were quite tasty. Same with Ants, and Crickets.

I know what you mean about stench though, I think smell is possibly for me the most off putting factor there is in feeling really repelled by food, what it looks like and my "expectation" not so much. The Olfactory is what engages my brain most when it comes to food. I never cook mackerel at home anymore because the stink really puts me off even though I adore it and will often have it in a restaurant when industrial hoods remove the stink !

I also have a habit of always smelling new foods before I try them so if anything stinks I am far more likely to feel queasy. I have really bad eyesight , but have a fantastic sense of smell so odours are pretty important to me. If it does not please my olfactory sense I shall be far more disinclined to eat it.

[JustJulia]

I am the same way, Moose. I consider myself to be fairly adventurous, but smell is important to me, too. And texture. I cannot abide slimy (overcooked yellow squash) or "snotty" textures (undercooked eggs). I guess I picture a grub's being goopy or slimy, and I think I wouldn't be able to stomach it. Something with a shell would probably be fine ... after all, I like shellfish a lot, and they're all just arthropods.

I would have an ethical problem with some exotic foods and would not eat them on principle. It's already a dilemma I struggle with at home, so I don't need to seek out dishes that challenge me on that level.

[Bunjee]

Conch sauteed in pig's blood. I've had blood sausage so I don't have any problem about the concept. But the blood makes a starchy brown sauce. It's not something I'd ever crave again.

Ditto chocolate covered grasshoppers. I think for easy protein, insects could be the future of food. Luckily I'm not tempermentally attracted to living into the far flung future.