The least 'normal' thing you've ever eaten?

Rattlesnake (fried up like popcorn chicken). It was good enough to finish, but not as good as chicken.

Raw fish. Not at a sushi restaurant, but within about a minute after catching it off of an abandoned oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. The instant it was dead, we started cutting hunks off it and eating them with teriyaki sauce. It was delicious.

Buffalo stew and burgers. Better than beef, when I could tell the difference.

Once I swallowed a live minnow from a creek, on a dare. It tasted like the creek.

I've inhaled a few mosquitos over the years that made it back far enough that the instinct was to swallow instead of spit. Most likely, that means I've also eaten someone else's blood.

I've ingested sewage before, but not on purpose, and not very much. Its apparently impossible to work in the sewer without getting splashed in the face. I do consciously keep my mouth closed... now.

 

Dog a few times while in Asia. Tasted like beef.

Raw beef. Germans have a snack that they serve raw ground beef and onions on top of a brotchen (hard bun). It was good.

Raw chicken while in Guam. They have a dish called kelaguen where the meat isn't cooked, but soaked for a while in lemon juice. It's delicious.

Alligator, it was like the rattlesnake you described.

Balut. Fertilized duck egg that is forming. That gave me the runs bad.

 

A soft doggy treat. Was riding out to a fishing trip with a friend of mine, my son, and his dog. He had some beef jerky and asked me if I wanted a piece, and I said "Sure!". He handed me the dog treat, and, without even looking at it, took a nice big bite.

I don't know what dogs see in those things.

My son laughed his ass off.

Frickin' kids ...

 

calamari

 

I don't think I could do a forming egg.

The rest I would eagerly try

 

Vagina, delicious i tell ya.....

 

I tried that once, by accident. I'm not a seafood fan, I don't like anything fishy tasting. When I was dating my wife we were at a party where they had this, I thought they were onion rings so I put a couple on my plate. Put a whole one in my mouth and there was no where to spit it out and I didn't want to seem rude in front of everyone - so I suffered through it. It was like chewing a fishy tasting rubber tire, it probably took a full minute to chew and swallow.

 

I was wrong. I looked it up, it's called mett and it's ground pork, not beef.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mett

 

I wouldn't say that's the least normal thing. Unless you don't get the treat often.

 

Military survival training...Leaches, bugs, raw animals...no fire allowed.

 

They eat either one. My mother is German, and she loves raw ground beef and would serve it to us (great stuff with a little salt, pepper, and diced onions on pumpernickel bread). Never ground pork. That said, I wouldn't be surprised to hear that other Germans in other areas eat raw ground pork.

 

Well, maybe it was beef - I think that's what they said it was but this was somewhere between 1999-2001 so hard to remember for sure. I just remember it was good and I had it several times.

 

I could do bugs I think, but leeches and a raw animal would be tough. I guess if you're hungry enough though it would maybe be doable.

 

Yesterday I ate crocodile. Sort of rubbery chicken with a slightly fishy taste. I have kangaroo once in a while & tried emu once - too expensive to eat regularly.

I have also eaten crickets, locusts, frog, deep fried baby bird, large cockroach or cicada (hard to tell), stir fried larvae & 'ant mix' - 3 types of ant stir fried with chilli, garlic & lemongrass. The locust & cockroach weren't worth the effort - hard shell & not much meat. Everything else was OK.

 

Egad...

 

Sea cucumbers, chicken feet, fermented mare's milk, eels.

Sea cucumbers are echinoderms from the class Holothuroidea. They are marine animals with a leathery skin and an elongated body containing a single, branched gonad.

 

Ugh...

 

Served with a nice chianti, I'm sure.

 

I'm a bourbon guy myself....

 

Earning one's red wings would count.

Baluts are the nastiest unnatural thing I've eaten and I've had snake and some of the exotic fishy crap the Japanese consider delicacies.

 

I dunno why... baby bird is the only thing listed by anyone here thus far that I would hesitate with. I eat eggs, I eat chickens... doesnt make any sense.

 

My mother-in-laws meatloaf.

 

Baluts are not a problem for me. Some brew to go with them is excellent.

 

Ya gotta give things a try once.

That said, once I have tried something I can be quite picky. Plenty of mundane things I don't like.