So, what is the weirdest thing you have eaten? Not really weirdest tasting either, just weird. Rare may even be appropriate. Describe the taste and recommend it or warn us away from it. Also, how did you come across it?

As for me, it would probably be when I ate part of a whale. One of my exes was part Inuit, she came from just a little ways out of Barrow, Alaska. Brought some whale bits with her one time. We ate them and they were actually pretty good, but certain parts were incredibly chewy and almost hard. Those were not so good imo. The other parts were pretty delicious though, it was a special recipe from her family that her grandma prepared.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haggis

It was for a event my work was doing a while back for a Scottish heritage group. The Haggis was not as bad as I thought, but it tasted like...greasy, flavorless "chicken" that is very, very tender and "beady". Not sure how else to describe it.

Well, by many US folks standards, perhaps ... dried squid? The kind that comes in a package and texture wise might resemble very moist, stringy and sorta rubbery jerky. I didn't like it. There's probably other tiny little bits of stuff I've tried over the years, especially from overseas business friends of parents, but I don't really remember specifically.

Other than that ... that common gooey, spackle-like white paste from kindergarten days. Which years later, came immediately to my mind when I tried some poi during a Hawaiian vacation.

I like haggis, at least in terms of flavour. It certainly shouldn't taste like that, though; the taste is, well, its own, probably the closest thing being black pudding.

"In terms of flavour": I finally managed to put myself off eating haggis in spite of liking it because I made the mistake of reading about its preparation. Squeamish haggis fans really shouldn't do that.

One of the most bizarre things I've eaten was a chocolate flavoured with thyme oil, the chief of the Chocolate Tasting Club apparently having something of an obsession with it: he should really listen to the advice of all the people who keep telling him that it is a Really Bad Idea because it's disgusting. It's a very rare occurrence that a chocolate is so bad that I can't finish it. This is one of those times (the other was attempting to eat a Hershey's bar: I'd rather eat chocolate that tastes of thyme than something that's flavoured with vomit).

I'm not very big on weird foods. Though I did eat a svcker with a cricket fossilised in the centre of it. Does that count?

I used to eat tree sap, a certain tree releases sap and it goes semi solid its sticky and sweet and has the most wonderful taste, but you need to know the correct tree, you really dont want to eat sap from other trees because it can be unpleasant. Otherwise im a very picky eater.

Century egg
I Ballsed up went this a delicacy and did it with a clear mind
Actuay wasn't that bad

Vometia, what is Thyme oil and how does it taste? I looked it up and saw mostly pleasant stuff about it. Is it vile when on chocolate or something?

Oh, and I do plan on trying to try everything mentioned in the thread. I had a century egg before as well. That came from another ex oddly enough. She was Chinese. So it was a Chinese Century egg I guess. *then I started thinking out loud*

Don't get me wrong, thyme is lovely when paired with savoury food like chicken and pork: but absolutely not chocolate, not ever. The two of them together, delicious when used appropriately and separately, make a foul and hideous pairing.

Snake - very nice, can't recommend drinking the blood or the bile it's served with, though.

Dog - pretty flavourless, and very chewy. Can't recommend it.

Deep fried crickets - excellent. They came tossed in chilli and mango powder and taste a lot like prawns/shrimp.

Try replacing half of the minced lamb in a shepherd's pie with haggis. It's incredible

So a bad union then. Chocolate tends to go places it never should. Once I had tomato filled chocolate. Yuck! Why do people mess with chocolate? Just plain straight dark chocolate is perfect as is. The fools!

Well, any ethical issues aside, if the chance arises again, try the dog adobo style. It tends to feel really weird eating dog though. I wouldn't exactly recommend it either.

Snake and cricket have been added to the list. I did try Scorpion before, it was in Michigan this last summer. Some famous fudge store had them dipped in white chocolate. It was actually really good. I want to say it was somewhere in or near Ann Arbor, but I remember Lake Michigan being right there as well.

Fried Crickets
Flies on a cake
Ants with tomato (worst)

I recently had cow that is being back-bred into the now extinct https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auroch -- the "pre-cow." Basically, they're selecting for traits to undo the past several thousand years of domestication and selective breeding. It tasted great.

I prefer my chocolate with spice, like the Aztecs

Chilli and chocolate is a great combination. Also, a lump or two of dark chocolate whisked into a red wine reduction and served with venison is divine.

Cockles. Though they're kind of common most people look at them and think ewww. But trust me, they are the most delicious snacks on the planet.

No, I'll make it seem amazing. I like to eat prepackaged chocolate chip cookies with ranch dressing. It enhances the flavor and makes the flavor a bit stronger. Not sure how to explain it.

I've almost had squid before, too. As a lover of seafood, I'd probably love cockles.

Like maple syrup? We made our own maple syrup and it was always tempting to drink the sap. But, maple sap is like sweet water, not thick. It takes gallons and gallons of it boiled down to make just a little syrup.

While that sounds disgusting, it's probably the mixture of salty with sweet. Salt's very important in baking. Helps balance and sharpen the flavors.

As for weirdest food I've eaten, probably brain sausage. It was in a German village after someone in town had done some slaughtering, they came to give meat to the neighbors. I tried this sausage and thought the texture was funny, then someone told me the name was a dialect word for "brain." I had a hard time not spitting it out. Second to that would be a soup in Turkey that's made with lamb intestine. I was staying with a friend and it was a cold day, so we stayed indoors and I had to smell the intestine cooking all day. It was as disgusting as it smelled, with all those rubbery pieces of intestine with hair-like things on one side. *shudder* I respect that such things come from thrift, not wasting any part of an animal, but I'm thankful for my decadent American wastefulness.

Chocolate covered ants.....They tasted pretty good until I found out what they were.

Maple Tree?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menudo_(soup)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbacoa

I ate a cheese-covered fried cricket once. It tasted like the hull of a sunflower seed.

Honestly, I am not sure if my description even gave it justice. As I said, it is tough to explain in my case. As you mentioned, its taste is its own, I can definitely confirm that because it really is not something you taste everyday!

Supposedly that's the origin of the word saveloy, though it hasn't been made using brains since approximately forever, thankfully. I haven't eaten a saveloy dip in years.

I suspect it might taste different to a Scottish haggis as ISTR one of the main ingredients may not be legal in the US: lungs, and they're the icky bits whose preparation rather put me off eating it.