# Strangest food you've eaten recently? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 25, 2007, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-food-youve-eaten-recently/423939 "2007-10-25T08:31:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-food-youve-eaten-recently/423939/21 "2007-10-25T17:05:27Z")
[QUOTE=Jodi] Meat jello. Okay, I’m pretty sure that’s not what it was called, but it was some sliced loaf of chunks of meat suspended in gelatin/aspic. I had it in Prague. It was not what I thought I ordered. It was not good. So, so not good. [/QUOTE] Head chesse? ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-food-youve-eaten-recently/423939/22 "2007-10-25T17:09:28Z")
[QUOTE=Wee Bairn] Head chesse? [/QUOTE] Good God, I hope not. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-food-youve-eaten-recently/423939/23 "2007-10-25T17:12:30Z")
[QUOTE=Jodi] Good God, I hope not. [/QUOTE] Did it look like [this](http://www.karlehmer.com/ProductImages/0375SuelzeLarge.jpg), **Jodi**? ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-food-youve-eaten-recently/423939/24 "2007-10-25T17:15:52Z")
[QUOTE=teela brown] Did it look like [this](http://www.karlehmer.com/ProductImages/0375SuelzeLarge.jpg), **Jodi**? [/QUOTE] Sort of, but the meat chunks were bigger, all one color/type, and there was also more clear gelatin area. _You people are not helping me overcome my trauma by making me think I ate head cheese!_😉 ---
**Author:** ![Gus\_Gusterson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85f322/32.png) [@Gus\_Gusterson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gus_Gusterson)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-food-youve-eaten-recently/423939/25 "2007-10-25T17:22:46Z")
Deep-fried shrimp heads. I went out for sushi with a friend and let him do the ordering. He snuck these in by asking for them with some sort of super-secret codeword. He asked me to eat one before he would tell me what it was, and I was game. He thought I would freak out but I’m too logical for that. Restaurants generally serve edible, tasty things. I knew that the only danger was that it might not be tasty, so I bit right into it. It was good, though the sauce they dribbled on them was too sweet. ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-food-youve-eaten-recently/423939/26 "2007-10-25T17:36:19Z")
[QUOTE=Jodi] Sort of, but the meat chunks were bigger, all one color/type, and there was also more clear gelatin area. _You people are not helping me overcome my trauma by making me think I ate head cheese!_😉 [/QUOTE] I’m afraid I have some bad news. _ahem_ Anyway, I tend not to eat anything too bizarre, if only because while I am always willing to try _different_, I begin to have serious reservations when _different_ is served up as _bizarre_. Maybe the oddest thing I had in the last few years was shrimp. Not that shrimp itself is odd, it was just the way it was prepared. I had it at a Vietnamese Pho joint, and it was prepared whole (it had not been shelled or deveined) and was literally crusted in salt. It was like trying to eat something that had been passed away and spent some time floating atop the dead sea for several weeks. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-food-youve-eaten-recently/423939/27 "2007-10-25T17:56:17Z")
What did you _think_ you were ordering, Jodi? ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-food-youve-eaten-recently/423939/28 "2007-10-25T17:57:15Z")
[Acorns!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=440579) ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-food-youve-eaten-recently/423939/29 "2007-10-25T18:16:40Z")
Sounds to me like Jodi had what the Ukranians call studenina. It’s usually jellied pig’s feet, but often also contains chicken as well. As usually prepared, the pig’s feet and chicken are boiled together until the meat falls apart. The bones and cartilage are discarded. The meat and broth are chilled resulting in “meat jello.” It’s served dusted with paprika and black pepper. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-food-youve-eaten-recently/423939/30 "2007-10-25T18:17:26Z")
Funny you should ask – within the last 10 days I’ve eaten ostrich, kudu and springbok. All grilled totally rare. ---
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-food-youve-eaten-recently/423939/31 "2007-10-25T18:50:20Z")
I don’t think I’ve ever eaten anything strange. Oh sure, things like Rocky Mountain Oysters, raw elk liver, snails, rattlesnake, ostrich (tasted like sweat), alligator… normal stuff like that, but nothing _strange_ like sea cucumber, tofu, or raw urchins (of any type). I guess I’m boring. ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-food-youve-eaten-recently/423939/32 "2007-10-25T20:30:07Z")
[QUOTE=Bobotheoptimist] I don’t think I’ve ever eaten anything strange. Oh sure, things like Rocky Mountain Oysters, raw elk liver, snails, rattlesnake, ostrich (tasted like sweat), alligator… normal stuff like that, but nothing _strange_ like sea cucumber, tofu, or raw urchins (of any type). [/QUOTE] I’ve had everything you’ve mentioned except the raw elk liver. I’m not likely to have it any time soon, either. I do hope to have some elk pretty soon though. ---
**Author:** ![Belrix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed655f/32.png) [@Belrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Belrix)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-food-youve-eaten-recently/423939/33 "2007-10-25T22:53:06Z")
Alton Brown’s “Feasting on Asphalt” featured a sausage place that still made head cheese. If what you made was from commercial US maker, there’s no _head_ in it anymore. That’s, apparently forbidden by the food regulators now. It’s all standard cuts of meat (musculature). ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-food-youve-eaten-recently/423939/34 "2007-10-25T23:09:39Z")
I had cuttlefish prepared “Venetian style” (in Venice). It’s cooked with squid ink, and is black as paint. Tasted good, but was a little too salty. ---
**Author:** ![Hokkaido\_Brit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/d26b3c/32.png) [@Hokkaido\_Brit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hokkaido_Brit)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-food-youve-eaten-recently/423939/35 "2007-10-26T00:49:51Z")
I’ve eaten raw sea cucumbers - taken from the sea, chopped up, rinsed and handed to us with a bottle of soy sauce. They tasted like briny erasers. Each one thing is not odd but the other day my husband ate hot cakes with kimchee on them. EWWWWW. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-food-youve-eaten-recently/423939/36 "2007-10-26T02:33:58Z")
Crow. It doesn’t taste good. ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-food-youve-eaten-recently/423939/37 "2007-10-26T03:08:35Z")
[QUOTE=Scumpup] Sourdough bread spread with goose grease and sprinkled with black pepper. It was pretty good. [/QUOTE] Goose grease? Really? I didn’t know goose was greasy. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-food-youve-eaten-recently/423939/38 "2007-10-26T03:16:57Z")
I had azuki bean soup for dessert in a Cantonese restaurant in Rosemead a month or two ago. It may not be weird compared to some stuff in this thread, but it was entirely removed from anything I had ever experienced. It was also incredibly tasty. ---
**Author:** ![Lynne\_kilii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d26b3c/32.png) [@Lynne\_kilii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynne_kilii)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-food-youve-eaten-recently/423939/39 "2007-10-26T03:31:59Z")
Roe, raw red snapper, and eel, for dinner on Friday night. I liked the red snapper and the eel, and some of the side dishes. I really didn’t like the roe. But I was being adventurous, dammit. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-food-youve-eaten-recently/423939/40 "2007-10-26T05:41:42Z")
> [@Trunk](#): > > Funny you should ask – within the last 10 days I’ve eaten ostrich, kudu and springbok. All grilled totally rare. Ostrich jerky is a delicacy in Southern Arizona. I’m serious. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-food-youve-eaten-recently/423939.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strangest-food-youve-eaten-recently/423939.md?page=3)