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Weirdest food you’ve tried:

  • 23-04-2025 11:49AM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27


    Shirouo no odorigui for me.

    Small live fish in a shot glass in Japan.

    I could feel the fuckers moving around my stomach for a few minutes after I swallowed them whole.

    They were bland and tasteless, the taste of the strong alcohol overpowered any taste from them.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,866 ✭✭✭✭The Hill Billy


    In Belarus many years ago, I was treated to pickled cow's tongue in aspic jelly (topped with a sliced of hardboiled egg) for breakfast. Not great after a feed of vodka the night before.

    I've also enjoyed Kalbskopf (calf's head) and Schweinerüssel (pig's snout) in Switzerland.

    I had a go at crickets that a friend brought back from holidays in Mexico.

    To be honest, given the chance, I will literally eat anything (at least once) apart from marrowfat peas.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,100 ✭✭✭Pauliedragon


    Deep fried lamb brain. Awful stuff.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27 Mohill Megan


    I also swallowed a goldfish alive as a dare on my 24th birthday last year 🥴 if that counts.

    The bastard nearly choked me, but I got him into my stomach in the end 💪 i’m very girly as you can see 😛



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,582 ✭✭✭black & white


    Sweetbreads and fried pigs ears in Madrid, sweetbreads were revolting but ears were nice and crunchy



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,504 ✭✭✭csirl


    Frogs legs. Friend of mine ordered them to see what they're like and a few of us ate them.

    Slimey chickeny feel off the meat. Little bones are a bit off putting when you bite inti them!



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27 Mohill Megan


    I had a go at crickets that a friend brought back from holidays in Mexico.

    Try them live! If you can catch one. Fresh! yum 😋



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,072 ✭✭✭✭LambshankRedemption


    I had frogs legs in Johnny Fox's a few years ago, I really liked them.

    I had snails in garlic butter in Morrocco and really liked them. Would have them again.

    The only live things Ive eaten were oysters which I absolutely adore.

    Steak Tartare aka tatarek is common on Czech menus, is basically just raw beef mince. Had that a few times. It's ok. Pro tip: Don't eat when hungover!

    In Turkey I had soup made from sheep lungs which was delicious!

    And I'm a big fan of haggis.

    A friend of mine for his 40th went to a "pig cook out", where they take a pig and a large group of people and try to eat as much of it as possible. Now, stuff like pork belly, ribs, flank, and shoulder I would be all over, but on the second day, himself a bit hungover, they served up fried pig brain and scrambled eggs for a hangover cure. Personally, that would be a no no for me.

    Never had crickets or scorpion, but would like to try them.



  • Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 2,629 Mod ✭✭✭✭Nigel Fairservice


    I'm not overly adverterous with food. The weirdest thing was probably elk bone marrow.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,072 ✭✭✭✭LambshankRedemption


    You never had some wild mushrooms while romping with your chums on the fens and spinneys?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,398 ✭✭✭SineadSpears


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1 MοhiIl Megan


    I also swallowed a goldfish once before. That little fucker put up a fight but he lost in the end.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 56,650 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Calamari - Rubber bands in batter. Only ordered it once and never again.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 191 ✭✭1992ChainGang


    I've had dog served on the bone (China) and dog soup (North Korea). The meat in the soup wasnt great but in China the meat tasted good.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,079 ✭✭✭blackvalley


    Rat , frog and snake in Vietnam. To quote the great Colin Farrell .
    “ Fuppin delish man “

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,866 ✭✭✭✭The Hill Billy


    In fairness, Steak Tartare is more than beef mince. It is usually finely chopped fillet with capers, shallots, pickles, parsley, salt and a smidge of cayenne mixed in. Very tasty when done right.

    Agree on the haggis - great stuff!

    I ate horse regularly when I lived in Switzerland too. Not bad.

    Coming from generations of cattle farmers and butchers, as a kid we regularly had liver, kidneys, oxtail, heart, tongue, sweetbreads and the like. I was set up at a early age to eat practically anything.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85 ✭✭EthelMercaptan


    Back in the day prior to Supervalu swooping in, my local Superquinn stocked exotic meats in the fresh meat section. From memory this included water buffalo, impala, ostrich and others. The only one I wouldn't go back to was crocodile - greasy and pungent. I tried a few exotic meat suppliers in the UK too - zebra was OK, camel was rank but mouflon was delicious.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33 ociarba


    Scorpions in China. They were only small. Deep-fried and crunchy



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,579 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    Live baby octopus tentacles, still squirming on the plate. Need to chew it throughly to break them up, as the suckers can attach to your throat on the way down and choke you. Tasty though, have had it a few times.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San-nakji

    Had dog soup as well before, was pretty meh.

    Silkworm soup too, that is bloody delicious.



  • Subscribers, Paid Member Posts: 44,837 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    Theyre not "live". It's just the nerve endings are still active which make it look like they're alive



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,386 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    there was an ostrich farm beside the N11 in Wicklow, it was the "next big thing" for while.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 11,388 ✭✭✭✭John_Rambo


    Does anyone not find a lot of these weird food eateries to be tourist traps?



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 4,233 Mod ✭✭✭✭Planet X


    Dog juice. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia around ‘88, brought back from South Korea by Mr. Lee in foil sachets. Tasted like Bovril or something. Meant to cure everything and give you a, eh, 😀 boost.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,579 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    The korean ones are not, they are local delicacies.

    Except the dog soup/meat, apparently thats very hard to get now, may even be outlawed. There was a real effort to get rid it of due to the negative conotations from outsiders



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,828 ✭✭✭✭mrcheez


    Had a black scorpion on Khao San Road in Bangkok, was about the size of my open palm… tasted like Guinness… in that it was bitter and tasted like burnt coffee

    I remember throwing it on a pool table in front of a bunch of lads scaring the bejesus out of them, before running over and garbling it.

    Not my finest moment.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,072 ✭✭✭✭LambshankRedemption


    My local Superquinn was greasy and pungent too. I only went there once and didn't return.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,050 ✭✭✭✭SuperBowserWorld


    I remember having kangaroo and crocodile pizza in Australia. Very nice. But maybe it was just the beer, the weather and having zero dependencies/responsibilities/worries which made it taste extra nice.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,828 ✭✭✭✭mrcheez




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,072 ✭✭✭✭LambshankRedemption




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,008 ✭✭✭Uncle Pierre


    Also from Vietnam. I ate three of the things from the left-hand column of this menu….

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭Hoop66


    I'll eat just about anything. And have.

    I love oysters, any shellfish really. Love haggis - do a Burn's Supper every year for mates. Had something weird with fermented mares milk in Romania, bit like overly sharp yoghurt but quite nice.

    There was a Turkish grill place near where I used to live in London and their "mixed grill" had all sorts including sheep's testicles.

    There was a huge thing for "exotic" meats mid-90s in London. Even my local guy had kangaroo & crocodile. Barbecued kanga-babs were a favourite. Crocodile is great if grilled v hot & quick with a lime & coriander marinade.


    Won't touch brains or tripe though.



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