The weirdest thing I ever ate was mustard greens. The pungent, bitter taste made me think of a swamp or a bayou. I couldn't get the taste out of my mouth well into the next day, and it was super jarring.
Jalapeño ice cream
I kind of wish they would make savory ice creams, because I love cream and I love savory things.
While I was in Maine, I had the pivlege of trying their butter ice cream and lobster butter ice cream. It was… interesting? I actually don’t remember too much about the experience, I don’t even remember if I liked it or not. Kinda underwhelming memory considering how jarring it is to see an ice cream flavor like that.
Fried ice cream is the goat
Have a local gelato shop that made buffalo wing blue cheese celery gelato for Super Bowl Sunday one year. They let you try things so of course I tried it. I wouldn’t want a whole scoop, but it was absolutely delicious and delivered the flavors 100%. The maker is incredibly talented.
Place called "Licks" in Denver. They make a bourbon ice cream. You are just eating along like a good ice cream with some whiskey flavor......BAM! You hit a pocket or something.....yep...that's bourbon! It is delicious. If you are in Denver, check them out. They are in Capital hill/Cheeseman park area.
Basil ice cream!!! From a place in Santa Cruz. YUM. I love all herbal ice cream, it is the best! Ive also had "Earl Grey" ice cream from Jenni's
I can make savory cream for your enjoyment
Why does this sound good 😊? I mean pistachio ice cream is delicious - even tho I hate pistachios. Was it spicy or just tangy ?
I love spicy food but I think because I was 5 and didn’t know what it was (I was given it as a sample and thought ooo ice cream) I tasted it and had to spit it out. So I can’t really remember the specifics I just remember disliking it probably because I wasn’t expecting it but I’ve never tasted something that peculiar since. The store was HEB and I don’t think I’ve seen it there since
Chilli beer is dangerous. A nice cold beer, then the burn so you have another mouthful of nice cold beer. That cycle only ends when you fall over.
I made Carolina Reaper ice cream once with fresh Reapers. I wanted to know what it was like to eat something that was cold but hot as fuck at the same time.
It was straight up torture. You eat a little bit and you don't notice it while the cold ice cream is in your mouth, but as soon as it melts, it burns like hell. So then you eat more ice cream for temporarily relief but you end up in a vicious cycle.
You can't stop eating it because it's too hot, but the more you eat, the worse it gets in the long run. It's a lose-lose. I only planned on eating 1 bowl, but I ended up eating the whole half gallon or so that I made. Not because I wanted to eat more ice cream, but because my mouth was on fucking fire and eating more spicy ice cream was, ironically, the only way to get it to stop... except it didn't actually stop for any longer than a few seconds lol.
The Creole Creamery in New Orleans regularly has Strawberry & Jalapeno as well as Habanero & Peach on their menu and both are fantastic!
Large amounts of paper
Why?
I did that when I was younger. Found out it was PICA from not getting enough nutrients :)
How lol
Rip a piece off, wait for saliva to do its thing, chew, and then swallow
Lmao. In middle school we would chew up full sheets then throw them at the walls when teacher wasn't looking. Kind of weird but funny
Duck tongue
Sheep brain
Goat belly
Cod sperm sack (shirako)
There are sesos and lengua tacos at a lot of places in Chicago… they’re good. I think I’ve had shirako?
Outside of that, in Mexico City there’s a restaurant that does a dish with ants and tbh it was pretty awesome.
I love lengua tacos.
I will pretty much eat/try anything. If lengua is done right it’s awesome.
Yeah, ants and grasshoppers are reasonably common in Mexico, so I didn't bother listing them.
In the one dish?
No, that was 4 different dishes, though the duck tongue and goat jelly were part of the same meal.
Duck tongues are delicious though.
I've had all of that.
Sheep brain in curry was really good. Texture and taste were great.
I've had fish sperm fried and in soup, although I'm not sure if it was cod.
These all sound like insults we might have used as a kid.😀
Stuffing from a Toy Shark
it didnt taste good
I don’t know why, but this cracked me up.
I'll never forget the one and only time I tried caviar.
It tasted like a chunk of salt dipped in fish oil.
Never again!
Had cheap caviar probably
Definitely. Good caviar is to die for.
Dill pickle cotton candy. Some things shouldn’t be sweet, dill pickles are one of those!
This makes me think of ppl who put a candy cane inside their pickle b4 eating it.
I once ate an ant 🐜 when I was about three. It burned my mouth so I figured (for real) it was ant-acid.
It's an acid they spray to defend their home. Crows will upset a nest of ants and roll in them as they spray to use the acid as a pesticide.
My cats go crazy over dead ant pheromones, they will roll around over them
Think that would work for me?
Only way you'll get 🙀?
They have a zing to them, don’t they? I ate some ants in my school days for shock value. Fun times.
My daughter told me that some kinds of ants are sweet and some are spicy.
Ba dum bump! lol
When i was a soldier, some Special Forces and Navy SEALS guys I met learned to live off the land and which insects were edible. They claimed the big black ants tasted like sugar while the smaller red ants are not fit for human consumption. (I took their word for it)
Formic acid lol
Ants taste sour just like sweet tarts, you just have to pinch the heads off first.
Sea urchin sushi.
I don't remember the taste, but the texture made me want to spit it out.
I was on a date, and embarrassed to spit it out, so I swallowed it whole, and vowed to never order it ever again.
it's like butter that is covered in sandpaper.
I love uni.
I love it when it's good. The first time I tried it, it tasted like a musty old book and had a gross texture. I got the courage to try it again in a Japanese first market. AMAZING. old uni is the craziest worst taste ever.
You are so right. Even a day or two old can be awful.
Have to get it fresh and it's pretty good kind of like oysters can't eat old dead ones
Love it. Just had a ton of it yesterday for lunch.
I tried it once, then again about 10 years later. I did manage to swallow it the 2nd time, purely out of respect for the guy who just pulled it out of the urchin, but yeah, never again.
Weirdly enough, I can eat oysters by the dozen.
Yes I did the exact thing! It was with a friend not a date though so I spit that out. Easily top 3 worst things I've ever had. Right up there with rotten milk.
When I was little, I desperately wanted to be a famous YouTuber, so me and my dad made a channel, and some of the videos we made were just me mixing random shit together. The worst was a blueberry and American cheese smoothing, and the best was a peanut butter and salami sandwich.
peanut butter and salami is delicious, i used to make ham, cheese and nutella sandwiches for school, which is more atrocious i think. Peanut Butter is incredibly versatile, theres recipes with it and rice
Rice cooked by a woman from Eritrea. Pretty sure it was an attempt to dissuade me from making romantic advances because it worked flawlessly.
Raw squid guts with ink sauce. It was... not good.
Okra. I had it 50 years ago, and even hearing the word makes my lips sticky. I honestly just wiped the corners of my mouth.
Batter-fried okra is one of my favorites. They're pretty good dill pickled, also.
Just wiped my lips again.
Papaya. To me it smells like sick. Anyone else?
To me it smells like stinky socks, but the taste is good. Helps not to breathe through your nose while eating ;)
Bleh makes me gag just thinking about it, smells like a poopy diaper!
Hongeo-hoe
(Korean: 홍어회; Hanja: 洪魚膾) is a type of fermented fish dish from Korea's Jeolla province. Hongeo-hoe is made from skate and emits a very strong, characteristic ammonia-like odor that has been described as being "reminiscent of an outhouse"
I ate some of this stuff during a staff luncheon at a South Korean high school. I was their first and only foreign teacher at the school. Someone brought enough to the luncheon to share. They hand fed it to me and I did every mental exercise I could to not throw it up.
It was 15 years ago and I can still remember the spongy texture and rancid taste. Like chewing on a fibrous cat turd would be the closest thing I can compare it to.
Fiberous. Cat. Turd.
Vegemite. Like, wtf?
Balut the only thing that went down and back up
I once bit into a green persimmon. My boss dared me too. DO NOT DO THIS!
LoL! This reminds me of a friend that never tried persimmon ever and he kept asking to try one (we both worked in produce at the time). I told him he had to wait until it was ripe enough to eat. We would rarely get to see a ripe one and he kept bugging about it and wouldn't believe me about waiting for a ripe one until one day I just told him, ok go ahead. He had the funniest look on his face and told me the I set him up! I just told him "told you so!" For those that don't know, there are two varieties of persimmons. The flat one that you can eat like an apple and the cone-shaped one that you have to wait until it's super soft, almost mushy to eat. They're both really good but 10/10, don't eat the cone-shaped one green (while it's still firm).
Packing peanuts made from starch.
Kinda tasted like communion wafers.
I've eaten rattlesnake, didn't taste bad but was weird
taste like chicken too
The unwritten rule for meat is that if it doesn’t have its own flavour it just defaults to chicken taste.
When I was around 8 one of my moms friends gave her a can of rattlesnake , my sister mistakes it for tuna and made us tuna salad... I puked for days and don't eat tuna now because I think of rattlesnake.
Canned rattlesnake is a thing???
it was a souvenir from Texas somebody had gave to my mom
I had some soju with Japanese giant hornets in it. That was wild
Rat. In west Africa
Had some weird hot Raman in china. First bite my tongue hue tingled. Second the tip went numb and so on until I couldn’t feel my lips. Gave some to my friend and same happened. I didn’t finish it.
Sounds like it was made with szechuan pepper: it does that and a lot of folks really like the sensation. it's def weird, I'll give you that
Glad I got a name. Not going to lie I was wondering if I was just being drugged lol
A pot brownie. Somehow, the herbs and chocolate work together to make something amazing. I'd eat more of them if they didn't get me high.
Japanese coworker went to Japan and brought back a whale steak. Half the office was apalled. Other half like me thought we should try a bite before they are extinct.
I would describe it as something between tuna and beef. Was really tasty, actually. I feel terrible.
Scrapple. If you know you know
Good stuff, especially with eggs and toast! Though my family always made it using deer instead of pork.
When I was little I drank a container of popcorn butter at the drive in. Can’t describe how awful that was.
Whyyyyy did u do that? Lol! How little?
Five or six. I thought it would taste like a buttered popcorn something or other.
Had to ingest about an ounce of radio-active iodine to treat a medical condition. Difficult to describe the strange taste, but I can say that it definitely tasted like something I should NOT be drinking.
I had to get tested for gastroparesis once, and they fed me radioactive scrambled eggs. It was actually pretty good
"And how do you like your eggs...sunny-side?"
"Radioactive."
I had alligator chowder from a can which was pretty good. Thought I picked up a small cheese in China to find it was white chocolate flavored cheese which was , unexpected, weird, and not good. When I was little I ate some ice melt product and another time poisonous berries. Both times I knew immediately it had been a bad bad decision.
Durian, it looks like a close relative of a pine cone or pineapple. It's the size of a medium water melon and tastes like a creamy custard. It smells like rotting chicken.
Oh man, yes, it looks so enticing and smells so bad!
As a kid, tried dog food to see what my dog experienced
Sea urchin sushi, hell no would never eat again. Delicacy my ass.
Alligator meat; way greasy. Never again.
Frog legs. Taste like swamp water smells.
Conch (sea snail) ceviche, delicious 10/10 recommended.
Rattlesnake, also very tasty. Did not taste like chicken. 10/10 would eat again.
Psilocybin mushrooms. Taste like cow shit. But worth it.
Something wrong with your frogs legs if they don't taste of anything but chicken. Were you eating them raw?
Dog kibbles solid I steal one from the bag every time I feed my dogs and we get these really good dried beef treats that are just beef jerky, snack on those while on walks with my dog but only when the wife isn't looking
Wtf
Get her COOKING lessons and that shit will stop. She must be a looker for you to stay around that long.
Bro, it's NOT the same ingredients as regular beef jerky. You're eating cow asshole and every other scrap the slaughter house tosses. Ever wonder what farmers do with dead cows and other livestock? Dog food.
If you take your booms and grind them up, you can stir them in a couple ounces of lemon juice for about twenty minutes to activate them and then take the lemon juice shot and start tripping immediately, no wait and no bad taste.
You're crazy, frog legs are DELICIOUS, breaded and fried, taste like the most tender parts of a chicken.
Abalone is like eating an eraser, not sure what all my Japanese friends saw in it.
Rattlesnake was like very fleshy/dense white meat fish. Would also love to eat again.
Kangaroo tastes like sirloin beef! Venison is scrumptious, like lamb (which I love), but better. Give those a try too.
I've never needed drugs to get high.
Hakarl. There was some market stall in Reykjavik giving away samples so I had a cheeky taste. Would not recommend.
I win. Human placenta. Tastes like beef. One bite was plenty.
IT DOES NOT TASTE LIKE BEEF! I REFUSE TO BELIEVE THAT! NO! NO! NOOOOOO!
Beondegi - silkworm pupa from Korea. Never again.
They get very inventive in Asian countries about food I’ve realised, lol
Absolutely! That Beondegi was the only weird thing I was willing to try, only because I didn’t want to be rude to the person who offered it to me.
Mushroom ice cream at the mushroom festival in kennet square. When it warmed up, I realized I was just eating cold cream of mushroom soup in a cone. Would not repeat.
probably Japanese natto. i simply cannot handle the slime 😭
When I was in Korea I tried Kagogi (dog meat stew).
Korea (Republic of, obviously not DPRK) is not a third world nation. They do not pull dogs off the street for food. It's a specific breed that is farm raised and for human consumption and has been for over a thousand years.
Squid balls. It's a Japanese street food in which chunks of squid are dunked in batter and then deep fat fried. Good stuff.
Raw Oysters. Like OP said, it gave me immediate low-tide smells and tastes, very earthy in a marine way. Not unpleasant, but very unique and specific.
The snot-like texture ruined it for me
I just pretended it was my own snot, and it went down like fine wine.
Raw oysters are absolutely vile, both texture and taste. I have no idea how anyone could eat them, there are even oyster snobs, like wine snobs, talking about the different flavor notes and such.
"Mmmm this one tastes like low tide scum left on rocks in Maine in July."
Garlic ice cream and alligator
Cheese and onion flavoured crickets. Tasted like any cheese and onion crisps/potato chips but the texture was like sawdust.
Group of friends used to meet at a Chinese restaurant, someone bet me $50 I wouldn't eat a Sea Cucumber. I did.
Kombucha scoby
Tarantula. Mrs Malarchie and I had it at a food stall in Brazil.
Chicken feet
I have eaten turtle with an aboriginal friend in Australia and zebra at the blind restaurant in London ( forget what it’s called but pitch black with blind waitstaff fukn cool!)
I said to my g/f with one leg, "Peg, make me some turtle soup, and make it snappy."
I'll show myself to the door now.
When I was 4 or 5 my mom made something, I think it was a spinach quiche. It tastes like the smell of my father's nasty shits. It was one of only two times I spit food out of my mouth.
Note: my mom is an amazing cook. It was either one of her early misses, or my undeveloped taste buds were going crazy.
Pickled lemons.
I made a Morrocan stew and it called for half a tablespoon of chopped pickle lemons, added at the end. I tasted the stew before I added them, delicious. That half tablespoon of pickled lemon made the whole dish taste like a urinal cake. I had to dump it.
A hot doctor pepper with cigarette butts in it
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I was in Romania on a mission. They parked us at a Romanian military base and while we were waiting for papers to be signed I saw these 2”-3” long x 1/2” wide, white things all over the ground. I was kinda zoned out moving one around with the toe of my boot when one of the Romanian troops saw me inspecting the thing on the ground, he picked up a couple out of the grass and ate one and handed me a couple. I thought it was a joke but he ate a few more and I decided to taste one. It tasted like a “smooth” blackberry with zero tartness and a hint of vanilla! It was amazing! They were falling out of a huge tree that I at first had mistaken as a maple. I found out later it was a Mulberry!
Since then I’ve planted 20 of the damn things. I had to move and couldn’t ship them with me to another country so I sold them. Now I’ve got ten more that are three years old. To this day I haven’t had a single mulberry since Romania, the plants seem to grow really slow, and last year we had a late frost the killed most of the leaves.
Come to the Maryland eastern shore. We have tons of mulberry trees that are ripe right now
raw salamander in a survival week.
Rotten Iceland shark meat ..
Porcupine in USAF general Survival School and tree anteater in USAF Jungle Survival School. I don't recommend either.
Every other time I eat hotdogs from Costco, I question myself and when I see people eating Bahlut or Dorian fruit, I truly don’t get the appeal
Periwinkles. I enjoy escargot, and most food, really, but periwinkles are too weird for me. It probably didn't help with the guy I was dating at the time, as he was very negative, so his comments probably influenced me.
Octopus. Expecting squid, I was mistaken
Dude grilled octopus, cooked right, is amazing. A lot of Greek restaurants do it.
I had grilled Octopus in Spain, delicious!
Octopus is fucking fantastic.
One of my friends brought back a package of freeze dried octopus from Japan. It was actually not too bad. I wouldn't go and seek it out or anything, but the taste and texture were ok.
Raw squid. Nope. Immediately came back up. Hopefully nobody noticed when I ran to the toilet and profusely yakked.
Also, raw chicken gizzards. Wtf. No toilet, just puke in the grass.
Garlic ice cream sounds nasty
“Chapulines,” or mini-crickets/ locusts?
Anyway, they looked like 1 inch grasshoppers- they were marinated in lime juice and were very crispy. You eat them with a tortilla chip, like salsa.
I tried Horse in Iceland. It was like a steak but a little different taste. Hard to describe but not bad. Definitely felt weird and won’t do it again because… it’s a horse y’know?
Alligator Haggis Rabbit Octopus Caviar
All things I have tried adventurously that I will not again.
Went to Hong Kong. Quickly realized "meat" does not mean "beef." I'm not sure what animal it was, but I couldn't eat more than the first bite.
That’s interesting. I like mustard greens because they make me think of the swamp or Bayou.
Duck tongue is a bit odd. A lot longer than you’d think. Shirako is probably the oddest taste I’ve tried, I guess. Don’t recommend it. Raw chicken and raw horse are delicious, however.
Durian fruit. The king of fruit! Smells like rotting onions, gym socks, and dumpster water. But tastes so, so good!
I once ate an entire case of those bean boozled jellybeans in one sitting for a dare. Like, a whole fistfull of every flavor. Good and bad. It didnt taste like much at first but with some chewing became what i could only imagine as what a trash compactor would taste like to lick. Made by breath stink like an actual dumpster.
probably sea urchin at a sushi place. It was absolutely gross, in texture and flavor.
Energen + Hansel then iuulam sa kanin 🤩 Weird pero masarap
Jason
I was going to say alligator tail until I remembered one time in college I swallowed a 20 sided dice.
Balut look it up also durian and several other things that would make most people go yuck.
Cuttlefish is probably the weirdest
As a kid, I opened up one of those little "oxygen absorber" packets you find in beef jerky and ate the little gel beads as a way to try and end myself. I understood we needed oxygen, so clearly these would absorb my breath and suffocate me!
It did absolutely nothing, they were just hard, flavorless, and uncomfortable to swallow.
Candied crickets, I guess. I've licked a lollipop with a little scorpion in the center but did not make it to the thing 😂
Raw goat heart
A variety of roasted insects in Bangkok. Was suprisingly good.
Tripe soup. I thought it was potato soup before I took a bite.
Grasshoppers cooked in sugar & soy sauce
Fire ants, a bit spicier then I thoight they'd be
I had a food at a bachelor party called Belout or something basically it's a very large egg where the chicken has somewhat developed where you can see arms eyes and stuff no bones yet it tasted exactly like a deviled egg
I had a food at a bachelor party called Belout or something basically it's a very large egg where the chicken has somewhat developed where you can see arms eyes and stuff no bones yet it tasted exactly like a deviled egg
Yellow mustard on strawberry ice cream. 10/10 do not recommend.
I ate a jellyfish salad and it was horrible the texture ... i can still feel it
I was a on first date, and the woman ordered this "sour" beer. I tried a sip and it straight up tasted like stomach acid. Like the bile crossing your tongue as you vomit. I nearly did. Had to chug my drink to get most of it out of my mouth. Awful.
Wasabi ice cream lol
A live lizard. When I was in the military, I was young and stupid. 1/10, would not eat again.
I tried chicken feet, cow tongue and tripe in Hong Kong when I stayed with a friend. I didn't want to turn anything down or be rude, but the tripe was so, so bad I almost gagged. I also tried deep fried crickets in Thailand but avoided eating scorpion.
This Indian chick’s bhole
Karela. Never again
Drink. Beer made with whale testicle sausage that was smoked over sheep dung. Quite a nice beer, actually!
belize Gibnut stew- aka Royal Rat
Ass?
Jellyfish, ladybug, bull testicles
Horse and whale.
Horse meat was alright but whale was like bland beef.
Chocolate-covered caterpillars. I used to go to school with Chuck Connors' then-stepdaughter (ask your grandparents, they'll know who he is), and he was shooting some show and brought them back. I don't even know which country they were from, and they were amazing. I still remember how good they tasted.
Live grubs and wood worms.
During survival training in BMQ.
lychee martini. my friend said it tasted like bathwater. pretty accurate lol
Duck blood at Full Key Chinese restsurant in DCs Chinatown. Tofu consistency. Tasted like blood.
Jarred liver...
Bacon Wrapped Squirrel. Was actually really good.
Jellyfish
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