Hákarl- Icelandic snack. It is shark that is buried for many months in volcanic sand and then hung outside to dry a bit. It´s then cubed up and eaten off of a toothpick like a cheese cube. It can best be described as tasting like fermented roadkill soaked in ammonia. Best followed by a shot(s) of BrennevÃ_n........or black death as it is known.:eek:

Puffin-Icelanders eat their national bird. LOL! It´s a red meat bird and I had it boiled. Nasty! Tastes like something rubber.

Smoked sheeps head- Pretty good really but the eyeballs were a bit more than I could take.

Sheeps testicles fermented in sour whey! As nasty as the first entry!

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x

Let me guess.....you specialize in gastrointestinal issues ? ;)

x

What's wrong with Ostrich? Great stuff!

"Did you get your grits from the same guy who sold Jack his beanstalk beans?"

LOL

x

First, Grits are good. Worst thing I think I've ever had: I grew up logging here in Oregon, paid my way thru school doing same. During one spring social event with some visiting football players from southern California, someone told them I was a logger. They asked "what made loggers so special". They'd been drinking and smoking using a shot glass for the ashtray. I might have been drinking too but don't smoke. I poured tequila right over the top of everything in the ashtray/shotglass and drank it down. No more questions about logging.

I liked ostrich

Wasn't bad at all

I see I am now a "GRITS HATER"

I wonder who did that............:D

Grits
 

Grits are like rice. They're as good or as bad as what you put on or in them!!

OTOH Hominy sucks!!!

TR, What's in hominy?

Hulled and dried kernels of corn, prepared as food by boiling, usually in lye water. It is the source of grits.

Same contents, processed differently (as noted).

TR

I'll have to try some hominy again, wasn't at all bad last time. Yes I wrote about the dumbest thing I've ever drank. sorry, that was off topic. I'll go back to the knife shop now.

Well, from the sound of things, you had to chew a little to get it down and it was definitely nasty, gross, and smelly.

Anyway, its impossible to hijack a thread that was started as a hijacked thread offshoot to begin with. :cool:

I'm even most proud that I did that way before meeting Reaper. Yes chewing was involved.

Sushi seige
 

There is a fantastic sushi place in Solana Beach, CA, that I frequented often while living there. I always went with a comapnay of folks who ordered the "chef's special roll", which was not on the menu.

Up until one visit, it had always been a "cooked" roll...but I will never forget ingesting the roll on that occasion. It was called smelt, (uncooked fish eggs), NOT caviar, to say the least.
Never have I been sicker... :(

Holly

Re: Sushi seige
 

Bite your tongue! Masago, ummmmmmmmmmm, good!

Re: Re: Sushi seige
 

Sir, I must respectfully say NEVER!!!! :confused:

To this day, it turns my stomach.
(Like people who once were violently ill drinking Tequilla...they just can't drink it, the smell alone drives them away.

I guess, to each his own.
Holly

Smelt
 

If someone offered me 'smelt', I would have thought it was a little fish (silver in color).

Roycroft 201
(living in the Great Lakes area)

If memory serves me, I believe that Masago is smelt eggs

Air.177
"If memory serves me, I believe that Masago is smelt eggs"

Well, since this is the "nastiest food" thread, I just thought I would give my little opinion. For me, it is a no-go!

Honestly, I think I would be Ill if I was subjected to most of the foods listed in the thread so far. I am just an old-fashioned simple girl, who enjoys home-cooked southern cooking!

(and making cherry pies...)

Holly :)

I had some stuff one time that I think was called Eel rice. It was a little crockware pot that had some terrible smelling eel based substance mixed with rice inside. Of course, the friend who suggested such a choice neglected to tell me what it was, he just said here, try this. I also had a Chinese dish that had whole squid in it that still had beaks in them and I bit down on one.

Well, IMO, eel is wonderful...only saltwater variety, but...to each his own, right? :)

Hollly

I am a botanist. Corns and oats belong to the same plant family (grasses) and have been succesfully cross-hybridized.

My good friends in Texas wouldn't let me get by without trying grits. Mmmmm.

:D

x

Steak Tartar.... mmmmmmm raw meat.

The Mad Cow says "Moooooooooooo"

Perhaps the most vile concoction ever passed off as "Haute Cuisine".

No problem with squid, just beaks

Concur.....but of course, given the fact that I agree with NDD that SPAM shouldn't be on this list, what do I know??;)

x

Parrot Fish and Trigger Fish in the interior mountains of Jamaica.
It wasn't the taste but rather the chance of ciquatera not to mention that while in Jamaica I never saw so much as a single ice cube used to keep fish that made the meal just a tad unpalatable.
I hadn't eaten for two days so I went for it.
Oh yeah, Scorpion really sucks.

Repulsive...Umm yep, that's about all I can say on that one!

Air.177 is right, Eel rice is NASTY. It's usually got some sort of congealed eal leavin's in it too.

Worst thing I ate was a baitfish called a Sarkia. They look just like bala sharks you keep in your aquarium. The roll them up and cook them with a little water. When the fins start popping up they are done.

They're oily, bony as hell, don't taste very good and they've got these mutant scales that are the size of a dime. Those little scales get on EVERYTHING, and they're sticky to boot. I was picking fish scales out of my teeth for three days. YUCK.

I've had boiled goat that I swear died of natural causes. That was horrible. I've had salamander and that was fine. Goats head cheese in iceland is also not too bad.

Haggis I don't mind at all.

Strange Foods
 

I'm curious to know what's the strangest food you gentlemen/ladies have ever eaten? :munchin For me personally it's the following:

1. Live octopus- Japan
2. Cobra Hearts- Singapore
3. Tarantula- Hong Kong

People eat insects here in Thailand, I see trays of them in the markets when I walk through.

No, I have not tried them. I have been told that they are delicious, but...I hate insects. No freakin' way I will eat them, unless it is a dire, dire situation.

The things in the pic. Dough-like on outside, strange tasting things on inside. I guess like dim sum, only very different. I tried to keep my face from scrunching up to not seem rude.

FrontSight

They have food like that here in Japan. I don't really know the name for it. I agree with the taste. But the smell is something I won't forget. Smells like a wet dog on fire. If you can imagine that. As far as bugs go, I agree with Magician. But with the size of that damn spider I don't consider it a bug. The worst part about eating the tarantula was that it tried to eat me back! :eek:

A burned goats head on a bed of rice in Kenya.

The scary part here is the chance of getting Scrapie/BSE!!

That scares me!

Terry