I Have Eaten.....

[ArmyJrotc Raider]

Was watching the Discovery channel and saw Bear Grylls eat this cross between a scorpion and spider and just wanted to start a thread for people to share what gross, weird, nasty, wretched, unbelievable item they have eaten descriptions would be fun and enlightening! I'll start off:

I would have to say the grossest thing I have eaten is spider, it was more of an accident but it was really bitter and had this gritty rotten shell fish taste, it was about the size of a pinky fingernail.

[armysc_25b]

I didn't do it, but my drunk roommate in Korea did. Decided to grab a couple goldfish out of the pond on the outside deck of the restaurant we were at and enjoy them. Apparently the steak was too expensive? LMAO

[devin0116]

Metbrotchen. If thats the correct spelling, its not anything like a spider, but its raw pork, and onions on bread. Most Americans find that hard to stomach (no pun intended:D)

[TruBlu]

I can't remember ever eating anything really foul (except duck) but I'm sure when they put me through the ropes in SERE training, I'll eat some really nasty stuff. I've heard bull testicle is one item you must learn to chew... :sick:

[Billyd]

I can't remember ever eating anything really foul (except duck) but I'm sure when they put me through the ropes in SERE training, I'll eat some really nasty stuff. I've heard bull testicle is one item you must learn to chew... :sick:

Don't diss the Rocky Mountain Oysters now. Nothing but a big meatball :p

[Ben Shotalot]

Goat eyes, monkey brains, fish eyes and roe, cat thigh & leg with paw, bull balls, chicken heads, Balut (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balut_(egg)), iguana guts, dog, chitlins, bird spit soup, C-Rats & MREs, live octopuss, live oysters, live fish, sea urchin, sea slug, shark, various bugs while driving a motorcycle, and a used banana from a "banana show" on BC Street, Okinawa.

[Billyd]

used banana from a "banana show" on BC Street, Okinawa.

You, sir, win/lose just because I "know" where that banana has been.

[Drill for life]

The banana should not be brought up on a cadet forum:D. I have eaten tongue, goat, chitilins,gator, racccon and possum. I've also eaten some real weird Asian food that I can't pronounce.
I can't believe you ate balut; I won't give it away since there’s a link.

[fjer]

Cheese and veggie omelet MRE.

[Drill for life]

Cheese and veggie omelet MRE.

Those are just nasty.

[C/ B3RRY NJROTC]

I think gator was the oddest thing i've ever eaten. Balut...EWWWWWWW!!!! And my Boyfriend wrote to me and told me about the veggie and cheese omlette MRE and said it was disgusting...Doesn't sound too appetizing to me either :sick:

[ArmyJrotc Raider]

Actually after SFC Ben Shotalot listed his...delectables, put in my mind that some of the things that us Asians eat are considered kind of up there in the grossness list, like Balut even though it tastes good to me =D. Also because my dad is a sushi chef live oysters, uni, live octupus, are some things I grew up seeing but only have tasted in the past couple years. Bird spit soup in the other hand, to me, is just a bowl of slime juice. But for five fruits a day how about DURIAN? Don't get me wrong I like the flavor, to others it could just be a stink wad =D

[C/ B3RRY NJROTC]

Bird Spit Soup...Haven't heard of that in a while....But once again...EWWW!!!! But the sushi sounds amazing!

[ArmyJrotc Raider]

Bird Spit Soup...Haven't heard of that in a while....But once again...EWWW!!!! But the sushi sounds amazing!

Well the correct term is Birds Nest Soup, and it's basically a breed of birds that live in a cave use their saliva to create a nest in which they will use to raise their young, and us humans come along and take that nest and turn it into a delicacy that tastes like eating a slime ball.

[Saint Marc]

Toilet paper with hot water salt and pepper with bits of jerky.

Ketchup, hot water mixed into a soup and crackers.

The rest of that X-Factor crap you guys are eating is sick except the banana, I respect you for that, I hold you in high esteem now. Okinawa no less, well if you'd done that in Thailand you'd have throat warts and be dead, the Japs are cleaner. Still you have my admiration. I'm jealous now.

[C/ B3RRY NJROTC]

Toilet paper with hot water salt and pepper with bits of jerky.

Ketchup, hot water mixed into a soup and crackers.

The rest of that X-Factor crap you guys are eating is sick except the banana, I respect you for that, I hold you in high esteem now. Okinawa no less, well if you'd done that in Thailand you'd have throat warts and be dead, the Japs are cleaner. Still you have my admiration. I'm jealous now.

Ok so the ketchup and hot water just sounds like tomato soup to me, so I mean if you really want tomato soup, why not? But the toilet paper, water, salt, pepper, and jerky??? I have to ask Sir...Why?

[Saint Marc]

Oh please don't call me sir. It makes me feel so old and uncomfortable. The toilet paper acts as filler. It's a soup. All these other guys want to eat eyes and guts and crap. Heck with that, you can eat lots of other stuff. I caught 3 fish yesterday with just a hook and a shinny piece of metal and some line.
I don't even know Cajuns who eat some of the crap mentioned here.
You better not call me sir again or I'll get Hairy Eyeball after you.

[MOM]

I do not stray from the normal when it comes to eating. I'd never pass survival training, as I'd starve and die before I put a bug to my lips. I've always thought if I ever found myself in such a situation, I'd go vegitarian and eat plant roots and leaves.

I guess the only strange things I've had are buffalo meat and fried rattle snake. I grew up with the 1950's version of Ted Nugent for a Daddy, so we ate a lot of quail, dove, deer, turkey, etc - wild meats; often killed, cleaned and cooked over a fire all in the same few hours.

[Ben Shotalot]

Well the correct term is Birds Nest Soup,.....

Yea, but I didn't want anybody thinking I ate a nest. That is just nasty.

[MOM]

I read this page 2 first....then just now read page 1.

So have to add "mountain oysters" to my list that I've tried,
but couldn't get past what they were to really like them.


And reading Ben's list was an eye opener. http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk225/IMRIZZO/SMILEYS/banana_smiley_15.gif
I could not eat a dog no way no how.

[Ben Shotalot]

Toilet paper with hot water salt and pepper with bits of jerky.

Ketchup, hot water mixed into a soup and crackers.

The rest of that X-Factor crap you guys are eating is sick except the banana, I respect you for that, I hold you in high esteem now. Okinawa no less, well if you'd done that in Thailand you'd have throat warts and be dead, the Japs are cleaner. Still you have my admiration. I'm jealous now.

I lay partial credit on the d'Absinthe in the Purple Haze I had at Club Denon about an hour prior to that episode. :D

[Saint Marc]

I've seen some crazy stuff in Asia, it was the stories of Asia that swayed me to the Navy. I remember the making change tricks, picking up dollars and stuff and the chopping bananas. Oh and midgets.

Back to eating, I was told the burger I ate in Jordan was camel and in Manila I think I ate dog if the man at the cart wasn't lying. I was pretty drunk in Manila in those days so I could have eaten anything.

I went through a pickled egg, okra phase that ended with pickled pigs feet.
I'm just not into eating lizards and stuff. I'd rather eat boogers.

[ArmyJrotc Raider]

Yea, but I didn't want anybody thinking I ate a nest. That is just nasty.

That's just ironic SFC, calling a nest nasty, after all the things you have eaten, LOL.

[navytrooper]

I'm surprised nobody mentioned the famous Escargot (sp?). I ate that when I was really little. It was my favorite food until I found out they were snails (I had originally thought they were clams of some sort). I've also eaten pigeon and snake.

[C/ B3RRY NJROTC]

Oh please don't call me sir. It makes me feel so old and uncomfortable. You better not call me sir again or I'll get Hairy Eyeball after you.

Very sorry. I'm just used to it, not only from JROTC, but my family as well. Never thought I would ever say this, but it won't happen again :)

[MOM]

B3RRY, St Marc is a good example of what not to be when you grow up.
Do not let him dissuade you from always being curteous and using 'sir'.
And after all he is kinda old.

[-BuLL-]

Taco Bell.....'nuff said. Oh and octopus.

[C/SSGT Seifer]

While at JCLC we were doing survival training at the same time as Land Nav, I ate several types of fungus, some bulbs, and a cricket I found in the forest.

Believe it or not, bugs aren't that nasty to eat, if other countries' diets are any indication, with a little seasoning they are quite good.

[PhoenixCadet]

Taco Bell.....'nuff said. Oh and octopus.

Bleh. Get yourself some real Mexican food if you can find it.

As for "weird" things I've eaten, nothing comes close to Ben, but I've eaten and enjoyed all of the following: duck (some find that weird, I guess), anything from the sea, fried gator, buffalo, ostrich... Nothing special.

-PC

[-BuLL-]

Don't be dissin' the fried gator. That's good Cajun cooking.

[Drill for life]

Don't be dissin' the fried gator. That's good Cajun cooking.

Heck yea but grilled gator is even better. Hey bull you ever had Gator wings?

[-BuLL-]

Suprisingly, no, I havent.

[PhoenixCadet]

Don't be dissin' the fried gator. That's good Cajun cooking.

Never was. Read my post. "...but I've eaten and enjoyed all of the following..."

-PC

[Saint Marc]

Cajun's don't regularly eat gator. I'm half coonass and will tell you gator costs too much to eat weekly or monthly. Boudain is good, but I only eat it fried, I don't suck crawfish heads either. I prefer them fried. Fried soft shell crab is good. Turducken when you can afford it is good and so are cracklins fresh from the deep fryer. All that blackened fish crap I never saw in the bayou. First time I saw it was in a fancy restaurant in Baton Rouge. Pepper costs too much money to waste like that at home.
We did eat gumbo regularly and I cannot imagine going to my grandmothers today and gumbo not being in the fridge or on the back burner. You could walk in nearly any time in her house and there would be gumbo, shrimp usually because it was cheap or horseshoe crab when it was cheap or someone caught some.
Etouffe? Again Baton Rouge, but we ate lots of dirty rice, I mean lots of it. Red Beans and rice? Yeah we had that, that was real poor peoples food. Now we would have Jumbalaya when family would gather, that was one of my favorites.
My grandfather loved fried frog legs. Gator we'd have at family reunions. They would grind it up into ground pork and fry it in balls and patties. Like I said it was pricey and really wasn't very good imo.

[ang1sgt]

I am one to try anything at least once. Not sure what is the most odd ball I've had. I've tried some Indian food once that seemed to melt down through my tongue and through my stomach.

I've had dry roasted grasshoppers and they were actually pretty good.

Caught my own Frogs and had Frog Legs while as an Instructor at a Scout High Adventure Camp. Also used snares and traps to catch Rabbits and Skinned and fried up those, also made stew out of rabbit in a Dutch oven.