Out of the ordinary things (odd) you have eaten...

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pgta, Apr 12, 6:05pm
Grass, dog biscuits, chook pellets, haggis

tommi2, Apr 12, 6:31pm
kangaroo, Karengo(seaweed dish), ohhhh i forgot to add lambs tails, eel

beaker59, Apr 12, 7:32pm
Well I've eaten most of the above and enjoyed them. Oddest thing I have eaten is Whale which I tried in Tokyo it was very nice.

lene77, Apr 13, 1:24pm
My science teacher told us about the time he ate mountain got testicles.
We asked him what they tasted like.
"Kind of creamy, not that bad though"
We were in hysterics.

donna23, Apr 13, 2:38pm
Huhu bugs cooked on barbeque after sampling too many glasses of vino! !

elliehen, Apr 13, 7:57pm
There'd be some interesting additions to this thread if posters added what unusual things their pre-schoolers had eaten ;)

A small person I know once sucked on a fly swatter...

biker_69, Jul 30, 11:14pm
Crickets and they were delicious! A bit like a roasted peanut flavour.

darlingmole, Jul 31, 6:26am
hu hu grub (once and never again)
ostrich
kangaroo
fish eyes
snail
cat food (as a child, as a dare! )
mountain oysters ... before I knew what they were
faggots (mother-in-law made them ... some kind of offal? )

donnabeth, Jul 31, 11:38am
boiled lettuce was a regular my mother cooked then slathered in white sauce. It looked and tasted like glue.

elliehen, Jul 31, 1:59pm
Similarly, white silverbeet stalks in white sauce... a frugal meal-stretcher, yes, but 'yuk' to a child...

katy20, Nov 15, 7:46pm
in peru, roast guineapig tasteslike a cross between chicken and rabbit, in the Amazon pirranah very tasty, emu, crocodile, kangaroo, pheasant, Rocky Mountain oysters ( bulls testicles)Reindeer.

lizab, Nov 15, 8:25pm
hands down it's kina!!! Dis-gust-ing!!!!! (had to try it after hearing Maori friends go on and on about how good it is!!) yuk !!!

jimminette, Nov 16, 7:57am
Oh YummmmmmmmStraight out of the ocean.

angela137, Nov 16, 9:31am
Drank turtles blood when I lived in Japan- i was told it was delicacy -(I dont thik they were a protected species) was then given the turtle soup- which wasnt so bad but oh so hard to look at the shell floating around in your bowl...!

catlover28, Nov 16, 12:55pm
Snails - France
Dog - Thailand

retired, Nov 16, 3:49pm
Sea snake in China, turned down the roasted scorpion, and testicles.... My husband tried the silk worm.Have also eaten and quite liked frogs legs and snails!

annie.nz, Nov 16, 4:05pm
Cockroaches.Small, just a few. For my country, would never have dreamed of it otherwise.

annie.nz, Nov 16, 4:06pm
Also I used to help Grandma eat huhu grubs - my mother nearly died of horror, but that didn't stop us.

rainrain1, Nov 16, 4:11pm
Love it lol

usualsuspect, Nov 16, 7:25pm
fido dog food when we were kids at the neighbours house...not the best taste
some kids that were on school camp that i mother helped with ate squid fish bait...vomit
horse on the trans siberian express

alewis, Nov 16, 8:23pm
brussel sprouts

m0rtleg_gl, Nov 16, 8:31pm
I remember I once ate a centipede when I was little. My next door neighbor and best friend had told me they tasted like jam. Believe me it didn't!

jerrytravis, Nov 16, 8:53pm
yip i tried Tux. not bad indeed LOL

charlieb2, Aug 11, 12:05pm
I'm an old lady and swallowed a fly, I dont know why I swallowed a fly.. perhaps I'll die.....................

Dont think I've ever eaten anything 'odd', although the steak I ordered in Paris all those years ago was probably horse according to mr...