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This one caught my eye over at Daily Kos: What is the most bizarre thing you’ve eaten?
I suspect that anyone who had pica as a child (as I did) can beat the entries to webranding’s diary. My favorite non-food edibles as a child: wood (my bed frame, mainly), chalk (including some sort of concrete-like deposit in our back yard), and the tar off a telephone pole.
So what else do the folks at Daily Kos have to offer? Some interesting ones: warthog sausage (ain’t that just a toothy pig?), fresh termites (and a variety of other arthropods), chocolate-covered worms, baby rat kebabs, live baby rats, kangaroo, and puffin. Odder still are some of the things people THINK are unusual: eel, sea urchin, octopus (all standard sushi fare), a variety of snakes, gators, jellyfish. Two things I tend to crave from time to time are jellyfish salad and ankimo (monk fish liver).
But I think my old pica habits have ’em all beat.
How about you — any odd offerings?
D.
This one caught my eye over at Daily Kos: What is the most bizarre thing you’ve eaten?
I had a cardboard house in my bedroom for a while as a child. i used to like to chew on it (and possibly eat bits?). i have no idea why. i also once stuck a bubble wand in my mouth to see how it tasted (answer: BAD).
umm…other than that, all i got is that my favorite sandwich has chocolate, cheese, and tunafish. which most people think is a REALLY ODD COMBO. but whatevs.
Umm… shainsy? That’s because it is a REALLY ODD COMBO. I’m trying to get my head around it, and all I can think is ‘eww’.
Doug, I will refrain from making an obvious and tasteless joke about the oddest thing I’ve eaten, and note that my food preferences are distinctly pedestrian. Rattlesnake, I think, is the furthest weird I have gone.
I’ve had gator and sea cucumber. I don’t think I ate anything particularly bizarre as a child, although I did prefer my oatmeal raw.
yeah, shaina, EEEW. How did you even think of that one in the first place?
Dean, how was the rattlesnake?
Chris, I’ve had gator, never had sea cucumber. I imagine the latter to be kinda slimy.
The sea cucumber I had was just rubbery – like chewing on a hunk of inner tube. You don’t eat the whole thing, just the muscles that run down the inside. About the best I can say about it is that it’d probably keep you from starving.
Dean and Doug…don’t hate. Lol. Chocolate chip bagel, toasted with american cheese and tuna. Seriously. amazing. 😛 It’s all about the sweet and salty, i think…or maybe i’m just odd.