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You have likely eaten a bug at some point in your life. And when someone says something “tastes like cardboard,” you likely understand exactly what they mean.
However, a few unfortunate souls have had something unpleasant meet their taste buds. They’ve shared their experiences in the comments section of this Reddit question: “What’s something you’ve tasted that most humans have not?”
This list features firsthand accounts of people ingesting elephant carcasses, ladybug secretions, possum meat, and rat droppings. Some are a bit nasty, so proceed with caution.
But if you’re a fan of weird stories that can get graphic, enjoy scrolling through this list.
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#1
I was injured in a rocket attack in Afghanistan. I remember lying in the dirt and my ear felt weird, like swimmer's ear. I have sensitive ears, so I stuck my finger in my ear to try to drain it, only to have my finger come away with a thick syrupy substance. It was dark, so I couldn't see what it was, and my nose was broken and bleeding. I decided, f**k it, I licked it. It tasted mildly sweet.
It was cerebrospinal fluid. From my brain.
Tele Avision 1 year ago (edited)
The mind is a terrible thing to taste. (Thanks Uncle Al)
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Robert T 1 year ago
I remember a story about a lady whose grandchildren referred to as "drippy gran", who had a permanently runny nose. Yep, you guessed it, she had a leak from her cranial cavity that cause cerebrospinal fluid to drip from her nose. She eventually got it repaired.
Sarah McManus 1 year ago
Wow. There's no unreading that! 😳 I sincerely hope OP is in a much much better position now.
Leoninus Fate 1 year ago
i have spinal fluid that drains from my nose cause of my problems, it drooling means the pressure on my brain is a lil high and it's draining back out, the only place to drain out? my nose, so it looks like I have clear water drooling from my nose a lot, i get told to blow my nose, does not help, it pours it, and if I taste it, it is a lil salty too, not like boogers were from childhood, but like salt water
Tammilee Truitt 1 year ago
Lived to tell the tale. Don't know how you get over something like that but I'm rooting for you. Sincerely rooting for you.
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#2
Literal bull s**t, straight from a bull. It's not what you think. I mean, it's not what I would think, with that first sentence, but it's every bit true.
I was riding in a pasture of heifers, looking for why they'd been freaking out, when I saw one in the middle stand up, suddenly half again the size of every other bovine in the area. Oh.
One of the young bulls somehow got out of a nearby barn and paddock overnight. So I nudged my horse forward to see if I'd lead him out, or chase him out, or maybe I'd need another cowboy if he was feeling obstinant. He wasn't.
He turned and ran, so it was the chase option, then. No big deal, we do that all the time. So I let my horse do work while I hang out on top and basically just minimize my awkward mass-offset. I was riding a trained horse, so it already knew exactly what to do.
It's called "cutting" when you herd one animal away from the others. None of this aside from the chase is germaine to the story, but it's interesting.
As we were following the bull, who was sprinting away, I watched a giant, healthy looking s**t erupt from this idiot's a**s just as he bucked and kicked both feet back in a young bull's expression of primal joy. He kicked directly through his own massive s**t, launching chunks of it directly into my face. It blasted my hat clean off.
My mouth had been open. My eyes had been open. My shirt collar was open. Everything had s**t in it. Everything I had. I found s**t in my pants pockets. My horse was covered in it.
That's one of the rare times I was unhorsed. Completely thrown. In my shock, I just lost focus and ended up on my back, retching up toward the sky. Pretty sure I swallowed some. I had to f*****g chew it just to spit it out.
Had to walk back about 1/4 mile, too. The horse just kept after the bull. They were grazing near each other when I got back to paddock.
Disturbingly sweet. I didn't expect that. Highly unpleasant.
I've never before or since heard my Dad laugh like that. I thought he was going to die from it. It's the only time I ever saw the man cry.
WindySwede 1 year ago
And later became the writer to "How I meet your mother" 😸🙃
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Upstaged75 1 year ago
I once fell off my horse in to a fresh pile of poop. At a show. While wearing my good competition breeches. I didn't have any others so I had to ride the whole day with a big brown stain on my butt. My coach nearly puked she was laughing so hard. :)
Grey Beard 1 year ago
Out mountain biking through a field of cows, trying my best to avoid riding through their deposits. Get to one section where there is too much to avoid, so grit my teeth and ride through... OK so I need to practice my teeth gritting technique as the front tyre fired a perfectly aimed clump of cow deposit into my mouth. It is definitely not a taste sensation.
Riley Quinn 1 year ago
Not quite the same experience, but I've ridden motorcycles and haven't kept my mouth closed along the entire route. Finally got a full face shield.
#3
A ladybug flew into my mouth when I was riding my bike as a kid. Ladybugs secrete a yellow bitter goop when they get eaten as a "f**k you, don't eat me" mechanism, so that happened. Had to run inside and rinse out my mouth, which didn't really help.
Edit: Wow, there are a lot of ladybug tasters in here. My people ✊️.
Lord of the laserprinter. 1 year ago
As a biker I know all the local bugs by taste. Moths taste like moth, wasps are spicy but the best are the little black ones, crunchy on the outside, soft and chewy on the inside.
Bob Brooce 1 year ago
I've ridden thousands and thousands of miles on bicycles, often breathing hard through my mouth. *All* bugs taste bitter.
Dan Flo 1 year ago
"Nyckelpiga" in Swedish. Translates to Key maid, "According to tradition, this insect held the keys to the kingdom of heaven, since seven is a sacred number with, for example, the seven virtues. The key maid was the Virgin Mary's helper who took care of the keys to the kingdom of heaven."
Traveling Lady Railfan 1 year ago
Wow, that's a grand name for such a small insect! Cool I'm really glad that you included the explanation as well thank you
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#4
Bronze Age cremated human bones.
Had my coffee cup standing right next to the tub I was cleaning them after excavation. Scrubbed the sediment off of it with a toothbrush and it sputtered together with tiny fractions of the bones all around and also in that coffee.
The last sip felt a little coarse and on the bottom of the cup were still white particles between the sand and coffee grounds.
Robert T 1 year ago (edited)
This is mild. The Victorians used to eat MUMMIES!!!! *ON PURPOSE*
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Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago
Never put a coffee cup on a working surface. I accidentally drank a mouthful of ink while painting.
Sara Frazer 1 year ago
This is why you keep your cup away from your work station! -sincerely, someone who has drank paintbrush water.
Lady Perkele 1 year ago
Imagine you're a millennium skeleton and have been alive between celts and Romans, just for your corpse to be slightly powdered into a coffee in the future 😂
#5
Moose burgers. I was a little kid, and my god, it was delicious. We were guests, and I embarrassed my parents by asking if I could have another. (They thought people would think they were starving me. Not so … it was just a damn tasty burger.).
JohnGalt 1 year ago
Moose is hands down the best game meat out there, followed closely by Elk, then Bison.
Kangaroo 1 year ago
Oh yeah, my coworker made moose dips for the whole office once (like a beef dip sandwich but made with moose). It was incredible!! Sort of beefy but like the best beef you’ve ever had.
pineapple87 1 year ago
Coming from the Nordics, I wouldn't have thought of this as being in any way unusual. Moose isn't as common as reindeer meat, but still relatively commonly found in restaurants
Scott Rackley 1 year ago
I've never had reindeer, but I always assumed it tasted like elk
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Chonky Panda 1 year ago
As a Swede, moose meat is really common here. Maybe not as a burger though, but it's vv tasty.
Dragons Exist 1 year ago
Elk burgers are common in Colorado/the Rockies, but I've never seen a moose burger
Bob Brooce 1 year ago
My parents knew somebody who went elk hunting when I was 5 or 6. I still remember the steaks being really tasty.
Aud (she/they) 1 year ago
Yes! Moose meat is damn tasty, in my household anything "beef" is just code for moose.
#6
Used a glass of water to put cig butts in when I smoked. Woke up in the middle of the night desperate for a drink and swallowed 2 chuggs before I realised what was going on. It tastes even worse than you might expect.
Edit it seems from the comments many more people than I expected have drunk cig butt juice!
J J 1 year ago (edited)
Dip spit in a soda can as a kid. At the hot beach. Thanks dad
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Joshua David 1 year ago
My ex of 15 years dad used to chew tobacco and had a spit cup on the table. My boyfirend was young at the time and was looking for his cup of cola. Ill stop now.
Mad McQueen 1 year ago
Picnic. Coors light can was the ashtray. As it got full of butts it got weight to it. An my dumb a*s put my good can down an put my butt out in the ash can. Talked. Picked up my "beer" took a swig an projectile spit that out. Onto the dog. lol. Yep super gross. Still talked about til this day. By my sister who watched bugged eyed at the sight unfolding but didn't stop it.
Brazen 1 year ago (edited)
I was drinking tea with a friend one day, and she was eating oatmeal raisin cookies at the same time. She was dipping them in her cup before eating them, and when she got to the bottom of the cup she took a big gulp...and there was something crunchy in it. She thought it was odd that the raisins were crunchy. It wasn't a raisin, it was a fly. I was so grossed out on her behalf, but she just shrugged her shoulders and said "meh, it's protein." rofl
#7
18 Molar Sulphuric Acid
Back in the day you sucked things into a pipet. Sometime I sucked too hard. This time I got a mouth full of acid. I tasted sweet for two weeks.
Jihana 1 year ago
18M is VERY concentrated. Like, holy s**t, how is your mouth not completely scarred? I'm a chemist, and I also sucked up something while pipetting. But it was diluted salicylic acid. It tasted gross and I did not swallow it.
Scott Rackley 1 year ago
I think they may be wrong on the molarity. I remember having to hold 18M away from yourself because it would burn the hair out of your nostrils. My teacher always used a bulb syringe to create a vacuum in the pipette (like the ones to clean a baby's nose).
Load More Replies... Bob Brooce 1 year ago
My HS biology teacher said they used to have you practice with your own urine. Apparently good way to learn not to suck it too far up the pipette. FWIW, stomach acid is "only" hydrochloric acid and has a molarity of no more than 0.1. I'd think that after sucking up 18 mole sulfuric acid you'd never be able to taste anything again.
Candi Cabaniss 1 year ago
This is covered in my safety lesson for my High School Chemistry class.
Kay Lyn Evans 1 year ago
My mother is old enough that in med school she had to do this with both blood and urine samples.
Myoviridae 1 year ago
This reminds me of an old protocol we were using in college biology lab. It stated DO NOT MOUTH PIPET THE PIG BLOOD! We were super confused as to why this had to be stated.
#8
Inside of my mouth got burned so bad it blistered my gums and tongue so bad everything boiled up and shed eventually. Healing sucked because when I talked, I’d accidentally bite down and pop a blister…. tasted like pus. Hated that time of my life lol.
Ovata Acronicta 1 year ago
GROSS ALERT. One of my relationships, my partner was Rather Greasy, and he let me just pop all his gross lil pimples. Probably one of the best pops of my life was getting a dilated pore of winer out from behind his ear. The worst was probably when I absentmindedly went to do things to his earlobe with my mouth because we were making out and I felt a series of his pimples pop. In my mouth. Do not recommend.
Flopsy 1 year ago
🤢 This is probably the worst story of the whole thread! Omg!!!
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Hiram's Friend 1 year ago
Had an infected tonsil. Couldn't afford medical insurance until the next semester started. Ruptured in class, got a mouthful of pus. No option but to swallow.
#9
Rat s**t. I used to have pet rats when I was in the uni, and I was one carrying one of them from one dorm to another. He left a few droppings in my jacket pocket he was in (it was short walk so I just put him in my roomy pocket).
I didn't notice, and few weeks later I forgot about it at all, put some nuts in the same pocket and started eating them, until one of them tasted really weird.
OneWithRatsAndKefir 1 year ago
One, cute rat photo, look at his lil grabbies! Two, yeah, yikes! One or two rat poops on their own don’t smell very strongly, especially if the rat is healthy, so not surprising they missed it.
Beak Hookage 1 year ago
Aww, the little guy in the picture is so cute! It's just unfortunate that pet rats poop everywhere thanks to having a fast metabolism (they also eat a LOT. Let them near any food and they'll go at it like starving wolves).
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
Do people actually put food in their pockets without bagging them first?
Arsena McIntire 1 year ago
One of my pet rats was on my shoulder and she went to flip around and her tail went right in my mouth
Arsena McIntire 1 year ago
I have my pet rat on my shoulder and she flipped around and her tail went in my mouth
#10
The asphalt on the crosswalk in front of the Flatiron building in NYC. Potholes are a b***h.
penguino (they/them) 1 year ago
Tasted something similar-school blacktop concrete when I tripped. Tasted like blood (concussion) but surprisingly slightly sweet, salty but mostly gross.
Nikki Gross 1 year ago (edited)
That is one thing that does suck about Oklahoma, once you get off the Highway/Interstate and you aren't in some of the nicer part of Cities/Towns then there are potholes EVERYWHERE. Once you hit the back roads, Rural areas or poorer areas the harder it gets. People always assume that if you drive a truck or one that's lifted that it's for show. Depending on where you live, especially when we get a bunch of rain or snow, sometimes that s**t is necessary in order to drive outside of the more populated areas or poorer parts of town. Hell, even in some Urban areas you'll still see potholes. My Sister and her family lives in a very Rural area, even with her SUV when it rains or snows they would be stranded without my BIL'S truck, which YES is lifted. If you live in the South, then yes you see a ton of people driving trucks, including Women because that s**t is a necessity and not only because they want to look "Tough" or show off.
#11
My own breast milk.
Kaeda 1 year ago
I tried mine. 🙋♀️ My infant son would no longer take pumped breastmilk from a bottle. I tasted it and it was terrible. Turned out that I had a high lipase level in my milk. It's entirely harmless but can make breastmilk taste like soap if it is exposed to oxygen for too long (in my case, like an hour). I had to toss out so much of my frozen milk because of it. It still pains me to think of all of that liquid gold being poured down the drain.
XanthippeⓐWulf🇨🇦️️🇬🇧 1 year ago
Oh no! My SIL went through something similar. It's funny that you mentioned soap, because that's what we did with all the leftover breast milk. She was pained to think it would all go to waste, so I researched what we could do with it, and found several recipes for making soap from high lipase breast milk. It smelled & worked great (we mixed fresh lavender & mint in one batch & almond oil & honey in the other)
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Diane Tucker 1 year ago
Yeah pretty sure all of us that have breastfed have tasted it at some point. Tastes sweet.'
Settled for Infamy 1 year ago
Isn't it funny. The curiosities that we hide, but bind us as humans
Prince of Darkness 1 year ago
I woulda thought everyone's tried it. I know both my ex and i had a taste when the spawn was born...
Robert T 1 year ago
My gf steadfastly refuses to produce any. She's not pregnant, but she's the only chance I'll get of tasting some other than my mother's!
Load More Replies... Beth Wheeler 1 year ago
Mr either & never wanted to. Didn't have any for my first baby so definitely want going to waste any that I had for my second baby.
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John Powers 1 year ago
Well it's what most humans started off on throughout history, but also why??
MellonCollie 1 year ago
Why not?? Don't you taste your child's food to see if it is any good?
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Traveling Lady Railfan 1 year ago
I don't think there's anything wrong with tasting your own fluids. The ones that are safe to ingest anyway. If you're sexually active, you should know what you taste like. You might have some sort of imbalance that makes your personal taste yucky, and then you can find out how to fix it. It might be as simple as changing your diet a little bit. And breast milk? Hell it's milk that you made, why shouldn't you taste it? Your kids got to eat it, wouldn't you taste their food before you gave it to them just to make sure it was okay?
#12
My pet fox peed on my face/mouth while I was asleep, so I've tasted fox pee.
I could taste it for over an hour even after rinsing my mouth. 0/10 would not recommend.
Bisha Moten 1 year ago
I regularly taste fox tails, and paws. My pet foxes (rescues that can't be released to the wild) like to sleep with their tails on my face. I sometimes sleep with my mouth open, and have woke up to a furry paw being stuck in my mouth, as if to say "Shuddup hoomans. You snore."
Upstaged75 1 year ago
When my kid was a baby you had to be really careful during diaper changes or you were likely to get peed on. One time he managed to pee on his own face. :)
#13
Probably Rattlesnake. Not much flavor, very stringy, and has a lot of bones.
Justin Tyme 1 year ago
You need a different cook and/or recipe. I have eaten rattlesnake (timber rattler), and it was delicious.
Teresa Chason 1 year ago
They had a skinny snake too. All the rattlesnakes I've eaten have been FAT, with lots of meat.
Load More Replies... Diane Tucker 1 year ago
There used to be a restaurant in my city (Vancouver, Canada) in the 1980's called the Rattlesnake Grill. Tex-Mex. And yes they served rattlesnake and yet it tastes like chicken,
BeesEelsAndPups 1 year ago
A little bit like chicken. I think it's more like alligator, kind of a sweeter meat than chicken. But the texture is very much the same.
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#14
I licked a glacier.
XanthippeⓐWulf🇨🇦️️🇬🇧 1 year ago
🎵...and I liked it. I hope my boyfriend don't mind it It felt so wrong, it felt so right Don't mean I'm in love tonight...🎶 the edibles are kicking in, sorry not sorry!
#15
Possum was really common in rural nz back in the 70s/80s it’s disgusting I was 4 and still remember the taste.
Coral 1 year ago
Unsurprisingly, the photo does not depict the type of possum you'd find in New Zealand.
Justin Tyme 1 year ago
The animal in the photo is an opossum, not a possum. I guess this is the daily Bored Panda photo fail. Or do they do more than one per day?
S Bow 1 year ago
Many, many fails per day, sometimes many per listing lol
Load More Replies... Beak Hookage 1 year ago
Brushtailed possums are an introduced pest species in NZ. I've been told they taste like mothballs.
PeepPeep the duck 1 year ago (edited)
I hav NZ family and I only remember them saying they run over the ring tails on the road and kill then where they can as they are feral invasive shìtbags there and nothing like they are here (in aus, where I routinely have magical possum experiences 😂 mainly QLD)
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Orange Mum 1 year ago
Ive had emu, crocodile, goat and sheep brains, ox tongue, cow liver, kidneys, pork snout but not possum
#16
Elephant🐘
For context, it wasn't hunted. It was already dead. Got hit by a train☹️
So technically, it was roadkill. So that's 2 things I guess..
Panda Pandemic 1 year ago
Are they saying they tasted an elephant as in ate it? I couldn't imagine willingly eating an elephant. That just feels wrong. Which is super hypocritical because I am a meat eater.
Kira Okah 1 year ago
They did indeed eat it, from their comments. The people working at the reserve cooked and ate it, sharing it around the staff and their families. It was there and might as well not waste it. Elephant, in places where it is hunted in Africa, is not an uncommon meat - a typical payment for the guide to point out which of the herd is unable to breed and so the best to be culled to conserve the herd is the carcass is given to the locals for meat. Excuse me, I studied this for a paper some years back.
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Nancy Bourque 1 year ago
Zimbabwe is planning to cull elephants in order to feed communities facing hunger. I don't know if I could do it, but if it meant my children wouldn't starve? Yeah
Nikki Gross 1 year ago (edited)
South Korea finally passed a bill in Jan 2024 banning the slaughter and sale of Dog meat. My Bestie is Half Korean and her Mom was originally from North Korea until she escaped to the South and she always told us that she NEVER owned a Dog or Cat as a pet until she married my Besties Dad and came to America with him. My Brother, a close family friend and an EX did tours in South Korea and all freaked the hell out the first time they went to the open air markets. One of the first thing they were told when they got to Camp Page was NEVER accept or eat ANY type of meat when you left Post unless you asked what it was first. The guys all said they ate a TON of Rice and Veggies whenever they left Post.
Nikki Gross 1 year ago
Cute story: I actually met her because her Dad was in the Air Force and had just moved here. Her Dad had gotten stationed at the Base here and they bought a house in my neighborhood, this is before it turned ghetto. Anyways, I was 11, she was 12 and we were walking our dogs. Bestie had a White Pomeranian named Snowball and I had a White Poodle named Casper, so we stopped to play with each other's dog, started talking and 36 years later she married and divorced my Brother, gave birth to 2 of my Nephews and we're still Best Friends and she is one of 2 of my Ride or Dies.
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Miranda Veracruz de la Joya Cardenal 1 year ago (edited)
Dude found a roadkill elephant and dedided to eat it? Is that rfk jr?
Jen McCartney 1 year ago
I don’t care how it died. Participating in this still creates demand and a market #shame
#17
I was about 1 week into a 2-month stint in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone, when some of the soldiers we were with dragged half of an elk into camp. By the time I left the project, I'd eaten deer, boar, elk and poultry from the Zone.
Several years on and I still have the normal amount of appendages. Don't think many people have eaten slightly-irradiated game.
Kangaroo 1 year ago
When I was in the Exclusion Zone, we saw quite a few dogs who looked very normal (some we weren’t allowed to pet due to radiation though 😢). We also fed bread and cookies to some of the most massive catfish I’ve ever seen in my life who were just chilling in the river right next to the CPP.
LizzieBoredom 1 year ago
'Exclusion Zone' sounds like the cool kid's lunch table in a High School.
FoxEcoLimaIndiaCharlieIndiAlfa 1 year ago
Sometimes I really don't like that I'm stupid observant and this seems to be one of those times. Does anyone else happen to see, what appears to be the moose's red rocket?
Andrew Keir 1 year ago
I wonder if you've discovered an improved ability to climb buildings, though ?
#18
Witchetty grub. It looks like a fat shiny white caterpillar, an aboriginal elder came to our school when I was little (1989?ish) so we tasted bush tucker.
Kangaroo 1 year ago
“Bush tucker, also called bush food, is any food native to Australia and historically eaten by Indigenous Australians, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, but it can also describe any native flora, fauna, or fungi used for culinary or medicinal purposes, regardless of the continent or culture.” Had to Google it
Janelle Collard 1 year ago
Thanks! You saved the rest of us the trouble. :)
Load More Replies... BeesEelsAndPups 1 year ago
I discovered that when you're hungry enough, you'll eat whatever is at hand. I have never had this particular delicacy, although I've certainly scrounged out white grubs from fallen logs and pill bugs from under rocks for a quick hit of proteins and calories to not starve to death. It's safer than trying your luck with strange mushrooms and plants when you don't know what your doing.
ABC no seven FCK CENSORING 1 year ago (edited)
What kind of life are you leading that you need to rely on digging up bugs to "not starve to death"?
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Settled for Infamy 1 year ago
Tastes like grainy penur butter , not chicken, as all other oddities are claimed to
Moxitron Jazz 1 year ago
it's rather bland and dry with an odd texture. And yes, we were told to eat them alive (winery tour in south-west Aust. many years ago)
Philenzortia 1 year ago
We eat something similar. It’s called Mojojoy and is the larvae of a bettle found in the Amazon.
Javelina Poppers 1 year ago
Ate a rice bug when I was in Thailand in 1975...........trying to fit in with the locals isn't all it's cracked up to be.
#19
A 10'000 Dollar Whisky.
XanthippeⓐWulf🇨🇦️️🇬🇧 1 year ago (edited)
Idk, before my father passed, he was a huge connoisseur of whiskey/whisky and scotch. He has several labels that are in the high dollar range, and I can't say that I've been overly impressed trying them out. They're good mind you, but not *the cost of a house* good imho. I will say that the only whisky that stood out was a very old Japanese Yamazaki & a vintage Glengoyne. I've got some collector's Macallan-- the ones in the Lalique decanters--that I want to try, but I haven't found the right occasion. Maybe I'll break them out when Trump loses. Again.
ROSESARERED 1 year ago
I'd love to see that decanter, hope it's worth the wait
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Brian Droste 1 year ago
Like to know more. Did you pay for it yourself or did someone else buy it for you?
nottheactualphoto 1 year ago
I like some but not others. It's case by case.
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eric p 1 year ago
If it was Macallan it's worth every penny. Some drinks really do justify their price. Except Pappy van Winkle (way way way way overpriced and nasty burn)
ABC no seven FCK CENSORING 1 year ago (edited)
Earlier this year, I had some Suntory Hibiki 30 year old, which is priced at around 6 to 7 grand a bottle as far as I can tell by a quick search. It was nice and smooth for sure, but I guess my tasting buds are not trained enough and considering price for value, I certainly prefer one in the range of 50-100€ per bottle. It was a nice experience though.
CanadianDimes 1 year ago
I love whiskey and I suspect that there’s not much - if any - difference between a £50 and a £5000 bottle. Whiskey is so varied in its taste that price alone doesn’t indicate quality.
Load More Replies... nottheactualphoto 1 year ago
I once had a bottle of Glen Grant 30 year old. It wasn't anything like $10k, but very very nice.
#20
Jesus water: water taken from a 2km well at the south pole. Ice is millions of years old, so drinking water from a time never lived.
CanadianDimes 1 year ago
I had glacial meltwater directly from the surface of the Athabasca Glacier in Jasper National Park in Canada. Amazing!
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#21
Actual battery acid, stupid I was I thought the stickyness I suddenly had on my finger was from the candy I just ate NOPE it was from the TV remote I used.
FoxEcoLimaIndiaCharlieIndiAlfa 1 year ago
Speaking of never learning, this reminded me of a shocking story. I was told that when I was really young, like 2/3 years old, I apparently liked to put my fingers into the electrical outlets. I guess I liked the feeling of being slightly electrocuted, so much so that the tips of my fingers were black. Since learning about this little tidbit, it has helped explain a lot of things. Haha. Seriously though, I'm not sure why the outlets were even accessible to me and didn't have the plastic safety devices in them. I was born in the mid-eighties in the US, so this shouldn't have been able to happen more than once, IMHO.
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Debby Keir 1 year ago
When I was a kid, we used to lick batteries to get a buzz (+/-) on our tounges.
#22
Not me but someone i knew tasted radiation. It sounds weird but high intensity radiation apparently leaves a metallic taste in your mouth, as if you just licked a penny after holding it for a while. He was a chernobyl liquidator.
Nikki Gross 1 year ago
I hate doing ANY scans that they have to use a contrast for them. Between the metallic taste in your mouth and feeling like you're peeing yourself, that is something I can do without. I've had so many Scans, X-Rays, Scopes, Lab Work, etc. since my initial Cancer diagnosis that I joke I'm surprised I'm not glowing in the dark.
Beth Wheeler 1 year ago
You're talking about the CT Contrast, so r people will get a quick head to toe hot flash and feel like you have to pee like a demon. I only had it happen 1 time on a T Scan.
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Welp, I had a pidgeon die inside my place's water tank (it had a hole) and I drank that water for months... So I guess I had dead pidgeon tea.
DEW 1 year ago
I think of the poor girl who died and they found her in their Hotel water tanks. Guests had been complaining the water tasted bad. If I remember it was a few weeks before they found her. Sad because nobody knows what happened to her or how she got into the water tank and close the heavy lid.
XanthippeⓐWulf🇨🇦️️🇬🇧 1 year ago (edited)
Yes! Elisa Lam. I just saw this on an episode of Forensic Files. She was from BC & I remember when it happened about a decade ago, there was this huge conspiracy surrounding what happened. She was in there for 19 days😞
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David 1 year ago
Well, if we're spilling that kind of tea then I once had possum the same way. A possum got in my well house and drowned in my well and I noticed my water tasting / smelling a bit off. Yeah, I know, "YUM!". Fished it out and bleach shocked my well. I've lived her over 20 years and most of the time my water tastes wonderful. That particular time - less so.
#24
Well, not me, but my daughter ate a stinkt bug once... That was an intense experience... Stank on the way in...and on the way out...
Daniel Atkins 1 year ago
Those tastes bad i have eaten fruit that one had rested on and left some of that smell on it.
Upstaged75 1 year ago
Stink bugs are the bane of my existence. The smell is impossible to get rid of. And I swear they intentionally land on you while you're not looking. Twice my stupid cat ate one. I could tell because I smelled it on her breath. SO gross!
Nikki Gross 1 year ago
You want to see a Southerner run, then throw a bunch of stink bugs at them. Those little bastards are like our version of Kryptonite, because killing one is bad enough. You throw in 2 or more then yeah, that will clear a room.
#25
Pig s**t. I’m not proud of it, but sooner or later in every livestock farmers career you’re going to get some floor s**t splash about. And someday some of that splash will unfortunately hit your open mouth. And you will internally cry. God I wish I didn’t know this. It’s kinda like the smell of death tho I’ve found that to be somewhat more common.
DEW 1 year ago
Soooo...wear a mask when on the farm or at least keep your lips tightly closed.
David 1 year ago
Sooooo... you are obviously not a farmer. No farmer wants to always wear a mask and no human wants to spend their days with their "lips tightly closed".
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Jellyfish salad. I wasn't convinced when I first saw the dish, but I ended up liking it.
BeesEelsAndPups 1 year ago
Jellyfish is salty and surprisingly al-dente and super chewy at the same time. If you've ever had seaweed it's a bit similar actually. In fact, if you just convince yourself that you're eating seaweed it'll be for the best.
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Damienne Rowe 1 year ago
Jellyfish is wonderful, it dosn't taste of much but has a crunchy texture. Well worth trying!
#27
Armadillo. Never meant to have it, but was staying on a farm and the dog brought it. Owner wouldn't leave it to waste. Tastes like chicken.
MaireC 1 year ago
Crunchy on the outside, smooth on the inside. Armadillo!!!
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Leigh James 1 year ago
Armadillos can carry leprosy (the more contemporary name escapes me) and I don't know if cooking decontaminates it but I wouldn't take any chances.
Bartlet for World Domination 1 year ago
Hansen’s Disease. Yes, leprosy is caused by bacteria and cooking the meat thoroughly will kill it.
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Phantom Phoenix 1 year ago
"...take chicken, for example: maybe [the machines] couldn't figure out what to make chicken taste like, which is why chicken tastes like everything."
Michael Riehle 1 year ago
So...armadillos carry leprosy. Not all of them, obviously. But I would not be inclined to handle, cook, or eat armadillo meat under any circumstances.
#28
Yew berries. The only nonpoisonous part of a tree that every other part is deadly. Including the seed inside.
Do not recommend.
Roxy222uk 1 year ago
Yew berries are **not** poisonous but the seeds are. So you can eat the berries but must spit out the seeds. Then berries are absolutely delicious, I kid you not. I wish someone would make a jam or something from them. I eat them while out walking the dog, and spit the seeds out.
Scotira 1 year ago
🤔 if I remember correctly the fruit is rather gelatinous and very sweet. I tried those as a kid 🙄🤦🏻♀️ thankfully I already knew that the seed was poisonous.
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_-DungeonKeeper-_ 1 year ago
The berries are super poisonous to other animals if I remember correctly
Auntriarch 1 year ago (edited)
They don't taste of much, absolutely not worth the risk of ingesting any other parts of the plant
Susan Bell 1 year ago
Pawpaws are the same. The flesh of the fruit is the only non-poisonous part. Accidentally made myself really sick by eating the skin of the seeds while eating the flesh.
BarfyCat 1 year ago
Oh wow, I've eaten these (they grow wild where I live) and I never knew the rest of the plant was poisonous! Good to know!
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FoxEcoLimaIndiaCharlieIndiAlfa 1 year ago
Only yeeewww can prevent forest fires 🔥💨🐻👒
Load More Replies... ABC no seven FCK CENSORING 1 year ago
... without knowing about the toxicity of the whole plant? Whoopsies 😆
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A prickly pear. They’re native to my country so we eat then regularly, but whenever I’ve seen someone react to it (that’s not Mexican), they just act like it’s something from another planet.
Kim Karlotta 1 year ago
You can buy them in grocery stores or at markets in many european countries. Didn't think it was uncommon.
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago (edited)
Mexican here. Those are delicious! Sweet and fresh, with a lot of small seeds similar to watermelon's. But if you eat too many you get *really* constipated. In Spanish we told them "tapados" or "plugged".
MellonCollie 1 year ago
We eat them quite a lot in Italy, didn't think it was that unusual. They obviously don't grow everywhere, but it's like any other local fruit that would ne considered exotic in other places.
Ryan Smith 1 year ago
I can't help but think of Nicolas Cage's performance in "Leaving Las Vegas" when he falls through a glass table while stinking drunk, and he staggers to his feet and says, "I'm like a prickly pear! ... I'm a prickly pear!!" for no discernible reason.
heartturtles 1 year ago
I lived in southern AZ for ten years and they were everywhere. I would send jams back home to relatives.
XanthippeⓐWulf🇨🇦️️🇬🇧 1 year ago
Very common where we stay in Texas as well. I suspect it is due to being border states
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Leoninus Fate 1 year ago
you can buy prickly pears here in Arizona in Walmart and other stores, some people just sell them on the side of the street too, prickly pear jam is sooo good but prickly pear candy is the best, it's so so sweet and good, we used to pick them off in outer back years, it's a lil hard to get the needles off, but you can do that and strait eat them too
#30
Termites, and it was surprisingly good. Minty if I recall correctly, was many years ago.
BeesEelsAndPups 1 year ago
I've eaten termites, I don't remember it being minty though. Honestly, I don't remember them tasting like much at all.
Fishpanda (fish/panda/it) 1 year ago (edited)
I've eaten a cricket before. It didn't taste like much. The worst part was convincing myself to eat it. Once it was inside my mouth I was mostly fine. However, I would not do it again.
S Bow 1 year ago
Our international market sold cans of dried salted crickets, tried some, pretty yucky, especially the spiky legs getting stuck in my teeth. Hard to get past your eyes as they were the Jerusalem crickets that have big heads, eyes and long antenna.
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Bartlet for World Domination 1 year ago
But you will eat shrimp just fine, am I right?
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We grew up on a farm and my brother watched some survival TV show where they were hunting for their own food and cooking it after. He was able to catch a toad, created a fire and cooked and sliced it up afterwards. Me, as the little girl looking up to her older brother (me: 6, him: 8), of course had to taste it. I don’t think it’s really common….
BeesEelsAndPups 1 year ago
I've eaten frog, but not cooked by an 8 year old. That's a brave girl
leendadll 1 year ago
I tried fried frog legs at a party. They were weirdly juicy. I choke just remembering it.
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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
They're sometimes available here. I love frog legs. Or at least I did. I haven't had them since I was a girl, though, and tastes change.
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#32
Dunno if this counts but I know a guy who ate a paper cup, just straight up ate a paper cup.
Lily Kramer 1 year ago
He might have a disorder called Pica. Often people missing vital nutrients will crave strange things. My mom was severely anemic and craved ice like no ones business. Once the anemia went away, so did the craving
Leoninus Fate 1 year ago
I have eaten it, it just tastes like woody paper, a lil dry, i have PICA so i normally eat on non eatable things, i could tell you most of what tastes like, oddly idk why but most people enjoy when i tell them i enjoy plastic spoons the most, there cool and lil snappy
Elephant Girl 1 year ago
As a child, I used to eat facial tissue. Clean white tissue. Torn into strips and eaten. Don't know why, but I remember enjoying it.
#33
A bat slow-cooked whole, skin, guts, and all, tossed right into the pot.
TuesdayDangerGirl 1 year ago
Just for context, Ozzy was just as surprised as the crowd that he bit into a real bat (He thought it was a rubber bat until he realized it wasn't)
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Bartlet for World Domination 1 year ago (edited)
Slow-cooking kills anything but prions.
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#34
Raw plantain. It's worse than petrol.
Ace 1 year ago
Drank, but yes, anyone who's ever syphoned fuel from a vehicle fuel tank will have experienced this. Not pleasant, but nothing like as bad as diesel fuel, which you cannot get rid of for hours.
Load More Replies... BeesEelsAndPups 1 year ago
Was it not ripe? I don't think they taste bad at all. I do prefer them fried, but they have a very light sweet flavor raw. Like a banana, but without any of the banana flavor. But you have to eat it ripe, or it's bitter and stringy.
David 1 year ago
Bees, I agree. If you let it get ripe it isn't horrible raw. I also prefer them fried. I like to fry them in some butter and then drizzle a little honey over them.
Load More Replies... Beth Wheeler 1 year ago
I've had plantains and didn't like it. Used to work with the nicest Puerto Rican lady and was invited to her daughter's wedding. There was a ton of fried plantains among other traditional Puerto Rican foods. I don't remember the names of them some I really liked and others I didn't.
Alysen Johnson 1 year ago
I tried raw plantain off my tree once...horrible (but I love it cooked). Tasted like cardboard smells and sucked every bit of moisture out of my mouth which makes it hard to get out, absolutely awful.
#35
Cuy or so called "guinea pig" delicious and a delicacy in Colombia.
Shelby Moonheart 1 year ago
In Ecuador too. The Indians grew them for food. It was a meal that could eaten all up and they didn't have to refrigerate any leftovers.
Cathy Jo Baker 1 year ago
Cuy chactado, served whole, head and all, with choclo, cheese, and potatoes at El Rocoto in Lima, Peru. Pretty tasty, but a lot of work.
Gabriel Hoover 1 year ago (edited)
Sorry, it's nasty. I also had trouble staring at its wide open mouth with the head on the plate, seriously made me want to throw up. They eat it a lot in Peru, so as a tourist, I tried it.
whodunnitfan2013 1 year ago
I had this in Peru! I prefer the ceviche, which I had many times, all different types.
#36
Reindeer.
It was when I was younger, very similar to other red meat.
Chonky Panda 1 year ago
It's strange seeing something that's really common for you in this list. Same with the moose meat.
I_imagine_even_worse_w***s 1 year ago
Also the horse meat. It's not the common where i am but really surprised that people didn't know how common it was in other countries! I stayed on a farm as an exchange student in France and we often had it for supper.
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BeesEelsAndPups 1 year ago
I think that is the same as caribou? If it is, I'd say it's very different from beef. It's quite good. More like venison.
Random Panda 1 year ago
Reindeer are just domesticated caribou. And so tasty!
Load More Replies... Leoninus Fate 1 year ago
im pretty sure it would taste more "gamey" than normal Deer, my brother hunted 3 years ago a large deer, and each time we eat a bit we soak it in milk for 3 to 4 days to get the gamey taste off it, then it tastes pretty good but you would still have a weird nipping taste to it, were still eating it 3 years later cause its frozen
David 1 year ago
I've had deer more than once. I don't know if a reindeer breed tastes any different than white tail and others.
Kira Okah 1 year ago (edited)
It does have a different taste to it than other venison, less gamey and slightly more fatty. I can't compare directly to whitetail, never had it, I think I am comparing with fallow.
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Callamus root, a quasi psychadelic akin to nutmeg kind of, terrible experience all round do not reccomend.
#38
Denso tape. Health and safety be damned! I was not climbing back down that mast just for a knife.
Leoninus Fate 1 year ago
i didn't mind the taste of putty/silly puddy, but you can chew it for about an hour, but it starts to melt in your mouth and it just doesn't go back to normal and it sticks to your teeth and i myself got a wear feeling to swallow it
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Possibly horse sashimi.
Annik Perrot 1 year ago
We have horse meat in France, and horse butchers. There's still one on our market. Used to love that dark, very lean meat, but now not so much. Haven't eaten any for a while.
coffee loving panda 1 year ago
I worked at a.company that processes horse meat and thinly sliced gat horse meat is supposedly the next best thing to real whale meat
#40
Squirrel milk.
Random Jackass 1 year ago (edited)
Thanks. Part of me wants to know how one properly milks a squirrel but the other part doesn't want that in my search history because I'm concerned with what ads I might be bombarded with.
Ovata Acronicta 1 year ago
I googled (in a private window, I use private windows for these kinds of questions) and all I'm finding are recipes for taking care of a baby squirrel. Following the link though, sounds like this person shot the squirrel and squeezed milk out of it, supposedly. Eck.
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Samsquatch & Monko 1 year ago
It would be nutty if it was squirrel man milk I think were talking about actual squirrel milk…
Load More Replies... Bartlet for World Domination 1 year ago
The Eurasian red squirrel population on Brownsea Island, UK has leprosy and in humans that mean it's in breast milk, too. Just sayin'.
#41
Paraffin. (Edit to add: liquid Parrafin, not wax. Lamp oil in the US? Please correct me if wrong)
Not as bad as you'd expect.. still don't recommend it.
WindySwede 1 year ago
Something a fire spraying person would do? (Not right word, but I could not find a wikipedia page for it), but this: 0ed46d8ec5...edf16e.jpg 
Lady Snowfall 1 year ago
I worked with a lady who used to dip slips of paper in kerosene and eat it when she was a kid. It was very obvious she had a very abusive childhood, but eating kerosene-soaked paper was something I had never heard before.
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#42
Camel hump stew in egypt.
ShyWahine 1 year ago
Also chicken stuffed with rice and hard-boiled eggs, stuffed inside a lamb, stuffed inside a camel - then broiled in a charcoal pit and covered with nuts and dates.
Miriam Barber 1 year ago
BBQ camel is amazing, if cooked quickly its like roast beef but melt in your mouth buttery and little sweet. Just had it two weeks ago
KillerKiwi 1 year ago
It’s BP. Just be grateful it’s a picture of a camel at all.
Load More Replies... BeesEelsAndPups 1 year ago
I lived in Egypt for about 6-7 months, but never got an opportunity to eat this.
Allen Beloe 1 year ago
Picture is of a Central Asian camel not Middle Eastern with only one hump
#43
Cow s**t.
I was explaining something to fresher farm workers when the cow decided to stomp into a pile of it.
Ovata Acronicta 1 year ago
For what it's worth, cow s**t is some of the least offensive stuff, but my experience is also limited to getting some on me. I guess if I was forced to eat the poo poo, I'd choose cow first. Or I would die, that would also be preferable.
#44
Cougar and bear. Used to go hunting in Wyoming every year with my dad. The hunting guide did everything from Bears, cougars, elk, deer, bison, turkeys, prairie dogs, etc. He was one of those people who had an industrial meat grinder in the back, and his wife used most of their kills for meals in the house. He joked that he hadn’t bought beef in 20 years. Made the mistake of asking him what the weirdest meat was in his fridge. He Got the most wicked smile and came back with some homemade summer sausages. he gave me a slice and asked me if I could guess what it was. It was incredibly gamy, only thing that made it palatable was the spices he’d mixed with it. It had a very odd aftertaste that kind of reminded me of the flavor you get in your mouth after drinking diet cola. Never in 1 million years would’ve guessed it was cougar and he was dying of laughter at the look on my face when he told me. He also had some sausage made out of bear. That one was also gamy and had a very strange “butter” flavor to it, but it was not delicious like butter…
Still, it was good to know he wasn’t putting the animals to waste.
BeesEelsAndPups 1 year ago
I have a friend who's a hunter and so I've eaten bear. I haven't eaten a cougar though. That's out there. I thought they were endangered or something.
Brian Droste 1 year ago
I had ground up bear made chili out of it but also added regular ground beef with it so it wasn't so gamey tasting.
3 Otters 🦦 1 year ago
The sausage I had was way sweet and I did not care for it. Do not recommend
Load More Replies... KillerKiwi 1 year ago
I’d eat everything from guinea pig to horse just to try it, but idk about carnivores. Just doesn’t seem right.
#45
Cow brains. My family in Mexico considered it a special treat. The texture was like scrambled eggs and the flavor was pretty mild.
Katharina Sei. 1 year ago
Bevore the big BSE outbreak calf brain was delicacy regulary found in Austrian restaurants.
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago
It is actually very good! Brains quesadillas are a delicacy in Mexico City. I just had two for dinner last night. Extremely tricky to make, though.
BeesEelsAndPups 1 year ago
This is pretty normal thing to eat I thought. I've had it in feijoada in the southern part of Brazil before. It's really good breaded and deep fried, and takes less time to cook than the stomach (which is also good in feijoada).
Philly Bob Squires 1 year ago
Fried or spiced tripe is really delicious and so it is in Philadelphia Pepper Pot soup. But, yeah when you first start it out cooking, it kinda stinks. Like a moldy smell to it. It does get much better after the final dish is finished though.
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Prince of Darkness 1 year ago (edited)
When i lived in SoCal, sesos tacos were one of my go-tos at any taquería. Sadly, i can't get 'em where i am now, but lengua and cabeza are still good options here. When i lived in Istanbul i had beyin salatasi (brain salad), which is basically boiled, then chilled sheep brain on a bed of lettuce with maybe some olive oil and parsley. Good drunk food!
Miriam Barber 1 year ago
Grilled sheep brain has a unique flavor, not at all unpleasant but its impossible to get your own literal brain to stop thinking about what you're eating and after few bites nope.....
DEW 1 year ago
My mom is from Arkansas and talks about how her parents would cook calf brains and hominy and she would hide her head under her pillow because she couldn't take the smell. So every so often I say Grandma really wants a birthday breakfast of Calf brains and hominy. We get a laugh out of it.
#46
Chicken dipped in chocolate .
WindySwede 1 year ago
I do prefer the eggs in a sponge cake, and then made into an chocolate cake! And the meat fried or in a wok. 🙃
Load More Replies... Kim Bailey 1 year ago
I think just about anything dipped in chocolate is going to be good! I recently tried flaming Cheetos with Nutella and it's better than you'd think! It's yummy
Ovata Acronicta 1 year ago
OTOH if you get a chance to try chicken mole you should. Very good.
Nancy Bourque 1 year ago
Watched a TikTok video where the guy dipped his chicken wing in melted chocolate. He said the initial bite was strange but after that it was just okay.
#47
Peanut butter and pickle sandwiches.
Prince of Darkness 1 year ago (edited)
Peanut butter, mayo, and lettuce on white or wheat, or peanut butter and onion on sourdough. Peanut butter goes with damn near anything.
Kangaroo 1 year ago
My brother used to do this. He also liked peanut butter and cheez whiz sandwiches 🤢
Ash 1 year ago
peanut butter and pickle is good. peanut butter and mustard is really good too, if you like both ingredients! the mustard stops the peanut butter from being cloying.
Giraffy Window 1 year ago (edited)
I like peanut butter sandwiches with a pickle on the side. The flavours are really nice together, but I can't abide the combined texture.
#48
I drank out of the top of a skull during a Buddhist celebration.
#49
Raw "chicken of the woods mushroom" when hiking as well as raw wild gooseberries, asparagus, morel mushroom, dandelion leaves. Snapping Turtle Tenderloins. on a double dog dare, a nightcrawler worm. lol.
Sven Grammersdorf 1 year ago
My wife and I found a whole bunch of chicken of the woods last weekend. Delicious!
#50
Turtle, dugong, jellyfish, crocodile would probably be the most exotic.
Jeremy James 1 year ago
I think most "turtle soup" you'll find is actually cooter for this reason.
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I've eaten crocodile. It's got a texture like chicken but has a faintly fishy flavour.
BeesEelsAndPups 1 year ago
I've never eaten dugong. In fact I didn't know what that was until I just looked it up.
Zaach 1 year ago
Tortoises from the Galapagos Islands took 100 years to be entered into the Royal Society b/c they tasted so good that none survived the trip back to UK
Jeremy James 1 year ago
Oh my goodness, Zaach, I think you would love, "Quicksilver," by Neal Stephenson. Seriously, get to your Library right now.
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I wasn't brave enough to try it. Went to a place in Copenhagen that served it. Had the Kangaroo instead.
Disgruntled Pelican 1 year ago
I've also had kangaroo. Was not a fan at all.
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For a second there, I kind of wondered what dugong tastes like. But then I remembered visiting Alaska, and trying an indigenous stew that had walrus in it. 😖 It was pretty gross, like fishy, porky, chewy, stinky, blech.
Brian Droste 1 year ago
I had turtle when I think when I was inn my early teens. I didn't care for it.
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#51
Barium, I had a barium meal due to stomach issues.
#52
Red sumac. It's good for you and makes an excellent tea. I also eat the wild lettuce greens that can grow in every person's yard, including spring onions, dandelions and young pine cone syrup.
Norm Gilmore 1 year ago
Maybe this. Cyperus bulbosus is a species of sedge found across Africa, the Middle East, Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, and Australia. In Australia, it is commonly called Nalgoo or (Australian) bush onion or "wild onion", but is not related to the onion or other Alliaceae.
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Squirrel.
WindySwede 1 year ago
* The Squirrel Lady, from Rat Race (2001) enters chat*
Load More Replies... Brian Droste 1 year ago (edited)
Yes, I had squirrel before also. Also rabbit, deer meat, goose. . The last time I had vension I didn't care for it.
DC 1 year ago (edited)
Squirrel, makes me think of a gun-nut I've seen on TV. He's a veteran with both feet and one arm missing due to a roadside bomb trap or so, and wants his daughter to love hunting to the same extent he does, so he got her started early. She was five or so, and he made her shoot a squirrel, which they'd then eat. She tried to talk to "Mr. Squirrel" a few times after he was shot dead, and seemed, generally, not to be enjoying the killing of a cute little animal. Dumbfounded, her father, this gem of extreme thinking skills, called HIS Dad for advice... "Don't push her, let her come to you, and then, you'll both be fine." - he talked like he found some sort of philosopher's stone or something afterwards, suddenly remembered it all, and I sincerly hope that his daughter turned out a vegan, a liberal voting vegan dating another girl. Just because the sort of person the father was - beyond what fits into the character limit here - is overall more than creepy, and passing on the tradition of killing, I see no value in. Tradition is what we call unnecessarily stupid habits once we want to keep them, but can't justify them. Otherwise, it wouldn't need any label at all. And I don't know how squirrels dead flesh tastes. Not interested either.
#54
Fried grasshoppers.
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago
They are excellent and very nutritious. They are dried and fried in oil with spices and eaten in corn tortillas with guacamole and salsa. An especiality of the state of Oaxaca. Taste like salty, flaky chips.
BeesEelsAndPups 1 year ago
Fry them up in peanut oil. They're quite good. Basically just taste like crunchy flaky peanuts. The trick is to take off the legs or you won't stop thinking about the fact that you're eating a bug.
Ovata Acronicta 1 year ago
Fried mealworms are good too! So many bugs are so packed with protein they just taste like nuts.
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Had raw horse in Tokyo.
#56
Rice cooked in chicken blood.
#57
Monkey brains (I didn't know until after I'd tried them).
whineygingercat 1 year ago
Monkey brains, while popular in Cantonese cuisine, aren't often found in the Washington, D.C. area. --Wadsworth, Clue 1985
#58
Bite of a cooked veal heart (only a bite because it was being passed around and shared).
Roxy222uk 1 year ago
Pink veal is no different from eating lamb. However the problem is the practice of keeping the calves (basically 'waste' from the dairy industry) in veal crates on a low iron formula. This means that they are anaemic ,and creates a very tender white meat. White veal is banned in the UK and the EU, but because of the bad publicity most people just avoid veal in general, even though pink veal is not the same thing.
#59
Petrol, not sure if it was av-gas which may have had tetraethyl lead in it (not from a road legal car).. akin to what I’d expect plastic to taste like.
Brian Droste 1 year ago
I tasted gas before. I siphon some gas out of my gas tank before and got gas in my mouth. Not a good taste.
DC 1 year ago
Its smell is quite enjoyable, but ... the taste isn't. Really isn't. TEL or not ... but, has TEL a taste, or does TEL-containing gasoline taste different than that without?
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#60
Dried worms.
#61
Whale.
similarly 1 year ago (edited)
I had whale in Japan. I ate it because it was already dead, someone had given it to us, and throwing it away at that point wouldn't have helped the whale. I felt the most respectful thing I could do for the whale was at least not let it go to waste. Felt a bit like a cannibal though. It's weird to know I ate an animal that has a bigger brain than I do. Tasted a bit like buffalo. Had a heavy, dark, rich, beefy taste. Would much rather eat buffalo, though.
#62
I've eaten turtle, it was nasty. Reminded me of brawn, or pigs face, jelly, gritty, bit like organ meats.
The Redhead 1 year ago
I tried turtle once NOT by choice. My ex-husbands uncle shot a turtle and cooked it. Among other meals he made soup. He said try this I asked is there turtle in it, he assured me there was not. After I ate it he started laughing & told me that it was turtle soup. I have a rule about food if you won't tell me what it is I wont eat it I should be able to make the desision about what I choose to eat. I should have know better they were the same people who told a story about a friend of theirs who claimed a food allergy and they believed the person simply didn't like thee particular food (I can't remember what it was) anyway they slipped it into whatever meal they made and he ate it and loved it. Luckly in that case their friend didn't have an actual allergy to it; (seriously you can kill a person by doing that, but they were idiots). Guess I was lucky it was "just" turtle & not rabbit. I tried rabbit once as a child my friends dad was an avid hunter; I knowingly ate it & had a reaction.
What do you think ?
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago
This needs two categories: exotic dishes and accidents. There are several entries that are not unusual for certain countries or places.
G A 1 year ago
Exotic Meats-Wild Boar, Ostrich, Catfish, Shark, Reindeer, Horse, Donkey, Deer, Crocodile, Kangaroo. And my Mum. She cut her finger and took a sliver out when making my sandwiches when I was still at school. When I got home, she asked me if my sandwiches had tasted funny and told me what had happened. So I am an accidental cannibal.
Widdershins66 1 year ago
My 2 year old niece's vomit🤮 She was sick eating her lunch at the table. I cleaned her up and settled to eat my salad but the dressing was disgusting. Yup I ate her sick 🤢🤢🤢
Tempest 1 year ago (edited)
Dust. For some reason I loved tasting dust as a kid (maybe I had pica). There would be a fine line of dust between the window sill and wall and I used to run a finger and then plop the finger in my mouth. I knew it was weird/wrong so I would make sure no one was in sight before doing it. So strange and later when I learnt that dust in an occupied house probably has human skin cells, I was so disgusted. But to date I feel tempted to taste it again. It just tastes… dusty.. like just a powder of something but I think I like that texture. Also dog slobber recently. She licked me in the face when I was talking to her.
Carl Roberts 1 year ago
Someone else's chewing tobacco spit. I was drinking a can of Coke. He was using an empty can as a spittoon. I grabbed the wrong can. It was as disgusting as you'd expect.
Leoninus Fate 1 year ago
2 I ate that was good and I recommend it, but elk jerky, and emu jerky! I bought 2 bags of each on my way to Lake Pleasant in Arizona, and a few people were selling them on the side of the street from their own lil pop-up shop/car, it was like 5 bucks each and it was so good, I ate them all before leaving the lake
Sky Render 1 year ago
When I was very young, I accidentally stumbled upon the ability to mess with my senses at will while half-asleep. I had fun with it (forcing myself to feel like I was falling, generating smells I liked, etc.), but one of the strangest things I did was mess with flavors. I don't even know if this flavor exists in real life, but it was kind of rubber-like, vaguely sweet, and had a smooth texture. My brain decided that it was blue, for unknown reasons. So I've tasted something of what REM hallucinations can generate.
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago
This needs two categories: exotic dishes and accidents. There are several entries that are not unusual for certain countries or places.
G A 1 year ago
Exotic Meats-Wild Boar, Ostrich, Catfish, Shark, Reindeer, Horse, Donkey, Deer, Crocodile, Kangaroo. And my Mum. She cut her finger and took a sliver out when making my sandwiches when I was still at school. When I got home, she asked me if my sandwiches had tasted funny and told me what had happened. So I am an accidental cannibal.
Widdershins66 1 year ago
My 2 year old niece's vomit🤮 She was sick eating her lunch at the table. I cleaned her up and settled to eat my salad but the dressing was disgusting. Yup I ate her sick 🤢🤢🤢
Tempest 1 year ago (edited)
Dust. For some reason I loved tasting dust as a kid (maybe I had pica). There would be a fine line of dust between the window sill and wall and I used to run a finger and then plop the finger in my mouth. I knew it was weird/wrong so I would make sure no one was in sight before doing it. So strange and later when I learnt that dust in an occupied house probably has human skin cells, I was so disgusted. But to date I feel tempted to taste it again. It just tastes… dusty.. like just a powder of something but I think I like that texture. Also dog slobber recently. She licked me in the face when I was talking to her.
Carl Roberts 1 year ago
Someone else's chewing tobacco spit. I was drinking a can of Coke. He was using an empty can as a spittoon. I grabbed the wrong can. It was as disgusting as you'd expect.
Leoninus Fate 1 year ago
2 I ate that was good and I recommend it, but elk jerky, and emu jerky! I bought 2 bags of each on my way to Lake Pleasant in Arizona, and a few people were selling them on the side of the street from their own lil pop-up shop/car, it was like 5 bucks each and it was so good, I ate them all before leaving the lake
Sky Render 1 year ago
When I was very young, I accidentally stumbled upon the ability to mess with my senses at will while half-asleep. I had fun with it (forcing myself to feel like I was falling, generating smells I liked, etc.), but one of the strangest things I did was mess with flavors. I don't even know if this flavor exists in real life, but it was kind of rubber-like, vaguely sweet, and had a smooth texture. My brain decided that it was blue, for unknown reasons. So I've tasted something of what REM hallucinations can generate.
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