I saw a list of unusual foods online...and realized I had tried quite a few of them! Maybe you've tried a lot of them, too. Read through this list--I have included a description for those that may not be obvious to all of you. Maybe you're not sure you've tried Takoyaki, but you somehow remember eating a baby octopus dumpling :) If you've tried more than 50, I am not sure if you are amazing or just plain dumb!! I put a YES or NO to show the 35 that I've tried!
- Alligator YES
- Anchovies YES
- Balut : a fertilized duck (or chicken) egg with a nearly-developed embryo inside that is boiled and eaten in the shell NO!!! (not for a lack of opportunity! gross!)
- Bear NO
- Beef Liver NO
- Beef tongue NO
- Bone Marrow NO
- Buffalo YES
- Calamari YES
- Caviar YES
- Chicken Feet YES
- Chitterlings NO
- Conch YES
- Cow intestine YES
- Cow Tongue NO
- Crawfish YES
- Crocodile NO
- Cuttlefish NO
- Czarnina: a Polish soup made of duck blood (sometimes hen, rabbit or pig blood would be used) and clear poultry broth. In English it is referred to as Duck Blood Soup NO
- Dog NO
- Donkey NO
- Dove NO
- Eel YES
- Elk NO
- Escargot YES
- Fish Eyeball NO
- Foie Gras: a pate made from goose liver (marinated in Cognac) and truffles YES
- Fox NO
- Fried Cornmeal mush NO
- Frog Legs YES
- Goat YES
- Haggis: a Scottish dish of a sheep's or calf's offal, suet, oatmeal, and seasoning, boiled in a bag NO
- Hákarl: a Greenland or basking shark which has been cured with a particular fermentation process and hung to dry for 4-5 months NO
- Head Cheese YES
- Hog Maws: the stomach of a pig. More specifically, it is the lining of the stomach, is very muscular and contains no fat, if cleaned properly. NO
- Horse NO
- Insects NO
- Jellyfish NO
- Kangaroo NO
- Kasava: the starchy tuberous root of a tropical tree, used as food in tropical countries. YES
- Kefir YES
- Kelp YES
- Kim Chee YES
- Kiszka: Polish blood sausage NO
- Kombucha: a fermented tea that is imbibed for medicinal purposes YES
- Lamb's Brain NO
- Live Octopus NO
- Menudo YES
- Miso: a thick paste made from fermented soybeans and barley or rice malt YES
- Monkey NO
- Moose YES
- Octopus YES
- Okra YES
- Ostrich NO
- PB & Banana Sandwich YES
- Pheasant NO
- Pig's Cheek NO
- Pig's Knuckles NO
- Pigeon NO
- Pigs feet NO
- Pigs Tails NO
- Poi: a Hawaiian dish made from the fermented root of the taro, baked and pounded to a paste YES
- Quail YES
- Rabbit YES
- Rattle Snake YES
- Raw Sushi YES
- Rocky Mountain Oysters NO
- Rooster Fries (think Rocky Mountain Oysters) NO
- Seal Meat NO
- Shark YES
- Sheep's brains NO
- Squab: a baby pigeon NO
- Squirrel NO
- Sting Ray NO
- Sweet Breads: the thymus (throat sweetbread) and the pancreas (heart or stomach sweetbread), especially of the calf and lamb NO
- Swordfish YES
- Takoyaki: a popular Japanese dumpling made of batter, diced or whole baby octopus, tempura scraps, pickled ginger, and green onion, topped with okonomiyaki sauce, ponzu, mayonnaise, green laver (aonori), and katsuobushi (fish shavings) NO
- Tripe: the first or second stomach of a cow or other ruminant used as food NO
- Turtle YES
- Venison YES
- Walrus NO
- Whale NO
- Whale Blubber NO
- Wildebeast NO
- Zebra NO
