I’m asking because my SO just had me try a watermelon-feta salad… Initially I was horrified, and thought it was a prank, but now I’m curious. Would you describe it as a good or bad weird?
I’ve eaten jellyfish.
my folks went vegan in the 80s, when it was really difficult to do that. I’ve eaten a lot of things of questionable, even suspicious nutritional value. the absolute weirdest, one that haunts my memory to this very day is seitan.
seitan is basically wheat gluten. it’s got little to no flavor and has the texture somewhere between a wet sponge and cotton balls (ever chewed on a cotton ball? would not recommend). one memorable thanksgiving, mom made a loaf of seitan, and it was off or I was getting sick but i felt unwell after eating it, so she prescribed me some charcoal pills. an hour or so later I was puking up pitch black chunky bile. it’s the sort of thing that sticks with you…
seitan: 0/10
next weirdest is brussels sprouts - not because they’re bad but because there’s a species of moth that lays its eggs in the sprouts. this is why you always want to boil the hell out of them or sear them on the grill (or in bacon fat, which is my favorite). cant really recommend eating moth larvae, it’s not vegan.
I went on a 100% carnivore diet for years after I turned 18.
My son has been in an adventurous/chopped watching food kick as of late. Recently he made smoked anchovies with blue cheese with a dab of hot sauce…
It was actually amazing and we have done it since. Only recommended for people who already enjoy those two powerful flavors and don’t mindnthe house smelling bad for a bit.
Sounds surprisingly good minus the anchovies. I just cant handle those real fishy kind of fish. Raising a young Gordon Ramsey?
When I was a kid, maybe 11 or 12? I was at the birthday party of some kid. Mind you, this was the 1970s. The parents dumped us all in the “playroom” (a big basement room, finished and with furniture) with some toys and games and a table full of food and they had their own little party upstairs. Meanwhile, we had a table full of candy and chips and cupcakes and bread and sandwich stuff and whatever to drink.
For whatever kid reason, we started making the Weirdest Sandwiches We Could Think Of. Mine, I will never forget. One slice of bread slathered with peanut butter, upon which went M&Ms, chocolate Twizzlers, potato chips, and Fritos, folded in half like a taco.
How did it taste? Well, I made a second one. But I was 11 or 12 and had the food palate of a caveman.
When I was that age I fancied putting M&Ms on my pizza and sandwiches. I resonate with “food palate of a caveman”.
If given half a chance, I’d probably still put potato chips on anything I could.
Heck, to use the non-American definition of the word “chips,” I spent most of my life in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a city known for many things but gastronomically for putting french fries (the other kind of “chips”) on sandwiches and salads!
I’ve had aligator and frog’s legs in Florida. I’ve had chocolate covered crickets somewhere in Boston.(I forget where we got them). I had whale during a visit to Norway.
