re: Weirdest food you have ever eaten

Cold baby octopus.

Tasted like peanut butter.

Tete de veau, the contents of a veal head. I had it at Cafe Constant, a very good bistro near the Eiffel Tower in Paris. The tongue and the brains were two of the most identifiable items. It came with a delicious sauce and went well with a good bottle of Bordeaux.

Honorable mention - The next night at a small, neighborhood bistro near the Bastille I had boudin noir, freshly made blood sausage, which was also excellent.

Tow others that come to mind - On a cruise to Alaska I had reindeer and eel. Memorable, but not nearly as good as the Parisian dishes described above.

Had a horse filet in Iceland a few years ago. It was actually really good.

I went to Vietnam about 20 years ago. I remember soooo much good food.

Standouts:
Water Buffalo steak was 10/10. We went back for that several times in the month we were there.

Cobra wine. Yuk. It was a liquor that they made from male cobra sex organs. It tasted like cheap tequila but it was oily and you couldn’t get it out of your mouth.

I ate a sandwich from a street vendor that was made with egret. It looked a lot like turkey but tasted like something else. 7/10. I would eat it again if the opportunity presented itself.

At one place in the middle of the jungle, we had dinner with a local community leader (still very poor). They made a big deal about white people being that far in the jungle. They had a pot of boiling oil of some type and they dipped a rather large koi tail first into the oil. The guy had a towel wrapped around the fishes head to keep a good grip on it. The fish flopped around for a few seconds and eventually stopped. After a couple of minutes, they pulled the fish out and laid it on the table in front of us. They unwrapped the towel and the gills were still flapping. They then carved the meat off of the living fish, threw some kind of seasoning on it, and served it to us. Animal cruelty aside, it was very good. 9/10. Would not do it again voluntarily though. I can’t get past the needless torture of any animal.

Fermented Herring. The smell makes you want to puke.

calf fries..... Very good!

Scorpion ranks up there. Pan fried crispy.

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