Craziest foods you've ever tried

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66Mustang
66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 15,054 Championing

After @Biblioklept

What's the craziest individual foods/meals you've had?

I've eaten a French cheese called Mimolette or "cannonball cheese". It's very hard and round (hence the nickname)

When it's maturing it's covered with thousands of tiny mites which eat holes into the cheese and benefit the aging

They are brushed off but never completely removed so the finished cheese looks to have a sort of dusting. If you look closely you'll see the movement because the individual particles are cheese mites

While you don't eat the rind, it's not vegetarian because as you can see in the picture the "dust" is spread along the inside when you cut the cheese so it's near impossible to eat without breaking a vegetarian diet

Most importantly it was a very nice cheese but I'd struggle to eat it again

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  • Amberpearl
    Amberpearl Online Community Member Posts: 2,853 Championing

    I'm. A very fussy eater

    Not had anything unusual

    I'm. A vegetarian

    Have any of you trued the fruit kumquat?

    I love sour things

    It's very sour

  • Albus_Scope
    Albus_Scope Posts: 10,513 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    Mmm, delicious bug cheese! What was the taste like though @66Mustang?

    Though I must say, I'd probably try it as the mites are so small. As long as I could disinfect myself afterwards, I'd not want any hitchikers!

    I'm not sure if it's really crazy, but I really liked Kentucky Fried Gator when I visited the Everglades.

  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 15,054 Championing

    @Amberpearl I love sour stuff… didn't know kumquat was sour, I never really knew what it tasted like at all haha, maybe I will try to find some 😊

    @Albus_Scope it's actually really nice. It's like a really strong/mature Edam (it was actually invented to copy Edam when the French and Dutch weren't on speaking terms 🥲 it's strooong and has those little crystals you often get in strong aged cheese

  • Amberpearl
    Amberpearl Online Community Member Posts: 2,853 Championing

    Oh yes it's extremely sour 😍

    I also love extremely strong cheese

  • Albus_Scope
    Albus_Scope Posts: 10,513 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    Oooh, yeah Kumquats are lovely! I've not had one in years though.

  • Amberpearl
    Amberpearl Online Community Member Posts: 2,853 Championing

    Sure are different

  • Ranald
    Ranald Online Community Member Posts: 2,320 Championing
  • Ranald
    Ranald Online Community Member Posts: 2,320 Championing

    Purified shark - Hákarl.

    Those masochistic Icelanders consider this a delicacy!

  • JessieJ
    JessieJ Online Community Member Posts: 990 Trailblazing

    Had Mimolette & it is a decent tasting cheese, turned my nose & stomach up at trying Casu Marzu, that crawls with maggots!! 🤢 Had a brie left out under a cheese net once & that came alive…🤮 Many moons ago at school, in science we looked at cheese mites under a microscope & they were on Cheddar, never put me off cheese though.

    I've also had gator, in Florida, quite liked it. Had jellyfish in a Thai restaurant, I'd rather just watch them in the sea, better off chewing a laccy band, have more flavour & less heat. Chicken feet & duck webs in a Chinese resto, they were okay, but with garlic & ginger anything tastes good. Had duck hearts in a resto in France, they were delish.

  • Ranald
    Ranald Online Community Member Posts: 2,320 Championing
  • Rosie_Scope
    Rosie_Scope Posts: 6,362 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    I've eaten salted licorice but that's about it for adventurous eats. I'm a licorice fan so it wasn't really a stretch for me either.

    Sometimes I think I should try some more exciting things, but then hearing about mite cheese and maggot cheese I think I'll stick to my Tesco cheddar 😁

  • Grumpy1314
    Grumpy1314 Online Community Member Posts: 276 Empowering

    Haggis - not to everyone’s taste, but goes great with Neaps & Tatties

  • JessieJ
    JessieJ Online Community Member Posts: 990 Trailblazing
  • Santosha12
    Santosha12 Online Community Member Posts: 1,866 Championing

    I'm sure my mum used to cook brains but I definitely didn't try them 🤢.

  • durhamjaide2001
    durhamjaide2001 Scope Member Posts: 14,283 Championing

    I tried snails on both my cruises that I went on.

  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 15,054 Championing

    @JessieJ

    I'm sure the French duck heart was nice… they have a way with food there

    I'm ashamed to say I've tried - without really knowing what it was - foie gras, and to admit it was one of the nicest things I'd ever tried in my life… if it's any redemption I haven't had it since learning about how it's made

  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Online Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 4,374 Championing
    edited August 4

    I tried a crocodile burger when the frozen food store brought them out along with kangaroo offerings. I don't even eat meat; I was feeling bold and decided this crocodile had lived a good life and wasn't a threatened species - it was pink and fishy but I didn't swallow 😖

  • JessieJ
    JessieJ Online Community Member Posts: 990 Trailblazing

    I've tried kangaroo, wasn't terribly keen, had an odd flavour. I love ostrich, tastes between duck & beef, lovely.

    Have had foie gras, it is rather good & not all is fed with the gruesome gavage but more humanely. It is expensive though.

  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 15,054 Championing

    @JessieJ I came across "Foie Royale" before, you're right it's expensive… I can't imagine there are any regular foie gras eaters who will face financial hardship from having to switch, though 😂

    There are also less cruel but still arguably cruel foie gras, one where they don't force feed the birds but they put some kind of addictive substance in their food to make them gorge themselves by choice