Unless you've killed it or grown it yourself, and cooked it yourself, you can't guarantee what's in or not in anything you eat. You have to just trust to regulations and systems.

Vegetable wise it has to be Poi in Hawaii, whilst not unpleasant in taste (in fact it didn't taste of a great deal) it looked rather like a plate of wet cement and the texture was very similar.

Can't think of any meat that is that unusual that I've eaten although we did have roadkill occasionally when I was younger so not overly sure what animals I've eaten in the past.

I was once in Scotland and saw on a menu Cullen Skink Soup. I decided to try it and it was very nice. It's made from smoked haddock and potato

I agree. I must say that FM's views struck me as very odd. I would hate to have such a limited diet due to needless paranoia.

Turkey giblet pie which was horrible.

Why do you include that as "strange"?
It's delicious (as long as you leave all doors and windows open if cooking it at home)

It sounds it


Well it's more the name than the soup - I've never heard of it

Jellyfish - it was pretty rank.


Being Scottish that seems like quite a dull dish to me

When I was a child, I was on holiday in Austria. There were these pink ice creams, where the stick (usually wooden) was edible, it was bubblegum.

I quite like jellyfish!

Where did you have it? I've only ever seen it on the menu at one restaurant in the UK, but it's pretty common in the far east.

It was a traditional Chinese restaurant in Edinburgh. Also tried tried pigs ear...horrible. The belly pork with steamed veg though was delicious.

If you cook it at home it's called Bluddy Stink

Hehe I like pigs ear too and tail/trotters.

Are you sure it's chicken?

I've contributed once (guinea pig) but I just had bacon and banana waffle with maple syrup and raspberry coulis for breakfast (I'm abroad)
Well, I couldn't not order it could I?

I love bacon on sweet items. Bacon doughnuts are great.

Mochi, a dessert from Yo Sushi.
It's described as a "soft Japanese rice cake ball with a sweet filling"

Very strange taste and texture, hated it.

Another food I've had loads of. I like the red bean and sesame ones the best. A lot of oriental food is texture based, which is very strange if you're not used to it.

Surely all food is texture based

Kangaroo pizza

I generally love sushi, and have tried and enjoyed most things from Yo Sushi, just the mochi that I find odd.

I've tried green tea Mochi. Very nice and I love the texture.

Weirdest thing I've ever tried is a mezcal worm in a bottle of mezcal.

Pretty much anything I ate in North Korea was strange, even the familiar things, but the Freezing Cold Buckwheat noodles, drowning in some strange, brown salty water really took the biscuit. I gagged while eating them, most of my group did, but out of respect to our hosts we ate the lot. Also, they were served as the main and the only other thing was some small side dishes of sticky, tepid rice with a few shreds of tepid pork.

Sea urchins. Absolutely delicious.