There exists a picture of me, a foto. I am maybe two years old an am eating a dried cow pat. I look content there, though.
And I ate a bite of jellyfish, just to win a bet with me mom.
I hate salad, but one of my mother's thanksgiving day stories is about how I walked up to a poisonus houseplant and bit it when we were at a family friends house for turkey day.
Off the cuff the other wierdest thing (for me) was going to a restaraunt and eating the seafood called 'foot'. I usually don't eat fish or seafood, unless its Tuna!
As far as things that are meant to be food items: squid, and raw clams.
The squid was good, the clams.....only in a survivalist situation.
When I was a kid (around 4th grade) I used to eat various non-food items to show off to the other kids: paper, yarn, leaves and wood chips from the playground....the oddest being a small rubber "kooshball" (I cut it into easily swallowed pieces with scissors first.)
Both my mother and my teacher explained to me how dangerous this sort of thing was, so I quit doing it. Hence ended my budding potential career as a light-bulb-eating carnival geek.....
Part of a Hostess Ho-Ho left outside in the back yard over 24 hours? Oh, that and some honey-fried cicadas when the 17 year cicadas were in season in 2004. I commented that if they were good enough for John the Baptist I could at least try one. Ha ha, the guy ate locusts and hney!
As a vegetarian I've tried various odd vegetables. One item resembled mashed potatos, but with cauliflour instead of potatos. Actually, it's moister than mashed potatos so it's an improvement on the texture.
I don't gross out easily, but the other day I was eating a banana and found something weird in it. Could have been a normal part of the banana but I don't think any part is supposed to go crunch. Instead of chewing that, I spit it out into a wastebasket. For all I know it could have been the skeleton of an insect.
I can tell y'all about a couple of weird drinks I've had. One was Guiness with a shot of Jaegermeister (sp?) added. Got that idea after trying something called a boilermaker (whiskey in regular beer). I thought this pitch-black version of the boilermaker was going to be disgusting, but actually it was pretty good. Of course, you better like both stout and Jaegermeister separately before you try to mix them. The other weird drink was a recipe I found on the internet, the salt-and-pepper martini. It's your standard martini, using Absolut Peppar as the vodka, and with the rim of the glass salted as with a margarita. Once, the barmaid found some jalapeno slices to garnish it with. Tastes like hot pickles.
Ick. garmonbozia's post reminded me of a time I made myself mac and cheese (what, i was in college- and pregnant...) and apparently the larvae of some bug (I don't care to discover what) was in the pasta. I cooked it and ate it before realizing what had happened.
so icky. eww... ick. trying to get past it again...
Once, at about age six, we were at my grandparents' place. While others were frying fish, I was looking at the bowl of seasoning mix, and spent maybe five minutes watching it before asking something like, "Are these bugs crawling around in it part of the recipe?" My grandmother looked, and said something like "Eww! There are weevils in the seasoning." They had to run out to the store and get more seasoning.
mm lets see.. some play doh figures i made, fish food, dog food,cat food,, it's healthy and tastes like fish
, of course that was when i was 7
Please explain to me why school children commonly eat paste (glue), erasers and crayons. I thought they were quite insane at the time and I was baffled as to what they found so attractive about it. I certainly never felt a hankering to take a sip of glue.
Flaxseedbiscuits for cows. They were sweet and had a nice smell. I did not like the catfood. My brother and nephew did. I was already showing my vegetarian traits :-)
Eggs with sugar.Yuk!
Pizza with squid on it sounds pretty good, actually.
I keep a bottle of water by my bed. I got up one night and sleepily took a drink... only to find out I'd grabbed the bottle of rubbing alcohol. It tasted like horribly strong like burnt rubber, not like it smells, and burned my mouth. I ran to the sink thinking "Ack, I've poisoned myself, I'm gonna die, I can't believe I did that!" Though the internet said it could be fatal, the poison control lady told me I'd be okay cuz I didn't drink much. My tongue turned all bumpy like a cat tongue. Yucky! I was too embarassed to tell my boss why I was late to work. I do not leave the alcohol anywhere near the bed now.
But "snoballs' and 'wonder bread" (which was delivered door to door in a basket with baloons on it) were forbidden fruit to me, and I lusted for them. As I got my hands on these items through shop-lifting and at friends houses, and shoved them into my "pure" mouth,
Hehe, you remind me of this old song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdDEzHAxz...re=related
Ha! I eat paper, too! Not whole sheets (any more) but if I've ripped staple out, for instance, so there's a ripped bit in one corner I'll tear the jagged bit off for the sake of neatness... and then the ripped off bit ends up in my mouth before I realise I've done it.