What's the Oddest Thing you have Eaten?

dreamdaisy

I have just inhaled a fly and couldn't 'rescue' it so I've washed it down with two pints of water plus a bagel with Philly. I hope I'll be OK. :shock: I used to eat clover and daisy flowers when I was a little girl but didn't like buttercups or grass.

What's the oddest thing that you have eaten? DD

tkachev

i once helped a very old man with a drippy nose across the road and the wind blew.....


Elizabeth

Julie37927

oooooh, gross I ate a sandwich made by my "trying to be so helpful" boyfriend once. After one bite, I noticed he forgot to take the cheese slice out of the plastic wrap. Hmmm, needless to say he was just a boyfriend not a husband!!

barbara12

Ants in chocolate..was told they were raisins..quite good actually...

dreamdaisy

As you all know I blithely assume that all will be well but, truth be told, I'm not feeling too good . . . .

Tkachev? YUK. :shock:

Julie? That bloke needed glasses! Mind you, you can't beat a lovely, floppy slice of processed cheese, yum-yum!

Barbara? ANTS? I hope someone was teasing you but I know that they are edible - whether that applies to all ants or not I don't know . . . . probably not. One can eat crickets, grasshoppers and I daresay some other bugs but . . . . . Nah, not for me. Yet again you're a BB - Brave Barbara! DD

mike26

yes dreamdaisy
i seem to remember eating a worm or two as a wee boy
but it didnt last long, i soon went back to shredded wheat
but dont u think we would eat anything if your hungry enough :?
mike26

Boomer13

Flour beetles!

I opened a new box, dispensed a bowl of cereal, took two spoonsful, only to find small black crawlies floating on the milk :shock:

I watched a TV program about contaminants in our food Processors are allowed x % bug parts in our various foodstuffs, yuk. So I think we eat them all the time.....

bubbadog

Many moons ago my OH & I went to Tunisia and went to a Bedouin feast.' A traditional evening of food & entertainment! We had the starter, main course came out in weird dishes, a type of stew very nice I asked the waiter what meat was it pork or beef? no he said it was camel!!! Wow my OH & I where shocked!! My OH turned round and said 'oh well it was very nice!!'

Starburst

I used to eat paper as a child. :shock: I developed Anorexia Nervosa at the age of 13 and then later had Bulimia, so I always wonder if the paper snacks were eating disorder related or just 'weird child' related.

applerose

My ex mother-in-law used to give us salad sandwiches complete with caterpillars and bugs. Once we realised she didn't wash the salad properly, we started saying we had just eaten so weren't hungry.

stickywicket

That sounds like my school dinners, Christine.

I've also eaten chicken claws as an impoverished students in Spain, drunk ants as ditto in Portugal and, munwittingly, eaten the bunny rabbit I'd cuddled the previous day.

Susiesoo

When I was 2 my mum found me playing with half a slug!

Susie

villier

I apparently used to eat dirt as a toddler :shock: as my mum realised when she changed my nappy to find an earth worm, there must have been eggs in the dirt and hatched inside me xx

Kitty

Curried kippers - well I was pregnant at the time

stickywicket

villier wrote:

I apparently used to eat dirt as a toddler :shock: as my mum realised when she changed my nappy to find an earth worm, there must have been eggs in the dirt and hatched inside me xx

Which reminds me, I once ate lots of delicious cherries straight from the tree until I bit into one and found a grub. I t ried another. Another grub. And another. The tree was infested. It was a long time before I ate cherries again

applerose

Sticky, your rabbit story reminds me of the time I was 15 and staying with a penpal in France. The two of us were sent down to the farm to pick up some chickens. We put them in the garden. The next morning I came downstairs to find them on the kitchen table, all plucked and ready for the oven. I didn't eat anything for 3 days.

Boomer13

This is all reminding me of that song "The lady who ate the fly", then the spider, then the bird.........cat.....

tkachev

I have eaten frog's legs and they were nice but ever fancied snails. But as Mike says we'd eat anything if we had to.

Elizabeth

tkachev

OH has made a stew with ox cheek today. I'm not brave enough to try it as it sounds horrible.

Elizabeth

ichabod6

I occasionally eat a dish of tripe and onions topped with
two or three slices of black pudding.
Some people including the Chief Fairy think it's odd, but I
like it. Tonight, however, I'm on black pudding and pancakes.

LignumVitae

Anything cooked by Mr LV - one of his more interesting dishes being steamed radish with chilli his take on my request for a vegetarian meal.

I quite fancy black pudding and pancakes! As a child I always liked elder (I think that was the name) with vinegar which is something tripey without actually being tripe.

Numptydumpty

:shock:

LV, elder, is cow's pressed udder
I think you take the prize

LignumVitae

why did my mum feed me that?

mellman01

i feel sick :shock:

Colin1

I should ask if anyone has ever been really, really hungry.I have eaten many things, wild plants, once had some Alligator, kangaroo, snake, horse but we all ate that according to the news. I never knowingly ate a spider. I once ate monkey in the far east but I was a little upset over that when I found out.

Boomer13

I didn't eat for two days once (not because of illness). I remember actually crying as I rudely devoured my hamburger. I think the sensation of hunger goes away after fasting/starving for a while?

.......Or, after reading some of the above posts Cow's udder? Really? Never heard of that.