I’m asking because my SO just had me try a watermelon-feta salad… Initially I was horrified, and thought it was a prank, but now I’m curious. Would you describe it as a good or bad weird?
Dragonfruit. How do people eat that shit? It tastes like you drank a glass of water someone farted on.
Love me some fart water
I’m one of those people. Dragon fruit is delicious on a hot day.
I bought one to photograph. After photographing, I threw it away.
Very juicy with a nice subtle sweetness. It’s one of my favorite fruits.
Well this was way before I went vegan but when I was younger, my dad would buy me balut. Balut is a delicacy in the Philippines and it’s basically boiled fertilized duck egg. One has to crack open the top part of the shell and drink the juices first. Then the whole shell is peeled off. The yolk would be the most edible part and I’ve known many Filipinos who just drink the juice and eat the yolk. Sometimes they’ll even eat a white part which has similar texture with very tough cartilage. Others go a little bit further and eat the tiny duck embryo. It’s commonly dipped in spicy vinegar or salt to give it more flavor. It’s definitely the furthest thing from healthy and I definitely wouldn’t eat it ever again
Nope. Hats off to you for trying it :o
When I was a kid, maybe 11 or 12? I was at the birthday party of some kid. Mind you, this was the 1970s. The parents dumped us all in the “playroom” (a big basement room, finished and with furniture) with some toys and games and a table full of food and they had their own little party upstairs. Meanwhile, we had a table full of candy and chips and cupcakes and bread and sandwich stuff and whatever to drink.
For whatever kid reason, we started making the Weirdest Sandwiches We Could Think Of. Mine, I will never forget. One slice of bread slathered with peanut butter, upon which went M&Ms, chocolate Twizzlers, potato chips, and Fritos, folded in half like a taco.
How did it taste? Well, I made a second one. But I was 11 or 12 and had the food palate of a caveman.
When I was that age I fancied putting M&Ms on my pizza and sandwiches. I resonate with “food palate of a caveman”.
If given half a chance, I’d probably still put potato chips on anything I could.
Heck, to use the non-American definition of the word “chips,” I spent most of my life in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a city known for many things but gastronomically for putting french fries (the other kind of “chips”) on sandwiches and salads!
I’m famliliar with PA. From NY. Chips are great on sandwiches. Nice layer of crunch and fats. My dad gave me the idea.
I quite like water melon salads. Refreshing and salty together.
This one is good: https://www.nigella.com/recipes/watermelon-feta-and-black-olive-salad
I think adding prosciutto to that works too.
my folks went vegan in the 80s, when it was really difficult to do that. I’ve eaten a lot of things of questionable, even suspicious nutritional value. the absolute weirdest, one that haunts my memory to this very day is seitan.
seitan is basically wheat gluten. it’s got little to no flavor and has the texture somewhere between a wet sponge and cotton balls (ever chewed on a cotton ball? would not recommend). one memorable thanksgiving, mom made a loaf of seitan, and it was off or I was getting sick but i felt unwell after eating it, so she prescribed me some charcoal pills. an hour or so later I was puking up pitch black chunky bile. it’s the sort of thing that sticks with you…
seitan: 0/10
next weirdest is brussels sprouts - not because they’re bad but because there’s a species of moth that lays its eggs in the sprouts. this is why you always want to boil the hell out of them or sear them on the grill (or in bacon fat, which is my favorite). cant really recommend eating moth larvae, it’s not vegan.
I went on a 100% carnivore diet for years after I turned 18.
Tried vegan, but I live in a food desert. Vegetarian currently. Seitan is weird as hell, the texture kills me. I just can’t with that stuff :p
Bruh, seitan is delicious. Your folks just don’t know how to prepare it. It’s basically a blank canvas for any sauce you want. When you deep fry it, it becomes extra poofy, soaks everything, and becomes super juicy.
I’ve had aligator and frog’s legs in Florida. I’ve had chocolate covered crickets somewhere in Boston.(I forget where we got them). I had whale during a visit to Norway.
Before I went veggie, I had tried Aligator tail while visiting in Florida. It was surprisingly delicious :)
Must be somewhat alike to the beets, quinoa and goat cheese salad I made once. Good stuff! I loved it, but I was pretty much the only one. My family’s difficult with food :/
Never could handle goat cheese. That stuff is just different :p
Grilled watermelon is very weird to me - apparently some people like it? But watermelon = chilled is very engrained in me, and I don’t like the mouthfeel of the texture of warm/hot watermelon.
Interesting. I’ll have to try grilled watermelon because that’s a first hearing about it.
Sweet and salty things are good! I haven’t tried the watermelon feta salad myself but I can understand the reasoning behind the concept and I did mention it to someone else who thought it was an odd mix and they ended up loving it!
I can’t think of the weirdest combo I’ve eaten at the moment but I know what you mean about being surprised by food combos.
Rocky Mountain Oysters! I cannot recommend it. Edit: Oh, and peanut butter pickle sandwiches (better than I expected)
My son has been in an adventurous/chopped watching food kick as of late. Recently he made smoked anchovies with blue cheese with a dab of hot sauce…
It was actually amazing and we have done it since. Only recommended for people who already enjoy those two powerful flavors and don’t mindnthe house smelling bad for a bit.
Sounds surprisingly good minus the anchovies. I just cant handle those real fishy kind of fish. Raising a young Gordon Ramsey?
Maybe the crazed mad scientist version ;)
Funnily enough, I made a watermelon-mint-feta salad last week. My wife and I tried one at a cookout last summer and we both loved it, I only just now got around to trying my hand at making one. It’s pretty hard to mess up :P
The weirdest thing I’ve ever eaten? Probably chicken hearts and livers baked in an oven at the supermarket deli where I was working at the time. My very sweet Chinese coworker was so excited to find them at our store. I guess she had a hard time finding them in the US. She was so happy, I didn’t have the heart to turn it down. It was OK. Tasted like dark meat chicken with a slightly weird texture. I wouldn’t go out of my way to eat it again, but it wasn’t gross.
Oh, and I ate cool-whip on an jalapeño hot dog one time for a joke; I maintain that it was actually not bad!
Sounds interesting…
I’ve eaten jellyfish.
Say no more…
It was a waygu-centric restaurant, and I want to say it was turtle soup with a waygu foam. The foam could have been on another dish though. I liked it, it was salty and a bit earthy, and just tasty. Wife hated it though.
Squid and blowfish.
