Eating gross stuff...

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What's the ickiest thing you've ever eaten out in the wild? I'm sure most have never actually HAD to eat something unusual to survive, but probably many here have eaten something not normally on the menu. What's something to try?

I've eaten some rattlesnakes. Not bad tasting or gross at all really. I intend to get a rattler and cook it up with my son next year. Good experience to share with his Cub Scout buddies. Even my wife isn't adverse to the idea.

Here's a Mojave Green Rattler we saw on the road outside of Palmdale CA earlier this year eating something that I wouldn't eat myself - A Kangaroo Rat. I'd eat the snake though...

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Howsabout this land lobster? I almost stepped on him on a night hike...

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Big spiders? Not for me, thanks. We almost ran over this one (Twice, as we backed up to get a pic)...

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Having worked with many Filipinos over the past 30 years and attending their "mystery meat" pot-lucks, I don't think anything found to eat in the outdoors of the US could traumatize me much more than I've been already...
 
Hahahaha. Being Filipino the one thing I can say is you haven't lived life to the fullest until you've eaten balut!!!!
 
i've eaten a lot of bizarre meat willfully, including rattlesnake, but there's no way i'll eat a spider. maybe the scorpion, steamed with drawn butter, baby corn, and a bib...
 
In the western world its all a matter of delicate perceptions. Get someone hungry enough and you'll be amazed at what will be eaten. Picking food up off the floor and eating it is a good example. Most will not do it. But, if you check outback of restaurants it is not uncommon to see some really hungry people eating the garbage but even they have a descending order of what they will consume.
I've been in some rather unusual circumstances in my youth that tempered my ideas of what was edible and not. Worldwide travels in wilderness areas allowed me to see what the locals ate on a regular basis. Vivid recollections of natives in Mozambique snatching up locusts that fell from exhaustion fluttering around night lights and eating them until they were gorged. Or watching natives hacking up a carcuss of some animal and gorging themselves on the rotten meat. Or some of the insects the natives ate in the amazon... Many times I knew I'd die if I ate the same stuff or drank the same water!
On this note, one of my favorite wild meats is rattlesnake. As with all the rest, once you get past the western ideas of proper food, nature has an abundance of food for you. Do some reading and use some common sense for wilderness skills and survival.
Spent more than 50 years as a licensed hunting guide and survival instructor around the world.
Merry Christmas to you all
 
Ate a June Bug once on a double-dare during an outdoor drinking game. Don't ask.

Somebody once said "if the worm in the bottom of the bottle of tequila was floating at the top of the bottle of tequila, there would be a lot less tequila getting drunk."
 
Hey VEE3.
I keep hearing about all those creepy crawlers up here in the desert and have yet to see a single one. I live right on the 138 so you'd expect something, right? I wish we had a few of those mojave greens up here, the only thing we have are imported PackRats from New Mexico, they do a good job of eating out the wiring in cars though.

Gross stuff eaten-
Fish Sauce straight from the bottle
Veal Sweetbreads
Cabesa )cow brains)
Spiders and a Beetle
Chocolate covered ants
Balut-Nasty Egg thing
Pig Oysters (pretty tasty)
Rattler, Cottonmouth, Copperhead
Red Ants
Turtle
Frog


Various crap in Culinary School - Raw Eggs, Pig Brain, Feet, Cheek (actually the best pork)

My list is pretty long, I am not scared to eat much or at least try it!
 
this isnt really gross, but for thouse who haven't had shark, its actually pretty good. But two things I wouldn't but did eat, were frogs and ants.
 
Strange that what to some is a delicacy to others is horrible !! Lots of people eat frogs legs,I find them excellent . Ants contain about 35 % protein ! Squid and octopus are good . Lots of other things become acceptable if you're hungry enough !!
 
Nastiest I have eaten- earthworm
I refused the egg!!!! Bro-in-law is PI.

Have eaten alligator,snake,crickets/grasshopper,mealworms,frog,raw fish,field mouse & a brew fixed for me- guide said not to ask... :)

Bill
 
mete said:
Strange that what to some is a delicacy to others is horrible !! Lots of people eat frogs legs,I find them excellent . Ants contain about 35 % protein ! Squid and octopus are good . Lots of other things become acceptable if you're hungry enough !!
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I too love frog legs, squid, octopus. I eat and will try darn near anything put in front of me, I just never had a problem stomaching things. I have eatin crickets and catapillars etc, just to try. My g/f buys me the lillipops with scorpions in em:D . Alot of things arent bad if you cook them. Grasshoppers arent if you heat em over a fire.I have had diff snakes and turtle. I have had Haggus(in scotland), it wasnt bad. Blood pudding is one thing I never liked though. For those who have not had it, its basically congealed blood and bread crumbs with some spices(very basic explanation).

The Chef I have tried most of the things you've mentioned except Balut and Cabesa. Just never had the opportunity.
 
Yes, squid, octopus, smoked clams, rattlesnake chili, chicken gizzards, june bug, chocolate covered ants and crickets, cactus candy, almost ate a cockroach once but saw it first...beaver, woodchuck and of course tree rats...I'll eat anything at least once, as long as it's washed. (great pickup line, try it :D)
 
Used to eat NightCrawlers when I was a kid, big foot long suckers.
Kinda gritty but you can chew them for a long time:D


Seen a documentary on TV once.
Down in South America.
They would go out and catch these Giant Tarantulas, big as dinner plates,
They'd bring them back and roast them over the fire and the kids would sit around eating the legs like french fries.
They was a' smacking their lips and looked pretty happy.
Then they would break off hunks of the body and eat them.
Looked to be good eating from the way they went after them:thumbup:
 
Squid Jerky (Korea). Fish Taco (Baja Mexico), Marmot, Worms, Various bugs. Looking forward to snakes, Grubs and anything else that might be edible. What is really weird is I am very picky in what I eat normally.
 
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