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Nastiest thing you've managed to eat while out and about?

230grains

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Lets hear it, what's the nastiest thing you've eaten out in the wilderness? Generally I try not to eat disgusting things unless my life depended on it, which it hasn't so the furthest I go while camping is some squirrel and fish which are hardly gross, but the squirrel is certainly "odd" to some.

Any of you a little more adventurous while in the bush even when you don't really need to be? You're not going to catch me eating larvae until i'm half dead from starvation and i've already eaten one of my legs.
 
I agree, but i've met a few people who enjoyed "roughing it" to such a degree that they'd eat things that most wouldn't even when they could have easily had good food. Personally, I don't find enjoyment in that.
 
2 inch long cockroach, a june bug, a galapagos beetle, nightcrawlers, raccoon roadkill, and hundreds if not thousands of grasshoppers
 
I'll eat about anything but I don't like bugs in general so I have yet to try them. Spiders will never be on the menu though.
 
How many of you ate sub par food because it was all that was available or was it just for the experience?
 
230grains said:
How many of you ate sub par food because it was all that was available or was it just for the experience?
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I've had it both ways... I wouldn't eat smeared coon unless I were starving for 4 days... and that was the case. I smoked the piss out of it til I could barely chew it, and damn was it good...
 
not in the wilderness, but I spent a summer commercial fishing up on the Bristol Bay of Alaska, and I ate a salmon eye that had been sitting for 3 days on the deck. Top half was leathery due to the sun, bottom half was sticky due to the salt water :) Not survival...a bet! After that, I was just like one of the boys... good times!
 
Wasp Larvae. Not really nasty, but got the 'eww' factor when relating the dining experience to others.
 
I remember reading in one of my survival books that as a rule of thumb you dont want to eat anything that has a really gross stinch to it. And you don't dare eat anything that is brightly colored or has a flourescent color ( highly toxic).

I grew up eating all kinds of wild game so eating squirrels, rabbits and other small game are second nature to me.

I've heard that all of the grubs and other larvae are all safely edible. I wouldn't eat any roaches because they are harbingers for all kinds of disease. And I won't eat any type of meat or fish without cooking it because of the potential for parasites.

I've eaten 2 different types of cooked snake meat and I'm telling you that it's actually pretty tasty when cooked over a hickory or oak fire. A friend of mine who is a former special forces guy told me that the venomous snakes are actually tastier than the non venomous snakes are. Both snake meats I ate seemed similar to frog legs which I dearly love.

Also you all might check out some past issues of Wilderness Way magazine. They have had some articles on foraging that I found very interesting. There are many nuts, buds, grasses, dandelions and a wide array of edibles in the timber almost all year round.
 
mdole said:
not in the wilderness, but I spent a summer commercial fishing up on the Bristol Bay of Alaska, and I ate a salmon eye that had been sitting for 3 days on the deck. Top half was leathery due to the sun, bottom half was sticky due to the salt water :) Not survival...a bet! After that, I was just like one of the boys... good times!
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That's not a bad thing to eat at all actually. Because the eyes of any type of fish cooked are great. They contain high amounts of protein, Vitamin A & Vitamin D. I do recommend that people eat them cooked however unless on the brink of starvation. But everytime I cook trout that I catch I always eat the eyes>> I actually find them to be a treat. It's just the thought of it that gets to most people but in reality it's a great source of nutrition.
 
PayetteRucker said:
I've had it both ways... I wouldn't eat smeared coon unless I were starving for 4 days... and that was the case. I smoked the piss out of it til I could barely chew it, and damn was it good...
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I eat raccoon frequently, it is one of my favorite game animals. I liked it baked with sweet potatos or BBQed and definitely not cooked to death.


Worst thing I have ate in the woods, stag brand canned chili. :barf: Chris
 
I've eaten ants, but they actually taste good (like lemon) so it's not really nasty. :)
 
The Vegetable omlette with cheese MRE entree. God that was disgusting.

Deer eyeballs (it was a dare, and yes, I almost puked).

People say eating rattlesnake and squirrel is gross, but, umm, they're good.

Possum. Possum is nasty.

fz1boxer said:
my ex wife when we went camping for a week,i got hammered and......................
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Had that, too. Wasn't that bad, just make sure it's clean first.
 
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