what's the stupidest thing you've eaten?

[The Wandering Harper]

I must've eaten something stupider at some point,
but all I can think of now is ketchup on graham crackers.
It wasn't as horrible as I imagined,
but I only ate it once

[Brother Buzz]

1. Library paste - Never, ever, eat library paste on an empty stomach!

[enid602]

2. Shrimp

The last shrimp floating in a pan of melted water at the buffet of Joker’s Wild Casino in Henderson, NV. My friends bet me to do it. There was alcohol involved.

[jmowreader]

3. Everything Ramen

Very long story I won't regale you with, but I spent a day with the 2d Infantry Division's MI battalion and they introduced me to Everything Ramen. To make it, you boil up a bag of Korean instant ramyon noodles then add everything from a C-ration to it. (After I left Korea I learned the new recipe is everything out of an MRE.) It is as bad as it sounds like it would be. Apparently the inprocessing center at Camp Casey surgically removes your taste buds.

[albacore]

4. Balut. In the Philippines...once. nt

[Mike 03]

5. Entire bottles of Trappey's hot peppers

Usually to attempt to get rid of migraines. It works more than half the time, but my GI tract pays for it for the next couple of days. I know when I'm doing it that it's stupid and that I'll pay, but by that point I'm usually desperate to shake off the headache.

[catbyte]

6. A deep-fried Oreo

And it wasn't even that good. Meh.

[duncang]

7. Buffet meals

Before sneeze guards. Well, even after.

[Lunabell]

8. Uni

I was at a sushi bar with my girlfriend at the time. A patron was at the sushi bar and all he ordered was uni, swearing it was the best thing he ever ate. I asked the sushi chef to make one for me. The chef asked me with a quizical look, "Are you sure?" I affirmed my choice.

The sushi piece arrived, looking like something someone with pneumonia would cough up and put on top of rice. But, I was brave and curious. I dipped it into my soy/Wasabi sauce and popped it in my mouth. Oh, the horrors!!! But, I managed to chew, swallow and proclaimed to my girlfriend it was soooooo delicious!

She ordered hers and I was chuckling to myself, knowing I wasn't going to face this alone and she had a much lower tolerance for nasty food than I did. Lmao! She was so pissed off and disgusted as she spit it out in her napkin. "Oh. My. God!" she said. "That was disgusting!" The whole sushi bar had a good laugh at her and I got her good.

Hey, she was a cheater and deserved it.

[Chipper Chat]

9. Moon Pies

[Emile]

10. Rat sandwich.

A small local bar sold muskrat sandwiches when they had the meat from a local trapper.

[LudwigPastorius]

11. Fig Newtons chased with warm Pabst Blue Ribbon

A guy down the hall in my dorm in college once made spaghetti with Cheerios as "mushroom substitutes".

[The Wandering Harper]

15. as far as silly stuff goes, that may be the worst thing I've ever heard

kinda wanna try it out of morbid curiosity

[Boomerproud]

12. Haggis.

Dinner and show in Edinburgh. Arrgh...

[electric_blue68]

18. Never had it (never want to!), but that's what I thought of, and Couldn't Remember the name!

💭 Thinks: "...Ohhh, what that Scottish stuff?".
😁

Ty!

[Different Drummer]

13. Maybe not stupid, but the most unusual thing I've ever eaten...

was frog legs. The comparison to chicken is correct.

[The Wandering Harper]

14. to me they tasted like chicken

with a hint of crab

[Emile]

17. I love frog legs. Restaurant nearby has

them on their menu, but they're expensive.

[electric_blue68]

19. When I was a either a tween, or early teen my dad took me, and my sister to a French Restaurant in Manattan. I did...

have frog legs. And, yes, they tasted like chicken. At that age, though, I was only partly out of my picky eater stage - so I didn't have enough experience to suss out any other additional tastes.

[OldBaldy1701E]

16. I enjoy many things that would be considered 'weird'...

But stupid?

I guess it would be the time I was around six and we were having a Christmas party at my church for the youth. Someone had made a really cool Christmas tree that was covered with little candy leaves and ornaments. The thing was... they are held on with straight pins. Real, metal ones. And, I guess I sort of forget in the moment of eating a few things off of the tree. My parents freaked out, as did the people who made the tree and the pastor and his wife. Of course, this was back in the day, so the decision was made to wait and see if I needed to go to the hospital, since it was 35 minutes away. Otherwise, I would see the local doctor on Monday.

I went to the doctor and he said there was no indication that the pin had 'hit' anything so far. So, he said to wait another day to see if anything happened. Of course, by then the thing had passed through me... without poking or ripping anything. It is a minor miracle when you think about it.

Since nothing happened, life went on and we had Christmas that year as well as everything else.

But, it was stupid.

[Iggo]

20. Pesto. (n/t)