NatGeo: What's the strangest food you ever ate?

Cold, shredded, pickled jelly fish in China. Headed back in a week and will avoid this at all costs.

I lead a sheltered life.

Animal appendages with suction cups (don't think it was octopus) in Madrid.

Something described by server as "baby eels" (aka "worms") at the same meal.

Outdoor grilled Kentucky varmint of some type - groundhog, I think, prepared by an overly anxious hunter. I did not have seconds.

Not so much strange, just different: Reindeer carpaccio in Stockholm & Helsinki. Sea urchins (oursin) in Tahiti and grilled dog (unbeknown to me until much later) in Zihuatanejo, Mexico.

Lamb Fries at the Columbia Steakhouse in Lexington, KY sometime in the 1980's - I was a little girl

[Robin Garr]

Lamb Fries at the Columbia Steakhouse in Lexington, KY sometime in the 1980's - I was a little girl

They were a specialty at Saylor's in Frankfort, a popular legislature hangout back in the late '70s. Deep frying and thick milk gravy will hide almost anything.

They were a specialty at Saylor's in Frankfort, a popular legislature hangout back in the late '70s. Deep frying and thick milk gravy will hide almost anything.

Exactly! Not too unusual by some folk's standards, but definitely the strangest thing I ever ate. Not related, but I have been a vegetarian for over 20 years now. lol.....
Somewhat related (I guess) - if you kill an animal, I say use every single little bit of it that you can.

Barbequed pig intestines and feet, chicken feet, and lamb fries (also from Columbia Steakhouse). A co-worker brought me some duck head soup - I just wasn't expecting the bills to still be attached!

[Robin Garr]

Barbequed pig intestines

I just flashed on loving andouillettes when we were in Provence. Of course, everything tastes good in Provence. Even French chitlins by a nicer name.

(Come to think of it, it wasn't just Provence. I had an andouillettes-and-Roquefort pasta dish once in a cheese-shop eatery in Paris that was incredible. Great with a cheap red Burgundy.)