Things you eat that are not socially acceptable to eat

Nails

Halloween candy found on the ground.

I ate dog once

I had shark fin once.

guinea pig

Horse sashimi.

^^^wasn't that Col. Potter's expletive-of-choice on M*A*S*H?

I would probably eat a plate of just roasted chicken skin

otm

Seinfeld chose the wrong kind of skin single

Candy corn.

my boogers

maraschino cherry stems

I love candy corn

me too, had some yesterday

An entire goddam bag of chips

liked candy corn when I tried it, weirdly it is not among the US imports at any supermarket here.

absolutely love Kandy Korn

i really really don't like it

Love candy corn, but really only Brach’s. Others don’t quite hit the balance of waxiness to sugar.

Candy corn is great in small amounts (one handful, not a whole bag).

I buy one bag every October, it lasts however long it lasts, and that’s that.

I don't even what it is, other than a Captain Beefheart song.

I would probably eat a plate of just roasted chicken skin

― brimstead, Sunday, November 30, 2025 12:31 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

otm

― a ZX spectrum is haunting Europe (Daniel_Rf)

otm

Well then you know that it’s yellow and orange candy that tastes good. Beefheart otm.

Okay, gotta ask: what was dog like?

I vaguely recall that Beefheart is referring to a Philip K Dick book as well as the candy?

xp

Okay, gotta ask: what was dog like?

― Cow_Art, Sunday, November 30, 2025 2:29 PM

woof!

About once a year I open a can of Spam(tm) and fry up a slice of it to go with my eggs and toast each morning until it's gone -- usually about six slices to a can. It's too salty, but I don't mind.

Found my review of dog hotpot (NB this is nearly 20 years ago and I would never eat dog now)

The meat itself was pretty good. The texture was like beef, but not quite as tough, and quickly softening. The flavour, under the tofu, was surprisingly mild. I’d been told to expect a strong, bitter taste, but it just wasn’t there. It was just like eating a nice piece of beef, but leaner and more tender, and with more small bones. The ginger in the sauce complimented the meat perfectly. The meat came right off the bone and tasted very good – mild, sweet and delicious. The ex and I polished it off in no time.

i was in a region of Japan when i was 18 where horse meat is a delicacy unbeknownst to me at the time. Dinnertime comes and I order a plate of sushi. One of the nigiris was a lot tougher and chewier than fish. I ate it and the next day my dear asshole dad told me what it was. I hadn't eat meat knowingly for about years at that point.
It isn't/wasn't socially acceptable to me, but mb it would be for a majority of people?

Used to eat donkey fairly regularly when I visited cities in Hebei like Baoding and Shijiazhuang - there's a picture here but it usually looked a lot better than this - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkey_burger

The off menu thing to do with Harold's Chicken here is make a skin sandwich

I've had horse in Japan and Iceland and it was delicious both times and I'd order it again no problem. I've also had raw pork in Japan and many years ago tried whale (yeah yeah judge away). It was all very delicious.

God bless a Brach's reference.

I love the grasshoppers (chapulines) that you can sometimes get with dishes originating in Oaxaca, Mexico. I've noticed that dining companions don't always appreciate the sight of them though.

I had some chapulines on a Oaxaca visit, they were pretty tasty and crispy. Though a couple times was enough, I didn't rush out to get them every day. The massive bins of them in the mercados is quite a sight.

https://live.staticflickr.com/4891/46666185971_07dcee42f4_h.jpg

1 lb. bag of twizzlers

i ate a fried cow udder once but it did not feel socially unacceptable because it was served from a street vendor who clearly was not out there serving weird unacceptable foods. it was just weird *for me*

it was very rubbery

once i ate an entire pineapple by myself
that's not socially acceptable and definitely not recommended if you want to keep your digestive system functioning normally

Me last year:

https://i.imgur.com/EC2206j.jpeg

i accept it

I can't believe how much negative feedback I get from people in the US when I tell them how much I adored eating haggis and black pudding. It's not like it's a huge step from any other sausage, pâté, or Braunschweiger or whatever. Most people I know who grew up in the midwest grew up eating Spam, hot dogs, Liverwurst, or baloney, and most people enjoy those, don't they?

In terms of taste and texture black pudding is fairly unadventurous, think the reaction is just to the idea of it. Haggis too, though it is a little stranger-tasting I guess. We had it once a few years ago and since then it's been my older son's favourite food, no joke.

This stuff is genuinely weird in terms of both taste and texture, and took me years to get used to - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_blood_curd

lol as a lifelong mostly-non-meat-eater I accidentally ordered and ate blood sausages in Spain. tbh they were pretty good.

i've had blood sausage and it was fine. haggis a little less appealing, on paper, but it's still mince right? i've always been more offput by stuff like shellfish and lobster where you are eating Recognizable Parts and those are much more accepted

i guess eating bone-in chicken pieces is just as much that but i'm even more acclimated to it

Tofurkey has such an undeservedly bad reputation, but is very good.

lamb brain
pig brain
cow brain

brain, brain what is brain/

i ate a brain once at a special dinner with John Cale! i won tickets because i begged Sound Opinions to give them to me and threatened to send myself to the special dinner in a box a la The Gift if i couldn't go. :)

I was in a band with a woman who I caught eating paper. Like, a strip of paper out of her notebook. I was shocked and impressed and I told her about my staple eating so she didn’t feel alone in her weirdness

Oh I still take the labels off of apples and peppers, those little plastic markers that have the produce code on them? Those get eaten to this day. I always eat them while I’m doing the chopping

Maybe this is the thread where it’s revealed I have a major oral disorder and nobody else in the world does these things

I was in a band with a woman who I caught eating paper.

https://i.ibb.co/d0KVTvQf/how-do-we-feel-about-i-think-you-should-leave-v0-okie2v4z9mwd1.jpg

I have eaten paper - like the ragged edge when you tear out something from a spiral notebook.

Also upthread: shrimp shells and peanut shells, I eat 'em. Cellulose isn't food but it aids digestion; yer grampaw called it roughage.

I've had alligator and brains but Inl don't seek out oddness for its own sake.

paper eating... finally this thread has begun to soar

In high school I had a sip of the fluid inside of a Magic 8-Ball and I would not recommend it.

i wrap my boogers in paper sometimes for a special treat. j/k

i also straighten / bend small metal things in my mouth, mostly paperclips. and gnaw on ballpoint pen lids until they come apart, mostly bic. much satisfaction in removing the strapped-in little nubbin at the top.

I sometimes have dreams about eating metal, but that's it

― challopvious (sleeve), Tuesday, 2 December 2025 17:00 (fifty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

This guy followed his dreams https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Lotito

The section on awards had me crying with laughter.

I've dreamed about eating glass too, which I'm sure people actually do somehow

I regularly eat packs of Taco Bell hot sauces by themselves.

I also eat Ketchup packets.

at the AMC near me, for a long time, they had cups of jalapenos that were free that they left in the popcorn stations and I would brag them and eat pickled jalapenos by themselves in the theater until my friend begged me to stop because she could smell them so heavily.

they pulled them and made them 25 cents a cup and made you get them from the concessions and I'm 99% sure it was because of me.

I used to destroy wooden pencils in elementary school, I was like a beaver on those things

ugh i can't take pencil smell, no idea how i'd progress to taste

strong sense memory of the taste of pencils eugh

erasers too

and that little metal thing that held the erasers. electric!

we didn't have tik tok back then, daring each other to eat various school supplies was all we had in those days of austerity

definitely ate Play-Doh

green was best

Look if we’re opening it up to chewing

no i swallowed that shit

that's what she said

Ok but are ppl swallowing staples and pen lids

You’d probably enjoy the new stranger things chips ahoy.

how do you think the Staples Singers got their name

There needed to be a marketing response to the Office Depot singers

I didn’t like chewing pencils or pens or erasers. Never did never have.

I still like chewing (and swallowing) the little plastic shitheads that connect to the pricetags of thrift store sweaters. The ones that are a flat rectangle on one end and a tiny cylinder on the other. I crush the cylinder with my front teeth and crush the rectangle with my molars

Lol i remember a kid at school relentlessly chewing on a ballpoint pen and ending up with a smear of ink down his chin.

I can imagine that inside piece containing the ink is pretty satisfying to gnaw in.

*gnaw on

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Duh why do you think they're called staple foods

Tell me more about offal in ragu

I’ve made ragu a hundred times and never truly achieved something mindblowing but as soon as I saw “offal in ragu” I suddenly realized that it might be missing something liverish or kidneyish

maybe start here as gateway drug: https://www.theguardian.com/food/2018/dec/03/rachel-roddy-fettuccine-with-chicken-liver-ragu-recipe

after that i would google around and you'll find like kenji, james beard, i think maybe hazan and others even have ragu recipes with liver in them. quite often it's added at the end or blitzed. you get a really nice kind of bass note from it.

Yeah and the recipe I was thinking of was this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS_IdAevyMY

First time I had foie gras was tucked into a burger without my knowledge. A foodie friend made it and the wife and I were flipping out over how good the burger was and THEN she told us the secret. It was so fucking good I couldn’t be mad about it.

I'd just like to publicly state that I'm not really into the truffle flavor.. truffle oil, truffle potato chips etc. It just kinda has a BO vibe. Maybe I need to try some different truffles

are you opposed to strongly aromatic cheeses,too? i've never had a real truffle but would definitely be into trying in a dish

Funky cheese: gimme. I've never had an authentic truffle, but remember a "truffle-infused" oil that tasted more like pine needles.

Haven't read the whole thread so excuse me if there are repetitions.
- Andouillette and other delicacies from Lyon
- Whale steak in Iceland
- Also tried the chapulines (ie. locusts), and possibly from that same stall in Oaxaca
- Mopani worms (ie. caterpillars)
- Ostrich burger is very good meat
- Of course frog legs in my childhood, snails, horse meat
- Chicken livers / hearts / gizzards
- Kapenta fish (ie. tiny sardines you eat whole)

Nothing really bizarre though. I like fruit / vegetables skins in general. As a child, I would collect the tomato skins discarded by others. If I find a fresh mango, I've learnt that eating it with the skin is delicious.

chewing gum

I have dreams about swallowing chewing gum all the time. Not sure what that means.

Imagining host Steve Harvey revealing: BOOGERS…OFFAL…GUM…

Ostrich burger is very good meat

Yes. Why unacceptable?

there was a brand of paste i enjoyed tasting on occasion in elementary school.

ha I was just thinking abt library paste

Add some jalapeño for a spicier paste

pâté is literally "paste"

Library pesto

Ate plenty of beef paste sandwiches as a kid.

I at loads of weird stuff in China, from regular stuff like chicken feet and "stinky tofu" to specialist meats like dog, donkey and snake, and oddities that people don't usually eat like fried silkworm pupae and scorpions. When I asked Chinese people what weird food we ate in the west they would say blue cheese and live oysters - I think most people I know have tried both of those, and when you think about it, both are pretty odd.

We had some kind of party where I worked, and had a few people from Taiwan in plant. One of them got some of a blue cheese ball on a chip and before I could warn him he ate it. His eyes bugged open and he ran to the restroom to spit it out (and rinse his mouth out, I presume).

I've eaten donkey sausage in Italy. I think a lot of salami has donkey in it.