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What is the strangest food you've ever eaten.... 
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Forgot to add my own 'strangest food'. I once ate crocodile in Zimbabwe. It wasn't the most pleasant experience.
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I had calamari once, which in itself isn't strange... until I looked a little closer at my plate and found the head complete with eyes staring right at me! Think I'll stick to cod and chips in future 
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Jellied eel - I think is probably a bit of an aquired taste! One which I have yet to acquire.
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I've never tried jellied eel myself. When we filmed the first episode of England TV in Brighton Simon Calder ate a huge spoonful of it (and at 10:30am after a latte)! The look on his face was a picture. I ate a whelk - again after a latte. It wasn't easy, for some reason it was more bearable when I turned and looked at the sea though, so this is what I did until it was finished. I could taste it for the rest of the day after that 
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Although I didn't eat it as I was not brave enough - I once saw what resembled a squashed rat on a stick being sold through the window of a bus I was travelling on (not in the UK!!!). Not sure quite what it would've tasted like.
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 The strangest and most exotic food I have eaten is Millionaire's cabbage - which is the young shoots and stems of forming fronds at the business end of a felled coconut palm. It was not at all chewy and was comparable to a very tasty and fleshy piece of celery without the stringy bits. It can be eaten raw and is a very pleasant experience! Valkyrie the dog prefers my old boots, or the remote control - something he can have a good gnaw at while removing undesirable screen-hogs from our living-room... 
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Sounds interesting Perspicador and definately preferable to lolas rat on a stick!! Our dog prefers collecting the childrens soft toys and stock piling them in her bed -along with the remote control! 
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I have just found out that a farmer in the Fens is going to be the first in England to open a crocodile farm - so it could be coming to a shop near you .... to quote the farmer '... It's white, low fat meat with the grain of fish. Some people say it is similar to chicken, but it's not, it tastes of crocodile," I personally remember it having a rather odd texture.
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What about Squirrels. Has anyone tried Squirrel? Apparently there is a business down in the South East of England who is doing really well with their Squirrel pies.
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I am always told that one of my favourites is strange, but I do not know why. It is smoky bread - instead of putting a slice in a toaster, you burn it over a gas ring, direct flame rather than transverse flame. That one side goes black or brown, the other retains the moisture, so you fold it over the keep the white part inside and get this succulent smoky-tasting treat. Why is this not more popular?
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Yes yes I remember eating smoky bread when I used to go fishing as a lad. Light a camp fire in the morning and put a twig through a slice of bread before holding it over the fire for... erm forgotten how long now... maybe a minute? Not bad actually...
Northy
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Musk ox terrine. Well... you did ask. ;)
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That is definately strange!! But what did it actually taste like I wonder?
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