The Offal and Strange List

In response to the Omnivore’s Hundred List, I decided to do an offal/strange foods list. Many things on here are offal, but to bring it up to 50 I just added a bunch of strange-to-most-people foods. Most of it I don’t find all that odd, but different strokes for different folks.

Do what was done for the Omnivore’s Hundred List:

1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.
4) Optional extra: Post a comment here linking to your results.

1. Balut
2. Sea cucumber
3. Pig spleen
4. Pig liver
5. Chicken hearts
6. Fish eye
7. Duck tongue
8. Duck/chicken feet
9. Black pudding/boudin noir/soon dae
10. Haggis
11. Frog legs
12. Pigs feet (not pied au cochon in the sense of some tidy slice because that is cheating, but a foot where you can tell what it is)
13. Pig intestines/chitterlings
14. Tripe
15. Deer antlers
16. Sweetbreads
17. Rocky mountain oysters
18. Shrimp heads
19. Beef tendon (chunks, not incidental)
20. Gizzard
21. Headcheese
22. Lutefisk
23. Uterus
24. Penis
25. Crab roe
26. Stinky tofu
27. Hundred year old egg
28. Huitlacoche
29. The just killed octopus that still has its suckers going
30. Eel (even outside of sushi there are people who find this strange)
31. Frog ovary soup
32. Rooster comb
33. Chicken/duck head
34. Brains
35. Beating snake heart
36. Sea urchin
37. Marrow bones
38. Turtle
39. Jellyfish
40. Bear
41. Ostrich
42. Cow udder
43. Roadkill
44. Civet dropping coffee
45. Lamb or cow eye
46. Venison
47. Soft shell crab (another one a lot of people seem to have a problem with)
48. Barnacles
49. Geoduck
50. Beef tongue

Bonus round: Add an extra ten points for any animal’s anus.

I fail pretty miserably with 54%, and I made this test.