"Gross" Things I've Eaten

I saw this clickbait post on weird foods and decided to put up a post with a list of some of the unusual things I've eaten along with my impression. 1) Sheep's Head: It's in the list, but I didn't think it was weird at all. It's delicious, if a bit tedious to eat. Last time I had it at Union Republic in Jersey City at about 2:00 am during a drunken after hours party. It was great. 2) Balut: A perennial favorite on lists of gross foods, balut is awful looking but actually tastes great. Basically, it's egg and duck, both widely eat and enjoyed. In this case, you just happen to eat them together and the duck is also tiny (and you eat the bones, head, beak and feathers). YUM. 3) Fried scorpion: Verdict, not great. Tastes a bit like fried soft shell crab, but without any of the meat. And I have a mild insect phobia, so this was a tough one. 4) That thai liquor (is it vodka? I don't even know) with a dead snake in it. It was fucking gross. It smelled and tasted like rotten snake, unsurprisingly I guess. There is no upside. It's just ruined booze. Thanks for nothing Kevin Kamel. 5) Chicken feet: Overrated. Sorry chinese people, these just aren't good. It's basically just trying to gnaw mushy chicken skin off a foot. just because you can cook something doesn't mean you should. 6) Durian fruit: I had some once and it was basically unmemorable. And yeah, it stinks, but not quite so much as they say. 7) Crickets (and also chocolate covered grasshopper): They served it in a bar in brooklyn as a kinda of bar snack in bowls on each table. They also had it ground up with spices to salt the rims of some of their cocktails. eh. it was fine i guess. i'll take cashews next time though.