Late Night Discussion: What's The Weirdest Food You've Ever Eaten.

Well, I had this serious discussion with a girl I met last year from Benue Nigeria . She told me she can't kiss me if we were dating because I do eat dog meat.

Yea, you heard me right. I do eat that whenever I travel to the south. Now about three months ago, I wrote a post about eating a palm tree grub. Here is what it looks like

Or you might prefer the roosted one as this below
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So today it's about 12 midnight here and I stepped out to look at the night sky (I have been on the computer screen for hours), and I saw that this winged termites are out this cold night.

My memories quickly took me back to when I was a kid. We could fight one another to get a plate of winged termite. I don't know how you call it in your language but in Ibibio, it is called Ndubeh. This is how it looks like after it's been prepared

I know that to quite a lot of people some of these delicacies will sound weird to them especially when you put in cultural differences. But I am a man who eats everything except reptiles. I have traveled to most parts of Nigeria (traveled to 11 states last December alone), and each states have what they eat which others might find weird or taboo in some extreme cases.

So this night I want to mention some stuffs I have eaten which might be weird to others (the Ibibio names in bracket)

• [Palm Tree Grub] (Nten)(https://steemit.com/food/@lordjames/ever-eaten-a-palm-tree-grub-2018-03-14-16-15-44?sort=author_reputation), see photo above.

• Winged Termites (Ndubeh), (See Photo Above). As kids we usually stay the night to catch them when they leave the bush for the lights from our security lamp. Then, it is washed, dried, blown air through to remove the wings then fried.

• Dog Meat (Unam ewa).
  
  So sorry to those who says dogs are pet and shouldnt be eaten. But if you travel to Cross River, Ondo, Akwa Ibom and Plateau State in Nigeria. You will understand what it means to eat a dog. One of the best meat I have ever tasted.

• Frogs (Mfod)
  
  Note, I said frogs not toad. I can't taste toads. But, it's a common thing to eat most amphibians in southern Nigeria. So, I have had my own share of fried or roosted frogs.

• Periwinkle (Mfi)
  

I remember the looks on @joyce-okpobo and @godsnana faces when I first brought periwinkle to put in my afang soup. They thought I was going mad. When I started preparing it, all the children in the neighborhood in Nasarawa gathered to watch and ask questions. So I got to learn that this is a very uncommon sight in northern Nigeria.

I like sucking the periwinkle out of their shell. I guess that's where I learned to kiss.

• Snail.(Ekwong)
  
  I learned when I was about 5years, I kept everyone in the house searching for snail for me in the middle of the night because I cried and destroyed things in the house when my mum gave my snail to my sister. According to the story, I had rejected my own fried snail because I complained it was too small, my mum got angry and gave it to my sister. I cried all night and broke plates in the kitchen. I'm sure I got enough beating for the night but I also got a snail (in fact two).

• Iguana
  

Sometime ago in 2012 or 13, can't remember. I travelled to a Riverside in Port Harcourt, and the family I visited caught an iguana. I thought they will throw it away but instead they skinned it, roosted it and served to us. Everyone rejected but Oga James shifted the plate closer and did justice to it. I promised you, I can sell half my Steem to taste a plate of that again.

• Cricket (idiang): we used to dig it up from the holes when they disturb the peace in the night. We'll find one, roost it and have fun. But mum stopped us playing outside in the night so I can't really remember how they taste like. But I have not eaten and don't ever plan to eat cockroach or grasshopper.

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Now I have heard stories about alligator pepper soup and crocodiles stew. That's my next target.

So it's now your turn, tell us what would you consider the weirdest thing you've tasted.

To make it fun, I'll give just one Steem to whoever comment with what I'll consider the weirdest of all. So, let the fun begins

Disclaimer, most photos used in this write ups were just random pictures in my phone that I must have downloaded online. I do not own them or take credit for the photos.