To go back to the first post - sweetbread is either the thymus or pancreas.

I have eaten alpaca and elvers. Elvers are baby eels which have just entered the river. It was a long time ago and I think they were the size of a large thick needle. They were fried with egg.

Funny, that's kinda the way I feel about maple syrup...

Dulse? Dulse! It's dried seaweed, and the very best dulse comes from Grand Manan Island. When I was a child, it was sold in little packages just like potato chips. Besides being a very tasty treat, it is a natural source of iodine, and prevents goitre.

It is a lovely deep purple colour, crispy, and very, very tasty.

My local supermarkets (here in Fredericton, NB, Canada) sell it, as do the health food stores.

Maybe you have to live here to get it. LOL

Arcane & the D'Dog (I don't do dulse, but a bit of lobster. . . .)

I've eaten dulse when i was in the Maritimes, but I don'e think it can be found, or not easily, in the interior. Very salty, Skunkee, but tasty.

Sounds interesting.
I was in that part of the world last summer (we actually cruised right past Grand Maman). I wish I'd have known about it then, I would have tried it!

I heard about someone who was hosting exchange students from Africa. The young people were eager to learn all they could about Canada and our customs, but there was one thing they could not get their nerve up to try: GIANT INSECTS! It turned out they meant crabs and lobsters which their host was serving as a special treat. So there you go, one person's delicacy is another one's "fear factor".

I remember hearing a description of a traditional English breakfast. This bits I remember are -
Secretions from a cows gland - milk
Bird embryos - eggs
Grass seed ground up with added fungus - bread (yeast is a fungus).
Bee vomit - honey.

Also you would not want to eat shrimps & prawns if you think about what they eat.

Not so much something weird I've eaten but an amusing story of eating something which would not ordinarily be consumed. Drunkenly stumbling back to a friends house after many beers enjoyed whilst sitting on the beach playing guitar and havin a bit of a sing, I discovered that I was extroadinarily hungry and thus asked my friend for something to eat. He then heated me up a pie which he handed me on a plate and told me it was steak, I scoffed it down all the while thinking it was a little tough. After finishing my mate sat there smiling at me for a while then burst into a giggling fit screaming "You just ate ostrich pie!"
Having eaten it I wasnt actually that irked by this comment until the next day when he was wandering around for the majority of it singing "I, ate ostrich pie, for the very first time. I cant deny it, I ate ostrich pie" to the tune of P.O.D's "Alive". Needless to say vengeance was swift!

The least ordinary food I've eaten is frog legs and stewed goat. But I'd love to try Swedish hash, after reading the book "Hash" by Torgny Lindgren. Has anyone read the book or eaten Swedish hash?

I've tried cow tongue in a taco before. Mexicans eat it all the time, and since my husband is Mexican, he made me try it. Kind of flavorless with a weird texture. I didn't try the cactus though and they eat that too!

Haggis and things in China that I don't want to know about.

Haggis & Prairie Oysters