weirdest thing you ate on the trail

[elytis]

So I have been experimenting with foods that meet a few criteria over the past few days.

1) require very little prep or extra ingredients.
2) light weight and small
3) taste is decent

On this journey of mine I have tried many meals ranging from downright disgusting to surprisingly tasty. As I sat down and ate my pre-packaged garlic and parmesaen mashed potates with a can of tuna thrown in (suprisingly it actually wasn't bad at all) I thought to myself what crazy things people have thrown together and eatten while on the trail.

So I pose this question to you all...What is the weirdest thing you have eatten on the trail? Were you just so hungry it didn't matter what was in it or was it actually something you would eat again today?

Can't wait to read the responses!

[Spokes]

Where's Minnesota Smith and his canned dried squid when you need him?.........

[flemdawg1]

I inhaled a bug once.

[MyName1sMud]

Haven't hit the trail yet but while on a few different other trails... People always turn their noses up at my "power breakfast". It consists of 2 eggs (scrambled) but while you are scrambling the eggs... Dump a can or two of tuna in on top. Cook together.

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[max patch]

Back in the day I hiked about 300 miles with Taro, who is of Japanese descent. He shared some of his dried octopus and other food items with me and while I wouldn't call them "weird" they were certainly foods I had never had before.

The weirdest thing I ate was probably scrabble in Pennsylvania.

[kayak karl]

dog treats. got pockets mixed up.

[aaronthebugbuffet]

dog treats. got pockets mixed up.

Did you immediately notice or did you finish them all before you realized?

[kayak karl]

first one tasted funny, but i looked at the next.

somebody said scrapple is strange? we go to the Amish market every month to buy scrapple, sausage, liver, tongue and kidney

[rocketsocks]

I really don't have a problem with my foods touching each other,but I guess a chicken ramen noodle in a cup of coffee wasn't the brightest thing I've ever done,though it wasn't on the trail.

[Wise Old Owl]

I inhaled a bug once.

Thers a real man.... owns up and admits....wow!

Cooked some prawns from the trail I didn't have to catch them the heavy rains left them high and dry on the side of Hawk Mountain the next morning...

2nd place FD Peasant Omelet....ewwwe.

[rjjones]

Scrapple is an eastern PA thing.I believe it to be the #1 food for breakfast.But i'm from eastern pa and grew up on it.Now grits???

[Pony]

I got a mail drop in hanover that had a canned herring filet in it in a spicy tomato sauce. I threw in some zatarans jambalaya rice mix, peppers, onions, corn, carrots, peas. I was so excited, I thought it was going to be a gourmet trail meal. The fish taste was overpowering and ruined the whole dish. Disgusting. I was so hungry though that I ate the whole thing. About a quart and a half. The lesson is that if your girlfriend doesn't hike, tell her what to put in the mail drop or you'll wind up eating canned herring from the dollar store.

[Wise Old Owl]

Scrapple is an eastern PA thing.I believe it to be the #1 food for breakfast.But i'm from eastern pa and grew up on it.Now grits???

Nothing wrong with grits when its covered in Red Eye Gravy - and it contains....CAFFEINE!

[BigHodag]

I take a few packets of spicy dried squid on the trail for an afternoon morale builder.

While a common trail food throughout South Korea, most mee-gooks (Americans) would consider squid weird. While I wasn't all that fond of coming around a corner in a Korean national park and finding the trail running through a soju tent village selling souvenirs, hot snacks, and cold drinks, it was nice get some green onion pancakes and a spring cooled beer. Not unlike the hiker feeds in the GA/NC gaps.

[rocketsocks]

Thers a real man.... owns up and admits....wow!

Cooked some prawns from the trail I didn't have to catch them the heavy rains left them high and dry on the side of Hawk Mountain the next morning...

2nd place FD Peasant Omelet....ewwwe.

Yeah,I had a bud once,but I didn't inhale

[rocketsocks]

Yeah,I had a bud once,but I didn't inhale

that's bug,drats those pesky keys

[T.S.Kobzol]

Probably morning coffee filtered through my fleece hat.

[plurpimpin]

vegetable oil chugging contest halfway through a 2 week canoe trip in Minnesota... for the record I won

[GolfHiker]

Spotted Dick.... okay, it sounds funny, but it's a real British favorite. Tastes like custard. You do have to be careful how you describe this, but it's usually good for a chuckle.

[rocketsocks]

Spotted Dick.... okay, it sounds funny, but it's a real British favorite. Tastes like custard. You do have to be careful how you describe this, but it's usually good for a chuckle.

So where exactly did you see this spotty dick?