Squirrel. A few days ago. I caught them myself, out on the mountain. I boiled them in melted snow. I will be honest. They were not tasty. But I guess they were nutritious, at least I hope so! I ate the meaty part of the critters, did not eat the testicles (I know, I know, wasted opportunity!) or the brains.

That's about as weird and paleo as a gal can get!

Steak tartar (dijon, onion, olive oil). Nothing too fancy, was very good though! I'll definitely have it again.

I used to live in China, so I've eaten some crazy stuff, and come to think of it most of the really weird shit qualifies unambiguously as paleo (aside from the vegetable oil it is often cooked in). So: bee larvae (in an omelette; delicious, tastes faintly of honey), large, stinging wasps (stir fried; very warming qi), deer penis soup (broth made from testicles), every kind of organ imaginable (most memorable: quartered pig brains in hot pot), whale (braised meat, cured blubber and raw meat with wonderful streaks of fat; in Japan; remarkably good, particularly the blubber), snake (with blood and bile served on the side) ... not sure what I'm forgetting ... silk worms ... I had the opportunity several times to eat scorpion and passed.

The only thing that I truly refuse to eat is dog, and my rationale for this rule was paleo before I knew what paleo was. I had a little speech I gave every time someone suggested that I eat it: dogs co-evolved with us, and as a species they are our friends and have helped us hunt since before the dawn of time, and so killing and eating a dog is equivalent to killing and eating a person. Although if my kid was starving I would no doubt think otherwise.

As to whether I would recommend eating weird stuff - why not? Eating shouldn't be boring, right?

Crocodile, silk worms, and ostrich. The two meats prepped at a restaurant, the silk worms by myself. All tasty.

Calf´s kidneys, sheep brain and some udder. All in oldfashioned bavarian restaurants. First 2 great but udders are ... strange ;). I would give roasted insects and grilled snake also a try. But those are not available in Europe.

Stingray, prepared in a restaurant with a "relish" of baby shrimp and some minced vegetables. The consistency of it is like a cross between eating chicken and well-done steak. I can't say it's the most delicious thing I ever ate (or terribly fulfilling, for that matter) but it wasn't the worst, either.

Antelope... at a restaurant in Los Angeles (very good, not gamey). Snails and frog legs, at a different California restaurant.

I don't consider it unusual, but some of you would: chit'lins (chitterlings, boiled pig intestines) and chicken feet.

Both taste quite good, though chit'lins have a distinctive smell that I've never gotten used to.

Smoked reindeer heart.

Whale sashimi.

Rattlesnake in a restaurant and

Roasted grasshopper at an ethnic display.

Neither one killed me, but neither one is my favourite food.

PS Chicken feet at a Chinese dimsum restaurant- we saw kids clamouring over this dish so we got a plate. They are better in chicken stock than to eat in sauce!

Being a sissy, I skipped dog meat (family issues) but bat and forest rat made it and from eating them I've learned why they're not staples anymore. Not only is the taste excessively earthy to a refined palate like mine, there's also very little meat on them so given the choice between spending a tiresome day clubbing forest rats and a few hours spearing a sizable bovine of some sort, I know which would be the sensible choice for a paleo hunter who values his time.

In "How the mind works" Stephen Pinker suggest that this is exactly how food taboos against small rodents, insects and, possibly, shell fish came about: they're just not worth the effort.

Unless you're really, really hungry.

Or unless it's really, really tasty, I guess. If you can get over the idea that you're eating something that has an inordinate number of frighteningly segmented legs, fried grasshoppers are actually quite a decent snack food. Kind of reminded me of the small dried fish they eat in SE Asia.

I recently ate a Balut egg, which is a fertilized duck or chicken egg. I got it from my Vietnamese friends. I hard boiled and ate it with some lime juice and salt and pepper. It was quite an experience, it looked awful but tasted quite good. I would recommend it to anyone adventurous.

um, barbecued guinea pig in south america (peru to be exact). it was delicious.

I tried some raw canned pumpkin the other day, and it was nasty. i nearly threw up. i was trying to make "paleo pancakes" but then i decided it wasn't worth the weird taste. i just like my food simple.

Sausage made with fresh pig's blood. And it was fabulous!

I make cow heart shishkabobs (you have to trim the tendons and all that, if not it's almost unbearably chewy) Peruvian style sauce (They're called Anticuchos, and my grandma was the best at making them). I don't have teh sauce recipe on me now, but it should be easy to find and hack. They are really good, and you grill them til they're a little charred but still tender. Delicious!

I live in Miami, too, so I've gone and had alligator tail, alligator burger patties. Cow brain meat patties are also surprisingly popular and definitely delicious! Of course, so many Argentinians here that offal is always readily available and definitely delicious.