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alligator and I liked it.

do you mean chitterlings (chitlins)?
i've eaten every part of the pig-blood, snout, brains, intestine, stomach, kidney, liver, ears, etc. etc. except the penis, most of every part of a cow/calf, testicals of all kinds, various bugs, sea cucumbers, jellyfish, balut, natto.
but i'd eat all of them again. i can't think of one thing that i wouldn't.

hmmm. I'm not a big fan of sea cucumber. Theres a lot of seafood I've eaten and love. Sea cucumber is not one of those.

Limburger cheese. I love almost any cheese, but wow-- this stuff tastes like something that was scraped from the bottom of a foot somewhere, that's been partially pre-digested by someone else.

Other than that, there's nothing that I have tried that I wouldn't eat again. And I'll watch Andrew Zimmerman with my 10 year old and I can occasionally tell him, "oh year, I've eaten that-- it's pretty good."

Off the top of my head, sea cucumber and abalone.

Snake comes close -- but the one time we had it, my mother swears that it was prepared poorly, so I'd give it another try.

head cheese, mountain oysters and blood pudding

I've eaten an awful lot of wild things- elk, venison, rabbit, squirrel, boar, emu, ostrich, alligator, snake, rocky mountain oysters, etc. and odd things- head cheese (we made it), hog jowls, chitlins, heart, tongue and other offal, chicken feet, pork feet, etc., squid, oysters, abalone (a little tough), roe, fiddleheads, wild roots, puffballs, seaweed, haggis (better with lots of mustard)-- just a ton of odd foods. All were well prepared and return worthy.

Now sea cucumbers- bleh. .... not if I can help it.

avaryne, snake is so good when deep fried. and you definitely have to give abalone a second chance too. it can be really tough and rubbery if not done properly. but if done properly, it sort of tastes like the best mushroom you ever ate.

alligator is great. i like the cornmeal fried gator they serve at the gumbo pot at the grove in los angeles.

one thing i don't quite like is the sweet shrimp sashimi...it just has this weird creamy taste that makes me think it's gone bad.

Durian - I was sure I could do it, but it defeated me!

There are two things that I've eaten but will not eat again: snails and sea cucumber.

It's nice to see that I'm not the only one that doesn't like sea cucumber.

@neeki -- I'm definitely open to giving snake another try. Abalone is on my short list though; I've tried it more than once, both home-cooked and at Chinese banquet dinners, and I just can't do it.

Also echoing durian. It's not half-bad once you get past the smell and the slimy texture, but that's if you can. I can't.

snails. ugh.

Okay, so this isn't the wildest food, per se, but in my opinion the fact that it can even be called food is questionable. There will be some of you who hate me for saying this, but here goes--

SPAM!! My mom used to pan-fry it when I was a child, and I dreaded it every time. Eventually I was smart enough to hide it in the bottom of our pantry where she couldn't find it, and eventually she just gave up trying to serve it to me.

If 'wild' can mean crazy,unique, and slightly unpalatable compared to any other real food I would ever allow to touch my lips, than this is definitely a wild food. Bleh!

kmgagne - That half-formed egg thing is balut http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balut_%28egg%29

Sea urchin. Tastes like jello made with ocean water. The french love them.

I second the Spam/Treat!! Mystery meat in my book. And awful tasting!
The world would have to be ending before I would put it in my mouth!

Mountain oysters. They were on a buffet in Colorado and I tried them. Yuck! They were fried and breaded and tasted awaful.

When I was a child my mother used to buy head cheese and I ate it. But I didn't like it.

Bear. Thanks but no thanks, Brother Don.

@ lambowner - We did the same thing in Paris at a little creperie in St. Germain! :D

I had haggis in the Highlands, just outside of 'verness. Two servings. One must use the whiskey sauce liberally. Now I can say I've had it, and I don't plan to pursue it.

Tacos de chapulin -- made with fried grasshoppers. The legs were very spikey and sharp. Also, live scallops -- the muscles still rippled when the chef sliced it in half. It tasted good at the time, but now the idea freaks me out. One unusual thing I would eat again are duck tongues.

@masalha Thanks! I couldn't remember the name. Yes Balut, sick!

at platoforma churascurria in NYC they serve chicken hearts. Tried one, won't be trying one again. They're very tough and not particularly flavorful.

wasnt fond of stomach or tongue when I had them. I actually like durian, Im just not allowed to buy it :)