I had skipped over this thread until today. That may have a been a good thing or a bad thing.
You're all making me happy my kids haven't come up with any to gross they just have to have yet (except anything with peanut butter in, on or around it. I know people really like, I've never been able to stand it. I don't know why).
We used to eat squirrel. It was better than starving (the other option we had at the time) and Mom simmered it in a milk/cream sauce to pull out most of the gamy "rat" flavor. We tried to only use the .22 to kill squirrels though, Mom hated to dig out pellets.
The big delicacy in our house was beef brains. Breaded and fried in lard/butter. Smother a piece of bread with fresh butter and fill with brains like a taco. It was delicious!!
The amazingness of brains was soon offset by plates full of chicken livers. They are better fresh (never frozen) but that doesn't mean they are ever very good.
Mom was half English-Irish/half German. It lead to a few strange meal customs. I don't ever remember a meal without potatoes, ever... to this day and I just turned 46.
Paul