What is the strangest food I have ever eaten?

At first I thought this was a difficult question. I was wracking my brains, thinking of all the countries I have visited when the simple answer sprang to mind.

My wife is the eldest of twins. Her younger sister is very artistic, but a little odd at times. She has what I would call ‘creative spasms.’ Anyway, my wife and I were visiting her in Kyoto and I was meeting her for the first time. She picked us up from the station and drove us to her house, which is located in central Kyoto. This was when I met one of her ways of having creative spasms. She wanted to show us interesting parts of Kyoto so she drown down narrow alleyways, the wrong way up one way streets, through illegal entries and so on. All done at dangerously high speed.

My nerves were already shot by the time we arrived at her house. There, she informed us she had wanted to create a totally unique dish that no-one had ever eaten before. What she put in front of us was the weirdest combination of basil, natto, cheese pasta (?) and other things whose name we dare not speak. (I think I will call it Voldemort cuisine.) I politely struggled through to the bitter end, but my wife made no bones about stating it was horrible and only eating a couple of mouthfuls before giving up. Ever since that day they have barely been on speaking terms.

Food does, indeed, have the power to make or break relationships.