A friend of mine once severed his finger (work accident, using a saw to cut some wood and he was eyeballing it, must not have been paying attention) and tried to get it re-attached. They put it on ice but he was being paid under the table and didn't have insurance at the time and I guess he didn't want to hassle with it? I'll be honest, we were both just out of high school, on our own in an apartment for the first time, and maybe took a little more recreational medication than we should have at that point in our lives.
Regardless, the finger was done for. We thought about just throwing it out but that seemed kind of pathetic. Besides, we didn't want somebody to find it in our garbage (in retrospect, these are both horrible reasons).
Considering this a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, he thawed the "meat", cut it from the bone in strips, and threw it on a frying pan.
It didn't take long and it seemed to bubble up as it fried (I don't know what caused this). I think he overcooked it because there was only enough for a taste afterwards and it was extremely rough and had turned black.
I didn't even get through my one piece, and ended up spitting it out into the sink. It kind of tasted the way a dog smells after it gets a bath. I really can't think of a better way to describe it.
Oh, also, he got a horrible infection in that hand later on. And he stole my couch when he moved out.