A Japanese food/game show puts local celebrities to the test by getting them to guess whether items are edible or not.

SOME of us may have tried it out of curiosity, others by accident after a few beers.

And then there are those of us who have eaten dog food because our siblings may have forced us to.

But food blogger Colin McQuistan had none of those excuses and simply decided to try the animal food just for the heck of it.

And while pet food clearly warns on the label that it should not be eaten by humans, Mr McQuistan was determined to try it. The good news is he lived to tell the, er, tail.

The Scotsman, who is no stranger to using weird and wacky ingredients in his cooking, visited his local Tesco supermarket looking for tinned tomatoes when he came across a packet of Purina DeliBakie Dog Snacks.

The author of myfoodeeblog said he was curious what they tasted like and tried one which he described as “disgusting” and “bland” but with a background flavour of meat which is “strong, overpowering, sinister and evil”.

He was then on a mission to try to make the dog treat edible.

Mr McQuistan, who began his food blog as part of a one-man protest against food snobs, is prepared to cook and try anything within reason.

The IT freelancer asks his Facebook followers for tips and suggestions to cook up and posts the results up on his blog and aims to prove any food can be edible.

This has ranged from cat food and grass to toothpaste and even fish food.

But his latest challenge — to make dog food edible — was among his toughest, and proved not all food is quite that easy to swallow.

So what did he do?

A Facebook follower suggested he make something similar to hobnobs, a popular British biscuit.

He began by crushing the treats into a bowl and adding a random amount of sugar and butter.

Mr McQuistan then transferred it to biscuit moulds and set his “professional chef’s oven” to 180 degrees for around 20 minutes.

The result?

A clear failure.

“The sugar and butter have done well to mask the strange meat flavour, and to begin with they just taste like sweet biscuits,” he writes.

“But sure enough, after a few moments you are hit with that strange taste and I feel quite ill. Having said that, they taste better than the original treat.”

It wouldn’t be the first time Mr McQuistan has had a food fail with animal delights.

Last year, he made a cat food stir fry which was horrendous and even tried making fish food fit for human tastebuds.

More recently, he posted a hilarious entry detailing the delightful and not so delightful aspects of food at 40,000ft when flying from London to the US, which he admitted he was pleasantly surprised by.

Moral to the story? Don’t eat dog food. Such a simple but valuable lesson.