Watching Travel Man in Hong Kong and some of the food looks rank.
The worst I’ve had to eat is salt beef in Newfoundland. This comes in a bucket and is basically fat with a teeny bit of meat. Bloody awful.

Durian.

Oh, and market food in HKG is delicious, even the more esoteric offerings!

swordfish vindaloo, made by a family member who thinks he is a culinary god. it was rank.
5 of us threw it away and ordered kebabs.

A tomato.

Uni (Sea urchin) sushi.

Bleuuughhhh.

Hakarl- even typing the word brings back the ammonia smell and taste

cauliflower

Shiokara runs hakarl close.

Durian

That. Taste takes days to leave 🙁 and you are never 100% sure you haven’t shit yourself it smells so bad

Not eaten but drunk, half a bottle of Insignia Rio when I was a teenager. Did it for a bet.
It didn’t stay down for very long but I could taste it for days…

Has anyone on this forum eaten Humble Pie 😀

Tough choice between deep fried butterfly pupae and spicy intestine stew. Both in South Korea. Interesting place, With going just for the kimchee.

Cauliflower Cheese

Andouillette, truly disgusting.

Oysters,

it’s just someone’s cold salty snot IMO.

Truffle, I know it’s a delicacy but it I actually gag if I eat it

honestly… oysters !!..gurh 🙁

The Carribbean chicken the wife made once, she thought putting 3 times the amount of rum in it would add to the taste.
The only meal I have ever thrown away in 24 years of marriage !

That includes having had several local delicacies from several trips around Asia sampling several delights !

A cornish pastie with a cigarette butt in it. 43 years ago but I still can’t even look at a pastie without remembering the taste.
A very close second is avocado

Trout.
Never tried cod roe, oysters, caviar…but then why would you?

A deep pan pizza from a takeaway in Penrith circa 2002. I was a bit drunk but ate it and threw up. Still have vivid memories of the pools of fat sloshing about on top of it. The plastic cheese. Bleurgh.

Surströmming..
Beyond vile.

Yer maw!!

A pigs bum hole pizza in France. Basically a pigs intestine on a pizza. It smelt like sh** and tasted like sh**.

I thought it was sausage but in that part of France, they use that word for an intestine Sausage. My kids still laugh about it. 😯

Magic mushrooms, no contest.

Revels.

Gizzard salad. Rank!

Louise

Ed’s Easy Diner just awful food.

What’s with the hate for cauliflower? I love the stuff – I even eat it raw as i’m preparing it for Sunday roasts.

For me – duck cassoulet. Was violently sick after eating some supermarket tinned stuff in Morzine a few years ago and the thought of it still makes me want to gag.

Or anything from Subway naturally.

A 20yr-old goth with ‘creative’ personal hygiene.

And any Pot Noodle that isn’t labeled ‘Chicken and Mushroom’.

Trout.
Never tried cod roe, oysters, caviar…but then why would you?

Because I like seafood. And trout. Especially trout.

I once bought (or got my mum to buy) tinned snails from a Spa on the Cardigan Bay coast maybe thirty years ago. They were hideous.

Tequila.

Utterly gross. I’d sooner drink ethanol..

Food wise.. Not sure, I tried a Brussels sprout after decades of mental scaring, it just tastes like cabbage. Whatevs.

I still have issues with parsnips though, they are just not nice.

Which is weird as I like sea food like muscles and clams, and big ass prawns.
I’ve had snail once, I wasn’t repulsed by it but I didn’t particularly like it.

So to summerise, parsnips are the worst thing I’ve ever eaten.

A chilli from a roadside market in Thailand. I’ll never forget that burning sensation and the second burning sensation about three hours later……

Langue de boeuf

On an oil rig off the coast of Congo, run by Total so everything is in French. There were two things on the menu, one of which I can’t remember but didn’t understand and the above. I knew boeuf was beef so went for that. It arrived like this:

I’m sure it was raw. It was cold. It had the stringy bits at the throat end where it had been cut out.

Not one to shy away from the “exotic” I gave it a go but the fact that I could feel every single taste bud on that tongue as I chewed ended it for me. Tasted exactly like you would imagine it does.

Pork scratchings

When I was in Almaty on business we had a sheeps head platter on a bed of camel and horse meat.

I’m sure it was raw. It was cold. It had the stringy bits at the throat end where it had been cut out.

Not one to shy away from the “exotic” I gave it a go but the fact that I could feel every single taste bud on that tongue as I chewed ended it for me. Tasted exactly like you would imagine it does.

😀

To think that British cuisine gets a bad rap from the French!