I would say Olives. But I'm convinced that at some point in the coming years, when my taste buds have been all but wiped out by red wine, my 'Guardian-reader' gene will kick in and I'll have an epiphany and love them
But... after spending the morning in the cinema with the little binners who insisted on feeding me the god-awful stuff, it has to be popcorn. Sweet Jesus! Its bloody awful! Its like eating cardboard! Without the added interest bonus of ink. That would actually add to the experience in a positive way!
I haven't been able to eradicate the taste of the hideous stuff all day either. Despite repeated attempts with the the soothing taste-bud balm of strong continental lager. BLEUUUUURGH!!!!
Is there anything worse?
Lager?
Crab flavored sticks
I'd agree with you about 'cooking' lager
Marmite.
mushrooms
parsnips
I'm not sure on Olives. Every time they're offered up, I have to have a few to see if I like them and I'm still not sure if I do or not. It's a complex flavour and bits of it make me go 'mmmm' and other bits 'bleurgh'
Celery.
Nak Cheese.
peanut butter
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Marmite flicks the V's and runs 🙂
Well it's sort of food and some cooks do use lager batter for fish!
Marmite? Olives? Not even close.
Fermented prawn paste is pretty vile. You get it from Thai supermarkets (at least I did, until Tesco's closed them down).
I've only ever managed to smell Kimchee.
PIckled and sliced Goat's brain is pretty nasty.
My kids eat olives as if they were sweets.
I'd say parsnips. I will eat just about anything, but parsnips are the devil's chopper.
chocolate
Tripe.
My stomach curdles at the smell.
PIckled and sliced Goat's brain is pretty nasty.
And you were actually prepared to put that in your mouth? 😯
Cucumber - sent from hell to spoil perfectly good sandwiches.
If you look carefully, the horns of the devil are actually half cucumbers.
I once went on a business trip to Seoul, and there they cook fish in what seems like ammonia. Absolutely terrible and business protocol meant I had to eat the stuff. Simply hideous.
Roasted parsnips are fantastic. Put them in with a joint of lamb and leave to slowly caramelize.
Kimchi +1
You only have to read how it's made. 😯
Green peppers.
Totally agree with you about popcorn.
But it could be worse. My vegetarian friend is working in China and on a business dinner was offered, as the non-meat dish, pickled jellyfish. "It's more like a flower than an animal" was the claim.
"Sour" and "like biting an ear" in case you're wondering.
And you were actually prepared to put that in your mouth?
I was much younger, and visiting my sister in Greece with my (then) girlfriend. It was some kind of village festival. I think I was probably a bit drunk as well.
It looks exactly like you would imagine brain to look like, and tastes sort of soapy and generally nasty. I can't think what Hannibal Lecter saw in it, tbh.
Octopus in oil. The big suckers put me off.
What - and risk infecting a perfectly good roast lamb. Idiocy.
Marmite.
I'd rather suck a fart from a dog than go near it.
Oh no. Jellied eels. With skin and the bone. East end delicacy
Teetosugars - may i congratulate you on how perfectly worded that was. Its almost poetry 🙂
Marzipan.
peanut butter, honey, marmite, curry, chilli, yogurt, brown sauce.
hazelnuts - squirrelsh*t
mushrooms - I mean, mould???
prawns - worms with good PR
cockles,winkles etc - snot in a carry case. I daren't even try oysters
rusty trowel - curry? CURRY?!!!!! Are you insane?!!!!
[i]Cucumber - sent from hell to spoil perfectly good sandwiches.
If you look carefully, the horns of the devil are actually half cucumbers[/i]
Completely correct. 'But cucumber doesn't taste of anything' Yes it does, it tastes like fu**ing germ warfare!
Wasabi, Nothing that small should have that effect.
Overcooked from frozen peas. Like you got in school or the forces, they have a brown/grey tinge. Yeugh.
Love fresh properly cooked or raw peas though.
yep curry - stinking crap. Been to a curry house to be social twice in the last 20 years, had an omelette both times.
Liver
oh and after a recent medical assesment anything with gluten in cos it hates my guts, quite literally.
this thread is making me hungry
Squid pizza was pretty nasty
parmo's
chicken stuffed with cheese, drowned in cheese an garlic....with extra cheese on the side and a double portion of cheese.
no wonder theres so many salad dodgers in middlesbrough, home of the parmo
ooh, tough call.. chinese deserts are awful - especially the one of jelly with bits of sweetcorn. Was also once presented with a bowl of noodles that looked, smelled and tasted almost exactly like rubber bands. Couldn't physically eat them, needless to say..
But the most foul tasting food has to be DURIAN. It tastes like a combination of custard, onion and plastic bags.
Chitterlings (Think that's how you spell it)
I'll eat most stuff, but have bad memories of retching uncontrollably at primary school when being pressured to eat stewed prunes....
macdonalds - more like cheep drugs then food
there is not a single thing mentioned above that i do not like. i believe you all to be uncultured heathens. i mean come on! Durian is the greatest tasting fruit in the world . . . it just happens to be the smelliest as well
You like jellied eels?
I'm amazed.
Caviar. I mean, fish eggs...Really, people pay good money for this shit? Vile.
Liver.
Need to make sure it's still pink. Then it's delicious. Overcooked it quickly turns to leather.
Oysters
Raw. A squirt of lemon juice and fresh black pepper. Instant taste trip to the seaside. Fantastic.
stewed prunes
Had some once, high up in the Pyrenees. The only food my friend and I had was prunes, Emmental cheese (which had been sweating all day under a hot Spanish sun), bourbon biscuits, and fly-filled macaroni.
The prunes were easily the best part of that meal.
I'd rather eat my own internal organs than eat an oyster
taramasalata
or devil jizz
Feta cheese.
It has the taste and consistency of plasticine which has spent ten years at the back of a radiator.
I hate hate hate marzipan
I love curry and indian/ asian food in general
but I can't bare to evan try an indian sweet. we have lots of indian contractors at work and they bring them in sometimes. Without trying them i know they will be unbearably sweet and "wrong" somehow.
Feta Cheese - yeah but that's not "vile" it's just "tasteless"
Radicchio.
Mind-bendingly bitter raw (and you'd better wash your hands after handling it because the bitterness stays on your fingers) & (despite assurances from the cookbooks) not much better when cooked.
Andy
Its broccolli, just broccolli
I've never tried Indian sweets, despite living in Bradford district for nearly 30 years.
one day, maybe. But by the time I've had the samosas & pakoras, and the main course with naan, rice and/or chapattis, I'm too full for stupidly sugary things
swede. What's it [i]for[/i] exactly?
I think you'll find this site has some of the best:
[url= http://www.thesneeze.com/steve-dont-eat-it/ ]http://www.thesneeze.com/steve-dont-eat-it/[/url]
celery innit 😥
Marmite. It's engine oil that's been refined and had sugar added.
Oh, and Caviar. Biggest joke ever.
it has to be said i've tasted better stuff than fermented mares milk, the alcohol content didn't adequately enhance the experience
My mum must have done something right as there is very little on that list that I wouldn't eat or haven't eaten in the past (veggie these days). Not sure about the goat brains or tripe but that's probably just being squeamish. Durian was lovely once you got past the smell! My most unusual meal was in Singapore, being looked after by some locals we did not want to offend - a cook your own affair the highlights of which were char grilled frogs legs; a strange mollusc you boiled, chopped the tipped of the long shell off, sucked the "foot" out of the hole to create a vacuum, then sucked it back through from the other end; and some weird giant egg cured in horse's urine. Save the egg, it was all quite nice!
I've also caught and eaten squirrel on a survival course - went down like hot snot!
Were some of you one of those fussy kids that were a nightmare to feed at a friend's house?
mushrooms
Tripe. Own up. It's carpet underlay really isn't it?
2 pages and no-ones mentioned sprouts....****in' nasty!
Sprouts - the devils own bollox..taste like the are pickled in p1ss..****ing vile!!!
ben thats for you 😉
I put a packet of that microwaveable popcorn in the micro the other day. I got the setting rong and burnt the hell out of it. It kinda melded into a black plasticy lump. I can't get the smell of burnt popcorn out of my kitchen, doesn't matter ho much de-odouriser I use. It's bad stuff.
one from left field here, Spuds, in any variety or flavour, they make me hurl every time. Marmite is pretty vile too
Celery, and there I was thinking it was just me!
Snails or any mollusc type thing. And fish lips. Like spaghetti hoops for the seriously deranged
Taramasalata
Corned Beef
I'd rather eat my own internal organs than eat an oyster
Snap.
Yeuuuuch!!
I'll happily eat anything suggested on this thread up until now.. the one thing i will never, ever eat again is [b]sea urchin[/b]. Nasty, spongey goo that tastes like licking the seabed.. the buying recommendation for them isn't any better. "A fresh sea urchin has firm spines and a tightly closed 'orifice'."... so wrong and in so many ways.. ick.
Also, i've never had it.. but have been told by a couple friends that 'sazae' is shockingly vile.
[url= http://7evening.wordpress.com/2007/11/24/food-people-shouldnt-eat-sazae/ ]clicky for description of sazae[/url]
Okra. Cooked badly it looks and tastes like Satan's snot.
has firm spines and a tightly closed 'orifice
I used to date a girl who must have been related...
Beef dripping of if you prefer, Mucky fat. Anything with "mucky" and "fat" in the name has to be wrong.
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milk
klunk's link to Surstromming led on to this:
[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutefisk ]Lutefisk[/url]
I've had it once in Canada.. i didn't think it was too bad..
but here's a quote:
Interview with Jeffrey Steingarten, author of The Man Who Ate Everything (translated quote from a 1999 article in Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet):
Lutefisk is not food, it is a weapon of mass destruction. It is currently the only exception for the man who ate everything. Otherwise, I am fairly liberal, I gladly eat worms and insects, but I draw the line on lutefisk.
What is special with lutefisk?
Lutefisk is the Norwegians' attempt at conquering the world. When they discovered that Viking raids didn't give world supremacy, they invented a meal so terrifying, so cruel, that they could scare people to become one's subordinates. And if I'm not terribly wrong, you will be able to do it as well.
But some people say that they like lutefisk. Do you think they tell the truth?
I do not know. Of all food, lutefisk is the only one that I don't take any stand on. I simply cannot decide whether it is nice or disgusting, if the taste is interesting or commonplace. The only thing I know, is that I like bacon, mustard and lefse. Lutefisk is an example of food that almost doesn't taste anything, but is so full of emotions that the taste buds get knocked out.
Lemon grass, tastes like bleach 😥