[Closed] Whats the most vile 'foodstuff' known to man?

Bananas, Peanut Butter, Mushy Peas (any processed ones really)and worst of all by a long way

Satans excrement aka Licorice

radish........... closely followed by celery. puke.

Most of the stuff in this thread is fine. I don't like things with a weird/slimey/slippery texture though. So that's all the odd seafood stuff out as well as jellied things. Worst thing I've actually had was squid rings in Barcelona. They still had the suckers on them :\

Tripe

Chitterlings (Think that's how you spell it)

I was coerced into eating some chitterlings once when I lived in a flat above a butchers' shop. They were quite nice actually, a bit like tongue or processed ham. The only thing to hint at their origins was a slight aftertaste of bile and poo...

There's lots of perfectly palatable food being listed on this thread. How would all the "I can't stand overcooked peas" people feel about eating something where maggots hit you in the face as you tuck in?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casu_marzu

I had the 'olive epiphany' a couple of years ago. Start with the fresh green ones.

Most vile foodstuff? Pickled eggs, without a doubt :gip:

Tripe +1000 - the texture of an old inner tube and a slight whiff of s**t 🙁

Goat's cheese. That musky, goaty stink I can pick out at ten yards. Even a trace can/will spoil a whole dish for me. It's a shame, I want to like it.

Another vote for mushrooms.

Also Branston type Pickle. I want to taste the food, not some revolting vinegar based crap (with lumps in)!
This goes for ketchup too (without the lumps)

[i]This goes for ketchup too[/i]

I've got the burning materials here, does anyone know where DezB lives? 😉

Most of the stuff listed on here isn't actually that bad, but I challenge anyone to eat boiled sea urchin and like it. It looks like grey sponge and has a bland taste at first that steadily becomes utterly vile. apparently it's a delicacy..ugh.

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All Yum. Mmmm

Just to add to last night's post - it's a cultural thing too. The folks who fed me some "interesting" food in Singapore came over here and we thought we would repay the culinary favour. As they ate some "weird shit" over there I thought they would be fine with our weird shit! You should have seen them gag when presented with a selection of stilton and a nice ripe camembert!

McDonalds and/or KFC. Mechanically recovered meat/sludge and deep fried battery hen respectively. I hate them both and would happily see every single one of their establishments burned to the ground.

Vile.

sobriety... I've had sea urchin sashimi before (at breakfast time!). It looks rank-tank 5000 and has an unappealing texture but actually tastes delicious.

[edit] at the time, my gf commented that it "looks like brown cats tongues"

Eggs!

Or Squid/Octopus masquarading as onion rings!! 😯

Some ghastly sounding stuff listed above, but i do like Jellied Eels, bit of vinegar all mixed in with that lovely jelly, good old chew and spit the bone out

Used to do my own when you could still buy live eels at the Pie and Mash shop,all wriggling about in metal pans outside the shop.

samuri - Member
This goes for ketchup too

I've got the burning materials here, does anyone know where DezB lives?

How to ruin a delicious bacon sarnie... add ketchup. Now where's the flavour of the bacon gone?? 😛

I think this thread shows how ruined so many people are in our society; there is so much good food mentioned here including some of my favourites - parsnips are lovely.

When I went to China I wanted to eat the strangest things I could find though eventually decided to stop that when I saw a chopped up dog's head.

Mechanically recovered meat/sludge

I had three of those bad boys over the weekend

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Just casting my mind back... I have no idea what the hell it was but we had a mystery-meat stew at a food market in Vietnam. It looked lovely but the meat component turned out to be truly ghastly. Whatever the creature was also had a suspiciously tiny little ribcage (smaller than a rabbit's). I don't really like to dwell too much on what it might have been!

Felt obliged to eat the lot as we were sitting right under the watchful gaze of the pho mamma 🙁

At a different place on the same trip, two gents at a table adjacent to ours shared a turtle for lunch (killed and grilled at their table). Part of the ritual was to each have a shotglass full of the turtle's blood as a litle amuse bouche before tucking in.

for scottish people of a certain age. potted hoch.

a dish so bad i'm not even sure that's how to spell it. my mum still eats it!

Oh yeah - I wasn't too partial to chicken's feet either.

Yeah, we had it in hong kong, i'd happily try it as sashimi as i love raw fish, but the boiling process clearly ruined it!

[i]McDonalds and/or KFC[/i]

Now I agree entirely on KFC, I was actually sick when my son convinced me it was eatable one time. Strangely I can quite happily handle a BigMac, albeit on a fairly rare basis.

+1 Celery closely followed by kidenys

I'm late to this party but I ahve to echo some sentiments.

1) This thread is making me hungry
2) Parsnips - the devils chopper indeed disgusting, like potatoes (yummy) dipped in cheap nasty perfume. Sick ughhh

Pears

Smash. I mean, why bother when the real stuff is only slightly more inconvenient to make and infinitely more tasty!

Any offal

Agreed, anything from Mcdonalds

leftyboy - Member
+1 Celery closely followed by kidney

Ditto plus liver, bleurrgh!

Mayonnaise. Devil jism.

Cucumber.

Food of the devil.

And I've eaten a lot of different 'stuff' over the years, calfs brain, sheeps eyes, jellied eel (for an alternative works Christmas meal!)

i cant help getting annoyed at people who say things like - "can't bare to even try an ...." - if you haven't tried it you have NO opinion of it.

Having worked in some pretty awful/odd places I have sampled the worst that China, Korea, Japan, ****stan etc can throw at me. However, the only thing that has made me properly bulk-up was roasted chestnuts at the Manchester Christmas market. Like eating warm rotten wood. Urgh.

cucumber, devil's food!

Whats the problem with liver?

OK, I'll accept that dry, boiled stuff that was served up in school with a bit of bacon on top (hands up who only ate the bacon) 😉

But you cannot compare that stuff (for want of a stronger word) to pig, duck, chicken or may personal favourite: Goose (fois gras with some fig jelly and a glass of sauternes, if you please my good man)

Home made mayonnaise. Yummm. Got to make some more.

Would be awesome with some roasted snarpips.

[ http://www.flickr.com/photos/ambrose_hearne/4666259934/url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A1karl ]Hakarl[/url]- fermented/ partially decayed shark flesh from Iceland.

It was so unbelieveably awful that I giggled my way through the two! bits I ate. The brennvin (caraway schnapps) that accompanies it was the only saving grace.

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To quote from the Wikipaedia article:
Chef Anthony Bourdain, who has travelled extensively throughout the world sampling local cuisine for his Travel Channel show No Reservations, has described shark þorramatur as "the single worst, most disgusting and terrible tasting thing" he has ever eaten.

Chef Gordon Ramsay challenged journalist James May to sample three "delicacies" (Laotian snake whiskey, bull penis, and hákarl); Gordon Ramsay then vomited after eating hákarl, although May kept his down. May's only reaction was "You disappoint me, Ramsay."[1]

On season 2's Iceland episode of Travel Channel's Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern, Andrew Zimmern described the smell as reminding him of "some of the most horrific things I've ever breathed in my life," but said the taste was not nearly as bad as the smell. Nonetheless, he did note that hákarl was hardcore food and not for beginners.

he did note that hákarl was hardcore food and not for beginners.

What? Babies?

Home made mayonnaise. Yummm. Got to make some more.

Would be awesome with some roasted snarpips.

Yuk! Don't get me wrong, I don't care if you want to eat mayonnaise. It's the unpublicised use of it in salads and sandwiches that offends - it's quite hard to avoid the stuff at times. Why can't it just be a condiment, that people add if they want to?

Been to a curry house to be social twice in the last 20 years, had an omelette both times.

meanwhile - haggis (sheep's heart, liver and lungs) is so vile a "foodstuff" that it's banned in America as "unfit for human consumtion"
Also anything served from an NHS kitchen - makes maccy d's look like the food of the gods - deep fried everything with extra lard.

If not already mentioned, roll mop herrings.

Vomit.

Me and the wife have a standing bet of £500 to the first person to eat one and neither of us has even bothered trying to win, despite the fact that we both like fish and seafood.

Wouldn't say I'm a big fan of sea urchin but its not that bad.

Can't stand those aged eggs you get in China where the white is translucent and the yolk is green. Makes me retch.

I couldn't bring myself to eat that fermented fish they have in Sweden. Smells like a decomposing body. They told me the taste is less awful, but I never found out.

sprouts

liver

asparagus

any tinned meet

liquorice

olives

Sweetcorn. It's the devil's work.

Avocado with prawn cocktail

Yoghurt

Forgot to mention - I was in Peru last month. I ate turkey testicles. They were not nice. I flatly refused the guinea pig, as they leave the face attached. It kept staring at me.

Liver = fois gras = Food Of The Gods

Amazed that [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casu_marzu ]Casu marzu[/url] hasn't been mentioned yet. Sounds scrummy.

Orange-flavoured energy gel.

I win!!, as if pickled Brussels sprouts weren't bad enough, hey have to go and call them frog balls!!!

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It's a wonder you lot are still alive, your all so picky. 😛

p.s. How can anyone not have eaten any type of curry?
p.p.s. How could anyone not like curry!? All the tastiest veg, meats herbs and spices in awesome combinations - what's not to like?

I live in China, so don't get me started...

But foods I can't eat...

Liver and Kidney, just gross...

miaowing_kat... DURIAN is just amazing... Michael Palin wrote, 'smells like him, tastes like her' 😉

Otherwise, it is anything that is processed.. just complete crap, except for a chocolate bar and a beer 😀

There's very little I wouldn't try. There was some relative of the durian which is even worse smelling that I couldn't even get near my face to try. Guy with me when we tried it ended up almost vomiting it back up as it tasted as bad as it smelled (and he likes durian).

meanwhile - haggis (sheep's heart, liver and lungs) is so vile a "foodstuff" that it's banned in America as "unfit for human consumtion"

The irony there is unbelievable!

+1 Coyote

travis - Aye, and other people say durian tastes more like "completely rotten, mushy onions" - it's absolutely gruesome!

You want unfit for human consumption, try these:

http://newworldorderreport.com/News/tabid/266/ID/3633/The-Most-Harmful-Drinks-in-America.aspx

Quorn.
Not only does it taste disgusting, or so I'm told, but they've got a virtual monopoly on supermarket distribution so that many people think it's what vegans eat, when it's not even vegan, it's got chicken periods in it.

Dead animals.

Had Sheep's eyeballs a few years back. Frickken wrong they were. Orrible.

You want unfit for human consumption, try these:

http://newworldorderreport.com/News/tabid/266/ID/3633/The-Most-Harmful-Drinks-in-America.aspx

Holy ****! 1.2 litres of milkshake?

As for worst foods, my vote goes to dessicated coconut and marzipan.

Marmite.

My initial offering of green peppers now seems pretty lame when pitched against foodstuffs described thus:

[i]Sterling silver should never be used in the cooking, serving or eating of lutefisk, which will permanently ruin silver[/i]

and

[i]Casu marzu is considered toxic when the maggots in the cheese have died. Because of this, only cheese in which the maggots are still alive is eaten.[/i]

and

[i]In addition, there is some risk of enteric myiasis, or intestinal larval infection. Symptoms include nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, and bloody diarrhea.[9] Piophila casei larvae are very resistant to human stomach acid and can pass through the stomach alive, taking up residency for some period of time in the intestines and causing stomach lesions and other gastrointestinal problems.[10][11] The larvae have powerful mouthhooks which can lacerate stomach linings or intestinal walls as the maggots attempt to bore through internal organs.[/i]

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Anything from the Little Chef or Mackie D,s pure filth in a plastic bun.

BigButSlimmerBloke cannot understand why a ****ry like the good ol' US of A would ban haggis made from the pluck (heart,liver,lungs).

Ask any quality butcher of the quality of these often unused parts of the sheep and they will tell you they are full of nutrients and really tasty parts of the beastie.

Haggis is delish end of.

Then again how can a country of 260 million plus fat blooters be wrong.
Living on a diet of doughnuts ,pizza and deep fried chicken ,tastes great but will kill you at forty paces, that is if they could waddle that far.