[Closed] What's the worst thing you've eaten?

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

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.

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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:
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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!

I won't order chickens' feet again. But I will eat your oysters and truffles and magic mushrooms for you.

Ugali, but to be fair most maize based dough stuff is not for me, Maasi blood and milk drink surprisingly ok.

When I lived in Taiwan there were times I was so happy I was vegetarian. One occasion was my first weekend there and my boss had arranged a barbecue for me and on the menu were grilled chicken feet and grilled chicken heads.. But even as a vegetarian there are some pretty disgusting things to try there. One such food is stinky tofu, a Taiwanese delicacy. I was also invited to a party and the host , knowing I was vegetarian, had prepared stinky tofu for me. The only way I can describe the taste is it is exactly like the smell of a pig farm! Seeing as the host had made this just for me it would have been rude not to eat it so I had to put on my poker face during every mouthful as the hosts were eagerly watching my every reaction. The taste was in my mouth for days afterwards. Strangely enough quite a few months later another situation arose where stinky tofu was placed in front of me but this time I actually quite enjoyed it and it became one of my favourite dishes when eating out!

For flavour Hakarl just edges it over Surstromming for me. Silkworm pupae (beondegi) was pretty horrid too.

I'd sooner eat all 3 again over sannakji however.

broad beans
parsnips

whilst I have come across several revolting so-called foods mentioned in earlier posts (andouillette, surströmming, etc.), they look/smell so vile that I wouldn't dare let them pass my lips.

oh and the "fruit juice" and also the dumpling things for breakfast when I was in Russia. they were not exactly pleasant. had to pretend I was 5 and pinch nose whilst eating them.

Oh hang on:

Biscuits and Gravy, in the southern parts of USA. Not so much how bad it is, but using the names of nice things then serving up such a bowl of disappointment.

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Chicken feet are actually quite tasty, although best to have a couple of drinks beforehand the first time so that you can relax a bit and focus on the taste, not the appearance.

Offal is disgusting. Liver, kidneys, intestines, tongue, brains, etc. No idea why anyone thinks that should be sold as food.

Liver.

tripe, chicken's feet ('walkaways'), andouillette, lemon curd

Kimchi

Crocodile, at The Carnivore restaurant in Nairobbery. Bony, gristly, pale coloured lumps that tasted like chicken and pork gone rancid.

Gari , igusi soup on a locals only supply boat in eg

Foomshe (basically gari)

Anything served by the centril catering company in Angola

Bbq Sheep's testicle..... (A delicacy and an honour when the head of fimily presents it to you in Turkmenistan ) so no backing out when the whole family looking at you

It tastes exactly as you would imagine.....and a bit like a cross between a warm oyster. And an olive.

And chall. Fermented camels milk...boak.

Just about everything I ate in Zambia. We were on a school exchange thing so ate a people's houses. Everyone else got beers and westernised food. I got to be adventurous. The fried caterpillar would be OK hot with chilli but cold and soggy nope. I really like whiting but the tiny fresh water fish there were dried in the sun, tasted liked dried rotten fish. And there's no way to have cassava that makes it palatable. They stopped a bus to get me some roast cassava, everyone else dropped it out open windows I had a full bus waiting for my outward signs of enjoyment.

Sounds a bit off because it's a poor area of a poor country but...

The fat and sugar vomit bomb that is this ..

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Sprouts..

Had onhundrethidiot gari is cassava root mixed with flour.

Think foomshe is too

Andouillette, eaten whilst on a company junket to Le Trait in France. Not to be confused with its weakling cousin Andouille, Andouillette to put it bluntly reeks of turd. It's a sausage comprised mainly of a pigs lower intestine and colon. The smell became apparent whilst it was still 20 feet away. I should have listened to the warnings 😀

Truly gag worthy.

Fox

Unicum.

(Not the type that comes out of students).

Marmite

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Offal is disgusting. Liver, kidneys, intestines, tongue, brains, etc. No idea why anyone thinks that should be sold as food.

"this piece of dead animal is delicious!"

"How about this piece an inch to the left?"

"What are you, insane?"

Andouillette 4th'd.

Stayed in a little b&b in France and the owners suggested I order the local speciality at the village restaurant. "Very kind of you to recommend something" I said, little knowing they were probably pissing themselves with laughter.

Smells like poo, tastes like it smells, and has the texture of a burnt balloon. Rank.

Mushrooms. Everything about them is vile. I've tried over the years, but still the one thing I cannot eat and now never will. Even a slight trace of the flavour in a pie or something is disgusting to me. The texture is even worse.

When I was a student, a housemate and I found a pig uterus in the frozen food section at the local chinese supermarket. We defrosted it, opened the bag and were overwhelmed by a smell of ammonia and rotting pork, I think we attempted to cut it up and cook it but the smell was that bad it has affected my memory of what happened next.

Worst thing I actually ate is a tie between wither moussaka or pacific pie.

Marmite.

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My girlfriend stuffed it inside a chicken breast for tea one night without telling me, when I got to that bit I spat it straight out and accused her of giving me a rotten chicken.

I've tried a few weird and wonderful foods but nothing has ever come close to tasting as bad as that vile stuff 😆

The devils chug-nuts...

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Liver, kidneys

Marmite

Sprouts

seeing that cheese stuffed in meat post above...
did accidentally get the wrong sausages in Germany once. they had cheese running down the middle of the sausage in a vein.
nfw was I eating that after it ejaculated the moment I tried to cut into it.

Fried tarantula in Cambodia. Burnt to a crisp and very, very greasy.

I see an Asian theme running through the answers here. Let me make my own contribution - sea cucumber. Not so much the taste, even though it's a bit horrid, but more the consistency which resembles what I imagine a slug is like to chew.

I ordered andouillette for my wife off a French hotel menu when we were younger.

My steak was yummy. 😀

The devils chug-nuts...

Binners, are you still desperately trying to play down your middle-class metrosexual credentials? 🙂

Team Xmas meal at a Brewers Fayre

+1 magic mushrooms!! However the resulting effect was worth gagging them down

Uni (Sea urchin) sushi.

Yeah, there very little food I avoid, but I wouldn't be in a mad hurry to try that again. Like wee hairy bogies.

Some 'Chinese' 'food' in Burundi, made by someone who'd obviously never had the real thing !

Whatever it was I ordered in the Brecon Tandoori. It bore no relation to any Indian, Anglo/Indian, co-op ready meal or even a 1960's vesta curry at all.

Fried tarantula in Cambodia. Burnt to a crisp and very, very greasy.

To be fair that's more a comment on bad cooking? For instance I once purchased a doner kebab that was like peppery, bitter, weird-tasting boot-leather steeped in a glass-full of (cold) recycled/burned-tasting oil. Vomitous, and definitely one of the worst thing I've eaten. But my local kebabier (sp?) OTOH makes a divine one.

I'd have to try 'nicely-cooked tarantula' in order to comment further 😉

arrpee:

Like wee hairy bogies.

😆 From where do we order these?

it has to be ayahuasca. the most disgusting tasting thing available to mankind.

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