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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.
That. Taste takes days to leave 🙁 and you are never 100% sure you haven't shit yourself it smells so badDurian
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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MEDIA1.TENOR.COM 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.
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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.