What was described, we think, on a Basque menu as Ham Hock. Mmmmm, hammy porky goodness...
Was a pile of gelatinous gloop, nothing more. It wasn't actually mine, but MsJimmy's, and even sitting opposite watching her tackle it I was gipping.
The incredibly well named
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Chicken livers are quite nice and I had duck hearts at a restaurant the other day and they were exquisite, seafood is all good and roe/caviar is fine also if a bit overrated
overcooked sprouts are awful because when done well they are great
Andouilette - one swallowed mouthful was enough, didn't taste that bad but repeated on me for ages - I know a bloke who had it with all his work mates in the Airbus canteen thinking it was sausage then had to sit through a 3hr meeting reeking and burping 😀
Durian fruit got as far as my hand towards my mouth and I said no. took 3 days to get the stink off my fingers (and that included a day or so of scuba)
Olives! Binners I is disappoint..
Beetroot..bloody awful stuff
Semolina..no,just no,
Angel delight.. the taste of artificialness
These Costco protein bars don't really rate on the scale of disgust that things such as tripe and liver exist on, but they were intensely disappointing. The pale ones are "Cookie Dough" flavor, which is just what they taste like. Turns out that raw flour actually tastes pretty vile. I figured that cookie dough tastes much better if you bake it, so I tried toasting one until it was smoking slightly. It did improve the taste, but it still sucked. The chocolate ones were slightly less horrid, not really pleasant to eat, but nicer than raw cookie dough. That experiment accounted for 2 bars out of a box of 20. I tried giving the others away at work, but word soon spread how vile they were and nobody would eat them.
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Wet, earthy magic mushrooms out of damp newspaper, very gippy experience but I soon got over it 😯
My sister's liver and bacon casserole, made when at school. Even the dog turned its nose up.
Fish and chips on Brighton pier and cheese n onion crisp-flavour chocolate (yes, it does exist!!??)
Whilst Harkal was hideous I was expecting it to be grim...
A far worse experience is whan something that should be at least fine turns out to be vile... for example the Lasagne that I was served in New York that was constructed using about a kilo of Philadelphia cheese or the rogan in Barmouth that was some unidentifiable meat product and gravy .... getting something made by findus from a corner shop would have guaranteed a better dining experience
Durian Pizza or Duck Feet the Webby bit is so tough to chew. I never tried it but Elephant trunk clam looks well like a clam with a penis Google it....
+1 magic mushrooms!!
They arent that bad, you just have to cook them and drink the "juice/soup" dont need to eat the actual mushrooms.
My mate recons he can make a decent tasting soup with them
Nothing that’s really exotic or unusual.
My top 3.
A ‘banana’ energy gel that came free with a mag, it was akin to biting the head off a slug and sucking out the guts, a slug that had perhaps once been shown a banana from the other side of the road once.
A packet of salt that had been dropped into a packet of chips in a KFC style place I chewed whilst drunk and threw up. I don’t like salt as a rule and eating a teaspoon of it in a single hit wasn’t great.
Not eaten per-se, but a long course of IV anti-biotics in hospital, as first I could feel it in my stomach, after a few days I could taste it in the back of my mouth, truly awful, it could have be all in my head, but the sensation was real and even now it makes me feel ill.
Probably stilton.
I'm not well travelled, and I don't like stinky cheese.
Oysters are fine though, had some a few weeks ago for the first time. I wasn't paying.
That Andouilette looks pretty nice, but doesn't sound too appetising.
Even the dog turned its nose up.
that reminds me. A chip shop in St Andrews (now changed hands) did the most vile red pudding supper. Eating it at the harbour, took one bite and didn't want any more so lobbed it in the general direction of a bin. Missed, a gull swooped down, grabbed it, took a bite and dropped it. Food's pretty sh1t if even the gulls won't take it.
I ate some weird tasting food whilst visiting a customer in Japan including fish intestines and fish eyes.
The worst food i have ever eaten though was a cornmeal scone. I cannot describe the taste but i could not even finish what i had in my mouth.
Sea urchin gonads are glorious. Best consumed straight after being collected - I mean whilst I'm still treading water. Purple loveliness 😛
Not really a taste thing but in 1980 I ate a contaminated ham sarnny and contracted salmonella, unconscious for 3wks and 6wks before clear of infection and 3st lighter..... 😥
Next incident was a works night out at the local curry house. First forkful and my mouth was on fire!!!!!
Andouillette plus lots.
Ordered it in burgundy on holiday a couple of years back. Had a vague idea it was some kind of offal sausage. I like offal.
Attractive waitress - “you do know what this eez?”
Stupid Englishman (me) - “of course!”
Attractive waitress places shrivelled, rubbery, fetid pigs bowel on the table. Stupid English manages about half, in attempt to save dignity. Stupid Englishman is nauseous.Stupid Englishman’s wife is horrified and amused in equal measure.
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.
...assuming this also refers to andouillette that's three times it's come up, as it were, and I'll make that four. Luckily we were dining out doors (in Brittany) so I chucked mine into a bush. I'm not proud.
I'm not squeamish and love tongues, tails, liver, kidneys etc (I should go back to being veggie but hey), but jesus christ the smell of shite as you try to eat is just a bit much. That said I'm now remembering testicles in turkey...
Worst meal was something my wife ordered in Venice. Squid cooked in its own ink with pollenta. Sounds okay but really wasn't. Blacker than vantablack [img] https://goo.gl/images/eZ4imv [/img], something transit of the human gut did nothing to dispel.
Gherkin in brine
Not really a taste thing but in 1980 I ate a contaminated ham sarnny and contracted salmonella, unconscious for 3wks and 6wks before clear of infection and 3st lighter.....
Next incident was a works night out at the local curry house. First forkful and my mouth was on fire!!!!!
TBH, 3 weeks sleep and 3 stone weight loss sound great to me right now 😉
I’m sure it was terrible, nearly lost my Mum to salmonella in the 90s, 6 weeks in hospital and surgery to remove part of her gut.
I'm going to say olives. Not because they're so awful, because they're definitely better than bloomin grasshoppers, but because they're insidious. They sneak their dirty foreign ways into all sorts of good honest dishes and corrupt them
Good grief there's some city-slicker-grade poncense evident within this thread 😉 You know who you are!
Oh my god, the scene in question is on channel four as we speak. Oh my god.
shakers97 - MemberTeam Xmas meal at a Brewers Fayre
Jesus, you've crossed a line there
Sheep's brains and something in Singapore that I am now off on Google to find.
http://www.seriouseats.com/2013/04/singapore-stories-ice-kachang-ais-kacang-malaysian-shaved-ice.html this a slushy with sweetcorn yellow beans and gunk.
Whole raw octopus.
Unicum here too - bloody awful Hungarian spirit.
Egg mayonnaise butty from the pound bakery today. Bollocked the wife for even going in there
Not an adventurous eater so anything fishy, even a squid ink appetiser.
I think the one horrible taste that comes to mind is of a 9V battery that my brother got me lick one time.
I'm very impressed by some of the crazy s##t you guys are willing to put in your mouth though.