What is the most awful food you have eaten?

[leaserspottedmummybird]

Just that really.
Dp once made burgers bulked out with weetabix that were vile and ended up in the bin🤮 and also a slow cooker beef and veg stew with water and no stock.
I once made a Chinese tofu vegan dish from an American cookbook that looked like cat 🐈 sick and also went straight into the bin without a taste( brave dp tasted it and said it was ok)

I also made a tuna lasagne from a budget cookbook that was rank.

I like tripe which, going by this thread, indicates my tastebuds are hard core. That should give an idea of how bad they were.

@balonzz I was actually quite impressed with the goat I had
I was expecting horrible, tough, gristly meat. But it was actually really nice!! A friend of DH is married to a Nigerian woman, and she made goat curry in a slow cooker when we went over for dinner and it was lush!! My DCs ate it like they’d never been fed!

Olives
Overnight Oats
Anything to do with goat
🤢

Spent one NYE in France with some friends of ex DP. They served sheep's lung. It was vile. The texture made me heave.

tinned salmon my mom used to make sandwiches with all the bones and bits of skin included vile, love fresh salmon but still cant look at tinned

I had a thing in Germany called leberkäse or somethign. Christ almighty that was bad

Kefir. Tastes like jizz

Sea cucumber, served at a smart Chinese wedding - apparently it's traditional. (Probably a fertility thing, given the size and shape of the animal.). A slice of orange slime. Did taste it but couldn't get it down - not just the taste but the texture - it was evil. And I'll eat virtually anything.
All the non -Chinese at our table had to discreetly convey the vile stuff to a napkin and thence to bag or pocket.

And BTW, whoever mentioned andouillette (sp?). AFAIK these actually are made of pigs' intestines. Even my ultra Francophile, foodie BiL, who will normally pronounce absolutely anything French fantastic, says they taste of pig shit and won't touch them.

Ummm - I like kefir (no comment) but I really like tart tastes.

I've just made it. Had a couple of pork chops in the freezer, so stuck them in the slow cooker with some veg and stock.

First night, not so bad, although I hadn't realised there were bones in the chops and spent half my time picking/spitting bits of bone out. Second night and chop, I cut the bone out and warmed the chop, stock and some rice in the microwave.

Blurgh. Don't know what happened but there were STILL little bits of bone in it, and it tasted stale, watery and grim. Never again.

Chicken Anus from a Thai street food stall. Yes - a chickens bumhole. It didn’t realise what it was and it was surprisingly tasty, only found out after I had finished

Kimchi in South Korea. I know it is fashionable now, but it was basically a spicy compost heap. Also aged eggs which had a green yolk. I was there for work and had to try and be polite, I am gagging slightly at the memory.

Prunes and custard in the infant school canteen (spoon-fed to me by the Miss-Trunchbull-like infant mistress).

Pasta and pea soup half way up a mountain (I buried half a plateful in a nearby crevasse).

Boiled rice and fungus (yes, really, like the frilly fungus you get on tree stumps, just stir-fried) in the buffet car of a Chinese train.

The one that still makes me quite queasy thinking about it was perhaps extra bad because I wasn’t expecting it to be so awful.
It was at the Fat Duck and it was an oyster with passion fruit. I love oysters and I love passion fruit. And it was the Fat Duck FFS but oh God. It was cold and snotty and weirdly sweet and salty and I nearly threw it straight back up over the table.

A special delicacy salty cheese in Poland. I was so looking forward to it, so pretty looking. Couldn't eat a bite.

Kidney was a once in a life time experience for me. Cooked by a friend who said 'I know you are adventurous with food'. Put me off kidney that's for sure. Taste like piss.

Foufou. It’s a sort of dough made from ground cassava. I can eat just about anything but the texture of foufou makes me gag. I spent a month with a lovely host family in Ghana and it was served with almost every meal and of course I had to eat it to be polite. It was horrible

My friends mum made macaroni cheese for dinner but she made it with blue cheese. I was raised to always eat my food if I was a guest so I didn't insult the host. With every mouthful I wanted to die a little bit more.

I've never been able to stomach macaroni cheese since which is shit because I now live in Scotland and no, haggis isn't the national dish. Macaroni cheese is! It's everywhere

Abalone (sea slug) at a Cantonese wedding banquet. Tbf I didn't actually eat it. I just looked at it and waited for it to be taken away - it was a long 20 minutes...

Sea slug. Now that sounds scrummy!

Adding another one - unpasteurised goat's milk. Smelt and tasted like I was drinking earth.

Bone marrow flavoured butter at a very fancy restaurant. I nearly threw up at the table

Crème brulee which was something like scrambled egg on the base (certainly not smoothly textured) with a much-too-thick brown sugar crust, not unlike mint cake in fact but having no other flavour except sugar and blowtorch. Have not voluntarily eaten similar in about 20 years now...used to be fed it with grim regularity.

Something called "frog fish" in a restaurant in Croatia. It tasted as good as it sounds.

HarimadSol same as you! I am prepared to try and get down most things but Andouillette stymied me. Made from chitterlings it's texture and appearance screamed inedible to me and I had to admit defeat. The only defence I have is that I was about three months pregnant.
Reading the thread I would also have bailed at the recently murdered toad stew.

Cauliflower cheese made with raw Cauliflower - like eating a sauce-covered bowling ball. Or a British Airways veggie breakfast - a veritable gastronomic Room 101 of random things that had no business being on the same plate. Or school mashed potato - grey, grainy, salty, tasted like beaches smell.