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 had what I thought was beef from a street food stall in Asia. Slightly unusual flavour but not bad... until someone pointed out that most westerners aren't keen on eating dog, so it was nice to see me trying it.

A piece of guinea pig poo.I was eating a Picnic chocolate bar and a small piece fell on to the sofa.Not looking,I picked up what I thought was the small piece of Picnic.Put it in my mouth and chewed it,it was vile.I realised straight away what it was as I had had my guinea pig on my lap earlier.Needless to say I spat it out.

Okra

Accidently ate chicken brain in a stew (and I don't do offal) ... Couldn't work out why it tasted so strange and had a gelatinous, rubbery texture, or why the non-English speaking lady opposite me was pointing to her head, me and vigorously nodding... Until someone translated for me that I'd just eaten the cerebral cortex of a chicken's brain. Nearly vomitted over our host's porch!:-z

Olives.

Eggs that were off, no sooner were they down than they came back up again with such violence that half of my head suddenly started hurting.

@33goingon64 how did the hosts take that? Abalone is expensive. I've seen tins of it for sale at £30 in my local Chinese shop, the same size tins as a large tin of salmon at Asda

Marrowfat peas and goats milk are seriously disgusting.

Bavarian potato salad

Squid. Basically fish-flavoured bits of inner tube. Yeeccch.

Duck tongue at a work thing.

I'm just back from Crete and had a fair amount of squid, largely because others were keen to order it. It's not awful, just a bit, to my mind pointless.

I can eat almost anything except tripe, which my dad used to cook and which smells like a hot farmyard, and a banana cake made with all-bran that was the speciality of a friend's mother. It's basically a slightly fruity peat briquette.

My Mum made a delicious apple crumble with an unlabelled bag from the freezer. It was potato. I can't believe she didn't notice whilst cooking. Potato and custard ... Mmm!

Oh god I've just remembered this one - my least favourite meal as a child, which my mother insisted on dishing up at least once a fortnight.

Boiled fish, served with boiled potatoes (not even nice little new potatoes - these were the same cheap, floury potatoes she used for making mash), boiled white cabbage and parsley sauce.

Occasionally if we were lucky there would be a couple of boiled carrots. It didn't improve the taste much but at least there'd be something on the plate that wasn't beige.

Definitely some coleslaw that had gone off. DM and I took DD to a farm for the day a couple of years ago, and we braved their restaurant (bad reviews for being overpriced etc). We had something with salad and I opted for the coleslaw as well... it was rancid. At first I thought it was just me but DM tried it and I thought she was going to be sick.

We went back to the farm in the summer holidays this year but we took a picnic this time... It's a lovely farm but that really put me off eating there. We still talk about That Coleslaw now!

Not read all of the thread so no idea if this has already been mentioned.

Most awful food for me is Chinese dumplings! I love Chinese food but Chinese dumplings just remind me of undercooked Fray Bentos pie pastry! I’ve tried to like them, recently had them in a nice restaurant in London, but no! Can’t stand them and I love Chinese food on the whole!

Yuk!

Extract of Malt. Also Sloan's Liniment, administered by my dad by mistake instead of Extract of Malt.

Another vote for Durian here. Given that you can smell one from about half a mile away (and they’re banned on the underground in Singapore) why would anyone have tried eating it in the first place.

And the fucker repeated on me as well. Tasted even worse the second time around!

Sheeps brains still in the halved skulls in France. The host took pity on me and made me some soup.

OMG @RolyWatts !!! I've spent ages in France and been served some pretty odd things, but that particular horror's passed me by ... can I ask where the heck this was??

DP once made me a Green Thai Spam curry - just don't try this at home.

I'm also pretty disgusted by tofu but I had some home made the other day which was a revelation. It seems it's the commercial packaged ones that are horrible. I'm now about to make my own

Omg makes me heave to think of it 🤢
It was a goats cheese dish which was the only vegetarian option!! and because it was my birthday dinner I was being treated to I said nothing and ate over half of it with a bit of discrete heaving through it! It was like a plate of purée puke it was vile and turns my stomach to think of it

A village very near the pyranees. It was like a movie. Stormy drive, arrive late into the evening tired and hungry, power cut but generator going, sit down to some wine and supper and BOOM sheeps brains.

Sounds like something out of Rocky Horror, Roly ... "you've arrived on a rather special night ... "