To ask the worst thing you've ever eaten? (lighthearted)

[BobbyBiscuits]

Again with the food threads...as much as I love hearing what people like, I also love hearing what people hate!

So, what is the one (or a few) foods you tried and thought were vile and would never try again?

The main one that springs to my mind is whelks. wtf even are they meant to be? Its just impenetrable rubber with no taste...lol.

So, share your revulsions or argue the cause for something unlovable?
C'mon you know you want to! : )

I can cope with tripe and love all seafood apart from sea urchin which is just horrible. Cows brains are a not to be repeated meal and I can live without having tongue again.

The worst would have to be Icelandic fermented shark. Just no.

For some reason I love the texture of liver and kidneys (when cooked nicely with wine, herbs etc),
But i tried duck hearts once.
They were so rank, chewy AF. I guess it's like a massive muscle..never again.

Balut, a Filipino delicacy. Fertilised duck egg. I couldn't swallow for gagging.

Liver.

Kidney.

Raisins.

Shark's fin soup- I was around 5 & living abroad, I had seen a cartoon with it in, where the soup had little fins swimming around in it & it looked fun, the reality of gelationous grey sludge in a bowl that I was presented with was palpably different.

I loved BBQd chicken hearts on a skewer in Brazil, definitely chewy though. The 3 weeks of salmonella afterwards I could have done without, but god I was thin!!

I am sure I was just unlucky and had really badly cooked versions of dim sum one time and salt beef another time. Soggy, slimy, nasty.

DM had a little pot of spice called Asafoetida. The stench! Bleeuurgh. Heaven knows what recipe calls for it.

I had a bird's gizzard salad in France and rather horrified myself by heartily enjoying it. And I love a Greek octopus salad although all the little suckers on the tentacles freak me out.

A porridge bar my dad made many years ago.

He 'misread' the recipe (aka didn't read) and it was more salt than porridge. Lost a filling to it too as an added bonus.

Miso soup- tasted like horse piss

Olives-absolutely rank. Wish I liked them

Sea urchin again. I'll eat pretty much anything but that was just disgusting.

I love whelks 😊

Plantain and tripe stew in the Dominican Republic.

Jellied eels. Meaty mud.

Jellied eels 🤮

Two of my favourites 😂

I love anything salty.

Worst I’ve had is baby octopus.

Everyday foods I don’t enjoy:
celery
iceberg lettuce

Other than those; I eat anything that’s vegetarian.

Exactly.

whelks and snails, rubbery and impossible to swallow.

@Justifiedcheese we posted at the same time! Even our dog refused them!

@Thebestwaytoscareatory That reminds me of a story my granny liked to tell about the one time she entrusted her husband with feeding their baby daughter (my dm).

He mistook teaspoons for tablespoons in whatever mixture of carbs and milk he whisked up, and granny came home to find the bairn gamely chewing her way through a solid brick of what should have been gloop.

A kind of Russian stew made from animal bones at a ‘restaurant’ in Moscow. It’s what made me go veggie.

My grandfather liked tripe.

My cooking! 🤢

Sheep's head. Was vomitorious

I quite liked sea urchin.

Snails were not my favourite. Like garlic flavour chewing gum.

In very rural France we had a runny goats cheese so strong that the first bite made everyone gag. (not just us, literally everyone who tried it) Once you got past the gag reflex it was actually delicious but no way I would want to eat it again!

Lychee - pure testicle, I'll never forget the texture, and it was 30 plus years ago. I didn't know it then, but the skin does look like a a scrotum too. Second worst - cold pork pie - I was not expecting the jelly, and it still makes me ill, thinking about it 42 years later.

DH and I had chicken stew in Hong Kong, the 'chicken' was a big ball of god knows what with a very big vein in it. We became vegetarian after this.

Blood curd. I love all blood sausages but the texture of this was like eating clots. Nope.

It was a meal someone cooked and was really proud of. I feel a bitch admitting it, but she wasn't well liked in our team - smug, trying to ingratiate herself too much - and then she invited everyone to dinner and cooked up this terrible meal. It was bland beyond bland and the rice was way overcooked.

If we're talking foodstuffs rather than a specific incident; I'm not a huge fan of polenta or very bony curries. There's not much I dislike though 😂