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’m equally revolted and fascinated by casu marzu, would be delighted and seriously impressed to hear if anyone here’s actually tried it.

Surströmming - fermented herring. People often vomit when they have it 😂

Weevil grubs were the worst by taste.

The fried tarantulas looked the worst but was actually ok by taste.

Oh and balut. It’s 🤮🤢

Can someone please explain the point if cottage cheese to me? I've never tried it because I can't get beyond the look of it.

I actually quite like cottage cheese.

It’s yummy! Well the full fat version is yummy. Do not buy the low fat stuff.
Cottage cheese is just queso fresco with the whey not drained.

OMG yes, the texture of okra is so gross. I ate loads of delicious Persian food growing up, but could never stomach tomato and okra stew.

There was an even grimmer stew served for school dinner called 'cowboy hotpot'. It was watery tinned tomatoes with stringy, fatty pork and pebble-hard haricot beans which left a tide of greasy scum around the bowl.

I forgive Asafoetida it's rotting smell because I love poppadoms and curry!

Haggis is scrumptious. A good Burns Night supper with neeps and tatties is a tasty winter treat. I don't think too hard about the provenance of haggis though.

Butter. I hate butter
give me whelks, durian, lemongrass - most of the above in fact. But I cannot stand butter!

Wesson

I saw this in a Lancashire market - looked just like a long, curled cumberland sausage and the server asked if I'd like a sample slice

Not until I'd eaten it did she explain it was cooked oesophagus

A seafood mix from a food van at Glastonbury. I'd never eaten any seafood before but I felt it was the perfect time to try a mix of tentacle- based food with my 17- year old wisdom. Held off the spewing til after David Bowie. I have been vegetarian ever since!

~ Balut (fertilised duck egg) in Cambodia
~ Tarantula, tastes like cotton wool soaked in piss and shit
~ Snails,
exactly as disgusting as you'd think
~ Squid and octopus 🤢

This thread has reminded me of the food scenes in the Korean film Oldboy. I'm sure there's a whole live octopus. I literally retched watching that.

One of my most mundane but poignantly disappointing meals ever was a packed lunch I took to Thorpe Park as a kid. My dm always made nourishing wholefood meals, all sensible and filling, but I yearned for gimmicky treats and processed crap.

Anyway, for some reason on this trip I had white bread sandwiches cut diagonally with marmite and lettuce filling. Plus a Dairylea triangle, a pot of yoghurt, a banana and - joy of joys - a Mr Kipling pink fondant fancy!

I cannot tell you how luxuriously special this spread was, nor how breathlessly I anticipated lunchtime. When I finally opened my tupperware though, everything inside was squashed and squished and mushed together, all black banana and marmitey tin foil and smeared pink icing. An awful, crushing mess and I drank only my tears.

My mum when we were younger attempted to do a Slimming World homemade version of fish and chips...I don't know what on earth she did to it but we still talk about it now 🤢😂

Kimchi.
Marrow.
Tinned strawberries.

yep disgusting!!!

Andouillette de Troyes
A traditional French sausage lovingly made from strips of swine intestine rolled-up and wrapped in the pig's colon – known in the food trade as chitterlings – the andouillette has an easily identifiable aroma of decay

I wondered if andouillette would come up. Not had it myself, but a friend had the unfortunate experience of trying it on holiday recently, and even her description of it made me heave. 🤢

Leningrad. 1982. Exchange trip. (I was taking a Russian degree.)

The hostel cafeteria.

Me: "Vymya? What's that?"

Dinnerlady: "It's tasty. It's very good for you."

It looked a bit weird, but I took it. Sat down. Began to eat it.

White. Very chewy. Funny shape.

Russian roommate sat down next to me. "Why the hell are you eating that?"

I reallise that only the furriners are eating it.

"The lady said it was very good..."

"Do you know what it is?"

"No..."

"It comes from a cow."

"Oh. In English, we call that 'beef'."

"No, you fool! It comes from a cow!" mimes milking

Yup. I was attempting to chew cow udder.

Here to plead the case for tripe! You need to braise it then fry it. Absolutely delicious
worst thing I ever ate was cow tongue. I also really hate kidney

My mom's cooking, everything was cooked to fuck, grey meat you could've resoled your shoes with and veg you could suck through a straw!

@Margaritavillee We have a pro- triper! Cow tongue...I think my mate's mum served us that once. and the texture was beyond grim!
Kidneys are lush, steak and kidney pie...mmm. Haha.

@jen337 Just looked it up and promptly felt violently sick. I swear I saw them eating this in an Asterix book when I was 5?
How can someone eat maggots? My Dad used to take my walking by the canal about the same age and chat to the fishing guys, and always made sure to show me their fucking maggot box! haha...

Goats cheese. I don’t care what anybody says, it is fucking disgusting. If you put a crumb of goats cheese on my fork I could tell.

Tofu …. I gagged on the texture !

Crocodile- tasted like rotting fishy chicken. I feel green just thinking about it. I didn't swallow and I don't care how inelegant it was.

I actually really love lychees, surprised by the hate! I like goat cheese and tofu too.