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! : )

Truffle - bleugh
Caviar - yuuuuk
Oysters - like snorting back when you have a massive cold

References to things tasting like e.g. horse piss, dog shit etc always amuse me.

They have presumably eaten it to make the comparison.

Based on what we know those things smell like, I imagine.

Brains are objectionable. I remember being about five and crying about having to eat it and my mother insisting that it was lovely and good for me and holding me down, forcing it into my mouth.

Bleurrrgh!

I think that you may need to consult a doctor 😳

Another vote for Andouillette!

also all inside bits - kidneys, liver, tripe 🤮 basically all the cheap shit we ate in the 70’s.

semolina

That pink threadworm medicine we used to get given as kids. Still makes me wretch thinking about the awful vile 'raspberry' flavoured stuff.

DH once made fish in a black pepper & masala sauce and it was hideous.

We still laugh it about it and it must have been over 20 years ago now!

Oysters. Tasted like phlegm in a shell. Gross beyond imagining.

Now the worst smelling food - it’s a toss up between heart and liver mum used to cooks for the dogs, and my old next door neighbour’s fish dish they used to cook on the mornings. Both used to give me the dry heave.

Lotus crisps. They taste like an ill conceived collaboration between Snack A' Jacks and Impulse.

If we're including non-foods, Kalms Sleep. They taste like tonsiloliths smell.

I am another pro-triper, though. If anyone is "tripe curious" without wanting to go to the bother of having to work out how to cook it, there's a Polish tripe stew you can get in a jar called Pamapol Flaczki, that's available from places like Sainsbury's. I can easily go through a whole jar in one sitting.

Can you remember what type of fish it was? I did google Russian white fish but all that came up was about sanctions!

I love some of the stuff mentioned on this thread - oysters, lychees, snails, octopus…

But I’ve just remembered something I would not eat again - more based on texture than the taste! Pigs trotters. It’s like eating the fattiest bit of pork you can imagine, plus with every mouthful you end up spitting out toenails. Literally.

TheNestedIf · Today 11:22

If anyone is "tripe curious" without wanting to go to the bother of having to work out how to cook it, there's a Polish tripe stew you can get in a jar called Pamapol Flaczki, that's available from places like Sainsbury's. I can easily go through a whole jar in one sitting.

I used to loathe the stuff my grandparents ate, with onions and vinegar. Just the smell of it cooking was enough to make me heave.

I accidentally ate some, in a Filipino soup. With lemon, ginger and chilli - I asked what the lumps were and was pleasantly surprised. I then took some offered by a relative, in a Korean restaurant and again, liked it.

The Romanians do chorba da burta, beef tripe soup and I ate it nearly every day I was there!

https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/pamapol-flaczki-beef-tripe-500g

I've just come back from bloody Sainsbury's!

Kimchi. It's the only food I've ever had to spit out, and I will eat pretty much anything. It tastes of shredded death soaked in despair.

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That's the stuff! I felt a weird mixture of shame and pride when Nectar told me I was the #2 buyer of it online from the store that delivers to me.

My late husband had a summer job working in a slaughterhouse. Would never touch tripe after that.

I tried blue cheese for the first time last Christmas. Never again.

Also, once when I was a kid, I was sneaking around my Mum's bedroom because I was a nosey twat at that age and found a lovely flower shaped chocolate on the side. I decided to pop it in my mouth and quickly eat it before she caught me.
Karma was instant. It was perfumed soap 😁😂

I like blue cheese. Not the really gnarly stuff though. The texture is horrible.

I like blue cheese but it doesn't like me. Heartburn on a plate.

Am loving some of these descriptions of culinary hideousness but hating the thought of what they're describing. All these awful offal tales are making me faintly nauseous.

DM's friend once spotted a small and perfectly spherical brown ball in her daughter's pram. Ooh she thought, a stray Malteser, and popped it in her mouth. It wasn't chocolate.

Physical retch right there. Thanks. 🤢

I know! Thank god we're only hearing the story and not telling it. Definitely a "you'll laugh about this one day" incident.

Someone once cooked me stuffed trout.... only problem was they didn't take the bones out. 🤢🤢🤢🤢 I was gagging after 3 mouthfuls 🤢🤢🤢