what is the worst food you have ever eaten?

[DigDog]

its black pudding. Most brits SCOTS have this for breakfast...

i like haggis, but black pudding is a no-no. Also, your typical breakfast sausage in the UK is about 45% meat. The UK really does have some of the most pathetic, flavour-less food i have ever tried. Beans-On-Toast is *not* an acceptable meal.
What's really shocking about scots is that they regularly and happily chug this thing called Buckfast which is like a sweet mulled wine spiked with caffeine, it's absolutely revolting, but they love it.

I've once had a bad experience which basically consisted of being fed only Borscht for a week. I still would not willingly eat it, but i could probably get a few spoonfuls in me before i get sick.

I absolutely cannot eat brains. So, there goes my zombie career. However, i did manage to learn to stomach squid sushi, which at first was absolutely disgusting, and after a while .. just medium disgusting. But it's a matter of texture, it's somehow both squishy and rubbery at the same time.

As for taste ... hmmm, yeah, probably borscht. I mean, i eat and enjoy Umeboshi, which is a salt-cured plum which is ridiculously bitter and salty. I eat lemons but cannot stand the taste of grepefruit. I also cannot eat celery or carrots raw, but i love them both cooked and celery is never missing from just about everything i cook.

I don't think i would ever eat a bug. Even tho i love crustaceans, i have a hard time eating those things that look like mantis shrimp, dunno why, there's something about them that my brain classifies them as not-food.
Otherwise, i think i've eaten just about every animal .. that you can get in europe.

Shark is tasteless, but you can still eat it.


so, hmm, until i think of something worse, my vote will go to badly-prepared squid sushi.

 

[sdifox]

Something called 'edamame' yuck
I'd rather have surstromming!

That is just soy beans...

 

[sdifox]

Pyrite is a shiny stone, but its no Gold. Edamame are "fools Peapods," but, the pods are gross and starchy and make you feel sick if you eat them. Apparantly, you are only supposed to eat the inside bits, but why serve them with the pods?

Anyhow, I dislike soybeans the most of any so called "food" I have eaten.

Also, Milk, I strongly dislike milk.

Lol, you are not supposed to eat the pod

 

[sdifox]

My vote goes to uni

I once ordered it thinking it was fried fish roes. No it was not.

 

[Ns1]

My vote goes to uni

I once ordered it thinking it was fried fish roes. No it was not.

Good Uni is straight from the gods. Bad uni will make you question the decisions you've made in life.

 

[RLGL]

The s..t Trump slings

 

[tcG]

I went to a vietnamese restaurant with my parents and the vietnamese parents of the kids my mom used to babysit. Not a hipster drinking craft beer in the corner, waiter corrects you on how to say pho - vietnamese restaurant - a REAL vietnamese restaurant. Whole grilled fish on a bed of lettuce, fish head soup - vietnamese restaurant. Anyway, after a long formal meal, the wife of the couple asked me if I wanted dessert. Like the rest of the food we ordered, the dessert was ordered by the Vietnamese couple on the grounds that they had been to the restaurant before and knew what the best things to order were. So they ordered me some sort of Vietnamese flan pudding, saying it was excellent, one of the best in town. It's important to mention that nobody else ordered dessert, and the dessert was somewhat of a centerpiece, so my reaction to the food would be obvious.

Now I don't know if this shit was old, or if my 12 year old taste buds weren't mature enough, but this flan pudding was vile. It was sort of sweet at first, but finished with a strong bitter note, almost immediately activating my gag reflex.

At this point any reasonable adult would have not eaten another bite, perhaps letting others try it. Instead, for some reason my 12 year old brain thought it was my obligation to power through, and eat the whole thing.

So while the adults are chatting away politely, I'm guzzling Coke and choking down this pudding like it's the second round of Fear Factor. Chew, swallow, Coke, Chew, swallow, Coke. I don't really remember if I got through it, only that I was sweating profusely by the end. To this day the couple still doesn't know of my ordeal with the rancid pudding.

Also I wouldn't recommend eating pine sap or raw cactus.

 

[Ns1]

Yeah Vietnamese flan isn't supposed to taste like that.

 

[sdifox]

Good Uni is straight from the gods. Bad uni will make you question the decisions you've made in life.

No I dislike soft squishy food. So uni was a big mistake. But I was sitting right in front of the chef so had to eat both pieces.

 

[Iron Woode]

seems some of the food I like is hated by others.

I love grapefruit fruit juice and only the unsweetened kind.

I like canned spinach. I don't know why.

I like smoked pig's tails.

I won't eat head cheese. ever.

 

[ksheets]

By Far, a Handful of prunes...they're like giant raison's but a little harder to swallow. I couldn't do it, I had to spit it out....

 

[whm1974]

By Far, a Handful of prunes...they're like giant raison's but a little harder to swallow. I couldn't do it, I had to spit it out....

You are suppose to eat only one at a time.

 

[DigDog]

I like canned spinach. I don't know why.

are you sure you don't know why ?

 

[Carson Dyle]

I won't eat head cheese. ever.

I worked in a deli in high school and head cheese was the grossest, most disgusting thing I ever had to touch. After slicing it on the Hobart it took 10 minutes to clean the slicer to get the gelatin and grease off the machine to where it could be used to slice anything else.

 

[Ns1]

If y'all hate head cheese normally, try the Vietnamese version. It's sliced thin like other deli meats and then used as a sandwich meat.

 

[Carson Dyle]

If y'all hate head cheese normally, try the Vietnamese version. It's sliced thin like other deli meats and then used as a sandwich meat.

As is head cheese you buy in a US deli. It's a sandwich meat, or cold cut.

 

[Ns1]

As is head cheese you buy in a US deli. It's a sandwich meat, or cold cut.

TIL. I've only seen it as a charcuterie.

 

[Carson Dyle]

TIL. I've only seen it as a charcuterie.

I have a friend who is an owner of a trendy bar in town, with a menu of small plates and charcuterie. He's always telling me "try the charcuterie" and I say "no way I'm paying that kind of money for a plate of cold cuts".

 

[brianmanahan]

He's always telling me "try the charcuterie" and I say "no way I'm paying that kind of money for a plate of cold cuts".

not just any cold cuts, fancy french cold cuts!

 

[William Gaatjes]

Those ready to buy in the shop mayonaise based salads to be used on bread , yuk. Puke. Disgusting. Or microwave dinners. I tried one once and it tastes horrible.

Or Radicchio.
That tastes horrible too.

 

[sdifox]

Yea but is that really food? Its like chewing on wet balsa wood.

Err no. Fresh tofu is very soft. Japanese eat it with a bit of soy sauce, scallions and bonito shaving.

 

[kage69]

What's really shocking about scots is that they regularly and happily chug this thing called Buckfast which is like a sweet mulled wine spiked with caffeine, it's absolutely revolting, but they love it.

Yeah I don't understand the Buckfast either, that shit is hideous. I'll dominate a nice cold Irn-Bru though. Agreed on the black puddings, so gross. You're basically eating a scab. I'm not into offal, but I've had haggis that wasn't too bad provided I had plenty of pepper. It gets an unfair amount of scorn, but honestly the canned haggis I was dared into trying once should definitely be avoided.

Shark is tasteless, but you can still eat it.

I've had mako and sandbar that was absolutely delicious, way better than boring dogfish, certainly in a different realm from species so full of urea they're almost poisonous. I don't go looking for sharks to eat, but sometimes you land one without trying or he gets hit by another shark, maybe hooked weird and he's damaged. Time to fire up the grill.

I do not recall the name of the worst thing I've ever put into my mouth, something in Arabic. It was in Qatar, involved lamb guts and other things I couldn't identify. One bite, and it was a herculean effort not to spew it out in front of the hosts. Food so bad it immediately makes you sweat, one of those deals. I think I ate nothing but dates for the next couple days.

 

[kage69]

 

[DigDog]

you shouldn't think of haggis as meat, because it's basically oats, vaguely flavoured with this mixed meat that has been boiled long enough that any taste is gone. then they add a ton of pepper and mace to finally kill off any resemblance of meatiness.

i *like* haggis. i lived in glasgow 5 years and you can go to any shop and pay 2 quid for a whole haggis, you steam it for 20+ minutes and then eat. you just can't beat the amount of food for the money. But, what you really gotta try, you get a chicken, pre-steam the haggis, and then stuff the chicken with the haggis. roast the chicken ass-side up, and all the juices will flow into the haggis, being that haggis is oats, it will soak up all the chickenness.

i'm not gonna go into microwavable dinners; i went to Berklee which in 1997 was on the top 10 worst cafeterias in the united states list, and out of an entire cafeteria the only barely edible things were apples, everything else was either hard and tasteless (fruit) or plain poisonous (everything else).

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Good Uni is straight from the gods. Bad uni will make you question the decisions you've made in life.

The same could be said about a lot of seafood. Very little tastes quite as good when fresh and well prepared, nothing can get you sicker faster if a little off.