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Okay, what's the single worst piece of food ever to pass your lips?

I once ate stale hotdog buns topped with aerosol spray cheese, with the message, 'high cheese-flavour profile!' emblazoned on the lid.

*shudders*

Okay, what's the single worst piece of food ever to pass your lips?

I once ate stale hotdog buns topped with aerosol spray cheese, with the message, 'high cheese-flavour profile!' emblazoned on the lid.

*shudders*


Balut

nuff said

7 year old chocolate. Thinking that all chocolate was good chocolate just wasn't a good idea...

Okay, what's the single worst piece of food ever to pass your lips?

I once ate stale hotdog buns topped with aerosol spray cheese, with the message, 'high cheese-flavour profile!' emblazoned on the lid.

*shudders*

I was eating a Table Talk pie(it's a small one-serving pie for those who don't know). Three or four bites in, I find out that there was mold groing on the inside of the crust along with the filling. :(

well I didn't do this, but when my sister was a baby she pulled something out from under the stove that may have been a green bean or it may have been a French Fry, and ate that.

Again, my brother who is quite the redneck eats squirrel, rabbit, grasshoppers and stuff like that, just because he wants to know what they taste like, so he's not object to eating them in a "survival situation". We live in the lower New York suburbs. The worst he could do is get lost in Bear Mountain for a few days...

Mac Donald's breakfast sandwhich + shake and apple turnover.

My only comfort is that it will never happen to me again

I was eating a Table Talk pie(it's a small one-serving pie for those who don't know). Three or four bites in, I find out that there was mold groing on the inside of the crust along with the filling. :(

*eyes the two boxes of blueberry he has upstairs...*

Again, my brother who is quite the redneck eats squirrel, rabbit, grasshoppers and stuff like that, just because he wants to know what they taste like, so he's not object to eating them in a "survival situation". We live in the lower New York suburbs. The worst he could do is get lost in Bear Mountain for a few days...

Squirrel's ok. Rabbit's great. Haven't tried grasshopper, but I have had chocolate ants.
The strangest thing I ever ate was roasted chicken beaks.
But the foulest real "food" (ie not spoiled or moldy, but served the way it is meant to be eaten) I've ever had is natto (http://www.gaia21.net/natto/natto.htm) - a Japanese (and I have heard there are Chinese and Korean versions) food stuff consisting of steamed fermented soybeans. Natto smells like your old gym locker might if you didn't wash anything for a couple of months, looks and feels like snot, and tastes pretty awful too. I got a visiting friend to try it, as a joke, once. He almost didn't make it to the bathroom before vomiting....
And, amazingly, the foul stuff is quite healthy. If you can get it down.

I just remembered a time when my brother, while visiting, made dinner, and without looking closely at the bottles, poured a goodly amount of rosewater into a chicken & pasta casserole (he thought it was a bottle of worcestershire sauce, and whoops!). Actually, the whole thing was incredibly funny, not so much that he'd made this whopper of a mistake, but that he thought he could pass it off without my noticing.

And by the way, the flavours didn't work at all well together. It...tasted acrid, like regurgitate. The only thing it had going for it was it's fresh-cooked texture. My poor brother.

Again, my brother who is quite the redneck eats squirrel, rabbit, grasshoppers and stuff like that, just because he wants to know what they taste like, so he's not object to eating them in a "survival situation". We live in the lower New York suburbs. The worst he could do is get lost in Bear Mountain for a few days...
I like rabbit and squirrel, as for the grasshopper, there isn't alot of meat on them,
The worst thing I've ever eaten is probably picalilli, it makes me cringe just looking at the jar of it in my cuboard.

I never ate anything dodgy before, but I once sat down to enjoy a cuppa my brother made me. It was a good cuppa, he had it down to an artform.....Except for when I reached the bottom of the cup and sitting there quite comfortably in the last drips of the liquid, was the biggest bluebottle you ever saw!!! :gundge:

Barring McDonalds as real food, something which i did not enjoy was rabbit. The taste was incredibley strong and very odd when i tried it. Bad preperation perhaps?

My favorite meat is Ostrich by far, especially the neck prepared in a nice stew, although fillets of it are quite nice when prepared correctly.

PS: Come to think of it, i did have something far worse tasting than Rabbit when i was in Britain. At least in london Britain lives up to its reputation of having terrible food but the confrence center where i was at served a delightful continental breakfast complete with a strange sausagelike slab which i tried some of. It was an unpleasant bitter-salty taste like nothing ive ever had before. Apparently it was black pudding. Only later did i find out what that was.

hands down... AMERICAN BEEF!

forget mad cow, lets discuss factory farmed canibalistic estrogen filled cows that are more harmful than cocaine.

hooray!

McDonalds...everything there sucks. last time i ate at mcdonalds i puked and the time before i felt like i was going to puke. it is horrible.

Something must be said to defend McDonalds. Being a franchise the quality of food varies greatly from town to town, or even state to state. The McDonalds I get is vastly superior to that of other places, probably because of the high income rates of my are. Its unfair I know, but I had McDonalds in North Carolina once and it was terrible.

The worst McDonalds I had was in Canada...

Apparently it was black pudding. Only later did i find out what that was.
You can make wonderful foods from blood. I don't understand what people can object to. The same thing with liver. Mmm... Liver with onions and apple slices. Wish I had that today.

The most awful food I can think of is the rotten herring "Surströmning" that the Swedes try to hawk as some sort of "delicacy". They sell it in tins, and the tins get all swollen (probably because of gases that the rotting fish generates). You must open them under water or outside, because the tins squirt some of the liquid because the pressure is so great in there. Outside is also better because the smell is horrible. Last, you can all imagine what rotten fish tastes like.

www.svensson.com/norge/sur1.htm

hands down... AMERICAN BEEF

hooray!
is there such a thing

English is the best ever though

At least in london Britain lives up to its reputation of having terrible food
Nothing wrong with jellied eels, pie and liquor or a nice tongue sandwich, maybe a nice bit of sheeps stomach full of the rest of its body parts. yum.

Anything I have an allergy to, since I end up having to throw it up.

Nothing wrong with jellied eels, pie and liquor or a nice tongue sandwich, maybe a nice bit of sheeps stomach full of the rest of its body parts. yum.

Jellied eels are the most disgusting concept I've ever heard of, apart from Surstromming (the rotten fish thing) or the South African 'delicacy' that is the whole head of a goat or sheep, but the worst thing I've ever eaten was a Chinese chicken meal I had while in Spain (don't ask) which was tough as old boots... and had green on it (I don't know if this was normal or not, but my mind is fixed on 'green stuff on meat = bad').

Saveloys are absolutely the nicest thing in the world though - with a plate of chips and chip-shop curry goop. lovely.
(I've tried it with proper curry sauce, it doesn't work - it has to be the psuedo-curry stuff from the chippy).

I'm also amused that a Google Image Search for 'saveloy (http://images.google.com/images?q=saveloy) ' produces some interesting results on the first page, including a shot of what looks like an overdone 80s Hair Metal band, the cover of The Sunday Times, and a picture of Paris Hilton.
The mind boggles.

...anyone ever have a can of "substandard beans"? When I was in college, some starving friends of mine went to the local food bank to get something for their cupboard, and amongst the peanut butter and day-old bread generously doled out to them, there it was. No-one could bring themselves to eat them, so they were eventually re-donated to the same food bank...!

energy bars, nastiest things to be made, EVER

A bad piece of fontina cheese. It tasted like biting into a fart. I had to spit it out immediately lest my mouth smell like ass for the rest of the day.

Raw Eggs!

Its a tye between t-rations and the omlette MRE. Even when your starving its hard to swallow.

Oh, as a child I once ate a live cockroach on a bet. It still wasn't as bad as the cheese.

All yeast-based products that are the evil product of warped British commonwealth nations. Britian has Marmite and Aussie-land has Vegimite.....*shudder* for you lot who've never heard of it, jesus, you really have to try it, then kill yourself to end the pain. Honestly, its worse then 'moxie'

Lard

McDonalds...everything there sucks. last time i ate at mcdonalds i puked and the time before i felt like i was going to puke. it is horrible.

Same here ... ate one Maccas burger, YUCK!
I much prefer KFC!

Same here ... ate one Maccas burger, YUCK!
I much prefer KFC!

KFC = Kan't F*cking Cook

genoa salami, come to think of it. The casing smells and tastes like fecal matter. I thought there must be something wrong with it, but my significant other had some and cooed over it, saying how authentic it tasted.

*icky*

KFC = Kan't F*cking Cook
Do non-american countries have Popeye's fried chicken? It blows KFC away! Especially the spicy cajun style.

A bad piece of fontina cheese. It tasted like biting into a fart. I had to spit it out immediately lest my mouth smell like ass for the rest of the day.

Hahaha, i'm still laughing at that :D

The worst thing I ever had was probably these powdered eggs I had while drunk at a friends place....neither of us could cook anything else.

Anyway, they sorta crumbled into powder while in the mouth and tasted like dirt. Eww.

we don't have popeyes in the U.K. at least, but most of us are aware of it. Never tried it, even when i was in the states, so i can't really comment...

Same here ... ate one Maccas burger, YUCK!
I much prefer KFC!
Oh so you like chickens that are kept in batteries then forced fed water in a vain and cruel attempt to make them more jucier.

I prefer Kentucky Fried Panda....its finger Ling-Ling good

Something must be said to defend McDonalds. Being a franchise the quality of food varies greatly from town to town, or even state to state. The McDonalds I get is vastly superior to that of other places, probably because of the high income rates of my are. Its unfair I know, but I had McDonalds in North Carolina once and it was terrible.

The worst McDonalds I had was in Canada...
Its all the same SHIT.do not defend them.Ronald McDonald is EVIL.He is SATAN personified.
You defend a Corporation that sells what is essentially artificially flavoured animal fat as a milkshake?
Burgers made from cuts of meat you do not want to know about,with Textured Vegetable Protein and/or rusk added to bump up their profits?
French Fries made from dessicated potatoes,cut so thin they absorb so much oil they lose any taste or goodness?
You realise that in many countries this is peoples only experience of American food?
even here,you can go to TGI fridays,Hard Rock Cafe,etc,and get proper burgers,fries,chicken,RIBS!,
It's a little pricey,but much better quality.
Even Burger King seems like a four-star restaurant by comparison,big,meaty,Flame-grilled bastards.
-But last time I checked,BK was owned by a British Company.

Personally speaking, it's a dead heat between a Pukka Pie, bought in Leicester under the misapprehension that it was a foodstuff and not something to scare away rodents, and a Reece's Peanut Butter Cup, which a colleague who either had a leather tongue or an evil streak a mile wide once recommended to me.

Personally speaking, it's a dead heat between a Pukka Pie, bought in Leicester under the misapprehension that it was a foodstuff and not something to scare away rodents, and a Reece's Peanut Butter Cup, which a colleague who either had a leather tongue or an evil streak a mile wide once recommended to me.
MMMMMMMMMMMMM!! I love peanut butter cups.and Reeses pieces.

MMMMMMMMMMMMM!! I love peanut butter cups.and Reeses pieces.
Anyone who doesn't like Reese's peanut butter cups should be locked up. Probably a terrorist.

MMMMMMMMMMMMM!! I love peanut butter cups.and Reeses pieces.

I hereby bequeath to Luckdonia my entire lifetime's allocation of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. May God have mercy on his soul. Not to mention his teeth, arteries and stomach lining. Take him down.

had some tripe once, it was f'ing disgusting...followed by haggis and black pudding....eugh!!
and reece's pieces are just the best, i have to get them sent over to the uk :)

Hmm. Hard to s - wait, I know! But first, the runner-ups:

- Kale. I absolutely hate it. I know it's a green vegetable and all, but it's just extremely bitter and acidic. It's even worse with sunflower seeds.
- A certain chocolate chip I once ate. I found it in the bottom of my sock drawer, and I hadn't stored chocolate in my sock drawer in several months. It was pretty funky - tasted sort of like a Smartie.
- Morbier. At first I actually liked Morbier. Then my friend called it "ass cheese" insisting that that's what it smelled like, and since it had a line of tree ash down the center it was an easy pun. Next time I ate Morbier I noticed it and haven't eaten it since.

And now, the big one... *drumroll*...:

DURIAN! It is the most digusting thing in the world. It smells awful and tastes worse - like spoiled potato salad. Yet somehow some people think the taste is fine, though everyone agrees on the smell. It's one of those things that you either love or hate and if you hate it, like me, it surpasses all your mild spoilage and McDonalds in grossness.

Mmm... reeses. I need to go get a pack of them to eat today.

I hereby bequeath to Luckdonia my entire lifetime's allocation of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. May God have mercy on his soul. Not to mention his teeth, arteries and stomach lining. Take him down.
What's not to like about Reeses Peanut butter cups?
Peanut butter-good
Chocolate-good

had some tripe once, it was f'ing disgusting...followed by haggis and black pudding....eugh!!
and reece's pieces are just the best, i have to get them sent over to the uk :)
They are in a lot of shops in London.Where do you live?

They are in a lot of shops in London.Where do you live?
in sheffield, we only got the cups and some nutty bars here...when they arrive i shall be the chief buyer :)

DURIAN! It is the most digusting thing in the world. It smells awful and tastes worse - like spoiled potato salad. Yet somehow some people think the taste is fine, though everyone agrees on the smell. It's one of those things that you either love or hate and if you hate it, like me, it surpasses all your mild spoilage and McDonalds in grossness.

I was just thinking of that. Here's my durian story:

I live in a kind of long term guest house. Think a college dorm as run by and for adults living in a foreign country. Like many Japanese buildings, even much more modern ones, my building is on a septic tank system. In the past there have been problems with it backing up due to people flushing things they shouldn't.

Last year my Canadian neighbor had some friends over for a small party in the shared living room, on a Saturday night. I dragged home late as usual - around 2 am, and pretty drunk. When I finally made it up to the 5th floor (my floor) I thought "Damn! Somebody must have blocked up the toilet again!"

I opened the communal fridge to tuck away my extra beer, and was bowled over. Knowing durians only by reputation, I wasn't aware of what they looked like. I thought "Dang, some jackass left a pineapple in there to rot! I'm not touching it!"

The next morning I got the whole story. One of my neighbors guests had managed to come up with a durian at a local exotic fruit shop, and thought it would be nice for the party, having been told they are the king of fruits, but not knowing the awful smell. Against my neighbors advice, he cut it open at the party. When everyone went home, he left it as a "gift" for my neighbor.
:P

Durians smell just as bad as natto, but at least they don't have the snot texture....

had some tripe once, it was f'ing disgusting...followed by haggis and black pudding....eugh!!
and reece's pieces are just the best, i have to get them sent over to the uk :)

Haven't had black pudding or haggis yet, but I'd like to try. And properly cooked tripe is delish!

That sounds so weird... I remember the second and last time I encountered durian, I knew better than to get near it, but my parents and our family friends were on one end of the table eating durian like a bunch of head cases, while I was sitting ten feet away at the other end of the table with our friends' friend extremely glad that the wind was blowing toward the durian instead of toward us.

Frog legs have got to be the most deceptive food, it looks like shit but tastes like chicken, especially when they hop in the pan. Dog in south korea is another yukky yummy. Any other animal lover dishes out there, I mean meat?

does soda count? i had some sprite once that had a menthol aftertaste- sprite ice, or sprite frost, or something. completely awful.

What's not to like about Reeses Peanut butter cups?
Peanut butter-good
Chocolate-good

Not always a good guide. After all,
octopus=good
chocolate=good
octopus+chocolate=not at all sure, but unlikely to be a hit.

Have you tried the great new taste of choctopus?

I don't like Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. What more can I say? We all have our flaws.

I once thought it would be "fun" to eat pancakes filled with marmite, gravy powder, ketchup, mustard, peanut butter and chocolate (i guess i wouldn't like Peanut Butter Cups then) rancid lemon juice and a ton of other random stuff. the pancakes were also microwaved to add to the taste (several boiled and exploded) and i was fed them blind folded by some of my mates. I had several gag reflexes and felt like i was going to vomit for at least an hour and afterwards i was sweating like hell. I even have it on film somewhere :)
Not really a food product but it comes close to eating any McDonalds product (same gag reflexes, same shivering fever). i could always market it i suppose...

Not always a good guide. After all,
octopus=good
chocolate=good
octopus+chocolate=not at all sure, but unlikely to be a hit.

Have you tried the great new taste of choctopus?

I don't like Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. What more can I say? We all have our flaws.


Reminds me of these "lovely" items:
The Wacky World of Japanese Ice Cream (http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/japano/0207/ice-cream/1.html) and The WACKIER World of Japanese Ice Cream (http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/photospecials/0406/ice-cream04/00.html). I've never seen any of these, but I'm not at all surprised.

hmm. Well I've had ox tail, cow brains, cow tongue, and rabbit. I've never really eaten anything really nasty...

I once thought it would be "fun" to eat pancakes filled with marmite, gravy powder, ketchup, mustard, peanut butter and chocolate (i guess i wouldn't like Peanut Butter Cups then) rancid lemon juice and a ton of other random stuff. the pancakes were also microwaved to add to the taste (several boiled and exploded) and i was fed them blind folded by some of my mates. I had several gag reflexes and felt like i was going to vomit for at least an hour and afterwards i was sweating like hell. I even have it on film somewhere :)
Not really a food product but it comes close to eating any McDonalds product (same gag reflexes, same shivering fever). i could always market it i suppose...


And that reminds me of the rice dish I whipped up late one night, to take to work as lunch the next day: fried rice with umeboshi sauce. Umeboshi are Japanese pickled plums. They really are good. But they are very salty and sour. The sauce is basically an umeboshi puree, and it's sometimes served as a condiment for meat dishes (especially yakitori, which it suits quite well). Try imagining fried rice made with a generous dose of both vinegar and salt, and you'll get close to how bad of an idea this was. (>.<)

As for "exotic"* meat dishes, here's what I've had:
(*some of these may be less exotic for one person, but quite exotic for someone else)
beef parts: liver, almost every part of the GI tract (haven't come accross anyone serving cow anus yet, and I hope I never will), brain, tounge, tail, heart, and tendons
chicken parts: liver, gizzard, feet, beaks, cartilage, tail bone, comb, and probably more that I can't remember
goat
BBQ kid (baby goat)
rabbit
pig's ears, feet, and snouts
whole grilled sparrow
armadillo
raccoon
squid: whole, pickled, raw, deep fried tentacals, and dried
octopus: dried, raw, and cooked
jellyfish
sea urchin
sea urchin roe
sea cucumber
whale
salted fish guts
pickled fish guts
pickled cod roe

Give me more time and I'm sure I can come up with a few I've forgotten...

hands down... AMERICAN BEEF!

forget mad cow, lets discuss factory farmed canibalistic estrogen filled cows that are more harmful than cocaine.

hooray!

Obviously someone who's never tried a Nebraska steak. Man, you've just never lived unless you've tried one!!!
Look for a company called Omaha Steaks, order some ribeye, grill that sumbitch, and get to eatin'.

* NOTE: Don't try this if you only eat well-done steaks. You're an idiot if you do, and :upyours:

Anything and everything that McDonalds makes

:eek:
That's me vomiting

I once had deep fried chicken feet. They weren't bad tasting to tell the truth, it's just that they looked like little mutant baby hands which was very off-putting. Too many bones as well.
The other day I tried fried cows intestines, which just didn't taste right. An overly strong favour, and I couldn't help thinking what went thru them when the cow was alive.
Dried octopus is pretty gamey.
Pigs Ears soup is chewy and unpleasant.

For the all-time worse food, I'd probably go for Tripe. That and rotten corn*
For shear disgusting smell, texture and taste they win hands down.
I've come to the conclusion that most culture's 'delicacies' are usually rotten foods that they only ate out of starvation and to talk themselves into eating it called it a delicacy (reverse pyschology). Either that or they tell foreigners it is to watch their faces trying it.

*To make rotten corn, you well, rot it. You put it in a muslin sack in a river for a couple of weeks 'til it's really soggy and gamey, then mush it. It looks and tastes like puke.
On a side note, apparently it's a South Pacific delicacy is to hang a shark for a couple of weeks til the outside goes green. You then strip this off and eat the inside. But cause I haven't seen it or tried it, I don't know if it's true so won't comment. Except to say: WTF is wrong with eating it fresh??!!? :confused:

On the plus side, Haggis is delicious, especially with soya sauce (note to self: expect flames from indignant traditionalist Scotsmen soon).

Its all the same SHIT.do not defend them.Ronald McDonald is EVIL.He is SATAN personified.
You defend a Corporation that sells what is essentially artificially flavoured animal fat as a milkshake?
Burgers made from cuts of meat you do not want to know about,with Textured Vegetable Protein and/or rusk added to bump up their profits?
French Fries made from dessicated potatoes,cut so thin they absorb so much oil they lose any taste or goodness?
You realise that in many countries this is peoples only experience of American food?
even here,you can go to TGI fridays,Hard Rock Cafe,etc,and get proper burgers,fries,chicken,RIBS!,
It's a little pricey,but much better quality.
Even Burger King seems like a four-star restaurant by comparison,big,meaty,Flame-grilled bastards.
-But last time I checked,BK was owned by a British Company.

I believe McDonalds when they say they use 100% beef. Try cooking up a burger patty which is nothing but mince beef and you'll see that it has the same leathery taste as a McDonalds patty. Burger King/Hungry Jacks burgers taste good because they load them up with fat. Some Burger King/Hungry Jacks meals contain more energy than a KFC meal. If you want a decent burger go down to your local takeaway food shop. Some of those burgers are half a foot high!

Try chicken lips in a creamed monkey sauce.
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!

Something must be said to defend McDonalds. Being a franchise the quality of food varies greatly from town to town, or even state to state. The McDonalds I get is vastly superior to that of other places, probably because of the high income rates of my are. Its unfair I know, but I had McDonalds in North Carolina once and it was terrible.

The worst McDonalds I had was in Canada...
When I was a teenager we never ate fast food unless we were in the ghetto.
See all those Ghetto kids working in the "High" side of town, like to "share" a little bit of themselves with you high income folks. However in the neighborhood, they dont mess with the food their moms and dads and brothers and sisters are eating.
So I would reconsider how "Special" that sauce is in your tax bracket.

The worst thing I have ever eaten is chitlins, period.

Give me more time and I'm sure I can come up with a few I've forgotten...

More "exotica":
wild duck
wild goose
wild pheasant
deer
deer sashimi
elk
moose
bear
wild boar
chocolate ants
horse
horse sashimi
fish eyeballs
fish head soup
deep fried fish fins
deep fried carp scales
alligator
crocodile
kangaroo
emu
ostritch
snapping turttle
crawfish
eel
squirrel
mountain/prarie oysters

Obviously someone who's never tried a Nebraska steak. Man, you've just never lived unless you've tried one!!!
Look for a company called Omaha Steaks, order some ribeye, grill that sumbitch, and get to eatin'.

* NOTE: Don't try this if you only eat well-done steaks. You're an idiot if you do, and :upyours:
A Kansas city barbecued brisket is the food of the gods.