Grossest thing you have had to eat

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THis may have been covered already, but with all the recent yummy food threads and pics, I thought I would chime in with gross meals.

So, what is the most heinous thing you have ever eaten to keep your stomach silent when in the brush?

Personally, I have done the ants and g-hoppers to death, no big deal. I have also eaten a magpie (which was terrible, by the way) plus grubs and various larvae. The worst, however, was one I was not expecting. I was just weekend camping, doing some fishing etc, and I had a box of "nuts n' bolts" with me. It was an old box I just grabbed from the cupboard on the way out of the house, so I knew it would be stale, but not a big deal right? Well, wrong. After a night of hanging out by the fire, we all crawled into our dark tents to see the night away. I had the munchies and figured the old stale box of Nuts n' Bolts would be ideal to snack on in the tent, so I laid into it. Well, it was all soggy and had obviously soaked up a lot of moisture. Gross.


Oh wait, it doesn't stop there, heheh. So anyhoo, I continue to munch on the soggy Nuts n' Bolts and finally decide to read a book while doing so. So I sparked up the flashlight, hung it above me and began to read. I continued to eat the snack but became increasingly unhappy with the consistency. I then thought to myself "cripes how old is this crap anyway?" as I looked at a handful of it. Only then did I realize it was rife with maggots. By this time I had eaten nearly half the box. :barf: No it didn't hurt me, but the surprise factor was absolutely gut-wrenching!
 
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One night when I was a kid, my mother served us liver and onions -- again. This time it was particularly thin, hard, and overdone. I refused to eat it. She refused to let me leave the table till I did.

I didn't, and she never served that crap again. I don't eat gross.
 
Esav Benyamin said:
One night when I was a kid, my mother served us liver and onions -- again. This time it was particularly thin, hard, and overdone. I refused to eat it. She refused to let me leave the table till I did.

I didn't, and she never served that crap again. I don't eat gross.
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When I was a kid my grams was cooking some liver and it smelled like the best stuff in the world, however the taste didn't match. Anything that ketchup doesn't make taste better isn't fit for consumption. :p

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The grossiest thing I ever ate turned out to not be what I thought it was. I was in Malaysia and my host had me at restaurant eating all sorts of exotic (to me) foods. One "thing" once I started to eat had lots of little bones conected like knuckles. My stereotypeometer kicked in and since I was eating Chinese food in a small Asian country it just HAD to be dog paw! :eek:

Well I smiled and used lots of water and made it through as to not offend my host. Only later did I learn it was hog's foot. :foot: Either way, it tasted just fine and although culturally hog is food, even though it is dirty, it was better psycologically after that. :o
 
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When I was in Turkey, we used to organize bus trips to a town up on the plateau, and the driver would stop for lunch at a simple roadside resaurant. We went in to eat, too, and most of the guys would not touch the food. They had soda and some of them would eat the bread.

I saw two huge vats, almost big enough to boil a missionary, in the kitchen. One had stuffed pepper and the other stuffed tomato, stuffed with rice & lamb, floating in thick gravy.

Not only was it really good, the stuffed pepper was exactly the way my grandmother made it. Turkish food was not all that exotic, but it was always good. And unlike your Malaysian pig's foot, it was practically kosher, too! :D
 
Although it's not worth getting sick or injured, I think that hospital could make a lot of money using that as a dedicated weight loss program! I'd like to drop a good 30+ lbs.

I haven't eaten that much gross food but I don't particularly like tripe type dishes or anything else that contains stomach meat. Or snake (which doesn't really taste especially close to any chicken I've prepared).

DancesWithKnives
 
Natto. It's fermented soy beans. Shiokara, which is squid stomach. Uni, raw sea urchin.
Oh, and anything cooked by my mother.
 
The natto looks/feels gross too. And although uni is popular here, I always thought it tasted like it was dredged up out of the bottom of the harbor.

DancesWithKnives
 
While in Germany, my host mother often made sandwiches with the German equivalent of spam that were heavily buttered. She was also fond of serving raw trout with a large slab of cold butter on top for dinner. They were the most disgusting things I have ever eaten. I still cannot put butter on any of my food. Haggis comes in third.

Since this is W&S, the worst thing I ever consumed in the woods has to be the blood of the first deer I took in my early teens.
 
Tripe (stomach lining of some domestic animal) cooked in milk with onions. My Dad loved it but even just the smell of it cooking cleared the house.

In spain I tried it again as a tapas, this time it was used as the layers in a sort of lasagna. It was far more edible in this form.
 
Chicken Burrito...that my buddy had just thrown up:D Yes, I was in the Army...and was drinking....heavily.
 
We were all playing pool one night and there were Bud bottles all over the place. I picked up what I thought was mine and put it to my lips to take a drink. Much to my surprise it was not beer but a bottle full of Skoal flavored saliva.......:(

It wasn't my spit bottle..... :(

Ugh.... Oh - and my mom's hamburgers - Bleh...
 
In Viet Nam they do what they call Nuc Mam...fish head soup....it tasted like it looked. Actual fish head pieces with an occasional eye looking up at you....I couldn't do it...
 
Silkworm, Pidgeon, and a dish called Eels and ox tripe in duck blood sauce.

China was an interesting place...
 
In my travels while in the ARMY I got to sample a lot of less than desireable foods in less than desireable countries but nothing was ever as bad as my ex wifes cooking.
Oldman/Marty
 
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