Grossest thing you have had to eat

James_Terrio said:
Is that what tapas is? The trendy yuppie bars around here have tapas nights and yahoos pay a cover to get in... guess I'm glad I'm not that hip...


no if I remember right tapas are just small plates of food, the contents can be any number of things. Most of them are delicious, hell they even made tripe palatable.
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peanuts said:
Wow, I didn't realise vegemite was that bad to you guys. Like SteelIsReal said, the key is to spread it very thin with butter. Then it actually tastes nice. Or, depending on how mean you are, you could tell tourists who have not had the pleasure of trying it before that it tastes just like chocolate, and you can eat it right out of the jar :D
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It's not the taste that gets me. It's the concept. It reminds me too much of 'Soylent Green,' or the old Steve McQueen movie, 'The Blob.' I visualize the stuff bubbling and growing, expanding and consuming everything in it's path.... :eek:

Actually, the taste isn't all that bad. :p I wouldn't go so far as to say it's good, but some of the recipes you guys put forth here 'almost' make it sound like a worthwhile feed. Almost. Anyway, it's gotta be better than Balut! ;)

Stitchawl
 
James_Terrio said:
Some of you have mentioned lutefisk and pickled herring. I'm a Norski and my own family, although quite proud of their heritage, never inflicted lutefisk on me.
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Just think of it as hot buttered, clear, fish jello and you got it!

James_Terrio said:
Pickled herring, on the other hand, is absolutely delicious.
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Dittos on that! i LOVE pickled herring and eat it as a dessert after holiday meals!

------ Eric
 
While we're on fish... I enjoy the kippered herring as well, although it's so rich I don't eat very much or very often. Sardines, however... :barf: That's not food, that's bait!
 
peanuts said:
Wow, I didn't realise vegemite was that bad to you guys. Like SteelIsReal said, the key is to spread it very thin with butter. Then it actually tastes nice. Or, depending on how mean you are, you could tell tourists who have not had the pleasure of trying it before that it tastes just like chocolate, and you can eat it right out of the jar :D
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Vegemite looks like axle grease, and as said by others has that medicine-y taste. That said, I appreciate its nutritive properties and kind of liked it on toasted crusty bread - it has a salty taste to my palate. I could see myself eating it on a regular basis :)
 
Vegemite kicks arse after a long hot hike in summer, when your body is craving salt.

try this:

slab of multigrain bread, big chunk of aged white cheddar, vegemite, and tabasco sauce. MMMMMMM!
 
I ran errands today so I grabbed a Subway sandwich. It was a Chicken Pizziola and I thought it was gonna be great as usual. It would have been except for the 3 bones I almost broke my teeth on, couldn't even finish half the footlong. Not sure why but I almost yacked on my desk.

Fried Mushrooms, why anyone would do this is beyond me. Taste like runny pond scum.

Those are the last couple of times my stomach turned because of food.
 
I think the grossest things we've all eaten are the things we don't know about.

I knew a guy who went to school to be a chef. He said the first thing they told them was to never send your food back at a restaurant. ;) :barf:
 
Chinpo said:
Natto. It's fermented soy beans. Shiokara, which is squid stomach. Uni, raw sea urchin.
Oh, and anything cooked by my mother.
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I have to agree...natto is THE grossest thing I have seen people eat willingly. I, for one, will not go near the stuff.
 
Me neither, but at least it's just a vegetable dish. Somehow rotting embryos and other animal parts gross me out worse.

DancesWithKnives
 
I can recall a few really bad foods during 25 years in the Army and another 15 or so years travelling around the world for other agencies. One of the worst was in Nam (70-71) when our ARVN counterpoints invited some of us to a 'warrior's dinner.' After much pretty good food and drink, the final course, the challenge course, was served. This was a fancy teak wood box about 12 by 8 inches and maybe two inches deep. The box was filled with dark honey and suspended in the honey were drowned baby white mice. We had to pick out a dead little mouse by the tail with chopsticks, hold it over your mouth, and then down the hatch, fur, guts, eyeballs, and all. I did it and kept it down but I still shudder almost 40 years later thinking about it.

Another Nam nasty was 'hut ga lon' and I'm sure I didn't spell that right. Anyway, it's fertile chicken eggs. The Vietnamese stick a needle in the small end of the egg to kill the embryo and then bury the eggs real shallow in an outside sandbox in full sun. After a number of weeks, they dig up the eggs and girls go around on the streets selling them. The Vietnamese love the damned things but you want to be many yards upwind when they crack one open. The smell is so bad it's indescribable. Your nose hairs curl up and fall out and you can't see because of the tears in your eyes. Kid you not. I don't know how they can eat them but they do.

Final war story. I served with the Sudanese army in Africa in 81 and went on some long range desert patrols with them via camel. Now, please understand, male camels are for freight only and you ride the females. When one gives birth on the march, it is immediately killed, stuffed in a bag and added to a male camel's freight load. So the dead baby camel rides a day or two in a bag where the temps hit 130 or better during the day. When we finally camped for a night or so, the baby camel was brought out and cleaned for the night's communal cook pot. Wow! The smell was about as bad as the aforementioned rotten eggs and being cooked up as a stew doesn't help much. I lost a lot of weight on those 'missions.'
 
Jesus H, part of me is glad I never went to Korea, sounds like the bastards in that part of the world have some terrible ideas as to what is or is not food. From what I have read about the dishes over there, I think I would rather eat the stains from Roseanne's underbritches than take my chances with the menu from the orient.
 
i'm not sure the worst maybe curddled pigs blood, it tastse like copper and has the consistency of tofu. I skiped the duck and chicken embryo's. I felt a little bit bad after eating donkey meat (but it tasted good before i knew what it was)

I've eaten and enjoyed stomache, intestines, hearts, and ears of various animals
I like stir fried silk worms, the cicaidas i had were cooked too soft and not so tasty. I don't usually care for kidney or liver though.
 
The REAL Commander said:
Jesus H, part of me is glad I never went to Korea, sounds like the bastards in that part of the world have some terrible ideas as to what is or is not food. From what I have read about the dishes over there, I think I would rather eat the stains from Roseanne's underbritches than take my chances with the menu from the orient.
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I just spent a week in Pusan, S. Korea last month. Some of the tastiest eating in Asia! BBQ'd meats being sold all over, great stews, delicious veggie plates, each with a very distinctive flavor. There are dozens of different kimchees to choose from, and are eaten with every meal. These days you will pretty much only find dog stews being sold by street vendor in market areas. Very different from 20 years ago, when you'd find it in many shops too. Dog is a strong flavor, strong like mutton or bear, and needs to be cooked by someone who knows how to deal with it properly.

Asia is NOT a place for the typical stereotyped Midwestern 'meat and potatoes' eater. Fortunately for those folks who find themselves on this side of the International Date line, McDonalds is now selling their Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese here, and Pizza Hut, KFC, and Wendy's can be found in every country in the cities.

Stitchawl
 
I have had some "Korean BBQ" from various restaurants here, pretty good stuff. I imagine even in Korea the food has improved a lot since the early 50's, at least to a Westerner's standards. But some of the "food" I have seen others post about here, wow, sounds mighty unpleasant, heheh.
 
The REAL Commander said:
I have had some "Korean BBQ" from various restaurants here, pretty good stuff. I imagine even in Korea the food has improved a lot since the early 50's, at least to a Westerner's standards. But some of the "food" I have seen others post about here, wow, sounds mighty unpleasant, heheh.
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There is a lot to be said for 'what we grew up on.' My friend can only eat what he calls 'breakfast food' for his 'first meal of the day.' Eggs, cereal, OJ, pancakes, etc. Unless he gets these, he won't eat anything else regardless of the hour. I'm just as happy to have a cheeseburger, pizza, or a bowl of miso soup with some rice. My preferred movie theater snack is popcorn but the Koreans would rather have dried squid. http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd323/Stitchawl_photos/MovieSquid.jpg
You won't find dried squid at theaters in Japan but it is one of the snacks of choice when drinking beer! My cat really loves it... :p

Stitchawl
 
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