I Pit Crab Juice

[Saintly Loser]

As requested by Green Bean:

I spent a lovely few days a few weeks back in San Francisco. I got together with old and dear friends and enjoyed being in a world utterly different from my New York world for a while. The only bad part of the trip (except for the return flight - see my post in the TSA idiocy thread in the Pit) came after dinner one night at a Japanese restaurant in Pacifica, a small town south of San Francisco where surfers hang out. Apparently there are great waves there. I wouldn't know, because not only do I not surf, I don't even know how to swim, which pretty much rules out even learning how to surf. I went there in the evening to meet some friends and some friends of theirs, all surfers, and the plan was to go to this Japanese place to have dinner. A number of them had eaten there before and all of them thought it was great.

And it was really good. The fish was fresh and of really good quality. I had about a dozen different kinds of sashimi, so I was feeling pretty good (and pretty full). There were crabs, too. Apparently one of the local fishermen had gotten a big haul, and the restaurant had bought a bunch. The crabs were great.

And then came the special after-dinner treat. Apparently this is a big deal in Japan. The now-empty (because you've eaten all the meat) crab shell is placed over a flame. The shell begins to heat up, which smells like burning hair, a smell that I've always hated. The bits of crab guts left inside the shell begin to cook. They smell too, although not as badly. Then, when the shell is thoroughly singed, it's filled up with warm sake. I don't especially like sake, but I don't think it's disgusting, so I thought this would be fine. The diners are given the crab shell, now filled with a sort of hot soup of sake and crab guts, and the soup is poured into a glass. Then the diners drink it, very quickly. I observed everyone else doing this, and they appeared to enjoy it, so I followed suit. When in Rome, as they say.

I can't even begin to tell you how disgusting this was. I can ingest pretty much anything. I've always had a cast-iron stomach. A short list of things I've eaten and even enjoyed which might be considered disgusting by others would include (but not be limited to) tripe, sweetbreads, blood sausage, blood pudding, monkey meat, various insects (cooked and raw), chitlins, calf brains, iguana, guinea pig (fried, on a stick), durian, and God only knows what else. But the crab drink was vile beyond belief. My stomach was upset for the rest of the night. I really thought I was going to heave right there at the table, and the ride home was even worse. It almost put a damper on the rest of my night, which was my last night in San Francisco and was spent with an old flame who I haven't seen in a while, but fortunately I managed to recover a little bit.

So there you have it. I have always prided myself on never being grossed out by the thought of eating anything, but now I have found my limits.

So what's the most disgusting thing you've ever eaten?

[Ike Witt]

Still it has to be better than Mountain Dew.

[askeptic]

I read the title of your thread, then read your name wrong. Thought it said "Saintly Lobster"...I laughed.

[Guy Betty]

So what's the most disgusting thing you've ever eaten?
I've eaten a lot of disgusting things. I once drank 2 day old beer out of my smelly old sneakers. But with out a doubt the worst was a green olive off of the tree. The guy who first tasted these things and then said I Think I Can Make Something Good Out Of These Abominations was a genius. Genius, I tell you!

[Squink]

the crab drink was vile beyond belief. My stomach was upset for the rest of the night.You probably got one of those nasty chain smoking crabs. (http://sidewayspony.com/images/trough/production/2007/jul/06/31714_orig_2007070532_1989802902.jpg)

[EddyTeddyFreddy]

I once drank 2 day old beer out of my smelly old sneakers. :confused:

Why?

Or do I really, really not want to know?

[Sitnam]

Still it has to be better than Mountain Dew.
Dammit, you stole my response...one of the best Simpsons quotes ever.

[bbs2k]

:confused:

Why?

Or do I really, really not want to know?I'm intrigued as well. As per the OP, I'm not surprised at the horrors of crab juice. I love sushi but those Japanese have some odd tastes. Aren't they the ones that try to eat a live squid whole as a show of strength. I've heard that sometimes the squids win.

[HazelNutCoffee]

I'm intrigued as well. As per the OP, I'm not surprised at the horrors of crab juice. I love sushi but those Japanese have some odd tastes. Aren't they the ones that try to eat a live squid whole as a show of strength. I've heard that sometimes the squids win.
Koreans eat live squid. Not as a show of strength, though - just because they think it's good. I've tried the smaller kind once. It was okay, but the idea is just so squicky that I didn't enjoy it very much.

[chowder]

Snails.

Bit into one and some gunge squirted into my mouth, the first thing I thought of was the slime trail a snail leaves.

It was a quick dash to the big porcelain telephone where I proceeded to engage in the longest technicoloured yawn since the creation of crow shit

[HazelNutCoffee]

I've eaten a lot of disgusting things. I once drank 2 day old beer out of my smelly old sneakers.
That sounds like something the seniors at my undergrad made the freshers do. It was a kind of hazing ritual with some of the departments.

[Autolycus]

Still it has to be better than Mountain Dew.

Fie on you! Fie!

[El Cid Viscoso]

I have found that even when slurped from the navel of a Swedish exchange student, sake always tastes like pee. Maybe that's the point. Dunno.

The worst thing I ever ate was a Marine Corps pork steak in BBQ sauce under which a pair of cockroaches had tried to take refuge right before they met the oven.

"Platoon Sergeant, this candidate has found a roach in his chow."

[11811]

As requested by Green Bean:

So what's the most disgusting thing you've ever eaten?

Fried clotted blood. In an Argentine restaurant in Mexico City. It was part of a mixed grill. My dining partner and I didn't ask until afterward. It had the texture of a plastic pot scrubber, and it tasted of Argentine hot sauce.

[Saintly Loser]

Fried clotted blood. In an Argentine restaurant in Mexico City. It was part of a mixed grill. My dining partner and I didn't ask until afterward. It had the texture of a plastic pot scrubber, and it tasted of Argentine hot sauce.


I've eaten that. In Argentine restaurants, of which there are many in Queens, New York. But I liked it. In fact, I like pretty much anything they serve in Argentine restaurants.

Come to think of it, "fried clotted blood" describes blood pudding pretty well, and it's a standard part of the classic Irish breakfast. Eggs, baked beans, white pudding (sort of caseless sausage), black pudding (fried clotted blood), sausage, ham, and, for some odd reason, a piece of fried tomato.

[Guy Betty]

:confused:

Why?

Or do I really, really not want to know?
It's not something I set out to do. I had a big party then went out of town for the weekend. I enlisted some friends to help me clean up when I returned. As a gag, someone poured one of the stale beers into my sneaker. It was an impulse really. Worse, someone snapped a picture of me mid-drink.

Yes, it was awful.

[chowder]

I've eaten that. In Argentine restaurants, of which there are many in Queens, New York. But I liked it. In fact, I like pretty much anything they serve in Argentine restaurants.

Come to think of it, "fried clotted blood" describes blood pudding pretty well, and it's a standard part of the classic Irish breakfast. Eggs, baked beans, white pudding (sort of caseless sausage), black pudding (fried clotted blood), sausage, ham, and, for some odd reason, a piece of fried tomato.
You forgot the mushrooms, fried bread and the toast, otherwise all you've succeeded in doing is making me hungry.

Thanks, thanks a lot :D

[Green Bean]

Thank you for posting the crab juice incident.

It was way worse than I expected. :eek:

[Alessan]

See, this is why I keep Kosher.

[Sapo]

I read the title of your thread, then read your name wrong. Thought it said "Saintly Lobster"...I laughed.
:D That's all I came here to post. Good thing I read first.

[Paladud]

There is a Korean food called Kejang (approximately translated as crab paste) which amounts to crab innards fermented in soy. It is by far the vilest thing I've ever tasted.

[crowmanyclouds]

...the classic Irish breakfast. Eggs, baked beans, white pudding (sort of caseless sausage), black pudding (fried clotted blood), sausage, ham, and, for some odd reason, a piece of fried tomato.It's an important part of a balanced breakfast!

:D
CMC fnord!
Damn, now I'm hungry too!

[Operation Ripper]

So what's the most disgusting thing you've ever eaten?

Among others, rotten softshell crab "sushi" in Jackson, WY. I immediately spit it out, but my sister was buzzed and overdosed hers with wasabi and didn't. The aftertaste, really got her attention though. The look on her face? Priceless.

[bbs2k]

Koreans eat live squid. Not as a show of strength, though - just because they think it's good. I've tried the smaller kind once. It was okay, but the idea is just so squicky that I didn't enjoy it very much.
Oops, you're right. It took me 15 minutes of alternating between "squid/swallow/live/korea/sushi" in google, but here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sannakji) it is!

I assumed it had something to do with honor and strength and all that la-la-la because in the documentary I saw happened to be about martial arts. Thanks for the catch.

[bbs2k]

:smack: double post

[threnodyangelfire]

I have been waiting for someone to make this post, because my brother has the best "foul food" blog. Two examples:

was in chinatown & everytime i go to chinatown i like to get a different wierd chinese softdrink, i've had coffee, milk, carrot, bacon, bannana, basil eyes, prawn, some i cant even describe, just from memory, i do it to feel worldly, truth is it's cos i have an insatiable appetite for this kind of thing - oh yeah, here's a challenge - pick something fucked up, i'll make a soft drink out of it & film myself drinking it for you (not like bong water, i'm not johnny fucking knoxville) winner gets a prize. that's right its a competition.

anyway this little beauty has been looking at me for weeks, teasing me, undressing me with it's little (note banned in australia) tin can eyes. - asparagus softdrink - $1.20 of the worst aftertaste & churning stomach you'll ever suffer.

you get it in your mouth and your tongue is all like "dude, i dont have tastebuds that register fucking disgusting" and your all like "sorry bud" and he's all like "that's cool" then it hits the gag - and if you're not a sword swallower (or someone else trained in the arts) at that point you're in very real trouble.

but persevere it gets worse - but maybe asparagus soda & half litre of rum & raisin icecream & miscellanious nori rolls aren't the best of bedfellows.

the good news is it's not over, just like it's preserved of freshly picked cousins - turns your pee bright green. hello ladies.

it's the same reason they don't make motorbikes with babyseats on the front - it's a fucking stupid idea (if you steal my idea you are so fucking sued) who am i kidding - i'm at work at the moment and my contract SPECIFICALLY say's anything i do here is owned by the company i work for. so there.


ok, saute' some mushrooms or if you cant be bothered get a can of mushrooms in butter sauce - but be warned, they are the scabbiest mushrooms that's why they put them in sauce. cos you cant SEE how scabby they are.

what you need to do now is blend the mushroomy stuff with some eggs and maybe put some brown sauce in there. then into a tall glass.

put it all in the microwave for a couple minutes. the floating mushroom chuncks will now be suspended in a glass tall steaming pillar of egg. this is what you want. if you've done it wrong there will be mushrooms & egg all over the ceiling of your microwave. just scrape it up, put it back in the glass & try again.

now get a tin of peeled tomatoes & bung them in a fry pan with some onions. shuffle it around at low heat like you know what your doing - if you have some red wine, nows the time. be warned. it always comes out of the box quicker then you expect.

leave it for a bit and go play tekken. when the smoke alarms go off your almost there.

cut your egg mushroom log into inch thick slices & rest on a half bowl of the tomatoee crap. garnish if your a jerk.

Gah, I love this guy.

[MerryMagdalen]

Someone needs Steve, Don't Eat It! (http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/cat_steve_dont_eat_it.php)

[pulykamell]

That Swedish "delicacy" known as surstromming (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surstromming). It's basically fermented herring. If the idea of fermented fish sounds good to you (and, to be honest, it doesn't sound bad at all to me), you're better off imagining rotting fish dragged through dog shit to imagine the vile odor of this dish.


hese bacteria produce carbon dioxide and a number of compounds that account for the unique odor: pungent propionic acid, rotten-egg hydrogen sulfide, rancid-butter butyric acid, and vinegary acetic acid.

Yumm-o!

This is the only substance I've ever eaten that made me want to vomit. The most amazing thing was within about 30 seconds of me opening a can of surstromming (outside, of course), a swarm of about two or three dozen flies appeared out of nowhere. I'm completely serious. It's as if they spontaneously formed from the odor itself.

I've also had eyeball tacos on Maxwell Street market--they were slightly disgusting (the eyeballs were left whole, not chopped up or anything), but they didn't taste terrible--just a little organy and bland.

[CannyDan]

As requested by Green Bean:...A short list of things I've eaten and even enjoyed which might be considered disgusting by others would include (but not be limited to) tripe, sweetbreads, blood sausage, blood pudding, monkey meat, various insects (cooked and raw), chitlins, calf brains, iguana, guinea pig (fried, on a stick), durian, and God only knows what else....
So what's the most disgusting thing you've ever eaten?

I've had most of these, including the "God knows what else".

I love crab. And I don't mind saki.

But you say that crab juice as served to you is worse than durian? Durian?!!?!!?

Enough for me-- I'll steer a wide course around crab juice.

Durian. *shudder* Even the memory makes me gag......

[Sofaspud]

You probably got one of those nasty chain smoking crabs. (http://sidewayspony.com/images/trough/production/2007/jul/06/31714_orig_2007070532_1989802902.jpg)
Psst... Squink? I'm thinking you linked to someone else's pics, and it appears they didn't take kindly to it.

Unless you WERE referring to the pic you linked to, in which case, color me confused?

And now, so this isn't a total hijack:

Earthworm stew. Take a few tubs of several-day-old bait worms, dump 'em in a pot (don't bother washing them first) with a little bit of water and a box of wine that the poor schlub who brought it will never live down, add the miscellaneous leavings of a week-long fishing trip -- crawdad tails, fish heads, whatever -- and stir in all the hot sauce you can scrape together.

Lubricate yourself well with a bottle of tequila and chow down.

WATCH! The amazing faces these crazy drunken bastards make as they force down the Earthworm Stew!

LISTEN! To the agonized howls coming from their camp as the vile mixture begins to work on their delicate internal organs.

SEE! Projectile vomit!

To be fair, none of were planning on eating it when we starting putting it together... but that bottle of tequila and the lack of food in the camp made for interesting rationalizations.

*shudder*

[Squink]

Psst... Squink? I'm thinking you linked to someone else's picsOhh, it does look that way now. And here I thought that's why the site existed in the first place. My bad.

[tdn]

I have found that even when slurped from the navel of a Swedish exchange student, sake always tastes like pee.
Dude, that wasn't her navel. And it wasn't sake.

I once took a swig of beer that a cockroach was also imbibing. When it entered my mouth, it was still alive. I didn't swallow, I spat.

[hotflungwok]

The Jones Soda Holiday Pack (http://www.jonessoda.com/files_new/turkey06.html)

I brought it into work a few years ago as a joke, and convinced everyone to try them. They were gut wrenchingly awful. We questioned whether I'd managed find one from the previous year. For hours afterward, if I belched I tasted it. Word got around, and people were coming up from other floors to try the nasty soda. We told them not to, how awful it was, truly horribly vile, but they had to taste it. And then they agreed, it was awful, and went and told their friends, who had to try the nasty soda...

The next year, we had people asking if I was bringing them in a week before Thanksgiving. It was even worse. I couldn't stomach the smell of the brussel sprout soda, much less drink it. We had to throw away the empty bottles outside of the office because of the stench.

This past year they had a dessert pack too, but the Thanksgiving set was just as awful.

[cowgirl]

And yet tomato juice mixed with clam juice (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clamato) is surprisingly delicious, especially when you have the right mixers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Caesar).

Altho it appears I'm only saying that because I'm Canadian.

[Jodi]

Among others, rotten softshell crab "sushi" in Jackson, WY.

Well, there's your problem right there. Two words that don't go together are "suishi" and "Wyoming."

[kaiwik]

While living in a Native Alaskan fishing village I walked into an elder's home, and she was eating dinner. I recognized the boiled fish (pink salmon) but not the gallon jar of pink chunks floating in an oily substance. She invited me to join her, but I paused. She told me that her grandson (raised in the Lower 48) had tried it and loved it. I looked at him and he slowly shook his head. I asked her what it was. "Boiled humpy and stink oil. Doug loves it." Another look at Doug, who is still shaking his head. I asked him if he tried it, and he nodded. The elder said "It tastes like walnuts!" Doug shook his head. I asked him what it tasted like, he replied "Roadkill". I passed. I also passed on fish head soup and boiled braided seal gut.

[Count Blucher]

Come to think of it, "fried clotted blood" describes blood pudding pretty well, and it's a standard part of the classic Irish breakfast. Eggs, baked beans, white pudding (sort of caseless sausage), black pudding (fried clotted blood), sausage, ham, and, for some odd reason, a piece of fried tomato.

Which, if you eat quickly and then chase down with two tall iced-tea sized glasses of Powers, will leave you 15 minutes later coughing up 'rotting-meat shots' stew.

Which brings us back to the Op.

[Green Bean]

And yet tomato juice mixed with clam juice (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clamato) is surprisingly delicious, especially when you have the right mixers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Caesar).

Altho it appears I'm only saying that because I'm Canadian.

Hey, I'm not Canadian. Not even a little bit. And I luuuurrrrve Clamato.

Of course, I am under the care of a psychiatrist. Make of that what you will.

[Rysdad]

Does "crab juice" actually need to be pitted? I mean, any more than fetid smegma or extra chunky menstrual clots?

It's inherently self-pitted by the nature of its very existence.

[Heffalump and Roo]

I've been tempted to post this is some of the "what foods gross you out" threads, but I'll post it here instead.

I knew a guy that loved to go fishing and snorkeling for squid and lobsters. When he caught a squid, he would bite out the eye and start eating it while the tentacles were still sucking. And when he caught a lobster, he would crack it open and start eating right there, brains and all.

Ack, grosses me out just to think about it.

And while I'm sharing this story, I'll add another unrelated one. Did you know that if you hang an eel up on a clothesline, it will turn itself inside out and its guts will fall out? Well, now you know.

[Saintly Loser]

Which, if you eat quickly and then chase down with two tall iced-tea sized glasses of Powers, will leave you 15 minutes later coughing up 'rotting-meat shots' stew.

Which brings us back to the Op.

If you chase anything down with two tall ice-tea sized glasses of Powers, you'll be coughing it up in short order. Either that or being treated for alcohol poisoning. Two tall ice-tea sized glasses? That's gotta be at least a quart of whiskey.

I love Powers. It's my standard drink. Come to think of it, it's time for that first after-work drink right about now. And I love a good Irish breakfast. But all things in moderation, and somethings just don't go together. Whiskey isn't for breakfast. And it's not meant to be drunk by the quart.

[BrainGlutton]

Once at a British-style restaurant-pub I ordered, on impulse, the steak and kidney pie. The steak wasn't bad but the kidneys were like liver to the tenth power. I was still tasting it the next day, and not in a good way.

[Count Blucher]

If you chase anything down with two tall ice-tea sized glasses of Powers, you'll be coughing it up in short order. Either that or being treated for alcohol poisoning. Two tall ice-tea sized glasses? That's gotta be at least a quart of whiskey.

I love Powers. It's my standard drink. Come to think of it, it's time for that first after-work drink right about now. And I love a good Irish breakfast. But all things in moderation, and somethings just don't go together. Whiskey isn't for breakfast. And it's not meant to be drunk by the quart.

Fair enough. I can claim that spooge (http://retrocrush.buzznet.com/archive2006/hosts/tomkennedy.jpg) in just one tall iced tea glass (http://lancaster.unl.edu/food/iced-tea.JPG) of Powers...

[Saintly Loser]

Once at a British-style restaurant-pub I ordered, on impulse, the steak and kidney pie. The steak wasn't bad but the kidneys were like liver to the tenth power. I was still tasting it the next day, and not in a good way.

I like steak and kidney pie. A few years back, I lived in the East Village (Manhattan, New York City). There was a pub on Second Avenue called Ryan's (generally overpriced, but other than that, a decent joint) that would serve it once in a while.

[BrainGlutton]

I once took a swig of beer that a cockroach was also imbibing. When it entered my mouth, it was still alive. I didn't swallow, I spat.

An Englishman, a Scotsman and an Irishman go into a bar. Each orders a beer. Three flies fly into the bar and one lands in each beer. The Englishman pushes his beer away. The Scotsman picks the fly out of his beer and drinks it. The Irishman picks the fly out and then holds it over the beer, shouting, "Spit it out, damn ye! Spit it out!"

[Mangetout]

Once at a British-style restaurant-pub I ordered, on impulse, the steak and kidney pie. The steak wasn't bad but the kidneys were like liver to the tenth power. I was still tasting it the next day, and not in a good way.
Hehehe. It's our secret weapon.

I love a good snake and pygmy pie - until quite recently, I was eating one every day - the sandwich van that calls at work had them in a hot box. Fortunately for my ballooning waistline and shrinking wallet, the van doesn't call here anymore, so I have to waddle up the road to the bakery to get one, which I only do about once a week at most now.

Most disgusting thing I ever tasted was a rotten brazil nut - it was like a combination of the distilled essence of month-old restaurant garbage, sewage farm explosion and terminal halitosis. The taste just wouldn't go away, no matter how much I rinsed, scrubbed, flossed, spat, retched and hacked.

[lieu]

Fried clotted blood.Mmmmm... warm animal scabs.

[Anaamika]

I don't see how sake's any different than beer, which also tastes like pee.

For me it was either the goat's brains, or, when I was eating crabs that had literally been dumped into a pot still alive and cooked, the eggs. The crabs themselves were delicious but they said the orange stuff was the eggs, and I should eat it! Yuck. I tried a bit and then gave the rest to the SO's aunt, who loves that stuff. Ugh.

I have managed to avoid most of the other things, spending most of my life either as a vegetarian or chicken-only meat eater.

[Left Hand of Dorkness]

The Jones Soda Holiday Pack (http://www.jonessoda.com/files_new/turkey06.html)
Oh Lord. I kinda like the durian candy my wife brought back from Thailand, but that Jones Thanksgiving soda? I have never tasted anything so foul.

My brother bought a pack and gave us each a bottle in our Christmas stocking. After Christmas dinner, we broke them out and passed them around. I took one sip of one of them (I forget which--maybe the turkey stuffing one) and nearly vomited--by which I mean that I concentrated really hard on not vomiting for a long time until I got my gorge under control. From that point on, I couldn't even watch other people drink them: when I saw someone lift the bottle to their lips, I nearly threw up. When we poured them down the drain--even the cranberry one--I had to hold my breath to say non-nauseated.

I wonder whether they put a mild emetic in them. Something about them tasted very weirdly chemical and revolting.

Daniel

[groman]

A piece of raw red meat covered with a thick and chunky layer of ginger sauce that was later revealed to me as being horsemeat when it was still in my mouth being chewed. :eek: Honestly I think I'd almost rather it was human or something -- something about eating horses is just surreally wrong.

A particullary large clod of natto. That was just warm snot on rice -- chunky style. I think it was moving.

Cinnamon vanilla milkshake. I hate cinnamon. I hate vanilla. I hate ginger. They all burn my mouth. However, I'll make an exception. Perhaps ginger could make the cinnamon vanilla milkshake better because as bad as ginger is, my belief that nothing could make the cinnamon vanilla milkshake any worse is much stronger.

[Ludovic]

I don't see how sake's any different than beer, which also tastes like pee.Hmmm, is crab juice, or sake for that matter, more disgustingly-colored than green tea? And people complain about the suggestive color of Mountain Dew! (and now the thread's gone full circle...)

[Otto]

Dammit, you stole my response...one of the best Simpsons quotes ever.
It's not a quote.

[Elendil's Heir]

Never mind.

[fluiddruid]

Closing zombie thread.