# Disgusting foods you crave. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 28, 2012, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-foods-you-crave/617079 "2012-03-28T20:13:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-foods-you-crave/617079/41 "2012-03-29T12:40:52Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > Let’s get back to basics here: white bread with (real) butter. > mmm Does not meet the qualifications of the OP. Anyone find bread and butter disgusting? Anyone? Anyone? No. ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-foods-you-crave/617079/42 "2012-03-29T12:42:52Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > Does not meet the qualifications of the OP. Anyone find bread and butter disgusting? Anyone? Anyone? > > No. I usually become disgusted when I attempt to spread butter on white bread…nigh impossible without waiting around for it to soften. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-foods-you-crave/617079/43 "2012-03-29T12:47:51Z")
> [@Sicks\_Ate](#): > > I usually become disgusted when I attempt to spread butter on white bread…nigh impossible without waiting around for it to soften. That’s what comes of a culture that keeps butter in the refrigerator. It’ll keep very nicely in a butter dish on the counter for days! Always ready to go!! ---
**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-foods-you-crave/617079/44 "2012-03-29T13:09:50Z")
Mexican chorizo, the one made from the parts of the pig leftover when scrapple is made (which in turn are made from the parts leftover when hotdogs are made) ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-foods-you-crave/617079/45 "2012-03-29T13:22:27Z")
My cousin, instead of buying the good stuff, bought a tube of Mexican chorizo in a plastic tube from Walmart for a dollar. She cooked it, but we didn’t like the look of that bright red goop in the pan, and furthermore, reading the ingredients that included spleen, lungs, and I don’t know what else, we couldn’t bring ourselves to put it in the burritos. We were hungry, but not that hungry. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-foods-you-crave/617079/46 "2012-03-29T13:25:36Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > Let’s get back to basics here: white bread with (real) butter. > mmm There is nothing disgusting about that. Using margarine turns it disgusting. A baloney sammich on spongey white bread with sweet pickles and mayonnaise is frowned upon now, but we ate it all the time when we were kids. Even worse - Miracle Whip. ---
**Author:** ![StuffLikeThatThere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc8723/32.png) [@StuffLikeThatThere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StuffLikeThatThere)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-foods-you-crave/617079/47 "2012-03-29T13:34:12Z")
> [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](#): > > I’ve been on a rather restrictive diet for a few weeks, and one of the things I’m looking forward to (when I get to the low-carb part) is tuna salad. > At lunch time today I was wanting a hotdog. I haven’t had a hotdog in years, possibly a more than a decade. My inner fat girl must be taking all my childhood food memories out for a walk to get me to eat something. I was on a really weird, very restrictive diet for eight weeks before a medical treatment. I had cravings for things I don’t even like. I wanted to drink Cheez Whiz. My husband ended up doing the grocery shopping toward the end - just walking past all the things I couldn’t have (mayonnaise, straight from the jar!!!) made me all crazypants. Maybe twice a year, I buy a Banquet turkey pot pie - you know the ones you can get for 50 cents on sale? - and eat it in secret, where no one can see me. Mmmm. Mushy weird potato cubes! ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-foods-you-crave/617079/48 "2012-03-29T13:50:43Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Same with kala namak, or black salt, which is actually pink - weird funky smell, but OH HOW I LOVE IT. Nah. Some black salt is actually black. I have some very black salt sitting right next to my stove. Goes GREAT with any egg dish. The sulfur in the kala namak sets off the eggs like nothing else. ---
**Author:** ![slightly\_askew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d07c76/32.png) [@slightly\_askew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slightly_askew)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-foods-you-crave/617079/49 "2012-03-29T14:02:18Z")
I crave Cadbury Creme Eggs. Luckily it’s Easter and they are in abundant supply. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-foods-you-crave/617079/50 "2012-03-29T14:12:14Z")
> [@Saintly\_Loser](#): > > Blood sausage and sweetbreads. > > Offal is heavenly. Indeed. ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-foods-you-crave/617079/51 "2012-03-29T15:13:14Z")
I love some foods that certain other people consider either disgusting or beneath contempt… such as: - Chicken livers - Steak & kidney pie - Hershey bars - Ho Ho’s - KFC (and I used to WORK there!) - Uni ---
**Author:** ![OtisCampbellWasRight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/d78d45/32.png) [@OtisCampbellWasRight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtisCampbellWasRight)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-foods-you-crave/617079/52 "2012-03-29T15:18:55Z")
We are into a second page and no one else has mentioned my favorite food? OYSTERS! Especially on the half shell. Lemon juice, cocktail sauce, tabasco. I’d eat them any time of the day (and I have) and the wife is totally grossed out. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-foods-you-crave/617079/53 "2012-03-29T16:03:45Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > Does not meet the qualifications of the OP. Anyone find bread and butter disgusting? Anyone? Anyone? > > No. > [@salinqmind](#): > > There is nothing disgusting about that. I beg to differ. I know plenty of folks who find white bread disgusting. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-foods-you-crave/617079/54 "2012-03-29T16:06:38Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > Just this week I bought my two (2) annual cans of genuine SpaghettiOs. With meatballs, thank you very much. Ate 'em for breakfast two days in a row. That should hold me until next March. Pieces of HOT DOGS, girl. That’s where it’s at, SpaghettoOs-wise. > [@SpoilerVirgin](#): > > Yesterday I was on a message board (I’m pretty sure it wasn’t this one), and someone was discussing grilled ham and cheese sandwiches. I had never had one in my life, but suddenly I was craving one. So today for lunch I went down to the trendy, expensive deli and ordered one. In a word, disgusting. I"m sure it was well made, but the greasiness of the cheese combined with the ham…ewww. Geez, what did they do to it? Luscious, but to avoid the butter-grill-cheese aspect, pop it under the broiler. Toasted cheese and ham is mighty fine (and not gross, despite the thread we’re in). Also: what is wrong with me that I want to try _lungs_. Just once, though. Mine: canned tamales. They are greasy and goopy and really hit the spot. Hard. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-foods-you-crave/617079/55 "2012-03-29T16:06:51Z")
> [@OtisCampbellWasRight](#): > > OYSTERS! Those are soooooo not disgusting! Yum! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-foods-you-crave/617079/56 "2012-03-29T16:17:45Z")
Canned meat in general. I love the stuff. Spam, canned corned beef, Underwood Deviled meat spreads, Vienna Sausages, the no-name canned beef in gravy from Dollar General, my own canned venison…It’s all good. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-foods-you-crave/617079/57 "2012-03-29T16:18:01Z")
Swanson now makes these chicken-flavored packets of flavor-enhacing goo called Flavor Boost. I suck on them, plain, at work sometimes. Salty bombs of chicken-y goodness, though I’m sure my breath is pretty atrocious afterwards. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-foods-you-crave/617079/58 "2012-03-29T16:29:57Z")
Marshmallow Peeps for me. I know that most people consider them inedible, but I love them. And they’re everywhere right now - time for my annual six-pack! ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-foods-you-crave/617079/59 "2012-03-29T16:42:15Z")
Snails. This is especially problematic because I have several varieties of _pet_ snails in my aquariums. ---
**Author:** ![Scotticher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Scotticher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scotticher)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-foods-you-crave/617079/60 "2012-03-29T17:23:38Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > Does not meet the qualifications of the OP. Anyone find bread and butter disgusting? Anyone? Anyone? > > No. Well…it is if you butter the white bread, cut off the crusts and roll up just the white part and squish it up so it is really doughy. I used to get in trouble all the time for doing this when I was a kid. Of course, I used to love raw pie dough, too. And now I’m craving both of those things. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-foods-you-crave/617079.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-foods-you-crave/617079.md?page=4)