# "Disgusting" foods you love that the majority can't seem to stand. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 6, 2010, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-foods-you-love-that-the-majority-cant-seem-to-stand/559644 "2010-11-06T00:40:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-foods-you-love-that-the-majority-cant-seem-to-stand/559644/81 "2013-02-25T15:07:02Z")
[Fried silkworm pupae taste pretty good](http://foodtube.livejournal.com/2390.html), but the last time we had some, we ordered too many; I don’t need to eat a whole plateful at a sitting. I agree that some of the foods mentioned above are more disliked in theory (by people who think the idea is gross before they’ve even tasted it) than in practice (e.g. haggis, frog legs, Clamato). ---
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-foods-you-love-that-the-majority-cant-seem-to-stand/559644/82 "2013-02-25T15:30:04Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > I agree that some of the foods mentioned above are more disliked in theory (by people who think the idea is gross before they’ve even tasted it) than in practice (e.g. haggis, frog legs, Clamato). True. I like to think that I’m a picky eater (but when I read threads like this I realise I probably am not) and offal is generally on the “No, thanks” list, but I have to say that the first time a friend force fed me haggis I fell in love with it at once. To quote an old Guinness advertising slogan “I’ve never tried it because I don’t like it”. ---
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-foods-you-love-that-the-majority-cant-seem-to-stand/559644/83 "2013-02-25T15:42:02Z")
There’s a place nearby that has gator wings on the menu, which is apparently supposed to be alligator legs (according to a brief googling). Just wanted to get confirmation on that. I might go for lunch. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-foods-you-love-that-the-majority-cant-seem-to-stand/559644/84 "2013-02-25T15:43:21Z")
I’m generally a fan of Dolmas, a dish where rice and seasonings and other stuff is wrapped up in grape leaves. Very tasty. Looks like slimy green radioactive sausages. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-foods-you-love-that-the-majority-cant-seem-to-stand/559644/85 "2013-02-25T15:43:37Z")
Gefilte fish. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-foods-you-love-that-the-majority-cant-seem-to-stand/559644/86 "2013-02-25T15:56:56Z")
> [@Martini\_Enfield](#): > > Marmite (and none of that upstart Vegemite nonsense, thankyouverymuch!), at least in a non-British/NZ/Australian sense. Most Americans seem to think the stuff is hideous. They sell it in Canada, but since I’ve been living there I haven’t met a single Canadian who eats the stuff. I love it! I liked black pudding the first time I ate it in the UK (though I admittedly had no idea what it was). Haggis is lovely stuff too. It tastes like spicy liverwurst. Escargot baked in herbed garlic butter is heavenly. My last girlfriend and I would always go to a Chinese restaurant for VD, and she would invariably order fried tofu swimming in hot red pepper oil and braised frogs’ legs. Tofu, I can’t stand (in college, I could always tell when it was being served as the vegetarian dish of the day because the cafeteria would stink like burning rubber). I had always heard that frogs’ legs taste like chicken, but they don’t. They taste like chicken and fish, combined. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-foods-you-love-that-the-majority-cant-seem-to-stand/559644/87 "2013-02-25T16:01:55Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > They sell it in Canada, but since I’ve been living there I haven’t met a single Canadian who eats the stuff. I’m Canadian and I used to buy it from time to time. I haven’t had any for years, though. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-foods-you-love-that-the-majority-cant-seem-to-stand/559644.md?page=4)