# Grossest Thing You've Ever Eaten **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 16, 2008, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grossest-thing-youve-ever-eaten/453069 "2008-06-16T01:39:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2008, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grossest-thing-youve-ever-eaten/453069/121 "2008-07-05T00:40:34Z")
Worst thing I ever ate was by accident. It was a pickled lemon in Egypt. Their lemons are a little smaller than a golf ball and more bitter than in the US. A pickled one is extremely sour and bitter. I didn’t realize what it was and popped the whole thing in my mouth. It is used more like a condiment than actually biting into it. ---
**Author:** ![E\_I\_R\_It\_s\_the\_Law](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/258eb7/32.png) [@E\_I\_R\_It\_s\_the\_Law](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E_I_R_It_s_the_Law)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2008, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grossest-thing-youve-ever-eaten/453069/122 "2008-07-05T01:47:27Z")
It’s not necessarily really gross, but I ate a big old beetle a couple of weekends ago. I was at a friend’s house and we were playing poker, drinking beer and doing shots of Patron Silver. Anyway, it landed on the table in front of me and I just picked it up, popped it in my mouth and crunched away. The gross part was waking up the next morning in a hangover fog and feeling something inside my lip. It was one of the legs of the beetle. I gargled extra long with Listerine that morning and brushed my teeth twice. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grossest-thing-youve-ever-eaten/453069.md?page=6)