This ain’t the Pit, so I’ll keep my *filthy, filthy * mouth to myself…
Cilantro. Hands down. And I’ve been to Japan.
Natto (fermented soybeans). Anything that stretches from the serving cup to across the room with dozens of its own slimy, sticky threads is not fit for human consumption.
Also, ikura (bright orange salmon roe). Each one pops in your mouth like a berry, filling it with a slimy, saltwatery taste.
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Cow tongue, although it’s not so uncommon./QUOTE]
There’s a Tex Mex place near me that serves lengua. It’s good, extremely tender. They take off the buds and put it in a red sauce, with to-die-for tortillas.
Ate a barnacle in British Columbia as part of a rather esoteric Northwest tasting menu. Moderately delish, not gross at all.
Now the corned beef slurry on a scoop of powdered potato that we used to get in grade school…that ranked as pretty gross. But it was my favorite lunch at the time (we didn’t get hot dogs or burgers then).
This: Potted meat - Wikipedia
on Saltines.
It’s basically salted dog food. Mmmm, tripe and sodium nitrate.
I one had tripa de leche - literally means “milk tripe”, an euphemism for cow’s udder. I’ve had regular tripe as well, in menudo soup.
I had dog liver at a traditional Indonesian wedding when I was 5 or 6 years old. I don’t really remember what it tasted like (except liver - ew), but finding out it was dog made it gross.
I ate a cake made out of Playdoh when I was a kid, does that count?
Brand name Playdoh or homemade surrogate?
Garlic laced vodka.
I want to vomit just thinking about it.
Moose nose.
My cousin’s girlfriend treated us with this for dinner a few years past. It was breaded and baked in the oven, much like a Christmas ham. It didn’t look like anything else; it was a gigantic moose nose with hairy nostrils. It was served up in slices. You had to sort of eat your way around the nostrils. It tasted much like calamares.
I’ve since become a vegetarian.
Goat’s brain in Iran (very popular there), fried goat’s head in a spicy sauce in Morocco (pretty good - the eyes had a weird texture, though), black pudding (love the stuff), escargot, fish brains (salty). None of those were bad at all, and I tend to like most food experiences. The worst I’ve had is probably cheap Kyrgyz vodka + soft, warm sheep fat I was offered as a “treat” by a very drunk Kyrgyz man. Absolutely horrible.
Eyeball tacos at Maxwell Street Market in Chicago.
Cicada from the backyard.
Tripe, chitterlings, blood sausage, raw pork, milt (the seminal sacs of fish), duck blood soup, horse sausage, escargot, beef heart, chicken heart, gizzards, head cheese, etc. (I don’t consider any of these particularly disgusting, but many people do.)
But, for me, by the most disgusting thing I have ever ingested, the only thing that has made me want to wretch is the fermented Swedish fish known as surströmming. It’s the vilest smelling foodstuff I have ever tried to ingest, smelling like a cross between a dog’s ass and rotting flesh. Words can do it no justice. That said, I’d certainly give it another shot in the right circumstances.
Turtle blood jelly.
Jellyfish tentacles.
Chocolate covered bees.
Rice with mealy bugs.
Eel.
Trasi, which is Indonesian dried shrimp paste – smells like rotting fish and yet … it’s good.
Yes, I imagine that would do it.
I had both roasted and raw wichety grubs in Australia, and roasted guinea pig in Ecuador (I really only tasted a morsel so I could say I tried it). And garlic ice cream in Gilroy, California. That was actually not bad.
Garlic.
Wait, I know what you’re saying. Garlic? I love garlic!
So do I.
But on a dare, I ate a heaping tablespoon of it. All at once, with no liquid and nothing else to eat previously that day.
One heaping tablespoon of raw, crushed garlic on an empty stomach is not a good thing. I kept it down, but I didn’t eat anything else the rest of the day.
There’s not much out there that I wouldn’t eat. I’m not squeamish. I’ve eaten pretty much anything that crawled in my backyard as a kid (crickets, grasshoppers, worms, ants, snakes - as long as it wasn’t poisonous, I didn’t have a problem) but I wouldn’t do that garlic dare again, ever.
Don’t believe me? Go ahead, give it a go. I’d guesstimate it’s about as much fun as a spoonful of cinnamon.
You can’t get past the appearance either. It looks like…tongue. And sort of grayish brownish.
Originally posted by Cisco
I haven’t been to Japan, but I do have a really large redneck family. I’ve eaten everything from racoon, snapping turtle, beever, and many many different fish. I’ve eaten sushi and love it, especially sashimi. That said, there is something about cilantro that just makes me wretch. Even the smallest amount of it on my food makes me sick. I’ve wondering if I just have a small allergy to it or just a hightened sense when it comes to it.
MT
P.S. There isn’t really anything I won’t try. Cow tongue, check. chocolate covered insects, check. the list goes on. I’m always looking for new things to try. escargo is way up on that list, I’ve heard it’s amazing.
My wife and kids would claim that the grossest thing I eat is scrapple. Mmmmm… scrapple.