Escargot is wonderful. To me it tastes like a combination of scallops and mushrooms, both things I love very much. It’s a lot of fun, too, to say you’ve eaten snails.
That said, I’m not particularly adventurous, culinarially speaking. About the yuckiest thing I’ve had is steak tartare, although I have eaten potted meat on a camp-out. God knows what’s in that stuff.
I laughed so hard when I read this I shot a wad of Doublemint gum out of my nose just imagining what this looked like. Ha ha ha ha ha! phoot–Owwww! Ha ha ha ha ha ha! Moose nose! Ha ha ha ha ha, snort!
I’ll add Spaghetti-O’s 3 years beyond the date on the can. Yes, it can go bad. Who knew?
Skyline Chili. Grody to the max.
Has anybody drank that South American “beer” that is made of human spit? Because you would probably win the thread with that. At least IMO.
Do WHAT? :eek:
I think he means chicha, which sometimes (not always) involves a step of moistening ground maize in the mouth. The enzymes in the saliva help break down the sugars in the corn for better fermentation.
Also, I suspect Cisco and MovingTarget have a mutation that causes cilantro to taste bad. I thought this was a known issue but the Wikipedia article only lists it as believed to be the cause.
If my kids ask me what’s for dinner, the answer is always “poop” or some variant thereof, such as “poop loaf” or “poopghetti”. This has nothing to do with my user name. Actually, I started doing it in self-defense. Back in the days when a kid would ask that question and I’d tell them the truth, the kid would frequently respond with, “Ewwww!” which would completely piss me off. And it wasn’t like I was feeding the little brats moose noses or anything, just ordinary food!
The most disgusting thing I’ve eaten in recent memory is “pizza” from Cici’s. I think the whitish liquid was supposed to be the cheese. gag
Worst tasting thing I’ve ever eaten (and I’m a super picky eater) was psilocybin mushrooms. God, were they gross!! And for a day afterwards, every time I burped I’d taste them again. shudder
The worst tasting actual food I ever ate was, incidentally, a concoction I mixed together to try to help me choke down the aforementioned 'shrooms. It was a helping of cheeseburger macaroni Hamburger Helper, some ketchup, crushed Conn’s potato chips, salt, black pepper, and cheeto’s.
For what it’s worth, I ended up picking the mushroom chunks back out and swallowing them whole like aspirin.
Boogers.
Ear wax.
Hey, I tried the boogers, I figured I’d see if the ear tasted any better.
Well, now you can expand your repertoire by telling them Fried Spicy Goat’s Head, Boiled Octopus in Mayonaisse or Moose Nose is what’s for dinner. I’d probably even go so far as to shape a meatloaf into a moose nose. I guess it’s a good thing I have no children, I would have scarred them for life.
Moose nose has to be my favorite sounding thing in this thread and the visual that goes with it is comedic. There’s something poetic about it, too, Moose Nose. Moose Nose, it’s what’s for dinner. Moose Nose would be a good user name or a city in Alaska. Moose nose.
I have nothing to add, nothing I have eaten can compare to anything in this thread.
Moose Nose.
Honestly? I think that the grossest thing, that is the thing that one eats while actively not thinking about it’s origin, that one can eat is cheese.
Think about it: You’re talking about glandular secretions from some other species, usually a ruminant, but cheeses have been made from many domestic animals’ milk, that was originally intended as a sort of pre-digested food that would be easy for the developing young to consume until their digestive systems were capable of dealing with normal food for that species. Now, after having taken those glandular secretions, we add stuff like rennet - stomach enzymes - to them. And allow the glandular secretions to curdle, IOW to go bad!. Then, not satisfied that it’s gross enough, yet, we take those curds, form them into blocks, and age them! Because it’s not rotten enough, yet! Heck, for some kinds of cheese we make sure they have anaerobic cultures added - to make sure they rot even better!.
And we eat it.
Hell, we love cheese (at least in the US, and the west in general.) I wouldn’t give up cheese for anything.
But I really do think it’s the grossest food I’ve ever eaten.
I’ve also had various tongues. I like both cow’s, calf’s, and lamb’s tongue. Esp. pickled lamb’s tongue. I’ve had tripe. Even had frog, once. I love my sea bugs. I think I’ve had candied grasshoppers, but I can’t be sure. I want to try haggis.
But cheese wins.
Yes, I have, in an Embera Indian village in Darien province in Panama.
I definitely prefer regular beer. 
I don’t eat a lot of weird foods, but I like weird combinations. One thing I used to make often was cooked and drained Ramen (usually chicken flavor), grated cheese, a can of tuna, crushed up crackers, and a nice dollop of peanut butter, mixed together in a bowl. If I was out of crackers, I’ve been known to substitute corn flakes.
Joe
I think this is just delicious, filling and comforting. Most people are disgusted by it. One of my favorite suppers is oatmeal prepared like this: dissolve 2 Maggi Veggie cubes in the 1 3/4 cups of water. Add a teaspoon of curry powder, garlic, chopped onions and either mushrooms or chopped up veggie burger. When water begins to boil, add 1 cup of oatmeal and cook for 5 minutes. When there are about 2 minutes left, add one triangle of Laughing Cow Cheese or a couple teaspoons of parmesan or any other type of “shaky” cheese. I could (and do!) eat this many nights in a row. I could substitute oatmeal anywhere potatoes or rice are used.
I will eat anchovies right out of the can (with most of the oil patted off.)
I LOVE oyster “shooters” (shot glass containing an oyster, vodka and cocktail sauce.
Potato chips dipped in cottage cheese are tremendous.
I eat every bit of the kiwi and the apple.
I will mix vodka with any type of diet soda, including root beer.
I’m sure there are more. These are pretty tame, comparatively, but they are things I eat that people are grossed out by enough to comment.
Donkey with hot sauce. Without meaning to, I hasten to add (I was told it was “beef”).
(in China, where if it walks, crawls or swims, it’s on the menu)
It’s a tie between okra or lima beans. I think I would rather be waterboarded then have to eat these two foul things again.
Ate Cod tongues while visiting New Foundland. They were pretty good actually.
Eaten pickled lamb tongue, boiled beef tongue, both hot and cold on sandwiches. Very good on pumpernickel with spicy mustard. All kinds of Sushi. Broiled kidney on toast is good too. Wife made us a roasted beef heart with stuffing once.
BBQ pig snoot, pig ear sandwiches, and chitlin’s of course.
My wife attended edible insect day at a nature preserve near our house. Spicy and chocolate covered crickets were on the menu. They had others, but this is what she brought home. The spicy crickets were a little salty.
When I was an oceanographer, I had raw doliolids (a gelatinous zooplankton) and krill, as well as raw, live scallops while underwater on scuba. I’ve had calf brain in Quebec (oops, regret that now), cod cheek and tongue in Newfoundland, snake and turtle in China, as well as chicken feet.
That said, I still find raw oysters one of the few things that I really can’t abide eating, likely because my father made me eat 'em.
T. Slothrop now, there’s a guy that’s eaten some weird stuff. We need his top picks.
What about eggs? Chicken period.
But they’re fresh chicken periods. (And I’ve not had 1000 year eggs, nor balut. Never will, either. So those are going to stay off the list of grossest things I’ve eaten.)