# Last food you threw away after one bite? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 20, 2016, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108 "2016-10-20T08:12:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2016, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108/121 "2016-10-28T00:17:51Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > I make a smoothie of a frozen banana, peel and all. If I gave you one, you’d never know the peel was in there. > > Human goats never have any trouble finding something acceptable on the menu. If people are that fussy about their food, imagine what they are like about important stuff. So you’ve never had something go bad? Moldy bread? Spoiled milk? Dude, you’re going to end up with food poisoning one of these days. ---
**Author:** ![breezman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@breezman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/breezman)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2016, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108/122 "2016-10-28T02:04:25Z")
I like plain, strong tea. My Turkish friends referred to their tea as çay (as do many people). Much later I stopped at Starbucks in the mall and I ordered a chai, expecting it to be a nice tea similar to what I’d had with my Turkish friends, but it wasn’t. It was overloaded with spices. I took one sip and dropped it in the trash. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2016, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108/123 "2016-10-28T02:18:14Z")
> [@Mijin](#): > > For me, the most recent one was just some candy which appeared to be biscuits in white chocolate, but which was suspiciously cheap… We have Japanese relatives who send our kids suspicious packages full of what they’ve dubbed “Dubious Sweets”. We finally translated the label on one of the most egregious: “Bone Marrow Buns”. As for adult comestibles, I play poker with wine snobs. Well, I succumbed to vanity and brought a dusty bottle of a dark Recommended-By-An-Even-Bigger-Snob red wine. Everyone raved about it, but I surreptitiously poured mine down the sink. I swear the bouquet was precisely “guy’s gym locker full of sweaty socks”. I was relieved while they were ecstatic. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2016, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108/124 "2016-10-28T04:25:21Z")
> [@Grumbacher\_Red](#): > > Caught one of my favorite premium yogurt brands, Nosa, on a BOGO special, so I loaded up. That evening I get my mouth all fixed for blackberry yumminess. Immediately, something ain’t right…upon closer inspection, I notice the label says “blackberry & serrano” and “sweet heat”. Gross. Into the trash it went. And thankfully I only bought one of that nasty flavor. > > I’m too old for all this flavor mixing foolishness! Make it stop! I saw those flavors at a local natural foods store, marked way down. At first glance, I thought “Noosa on clearance! Yippee!” and then saw that they contained more than fruit flavors. I didn’t buy them; however, I DID buy the Greek Gods chocolate yogurts that were 75% off because they were past the sell-by date. That stuff is like chocolate pudding, only better. 🆒 These products didn’t last very long, or at least they didn’t around here. > **[New yogurt flavors I saw tonight](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=765382)** > > There’s a small “natural foods” market in my city, and I go there sometimes. This evening, I saw a brand of yogurt I’d never heard of, nor had I heard of yogurt with these flavors: beet, butternut squash, and sweet potato. Those don’t even sound... ---
**Author:** ![Bootis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e8c25b/32.png) [@Bootis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootis)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2016, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108/125 "2016-10-28T04:26:24Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > Of course not - I use the bones for broth, and make toys for my parrots out of corn cobs. You must’ve been brought up better than jtur88 > [@panache45](#): > > I’m happy that our American abundance enables us to neither eat banana peels nor recycle our shit. I pity your poor up bringing ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2016, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108/126 "2016-10-28T04:27:04Z")
> [@Ulfreida](#): > > My most memorable one was when I told my adventurous-eater friend to just order something she thought I’d like from her favorite restaurant which happened to be Japanese. Sea urchin roe sushi capped with a raw quail egg. I puked it into my napkin. That was a sad meal. That probably wouldn’t sit well with me either. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2016, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108/127 "2016-10-28T04:28:44Z")
> [@PAjoe](#): > > Tried a maple bacon Pop-Tart. Horrible in every way. Some of the boxes have “Failed Flavors” as a cartoon. I’m assuming they’re jokes, because I can’t imagine anyone thinking that “Caramel Dill Pickle” Pop Tarts would be a good idea. :dubious: 😛 ---
**Author:** ![RadicalPi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/radicalpi/32/9806_2.png) [@RadicalPi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RadicalPi)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2016, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108/128 "2016-10-28T04:47:33Z")
I took my delicious baked risotto casserole thing out of the oven, and let it sit for a bit on the stove. Then I took a bite, reveled in the tasty goodness, and started to move it to the table. At which point I dropped it, and ended up having to throw it all away. ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2016, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108/129 "2016-10-28T19:01:38Z")
> [@digs](#): > > As for adult comestibles, I play poker with wine snobs. > Well, I succumbed to vanity and brought a dusty bottle of a dark Recommended-By-An-Even-Bigger-Snob red wine. > > Everyone raved about it, but I surreptitiously poured mine down the sink. I swear the bouquet was precisely “guy’s gym locker full of sweaty socks”. I was relieved while they were ecstatic. I had the exact same experience as digs, above, with a hugely expensive, very old, bottle of red wine that my honorary uncle once served with Christmas dinner. I am a very adventurous eater and enjoy all manner of things that cause my family and friends to look at me funny, but I couldn’t stomach the taste of squirrel. The meat was heavily salted and incredibly greasy and my stomach did cartwheels when assaulted with it. I am willing to concede that the issue may have been as much with the cooking as with the meat itself, but the experience was so unpleasant that I won’t attempt squirrel ever again. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108/130 "2016-10-29T17:29:50Z")
> [@CookingWithGas](#): > > Pig intestine from a Chinese restaurant. Some people love this but I found it gamey beyond human belief. An ex-boyfriend told a story about being in a Chinese restaurant, and on the appetizer menu was fish lips. :dubious: For 99 cents, he and the people he was with thought, “What the heck, 99 cents, let’s order them.” They did, and were brought a huge platter piled high with things that looked (and tasted) like gelatinous rubber bands. Most of them weren’t eaten. However, he did say it was worth 99 cents to say he’d tried fish lips. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108/131 "2016-10-29T18:31:18Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > I’m somewhat adventurous, but I think urchin roe + raw egg would do for me too. Bleah! Oh, that’s one of my favorites. Yum. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108/132 "2016-10-29T18:35:48Z")
The only thing I can think of ever throwing away after having one or two bites of was _surstrõmming_, a Swedish fermented herring dish. I bought a can of it to see if it was as offensive as people say. In every single other case when something like that has been said about a foodstuff, it’s proven to be nowhere near as bad as people say. This includes durian and natto. After one or two bites of this stuff, I was happy to check it off my bucket list and proceeded to dump the rest of it in the garbage. This is not to say I’d never have it again. But the first time I had it, that was more than enough. ---
**Author:** ![Mallard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Mallard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mallard)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108/133 "2016-10-29T19:01:21Z")
I bought a huge container of my favourite cookies from the Costco bakery, ginger snaps. I ate about half of one and they were so sugary vile that the whole container went into the garbage! I at least got to eat some of the dried out banana bread from the same place. No more Costco bakery for me, that’s for sure. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2016, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108/134 "2016-10-30T00:01:19Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Last week, I bought a quart of name-brand milk at one of our finer convenience stores (read: gas station). It was not just sour but had a strong petro-chemical taste. Down the drain it went, after taking pix of the container for a consumer complaint phone call. Update: My wife notified the company and they sent 2 coupons for free half gallons. Fingers crossed this isn’t a reprise of the sour quart incident. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2016, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108/135 "2016-10-30T17:17:36Z")
> [@PAjoe](#): > > Tried a maple bacon Pop-Tart. Horrible in every way. Oh, I loved those! I can’t find them around here though. One of my co-workers bought a box when he was on a road trip. He thought they were disgusting so he gave them to me because he knew I’d like them. I had one sip of a grapefruit beer (couldn’t tell you the brand) and would have dumped it out had my brother-in-law not been there. That dude will drink anything, including nasty sour grapefruit beer. Bleargh… ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2016, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108/136 "2016-11-06T21:31:10Z")
Chicheme, which is one of my wife’s cultural dishes. It has a terrible odor when it is being prepared that stinks up the house, looks like vomit when it is ready, and has a strange, unpleasant mouthfeel. I have tried it a few times in the 25 years we have been married and I have never been able to swallow even a spoonful of the vile concoction. Another of her dishes that I simply cannot abide even a spoonful of is ceviche, which I understand a lot of people actually do like, but I am not a seafood eater anyway. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2016, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108/137 "2016-11-06T23:59:36Z")
> [@Onomatopoeia](#): > > Chicheme, which is one of my wife’s cultural dishes. > > It has a terrible odor when it is being prepared that stinks up the house, looks like vomit when it is ready, and has a strange, unpleasant mouthfeel. I have tried it a few times in the 25 years we have been married and I have never been able to swallow even a spoonful of the vile concoction. > > Another of her dishes that I simply cannot abide even a spoonful of is ceviche, which I understand a lot of people actually do like, but I am not a seafood eater anyway. Never tried ceviche, but it doesn’t sound appetizing to me either. However, someone on another website was asking about other cultures’ remedies for morning sickness, and something resembling chicheme (a word I’d never seen before) was recommended more than once. I definitely remember the combination of cornmeal, milk, sugar, and cinnamon. p.s. On this sister website to the Hydraulic Press Channel, Lauri and friends blow up some surstromming. May be NSFW due to language. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/4PWYzlL89yo/hqdefault.jpg "Exploding surströmming and other canned foods") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PWYzlL89yo) ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2016, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108/138 "2016-11-07T00:33:18Z")
Not sure how a combination of cornmeal, milk, sugar, and cinnamon can smell bad while being prepared. Is there something else in it? ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2016, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108/139 "2016-11-07T16:50:54Z")
> [@kayT](#): > > Not sure how a combination of cornmeal, milk, sugar, and cinnamon can smell bad while being prepared. Is there something else in it? i can get my wife’s recipe when she gets home from work this evening, but one thing I can tell you is there is no cinnamon in hers, and she makes it with actual corn, not cornmeal. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2016, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108/140 "2016-11-07T17:23:36Z")
Does three bites count? I’m 45 and have never liked seafood (other than tuna), but I recently started to eat better/healthier and I’m making myself re-try whatever I can in the hopes of finding some kind of fish that I like. Gorton’s makes frozen fillets that are unbreaded and very lightly seasoned – pretty basic fish, IOW – so I bought three different varieties. Two weeks ago I tried the haddock, and couldn’t even finish half of the 3-oz fillet. I threw the rest of it (and the other, still-frozen fillet) away. Bleh. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-food-you-threw-away-after-one-bite/769108.md?page=8)