Pig intestine from a Chinese restaurant. Some people love this but I found it gamey beyond human belief.
“No, you *weren’t *supposed to put meat in the trifle, Rachel. It does *not *taste good”.
I’ve only recently learned to tolerate cottage cheese. However, a couple of weeks ago I bought some that was unsalted because it was buy one, get one free…and thus I had two containers of this horrid tasteless shit. I tried gamely to doctor it up or hide it in other foods, because I don’t like throwing food out, but eventually I threw out the open one and took the other one to work with a little “Free to good home” note.
Last week we moved to a new house and as we were packing up the kitchen, I found some Sam Adams Christmas-themed beers in the pantry. My husband had bought them for a Christmas party because he never knows what people may want to drink (we only ever have red wine and coffee, what else do you need)? We offered the beer to our adult kids and also to the moving company guys, but in the end it just went out with the recycling.
Ivylad took me out to a restaurant for my birthday and I decided to try the duck. The server asked how I wanted it, and I pleaded ignorance and said, “Whatever the chef thinks is best.”
Well, the duck breast came out rare, and I may have hurt his feelings by sending it back to get cooked longer. I still couldn’t eat it. We took it home for leftovers and then I surreptitiously threw it out for the local wildlife to munch on.
I once tried soft-shell crab, because it sounded good, but they came out looking like dead fried spiders and I lost my appetite. Too bad, because I like crab.
Some sort of egg plant dish. It was so foul! :eek:
It was some sort of Indian candy or other, that a co-worker’s mother sent him because she thought he liked it as a child. I took a bite, chewed and swallowed, and tried to be polite - apparently without success.
The co-worker saw the face I made, and said, “Yeah, I think so too, but my mother has it in her head that I like this stuff. So I have to get rid of it by giving it to Americans.”
Regards,
Shodan
I ordered a plain cheeseburger from Hardee’s (back in 1985). They put a glob of mayonnaise between the burger and the cheese. When I took a bite it squirted hot mayo. Jesus, it still makes me shudder. I haven’t eaten at Hardee’s since.
Montreal Steak Spice flavoured kettle cooked potato chips.
Disappointing because I love Montreal Steak Spice.
Squash soup. I feel sorta like a five year old hating on broccoli, but I just plain didn’t care for it.
One of my favorite things is going to international food festivals and sampling foods from other lands.
The only time I was not able to eat more than one bite of something was the time I got pickled herring from a Scandinavian booth. Cold salty fish that tasted like vinegar. Bleh.
I bought some korean ramen that looked to be chicken-cheese flavor. Interesting, definitely willing to try it. Turns out it was actually flaming-hot chicken-cheese flavor. Suffered through a quarter of the bowl, drained the liquid, filled it with milk ("it’ll kind of be like curry, right?) suffered through another quarter bowl.
I would have thrown it away in one bite if I didn’t give up that easily or realize how big of a mistake I had made.
I have also tossed a shrimp eggroll after one bite because: I don’t do seafood and didn’t realize it wasn’t vegetable-only.
That is disgusting. One of the most vile things a restaurant can do is put mayo on a burger without full disclosure. (as if they assume everyone just wants it that way)
Tried a maple bacon Pop-Tart. Horrible in every way.
This does not bode well for your porn career…
I’ve always suffered from nausea, so I’ve had many cannot-eat-it experiences. Without thinking hard I can come up with ten or twelve things normal people commonly eat that would make me vomit. I’m not a food snob, I just have a physiological response I can’t control.
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.
We just went to Oahu on vacation. We had some lovely shaved ice in Hale’iwa, home of good shaved ice. The flavor syrups were made by steeping tropical fruit in sugar, which gives you intense, delicious fruit syrups.
The next day, we wanted more shaved ice but didn’t want to drive for two hours to Hale’iwa, so we went to one in another town. There was a poster there with a picture of Barack Obama shaking hands with the owner, so we figured who would know more about good shaved ice?
It was extremely yuck. The syrup tasted like someone had melted down very bad hard candy and poured it on top of the ice. We each took one bite and then threw them away. Then I saw the date on the Obama poster: 2008. Just pressing the flesh with the constituency during election year, I suppose, before he went to Hale’iwa to get the real thing.
I’m somewhat adventurous, but I think urchin roe + raw egg would do for me too. Bleah!
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!
Uni and raw egg yolk! Yum, one of my favorite things in the world.
I once saw some Limburger cheese on sale. I knew it had a reputation for strong odor, but I thought “Hell, they sell it, so some one has to eat it. How bad could it be?” So I bought a small piece. When I got home and opened it, it smelled exactly like concentrated cat urine. I took one small bite which tasted exactly how it smelled. Into the trash, double-wrapped.