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.
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.
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.
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.
You must’ve been brought up better than jtur88
I pity your poor up bringing
That probably wouldn’t sit well with me either.
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: 
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.
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.
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.
Oh, that’s one of my favorites. Yum.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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.