I had this vegetarian bacon once that took away my will to live.
Oh, and mushrooms of any kind. And for those of you mushroom-lovers, do NOT try to convince the rest of us that we’ll like portobello mushrooms. All they are is MORE of what’s wrong with regular-sized mushrooms. If I had any kind of craving for a sponge soaked in vomit, I’m sure I’d still want the smaller -sized kind.
Dougie…I am pretty sure tht the place you went to is called Hamburger Hamlet and yes they have bad corn dogs (fabulous burgers though)
Pickled beets and borscht aren’t exactly on my list of favorites.
Yogurt. It’s just … oh God … even the thought of it makes me gag …
Dijon mustard. For some reason I’ve always thought that’s what liquid mercury would taste like.
I hate grapefruit, too.
Canned Vienna sausages. Ugh. The flavor, while bizarre, isn’t the worst part – it’s the gelatinous texture. Don’t read the label unless you want a REAL gross-out experience. Pork spleen? No WAY.
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Worst things I ever ate:
Collard soup.
Pumpkin soup.
Split pea soup.
Beef tripe soup.
Fava beans.
Raw sardines.
Fried tomatoes.
Boiled T-bone steak.
Tapiyoka pudding.
I can’t tell you how much I enjoy these threads :D.
Sticking with the things I’ve tasted.
Clamato, Clam juice & Tomato? ewww.
Saurkraut, no need for comment.
EGGS! YUCK! How can anything be that foul (pun intended)! I call them liquid chickens. Smells like farts and tastes like Crisco and I still won’t eat it. This is doubly bad because most of you know about my sexual practices. (See the purity thread, but if you don’t know you probably won’t want to.)
Seafood. This is also pretty gross. I don’t want to eat anything that smells like rancid female anatomy. BARFORAMA! I am thinking about things mentioned in the Psycho Coworker thread. I guess if you sprayed it down with FTD and douched the seafood beforehand it may take away some of that vile smell and taste.
Korean food is also pretty gross. My one Korean food experience is detailed in the following sentances. I ordered some black bean and noodle dish. On the menu it looked ok. The waitress came back with it and five little bowls of things. I asked her what they were and the response I received is as follows: That the old stuff (kim chee) about 10 day old (she couldn’t conjugate things well), that the new stuff three day old, that this thing, that radish (it was a yellow pickled turnip on a side note Turnips make me throw-up), that that thing. The actual noodle dish looked and tasted like it was topped with Alpo. I took two bites of it thinking I might have been mistaken by the awfulness of the first bite. The turnip thing was disgusting, the “this and that” thing was pretty gross too. I ended up eating part of the kim chee and leaving with my ex who had a meal equally as vile as mine. Supposedly this was a good Korean restaurant in San Antonio (off of Walzem and Austin Highway in case you are wondering). It was not quite as bad as eggs, but still pretty close.
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Now there’s something meatier. http://smallwonder.simplenet.com/COC.html
Berliner Wasser. Straight from the sewers of Berlin to the bottle.
And if you don’t think it can be considered a food, you haven’t tried it.
Back when I was a kid, my dad used to force me to try seafood when I’d visit him in the summer. (this ended when I was 14 and became a vegetarian) One year we were at some kind of party at a friend of his’ house, and I was out on the porch with the other kids, while the adults ate inside. My dad brought me a boiled oyster and told me to eat it, then went back inside.
Twenty minutes later he came back out, and I was still chewing on this vile thing. He laughed and told me “you don’t chew it, you just swallow it”… um. thanks.
Other nasty foods:
beets
any kind of meat, obviously, but seafood even more so (god, just the smell!!!) I can’t eat in a restaurant if anyone near our table orders seafood. The smell makes me nauseaus.
dill pickles.
guacamole.
grass jelly drink.
there is more but I just woke up…
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Sauerkraut… never again!
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I don’t know, but I’d say that the bottom ten or so are on the buffet at the Imperial Palace in Vegas.
Dr. J
I also think honorable mention goes to any item that needs to identify itself as edible by including the word “food” in it’s title. Such as:
Processed American Cheese Food
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Potted Meat Food Product
<gag>
Also there were these ice pops (colored sugar water in plastic tubes) I saw at a friends house, and I kid you not, in HUGE letters on the box it said “Non-Toxic!”. You have some serious issues with your marketing group when they best thing they can say about your product is “It won’t kill you!”
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No contest: lutefisk.
It is dried cod that is soaked in lye for a few days. (Yes, lye.) This makes it sort of translucent and chewy.
Then it’s rinsed off a bit and boiled for hours. The smell is indescribable: a shrimp boat on a hot day doesn’t even come close. It attracts flies from miles around.
Then it is dished up, w/ some of the boiling liquid, and served with butter on top.
It is just incredibly vile. The closest description is hot fish jello. The butter just adds that last, stomach-churning flourish of nastiness.
Still gagging from the memory,
Veb
Veb, you win. But I also vote for Eelpout, a fish no one was ever intended to eat.
I have a pretty strong stomach, and can usually choke anything down if you put it in front of me. However, my mother once made this concoction she called “Thai salad”, involving noodles, peanut butter, celery, red chile, and some other vegetables that my memory has mercifully blocked out. It was horrid! The smell made my stomach churn, and it lingered in the kitchen for days afterward. I could only eat a bite or two before I had to go put my head between my knees. My mother is usually an excellent cook. How she came up with something that vile is beyond me.
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Sweetened Crisco.
I can’t imagine how people can actually ENJOY eating anything from Hostess that is injected with sugary fat.
I like pork rinds, but can’t eat that crud.
Lutefisk IS vile
what’s worse is in Norther MN i saw swanson’s Lutefisk TV dinners.
Magnificent to behold - Greatly to be praised.
My mother once made a casserole which was the closest I’ve ever come to eating out of the litter box. It featured pooplike clumps of ground beef nestling in undercooked, gritty rice.
Cheers to dougie_monty for inventing the word “BARFOLA” which is definitely the best word I’ve heard in a long time.
Amen to torq…unripe persimmons result in the unpleasant sensation that all the moisture has been sucked out of one’s inner cheeks & tongue. Trust me, it’s even worse than it sounds.
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Potted Meat. What the hell is that stuff?? (please, for the love of God don’t answer that)
My mother in law prepared a delightful snack of Potted Meat on crackers when I was at her house and I HAD to eat some. Wow. I prayed for death, but death didn’t come. Just more friggin’ potted meat. Now I know why my husband is such a picky eater!
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