brains in jars. I mean it; too many Frankenstein movies as a kid. Did I mention that after reading the novel Hannibal, I was sick for two days?
Brains in general. In 1986, my grandfather once ate breaded beef brains at a restaurant. The thought of him eating beef brains still nauseates me 20 years later.
So it’s “headfruit”? I always thought they were saying “breadfruit.”
Shoot, I thought this was an opinion poll. But if it were it’d be in IMHO. Anyways my first thought was [del]fart blossoms[/del] brussels sprouts. The nastiest food on the face of the earth. ICK!
There would have to be NOTHING else on that island for me to resort to seafood.
I mean…have you eaten seafood? It tastes like fish…which is to say, it tastes like ass.
Fish ass.
Allergic to shellfish, so that is out
Rather die than eat COCONUT
Blech. I hate the smell, the taste, the texture…
That horrible fermented fish stuff, they use the sauce in thai food. I saw a Survivor episode where they had to eat fish that had fermented in a barrel in the sun for six months or something, and the contestants were gagging on the stuff. I was gagging just watching. That stuff is pure evil. I’d rather starve.
Sorry, absent stuff that will do me harm (allergy, poison, whatever), there’s nothing nutritious I won’t eat.
Garum, I believe.
For me, I’d die rather than eat eggs. The smell of them makes me gag, I can barely watch commercials that feature those nasty things, I don’t cook them.
Vege(puke)mite.
I’d have to be very, very, very hungry to attempt eating a bug. I thought of stuff like calamari, durian, bananas, but all those I’d eat first, given my druthers.
There’s nothing I wouldn’t eat if it was an eat-it-or-die situation, but I’d have to be really, really, really hungry before I would eat pork. Can’t stand the smell or taste of the vile stuff, and the very idea of eating a* pig* is gross to me.
I’m a very picky eater. If there’s nothing in the house that sounds good to me, and I’m feeling too lazy to go get take-out, I’ll frequently go without eating. Drives my husband nuts.
I’ve had chicken’s brains. Cracked open the head in a stew. It was creamy. I ate the head too, but it was mostly skin and bone. I’ve eaten dog, silkworm pupae, jellyfish, chicken’s feet, cow’s stomach, and a bunch of other weird crap that comes with being Asian. Also witchetty grubs, various types of snails, and so on. I would have to be very, very desperate before I ate another person, but I’d probably do it eventually. There’s really nothing I’d flat-out refuse to eat. Though if you told me I couldn’t eat anything but bittermelon for the rest of my life I’d probably jump off a bridge.
Egg salad or tuna salad. Just having to type the names of those two quivering, tepid, spore-spreading (flecks of them always end up by any innocent nearby food), putrid-smelling diarrheaoids makes me feel queasy.
Brains, is the first thing that I thought of. But, I’ve never actually seen cooked brains and only seen an uncooked one, once. So, I might like it once I got over the idea of eating brains.
My second choice is chitterlings / chitlins. Unlike brains, I’ve been around those vile things quite a bit. I’ve seen, smelled and tasted (once), them enough to know that the only way I would be close enough to eat them, is if I’m already dead.
Let’s just say I’m not what Stephen King would call a Survivor Type
May I just say “HOLY CRAP!” :eek:
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Let me just say that if I ever go on a cruise with illegal narcotics, I’ll be VERY sure that I bring enough for everyone!
Eli
Not that I’ll ever get to do a cruise… <SNIFF>
Not just Asian, but my grossfoodometer needle is pinging heavily on “Chinese ancestry”. Am I right? (I’ve eaten about 50% of the above list, in China, but not in other Asian countries.)
I’ve never starved, but I’ll bet most of these “ew gross” reactions would change if people were genuinely starving. I read something about an expedition in the 19thC trying to cross the Bering Strait, who ran out of food and got so hungry they ate their own shoes.
Liver. Of any sort, in any form whatsoever. Complete yuck.