# The most discusting thing to eat
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-discusting-thing-to-eat/15395
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [March 31, 2000, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-discusting-thing-to-eat/15395 "2000-03-31T14:57:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@danielnsmith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danielnsmith)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2000, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-discusting-thing-to-eat/15395/1 "2000-03-31T14:57:00Z")
What’s the most disgusting thing you’ve every seen someone eat or eaten yourself?(Please pull your mind out of the gutter first!)
My grandmother ate pigs feet all the time. There was nothing more sickening than listening to the crunching of the bones while thinking of what hogs walk in.
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### Author:  [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2000, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-discusting-thing-to-eat/15395/2 "2000-03-31T14:59:00Z")
Ewwww…
Hmmm. Did anyone see The Temple of Doom?
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**Coldfire**
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### Author:  [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2000, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-discusting-thing-to-eat/15395/3 "2000-03-31T15:00:00Z")
That would have to be liver.
I’ve never eaten anything disgusting(unless you count liver). I cannot imagine anyone eating head cheese. Or oysters. Or even shrimp.!
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### Author:  [@Trout\_Mask\_Replica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trout_Mask_Replica)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2000, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-discusting-thing-to-eat/15395/4 "2000-03-31T15:00:00Z")
Lutefisk.
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TMR
LETS RIDE THIS SAUCER FULL OF SupErlovE INTO OUR FORTOLD UTOPIAN MILLENIUM…
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### Author:  [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2000, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-discusting-thing-to-eat/15395/5 "2000-03-31T15:04:00Z")
Watching Australian aborigines demonstrate the harvesting and eating of live witchetty grubs is always a highlight of my PBS viewing experience.
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### Author:  [@bedboy4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bedboy4)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2000, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-discusting-thing-to-eat/15395/6 "2000-03-31T15:05:00Z")
try waking up and making something to eat for breakfast, only to see tripe thawing out in the sink…that is nasty shit
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### Author:  [@Foamfoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foamfoot)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2000, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-discusting-thing-to-eat/15395/7 "2000-03-31T15:12:00Z")
I have seen cow tongues for sale before. Also, don’t some people eat bull testicles (they give them a cute name like “Texas Oysters” or something like that)
Makes grasshoppers look tasty…
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### Author:  [@Gumby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gumby)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2000, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-discusting-thing-to-eat/15395/8 "2000-03-31T15:18:00Z")
Have to confess about eating the Texas Oysters. I try to block it out of my mind really. (why do you think I am vegetarian now ??)
But my dad still loves them, and he loves brains, and shortbread.
Ewwwwww.
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### Author:  [@GolfWidow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GolfWidow)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2000, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-discusting-thing-to-eat/15395/9 "2000-03-31T15:19:00Z")
The “green stuff” (tamale [sp?]) in lobsters. Yuck! My grandmother ate it. It’s supposed to be a delicacy. Double yuck!!
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### Author:  [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2000, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-discusting-thing-to-eat/15395/10 "2000-03-31T15:26:00Z")
Crow. With humble pie for dessert.
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### Author:  [@Foamfoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foamfoot)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2000, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-discusting-thing-to-eat/15395/11 "2000-03-31T15:26:00Z")
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> Have to confess about eating the Texas Oysters.
Gumby, I have to ask, did you know what you were eating or were you fooled by the name? Were you in a, “HA HA, guess what you just ate” situation? (friends can be so cruel).
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### Author:  [@Tinker\_Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tinker_Grey)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2000, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-discusting-thing-to-eat/15395/12 "2000-03-31T15:30:00Z")
mmmmmm…soft shell crabs with the legs dangling from the sides of the sandwich like a participle.
Tinker
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### Author:  [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2000, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-discusting-thing-to-eat/15395/13 "2000-03-31T15:33:00Z")
> [@](#):
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> Originally posted by Foamfoot:
> \*\*I have seen cow tongues for sale before. Also, don’t some people eat bull testicles (they give them a cute name like “Texas Oysters” or something like that)
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> Makes grasshoppers look tasty…\*\*
I grew up in Texas and Oklahoma, and have never heard them called that. Rocky Mountain Oysters, or Calf Fries - yes. Texas Oysters? - No.
You know what _they_ say… “Tastes like chicken”. My brother owns a bar Oklahoma, and he has an annual **Testicle Festival**.
## The ad goes something like: **10th Annual Testicle Festival _Come have a Ball at Derb’s Tavern!"_**
New and Improved
Enright3
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### Author:  [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2000, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-discusting-thing-to-eat/15395/14 "2000-03-31T15:33:00Z")
I consider Lobsters one of the most disgusting things to see on a plate. It looks like a giant red cockroach. And aren’t they related geneologically…
I’ve had cow tongue before… it’s wierd eating something that licks you on the way down… (minds out of the gutter please!)
My wife likes bacon and peanut butter sandwiches. For me, they hold no appeal but I’ve been known to enjoy kosher dill, cheese and mayo sandwiches on occasion. Yum.
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### Author:  [@danielnsmith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danielnsmith)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2000, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-discusting-thing-to-eat/15395/15 "2000-03-31T15:39:00Z")
Rock mountain oysters are pig testicles. A friend of my dad is fond of the things. (Of course, these are guys who are hostile towards homosexuals but willingly eat pig balls!)
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### Author:  [@quadell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quadell)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2000, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-discusting-thing-to-eat/15395/16 "2000-03-31T15:46:00Z")
Anybody ever seen Pink Flamingos? :eek:
Your Quadell
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### Author:  [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2000, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-discusting-thing-to-eat/15395/17 "2000-03-31T15:50:00Z")
Cow stomach lining, which is Tripe, I think?
Given to us as kids but not explained as to just what it really was.
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### Author:  [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2000, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-discusting-thing-to-eat/15395/18 "2000-03-31T15:55:00Z")
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> Originally posted by danielnsmith:
> **Rock mountain oysters are pig testicles. A friend of my dad is fond of the things. (Of course, these are guys who are hostile towards homosexuals but willingly eat pig balls!)**
While Pig testicles _can_ be used, as well as sheep, turkey, etc. Rock **y** Mountain Oysters usually refer to Bull Nuts.
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New and Improved
Enright3
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### Author:  [@Wicked\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wicked_Blue)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2000, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-discusting-thing-to-eat/15395/19 "2000-03-31T16:11:00Z")
My old boss used to send me out to pick up lunch at a deli. He would always give me his order, and then a second choice if they were out of what he wanted. One day he wanted a tongue sandwich. Now, I knew tongue _was_ cows’ tongue, but I thought it was somehow processed into a sandwich meat (like bologna). I order the sandwich, and the guy behind the counter tells me that they were out of it. I start to order the alternate sandwich, and he tells me to wait a minute, he’ll go see if there is more tongue in the back. The guy comes back out holding a huge, disgusting tongue wrapped in plastic. It was a whole tongue! It looked like a huge human tongue…same color, shape, everything. I almost threw up. Never ever ever, even if I’m starving, will I eat tongue. I’d rather eat my own foot.
Rose
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I told you not to be stupid, you moron.
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### Author:  [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2000, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-discusting-thing-to-eat/15395/20 "2000-03-31T16:27:00Z")
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> Originally posted by Enright3:
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> > [@](#):
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> > Originally posted by danielnsmith:
> > **Rock mountain oysters are pig testicles. A friend of my dad is fond of the things. (Of course, these are guys who are hostile towards homosexuals but willingly eat pig balls!)**
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> While Pig testicles _can_ be used, as well as sheep, turkey, etc. Rock **y** Mountain Oysters usually refer to Bull Nuts.
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Turkey testicles?
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Gee, I don’t think any of us expected him to say that.
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