Truly disgusting food item

Well not I have to go get a box just to see.

Dried Chicken Feet, a popular snack item in China, seasoned with various spices but the texture is exactly what you’d expect. They love their feet too, you’ll find them bobbing in a variety of soups and as garnishment for something completely unrelated to fowl.

Marmite is indeed terrible.

I don’t have to go far to get grossed out either, deviled Eggs as well as banana custard are both abominations that are consumed regularly where I live.

I honestly can’t tell the difference between the On-Cor and Swanson’s or Banquet.

OTOH the Stouffer’s is way too chi-chi for me; it almost resembles real meat (the “grill marks” on the other brands notwithstanding), and to me, that’s not what salisbury steak is all about!
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Astonishing - Post #8 in a “Truly Disgusting Food” thread lists one of my favorite things to eat in the entire World. :slight_smile:

My contribution: durian, no question. I sought it out b/c of its reputation. Its reputation was well-deserved.

See, I’ve had durian (like the actual big spiky fruit itself), and it wasn’t bad at all. So when I got to surströmming, I was expecting to be similarly disappointed by its reputation. I was not. Hakarl is next on my list.

I haven’t tried one (they’re only available in Japan) but this black hamburger, sold by Burger King, looks disgusting.

It looks pretty awesome to me, but from what I’ve heard, it just tastes like a regular Burger King burger, despite the “bamboo ash” bun and the “squid ink sauce” (if you get the Whopper equivalent.)

I could handle a black bun, but black cheese and black sauce? Yuck.

I dunno. I think it looks pretty, especially in the advertisements with the lettuce and tomato. As seen here. That said, I don’t think I’m in the majority opinion here.

That one doesn’t look so bad; it’s got some color to it. And I’m sure it tastes fine, but the picture in my link just does not appeal to me.

I’ve had chicken feet at Dim Sum. It’s like chewing on the part of a chicken wing without any meat. MMM, skin-covered bones.

That didn’t skeeve me out, but you know what does?

Tomato aspic.

My mother made it once. Once. My stepfather literally never complained about *anything *she cooked (she’s a fantastic cook). Except that. None of us ate more than a bite. It was horrible.

I eat Spam at least once a week, which I love. They came out with Spam-branded TV dinners. They all seemed to have a strong taste unrelated to the product illustration on the box. Sickening.

I tried the chicken and rice Compleats! shelf stable food, it was disgusting and tasted like dog food, three people I got to take a bite said ugh this is like dog food. I laughed.

I don’t know how we all knew what dog food tastes like, but it was the first thing that came to our minds.

Green bell peppers. Those things are make-me-gag vile, I cannot understand why people eat them. I used to drink tomato juice as a young-un, then my mother made a tomato aspic that had green pepper in it, that put me off the tomato juice. Reds, yellows, chiles, habaneros, NP, it is just those green bell peppers that make me run away.

I was inspired to make this for dinner tonight. While looking up recipes, I came across this video. Now, Guy Fieri is a guy that’s easy to hate, but, man, he loves his mofongo, it seems. :slight_smile:

I walked into this video with certain prejudices. He did have asshat sunglasses on his head. He did say “off the hook.” Nonetheless, I gave him a grudging nod for our shared love of mofongo.

One of my least favorite things about living in the US is the difficulty of finding truly green plantains. They’re so often slightly too ripe by the time they hit the shelf, and not only are sweet plantains gross (subjectively), they are completely unsuitable to recipes calling for green plantains (objectively). :frowning:

This must be local to Utah because in Chicago and Florida you can find them green, like really green.

Prob’ly. I can’t get decent seafood here either, unless I’m paying by the bite at a high end sushi place. :frowning:

And now that you mention it, when I lived in Houston green plantains were no big deal.

Get me the hell out of here.

I had exactly the same experience with spinach. I was amazed as an adult to realize it’s actually a fresh vegetable.

I’ve eaten peanuts that had a crispy shell made from bamboo ash. They were surpringly not bad.