# What do you (or someone you know) eat that would make others go EEEWWWWWWWW!!!!!????? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 30, 2009, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-or-someone-you-know-eat-that-would-make-others-go-eeewwwwwwww/522991 "2009-12-30T01:24:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2009, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-or-someone-you-know-eat-that-would-make-others-go-eeewwwwwwww/522991/61 "2009-12-30T23:28:23Z")
[This](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=544853). ---
**Author:** ![Harriet\_the\_Spry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e56c9b/32.png) [@Harriet\_the\_Spry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harriet_the_Spry)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2009, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-or-someone-you-know-eat-that-would-make-others-go-eeewwwwwwww/522991/62 "2009-12-30T23:47:37Z")
> [@Manwich](#): > > Dog - but not regularly, it isn’t that great really. > > Silkworms - they have to be fresh or they are pretty mealy. > > Crickets, again have to be fresh. > > Snake - not worth the hassle in my limited experience - too many tricky bones. I am willing to be corrected though. > > Blood jelly. > > Various innards - heart, lungs, entrails… > > Chicken ovaries. > > Fermented fish products. > > Plus a smartarse answer - pork - millions find that disgusting. This username/ post combo gives me pause. I’ve put pesto on baked potatoes. People look at the bright green potato flesh a little sideways. ---
**Author:** ![anu-la1979](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@anu-la1979](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anu-la1979)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2009, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-or-someone-you-know-eat-that-would-make-others-go-eeewwwwwwww/522991/63 "2009-12-31T00:03:09Z")
Pretty much the only thing that comes to mind is bitter melon. I’ve loved it since I was a little girl. Maybe my ability to eat pacific mackerel and sardines. I’m adventurous in terms of the type of cuisine but I don’t eat any organ meats or “exotic meat” and I think I’m fairly conservative/comparatively limited where sushi is concerned. As in, I’m beyond California rolls but not quite up to uni-so in that grey zone of being okay with salmon/tuna/yellowtail/scallop but ick on mackerel/uni/horse. Actually, I’m kind of at the point where I only really want to eat fish and vegetables so while I may be all over trying various exotic cuisines, I don’t taste the craziest thing on the menu, nor will I make it at home. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2009, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-or-someone-you-know-eat-that-would-make-others-go-eeewwwwwwww/522991/64 "2009-12-31T00:45:52Z")
I’ll snarf down jalapeno peppers and smile, while other folks look at me with a deer-in-the-headlights look. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2009, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-or-someone-you-know-eat-that-would-make-others-go-eeewwwwwwww/522991/65 "2009-12-31T00:50:14Z")
For some reason, people tend to get grossed out when I have meat meals for breakfast. I’ve never seen the point in “dinner foods” or “breakfast foods”- if you like it at eight in the morning, why should you dislike it at eight at night? But when I say something like, “I just had chicken soup for breakfast, so I’ll have to decline the cream cheese bagel”, they think I’m crazy. “Ew, you had _chicken soup_ for _breakfast_?” People are weird. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2009, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-or-someone-you-know-eat-that-would-make-others-go-eeewwwwwwww/522991/66 "2009-12-31T05:42:59Z")
Jesus, I’ll try anything once, but reading from the varied responses, I don’t think my list is all that daring. The usual contenders of course: foie gras, oysters, rabbit kidneys, raw fishes/seafood, sweetbreads, even broccoli… My recent “try something new” was pickled deer heart. It was actually very good, and tasted a lot like roast beef. My fave snack o’ the moment: I take a nice cracker (water crackers, multigrain, spiced melba toasts), place a slice of gruyere cheese onto it, put a smoked oyster on top of that, and finish it with a dollop of dijon mustard. It’s really freaking good. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2009, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-or-someone-you-know-eat-that-would-make-others-go-eeewwwwwwww/522991/67 "2009-12-31T05:50:35Z")
> [@Valgard](#): > > Until someone produces actual evidence of large numbers of genuine Scots eating what is verified to be actual haggis I will never believe that “food” to be anything other than the Scottish National Practical Joke On Tourists. > > **I am convinced that as soon as someone leaves any Scottish pub after eating some haggis the whole place erupts into laughter, people are high-fiving each other and Angus puts another mark on the “gullible foreigners” scoreboard. Then they all go back to eating proper food such as beer.** > > 😃 > > I don’t think I eat anything that disgusts people but I do eat food so hot it makes even my friends who claim to like spicy dishes say “AAAAAGGGGGHHHH!” I have a pretty high tolerance for heat. I have to comment that your haggis routine is really fucking funny. I need to go to bed! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Taenia\_spp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5e925/32.png) [@Taenia\_spp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taenia_spp)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2009, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-or-someone-you-know-eat-that-would-make-others-go-eeewwwwwwww/522991/68 "2009-12-31T05:55:00Z")
Hell, half the things in this thread seem absolutely delicious, especially the strawberry ice cream with balsamic (there’s even a neighborhood ice cream shop that sells this exact flavor). My contribution: pig’s ears. It’s not a go-to meal or anything; they’re way too much work and rather flavorless for what you get out of them. Though I’ve never tried, I’d be very willing to eat some chicken gizzards. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2009, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-or-someone-you-know-eat-that-would-make-others-go-eeewwwwwwww/522991/69 "2009-12-31T05:57:43Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > I eat a product that’s made from the excretions of the mammary glands of bovines, and then allowed to curdle. If that wasn’t enough, moldy bread is deliberately added to the curdled mixture to promote the growth of blue-green mold spores! > > YUCK! > > or… yum, _Blue Cheese._ This morning at the auto shop I watched an episode of “Modern Marvels” that ranged from “Bologna is curdled meat paste?” to “Head cheese? Grandma started that recipe with the head of one pig,” to “Salami is the product of both a bacterial culture mixed into it and a penicillin culture on its wrapping? Still tastes good,” and finally how you make pastrami. There is nothing better than pastrami and the recipe wasn’t close to disgusting. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2009, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-or-someone-you-know-eat-that-would-make-others-go-eeewwwwwwww/522991/70 "2009-12-31T06:02:11Z")
OTOH, after discussing Grandma’s head cheese they segued into Usinger’s braunschweiger, which I consider a food group. It’s made of liver. Didn’t need to watch how it’s made to know it’s disgusting. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2009, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-or-someone-you-know-eat-that-would-make-others-go-eeewwwwwwww/522991/71 "2009-12-31T06:03:08Z")
Pickle Brine, straight from the jar. I wait until all the pickles are gone in case no one wants my yucky lips touching the jar. Today, I did drink straight from the viniagrette dressing bottle though. And there’s still some left. Guess it’s mine now. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2009, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-or-someone-you-know-eat-that-would-make-others-go-eeewwwwwwww/522991/72 "2009-12-31T06:04:39Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > OTOH, after discussing Grandma’s head cheese they segued into Usinger’s braunschweiger, which I consider a food group. It’s made of liver. Didn’t need to watch how it’s made to know it’s disgusting. Head cheese was better than I thought it would be, and as for braunschweiger, which is pretty common in this Germanic area of greater Cincinnati, I have to say that I can find no fault in spreadable meat. ---
**Author:** ![Tinkertoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f19dbf/32.png) [@Tinkertoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tinkertoy)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2009, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-or-someone-you-know-eat-that-would-make-others-go-eeewwwwwwww/522991/73 "2009-12-31T06:05:58Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > I guess I should clarify… > I was actually looking for weird combinations of foods, like cottage cheese with ketchup or pickle slices spread with jelly (rather than the haggis/liver/testicles fare). > > Carry on. 😃 Oh that reminds me I haven’t had it in awhile but used to love Peanut Butter frito chips and sweet pickle sandwiches. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2009, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-or-someone-you-know-eat-that-would-make-others-go-eeewwwwwwww/522991/74 "2009-12-31T06:12:59Z")
Pickled eggs are good. People freaked at work when I put a jar of them in our break room. [http://redsmithfoods.com/images/pickled\_eggs.jpg](http://redsmithfoods.com/images/pickled_eggs.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2009, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-or-someone-you-know-eat-that-would-make-others-go-eeewwwwwwww/522991/75 "2009-12-31T06:18:44Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > I have to say that I can find no fault in spreadable meat. And yet your user name. :dubious: Watching some stupid show recently I saw foie gras geese waddling about a French farmyard with the narrator claiming that the geese must waddle about for their health and that, technically, force-feeding them until their livers grew fat was very much like their natural binging before migrating. Said migration having only usually resulting in their deaths. I live in an area infested with their Canada cousins. All year round. Sure, up until a few years ago we’d look above of a November eve and our hearts would gladden at the sight of those endangered creatures. No more. If those stupid fucking geese weren’t salmonella factories on the hoof I’d introduce one to my oven via the silence of a modern air rifle. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2009, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-or-someone-you-know-eat-that-would-make-others-go-eeewwwwwwww/522991/76 "2009-12-31T06:22:07Z")
Dates. Steamed date cake. Brussels sprouts, hot or cold. Sauerkraut. Hummus. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2009, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-or-someone-you-know-eat-that-would-make-others-go-eeewwwwwwww/522991/77 "2009-12-31T06:35:06Z")
> [@Valgard](#): > > Until someone produces actual evidence of large numbers of genuine Scots eating what is verified to be actual haggis I will never believe that “food” to be anything other than the Scottish National Practical Joke On Tourists. > > I am convinced that as soon as someone leaves any Scottish pub after eating some haggis the whole place erupts into laughter, people are high-fiving each other and Angus puts another mark on the “gullible foreigners” scoreboard. Then they all go back to eating proper food such as beer. I’ve thought the same thing about French _haute cuisine_ - that it is an elaborate, centuries-long practical joke. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2009, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-or-someone-you-know-eat-that-would-make-others-go-eeewwwwwwww/522991/78 "2009-12-31T06:38:04Z")
Dates! Sprouts! Tonight with French dressing! Kraut! Used to think it was supposed to be heated fresh out of the can. Then went to a girlfriend’s NYE party and it had been drained of its effluvia and cooked with smoked pigs’ feet. In retrospect I shoulda proposed on the spot. Hummus! Took a couple years but I finally admitted to my wife that I burnt out the old blender pureeing chick peas. Yeah, I’m fat and I have a tale for every foodstuff. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2009, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-or-someone-you-know-eat-that-would-make-others-go-eeewwwwwwww/522991/79 "2009-12-31T06:51:25Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > I’ve thought the same thing about French _haute cuisine_ - that it is an elaborate, centuries-long practical joke. Nah, I believe Pratchett’s on the money on this one : every country’s cuisine is based on EEEWW stuff, because back in the day the nobles pinched all the pork and beef, leaving the plebs with refuse to eat. You gotta get \*real \*creative in the kitchen to make sheep guts remotely palatable. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2009, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-or-someone-you-know-eat-that-would-make-others-go-eeewwwwwwww/522991/80 "2009-12-31T06:54:55Z")
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