# What is the most disgusting thing you have ever tasted? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 9, 2010, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-disgusting-thing-you-have-ever-tasted/542527 "2010-06-09T12:34:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-disgusting-thing-you-have-ever-tasted/542527/21 "2010-06-09T15:26:38Z")
Some of these things I kind of like. Caviar, capers, I even liked the taste of lutefisk. It was the texture that I couldn’t abide. 1. Some kind of cheese. It may have been beer cheese, but I don’t remember. I think it had alternating layers of yellow and white. It was hard and crumbly. Whatever it was it tasted like gym socks. 2. Protein-enhanced beer. I took a swig, and immediately noticed that it was not entirely liquid. I spit it out, and away crawled a respectibly sized cockroach. I’m so glad I don’t live in that apartment anymore. ---
**Author:** ![kenner116](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@kenner116](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenner116)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-disgusting-thing-you-have-ever-tasted/542527/22 "2010-06-09T15:30:14Z")
I’ve tried to eat durian, even though I had been aware of its reputation of having a rank odor. The taste was so awful that I was unable to finish ten percent of it. Usually I can force horrible foods down my throat, but I probably would have thrown up in this case. I now have a goal to one day finish one and keep it down. ---
**Author:** ![Panurge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@Panurge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Panurge)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-disgusting-thing-you-have-ever-tasted/542527/23 "2010-06-09T15:37:40Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > The answer to both of those questions is the Vietnamese snake wine I drank because it was something to do. I’m pretty sure there was no actual wine involved, and that I was just drinking formaldehyde with a snake inside, but we drank it just to say we did it. > > I still have the bottle. Here’s a [close up](http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e266/WryOnRye/IMG_5069-1.jpg) of the cobra with the scorpion in its mouth. The bottle is now empty. I don’t know who drank the rest of it, because it sure as hell wasn’t me. That’s what I was going to say! I don’t think our snake had a scorpion in its mouth though, but the bottle looked like the one in your picture. Also: stale beer with cigarette butts. I had both on the same evening. ---
**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:** [June 9, 2010, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-disgusting-thing-you-have-ever-tasted/542527/24 "2010-06-09T15:44:00Z")
> [@overlyverbose](#): > > 1. Worst thing that was never meant to be eaten: poop. My son ran into our room one day when he was about 2. He was already in pull ups. From the side of the bed, I gave him a big, smacking kiss. Hmmm, I thought. He smells really bad. But I instantly forget that when he asks for milk because I’m still half asleep and still in reaction-only mode. So we head to the kitchen and he wants up for more kisses. So, still bleary-eyed, I kiss him all over, then realize there’s a little something on the corner of my mouth. I lick it off. It tastes like poop smells. I sniff him again, then set him down in a chair and really look at him. He has a big smear of crap on the side of his face. Apparently he’d pooped in his pull up, stuck his hand down the back to scratch his butt and subsequently wiped his face. Ugh! You think that’s tame? Blech! 🙂 > [@Shark\_Sandwich](#): > > 1. Skoal spit. I had a roommate that had a habit of spitting in empty soda cans. One day I was home from work with the flu, so I was napping on the couch watching movies with a 103 degree fever. I was drinking a Coke, which I’d poured into a glass of ice. A bit later I refilled my glass with what I thought was my Coke, but turns out, it wasn’t. I took a big gulp and immediately noticed the taste was a bit…off. For about thirty seconds, and in a fever-induced haze, I smacked my lips trying to figure out what that taste was. _smack_ _smack_ Hmmmm. What is that? _Sip!_ _smack_ _smack_ It kinda tastes like…_Sip!_ _smack_ _smack_ gum? No. _Sip!_ _smack_ _smack_ Ah, I got it! It’s…wintergreen. Then I realize what I’d done. I throw the blanket off, jump up from the couch, and don’t make it to the bathroom. This was my worst ever too, but it was Copenhagen spit, drank out of the wrong cup…it was really the thick, ropy texture of having someone else’s snuff-infused saliva sliding down my throat that made me hurl. My least enjoyed disgusting food (having shared experiences with some of the others mentioned) would have to be poi. It isn’t so much that it’s really foul, per se, its just a gloppy, flavorless mass of grey goop. It was like eating pureed raw oysters that had been thickened with some gelatin…without any cocktail sauce. ---
**Author:** ![Wallenstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5a626/32.png) [@Wallenstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallenstein)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-disgusting-thing-you-have-ever-tasted/542527/25 "2010-06-09T15:49:15Z")
Boiled chicken’s feet in China - they didn’t taste of much, but the texture (slimy and chewy) was just hideous. Close second was a stew made from mopane worms in Malawi - they were rubbery balls of yuk, but with added spines along the back. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-disgusting-thing-you-have-ever-tasted/542527/26 "2010-06-09T15:54:22Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > My least enjoyed disgusting food (having shared experiences with some of the others mentioned) would have to be poi. It isn’t so much that it’s really foul, per se, its just a gloppy, flavorless mass of grey goop. It was like eating pureed raw oysters that had been thickened with some gelatin…without any cocktail sauce. I think it’s pretty good if it’s fresh, or better, slightly fermented. But the instant powdered stuff? Full of yuck. ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-disgusting-thing-you-have-ever-tasted/542527/27 "2010-06-09T16:16:50Z")
1. Limburgher cheese…and I LOVE stinky cheese…just not stinky feet cheese… 2. When I was little I blew a bubble with my gum and sneezed at the same time. Started chewing the gum again and it tasted a bit salty. Yup. I was chewing on a snot that had landed on the bubble. Oh, this almost made me puke as I was typing…shudder… ---
**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:** [June 9, 2010, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-disgusting-thing-you-have-ever-tasted/542527/28 "2010-06-09T16:19:06Z")
Worst food - sea urchin I’ve had some very mild and delicious hundred-year-old egg from a favorite restaurant which closed. In fact, my picky teens still ask for it. I’ve tried to recreate it with store-bought hundred-year-old egg, and both times they were \*way \*too strong to eat. They were probably more like hundred-and-one-year-old eggs. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Crap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.crap/32/3131_2.png) [@Dr.Crap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Crap)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-disgusting-thing-you-have-ever-tasted/542527/29 "2010-06-09T16:22:41Z")
1. Chicken feet or chicken/cow intestines 2. I’ve drank from a Bud Light can used as an ashtray on two occasions. ---
**Author:** ![FordTaurusSHO94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f07891/32.png) [@FordTaurusSHO94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordTaurusSHO94)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-disgusting-thing-you-have-ever-tasted/542527/30 "2010-06-09T16:24:25Z")
When I was being scanned to see if my appendix needed to come out, I had to drink some kind of grape flavored soap that was pretty bad. I remember the first time I made out with a girl who smoked, I couldn’t get that taste to go away. It was still there when I woke up the next morning too. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-disgusting-thing-you-have-ever-tasted/542527/31 "2010-06-09T16:27:36Z")
1. Dutchboy brand yellow latex house paint. It’s where I got my college fraternity nickname, which was also my original user name here ( **dutchboy208** ). ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-disgusting-thing-you-have-ever-tasted/542527/32 "2010-06-09T16:32:31Z")
> [@Wallenstein](#): > > Boiled chicken’s feet in China - they didn’t taste of much, but the texture (slimy and chewy) was just hideous. > > Close second was a stew made from mopane worms in Malawi - they were rubbery balls of yuk, but with added spines along the back. Chicken feet in China don’t even make it onto my ick list. Different strokes, I guess, as I can’t abide raw oysters or sea urchin roe. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-disgusting-thing-you-have-ever-tasted/542527/33 "2010-06-09T16:45:06Z")
> [@Dr.Crap](#): > > I’ve drank from a Bud Light can used as an ashtray on two occasions. Bud Light?!?!? :eek: ::shudder:: ---
**Author:** ![Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f08c70/32.png) [@Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crowbar_of_Irony_3)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-disgusting-thing-you-have-ever-tasted/542527/34 "2010-06-09T16:56:09Z")
> [@Wallenstein](#): > > Boiled chicken’s feet in China - they didn’t taste of much, but the texture (slimy and chewy) was just hideous. This. Being an Asian and brought up to be a non-fussy eater, I have partake in raw oyster, coconut meat, durain, spiced rabbit’s head, 100 years egg, salted egg, fish eyes, pig’s brain and the sort but I can’t stand looking at chicken’s feet. It’s not the taste or the texture, but how it looks like. Something like ET’s shrivelled hand. However, if you de-bone it (and there’s really nothing but rubbery skin left if you do that), I can stomach it, _if_ you don’t tell me what it was. ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-disgusting-thing-you-have-ever-tasted/542527/35 "2010-06-09T16:58:46Z")
And yet another vote for [Lutefisk](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutefisk). If there is a god, s/he didn’t intend for lutefisk to be food. ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-disgusting-thing-you-have-ever-tasted/542527/36 "2010-06-09T17:07:26Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > 1. [Thrills gum.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrills) Soap and Chiclets – the two great tastes that taste great together! Thrills gum is delicious! It’s what the tooth-fairy always used to bring. Mmm, soapy goodness! ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-disgusting-thing-you-have-ever-tasted/542527/37 "2010-06-09T17:10:37Z")
1. Kimchi. It was a small bite, I only had it in my mouth for a few moments before I spit it out and I still suffered from a severe bout of gagging. 2. I slipped on a wet barn floor and landed in a fairly fresh cow pie. Some of it got in my mouth. I ran to a water trough to rinse it out and the farmer yelled at me for contaminating the cow’s drinking water. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-disgusting-thing-you-have-ever-tasted/542527/38 "2010-06-09T17:11:01Z")
1. Something intended to be eaten or drunk McDonalds Shamrock Shakes - or as I like to call them, antifreeze floats. 1. Something that was never intended to be eaten or drunk At least by a human - WonderBait fishing bait. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-disgusting-thing-you-have-ever-tasted/542527/39 "2010-06-09T17:13:00Z")
> [@Ruby](#): > > And yet another vote for [Lutefisk](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutefisk). If there is a god, s/he didn’t intend for lutefisk to be food. Lutefisk made by your grandmother or the church-basement-ladies isn’t too terribly bad with enough butter and salt. The lutefisk served to the students at St Olaf College is/was among the worst things in life. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-disgusting-thing-you-have-ever-tasted/542527/40 "2010-06-09T17:13:52Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > Bud Light?!?!? :eek: ::shudder:: What ELSE would you expect a poster named Dr. Crap to drink?🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-disgusting-thing-you-have-ever-tasted/542527.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-disgusting-thing-you-have-ever-tasted/542527.md?page=3)