# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-disgusting-thing-you-have-ever-tasted/542527/61 "2010-06-10T04:03:32Z")
It’s a toss-up between durian and the fermented raw-fish dish _pla ra_. ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-disgusting-thing-you-have-ever-tasted/542527/62 "2010-06-10T04:10:22Z")
1. [Steamed silkworm.](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DcUntKlZaaI/SaxXgeG6wzI/AAAAAAAAArs/dV3NEtBxWcI/s320/bundegi.JPG) I can’t take oysters unless it’s covered with cocktail sauce or something to kill the taste of seawater. 2. Cigarette butts in orange passion juice. 3. Something I love that other people hate: [balut.](http://seralulalu.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/balut2.jpg) I really have no idea why this regularly makes “most disgusting foods” lists, it tastes like chicken soup, chicken, and duck egg rolled into one. ---
**Author:** ![Acantha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@Acantha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acantha)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-disgusting-thing-you-have-ever-tasted/542527/63 "2010-06-10T04:24:10Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > 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. I’ll second sea urchin. Ugh. I don’t think I’ve ever eaten anything that wasn’t intended to be food…that I know of. ---
**Author:** ![Acantha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@Acantha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acantha)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-disgusting-thing-you-have-ever-tasted/542527/64 "2010-06-10T04:31:06Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Mmm, purple soap gum. I’ll have to get a pack next time I see it. 🙂 > > Genuine maple syrup is the most disgusting thing you’ve ever tasted? So strange. ETA: Oh, you mean the combo of maple syrup and Diet Pepsi! I had some low quality maple syrup once that I swear tasted like turpentine or kerosene smell. For years I thought all maple syrup must be horrible until I tried some good maple syrup and found out otherwise. Oh! I thought of something I ate that wasn’t meant to be consumed. We bought pancake mix that must have sat in a warehouse next to the laundry supplies, something like dryer sheets had permeated the bag and our pancakes tasted flowery and soapy. Naaaaasty. ---
**Author:** ![MoodIndigo1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@MoodIndigo1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoodIndigo1)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-disgusting-thing-you-have-ever-tasted/542527/65 "2010-06-10T04:35:37Z")
Silkworm, sea urchin, grilled spleen. All of those have a texture that I loathe. I love capers, oysters, and many other foods mentioned on this list. I never ate anything that wasn’t meant to be eaten. When I was 5, my 2-year old brother drank javex that was stored in a soda bottle at one of my mother’s friends’ house. That made me extra careful from that moment on. Let’s hope that those words don’t jinx me… ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-disgusting-thing-you-have-ever-tasted/542527/66 "2010-06-10T04:41:01Z")
> [@Superhal](#): > > 1. Something I love that other people hate: [balut.](http://seralulalu.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/balut2.jpg) I really have no idea why this regularly makes “most disgusting foods” lists, it tastes like chicken soup, chicken, and duck egg rolled into one. Really? You have no idea why a cooked fertilized duck egg with a mostly developed embryo inside that you eat whole would be considered “disgusting” by the average person? Really? [This looks appetizing?](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/25/Inside_a_Balut_-_Embryo_and_Yolk.jpg) Not that I wouldn’t try it, given the chance, but, yeah, it has all the hallmarks of a food that would be considered disgusting by pretty much anyone. ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-disgusting-thing-you-have-ever-tasted/542527/67 "2010-06-10T04:50:36Z")
> [@Maiira](#): > > I guess this isn’t disgusting so much as painful, I once popped an entire dollop of wasabi in my mouth, not knowing what it was. My friends stared at me, and one of them went “…did you just put that entire thing in your mouth?” THEN I felt it. On the plus side, my sinuses were clearer than they’d ever been for like, the rest of the month. > > As for most disgusting, I once tried gunpowder tea with maple syrup in it. Never again. That shit was NASTY. > > Also, I live in Minnesota and have not tried lutefisk. Go me. I had the same wasabi experience. A small dollop was on top of my dish and I had no idea what it was. Plopped it in my mouth and it literally took my breath away. Oh honey, I have plenty of relatives still living in the mother land. Give 'em a call and they’ll hook you with with some nasty ass fish. ---
**Author:** ![kidneyfailure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kidneyfailure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidneyfailure)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-disgusting-thing-you-have-ever-tasted/542527/68 "2010-06-10T04:55:11Z")
I whole-heartedly agree with the people who have mentioned the hundred year old eggs, the stinky tofu, and the chicken feet. But no one has yet mentioned that disgusting bug larvae that people in Asia enjoy eating. God, that is gross…sometimes they eat it while it’s still moving! My stomach turns every time I see it, but **mrs.kidneyfailure** eats 'em like potato chips. Blech. ---
**Author:** ![AboutAsWeirdAsYouCanGet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@AboutAsWeirdAsYouCanGet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AboutAsWeirdAsYouCanGet)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-disgusting-thing-you-have-ever-tasted/542527/69 "2010-06-10T05:12:22Z")
> [@](#): > > Something I love that other people hate: balut. That picture looks exactly like a Madball! ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-disgusting-thing-you-have-ever-tasted/542527/70 "2010-06-10T07:03:03Z")
Haggis. Limburger cheese. ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-disgusting-thing-you-have-ever-tasted/542527/71 "2010-06-10T09:46:20Z")
Wheatgrass juice. Opaque, deep green and tasted like grass. From a lawn. And it was _warm._ That’s the last time I try to quench my thirst at a Whole Foods juice bar. ---
**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 10, 2010, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-disgusting-thing-you-have-ever-tasted/542527/72 "2010-06-10T11:00:02Z")
> [@Neidhart](#): > > Wheatgrass juice. Opaque, deep green and tasted like grass. From a lawn. And it was _warm._ That’s the last time I try to quench my thirst at a Whole Foods juice bar. My mum used to force me to chew on raw wheatgrass. I was then able to comprehend how being a cow feels like. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-disgusting-thing-you-have-ever-tasted/542527/73 "2010-06-10T11:28:27Z")
Which part of the question does oral sex belong in? ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-disgusting-thing-you-have-ever-tasted/542527/74 "2010-06-10T13:30:35Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > Which part of the question does oral sex belong in? Depends if you wash it or not. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-disgusting-thing-you-have-ever-tasted/542527/75 "2010-06-10T13:34:51Z")
> [@Acantha](#): > > Oh! I thought of something I ate that wasn’t meant to be consumed. We bought pancake mix that must have sat in a warehouse next to the laundry supplies, something like dryer sheets had permeated the bag and our pancakes tasted flowery and soapy. (A.k.a. “Thrills gum” flavour.) 😉 My wife once bought a turtle and boiled the hell out of it, thinking she’d make turtle soup. Our house smelled like the reptile house at the zoo. I didn’t taste it, though. ---
**Author:** ![nikonikosuru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5f8ce5/32.png) [@nikonikosuru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nikonikosuru)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-disgusting-thing-you-have-ever-tasted/542527/76 "2010-06-10T13:57:18Z")
1.) Food- Natto. I’m pretty open to trying new things and liking most so far, but that stuff was rank. 2.) Non-food- Moth balls. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-disgusting-thing-you-have-ever-tasted/542527/77 "2010-06-10T14:36:14Z")
I have to wonder about those of you who accidentally drank from a can or bottle that had been used as an ashtray or spittoon. Is it customary to drink from any open container that happens to be lying around? ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-disgusting-thing-you-have-ever-tasted/542527/78 "2010-06-10T14:42:07Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > I have to wonder about those of you who accidentally drank from a can or bottle that had been used as an ashtray or spittoon. Is it customary to drink from any open container that happens to be lying around? Speaking personally, my can was on a table with another can of the same brand beer. And I was a bit drunk so didn’t notice the temperature difference until it was too late. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-disgusting-thing-you-have-ever-tasted/542527/79 "2010-06-10T14:45:10Z")
OK, I can see that. ---
**Author:** ![Khaki\_Campbell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Khaki\_Campbell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khaki_Campbell)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-disgusting-thing-you-have-ever-tasted/542527/80 "2010-06-10T14:47:29Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > I have to wonder about those of you who accidentally drank from a can or bottle that had been used as an ashtray or spittoon. Is it customary to drink from any open container that happens to be lying around? Parties can be sometimes [messy](http://i12.servimg.com/u/f12/09/01/08/05/photo_36.jpg)… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-disgusting-thing-you-have-ever-tasted/542527.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-disgusting-thing-you-have-ever-tasted/542527.md?page=5)