I refuse to eat food with silly names. 
The most revolting-looking food I have ever seen: Pickled Pork Rinds (go to volume 2).
It’s a jar of pale, pallid skin.
Oh my God, that shit at the bottom of that page looks absolutely nasty!
Nobody has mention kimchi yet? The smell is enough to make me sick.
You guys are all rank amateurs. Last time this thread happened, we discussed such winners as Lutefisk, which is basically fish dissolved in Lye, and some mysterious Icelandic items which, from the description, basically consisted of burying an animal carcasse in the ground for 6 months and letting it rot.
Also, there’s something called “thousand year old eggs” or something.
I’ve blocked out mosf of my memories of that thread, fortunately.
I saw a segment about this on some show about Taboo foods on the National Geographic channel. Basically (from link):
a balut is a fertilized duck egg with a nearly-developed embryo inside that is boiled and eaten in the shell.
I think I could eat anything except for that. And yes, I would even eat Haggis before eating Balut.
Dear Og, how could anything be nastier than food that feels like pimples popping in your mouth?
Blech!
Mm, I love kimchi. But I will admit it’s definitely an acquired taste.
Some good nominees, so I’ll have to take the best one that hasn’t been mentioned yet.
Four words: Potted Meat Food Product ! I spotted a can of this stuff on the shelf in my local supermarket while I was looking for a can of tuna one day. It was the Libby’s variety, and it immediately made me wary because it didn’t have any sort of picture on the can. How vile could it be if they can’t even create a marginally appetizing image to grace the outside of the can? I wondered why it was called a “meat food product,” until I read the ingredients. The answer is that it contains meat from several different animals, and it seems to be the parts of animals that couldn’t be used for hot dog production. I didn’t have the courage to buy a can and see what was inside, much less actually try to eat it. Gives me the creeps just imagining what’s inside that can.
But…but…it’s nearly rectum free!
Wanna spoil your evening?
Go to an authentic sushi bar and eat the natto sushi!!
(Curse you! TODAI)
My nominee is durian - an asian fruit that has a smell somewhere between rotting garbage and particularily nasty foot odor. However, it actually tastes pretty good if you can get past the smell.
Scandinavians love eating rancid foods. A friend of mine was upset that I cleaned up his refrig while housesitting.
DUDE, it had black mold on it!! That goat cheese smelled like goat!!
PS: Lutefisk looks and smells like something you threw up!!
I happen to LOVE liver, sauerkraut, anchovies, and herring in sour cream sauce!
Overgrown sea spider or “crab” as some people call it.
Pickled beef tongue sandwiches.
Souse (kind of like jello salad with unidentifiable bits of leftover pig).
I’ve never tried chitlins, but if they taste as bad as they smell, I don’t understand how anyone could eat them.
Anything “solid” on the Sonic menu.
On the topic of rotting Icelandic delicacies: I believe it is shark, but the shark is toxic to eat. They let it rot so that the ammonia can seep out. I think I saw someone on…dangit, that one PBS show, where they travel around, you know the one. Globe Trekker, that’s it. The guy remarked that the smell of the shark ‘curing’ was an unbearable very strong urine odor. When his host tried to feed him the stuff, he looked quite green.
From what I understand it is the only viable source of protein in the Iceland-area ecosystem. (After you found that out, wouldn’t you get in your boat and book it back? I sure as hell would.)
And deep fried haggis? Good Og. (Insert barf smiley here).
Liver.
Scrapple. (my parents think this stuff is a delicacy)
Papaya (sorry, but to me it smells exactly like vomit)
Headcheese.
'Nuff said.