I agree. Poi is one of the few foods that can challenge tofu for tastelessness. It looks like you’re eating grey goo, it feels like you’re eating grey goo, it tastes like you’re eating grey goo because you’re eating grey goo.
Now I don’t necessarily agree with this one but the time I convinced my cousin to try some Li Hing Mui he put it in his mouth. Looked at me in the most shocked “Et tu Brute?” face and ran to wash the taste out of his mouth while screaming “Ith foambing ind by bouth!” I don’t think it’s that bad though.
Urped up Hagen Daas Vanilla Ice Cream. Eaten at the suggestion of a fool who told me you can’t throw it up cause it’s too heavy. Not only did I throw it up, but the force used made my entire body ache, “decorated” my bathroom with ice cream vomit, and the foul taste lingered for two days.
I can’t believe no one has said Black licorice/anise yet. :: shudders :: That’s the taste of pure evil. Even the smell makes my teeth hurt. Blech. My taste buds are having a fit even thinking about it!
Cod liver oil. Yuck! My mom used to make me take this stuff every day–I know fish oils are good for you, but it’s just foul.
In second place is a health drink concoction that my mom made one time when I was sick–I think it had Brewer’s yeast in it, and who knows what other nasty things. I’m sure it would have been very nutritious, if it hadn’t tasted so bad that I couldn’t drink it.
A second vote for barium. I tried to down it over the course of an entire morning, but couldn’t get down more than a couple of spoonfuls. I finally decided that if I puked up what I’d already swallowed, it would be worse than just leaving well enough alone. The pics came out fine, but anything that smelled even vaguely like the barium solution (my hair mousse, for example) made me want to gag for a year afterward.
Curse you mkmiller! I hadn’t thought about that stuff in 10 years or more until I read this. I feel sick now. That stuff is horribly, horribly bad. I was never scared of anything that the dentist did except the taste of that shit.
I’ve tried sea urchin, and although I don’t like it, I can eat it. The one thing that can make me hurl at the slightest taste, however, is a Japanese dish called shiokara. It’s a kind of pickled squid served in a bright purplish spicy sauce. It looks like someone else has already regurgitated it.
You’ll want something to wash down a feast like this. Here’s what I’d put on the beverage cart.
Eku 28. My friend bought it in a beer store but it wasn’t really a beer. It was called something like a barley wine. My friend actually managed to get through about a quarter of the can before calling it quits. I took a hit off it and was glad I hadn’t bought it. The rest of the can was poured out a window.
I also remember some bizarre barley flavored soft drink I once bought a four pack of in a dollar store. After I tasted the first, I gave away the other three.
I also bought some lapsong suchow (sp?) tea once. Imagine a cup of tea with a piece of smoked herring thrown in. I like tea and I like smoked herring, but sometimes two great tastes don’t go together.
Helloooo! Vegemite anybody? I can’t believe nobody else has mentioned it yet.
As to poi, it’s bad, but not as bad as Veg. It’s more like eating flour/water paste, which is, really pretty much what it is. I did notice when in Hawaii that although poi itself is pretty bad, the poi rolls that were served weren’t. Just tasted like basic dinner rolls, which I think backs up what I’m saying. Wheat flour and water mixed don’t taste very good either, but when baked in a recipe they’re fine.
I’ll join in on the gagging at the rememberance of the flouride-stuff at the dentist. I recall that mine tasted like nuts that had gone bad - that sort of dry, bitter taste. I can still feel it starting to seep out from around the molds and drip down the back of my throat. That shit was rank.
As for actual foods - I can’t take the sight, smell, and certainly not the taste of liver. I came home to visit my folks one Saturday and my mother was in the process of cooking liver for dinner. I waited outside on the deck while she cooked it, my parents ate it, and the dishes were cleaned. Even then I made her light a scented candle in the kitchen. Me eat liver? Nope. No way, no how. Never. Ever.
I LIKE fluoride! I still get it (lots of dental problems – I see the dentist 4 times a year). The choice is usually grape or orange. I like to play with the foam with my tongue.
I read somewhere that more and more of your tastebuds die off as you get older, so I keep trying brussels sprouts to see if I can stomach them, but, as of last year, nope, sorry, still can’t.
I can’t remember which antibiotic, but I had a prescrip while in high school. Minutes after taking a capsule, I’d feel a burp come up. Contained within the burp was powder from within the capsule. The powder would coat my mouth and nasal passages, leaving a taste similar to chewing an aspirin (not the yummy orange-flavored child variety, but the horrible run-of-the-mill kind).
I quickly learned how to deal with the antibiotics burp: take a deep breath and burp while quickly burping out of my mouth. I could see the cloud of dust!
Another vote for the fluoride crap. My dentist offered a choice between banana, cherry, and bubble gum. YUCK.
Castor oil - I chugged 4 oz. mixed with orange juice when I was about 10 days late with Number One Son - didn’t make him come out any quicker (he was born 8 days later), and to this day, 5.5 years later, I still can’t drink OJ.