'Disgusting' things you've eaten?
Well, my list of things that make many people squirm:
Frog - (not just the legs, whole frog, chopped up). China town, San Fransisco. It was very bony, and yes, it did taste like chicken.
Snails - some seafood restaurant which also did snails, Kemah, Texas.
Octopus (raw) - Countless sushi restaurants, mostly in Houston. (My love for sushi was ignited by the numerous very good japanese restaurants in Houston, where I lived for 6 years or so). Octopus wasn't my favorite, it was rather like chewing elastic bands.
Offal - kidney, liver, haggis, sausage filled with random stuff - mostly in the British Isles
By far the most revolting thing I've ever had was oysters. Unlike all the above, I think oysters really are revolting. I thought they tasted a bit like when you have a really bad head cold, and then sniff back a huge gob of snot.
Frog - (not just the legs, whole frog, chopped up). China town, San Fransisco. It was very bony, and yes, it did taste like chicken.
Snails - some seafood restaurant which also did snails, Kemah, Texas.
Octopus (raw) - Countless sushi restaurants, mostly in Houston. (My love for sushi was ignited by the numerous very good japanese restaurants in Houston, where I lived for 6 years or so). Octopus wasn't my favorite, it was rather like chewing elastic bands.
Offal - kidney, liver, haggis, sausage filled with random stuff - mostly in the British Isles
By far the most revolting thing I've ever had was oysters. Unlike all the above, I think oysters really are revolting. I thought they tasted a bit like when you have a really bad head cold, and then sniff back a huge gob of snot.
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Liver is probably the most foul thing I've ever eaten, it looks nasty and tastes horrible, and apparently it's bad for you nowadays as it's full of pollutants.
bread and butter pudding
black pudding
all make me shiver in disgust BLEAURGH
:drool! .
In this village soupe au choux can be hard to take and is reserved for celebrations in the winter. It is boiled cabbage soup which sounds OK but the white sauasge stock is pretty stagnant and frothy/filmy/greasy. It is coooked for the masses in a big cauldron. In our village they use a vast urn that is normally used for pigswill.
I have a Greek brother in law who adores a pickled anenome which has an upalatable ink-cartridge-burst-in-mouth flavour. After that, oysters seem rather good.
just the smell, just the smell :P
Squid (not so weird these days but it was when I ate it about 13 years ago).
Chocolade, the glorious chocolate pop mentioned on the strange drinks thread. Bloody awful that stuff was.
Tudors flavour that probably helped bankrupt them....chocolate crisps, friggin' mingin'.
The worm at the bottom of a bottle of Tequila (at the titty bar).
A live worm at Junior school as a dare.
A plate of deep fried crickets at some obscure Houston restaurant I don't remember.
the usual Octupus, squid, frogs legs.
Black pudding over here would be classed as disgusting...but they call it blood pudding so I guess that doesn't help.
Not much really...I'm sure the list is longer....dogs cats etc....used to eat at some dodgy curry places back home that never tasted 'quite' right.
Times were hard or you were just really hungry?
That reminds me of one. Used to have this thing we did walking back from the pub drunk. Always bought a Kebab and threw it in the gutter, then retrieved and ate it, said it added to the flavor...stupid things you do when drunk.
But.. has anyone tried lutefisk? That's quite possibly the most revolting thing I've heard of. Basically, it's white fish (such as cod), that's soaked for 6 days, dumped into caustic soda (lye; sodium hydroxide) for another two. At this point it's toxic and has a pH of about 11-12 - highly caustic. So it has to be washed for another 6 days so it won't kill you. The result is a slightly translucent gelatinous lump of ...stuff... that apparently tastes slightly of soap and stinks to high heaven. I've never tried it, and I don't think I'd ever want to!
My dad gave me frog legs once saying it was "spring chicken". It was only much later that I found out that it was his euphemism for frog meat.
I hate liver, squid, and bitter gourd too.
In Bangalore I've tried something called "bheja fry", which literally translates to "brain fry". It's a dish made from goat brains I'm told. Tastes very much like scrambled eggs (and some of you thought that was disgusting?) but softer and lighter. I've only had it a non-sober state so am undecided on whether I actually can stand the stuff or not!
Marmalade. I just can't take it!
A certain soup called "paya" made from cow/goat/lamb hoofs is supposed to be a delicacy. I've never managed to get myself around to have one so can't comment on the taste!
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Octopuss. I like it cooked with oil and spices (paprika? paprika=piment?n in spanish?). It's called "Pulpo a la gallega".
Morcilla. It's funny english guys finds that disgusting. It's a sausage made with cooked pig blood, rice and some spices. I like it.
Agreed with industrial burgers... I don't like plastic.
Lamb brains. Don't like that.
An' you know what they said?
Well, some of it was true!
It's a norwegian dish which basically consists of a lamb's head folded out over a platter with various bits of apple (from Hardanger mostly - quite a sour variety) around which leaks juice onto the head and "pre-digests" it so it's not so hard on the stomach.
Asparagus and Ocra, 2 of the filthiest veggies I've ever had the misfortune to come into contact with. Asparagus tastes vile looks vile and if you're really unlucky it makes your piss stink, Ocra is rotten it's slimy in texture with little lumpy bits in it, and my wife so nicely told my mother in law the reason I wouldn't eat it, which she found amusing, but i found slightly embarressing.
Considering I said "I'm not eating Ocra it's like munching on an aliens penis", the exact words which were relayed to my mother in law. Twiddly thumbs that day I can tell yer'.
Mongolian coconut chicken, bright red smells and tastes more like it's been boiled in crushed up paracetemol than coconut, in fact I found no evidence of any coconut within the dish at all. thank god I tried it at a chinese buffet, if I'd paid money for this slop, I'd have been so pissed off I may have had to have taken a hostage or something :D
The Devil's food. :(
i ate a funny looking sausage once on top of a kebab, that wasn't nice, it might have been seesh or something
i made a pasta sauce from whole cream, chopped onions, spring onions, garlic and liver. it were awful, i ate the whole bowl and felt right funny afterwards, i dont think the liver was cooked through
Hmm, Prolly..surstr?mming..which is swedish and a bit like lutefisk, which is norwegian.
Hmm, any given meal I had in Gran Canaria. I mean, pizzas should not be nuclear temps on the outside and near absolute zero on the inner.
Well, I got a habit of swallowing my swedish snus..and thats horrible I suppose.
not one to pry, but what is snus?
Marmalade - I'd rather eat the contents of the cats litter tray.
Sprouts & Kidneys
Those are pet hates. The most disgusting thing I've ever tried are goats brains and tripe. How the feck anyone eats tripe without barfing I'll never know.
The first time the missus's mother cooked for me was when I had a hangover from hell. We went over on Saturday lunch time and she'd prepared me a homemade steak and kidney pie (heavy on the kidney) with sprouts. I couldn't refuse to eat it and I was literally swallowing everything whole to avoid tasting it. Worst meal I've ever had; how I managed to keep it all in until we got back to the flat I'll never know.
Whilst the taste supposedly is nutty and sweet, the stench of the thing is absolutely unbelievable. It's like rotting meat, akin to trying to shove part of a decaying body into your mouth I'd reckon. I've seen people actually gag from 3 feet away just from the smell, and I only managed to get a piece into my mouth after a complex process involving lying on the ground and having a friend drop a piece in from a suitable height. Of course, this did leave me prone to having all manner of other things dropped in my mouth first, but other than a trial run with an polo mint I got off lucky I guess.
Funny thing is, I ate it so fast - to get rid of it - I couldn't actually claim that I recall the taste at all. But my god, that smell......:cry: It's banned from many public places - subways etc - due to the reek, and thank goodness for that.
Interestingly, they also made an ice-lolly in Singapore with Durian flavour, and that smelt equally unapproachable!
im with you there, marmelade is nasty!!! not even sure what its made out of, a marmel fruit no doubt.
tripe on the other hand is delicious, nice and cold with a bit of salt and vinegar, yummmy.
Don't know why, black pudding (a traditional northern English dish) is far more disgusting.
I had to look this up on Wikipedia. I'd heard of this fruit before but thought it was a myth. This description probably sums the smell up:
"its odor is best described as pig-shit, turpentine and onions, garnished with a gym sock"
LMAO!
PS. I like black pudding!
mmm thats nice, but only a small disk with a fry up, i tried having a black pudding sandwich once, its wasn't as nice as it sounded.