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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsPost some food item you think might gross me out.
I'll tell you whether I've had it and whether I would eat it again.
Let's make this challenging; I'll take the obvious ones out:
Balut is out
Bird's nest soup. Also out.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,232 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,892 posts)virtualobserver
(8,760 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,892 posts)I'll let you know if I like it.
virtualobserver
(8,760 posts)just cow placenta.....you need to locate a cow at just the right moment if you want it to be fresh.
Xipe Totec
(43,892 posts)I'll let you know how well it grills over mesquite.
Yes, as a matter of fact, I did have to pull a breached calf once.
Only once.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,232 posts)I don't do slime
Xipe Totec
(43,892 posts)LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)thought it was....Rating: five pukes:
Xipe Totec
(43,892 posts)And stand downwind of the fishmongers
And wait for some innocent to walk downwind of the rotting fish miasma.
Their surprised expressions as they caught a whiff, followed by a death pallor, and then an olive green tint to their faces.
Just before they upchucked their beer, burger, and fries...
Running... gagging... desperate to escape the stench...
Stinky tofu is that, plus the smell of rotting human corpses.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,232 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,892 posts)Which is what happened when a friend of mine of Scott ancestry prepared some and gave me to taste.
Did I mention he kept unmusked ferrets? No? Well, he did.
The taste of the haggis almost hid the smell of the ferret musk.
Almost, but not quite.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,232 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,892 posts)Not my favorite, I'll admit, but meh.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,232 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,892 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,232 posts)Another thing I'll pass on eating.
Xipe Totec
(43,892 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,232 posts)jmowreader
(50,574 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,946 posts)I've had those. They're very rubbery.
IcyPeas
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Xipe Totec
(43,892 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)area51
(11,934 posts)a bowl of tuna and would then top it with ketchup and mustard.
Xipe Totec
(43,892 posts)I already put mustard in my tunafish salad, so a bit of ketchup is not a big challenge.
cemaphonic
(4,138 posts)Sardinian Maggot Cheese. Do not google if you plan on eating anytime soon.
Xipe Totec
(43,892 posts)MowCowWhoHow III
(2,103 posts)Guest gets first shot at the juicy eyeballs
Xipe Totec
(43,892 posts)And the eyes truly are the best part. The closest to the eyes in flavor and texture is bone marrow.
The first time my ex saw them serving me a head, she ran screaming from the restaurant.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,892 posts)Xyzse
(8,217 posts)Dinuguan or Blood Stew is a Filipino dish consisting of pork meat, liver, intestine and of course blood.
I can eat this, and I can eat balut...
I can't eat escargots, and I am not about to eat Rocky Mountain Oysters...
-shudders-
Xipe Totec
(43,892 posts)Called chocolate meat for the color; it has absolutely no chocolate in it.
Tangy.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,892 posts)Texasgal
(17,049 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,892 posts)I'll have to add it to my to do list.
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)I use to love Scrapple
Now I won't touch the stuff
ret5hd
(20,556 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,892 posts)As recently as two weeks ago, in a restaurant in Monterrey Mexico.
The stuff is great!
Xipe Totec
(43,892 posts)What huitlacoche means.
It is a Nahuatl word composed of two parts cuitla or huitla, which means crow, and cuacha which means shit.
Because the corn smut looks like bird shit that fell on top of the ear of corn.
a la izquierda
(11,802 posts)But anyone with a screen name of Xipe Totec would likely enjoy huitlachoche. Xipe Totec is a central Mexican deity.
I study Mexican history and find huitlachoche to be most revolting. The texture, the color, the flavor...
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Mendocino
(7,520 posts)Fermented shark, popular in Iceland. It's ammonia-like taste causes most people to gag and quite a few to vomit. First time tasters are advised to hold their noses while ingesting, then drinking hard liquor to kill the cleanse the palate. YUM!
Xipe Totec
(43,892 posts)Pass.
Mendocino
(7,520 posts)proclaimed Hakari as one of the worst two things he ever ate. The other was unwashed warthog testicles.
Xipe Totec
(43,892 posts)There is one thing worse than either of these, and that's kivaq
A Dish made from fermented sea birds is pretty hard to stomach for those who arent used to it. Yes, you read right, fermented sea birds are pretty much the essence of the dish. And get this theyre eaten raw. Kind of like cheese, but not quite. The preparation goes something like this: a seal is skinned,removing all the meat until only a thick layer of fat remains on the skin. It is then sewn into the shape of a bag and stuffed to the brim with about 300 to 500 small auk birds. When the bag is completely filled, it is sewn shut, and fat is again smeared all over the seams to keep the flies away. The bird-filled seal skin bag is then left to ferment under a pile of rocks for a minimum of 3 months, and sometimes, even as long as 18 months.
http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/kiviaq-probably-the-worlds-most-disgusting-meat-dish.html
I avoid onomatopoeic dishes.
Mendocino
(7,520 posts)from a documentary but couldn't recall the name. The thought eating once whole birds; feathers, beaks, offal etc putrefied is beyond me. But I don't eat animal flesh anyway beyond an occasional fish.
Paper Roses
(7,475 posts)I will never be brave enough.
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mrmpa
(4,033 posts)a Polish soup, it can be made sweet or sour. The first time I had it my Grandma made it for my cousin upon his return from Vietnam. I don't know what she was thinking. She made it sweet and I liked it.
She lived in the city & I remember visiting and there was a duck quacking in the basement. Mom would take us for a walk, when we got home the duck was gone & there was roasted "chicken" for dinner. I now know that's not true.
Sentath
(2,243 posts)Any form
Sentath
(2,243 posts)Have you managed to avoid this one?
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)I know I should stop eating meat, but I've cut back drastically. I can't eat soy so I still need meat from protein. But after this article I won't buy from any of the corporation farmers.
Xipe Totec
(43,892 posts)Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen.
The rest is just impurities.
Mendocino
(7,520 posts)that think bacon is an element.
Xipe Totec
(43,892 posts)It is the taste that has been pulled over your tongue to dull you from the truth.
Nac Mac Feegle
(972 posts)Codfish preserved in lye.
Xipe Totec
(43,892 posts)I'll have to try it someday just to check the box on the bucket list:
Lutefisk: ✔
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,946 posts)Odin2005
(53,521 posts)I've heard that a lot of the kind you buy in stores don't wash out the lye enough and that causes it to get too jelly-like.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,892 posts)Also calf brains, and goat brains.
There's something about that gray matter that entices me.
Even without fava beans or the nice chianti....
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)lambs' brains; butchers said they "aren't worth the trouble."
I used to make poached-then-fried calves' brains when my husband went on ski trips, as he would never go near them! But this century I've eschewed anything beef-related, because of "Mad Cow" fears.
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)Stink heads, i.e., fermented salmon heads. Recipe follows: http://www.eatsalaska.com/post/9412907196/to-eat-or-not-to-eat-the-stink-heads
Salmon is a staple of the native Alaskan diet and natives have traditionally used all parts of the fish. One of the traditional delicacies is fermented salmon heads. Colloquially the dish has earned the name stink heads. Essentially the heads of King salmon are buried in the ground in fermentation pits, put into plastic or wooden barrels, even plastic food storage bags, and left to let nature do its thing for a few weeks or more. The heads are then harvested and consumed as a putty-ish mash.
But do take care that you don't get botulism.
Xipe Totec
(43,892 posts)I would have to be fresh out of options before considering this dish.
If I ran out of dried grasshoppers. and ran out of dried agave maggots, and had no more brains, or oysters, or corn smut....
I would probably start thinking about eating at a Taco Bell.
But if that wasn't available, I might consider fermented salmon heads.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,946 posts)Fermented shark, an Icelandic dish. Said to taste like dirty socks soaked in urine.
http://www.meemalee.com/2010/12/hakarl-rotten-shark-worst-thing-i-have.html
Xipe Totec
(43,892 posts)Kali
(55,027 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,892 posts)hobbit709
(41,694 posts)I won't say it was the worst thing I ever tasted but it definitely was in the bottom 3.
sir pball
(4,766 posts)Surströmming (pronounced [ˈsʉ̟ːˌʂʈrmːɪŋ], Swedish for "sour herring" , is fermented Baltic Sea herring that has been a staple of traditional northern Swedish cuisine since at least the 16th century.
Just enough salt is used to prevent the raw fish from rotting (chemical decomposition). A fermentation process of at least six months gives the lightly-salted fish its characteristic strong smell and somewhat acidic taste.
When opened, the contents release a strong and sometimes overwhelming odour; the dish is ordinarily eaten outdoors. According to a Japanese study, a newly opened can of surströmming has one of the most putrid food smells in the world, even more so than similarly fermented fish dishes such as the Korean Hongeohoe or Japanese Kusaya.
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In 1981, a German landlord evicted a tenant without notice after the tenant spread surströmming brine in the apartment building's stairwell (Treppenhaus). When the landlord was taken to court, the court ruled that the termination was justified when the landlord's party demonstrated their case by opening a can inside the courtroom. The court concluded that it "had convinced itself that the disgusting smell of the fish brine far exceeded the degree that fellow-tenants in the building could be expected to tolerate".
German food critic and author Wolfgang Fassbender wrote that "the biggest challenge when eating surströmming is to vomit only after the first bite, as opposed to before".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surstr%C3%B6mming
Xipe Totec
(43,892 posts)sir pball
(4,766 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,892 posts)Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,892 posts)very dry and stringy.
The Polack MSgt
(13,200 posts)Raw sliced squid in salted fermented squid liver. It's usually served over rice. I lived off and on in Japan for 10 years and this is the only food that I would flatly refuse after I tried it.
A Google image search may help you visualize how disturbing it is that people eat this stuff.
Just be thankful there is no Google Aroma search
BTW, Natto is fermented soy beans, not fermented tofu. That dish is delightfully called stinky tofu (Kusai Dofu)
GoCubsGo
(32,099 posts)Kiszka, black pudding, blutwurst, morcilla, buristo... Take your pick.
Xipe Totec
(43,892 posts)I've also had duck blood pudding in Beijing.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)Stuff is delicious! Cut it up into cubes and fry it with bacon grease. OM NOM NOM!!!
GoCubsGo
(32,099 posts)Sadly, it is not available within hundreds of miles from where I live, so I haven't had it in years.
Initech
(100,128 posts)Only thing hotter is pepper spray!
Xipe Totec
(43,892 posts)At Hell Night at this place:
http://eastcoastgrill.net/about/hell-nights
A little survival tip:
Order a White Russian with your meal, and nurse it slowly.
TeamPooka
(24,285 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,892 posts)Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,892 posts)countryjake
(8,554 posts)Questionable foodstuffs that were made by my family on butchering day when I was a kid, eaten with relish and apple butter by all, during the cold winter months. All three are things that inspired me to be reluctant of swallowing any meat after I grew up.
IcyPeas
(21,930 posts)both anthony bourdain and gordon ramsey ate live beating cobra heart when they visited Vietnam (separately). Gordon Ramsey did not appear to be enjoying this dish.
Xipe Totec
(43,892 posts)That falls in the category of "Shit we make round-eyed devils eat to make us laugh."
RebelOne
(30,947 posts)They taste like nuts.
Xipe Totec
(43,892 posts)And also tasted agave worms.
If it is a Mexican delicacy, high chances I've already had it.