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Post some food item you think might gross me out. (Original Post) Xipe Totec Jan 2016 OP
Durian TexasBushwhacker Jan 2016 #1
Had it. Love it. nt Xipe Totec Jan 2016 #3
cow placenta fondue? virtualobserver Jan 2016 #2
Tell me where they serve it Xipe Totec Jan 2016 #4
I only made it a fondue to make it more appetizing virtualobserver Jan 2016 #6
The next time I have to pull a breached calf I'll keep the placenta Xipe Totec Jan 2016 #9
Natto TexasBushwhacker Jan 2016 #5
That's basically stinky tofu. So, No. Bleah. nt Xipe Totec Jan 2016 #10
That's all it is? I tried it and LiberalElite Jan 2016 #56
I used to go to Haymarket in Boston Xipe Totec Jan 2016 #60
Haggis? TexasBushwhacker Jan 2016 #7
Not bad, as long as it doesn't stink of ferret Xipe Totec Jan 2016 #8
Lamb fries? TexasBushwhacker Jan 2016 #11
I've had machitos, which is close, but not quite the same Xipe Totec Jan 2016 #12
Hmm. Mexican haggis. I'll pass n/t TexasBushwhacker Jan 2016 #13
No oatmeal was harmed in the preparation of machitos. Xipe Totec Jan 2016 #14
True, but they have offal & entrails in common TexasBushwhacker Jan 2016 #15
You're saying they have an offal lot in common? nt Xipe Totec Jan 2016 #35
And offal is awful! N/t TexasBushwhacker Jan 2016 #49
Which is why they call it that jmowreader Jan 2016 #103
Or Rocky Mountain oysters. The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2016 #62
Marmite? IcyPeas Jan 2016 #16
On my to do list. Xipe Totec Jan 2016 #21
It tastes like Bovril lunatica Jan 2016 #88
My brother used to fix area51 Jan 2016 #17
Unorthodox, but i can see myself eating it Xipe Totec Jan 2016 #39
Casu Marzu cemaphonic Jan 2016 #18
Now that sounds... interesting... Xipe Totec Jan 2016 #22
Sheep's head MowCowWhoHow III Jan 2016 #19
I've had it, I love it. Xipe Totec Jan 2016 #20
Oh, god. I think I am going to be sick. smirkymonkey Jan 2016 #85
Eggs are kinda gross if you think about it too much Major Nikon Jan 2016 #23
The runny whites. Yea. nt Xipe Totec Jan 2016 #40
Dinuguan Xyzse Jan 2016 #24
Chocolate meat! I've had it, I love it! Xipe Totec Jan 2016 #30
Anything from Taco Bell NightWatcher Jan 2016 #25
Ugh! You got me. I'll never eat in Taco Hell again! Xipe Totec Jan 2016 #31
Scrapple. Texasgal Jan 2016 #26
I've heard it's not so bad. Xipe Totec Jan 2016 #32
Just don't go to the butcher and watch it being made LynneSin Jan 2016 #47
Corn Smut: ret5hd Jan 2016 #27
Huitlacoche. I've had it, I love it! Xipe Totec Jan 2016 #29
By the way, you think calling it corn smut is gross? Wait till you hear Xipe Totec Jan 2016 #34
S/he beat me to it... a la izquierda Jan 2016 #70
Ox pizzle KamaAina Jan 2016 #28
Fo Shizzle NightWatcher Jan 2016 #33
Hakari Mendocino Jan 2016 #36
A friend of mine told me it tastes like pencil erasers soaked in ammonia. Xipe Totec Jan 2016 #37
Anthony Bourdain Mendocino Jan 2016 #41
I think Bourdain got deathly ill on the warthog testicles Xipe Totec Jan 2016 #43
I remember kivaq Mendocino Jan 2016 #45
Yikes, this stuff is gross. Corn chowder tonight. Paper Roses Jan 2016 #38
This message was self-deleted by its author Mosby Jan 2016 #42
Czarnina.....Duck's blood soup..... mrmpa Jan 2016 #44
Jellyfish Sentath Jan 2016 #46
Fresh? Salted? Salad? Sentath Jan 2016 #102
I went organic after reading this article LynneSin Jan 2016 #48
All food comes from four elemental groups Xipe Totec Jan 2016 #50
I've come across people Mendocino Jan 2016 #51
It's more like The Matrix Xipe Totec Jan 2016 #54
Lutefisk? Nac Mac Feegle Jan 2016 #52
I've never had it, but it doesn't gross me out. Xipe Totec Jan 2016 #53
It's slimy, kind of like fish jell-o. The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2016 #61
GOOD lutefisk is actually OK. Odin2005 Jan 2016 #90
Lambs' brains (cervelles d'agneau). WinkyDink Jan 2016 #55
Had them. Love them Xipe Totec Jan 2016 #58
Haha! Moi aussi! No bones to choke on! My farmers' market, which sells everything, won't sell WinkyDink Jan 2016 #94
Alaska Native delicacy Blue_In_AK Jan 2016 #57
Now you're talking Xipe Totec Jan 2016 #59
Kćstur hákarl. The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2016 #63
I avoid onomatopoeic foods. nt Xipe Totec Jan 2016 #66
my sister's cooking? Kali Jan 2016 #64
Now we're getting into challenging territory! Xipe Totec Jan 2016 #65
When I was in southern Italy a local delicacy was pickled sparrows. hobbit709 Jan 2016 #67
Surströmming? sir pball Jan 2016 #68
Name sounds like the suppressed gag reflex required to ingest it. Xipe Totec Jan 2016 #69
Would ya give it a try? nt sir pball Jan 2016 #81
That would be a no. nt Xipe Totec Jan 2016 #82
Thai Snake Wine (wine bottled with a cobra) Miles Archer Jan 2016 #71
I haven't had the wine, but I have eaten rattlesnake. Xipe Totec Jan 2016 #77
Ika No Shio Kara The Polack MSgt Jan 2016 #72
Blood sausage. GoCubsGo Jan 2016 #73
Morcilla. I've had it by itself, and in Portuguese Kale soup Xipe Totec Jan 2016 #76
BLODPOLSA in my Norwegian family! Odin2005 Jan 2016 #89
I'm a kizska fan, myself. GoCubsGo Jan 2016 #91
How about the hottest pepper in the world - the Trinidad Scorpion? Initech Jan 2016 #74
Believe it or not, I've had it Xipe Totec Jan 2016 #75
My favorite sandwich grosses some people out: Peanut butter & bacon. Yummy! nt TeamPooka Jan 2016 #78
I used to gross out my cousins eating flap jacks with mustard and salt. nt Xipe Totec Jan 2016 #79
Salad with ketchup or BBQ sauce instead of dressing. nt Jamaal510 Jan 2016 #80
So, basically, salad with Russian dressing. nt Xipe Totec Jan 2016 #83
Souse, puddin, & goetta (grits) countryjake Jan 2016 #84
still beating cobra heart? IcyPeas Jan 2016 #86
That's not really a food. Xipe Totec Jan 2016 #87
Fried grasshoppers RebelOne Jan 2016 #92
I've had them. I agree. Xipe Totec Jan 2016 #93
The thread is officially over with this post jmowreader Jan 2016 #95
MREs are under-rated. Nothing you couldn't fix with a little twang. Xipe Totec Jan 2016 #100
Pickled pig's feet n/t sarge43 Jan 2016 #96
I prefer to have them in menudo rather than pickled, but pickled is okay. nt Xipe Totec Jan 2016 #99
My favourite - Escargot applegrove Jan 2016 #97
I have had those little critters in garlic butter. Yummy! nt Xipe Totec Jan 2016 #98
Yes they are good in the garlic butter. In fact I think they are an excuse to eat garlic butter. applegrove Jan 2016 #101
 

virtualobserver

(8,760 posts)
6. I only made it a fondue to make it more appetizing
Thu Jan 21, 2016, 01:03 AM
Jan 2016

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)
9. The next time I have to pull a breached calf I'll keep the placenta
Thu Jan 21, 2016, 01:14 AM
Jan 2016

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.


Xipe Totec

(43,892 posts)
60. I used to go to Haymarket in Boston
Fri Jan 22, 2016, 01:00 AM
Jan 2016

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.

Xipe Totec

(43,892 posts)
8. Not bad, as long as it doesn't stink of ferret
Thu Jan 21, 2016, 01:10 AM
Jan 2016

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.

Xipe Totec

(43,892 posts)
39. Unorthodox, but i can see myself eating it
Thu Jan 21, 2016, 04:20 PM
Jan 2016

I already put mustard in my tunafish salad, so a bit of ketchup is not a big challenge.

Xipe Totec

(43,892 posts)
20. I've had it, I love it.
Thu Jan 21, 2016, 08:28 AM
Jan 2016

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.

Xyzse

(8,217 posts)
24. Dinuguan
Thu Jan 21, 2016, 12:42 PM
Jan 2016

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)
30. Chocolate meat! I've had it, I love it!
Thu Jan 21, 2016, 03:40 PM
Jan 2016

Called chocolate meat for the color; it has absolutely no chocolate in it.

Tangy.

LynneSin

(95,337 posts)
47. Just don't go to the butcher and watch it being made
Thu Jan 21, 2016, 08:02 PM
Jan 2016

I use to love Scrapple

Now I won't touch the stuff

Xipe Totec

(43,892 posts)
29. Huitlacoche. I've had it, I love it!
Thu Jan 21, 2016, 03:38 PM
Jan 2016

As recently as two weeks ago, in a restaurant in Monterrey Mexico.

The stuff is great!

Xipe Totec

(43,892 posts)
34. By the way, you think calling it corn smut is gross? Wait till you hear
Thu Jan 21, 2016, 03:51 PM
Jan 2016

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)
70. S/he beat me to it...
Fri Jan 22, 2016, 03:39 PM
Jan 2016

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...

Mendocino

(7,520 posts)
36. Hakari
Thu Jan 21, 2016, 04:03 PM
Jan 2016

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!

Mendocino

(7,520 posts)
41. Anthony Bourdain
Thu Jan 21, 2016, 05:11 PM
Jan 2016

proclaimed Hakari as one of the worst two things he ever ate. The other was unwashed warthog testicles.

Xipe Totec

(43,892 posts)
43. I think Bourdain got deathly ill on the warthog testicles
Thu Jan 21, 2016, 06:13 PM
Jan 2016

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 aren’t used to it. Yes, you read right, fermented sea birds are pretty much the essence of the dish. And get this – they’re 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)
45. I remember kivaq
Thu Jan 21, 2016, 07:04 PM
Jan 2016

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.

Response to Xipe Totec (Original post)

mrmpa

(4,033 posts)
44. Czarnina.....Duck's blood soup.....
Thu Jan 21, 2016, 06:43 PM
Jan 2016

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.

LynneSin

(95,337 posts)
48. I went organic after reading this article
Thu Jan 21, 2016, 08:04 PM
Jan 2016
http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/boss-hog-the-dark-side-of-americas-top-pork-producer-20061214

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)
50. All food comes from four elemental groups
Thu Jan 21, 2016, 08:15 PM
Jan 2016

Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen.

The rest is just impurities.

Xipe Totec

(43,892 posts)
54. It's more like The Matrix
Thu Jan 21, 2016, 08:31 PM
Jan 2016

It is the taste that has been pulled over your tongue to dull you from the truth.

Xipe Totec

(43,892 posts)
53. I've never had it, but it doesn't gross me out.
Thu Jan 21, 2016, 08:27 PM
Jan 2016

I'll have to try it someday just to check the box on the bucket list:

Lutefisk: ✔


Odin2005

(53,521 posts)
90. GOOD lutefisk is actually OK.
Sat Jan 23, 2016, 09:58 PM
Jan 2016

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.

Xipe Totec

(43,892 posts)
58. Had them. Love them
Fri Jan 22, 2016, 12:50 AM
Jan 2016

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)
94. Haha! Moi aussi! No bones to choke on! My farmers' market, which sells everything, won't sell
Tue Jan 26, 2016, 11:58 AM
Jan 2016

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)
57. Alaska Native delicacy
Fri Jan 22, 2016, 12:04 AM
Jan 2016

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)
59. Now you're talking
Fri Jan 22, 2016, 12:54 AM
Jan 2016

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.

hobbit709

(41,694 posts)
67. When I was in southern Italy a local delicacy was pickled sparrows.
Fri Jan 22, 2016, 12:52 PM
Jan 2016

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)
68. Surströmming?
Fri Jan 22, 2016, 02:26 PM
Jan 2016
Surströmming (pronounced [ˈsʉ̟ːˌʂʈrœmːɪŋ], Swedish for "sour herring&quot , 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

The Polack MSgt

(13,200 posts)
72. Ika No Shio Kara
Fri Jan 22, 2016, 04:00 PM
Jan 2016

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)

Xipe Totec

(43,892 posts)
76. Morcilla. I've had it by itself, and in Portuguese Kale soup
Fri Jan 22, 2016, 06:33 PM
Jan 2016

I've also had duck blood pudding in Beijing.

Odin2005

(53,521 posts)
89. BLODPOLSA in my Norwegian family!
Sat Jan 23, 2016, 09:51 PM
Jan 2016

Stuff is delicious! Cut it up into cubes and fry it with bacon grease. OM NOM NOM!!!

GoCubsGo

(32,099 posts)
91. I'm a kizska fan, myself.
Sat Jan 23, 2016, 10:41 PM
Jan 2016

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)
74. How about the hottest pepper in the world - the Trinidad Scorpion?
Fri Jan 22, 2016, 04:37 PM
Jan 2016

Only thing hotter is pepper spray!

Xipe Totec

(43,892 posts)
75. Believe it or not, I've had it
Fri Jan 22, 2016, 06:31 PM
Jan 2016

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.

countryjake

(8,554 posts)
84. Souse, puddin, & goetta (grits)
Sat Jan 23, 2016, 05:17 AM
Jan 2016

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)
86. still beating cobra heart?
Sat Jan 23, 2016, 06:11 PM
Jan 2016

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)
87. That's not really a food.
Sat Jan 23, 2016, 07:00 PM
Jan 2016

That falls in the category of "Shit we make round-eyed devils eat to make us laugh."

Xipe Totec

(43,892 posts)
93. I've had them. I agree.
Mon Jan 25, 2016, 12:24 AM
Jan 2016

And also tasted agave worms.

If it is a Mexican delicacy, high chances I've already had it.

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