What is the worst food you ever ate?

[Democracy White]

Mine was some hot, Korean squid shit I had last month. Total waste of money and I will never order it again.

Dee

[XemaSab]

1. Nato

utterly foul.

[XemaSab]

82. to elaborate

it's supposedly fermented soybeans, but it's really more like rotten soybeans.

it's a lot like the crap you have during cold water maceration, when you put an animal head in water and let it rot in order to get the skull?

grayish, slimy/stringy/lumpy goo, that JUST TASTES BAD. I had to run and spit it out off the front porch, and I basically stood there and retched for a few minutes, then I got some water and gargled and retched some more.

I'm an adventurous eater, and I have a very strong stomach, and this stuff was WRONG. WRONG I TELL YA.

[Xipe Totec]

2. Uni Sushi

spoiled uni sushi.

Tasted like congealed vomit. x(

[NawlinsNed]

36. Uni? As in sea urchin roe?

Yeah, that has to be fresh. VERY fresh. Or else it's like a mouth full of snot. Can't freaking imagine how nasty natto must be.

[roguevalley]

3. cod liver oil. I can still taste it fifty years later. truly.

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. In recent times, the "0% juice" lemonade from the soda dispenser

at the sandwich shops. It sort of tastes like piss mixed with paint thinner.

[clydefrand]

7. Where the hell did you get piss mixed with paint thinner?

You have weird tastes! :-)

[youthere]

68. No good unless you serve it with a twist...

:evilgrin:

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

5. Abalone

Hated the taste, hated the texture. :scared:

[XemaSab]

77. I had abalone once

and it was one of the best things I have ever eaten.

Maybe it was the marinade?

Go figure...

[Spinzonner]

6. Okra

[Cathyclysmic]

10. I second that

[imenja]

18. I like okra

pickled, and they make some good West African-Brazilian dishes with okra. Fried okra rocks. The trick is to de-slime it.

[NawlinsNed]

37. Okra is only slimy if you overcook it.

It releases all that nice starch into the pot and makes a nasty mess.

[BikeWriter]

44. I fry the okra for a few minutes before adding it to my gumbos.

[Trigger Hippie]

69. I love slimy okra... It feels good going down ;)

But to answer the original post... some nasty Korean food. Not too fond of that type of stuff....

[Innoma]

89. Hurray for Okra!

I'll be having some tonight from my very own garden, thank you very much.

[skygazer]

8. I'm sure it was something I cooked

I'm not much of a cook. I can bake but I hate to cook.

[MrScorpio]

9. A so-called hamburger at Seoul, Korea's Kimpo Airport

It was so bad that it defies words

[Spinzonner]

14. Sure it wasn't dogburger ?

[Taverner]

87. Most likely meat by products

That was what they made hot dogs all over asia from....some fish, some beef offal, some dog...rat scraps....

[caty]

11. Boiled okra.

Need I say more.

[Wapsie B]

12. Fried eggplant.

:puke:

[imenja]

19. I love it

it's great on pizza

[Wapsie B]

20. That's one food

that makes me nauseous when it's being cooked.

[mike_c]

13. these....

Seriously-- I don't know if they were badly done or if they always taste that way, but they had an awful medicinal taste, like iodine and fish oil mixed together. Ugh.

[Democracy White]

15. Were you on 'Fear Factor'or something? Ick!!!

I don't know if I could stomach those, and I am known for trying new things.

[mike_c]

22. nope-- one of my grad students cooked them...

...for an insect cultural history display at a natural history museum. The water bugs were Thai and purchased frozen, and the recipe is pretty simple-- basically just fry and toss with a sauce. They were just nasty.

[Democracy White]

24. Probably wasn't cooked right

because certain bugs usually come out with a 'nutty' flavor.

Dee

[mike_c]

25. yeah, we also had fried meal worms, and spiced roasted crickets...

...and they were good, but those belostomatids made me want to scrub my mouth out.

[Democracy White]

63. I heard mealworms are good...

although I don't know if I can eat them due to my phobia of worms.

Dee

[XemaSab]

75. have you ever had

bee grubs?

my friend elias has bees, and I've been wondering for years...

wondering if they taste like nuts and honey....

[mike_c]

84. no, I haven't....

eom

[XemaSab]

85. and why not pray tell?

someone needs to investigate this, and it needs to be you!

[mike_c]

91. well, they'd be pretty fiddley to eat without eating a bunch of wax...

...at the same time-- the larvae develop inside sealed cells. You can use centrifugal force to get the honey out of honeycomb because it's already liquid, but that wouldn't work for the grubs.

[XemaSab]

92. seems like you could just

pop the ends of the cells and pull the grubs out with tweezers.

:shrug:

[ret5hd]

16. try summa this...

corn mold.

[XemaSab]

78. SMUT!!!!!

Ustilago maydis!

i heard it's a delicacy in mexico...

[imenja]

17. some unidentifiable food I had in a S Indian restaurant in London

I couldn't tell you what it was, but it was strange.

[Pobeka]

21. Fish/tofu soup at a Korean restaurant.

A friend of mine and I went to this place, it looked like a very nice place, like this is where you'd get the really good Korean.

In fact the food did taste pretty good, relative to other Korean.

But the after-affects. The only way I can describe it, is, it found the root of my soul, and burned, and burned for 3 days. My whole body felt as if it was being tortured at a cellular level.

Have never since set foot in a Korean restaurant.

[Democracy White]

23. Another was this hamburger that I got

at some small business place that probably violated every health code in the city.

It was dry and gristly. I hate gristle!!! As soon as I get one, my appetite is destroyed and I gag for hours and hours!!!

Dee

[driver8]

26. I was in a pub in Portsmouth, England...these people came in

who had been beachcombing and they had a big jar full of saltwater and some type of mussel. They sat at the table next to us and offered us all one. I popped mine in my mouth and as soon as I did, I thought I was going to puke. You know how saltwater tastes when it gets in your mouth? This tasted ten times saltier and the texture of the mussel was disgusting. I had to take the biggest drink of beer to wash that freakin' thing down.

They offered me another but I respectfully declined.

[Chicago Democrat]

74. that sounds like a welk

one sided?

[Briarius]

27. Anise cookies

At a Lutheran pot-luck. Imagine black licorice that has been rendered by satan himself till the concentrate could strip asphalt and then package in an innocent pastry covered in powdered sugar. I almost puked. It scarred me to Lutherans.

[noamnety]

45. Buahahaha

my lutheran mother-in-law makes those! I never tasted anything quite like them outside of her living room.

[gizmo1979]

28. collared greens yuck

[Seabiscuit]

29. Orange squash. I ate it as a kid and threw up on the spot.

Oh, and I can't walk into a room where there's peanut butter without feeling extreme nausea.

[no name no slogan]

30. I used to live in the UK

British cuisine-- 'nuff said!

(just kidding-- actually the food there wasn't as bad as everyone says. I actually liked a lot of it, but some of it was just gross-- steak and kidney pie??? WTF???)

[Nikia]

31. Miso soup

My mother made it. I am not sure that if the soup tasted bad because that is what miso soup tastes like or if my mother messed it up.

[bigwillq]

32. It was kinda like sausage

My b/f made it. He said that Puerto Ricans like it a lot. I thought it was gross.

[u4ic]

33. Headcheese

:scared:

[NawlinsNed]

42. Headcheese is just gelatin, spices, and pork meat

There's a guy who makes incredible head cheese one block over. He cooks 5 hogs a week and sells the stuff to local delis.

[NawlinsNed]

43. My mom's coleslaw

When I was 9, my parents wouldn't let me get up from the table until I ate my slaw. I hated that stuff with a passion and always told them never to serve it to me. I sat there for 4 hours and requested an entire pitcher of Kool Aid to wash it down with.

[AuntieM1957]

51. Anything my mother cooks tastes like crap

I was so thin when I left home at 18.

Once I held a sugar beet in my mouth until it turned white. Wouldn't and couldn't swallow it.

I still gag at the scent of them.

Thirty years later, and her cooking has not improved even a little bit. I dread going to her house because she won't stop offering food, and she has no idea what I like or how I like it cooked.

She thinks pepper is an evil tool of Satan. Pepper thinks she is.

[u4ic]

54. Welcome to DU!

I grew up with headcheese...even my mom made it. I still think it's gross. :D

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

61. ugggh

that sounds absolutely disgusting! :puke:

[undeterred]

34. white castle burgers

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[LeftyMom]

35. tinned oysters

Ugh! They stink and they're slimy but they're a favorite of my Dad's, so we had them all the time when I was a kid. He also likes the tinned anchovies in hot sauce, the smell of those makes me want to :puke:

[NawlinsNed]

38. with a little mayo and hot sauce....

... and lettuce, makes a great sammich!

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

60. we're quite food compatible :)

[musical_soul]

39. Vegan pizza.

I can take a pizza with many vegetables, but not one with no cheese.

[tyedyeto]

40. Denny's

need I say more? :shrug:

[barb162]

41. There were so many

let's just say I have been known to go to the women's room quickly and spit the stuff out and then wash my mouth out in the sink to remove any traces of whatever garbage I tried. It often happens when somebody INSISTS I try something.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

46. Cow tongue. At a friend of mine's house.

He was trying to pass it as plain beef because he thought his kids disliked it out of misplaced "ick" feeling.

No. I too didn't know what it was. One bite and the FACE I made gave it out immediately. Both the taste and consistency of it are REPULSIVE.

[imenja]

47. they have it at the store near me

freaks me out to even look at it. I remember my parents served it once when I was a kid. I'm sure I didn't eat it.

[spacelady]

49. I made tongue once and it was ok, but the leftovers were

gross! It did not translate into the next day. I am usually a pretty creative and good cook, but one time I made liver & onions (ok) but then I tried to make a cheesy casserole with the leftovers...well we still talk about it ten years later how that was such a culinary mistake. So here are two cautionary tales about leftovers and how they may not work.

[Allenberg]

58. I ate it in Japan

:puke:

God it was awful.

[readermostly]

48. For me, it's brussel sprouts. I just don't even like the smell of them

being cooked.

[spacelady]

50. They smell like gravedirt!

[queeg]

52. here is a blog about eating bad things

http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/cat_steve_dont_eat_it.php

[spacelady]

53. thank you! what a hoot!

[inanna]

57. That's hilarious!

I bookmarked it to show hubby.

Thanks.

[Neshanic]

55. Creamed Salmon on toast. Truly caa-caa on a shingle

[AlienGirl]

56. Eggs...

I vividly recall the last time I ate eggs. I was sitting in my high chair eating scrambled eggs with ketchup. I was about two and a half. All of a sudden the slimy texture and grease and the *smell* nauseated me, and I have been grossed out by eggs ever since. :puke: Can't stand the smell.

Tucker

[burrowowl]

59. The mid-west specialty

seven layer salade with mayonaisse substitute, ruination of good beans with jello, etc.
A real horror! And people say Brit cooking is bad, little do they know!

[Nikia]

79. I didn't know people put that in seven layer salad

This is what I think is in 7 layer salad: lettuce, bacon, peas, cheese, mayonaise (or some kind of dressing), celery, and some other kind of vegtable.

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

62. SQUID Paella

Yeah. It was disgusting. Made me retch :puke:

[MissB]

64. Black Pudding and White Pudding

part of the traditional Irish breakfast. It sure as shit isn't pudding.

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

70. No, it certainly isn't pudding as we Americans know it.

Black pudding is actually some sort of Irish blood sausage and white pudding is just plain gross.

I'm not real keen on what purports to be Irish breakfast sausage itself. It has absolutely no taste and bad mouth feel.

[mnmoderatedem]

65. White Castle Hamburgers

:puke: Though I'm sure I'll make some enemies with that selection :)

[progressoid]

66. boiled colrobi - it's like a rotting gym bag

[bertha katzenengel]

67. Pad Thai. Now before you Thai food lovers jump all over me,

listen: Two good friends RAVED about Thai food and took me out for it. They couldn't stop talking about Pad Thai the whole way over to the restaurant. I said "can't wait to try it!" They ordered two platters of it for the three of us. And I sat there shoveling it into my mouth until suddenly I realized, "this is disgusting!"

:shrug: Maybe I'd be willing to try it again someday if I hadn't eaten so much of it before I realized I really didn't like it. But since I ate so much it became just gross and disgusting. :puke:

[motely36]

71. tripe

without a dout it was tripe

:puke:

[I Know How To Do it]

72. That green stuff.

[Chicago Democrat]

73. Uni Sushi (sea urchin roe)

what a stupid thing to eat

[youthere]

76. Lutefisk..

I grew up Lutheran and this was a biggie at the potlucks. It was some kind of lye cured fish that tasted exactly like death.

On edit: I think this is what they eat in hell.

[XemaSab]

80. This is a part of my heritage

that I have not explored... I don't know where to find it.

Can you get it at the grocery store anywhere?

[youthere]

83. Sometimes you can find in the grocery store in

some areas of Minnesota and Wisconsin. If you're really determined try this:
http://www.lutefiskmike.com/

[MN ChimpH8R]

81. I had a Norwegian uncle

who would eat COLD lutefisk out of the fridge the morning after family feasts. The German side of the family looked on in disgust and horror, with good reason. It is in fact codfish soaked in lye, it smells like an explosion at a chemical plant and has the consistency of fish Jell-O. I never had the nerve to taste the stuff as the stench was enough to put me off my feed for a day or two.

I should point out that my uncle Cliff was my favorite uncle and one hell of a guy despite his culinary eccentricity. And I still really miss him.

[Taverner]

86. Durien Fruit

That shit is beyond disgusting. Suagry farts in fruit form...

[Innoma]

90. "...mushy, sweet, odiferous garlic"

I've had Durian in Indonesia that tasted like a mushy, sweet, odiferous garlic - ptui! But then I've had some from Thailand that were deliciously custard-y with a hint of vanilla to 'em - pretty good!

My wife hates the things, though.

[usedtobesick]

88. Squid jerky or street roasted guinea pig

it is a toss up really

[BarbaRosa]

93. Hate to say it but

the last bbq I attempted . I gave the Alton Brown Flower Pot Smoker a try...I really need to learn more about smoking stuff. I tried chicken breasts with a recipe I found on the internets.:nuke: :beer:

[Left_Winger]

94. Balut

These are duck eggs in which the embryo is partially formed. I ate it on a dare once in the Philippines.