In a desperate act of hunger, what is the worst thing you have ever eaten?

[Javaman]

Me, I was a dishwasher when I was 16. We would come in on Sunday mornings to clean up after the previous nights party.

Usually, the asst cook is in to make us lunch. They were out "sick".

So for lunch I had coleslaw on a bun with catchup.

[suninvited]

1. I tend not to keep any sweets in the house

to avoid temptations. When I was pregnant, I was at home alone without a car and started craving suger, and fruit just didnt satisfy the craving. I did have a can of eagle brand condensed milk on hand for baking. I ate about a quarter of it with a spoon. Craving satisfied!!

[Arugula Latte]

38. That stuff is irresistible.

I can't have it in the house or I'd punch a hole in it and drink it. :9

[Lethe]

2. vanilla wafers covered in bean dip

when i was camping once...

[Richardo]

3. Just a few weeks ago I made Hamburger Helper Stroganoff with soy creamer instead of milk

God was that horrible. I did not know soy creamer was sweetened.

You may guess I was batching for a couple of weeks - you'd be correct.

[armyowalgreens]

4. I ate a rotten banana 20 miles into a marathon.

[wickerwoman]

5. Does thirst count?

I used to be a youth soccer referee and one weekend when another ref called out sick, I did three games in a row meaning I was running around outside in 90 degree weather for pretty much six solid hours. When it was over, I went to my car and drank half a diet coke that had been sitting in the cup holder for at least two months. It was basically just stale, flat, gritty syrup.

[REP]

6. McDonalds

[mitchum]

7. An entire can of cake frosting

[Crankie Avalon]

8. Rat. nt

[vadawg]

12. yup track rabbit (rat) also ate potatoes that were black and mushy

from a dump, amazing what you will actually eat when you are hungry and can get by the gag reflex.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

9. Not "worst", but most minimal: crotons.

When my wife and I were dating and mere poor college students, we went to an amusement park but didn't want to pay their ultra inflated prices for lunch. So we dined on multiple packs of croutons at the salad bar.

[madeline_con]

15. Crotons?

[sakabatou]

23. Tommy meant croutons

[Tommy_Carcetti]

29. No, I meant Crotons.

I ate them in Croton-on-the-Hudson, NY.

No actually, just a freeper moment for me. Laugh away.

[madeline_con]

41. I wuz just funnin' with him. n/t

[Lil Missy]

10. Once I was sooooo hungry, I ate a barrel of owl shit.

:)

[vadawg]

13. oh yeah that reminds me i once ate Tofu, stuff was awful

[Jamastiene]

28. How'd you train the owl to shit in the barrel?

:P

[Godhumor]

11. I "Shaked and baked" a banana then cooked it in a frying pan

Should have just eaten the banana out of the peel...

[Iggo]

14. Death before cole slaw. (n/t)

[Jetboy]

16. Helper

No hamburger.

[flvegan]

17. Police brought me in for "protective custody" and I ate the jailhouse spaghetti.

It was pretty bad. But I was terribly hungry and didn't know when my mom was going to get there to pick me up.

Also didn't know if my mom was going to beat me to the point where I'd not be able to eat ever again. Which she didn't, because she's awesome.

[Iggo]

30. Oh god. I'd forgotten about jail food.

L.A. County Men's Central Jail, Processing.

Skip the bologna sandwich. Just take my word for it.

[hyphenate]

47. My sister used to tell me that if I ever got

picked up, I wouldn't be asking for my vegetarian diet, and that a bologna sandwich was what they would give me instead. I told her I would deserve the bologna sandwich if I ever WAS picked up.

[exman]

18. I was rummaging in a dumpster one night...

and found half of a pack of oreos. The cookies were a bit stale and the roach spray on them tasted weird, left an awful aftertaste.

[unpossibles]

19. BBQ ice cream.

No, I take that back - White Castles are worse than BBQ ice cream.

[The Midway Rebel]

20. Cat tail roots, week old french fries found between the car seat, undercooked frog legs and

grass...just off the top of my head. I have survived Reaganomics the subsequent 25 years of downward social mobility for the working class in America.

[LostInAnomie]

21. Money was tight in college...

... so quite a few times I would go to the closest Fazoli's and order a drink and abuse the free refills. Back then they has a toppings bar for salads so I would fill a napkin full of their croutons and a drink lid full of ranch dressing. I would sit there dipping the croutons in the ranch dressing and eating them until I could either eat no more or I was asked to leave.

[Chan790]

25. ...

Yes! A fellow free-mealer/abuser of fast-food niceties. I like to go to McDonalds and buy a $1 small soda because they have the soda fountain out front here and use the cup to fill with Sweet and Sour sauce. Don't judge me...it's amazing on tofu. To die for...and that stuff is far more than the $1/pint I'm actually paying for it.

I also usually take a stack of napkins about 3" thick. I haven't bought paper towels or tissues in 3 years. My friends think it's funny to crack jokes about how all my napkins are embossed with an M...the M is for money, as in I have no money.

[Chan790]

22. A list. (No means comprehensive.)

• moldy bread
• coffee grounds
• room-temperature souse loaf
• undercooked scrapple
• pigs feet
• ackee
• cold Jamaican pattie on stale coco bread
• clotted cream with a spoon
• carrots that had turned jet black in the core
• uncooked rice
• the infamous porcupine balls recipe
• pretty much anything else my father cooked
• saltfish
• guacamole made with 40-spice powder
• paprika, just straight paprika
• boiled plantain
• raw eggplant skins(yes, they really are toxic.)

[sakabatou]

24. What happened when you ate the skins?

[Chan790]

26. Nausea mostly...a little stomach pain and mild gastroenteritis.

The solanine in the skins is the active ingredient in nightshade and can be extremely toxic in sufficient quantities though. It's the same reason that potato plants are toxic (including the potato itself under the right circumstances(this is screened for in commercial potato production...the ones from the supermarket are 100% safe. Never eat potatoes that have turned green or uncooked potatoes from the garden) and most parts of the tomato plant including raw green tomatoes.

Solanine is destroyed by heat and/or exposure to hot oils.

[MrScorpio]

27. "Food" from the dollar store

Oh, dah hoorruh.... dah hoorrah...

[bif]

31. Linguini with white clam sauce

The clams had some sort of larva in it but I was too proud and put too much effort into cooking to throw it out. Truth be told, you couldn't taste the little suckers, what, with all the garlic I used.

[tinkerbell41]

32. Milk Bone dog biscuits.

I was somewhere around the age of 5-7. On a drive to visit relatives for Thanksgiving, I kept asking to eat, it was late at night, I am sure my mom, frugal as she is, told me we'll be there soon. Well, I seen the biscuits for the dog smelled them and they smelled good, but they were awful.
I did eat a few and remember getting sick from them.

[dembotoz]

33. my mother's cooking

her cooking is the stuff of legends

and not in a good way

[guitar man]

34. Oklahoma County Jail

Something I couldn't identify, egads it was awful! x(

[name not needed]

45. gotta love county

month old bologna and cheese :puke:

[charlie and algernon]

35. I DRANK a whopper

I had surgery on my jaw in high school, so I went a couple months without eating solids. One day my mom came home with Burger King with a whopper for me, she wanted to experiment by putting it in a blender. It took a LOT of ketchup and water, but dammit, I can now say I DRANK a whopper.

[redqueen]

36. Other people's leftovers out of the trash.

Homelessness sucks.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

37. The other members of my soccer team...

nt

[Javaman]

39. LOLOLOLOL

At first, I was, "whaaa?" then it sunk in. :rofl:

Good one!

[madamesilverspurs]

40. Green chili and Hershey's syrup

Desperate munchies, apparently. Got up the morning after a night of drinking and smoking and tried to figure out why we felt so sick. After finding the evidence in the kitchen, he headed for one bathroom while I ran for the other one. Hershey's is dangerous.

[ovidsen]

42. Lutefisk

Although it wasn't a "desperate" act of hunger. (I was hungry, but not starving.) On a road-trip through Minnesota, my guests offered me some, praising it as the unsung delicacy of Norway. I wanted to be a gracious guest, so I had some.

Never, ever eat fish soaked in lye. Or, I suspect, anything soaked in lye.

[Chan790]

43. My friend from Norway has stated...

that Scandinavians don't actually eat lutevisk and that it was invented purely as an exercise in seeing what ridiculous shit they could talk tourists into eating simply by calling it a national dish. Thus was born 400 years of Norwegian amusement, Fear Factor-style.

[ovidsen]

44. Your friend may be right!

While waxing over my lutefisk experience, and playing around with google, I found this wonderful anecdotal essay on the pleasures of having lutefisk thrust upon you by friendly Norwegians who have no intention of having some themselves.

How to describe that first bite? Its a bit like describing passing a kidneystone to the uninitiated. If you are talking to someone else who has lived through the experience, a nod will suffice to acknowledge your shared pain, but to explain it to the person who has not been there, mere words seem inadequate to the task. So it is with lutefisk.

Click below for more:

http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~atman/ic/lutefisk.html

Who needs nukes? Norway has the ultimate weapon.

edit: to add link.

[merh]

46. After being trapped for hours on the 2nd floor of my sister's house

trying to stay above Katrina's surge, once the water receded, we ventured out into the debris field and found refrigerators that had been washed about.

We took whatever was in sealed plastic and ate that as our meal, we hadn't eaten since 6 a.m. that morning before the storm surge came - it was about 5 that evening when we found hot dogs in their packets and ate them uncooked.

We were hungry.

[TheKentuckian]

48. I wasn't desperate with hunger but rather TRICKED

I was about 15 or 16. My Mom said that her cousin had got a deer and she had made a roast so she wanted me to try it (I hadn't had deer at the time). I was curious so I took a slice of what turned out to be the most gamey and greasy substance ever. It was so terrible that I reflexively spit it out and declared that deer was disgusting at which point she came clean and admitted what she had served up was possum.

I haven't trusted my mother, food, or people in general the same way sense and learned that possum is way beyond foul. I'm thinking a rotten skunk ass would be more appealing.

JUST REMEMBER POSSUM IS FUCKING SUPER NASTY.