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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWhat is the worst food you have ever eaten? Mine is thin crust pizza. It tasted like a cracker. And you?
Ritabert
(2,444 posts)debm55
(60,568 posts)hlthe2b
(113,947 posts)Yeah, I've eaten a lot of weird things, but at least they didn't taste like THAT.
Ritabert
(2,444 posts)gab13by13
(32,314 posts)Something you eat at a bar on a dare.
It's herring. Remember the old song, Catch a pickled herring?
debm55
(60,568 posts)DBoon
(24,982 posts)Like chewing on rubber bands
greatauntoftriplets
(179,004 posts)It's repulsive.
Also sea cucumbers. Like eating rubber bands.
JoseBalow
(9,486 posts)greatauntoftriplets
(179,004 posts)JoseBalow
(9,486 posts)Though often it's a matter of how something is prepared.
greatauntoftriplets
(179,004 posts)In my case, it's the tongue's texture. And flavor.
greatauntoftriplets
(179,004 posts)In my case, it's the tongue's texture. And flavor.
displacedvermoter
(4,491 posts)Thought it would be very good, love seafood, but it was a no go.
JoseBalow
(9,486 posts)Awful
lastlib
(28,258 posts)IDK how the Aussies can stand it!
mwmisses4289
(4,174 posts)Seems it's one of those things people either love or hate.
I've always been curious try it.
JoseBalow
(9,486 posts)unblock
(56,198 posts)So they're similar unless you like one but not the other
Oneironaut
(6,299 posts)But yeah - that looks vile. lol
Same with natto. It makes me nauseous looking at it.
Bettie
(19,702 posts)and had a counsellor from Australia. He brought Vegemite and my boy was brave enough to try it.....he was not a fan, but he was the only one to try it.
Delarage
(2,597 posts)On my own while in Australia. I slathered it on like peanut butter on toast.... But it is VERY POWERFUL and is apparently supposed to be used very sparingly. So I tried again.... Just a hint of it with some butter.. and it was much better. Not so good that I ever tried it again, but better and tolerable. Has a very salty and strong taste.
lastlib
(28,258 posts)I hate that stuff with a passion.
pandr32
(14,270 posts)But then I make my own mayonnaise and aiolis. They are very different than any processed jarred mayonnaise. He loves it now as long as it is at home (and no, it's not to earn extra points with me!).
pandr32
(14,270 posts)It was yellow curry--a favorite. Unfortunately it had canned pineapple pieces in it and nothing else. I wondered if someone's kid was cooking in the kitchen for a joke, but I got a serious bill--so no.
debm55
(60,568 posts)wrong.
pandr32
(14,270 posts)Also, produce in abundance. Unfortunately, some terrible restaurants. There are some good ones, though. Lots of money wasted finding them.
mwmisses4289
(4,174 posts)Saurekraut (really, almost any pickled or fermented food), caviar, calamari, kale, apricots.
I'll stop there, there are to many other foods that I wonder how we humans eat this stuff, lol.
debm55
(60,568 posts)House of Roberts
(6,521 posts)The worst pizza I've ever had was still pizza. The womenfolk here have one of those stones to cook the pizza in the oven, and they get these strange tasting pizzas. One had goat cheese on it with spinach. That might have been the worst pizza I ever ate.
Oneironaut
(6,299 posts)electric_blue68
(26,856 posts)My Aunt made it when I was a kid. My father made me try it. Gag.
Norrrm
(5,046 posts)vanlassie
(6,248 posts)Hands down. 🤮
Diamond_Dog
(40,569 posts)Liver and onions. Kale. Soft boiled eggs.
SWinter
(25 posts)They were vile. I love fresh carrotspull them out of the garden and wash them with the hose. Delish.
Bettie
(19,702 posts)just gross. Ick. Not for me.
DH eats it sometimes at a restaurant, he has to kiss me first because after that, no kisses for a few hours at least!
Same rule with creamed herring, which is also ick to me.
I know others may like these things, that's cool, they are just not things I can eat.
The piece of cod that passes all understanding (I stole this quote from an Old Lutheran tshirt my daughter gave me. Don't know how to attribute it)
mwmisses4289
(4,174 posts)Laurelin
(896 posts)Thanks!
electric_blue68
(26,856 posts)EEEeeeeks!!!
EYESORE 9001
(29,724 posts)Its so acidic that it sets off alarm bells in my head - as if Ive just ingested something caustic.
Freddie
(10,104 posts)Secret ingredient in many cakes and cookies. Drink it, no way in hell.
electric_blue68
(26,856 posts)Freddie
(10,104 posts)Made this African sweet potato stew with spices that were totally unfamiliar and very hot 🥵. Her dog has a habit if circling the table begging for scraps and she strictly warned us to NOT give him any. I used the old trick of pushing it around the plate and eating the rice.
Polly Hennessey
(8,832 posts)is too chewy and heavy. 😝 Full confession, I really, really dislike pizza 🍕 Heres the deal: I wont serve you lima beans if you promise not to make me eat pizza. 🥰
Borogove
(623 posts)quaint
(5,077 posts)Yeah, well it has peanut and coconut and chili powder and and it was really crying hot.
I did not care for it.😳
LoisB
(13,025 posts)MIButterfly
(2,693 posts)As for me, liver as a child. Never again;
Raw oyster as an adult. Never again; and
Brussel sprouts - hard little balls of bitterness. I dont care how they're prepared. Never again.
MiHale
(13,032 posts)Tough and stringy
worse even than wild turkey, the bird, not the alcohol.
We used to do wild game nights. Snapping Turtle is better.
3catwoman3
(29,403 posts)Uni, or sea urchin roe, is a premium Japanese sushi delicacy featuring the creamy, custard-like, and sweet-briny gonads of the sea urchin. Usually served as high-end nigiri or gunkan-maki (battleship roll) wrapped in nori, it is renowned for its rich, umami-packed flavor. Due to its delicate, labour-intensive harvesting, fresh uni is expensive, often costing over
$12 per piece.
Well, the piece I had may have been past it "best by" date. It was disgusting. it felt furry in my mouth, and tasted terrible. I love most kinds of sushi and sashimi, but this was hideous.
I've never been brave enough to try again.
Aristus
(72,178 posts)Squash she had grown herself in our backyard. Farm-to-table does not necessarily guarantee good eating.
It was the most disgusting thing I ever ate. Revolting. You could have told me it was creamed locusts and grasshoppers, and I would have believed you.
sinkingfeeling
(57,832 posts)underpants
(196,490 posts)And dont start with any recipes. The whole point of brussel sprout recipes is to make them not taste and smell like sewage, which they do.
Delarage
(2,597 posts)So many people have told me that I have to try them this way, that way, at this place or that place. Tried a few different versions and.....nope.
mike_c
(37,051 posts)One of my grad students made them for a potluck. I guess it's an acquired taste-- they tasted like I imagine iodine would taste. Very medicinal.
GentryDixon
(3,149 posts)northoftheborder
(7,637 posts)ProfessorGAC
(76,693 posts)Super high temperature counter top pizza cooker.
We make homemade pizza, but it work great on frozen pizza, as long as we let the frozen pizza sit out for an hour.
We buy a cheap thin crust, add extra cheese, onion, thin slices tomato, & garlic powder.
The Piezano heats the stone from the bottom at 800° & from above the pie at 700°.
3 minutes and the crust gets crisp, but still chewy.
One of the best kitchen gadgets we ever bought.
On homemade pizza, we get amazing results.
retread
(3,921 posts)some_of_us_are_sane
(3,183 posts)Served as an hors d'oeuvre. (I STILL HATE myself for putting that wondrous creature's little pickled tentacle in my mouth!)
Cairycat
(1,867 posts)I'd pretend to chew it, spit it out in my napkin, then drop it on the floor for our Irish setter.
I like many of the things people posted about, but I can't do organ meat, sea creatures other than shrimp, crab, and lobster, and raw fish or meat. Other than that I am an omnivore.
electric_blue68
(26,856 posts)Tradition Greek ?Easter soup - ?Mahgritza.
Well, there were little hearts, kidneys floating in it! This is like 55+ yrs ago.
But I loved my cousin, and didn't want to disappoint her.
The heart? Eh. But the kidneys - ick!
Luckily my mom never cooked liver. Yet I love liverwurst; guess the herbs & spices counter rhe natural 😄 ?questionable taste.
I'd never have raw fish sushi, nor oysters!
And be careful at a Puerto Rican restaurant!
You want Monfungo - mashed fried green plantains w olive oil, garlic and ? but not
Mondongo - cooked chopped up tripe w whatever!
Two wrong letters - you in trouble!
No, never happened to me.
eShirl
(20,253 posts)it tasted like Lysol-marinated rubber