What's the worst food you've ever eaten?
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Surströmming with mämmi
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Worked for a Japanese company and visited the head office in Tokyo. One of the more senior managers took us to his favorite local sea food restaurant.
I hate seafood. Especially when it's fancy and you get baby squid that looks like they were just fresh out of the water with no preparation etc (part of the "fancy"). However, culturally I had absolutely no possibility to do anything but eat, smile and praise. The courses just kept coming, each one being more disgusting than the last.
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Hard to say. I tend to opt for safe things most of the time. Twice as a child I was conned into taking a spam fritter under the belief it was fish. I like battered fish. It was not fish. I do not like spam.
Texture-wise, I cannot abide kidney. Used to love steak and kidney pies but something changed when my adult teeth came in.
Thirdly, I still have flashbacks to a serving of whitebait I ordered out of curiosity in a restaurant one time. They didn't taste terrible that I remember. Just... whole little fish cooked and to be eaten whole. Never again.
And then there was the case of the Kit-Kat that I was eating blind, piece by piece from my coat pocket, and one of the pieces was hard and unpleasant. I am still not sure there wasn't something else in my pocket that I grabbed and ate by mistake, but that's pretty up there.
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I’ve eaten a lot of pretty crazy stuff by western standards. The most challenging thing I have eaten was a giant water bug. The most challenging thing I haven’t been able to bring myself to eat was balut.
The water bug was definitely not the worst thing I’ve eaten though; it was unbelievably fragrant. Practically like eating perfume.
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I dunno what that means but I'm guessing it's not good. You also did mention Dinuguan which I like also.
Matter of taste I guess - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrel_man_(novelty)
I like dinuguan and sisig, but I've definitely had plates of sisig I've regretted.
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I once went to an Ethiopian restaurant with my family. Never again.
I can't even describe it, but whatever evil concoction they call their version of bread is easily the worst thing I ever attempted to eat.
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Minke whale. I've had hákarl and I prefer that over minke whale.
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I once went to an Ethiopian restaurant with my family. Never again.
I can't even describe it, but whatever evil concoction they call their version of bread is easily the worst thing I ever attempted to eat.
You don’t enjoy the unholy union of packing wrap and kitchen sponge?
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You don’t enjoy the unholy union of packing wrap and kitchen sponge?
Too accurate
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I’ve eaten a lot of pretty crazy stuff by western standards. The most challenging thing I have eaten was a giant water bug. The most challenging thing I haven’t been able to bring myself to eat was balut.
The water bug was definitely not the worst thing I’ve eaten though; it was unbelievably fragrant. Practically like eating perfume.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Esters I bet it's rich in esters
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I once went to an Ethiopian restaurant with my family. Never again.
I can't even describe it, but whatever evil concoction they call their version of bread is easily the worst thing I ever attempted to eat.
I dunno, I think the Ethiopian food itself more than makes up for it. Unseasoned polenta on the other hand…
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Camel fat. It tastes like how a camel smells.
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Esters I bet it's rich in esters
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Probably. I know it’s a pheromone and is much more concentrated in males making them more valuable/desired
My question for folks, though…:
When faced with eating a giant water bug for the first time, would you bite the head side first or the butt side first?I struggled with this decision…
ETA: (for reference)
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My brother said his hotel burger had a really bad musk to it
So that's where my ballsack burger went!
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Preface: All seafood makes me violently ill. I wish it weren't so, but here we are.
While living in Switzerland we went to an ikea and found what I thought to be spreadable cheese in a toothpaste type tube. For reference lots of stuff over there comes in those types of tubes. Why not cheese?
I was so excited to get home and immediately tore the cap off and squeezed a giant dollop of what my mouth expected to be something like cheez whiz.
NOPE. NOPE FUCKING NOPE. It was some kind of fish paste with roe...
I puked for like 30 minutes straight and couldn't get that taste out of my mouth until we found some kirsch liqueur that I also hate, but whose taste will overpower anything.
Picture related: The culprit
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Cocolate pudding in a hotel in reims france.
I dont know what it was but it wasnt chocolate!
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Matter of taste I guess - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrel_man_(novelty)
I like dinuguan and sisig, but I've definitely had plates of sisig I've regretted.
Oh, that
I'm so ashamed I didn't get it straight away even though I'm Filipino 
What type of sisig did you have? It's traditionally made with pig's head but if you don't want that, you can't go wrong with pork belly or chicken cut into small chunks
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Oh, that
I'm so ashamed I didn't get it straight away even though I'm Filipino What type of sisig did you have? It's traditionally made with pig's head but if you don't want that, you can't go wrong with pork belly or chicken cut into small chunks
It was pig's ear and other head stuff, but the real problem was that it was about half as fresh as it should have been. I only mentioned sisig in this post as a way of listing all the gnarly stuff I've liked over the years to compare it to the one thing I just can't handle (except as an ingredient in one dish ever apparently). Little quiet karaoke place with no customers that used to be in Seattle, back when I lived stateside. Not surprised to find out that it's gone, they needed a different crowd.
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Balut, it tasted good actually but the physiological hurdles I could only eat one and could not do it again.
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I’ve eaten a lot of pretty crazy stuff by western standards. The most challenging thing I have eaten was a giant water bug. The most challenging thing I haven’t been able to bring myself to eat was balut.
The water bug was definitely not the worst thing I’ve eaten though; it was unbelievably fragrant. Practically like eating perfume.
Balut actually tastes pretty good chicken and egg. Even though it was a duck egg. But yah I could never do it again.
