What's the worst food you've ever eaten?
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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.
Someone on lemmy posted this recently: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_pineapple
My mother in law is Korean so out of curiosity I had her pick up the Korean dish made from it (meonggae) after seeing the lemmy post. It taste like the smell of a dank metal spiral stair case at Seaworld. Even through all the (imo) tasty spices and seasoning. I asked my MIL what she likes about it and she said, "it tastes so fresh because one bite and your transported to the sea". Especially with the older generation, the context can make the food way more than the taste
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The lady who owns the Ethiopian place near me told me that it’s really hard to get the injera right when you first try it the US. The wild yeasts that occur naturally in Ethiopia are not present here. Is like how “real sourdough only comes from San Francisco.”
She said she couldn’t get it to work right with pure teff like back home and to play around for a long time with the mix of wheat, rice flour and teff before it was even edible.
Maybe the place you had it was still figuring it out.
Maybe. This was in Israel. There's a sizable Ethiopian population here but it still might be difficult.
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Unripe persimmon. I can't even say it has a flavor, more a sensation of your face trying to implode into your mouth. Bitterness is an insufficient descriptor for it. That's part of it, but also your mouth feels dry in a way that defies belief. It's like being stuck on the dentist's vacuum too long.
Indeed, it's not really a flavor, but that sensation is called astringent.
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I don’t think so. I just didn’t like the texture and taste, it wasn’t rotten or anything. It just wasn’t for me.
I loooove Uni! Soooo sea-tasting. It flavors all the sushi I eat after it, too!
Uni certainly is tasty.
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A Pizza. It was in Milan. Directly in front of the cathedral. It tasted like a frozen pizza, and I was utterly disappointed.
It's really easy to get bad food in touristy parts of Italy (well, anywhere, really)
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Deep fried calamari. Imagine deep frying a tyre, same texture and taste.
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Chicken sashimi is a thing in Japan, so consider yourself cultured
Cultured?
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It was something like mashed pumpkin. I forget the exact variety.
I was for dinner at some friend's place. He gives me a bit of that pumpkin stuff, saying I have to taste it because it turned out so great. It was left-overs from the previous day. I take a spoon and it tastes absolutely rotten. Well, ok. He is trying his best to be an amateur chef, but I do have doubts about some of his culinary judgments. So, I put on the polite face and just eat it.
After a few spoons, I can't take it anymore. I say: "Sorry, this tastes absolutely rotten." He tastes of it, nods and hurries out the room to throw it away. So yeah. I ate spoiled food. I didn't get sick but I haven't eaten pumpkin since. The taste really stayed with me.
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I had a hunch it's the way it's cooked, should always be fresh.
I've learned my lesson. Only going to order it at places that are bumping
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Caine's.
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Couple months ago I got a tonsillectomy. I got nerve damage in my tongue as a side effect of a tool they used and everything tastes different since. Tomato based pasta sauces have been the absolute worst, it tastes very metallic. The only normal type of food I can stand is Asian food that isn't breaded/fried.
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Couple months ago I got a tonsillectomy. I got nerve damage in my tongue as a side effect of a tool they used and everything tastes different since. Tomato based pasta sauces have been the absolute worst, it tastes very metallic. The only normal type of food I can stand is Asian food that isn't breaded/fried.
LOL, 80% of our home cooked meals either have tomatoes and/or fried Asian food.
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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.
Giant water bug? I love those things!
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Apparently none y'all have tried vegemite.
Come at me Australia!
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Anything I've bought at a sports stadium. The FootyScran twitter account catalogues some similar examples -
Oh… I’m so sorry. That should be illegal.
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Apparently none y'all have tried vegemite.
Come at me Australia!
Vegemite tastes like what I imagine the under-side of a cow to taste.
It tastes like the smell of road surface.
It should have a warning label: Not to be taken orally.
It's clearly a prank that Australia plays with everyone.Also, I was born in England, but have lived in Australia for 25 years.
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Balut, it tasted good actually but the physiological hurdles I could only eat one and could not do it again.
Oh my g….. you just took me back to my childhood! I miss balut! My kids loved it until they grew up and figured out what it was.
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Tête de veau and andouillettes.
I'll try everything once but the first is just jelly with cartilage, reminding you it used to be a face.
The second is offal sausage that smells like the intestines weren't washed out properly.
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Cultured?
Hey, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Logically, you should be thanking whoever made that for you.
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Anything I've bought at a sports stadium. The FootyScran twitter account catalogues some similar examples -
Looks like a euro burger on a US bun.
