What is the most horrible, disgusting food on the planet?

[sundog]

[punpirate]

1. Hawaiians might disagree with me...

... but, I'm pretty sure it's poi. :)

[sakabatou]

7. Poi is f-ing disgusting

[Radio_Lady]

35. Nominating OKRA -- pretty disgusting, stringy, gooey --

don't try to change my mind. I grew up in the south and my mother always wanted me to try it.

[bliss_eternal]

62. My family is from the south--I agree. Okra is a foul substance.

:thumbsdown:

[Radio_Lady]

70. Nothing to recommend it, except it's plentiful.

Does okra even have a good nutritional profile?

Let's see... (you need Adobe Acrobat downloaded to see this file...)

http://vric.ucdavis.edu/veginfo/commodity/garden/crops/okra.pdf

[Sequoia]

150. Oh yes, dip in egg bater, roll in corn meal w/ spices, fry....yum ola!!!!

Try it, you'll like it. The slime will be gone.

[NNadir]

67. I'm with you. I actually believe it's space alien fecal matter.

[Radio_Lady]

72. Oh, really? That's why it's so disgusting either here on Earth or in

outer space!

[Pystoff]

78. This post is for #35 and #62 posts

Your mother apparently couldn't cook if you think okra isn't good...it's called frying it you don't boil it or it turns to snot and is very un-southern way to cook it. Yes I am offended as a southerner that someone dissed okra.

Maybe your family is from the south but you apparently are not and can't comment on how good okra is...as I said it should be fried.

Ok don't you 2 get mad but dissing okra ain't right and I hadta defend it's honour.

O8)

[tibbir]

104. I don't know. My son hates most vegetables

but even he likes okra and stewed tomatoes. Also, okra is a key ingredient in gumbo.

[Pystoff]

116. now tomatoes I don't like

Like ketchup and sauces using tomatoes but stewed or raw can't stand em. Okra kicks ass in gumbo or fried or a soup but boiled is just plain nasty and wrong.

[ChoralScholar]

109. I like it a lot when it is fried. Pickled is good too. EOM

[Pystoff]

117. I dig ya

Pickled is good too.

[kick-ass-bob]

137. I just had some lightly fried okra and it is not stringy

gooey or any of that other stuff the others were complaining about.

Anything can be crap if you cook it the wrong way.

[Pystoff]

147. Truth!

You are right man fried okra if cooked right is damn good.

[ernstbass]

152. Okra ROCKS!!

[opihimoimoi]

170. Eating good poi is an acquired thing....like learning to eat Lutefisk...

[Initech]

Anything on the McDonalds menu

[sundog]

2. pickles... a pickle ain't nothin but a mean, bitter cucumber

:puke:

[AussieDave]

23. Pickles aren't mean and bitter - they have issues

there they were - happy little baby cucumbers, looking to grow up to be big strong cucumbers, when there plucked off the vine and forced to swim around in dill-soaked salty water until they shrivel up and go all wrinkly (not unlike Barbara Bush - THERE'S mean and bitter) to become the delightful crunchy pickles many know and love.

Pity the pickles - they have issues......

[DBoon]

3. hakerl

It's Icelandic. Basically rotting shark flesh

[kiki]

66. ...sometimes marinated in human pee.

Seriously. My housemate brought back some of the pee-soaked variety from Iceland.

[Radio_Lady]

73. Wow. Gives new meaning to a daily diet -- pee-flavored peas!

[kiki]

127. That sounds funny.

"Will you eat pee-flavoured peas?
I will not eat them, spare me please!

Will you eat them with blue cheese?
Will you eat them in the trees?"

etc. etc.

[Radio_Lady]

151. Added copy: Will you eat them on your knees?

I do not like pee-flavored peas.
I will not eat them on my knees.
I would not serve them to the fleas.
So, pass the platter, if you please.


(Seuss rhyming has always fascinated me...)

[kiki]

157. Although actually...

...we're talking about pee-flavoured fish, which is practically impossible to rhyme. Once you've said "I will not eat them on a dish", there's really nowhere to go...

[kenny blankenship]

4. How about those little dried fish you get in bowls in Korean restaurants?

Closest I've ever come to vomiting right at the table was chewing and swallowing a pinch of those.

[stlsaxman]

5. Oysters- Snot rocks...

The first animal or human (same thing, i know) had to be frigging on the verge of death from hunger to smash one of those things open and slurp it down like a big ol' loogey....

YUCK!

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

6. Haggis

Traditional Haggis (from Evelyn Hlabse, [e-mail])

1 sheep's pluck (stomach bag)
2 lb.. dry oatmeal
1 lb. suet
1 lb. lamb's liver
2 1/2 cups stock
1 large chopped onion
1/2 tsp. cayenne pepper, Jamaica pepper and salt

Boil liver and parboil the onion, then mince them together. Lightly brown the oatmeal. Mix all ingredients together. Fill the sheep's pluck with the mixture pressing it down to remove all the air, and sew up securely. Prick the haggis in several places so that it does not burst. Place haggis in boiling water and boil slowly for 4-5 hours. Serves approximately 12.

http://www.smart.net/~tak/haggis.html#three

[Blue Gardener]

16. You win

That is absolutely disgusting.

[mark11727]

19. Gack.

That beats my entry of escargot, which I USED to LOVE eating.

[Spider Jerusalem]

29. Some recipes call for the heart and lungs, too.

Lung is fucking disgusting...worst meat I've eaten, I think (but then, I haven't had intestines)...very spongy...ugh.

[Xithras]

38. Your haggis recipe is missing a few ingredients

1 sheep's lung
1 sheep heart

The basic haggis recipe is simple: Pack all of the guts from a freshly killed sheep...except for the intestines...into its stomach along with oatmeal and spice to taste. Tie off the ends of the stomach, drop it into water, and boil.

As nasty as it sounds, properly prepared Haggis isn't all that bad. In reality, a haggis is just a large sausage. Just keep in mind that it's intended to be eaten alongside a large volume of Scotch Ale or Whiskey, and the flavors should mix as you eat it. Tabasco also helps :)

[MissHoneychurch]

128. My choice also

only way to get it down is if you drown yourself with whiskey first.

[tjwmason]

132. Absolute crap - haggis is wonderful

There's nothing at all wrong with it - other than ridiculous pseudo-sensibilities (b.t.w. the stomach is not eaten, it's just boiled in one).

[MissHoneychurch]

139. how much whiskey did you drink before making that comment?

:)

[tjwmason]

144. I never drink whiskey

I do sometimes drink whisky - especially when eating haggis. :P

I've eaten haggis for breakfast whilst stone-cold sober, and still loved every single moment.

[auntAgonist]

156. Haggis isn't disgusting at all...

It is wonderful!

[no name no slogan]

165. I've only had it while intoxicated on good Scottish Ale

but as proud, kilt-wearing member of Clan Armstrong ("the scourge of the borders"), I have to agree. it was not nearly as bad as it sounded.

Now kidney pie, OTOH :puke:

[auntAgonist]

184. Clan Hay

here, I don't care for scotch but a good feast of haggis and 'neeps tatties and peas and I'm in heaven.

[MN ChimpH8R]

8. It's Filipino, IIRC

A fertilized duck egg that has been pickled or something like that. Mr. Scorpio described it on a thread a week or so ago. :puke:

Google result: balut

Google "balut" on an image search if you have a strong stomach -a STRONG stomach. :puke::puke::puke:

edited for spelling

[mark11727]

21. Oh shit.

Why oh why couldn't I just leave well enough alone...? Gack.

[maveric]

37. Aside from Lumpia, Pansit and Adobo, Filipino food is NASTY!

My co-workers microwave containers of fish heads and blood sauce. Stinks up the whole nurses station.

[TimeChaser]

185. Lumpia is heavenly

My aunt is Filipino, we use her recipe.

[XemaSab]

69. wow.

just wow.

[MADem]

9. No contest--BALOOT (aka balut, baalut)

How about that great delicacy of the Philippines... Baalut. You take a fertilized duck or chicken egg, bury it in the ground for a few weeks and then enjoy. Also known as "the treat with feet" or "the egg with legs". Best enjoyed after many, many, many beers. This is a Filipino delicacy--a duck egg containing a half-formed duckling, soft-boiled and eaten out of shell with a spoon. (Slurp! Crunch-crunch! Yum!)

More odd food here: http://www.weird-food.com/weird-food-bird.html

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

74. It's not just Philippino - in Vietnam it's known as "hot vit lon"

I used to go to a Vietnamese bar in downtown Los Angeles years ago called "Dragon Lady" where the Vietnamese owner would bring out of jar of hot vit lon and the Vietnamese bar girls would go ape, eating the duck eggs and baby ducks inside as though it was candy. They say the meat has a sweet, nut-like flavor but it looks pretty ugly.

[GreenPartyVoter]

10. calimari...sushi....liver

[malta blue]

11. I agree on the liver part, but goodness, calamari and sushi

are so very tasty. I can see where the calamari might get you...it really does have to be prepared well otherwise you might as well be chewing on a rubber band.

[GreenPartyVoter]

20. That's the thing... I don't liek certainfood textures.. rubbery is

definitely one of them. And I don't really care for fish, but raw fish? Yikes! *g*

[malta blue]

25. okay, fair enough. Have you tried the cucumber rolls and things of

that kind on the sushi front? It's not all about raw fish. That being said, I can't stand mushrooms! I am allergic to them, which I suppose may be the reason why I got so sick whenever one passed my lips, but I remember just picking them out of my food and being replused by their very slimy nature.

[GreenPartyVoter]

31. Hubby hates mushrooms too. The only time they will ever pass his lips is

if they are in hot n sour soup.

Have not tried non fish sushi. Will have to look into that.

[malta blue]

44. kudos for giving the non fish sushi a try!

Glad to know other share the loathing of the fungus...

[Pystoff]

119. Sushi rocks

Red Tuna sushi tastes like something I won't say here hehe.

[bearfan454]

12. liver

It's putrid.

[sundog]

17. oh yeah... that shit is shag nasty

:puke:

[Xithras]

48. I never got why people don't like liver.

I've never minded it, and always thought that others reactions to it were quite odd. I think it's cultural...I was raised in a household where liver was just another meat, and didn't hear the "liver is yucky" mantra until I was about 10.

[Radio_Lady]

76. My son is in the restaurant business -- as a boy, he ate everything except

liver and anchovies.

I agree with him on the anchovies; however, I do like liver. I just don't eat it any more because it's the organ that gathers all the toxicity from the body.

Jewish folk still have their chopped chicken liver with onions. Yummy, actually, at least to me...

[tjwmason]

136. I agree

Plus there are few things on this planet more sublime than a lightly fried calves liver - makes my mouth water just thinking about it, even though I've just had breakfast.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

138. I grew up hating it...

But then I worked as a cook in an old folks home -- relief cook on the weekends -- and it seem at least every other weekend they served liver. Staff got to eat free as long as we had what was on the menu. Being the continually-broke college student that I was, I started eating free liver (as opposed to free-range liver). I started to like it.

[XemaSab]

13. Nato

fermented soybean paste.

truly foul.

maybe not the worst food item ever, but WAY WAY up there.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

105. I'm with you on natto

The guides to Japanese cuisine refer to natto as "fermented soybeans."

Nope, miso is fermented soybeans. Natto is rotten soybeans, as in "tastes like the inside of a ripe garbage can smells." It doesn't help that it looks like baked beans but has a gummy, tacky coating that leaves "strings" when you lift it with your chopsticks.

My first encounter with natto was accidental. I saw it in a conveyer belt sushi shop a couple of weeks after my first arrival in Japan and thought it was baked beans. Boy, was I wrong. I nearly spat it out but forced it down. I gulped down some tea and asked the woman next to me what that stuff was. She smiled knowingly (even a lot of Japanese hate it) and said, "Natto."

I decided then and there to avoid it, but a few months later, one of my English tutoring students invited me to his house for dinner. On the way from the train station to his house, he told me that the dinner was going to center on his wife's homemade natto.

I was tempted to run back to the train station.

Somehow I managed to choke down a bowl of that vile substance.

[northzax]

159. I found that nothing was more amusing

to my hosts and their friends than serving the gaijin Naato. got so I could choke it down and smile. that's when they really thought I was crazy.

[Culture Mind]

163. I am soooo with you on the Natto

Smells, tastes, and feels nasty. :puke:

[flvegan]

14. Meat...any animal product, actually.

Outside of the small, organic farm, how any animal got to any plate is horrible and disgusting.

I do recall that in most cases, it did taste good. I used to love swordfish and a good seafood newburg. However, the reprehensible treatment throughout the animal industry can't be warranted but for the taste buds.

Flame away!

[KFC]

33. Pig treatment on Discovery Channels' "Dirty Jobs"

Last night, they showed a pig farm and I was actually shocked at how badly the pigs were treated. They lived their lives in small metal cages and would just shit through the floor. You could tell that they were miserable. The host seemed amused. I am not a Veg, but that shit got me thinking.

[Spider Jerusalem]

47. Meat = tasty...

and I buy mine from a halal butcher (all organic, locally raised beef, goat, mutton and chicken...no pork, of course). I'm not Muslim, but the meat is both less expensive (probably because the butcher deals directly with the producers) and organic, which is a major bonus.

[Dees]

15. Scrapple

Disgraced sausage.

[kodi]

39. scrapple = not good enough to make soap from

.

[Zuni]

51. I LOVE scrapple

my favorite breakfast meat ever

[Dees]

61. You must be from either MD or PA.

As a Midwestener living in MD now...it was kind of forced on me.
First words out of my mouth were...whoa sh*t is that bad. I'll take Burgers Smoke House ham from California, Missouri any day!!

[Zuni]

87. Yup

Lived in Maryland my whole life.

[Pystoff]

118. Meat ? LOL

Leftovers is more like it...all the stuff left over after a butcher is done with a hog is all it is.

Called chitlins down here and is nasty as hell.

[Aristus]

18. Brussells sprouts or okra.

Either one. Take your pick. They are both disgusting! :puke:

[tibbir]

107. I'm with you completely on that brussels sprouts thing.

But okra is good - fried, stewed tomatoes and okra and it's really good in gumbo. It is an aquired taste, though.

[Lady Effingbroke]

22. natto (fermented soybeans).

picture courtesy of The Sneeze

[XemaSab]

24. that's the one...

tastes worse than it looks... and the texture is JUST WRONG.

[FuzzySlippers]

40. Tastes WORSE than it LOOKS???!!!

[XemaSab]

46. Oh yes

the flavor is indescribably BAD.

it's basically rotten soybeans.

and that's exactly what it tastes like.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

106. XemaSab speaks the truth

When you're in Japan, don't eat anything that looks like gummy baked beans. You'll be sorry.

[FuzzySlippers]

26. Lutefisk must be pretty high on the list.

I haven't actually tasted it, but the smell is enough to make you :puke: .

[Lydia Leftcoast]

110. One of my great-uncles, whose wife was Swedish, described

lutefisk as tasting like "warm snot."

I was spared lutefisk, because my father, the son of Norwegian immigrants, was forced to eat it, hated it, and was determined never to inflict it on his children.

However, the women at our church put on an annual lutefisk supper in December, and masochistic Scandinavian-Americans came from the whole Twin Cities metro area to attend it.

I later learned that modern-day Norwegians think of lutefisk as roughly equivalent to hard tack and salt pork, strictly peasant food.

[FuzzySlippers]

126. My mother used to make it for herself

and my grandmother, who lived with us. My dad and I got totally grossed out at the smell.

[Zuni]

27. I despise onions and raw garlic

of course I like many foods with onions and garlic in them, I just don't like when the flavor of either stands out

[sundog]

71. are you a vampyre?

:shrug:

[djeseru]

28. Vegemite?

Didn't see it on the list.

[benny05]

34. you got your vote in before mine

see my post..

[Dukkha]

30. cabbage & sauerkraut

anything that produced toxic voilent farts like these do can't be good.

[benny05]

32. Vegemite

wretched :puke: No offense, Aussie friends, but I don't see how anyone can eat that stuff in the morning on toast.

Haggis is also bad, but if it is served with some good aged single malted scotch, you can forget about the taste of haggis. Not true for vegemite though. :scared:

[djeseru]

45. Oh my yes.

It was the first thing that popped into my head on reading this topic...haggis was a close second.

[kodi]

36. stewed okra, a true WMD

.

[Jade Fox]

52. Red state food, that okra...

No wonder they like Bush.

[sendero]

53. Yes but..

.... properly prepared FRIED okra (not that frozen breaded crap you get in restaurants) is sublimely wonderful!

[kodi]

58. yeah its akin to the difference between boiled meat and burned meat

.

[Pystoff]

120. Damn skippy

Fried okra is the bomb.

A little corn meal and flour fried for about 10 mins untill golden brown...Mmmmmmmm MMMMmmm.

[Danmel]

41. Sea Urchin and Brussels Sprouts

I love sushi but I just cannot eat Uni- Sea Urchin. It is just weird and mealy and yucky. I also can't abide Brussels Sprouts- the smell just completely kills me.

[Placebo]

42. Mayonnaise

:puke:

[Jade Fox]

50. Yes!

Who invented that nasty stuff, and why isn't there a substitue for it?

I just made a bacon/lettuce/tomato sammich, and it needed something
but I refuse to use mayo!

[Placebo]

59. Yes!

It's the most revolting thing ever made.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

141. Are you talking real mayo or "salad dressing"

Salad dressing is putrid. Real mayo has some flavor to it.

[Divameow77]

181. I like French dressing on my BLT's

I also hate mayonaise and will sub Ranch dressing most fo the time

[Merrick]

55. No!

I eat it out of the jar with a spoon! yummy yummy mayonnaise yummy yummy yum you make my tuna taste so yummy yummy yummy yum you are so delicious slathered on my bun yum!

[Placebo]

60. Yes!

It makes Jesus cry.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

79. Have you ever tried homemade mayonnaise?

It can be very delicious. You just take yellow egg yokes and place them into a bowl (preferably wood) and some olive oil and then grind it with a steady wrist motion with a pestle, continuing to add more olive oil as you go. You can add garlic or lemon juice after you whip it up. If you make it in a natural way with natural ingredients (especially the olive oil), it's fantastic.

[The Flaming Red Head]

130. Me too

I always hated it.

[Placebo]

175. Not a damn thing redeemable about it.

Not a damn thing.

[In_The_Wind]

43. tongue

[shugh514]

49. Okra

I'm not sure it was prepared correctly. It was too slimy for my taste.
:shrug:

[alarcojon]

54. Sheep eyes

Sheep eyes are considered a delicacy in certain parts of the world, including many areas of the Middle East. A friend of mine from Sicily said his mother actually used to eat them all the time.

http://www.nbc.com/nbc/Fear_Factor/stunts/stunt_sheepeyes.shtml

[Crazy Guggenheim]

63. Thank you for the picture.

:puke:

[Sugar Smack]

56. pimiento cheese

and grits- and I still call myself a southerner.

[swag]

112. Now that's a longstanding grudge.

That's one of the first things I remember reading about you.

Pimiento cheese and Sugar Smack, only in the echoes of my mind.

[Merrick]

57. Goat Ice Cream

also wasabi, eel, prawn, chicken...

[SoCalifer]

64. The most disgusting food on the planet

has got to be "Balut" (boiled, fertilized chicken egg). You don't want to know what it smells like.

[dhinojosa]

65. Dog shit...

hands down.

[Pystoff]

123. I have come to understand....

Your sense of humor is just about as fucked up as mine cause I found that damn funny how you put it so well. LOL

Twisted I dig it man.

[dhinojosa]

146. THAT CALLS FOR

:beer:

:)

[Pystoff]

148. Hell yeah

:toast: :beer: ...........BUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!

[Kali]

161. But if you bread it and fry it

preferably in bacon grease....


No offense to the southerners and the okra fans but I have always said if you breaded and fried ANYTHING in bacon grease folks would eat it.

Homer Simpson on party food: Green is trouble, fried get double!

[Initech]

183. I believe those are called "chicken nuggets"

[Rich Hunt]

173. close...

But I'd rather eat dog shit than horse shit.

Not that I've tried either.

[Chovexani]

68. Another vote for natto

Fermented soybeans. I had it once and I'm traumatized. :scared:

Vegemite is pretty damn disgusting too. My SO is Aussie and he loves the stuff, but even he admits that you have to be raised on the stuff in order to tolerate it.

[Nikia]

89. Is that like miso?

My mother made miso soup once and I found it horribly disgusting.

[XemaSab]

97. No, miso is good

Nato is totally different and totally awful.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

115. Was it the prepackaged variety?

Miso soup is one Japanese food that foreigners generally like. You take some fish broth crystals (dashi), boil them up, add about a teaspoon of miso (red or white, as you prefer) per person, and then add one or all of the following: soft tofu, sliced scallions, wakame seaweed. Good stuff.

But the prepackaged stuff is too salty and too chemically.

[Nikia]

166. I am guessing that it was

I don't think that my mother would have put a lot of effort into soup.

[bikebloke]

75. Some Taiwanese dish

I once had flatmates from Taiwan. They had some sort of seaweed, I think. I can't recall the name. Just the smell. Like someone died. Then died again and again and again....

And on principle anything from the Poison Palace (aka McDonald's).

[Deja Q]

77. brains, cold octopus, SWEET BREADS

:puke:

[China_cat]

80. Durian

Any food that is banned from public transportation in Southeast Asia has got to hold that title.

[XemaSab]

82. Durian

The word on the street is that it tastes good, it's just stinky.

[SlavesandBulldozers]

88. 3rd vote for durian

i had a friend, an older vietnamese gentleman, that brought a durian plant in for everybody to try.

he took me to the room where it was, and put a little piece in a cup for me, and took one for himself. he began to eat it and looked at me. . . ya know that look. "hey give it a try".

holy shit. my gag reflex instantly kicked in. he looked at me and giggled to himself. he knew what he was doing.

of course, it's a delicacy from his homeland. a birthday dish even. some say that it's the only fruit that a tiger will eat because the scent resembles rotting flesh.

a sidestory: the man that I worked with, had an amazing life story. He fought with the ARVN at the age of 15, and he told me a lot about the Vietnam war. VC had killed most of his family. He told me about VC strategy vs American psychology (Americans feel comfortable in their bases, and VC would capitalise on this by attacking what the Americans believed was the strongest point of a base. he illustrated this by saying that if the americans had a hardened bunker with one exit, the VC would come in thru the back wall, where they were least expected. He also said that he always felt sorry for the American soldiers, who were so much taller and larger. to the Vietnamese, of course, size was considered a disadvantage - a very telling difference in psychologies. After the fall of Saigon, my friend spent 8 years in a Vietnamese prison until he was released, and made it to Cali as one of the "boat-people". He now has 7 children, who he would proudly update me on frequently, all were on the honor-roll. A great American story, that man. He was in his late 50's, but despite all that he had been thru the man looked 30 years old. A great soul.

Thanks for letting me share. The Vietnamese people are beautiful, durian notwithstanding;)

[crispini]

103. Durian is yummy!

You just have to hold your nose until you get used to it. :P

[swag]

81. Marshmallows and anything they infect.

This includes marshmallow-vanilla_wafer-tuna casserole.

[NFL80]

83. Flan

and gahck

[Crazy Guggenheim]

84. I like flan. Welcome to DU, BTW.

[NFL80]

85. My hubby likes it too...

and it make me want to barf when he eats it and tapioca too.

[sundog]

90. i love flan... used to eat it every day in miami

:D

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

96. My grandmother from Corsica used to make flan - with caramel topping

and in the year I spent in France going to school, I had it frequently. Flan is very popular throughout southern Europe where it originated. The best kind is when it's about a couple of days old and very cold from the refrigerator and the caramel has managed to invade the crevices in the custard texture below.

[sundog]

100. mmmm... i used to get it in a small cuban restaurant with cafe cubano

[alarcojon]

98. Flan Rulezzzz! eom

[AngryAmish]

171. How can anyone dislike flan?

[yellowdogintexas]

86. I saw this on the Food Network, in a show about strange foods

I kid you not, in India there is a delicacy made from unborn goats.

Apparantly the fetal goats are found when pregnant goats are slaughtered and the whole thing, sac and all is part of the dish.

I could not believe this.


Quite disgusting.

Do I win?

my other suggestion was going to be souse (head cheese) or chitterlings.


I agree with the fried okra poster ...that stuff is wonderful.

Grits are good if baked with sharp cheese, red pepper and garlic in a souffle.

Flan is a food of the gods.

[alarcojon]

102. Related to chitlins

there is the Andean delicacy of tripa mishqui, or barbecued pig intestines.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

91. I hate too many to name

Mayonnaise
Pickles
Any condiment, in fact
Spam
Pickled pig's feet
Olives
Salad dressing
Canned seafood

[phusion]

92. Tuna in a can.

Now fresh tuna as sushi...That's a different story.

[jmowreader]

93. T-ration Bread Pudding

T-rats (formally called "tray packs" and part of the Army Field Feeding System, which calls for T-rats for breakfast and dinner and MREs at lunch, one T-rat will feed twelve hungry soldiers) are a great idea. This dish was not.

To appreciate just how bad this "food" item smells, borrow a semi with about 30 tons of cargo in the trailer, go to the top of Old White Bird Hill Road in Idaho (top of hill 4200 feet, bottom of hill 1600 feet, road three miles long), drive to the bottom with one foot on the brakes and the other on the gas the whole way down, get out of the cab when you get to the town of White Bird, and take a nice deep whiff of the tractor's brakes.

Now imagine eating that.

This bread pudding is so foul, an interrogator once told me the Geneva Convention prohibits feeding it to detainees.

It will clear out a mess tent.

It will probably remove varnish from wood but since I can't stand to be within 30 feet of the shit, I can't tell you whether it would work. Looks like it would, though.

We had a field exercise at Fort Drum in which the company commander miscalculated his food requirements (he thought it was six soldiers on a T-rat, not 12) and had a big pile of food left over at the end of the exercise. He piled it all up next to the arms room and told everyone to take what they wanted. No one wanted the bread pudding.

If the Army were suddenly to get the idea that we'd be interoperating with a lot of Scottish units and decided to invent a haggis MRE (complete with a bottle of Scotch in the bag alongside the haggis) so we'd have something to feed them, American soldiers would gladly choose the haggis MRE over T-rat bread pudding.

We surveyed ten soldiers. Seven chose the new Liver and Onions MRE over T-rat bread pudding, two chose fasting and one picked seppuku. Fortunately, we got that guy stopped before he was able to harm himself. (Okay, we had to shoot him. But he didn't harm himself!)

Okay, all kidding aside, this item really sucks. Which is why they need to save it up in case the "Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is Act of 2007" (which drafts all the chickenhawks) comes to fruition over Bush's veto.

[TorchTheWitch]

94. Brussell Sprouts - no contest

I'm convinced they aren't even food at all.

[tibbir]

113. They just keep getting nastier.

[babydollhead]

95. those orange circus peanuts

[Crazy Guggenheim]

99. Welcome to DU.

[sundog]

101. ahhhhhhhh!!!!

:puke:

[Mick Knox]

108. Blood Sausage

Pigs blood baked in pig intestine.

I've smelled it cooking, no way would I eat it. It was horrid.

[tjwmason]

142. There are loads of different types

The traditional English form is black-pudding - it is absolutely totally yummilicious. A proper fried breakfast is no-where without it.

[ChoralScholar]

111. Well, I stopped at a convenience store the other day to pick up

a soda and what I thought was plain pork rinds. In actuality it turned out to be vinegar-flavored pork rinds.

You ever taste something, and then feel your salivary glands cramp up? That's what happened. I fed them to my dogs. They didn't eat them either.

[cmf]

114. Go to this blog - he has them all, and eats them

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

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

121. What are "fumigated olives". Anyone know?

When I was in my early twenties, I went on the road in my rock band and we toured the state of Texas. I remember that the band stayed for 6 weeks on the cow pastured outskirts of Dallas and that the only food available around our cheap motel was a kind of Armenian or Middle Eastern store that had very weird food. They had a big sign outside that advertised things like "Tahini Borgul" and something else called "Fumigated Olives". They had several barrels full of these "fumigated olives" inside and they apparently were a big seller. I never got up the nerve to try them.

[6000eliot]

122. Cilantro!!! Ewwww!!!!

And fish.

[TOhioLiberal]

124. My choice:

Braunsweiger. Looks and smells just like dogfood.

[NaturalHigh]

125. Aspargus.

And for the drink, I nominate apricot nectar.

[The Flaming Red Head]

129. Canned tuna fish

UGH they made me eat it when I was a kid and I'd gag and run to the bathroom, now I puke if I smell it.

[calico1]

131. Okra.

Yeecchh. How do people eat that??

[kick-ass-bob]

140. you fry it.

[StopTheMorans]

133. Tofu

:puke:

[KitchenWitch]

134. Haggis

[bridgit]

135. deep fried sundog's on a stick...

x(

[tjwmason]

143. Anything sold in a fast-food 'restaurant'

99.99% of the time it's over processed, mechanically recovered (let's not go there), over salted, over additivised (I know that that's not a word) crap.

I'm going to take a big stand against those fools who've mentioned black-pudding (or indeed other types of blood-sausage), haggis and liver. These are all among the most wonderful foods around.

[annonymous]

145. Muskrat

I tried it once on a dare and it was nasty.

[WeRQ4U]

155. Nutria is better I've heard

Both are just huge rats.

[Sequoia]

149. Cow Liver.

How many times do I have to tell ya!

[Akoto]

153. Nattou.

I am a great lover of Japanese cuisine, but nattou is possibly the most repulsive food I've ever encountered. I call it the booger bowl. :p

[XemaSab]

169. It's not food

it's "food."

[WeRQ4U]

154. Sauerkraut or Mustard pickles - either will make me hork.

[huskerlaw]

158. I'm going to bash the Hawaiians again...

it's gotta be those horrid azuki beans they put in the shave ice. I have NEVER been so disgusted in my life. Picture slime-covered chili beans in the bottom of a sno-cone.

So wrong. So very wrong.

[mcar]

160. Liver

[goodboy]

162. corned beef. (nt)

[FuzzySlippers]

164. Corned beef??!! OMG!!

Corned beef is heavenly!!

[goodboy]

172. I get violently ill if I even smell it cooking. I cannot be near it, or

anyone eating it or I...


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

[FuzzySlippers]

174. Reuben sammiches. Yum.

New England boiled supper. Yum.:9

[MN ChimpH8R]

178. Mmm..Reuben sammiches

:9

[Kellanved]

167. Andouillette

Pure tripe.

[On the Road]

180. I Ordered Andouilette for My Daughter Once

thinking it was andouille sausage. OMG.

[opihimoimoi]

168. My vote is for LUTEFISK, NATTO, and BALUT.

[XemaSab]

176. Have you had them?

What's balut like?

[opihimoimoi]

177. Balut is a chick still in the shell....my friends tell its horrible and I

believe them.

Same for Lutefisk...fish soaked in LYE, luved by Scandinavians, but only at Xmas time...hmmmmm

Natto, is from Japan, made from formented soybeans, its nasty shit but then, it might be my personal taste buds throwing...up....

These are what I call, Famine Food...stuff to eat in severe famine....

[anarch]

179. head cheese

:puke: x 10,000.

[Divameow77]

182. Meatloaf

I hate meatloaf!

I also will pick celery out of everything, it's so nasty.

[TimeChaser]

186. Gefilte Fish

I was raised Jewish. I could never stand the stuff.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

187. Jellyfish is another food I just can't get into

I was asked to try it when I went to China. They serve it in a kind of salad. You can also get it in southern California at many Chinese restaurants in the Chinese neighborhoods. Having been stung by a jellyfish once and having seen what they look like in nature, it just doesn't work for me.

But I did try snake soup in China made with white pieces of snake. It was quite good.