What is the weirdest, disgusting, etc food you ever ate?
 

I will go first. :)

The most disgusting I would say is a mealworm. I ate it on a dare BUT surprisingly; it does not taste "disgusting." It tasted like I was chewing on wet cardboard. Don't ask me how I know what wet cardboard tastes like. lol I have no idea. lol But it was the impression that I got.

Some other weird things I've eaten is microwaved mayonnaise sandwich. lol But that was when I was desperate to eat and there was absolutely nothing to eat.

Also, I sometimes like to eat hard-boiled eggs and ketchup all mashed up together. But I rarely eat that "food" anymore lol.

We actually had a thread on this before. You can go HERE and we talked about the weirdest/most exotic food we've eaten.

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Ewwww gross.

I'd have to say raw oysters. One time I was eating out with my friend, who eats raw oysters, but then again, he eats anything. It looked really good when he was eating them, because he just kept letting each one slide from the shell into his mouth, so I decided to give it a try. It was really slimy. It was so gross. I gagged and almost puked. Then he goes, put some hot sauce on it. I tried that, then I tried to chew it but, I just couldn't, it was that gross.

And anything with mayonnaise on it is dusgusting, to me.

Eel.

I love sushi, so I decided to try eel sushi one time. It wasn't gross, but it felt like the eel was just happily swimming around my mouth the whole time. It was a weird feeling, but I'd eat it again. :)

Crunchy Salmon Sushi. Never again

Sushi is amazing. All of it. Every piece you all don't eat leaves more for me :D

I went through a very interesting food phase when I was 7 and my weirdest combo to date was Fruit and Cream oatmeal with chocolate milk and sardines. Go ahead. Be disgusted.

It was actually pretty good.

I've eaten some things that other people would think are weird but I like. I've eaten reindeer before, and it's gooood! It's like very tender beef.

I've also had lutefisk on numerous occasions. It's a Norwegian thing - cod that is preserved in lye then reconstituted by being boiled. It's milky white colored and has a consistency close to scrambled eggs. Oh, and it's DELICIOUS!

I hate beets.

I won't eat raw oysters but smoked oysters are heaven.

Then I have probably provided you with a lifetime supply. I can't stand it. Ditto caviar. Blech.

Meanwhile, as I have mentioned before I do love me some haggis.

Fixed that for you

I agree on raw oysters, smoked oysters and caviar.

However, I just had to Google what haggis was and OMG.. no flippin way. NO!!!!!!

Squid, in the form of calamari is probably the most adventurous I've been. My list of foods I find disgusting is very, very long though, including beets, lima beans, liver, eggplant, and *almost* every other vegetable known to man.

Eel maybe? Is escargot weird? How 'bout pho full of mystery meat?

I think some of the weirdest, most bizarre foods I've come in contact with were named perfectly normal things at Chinese buffets, e.g., "chicken" which I can see through when I hold it up to the light. Also, dim sum at a certain restaurant in the Asian District in OKC can be an adventure.

Considering the fact that most of us omnivores are big fans of highly processed meats such as hot dogs, at least intellectually, I have a tough time judging any other culture for its bizarre cuts of meat. In the Philippines, I understand chicken anus is popular... but I can't judge--I've had McDonald's chicken mcnuggets.

And fixed it back :)

If it is, I don't want to be normal.

Just threw up a little bit...

Sigh... when I was pregnant the first time... I had a craving for limestone or shale.

Yes - rocks.

Blame it on a mineral deficiency, or pica, or whatever. I was a geologist at the time, and anytime I was out in the field with a drill crew, and if the drill augers brought up perfectly clean limestone or shale fragments, into my mouth they went. I would just suck on them though, I knew better than to swallow.

Got to get it right. ;)

The Great Chieftan o' the Puddin' Race, as Robert Burns put it.

It sounds worse than it tastes. It tastes kind of like spicy liver -- and I love liver.

I can get why reading what's in it can be . . . off-putting . . . to some. But Kevin is right, it's just cultural conditioning. Every culture eats some things that other cultures would find gross. American food producers are just better at hiding the less appealing animal parts in processed meats, sausages, hot dogs . . . .

I have been to a Scottish pub in STL and they serve haggis that is minus most of the offal. I don't really know how that works, but I intend to order it if I grace their door again.

You're dead to me.
You're awesome.
You're also dead to me.

But I gave you all my sushi. :(

You might be on lifesupport.

Unless I am fighting you for it. Love me all types of sushi.

I once ate cow heart while in Peru. Wasn't too bad, but can't say that I have run out to eat it again.

Beyond those things, though, I have a very boring and limited palate.

The only really weird food I have ever eaten was escargot and that will never happen again. It didn't taste that bad, but the texture was disturbing.

I had a hard time eating escargot. The texture is disgusting, I don't care how much butter you drown it in...

The other night s/o had a sour cream sandwich. There was nothing else on it, but sour cream slathered on both pieces of bread. I had to leave the room; I couldn't watch him eat it.

I had either squid or something like a mini octopus at my super Italian ex-bf's house. They took it out of the pot, and it was a whole octopus, right on my plate. It looked like this (sorry for the huge pic, that's why I'm not posting it here): http://epicureaddict.files.wordpress...ctopus-002.jpg

Aside being weirded out by having a whole octopus on my plate, it actually wasn't terrible. I didn't care for the texture--it was a bit chewy--but it didn't taste bad at all.

Agreed. The only "typical" maki ingredient that I don't like is avocado. Otherwise, give me any and all sushi (even eel and squid) and I'm a happy camper.

Disgusting food?

- Corned beef and cabbage. My mother made this every year for St. Patrick's Day, and every year I had to choke it down. She might as well have used Saran Wrap instead of cabbage.
- Certain veggies: brussels sprouts, all legumes.
- Milk. I never could stand it, even as a child. My parents forced me to drink it anyway, for the calcium. I was not allowed to substitute chocolate milk, because the chocolate prevents calcium from being absorbed by the body. So I drank a lot of strawberry milk. Now, I will drink milk only if it's mixed with healthy slugs of Kahlua and vodka.
- Overdone beef and lamb (anything past medium-rare is overdone).
- Rice cakes. The smell makes me nauseous. Oddly enough, I love rice itself.

None of my disgusting foods is particularly weird. They're just... disgusting.

Most of the stuff y'all have mentioned is pretty tame, and I've eaten it (except chicken anus, to my knowledge at least).

Some things here that are crazy or exotic i eat on the regular, like squid and eel, yummy!

I'd have to say marine mammals are a bit hard to eat at times. Seal, walrus, and whale leave a real coating in the mouth from the fat.

Had gator once. It wasn't bad.

One day I hope to have enough money to go into a really good sushi place and order omakase and just be amazed.

I like it cajun style, blackened.

I've eaten at Maggiano's once. I will never go back and I love Italian food. I ordered something that I can only describe as "Cheesy Maggots". This was the worst "pasta" I've ever eaten in my life!

To this day this is still grosses me out.

I am Italian decent and in my household we ate a lot of salami, beef of course. Also, I do not like any kind of fish, fresh or sea water. I am weird.
Back in my days living in San Jose, CA, I went to an alumnae Alpha Xi pool party where salami was served, so I thought. I took a piece and it was the fishiest tasting salami I ever had. Come to find out, one of ladies brought back this gift from Australia, and it was Kangaroo. I can’t remember if I’ve fainted or died. I had a hard time keeping my composure.

It's delicious fried.

Someone gave me gator jerky but it tasted eerily similar to beef jerky so I'm not sure what to make of it...

Hmmm, I'll have to try that. I can't remember if I had smoked oysters or clams. I think it was clams.

I think I tend to gross people out sometimes, because I love my french fries with mustard. I mean, I literally drown my french fries with mustard. It's funny because whenever I go out to eat with someone I've never been out with, they look at me like I'm nuts as they keep watching me pour on more and more mustard on my french fries. Yummy.:p

A couple of months ago I tried marrow for the first time. It was at a French restaurant, of course (seems to be where all of my most "exotic" eating experiences are). Anyway, it was nasty. The waiter advised me to eat it with some of the bread on the table, or with some of my beef. I couldn't taste it apart from the meat, but the texture was awful! Jelly-like. I tried a couple small bites but then decided I had given it my all, so we boxed it up and took it home to see if the cats would eat it. Nope.

the one and only time my parents made me eat beets, i threw them up right at the table. they learned their lesson.

since no one else made a comment on the bolded, does that mean i'm the only one with a dirty mind? cuz i about died when i read that. :o

LMAO at this whole post!!

I can't believe I missed that...

I saw it but I sooooo wasn't going to touch it with a 10-foot pole ... as for the wierdest, most disgusting food I ever ate ...
PEACHES! Swear to God! I hate the taste, the texture, the smell, the color! Actually I hate most fruit in general but peaches just plain gross me out! :eek:

Peaches by themselves or in general?

I am not a huge fan of just peaches, but I will trade my left arm for a piece of my grandma's peach cobbler (pretty much the only "sweet" food I can stand).

In general, and not just the fruit. I was told I had to wear a peach dress in the May Procession when I was in eighth grade and I flat out refused in front of my teacher, my classmates and my mom. My mom knew how much I truly hated anything peach and I ended up wearing a white dress with a pink sash, since I was first attendant.

^^^ Oh wow lol

Unless you've actually cooked/prepared an acorn for consumption, don't eat one. Ever.

And be glad I warned you.

Because, ya know.. I'm sure everyone here has been dying to try one...