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What's the worst thing you've ever eaten?

  • 02-03-2015 3:45pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,962 ✭✭✭✭


    So, on a bit of a weight loss kick recently and spotted a product in Holland & Barrett at the weekend called 'slim pasta'. Basically it was a packet of penne pasta made from some asian plant. Fat free, gluten free, carb free, almost calorie free. Great, I thought, pasta without guilt! I'll give it a go.

    Anyway, brought it home and made a bolognese. Opened the packet and the smell of fish almost knocked me. Fish!! Ok, the directions said this was normal and to rinse the stuff before heating it. Done. Poured my bolognese on top and got chowing. Jesus, it was the rankest texture I ever had in my mouth. Ever. Rubbery, tasteless vomit inducing muck. Apparantly this stuff actually sells pretty well in these stores. I'd love to know how anyone could stomach this stuff.

    Anyway, just wondering what the worst thing you've ever eaten is.


    *Durrrty replies expected...


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,832 ✭✭✭✭Blatter


    Rice cakes. An utterly pointless food!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    There's no calories in pasta, surely?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 746 ✭✭✭calfmuscle


    How was the first reply not "your ma"!!!!!


  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Olives.

    I've tried. I've really, really tried.

    Puke.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,813 ✭✭✭clintondaly


    I wont dare mention her name


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    Bird's Eye veggie burgers that were 2 years out of date, which I found out on the box after I ate one :(


  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    calfmuscle wrote: »
    How was the first reply not "your ma"!!!!!

    Probably because it's banned.

    *shrug*


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,962 ✭✭✭✭dark crystal


    catallus wrote: »
    There's no calories in pasta, surely?

    Oh how I wish that were true... :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,479 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Coke and washing up liquid.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 746 ✭✭✭calfmuscle


    Probably because it's banned.

    *shrug*

    I'm so out of touch :( when did this happen??


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,813 ✭✭✭clintondaly


    Olives.

    I've tried. I've really, really tried.

    Puke.

    I wonder was it the same Olive because i agree with you,hope she doesn't read this :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,420 ✭✭✭Lollipops23


    My office had a spread on for Chinese New Year (not an Asian company, but huge Asian population in Toronto). Most of it was grand, but made the mistake of biting into some type of pastry without finding out what was in it.


    I can't even describe how vile whatever was in it. I actually had to spit it out into a napkin and try to wash my mouth out (at my desk, where thankfully nobody saw). Couldn't get the taste out of my mouth for hours.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,439 ✭✭✭Dave_The_Sheep


    This ****. Surströmming. The smell is unreal.


  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    calfmuscle wrote: »
    I'm so out of touch :( when did this happen??

    Few years ago :pac:

    (as democratically voted for by the people of After Hours I might add)

    /off topic

    Sorry OP!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,089 ✭✭✭✭LizT


    I ate a scorpion in Thailand. It was not enjoyable.


  • Registered Users Posts: 47 dante2015


    my parents used to make me eat liver

    i hated the stuff and still do, it tastes like Iron and has to be the worse, well that and Tripe


  • Registered Users Posts: 503 ✭✭✭Kat97


    Cloves.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,736 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    So, on a bit of a weight loss kick recently and spotted a product in Holland & Barrett at the weekend called 'slim pasta'. Basically it was a packet of penne pasta made from some asian plant. Fat free, gluten free, carb free, almost calorie free. Great, I thought, pasta without guilt! I'll give it a go.

    Anyway, brought it home and made a bolognese. Opened the packet and the smell of fish almost knocked me. Fish!! Ok, the directions said this was normal and to rinse the stuff before heating it. Done. Poured my bolognese on top and got chowing. Jesus, it was the rankest texture I ever had in my mouth. Ever. Rubbery, tasteless vomit inducing muck. Apparantly this stuff actually sells pretty well in these stores. I'd love to know how anyone could stomach this stuff.

    Anyway, just wondering what the worst thing you've ever eaten is.


    *Durrrty replies expected...
    I think you encountered Konnyak/Konjak. It's actually lovely when prepared properly, but it does have a weird texture and in it's more natural form it looks like a chunk of granite. There's no way in hell I'd put Bolognese on it though, you want it in a brothy, soupy kind of thing.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 728 ✭✭✭9bred4


    calfmuscle wrote: »
    I'm so out of touch :( when did this happen??

    There's always those little yellow cards beside the comments nowadays.

    Not eaten but still, Dr Pepper is god awful.

    If I had to say something I've eaten I'd go with red cabbage


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,575 ✭✭✭ZiabR


    Kat97 wrote: »
    Cloves.

    Why would you eat cloves??? madness.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    Raw jellyfish.....fckin disgusting.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭iDave


    the 'Spice Box' I got in Charlies on Saturday night.


  • Registered Users Posts: 138 ✭✭Roosterreid


    Olives.... salty / slimy / sneaky feckers!

    My hatred for them comes from when we were young and in Spain on holiday. The breakfast buffet has what I thought were dark red grapes; these turned out to be black olives... b45t4rd5!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Chocolate or Coke, can physically feel the teeth rotting in your head, ewwww!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 221 ✭✭ShiftStorm




  • Registered Users Posts: 503 ✭✭✭Kat97


    logik wrote: »
    Why would you eat cloves??? madness.

    Had them in an apple tart once with cinnamon :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,870 ✭✭✭✭Generic Dreadhead


    Here's 1/50th of the list:

    Scallops
    Mushrooms
    Expectorant (I know thats not really eating but blugghh)
    Cloves
    Cinnamon
    Liver

    I'm a picky eater


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 118 ✭✭HoratiJoe


    A thrush Fanny. Puke


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,962 ✭✭✭✭dark crystal


    kylith wrote: »
    I think you encountered Konnyak/Konjak. It's actually lovely when prepared properly, but it does have a weird texture and in it's more natural form it looks like a chunk of granite. There's no way in hell I'd put Bolognese on it though, you want it in a brothy, soupy kind of thing.

    Yes, it was Konjak. It was a range of products made from this plant and they had penne pasta, rice and noodle versions. They actually reccommended you eat this with stir fry meat etc, so I thought the bolognese would be ok. I was wrong. So wrong.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 237 ✭✭Nucular Arms


    KFC probably.

    I took one bit out of a piece of their chicken about ten years ago and a river of molten oil cascaded down my chin, actually hot enough to burn me.

    I've never set foot in one again.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,000 ✭✭✭Stone Deaf 4evr


    A tequila flavoured lollipop with a worm in it. mank.


  • Registered Users Posts: 274 ✭✭neil_


    I got a roll of some sort from a Subway in Moscow once. People behind the counter didn't speak English so I just had to point at random things for fillings. Ended up with some sort of greyish meat-like blob that tasted like mouldy cardboard and instantly desiccated my entire mouth. I couldn't even chew it, I just sat there for a minute holding it in my mouth while the colour slowly drained from my face.

    I am normally a voracious eater and was reluctant to let this roll defeat me so I carried it around for a while and tried to eat more but it didn't get any better. I considered looking for a beggar or homeless person to donate it to, but ultimately decided the life of a homeless person in Moscow is probably bad enough already without having to put that ****e in their mouth and just threw it in the bin.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,155 ✭✭✭StereoSound


    Pigs brain.....

    I was in the phillipines a few years ago for abit of a holiday and the lady friend I had with me brought me out for some traditional street food. Its basically blended up pigs brains so it turns to a liquid and they add spices to it so it becomes a sause. You dip rice into it and eat it. It had an awful pasty taste to it. Its absolutely awful and I had a sick stomach after it. Jaysus :(

    Also they eat pigs intestines there too, they deep fry it after they chop it up. Imagine what a chopped up intestine looks like.... It looks exactly as you can imagine. I had a sick stomach after that aswell. They eat anything and everything in the Phillipines...

    Chickens foot... Battered chickens feet with the claws still attached. They put 5 or 6 of them into a little paper bag for you so you can munch on them as you have street dogs with rabies trying to hack the ankles of you.

    Phillippines... Not sure I'll be going back again.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,541 ✭✭✭Smidge


    kylith wrote: »
    I think you encountered Konnyak/Konjak. It's actually lovely when prepared properly, but it does have a weird texture and in it's more natural form it looks like a chunk of granite. There's no way in hell I'd put Bolognese on it though, you want it in a brothy, soupy kind of thing.

    How is it prepared properly? Would you use it in say a miso/veg/chicken broth dish like to replace noodles?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,280 ✭✭✭paperclip2




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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,877 ✭✭✭heyday30


    eel puke Central. ..
    i also detest sardines, all shellfish actually most fish.
    lamb
    marzipan


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,736 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    Yes, it was Konjak. It was a range of products made from this plant and they had penne pasta, rice and noodle versions. They actually reccommended you eat this with stir fry meat etc, so I thought the bolognese would be ok. I was wrong. So wrong.

    Stir fry would be fine, I've used the block form of it before for that. You have to rinse it really well and boil it for a minute before adding it to whatever you're having. I generally rinse the Konjak noodles really well, then pre-boil them for a minute before adding to a beef hot pot with a soy, mirin, and sake sauce.

    It's actually a great diet food, being full of fibre but not of those pesky things like calories, nutrients, or taste.





    The worst thing I've eaten were Japanese sweets. What bright spark decided to make curry flavour mini eggs I have no idea.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    cucumber, pure nasty and nothing I've ever eaten comes close to how vile they are :mad:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭donegaLroad


    Tapioca ... you might as well be eating frog-spawn.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,556 ✭✭✭the_monkey


    accidentaly drank some coffee that had salt instead of sugar ... disguuuusting..


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    Pickled Herrings :(


  • Registered Users Posts: 212 ✭✭chanelfreak


    This didnt happen to me (happened to my husband) but it was rank. We lived in an apartment with a balcony years ago and as himself was a smoker then, he was banished to the balcony whenever he wanted a cigarette. He's a lazy bugger, so when his minging ashtray was full he used to use a tin of coke/diet coke/fanta with a bit of water inside as his substitute ashtray (you can probably see where I'm going with this). Anyway, one night drink was taken and himself was out on the balcony smoking away to his heart's content with a can of coke. He left the can down, I shouted out to him to come in to feck and he picked up the can for a last swig to wash down the smoke........yep, he drank from his ashtray can. He vomited for about 12 hours and I almost had to be hospitalised from hysterical laughter at him. He doesn't smoke anymore though ;)


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,797 ✭✭✭Sir Osis of Liver.


    Haggis,liver,squid and Cheesy Wotsits.


  • Site Banned Posts: 2,922 ✭✭✭Egginacup


    I eat almost everything but the Dutch love raw herring sprinkled with chopped onions. I tried it and just couldn't appreciate it. Rubbery, fishy sh1t. Also they drink karnemilk (buttermilk). It's vile.
    Had some dodgy stuff in Germany too......pickled pork meatballs in vinegar. Crap.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭donegaLroad


    This didnt happen to me (happened to my husband) but it was rank. We lived in an apartment with a balcony years ago and as himself was a smoker then, he was banished to the balcony whenever he wanted a cigarette. He's a lazy bugger, so when his minging ashtray was full he used to use a tin of coke/diet coke/fanta with a bit of water inside as his substitute ashtray (you can probably see where I'm going with this). Anyway, one night drink was taken and himself was out on the balcony smoking away to his heart's content with a can of coke. He left the can down, I shouted out to him to come in to feck and he picked up the can for a last swig to wash down the smoke........yep, he drank from his ashtray can. He vomited for about 12 hours and I almost had to be hospitalised from hysterical laughter at him. He doesn't smoke anymore though ;)

    This happened to me with a bottle of beer at a party years ago...the memory of two soggy cigarette butts almost going down my throat is still with me 20 years later.


  • Registered Users Posts: 212 ✭✭chanelfreak


    Oh I have another one! Love sushi and was flat out munching on those edamame bean yokes when I noticed something white and kinda rubbery - yep, it was half a maggot. Delightful.








    I still eat edamame beans though. Just examine them first instead of mindlessly shovelling them into my gob.


  • Site Banned Posts: 2,922 ✭✭✭Egginacup


    This didnt happen to me (happened to my husband) but it was rank. We lived in an apartment with a balcony years ago and as himself was a smoker then, he was banished to the balcony whenever he wanted a cigarette. He's a lazy bugger, so when his minging ashtray was full he used to use a tin of coke/diet coke/fanta with a bit of water inside as his substitute ashtray (you can probably see where I'm going with this). Anyway, one night drink was taken and himself was out on the balcony smoking away to his heart's content with a can of coke. He left the can down, I shouted out to him to come in to feck and he picked up the can for a last swig to wash down the smoke........yep, he drank from his ashtray can. He vomited for about 12 hours and I almost had to be hospitalised from hysterical laughter at him. He doesn't smoke anymore though ;)

    I did that at a party. The can I thought was my can of cold lager was half full of warm, flat, rancid beer with a few cig butts in it. I puked right there on the spot. Couldn't even make it to the door or toilet or sink, just retched right onto the table. Awful.


  • Site Banned Posts: 2,922 ✭✭✭Egginacup


    This happened to me with a bottle of beer at a party years ago...the memory of two soggy cigarette butts almost going down my throat is still with me 20 years later.

    You're not alone.


  • Registered Users Posts: 101 ✭✭stalebread


    A fungusie pussy on the blob!! Several tablets were required to fix me


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,328 ✭✭✭Magico Gonzalez


    Not a big fan of chinchulines, basically a cow's lower intestine done on the BBQ. The casing is kind of crispy hiding a very strong tasting squishy paste of what would eventually have become cow shyte. Whatever had made it's way through the stomach at the time of death basically.

    Liver and kidney are also pretty grim.


    Tastes horrendous.


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