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

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


    Egginacup wrote: »
    You're not alone.

    Let us speak no more of this. Been there.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,832 ✭✭✭heldel00


    stalebread wrote: »
    A fungusie pussy on the blob!! Several tablets were required to fix me

    ^^^ you are vile!

    Hershey's chocolate


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,867 ✭✭✭Tonyandthewhale


    Tarator, it's the Bulgarian national dish, a cold soup composed of cucumber, water and yoghurt. Not as gut wrenching as some of the stuff mentioned so far but rather a mind-numbingly dull and featureless taste. Like slurping on purgatory.


  • Registered Users Posts: 101 ✭✭stalebread


    heldel00 wrote: »
    ^^^ you are vile!

    Hershey's chocolate

    Thanks


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,199 ✭✭✭hollster2


    HoratiJoe wrote: »
    A thrush Fanny. Puke

    Think I just got sick in my mouth vile :-S


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,591 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    Egginacup wrote: »
    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.

    Lived in Holland too and their food is awful.

    Found herring to be not the worst.

    But the other stuff like frikandel, and kass souffle. Basically any of that rubbish they eat out of hole in the wall at Febo.

    Also, they don't get lunch or breakfast as they just have a slice of bread with cheese, every single day except for Sunday when they will have a heated roll with cheese.
    Then there is the deep fried bitterballen, deep fried oliballen (Oil balls) at New Year.
    Can't get a good burger there like here either, meat is definitely inferior there.
    Drove me bloody mad.

    Rant over.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    At the time the first Harry Potter film came out there were boxes of jellybeans that had a couple of weird flavours in them. Munching my way through a box in class and I ate a horseradish one without realising. Puked there and then in the classroom :pac:

    Cucumbers and lemongrass are also rather yuck.


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


    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...

    You want "slim pasta" then get yourself one of these things:

    https://www.google.ie/search?q=spiralizer&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=YJn0VJLiA4-XaszIgugK&ved=0CDQQsAQ&biw=1779&bih=1050

    You can basically create noodles/linguini out of a raw courgette and then boil it or wok cook it and you would be hard pressed to tell the difference. The texture is the same and with your sauce on top whether you use a Italian tomato-y one or a Chinese one, it's very good. Or just lace it with peppers and onions and garlic and pesto and you're away in a hack.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,476 ✭✭✭sarkozy


    Well, apart from pig's brain, I ate tripe or sheep's small intestine with the grass still in it. Not as nice as it sounds, certainly not as nice as the cow's tongue that was served afterwards.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,854 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    I had a raw beef dish once......why even go there?

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • Registered Users Posts: 8,004 ✭✭✭Ann22


    I once tasted a ball of baby sh*te that I gleefully thought was a malteser...It fell out of my brother's nappy.....I hastily spat it out mind you.

    ....oh and many years ago my old family dog blew a snot into my mouth during a cuddle session.

    As regards proper food- smoked salmon..shudder!!!


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,434 ✭✭✭Robsweezie


    dark chocolate is vile, we had them in work and they were just left there after we tried them, I spat mine in the bin and others just barely ate theirs before swiftly declaring never again.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,591 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    Robsweezie wrote: »
    dark chocolate is vile, we had them in work and they were just left there after we tried them, I spat mine in the bin and others just barely ate theirs before swiftly declaring never again.

    Mmm..no way.... an acquired taste but dark chocolate is the best chocolate you can get!


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


    murpho999 wrote: »
    Lived in Holland too and their food is awful.

    Found herring to be not the worst.

    But the other stuff like frikandel, and kass souffle. Basically any of that rubbish they eat out of hole in the wall at Febo.

    Also, they don't get lunch or breakfast as they just have a slice of bread with cheese, every single day except for Sunday when they will have a heated roll with cheese.
    Then there is the deep fried bitterballen, deep fried oliballen (Oil balls) at New Year.
    Can't get a good burger there like here either, meat is definitely inferior there.
    Drove me bloody mad.

    Rant over.

    A lot of the stuff you mention is indeed muck. frikandel is dire but febo isn't actually the worst. Their little chicken burgers are ok. But I also could never get to grips with that raw orangy meat paste squeezed from a tube (like a sausage skin) onto bread and also sprinkled with onions and pepper.
    Also those poxy skewers that you see in the snackbars that are half meatballs and half onions....or those mexicano things that are just a piece of processed horsemeat but stamped into the shape of spare ribs. What a joke.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,977 ✭✭✭PandaPoo


    Anchovies. Got them on a pizza once, worst mistake I've ever made.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,453 ✭✭✭Shenshen


    Coffee.

    And ghinseng chewing gum - Chinese people must have very odd taste.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    The tiny, barbecued, heart of a chicken wasn't great.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 449 ✭✭CJ Haughey


    Quorn


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,446 ✭✭✭Cody montana


    Dogfood, I was very very drunk.


  • Registered Users Posts: 455 ✭✭Leogirl


    The tiny, barbecued, heart of a chicken wasn't great.

    Tried this too- mank! Brazilians love it


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  • Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I don't even know what it was exactly, but it was some kind of lard and cabbage pickled stuff, with pieces of gristle masquerading as some kind of mystery meat, in Russia. It smelled like vomit.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭fleet_admiral


    I was eating an Indian a while ago and forgot to take out the star anise from the rice. My God I nearly puked, I cant stand anything aniseed.

    Im getting shivers just thinking about it


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,767 ✭✭✭La_Gordy


    Caviar flavour crisps. I like both of these things but together - actual boak.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    Ann22 wrote: »
    I once tasted a ball of baby sh*te that I gleefully thought was a malteser...It fell out of my brother's nappy.....I hastily spat it out mind you.

    ....oh and many years ago my old family dog blew a snot into my mouth during a cuddle session.

    We have a winner! :(

    *throws freshly made sandwich in the bin*


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,797 ✭✭✭Kevin McCloud


    Deer testicle.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,809 ✭✭✭Frigga_92


    Chitterlings in France. I actually thought my sister was going to murder the waiter (who was an absolute príck) when she took the first bite. Then again, she was braver than I was, I couldn't get past the smell to even taste it. It's the only time I've ever refused to pay for food (which we obviously didn't even eat).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,749 ✭✭✭Smiles35


    On a school bus trying to convince another lad snots could be tasty so I ate the one he was looking at on his finger.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭fleet_admiral


    the_monkey wrote: »
    accidentaly drank some coffee that had salt instead of sugar ... disguuuusting..
    Years ago I used to do functions in a cricket club on the northside. One day there was me and another chef up to our eyes as we had a huge function to cook for. Both of us at the time were very heavy drinkers and used to have a few pints in the kitchen while we worked. The other lad drank bulmers and would always leave it on the shelf over his head. We had the kp cleaning out the fryer and replacing it with fresh oil. as he was filling it with oil he took a pint glass full out of the bucket for us to use for frying but he left it on the shelf
    The other lad took a massive gulp out of it thinking it was bulmers and began puking for what seemed like hours. I never felt so sorry for someone but I was laughing at the same time. We stopped working while being locked soon after that


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,523 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    american cheese


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,893 ✭✭✭Canis Lupus


    Chitterlings in France. I actually thought my sister was going to murder the waiter (who was an absolute príck) when she took the first bite. Then again, she was braver than I was, I couldn't get past the smell to even taste it. It's the only time I've ever refused to pay for food (which we obviously didn't even eat).

    You didn't pay because there was something wrong with it or you just ordered it without knowing what it was?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,861 ✭✭✭Mysterypunter


    Pork scratchings.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,052 ✭✭✭Un Croissant


    You didn't pay because there was something wrong with it or you just ordered it without knowing what it was?

    That's what I was thinking. They still had to cook it and if there was nothing wrong with it, well then, tough titties.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    Leogirl wrote: »
    Tried this too- mank! Brazilians love it

    That's where I had it, BrazilIan restaurant!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,389 ✭✭✭NachoBusiness


    Porridge. Vile stuff. Just the thought of eating it makes me gag. Tis fcuking child abuse making kids eat that crap.


  • Registered Users Posts: 34 ShivaDark


    18 years worth of my mother's 'cooking'. Basically microwave meals, deep fat fried chips and mystery meat nuggets, midnight meals swimming in grease, rotten vegetables and not so fresh chicken soup, cuppa soup, instant noodles and pot noodles.

    I started cooking for myself when I was 14 as a way to avoid those meals, so I could actually eat fresh vegetables/meat and not some powdered equivalent or something that hadn't been in the boot of hot car for two days.

    My mother is a firm believer that food should not be seasoned, that it's the responsibility of the eater to add salt or pepper to food, so it's not a surprise that she cooking was bland. She is also a firm believer that vanilla scones shouldn't have vanilla in them. The only thing she was able to cook was reheating my Grandmother's soup on a Sunday and she still acted like she was doing us a huge favor heating it in the first place.

    It may seem unfair as it sounds like she was trying her best to feed us with what little she had but she'd rather spend most of our father's income on alcohol (expensive cognac), needless to say that I survived my childhood on crisps from various pubs and takeouts from chip-shops nearby said pubs.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 653 ✭✭✭Aphex


    Salmon. Tuna on the other hand, I could live on the stuff!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 803 ✭✭✭Rough Sleeper


    Either that purple worm medicine that served as a popular form of child abuse back in the day, or a big chalky banger that got stuck on my tongue after I tried to neck it without a glass of water.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,431 ✭✭✭rottie 11


    Beetroot


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,668 Mod ✭✭✭✭iamstop


    Was in Vietnam, had crickets.

    Another time had sneak heart washed down with rice wine. The thing was still beating.

    Snake blood, washed down with rice wine.

    Snake bile (its actually green!) washed down with...yup, rice wine.

    Crazy night. My bag broke that night too. I was almost locked out of the guesthouse that night/morning. Not to mention locked outta me tree.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,713 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    shiokara.
    Shiokara (塩辛?) is a food in Japanese cuisine made from various marine animals that consists of small pieces of meat in a brown viscous paste of the animal's heavily salted, fermented viscera.

    Truly revolting.


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


    I ate maggots in Namibia, they weren't too bad when they were dry, kinda crispy but a bitter flavour - but to impress my guide I could stomach them.

    Untill the last night when he "treated" us to the marinated softer variety - absolutely VILE.... and they say insect meat is the future of human diets since the current set up is completely unsustainable - no thanks !!

    fyi - http://m.bbc.com/news/magazine-31589764


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19,777 ✭✭✭✭The Corinthian


    Jellyfish soup.

    Say what you will, but while both the Chinese and the French will eat pretty much everything that moves, at least the latter will have the decency to serve it in a good sauce.


  • Registered Users Posts: 912 ✭✭✭chakotha


    A raw live whelk to an audience of delighted Jersey fishermen.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,476 ✭✭✭sarkozy


    So, judging from this thread, we have a lot of freaky eaters in this country. Since when does porridge classify the 'worst' thing anyone could have eaten? And that's fairly representative. Since when are anchovies crazy food? Coffee? Dark chocolate?

    I reckon it's driven by fear and a lack of willingness to explore life before you die. People really are peculiar around food.

    That's why I would probably try more than most. I wouldn't even say I've tried the craziest stuff. But if I think of everything 'crazy' I've eaten by this thread's standards, I'd have to start with porridge, followed by:
    • Pig's brain (as I said)
    • Unwashed sheep's intestine (as I said)
    • Chicken feet
    • Chicken gizzard (in a salad in Bordeaux)
    • Chicken hearts
    • Chicken livers (in various things from fried on their own to terrine and paté)
    • Sheep's spleen (in a posh London restaurant, St. John's)
    • Tete de veau (boned, rolled baby cow head)
    • Steak tartare (raw, minced, seasoned beef)
    • Sheep's kidneys (most recently in beautiful St. Émilion red wine sauce in Bordeaux)
    • Sweetbreads from sheep (these are thymus glands from the neck and heart)
    • Cow's tongue
    • Cow's cheek
    • Pickled herring
    • Kimchi (fermented vegetables)
    • Zebra
    • Ostrich
    • Kudu
    • Oryx
    • Fish eyes & cheeks
    • A tube of smoked fish roe
    • Sheep's hearts

    Ah, I dunno, I ate way more stuff, but I can't remember now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    sarkozy wrote: »
    So, judging from this thread, we have a lot of freaky eaters in this country. Since when does porridge classify the 'worst' thing anyone could have eaten? And that's fairly representative. Since when are anchovies crazy food? Coffee? Dark chocolate?

    I reckon it's driven by fear and a lack of willingness to explore life before you die. People really are peculiar around food.

    That's why I would probably try more than most. I wouldn't even say I've tried the craziest stuff. But if I think of everything 'crazy' I've eaten by this thread's standards, I'd have to start with porridge, followed by:
    • Pig's brain (as I said)
    • Unwashed sheep's intestine (as I said)
    • Chicken feet
    • Chicken gizzard (in a salad in Bordeaux)
    • Chicken hearts
    • Chicken livers (in various things from fried on their own to terrine and paté)
    • Sheep's spleen (in a posh London restaurant, St. John's)
    • Tete de veau (boned, rolled baby cow head)
    • Steak tartare (raw, minced, seasoned beef)
    • Sheep's kidneys (most recently in beautiful St. Émilion red wine sauce in Bordeaux)
    • Sweetbreads from sheep (these are thymus glands from the neck and heart)
    • Cow's tongue
    • Cow's cheek
    • Pickled herring
    • Kimchi (fermented vegetables)
    • Zebra
    • Ostrich
    • Kudu
    • Oryx
    • Fish eyes & cheeks
    • A tube of smoked fish roe
    • Sheep's hearts

    Ah, I dunno, I ate way more stuff, but I can't remember now.

    Wow you're so wacky. The OP didn't ask about the 'craziest' food you've eaten though. The question was about the worst.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    sarkozy wrote: »
    [*]Chicken feet
    [*]Chicken gizzard (in a salad in Bordeaux)
    [*]Chicken hearts
    [*]Chicken livers (in various things from fried on their own to terrine and paté)

    Sure that's just a McNugget.


  • Registered Users Posts: 955 ✭✭✭Tim76


    Haddock eggs. Kind of like southern Spain's version of caviar. I had breath that smelt like a fishmonger's apron for days.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,893 ✭✭✭Canis Lupus


    Pork scratchings.

    You're so wrong.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,821 ✭✭✭fussyonion


    Sometimes stewing beef pieces have arteries or some kind of veins attached to them...seeing one, let alone chewing on one, turns my stomach.

    Boiled chicken pieces; I ordered a chicken chow mein one time in a Chinese restaurant and to my horror, the chicken pieces were all spongey and chewy.
    Turned out they'd been boiled.

    The white of a boiled egg-tastes like rubber.

    Mayonnaise.


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


    Speaking of rotten things. One of the worst things I have ever seen is... Balut.

    Actually, it is the worst thing I have ever seen...

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balut_(food)

    Google image it, christ...

    Just got sick in my mouth again.


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