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

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    #92
    the_monkey
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    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


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    #93
    The Corinthian
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    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.


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    #94
    chakotha
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    A raw live whelk to an audience of delighted Jersey fishermen.


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    #95
    sarkozy
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    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.


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    #96
    Maximus Alexander
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    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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    #97
    whiskeyman
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    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.


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    #98
    Tim76
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    Haddock eggs. Kind of like southern Spain's version of caviar. I had breath that smelt like a fishmonger's apron for days.


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    #99
    Canis Lupus
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    Mysterypunter wrote: »
    Pork scratchings.

    You're so wrong.


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    #100
    fussyonion
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    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.


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    #101
    ZiabR
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    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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    #102
    whiskeyman
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    logik wrote: »
    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.

    /thread!!

    Jaysus! Do not click if you're just after brekkie!


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    #103
    Right Turn Clyde
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    There's all sorts of disgusting crap out there, but at least you know what you'e getting when you buy it. I mean you're unlikely to eat pigs brain by accident. With that in mind the worst has to be something like chicken nuggets, because we all think we know what we're eating. In reality it's probably chicken ankles and beak powder. It makes me sick looking at children in places like KFC and Supermacs gobbling up that rubbish as a 'treat'. You want to treat your kids? Then get them used to a wide variety of vegetables over a period of time. That's a treat they can use for the rest of their lives.


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    #104
    danslevent
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    whiskeyman wrote: »
    Sure that's just a McNugget.



    I burst out laughing at this-so true!


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    #105
    RobbingBandit
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    Veal. :( nasty stuff even without being little tortured baby cow.


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    #106
    The Corinthian
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    sarkozy wrote: »
    • 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
    Is ostrich a 'wacky' food still? I thought it was quite mainstream at this stage. Actually, many of that list are hardly extreme, unless you've been brought up on a diet of overcooked meat and two veg your entire life.

    Personally, I'm rather partial to steak tartare, which you can get as 'pub grub' in a lot of places here. Horse too; foal fillet is very nice. I believe you can get horse in Ireland too, but it's called budget frozen hamburgers there.


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    #107
    srfc19
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    logik wrote: »
    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.


    It's actually pretty tasty, bit of salt and vinegar and you are laughing!

    The "soup" inside is awesome!

    I was very drunk every time I had one though. Don't know if I could handle one sober!!


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    #108
    Father Ted Crilly
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    fleet_admiral wrote: »
    I was eating an Indian a while ago and.....

    Am I reading this correctly? You were eating an Indian?

    That's not strange at all... :eek:
    *Makes for the exit*


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    #109
    ZiabR
    Registered Users Posts: 5,575 ✭✭✭ZiabR


    srfc19 wrote: »
    It's actually pretty tasty, bit of salt and vinegar and you are laughing!

    The "soup" inside is awesome!

    I was very drunk every time I had one though. Don't know if I could handle one sober!!

    You actually ate it? Oh man... I feel weak


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    #110
    Caovyn Lineah
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    Sweetcorn, there is just something about the stuff that i cannot stand. Even the smell of it if left in the fridge makes me gawk. Other than that, i have a fairly iron stomach.


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    #111
    Shenshen
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    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.

    I've eaten most of what's on that list (exceptions being Kudu, Oryx, unwashed sheep's instestins and chicken feet, but I can add cow's heart, pig's kidneys, blood soup, pickled plums and pumpkin candy to the list of "odd foods"), and I would have to maintain that coffee tastes worse than any of them.


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    #112
    J Mysterio
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    Noblong wrote: »
    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.

    Hahaha. :pac: what


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    #113
    Birneybau
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    iamstop wrote: »
    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.

    Hope you got that sorted out.


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    #114
    sarkozy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,476 ✭✭✭sarkozy


    The Corinthian wrote: »
    Is ostrich a 'wacky' food still? I thought it was quite mainstream at this stage. Actually, many of that list are hardly extreme, unless you've been brought up on a diet of overcooked meat and two veg your entire life.

    Personally, I'm rather partial to steak tartare, which you can get as 'pub grub' in a lot of places here. Horse too; foal fillet is very nice. I believe you can get horse in Ireland too, but it's called budget frozen hamburgers there.
    Ostrich still isn't common here. Delicious feather blade or hanger steaks still aren't common. And I wouldn't personally feel anything I've eaten is weird or whacky. Many Irish people eat cow's blood for breakfast. It's just worth remembering when you hear zingers like people thing porridge is kerrrraaayyyyzaaayyy. Weirdos.


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    #115
    circadian
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    srfc19 wrote: »
    It's actually pretty tasty, bit of salt and vinegar and you are laughing!

    The "soup" inside is awesome!

    I was very drunk every time I had one though. Don't know if I could handle one sober!!

    Chilli and salt, maybe a drop of fish sauce. Sorted.


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    #116
    The Corinthian
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    sarkozy wrote: »
    Ostrich still isn't common here.
    It was easy enough to buy in the supermarkets ten years ago. Odd.


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    #117
    Caovyn Lineah
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    The Corinthian wrote: »
    It was easy enough to buy in the supermarkets ten years ago. Odd.

    It is in Lidl this week, on special offer no less.


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    #118
    RoboRat
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    Turkish Delight, the smell makes me vomit.


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    #119
    circadian
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    I didn't really enjoy octopus in Japan. It was a small red one on a lolipop stick, didn't taste like much and the texture was that of a gummi bear or some other gelatinous sweet, which I don't enjoy either.

    However, when it was served with raw garlic, sesame oil and chilli paste in Korea it was class.


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    #120
    Saralee4
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    my husband told me that when he was younger, he ate his pet rabbit after it died. They had a small farm (a couple of chickens and not sure what else) but to eat your pet is pretty disgusting.

    Also we have a pet rabbit now so im kind of second guessing his reasons for suggesting a rabbit as a pet!


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    #121
    circadian
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    Saralee4 wrote: »
    my husband told me that when he was younger, he ate his pet rabbit after it died. They had a small farm (a couple of chickens and not sure what else) but to eat your pet is pretty disgusting.

    Also we have a pet rabbit now so im kind of second guessing his reasons for suggesting a rabbit as a pet!

    I personally wouldn't be too keen on eating an animal that has died compared to one that was killed to be eaten.


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