oriecat

Arvel and I were just talking about some disgusting food stuff that we've seen or been told that other people eat. I don't recall how it came about since we were talking about waffles and syrup, which is of course, most not disgusting.

So my mom told me that when she was growing up she liked to eat, not had to eat, but liked, both onion sandwiches and raw potato sandwiches. Eww.


This thread is in no way meant to belittle others food choices. Disgusting is alway subjective. Do not tell others that their food is disgusting. Just tell us here!

christ-on-a-stick

Tongue
Kidneys (i.e. beef & kidney pie)

And, although I love sushi.... smelt eggs disgust me.

:shudder:

oriecat

What's a smelt egg?

Joyous

Any egg that has been sniffed.

Sakpo

Eating pigeon sort of weirds me out, especially since they display the pigeon head on the table (at a fancy Chinese restraunt, as described to me by my girlfriend).

beth

The most disgusting food I've ever eaten was mushy squash, sauteed in butter with onions. ICK! My step-father makes it at ever meal when I go over to visit. He still tries to get me to eat it and I still get repulsed watching him eat it.

Also, fried gizzard, tripe, and chocolate covered ants.

never been there

Cheez Whiz

I've eaten raw ptarmigan, I've ordered at random off a Cantonese restaurant menu, I've drunk home-made African wild-yeast-fermented beer, I enjoyed them all, but I can't stomach processed cheese.

Huginn

While in france we were ordering crepes with various fillings, I chose a seafood crepe which contained squid, mussels and cockles. My dad didn't know what to have so he chose chitterlings. He didn't know what they were at the time and when he later discovered what they were he regretted eating it. Look it up, it ain't pleasent!

Loren Pechtel

I've long ago learned not to pay too close attention to what my wife eats when she has access to authentic Chinese food.

Among the things I am aware of:

Duck brain. When we are in California we always pick up some soy sauce ducks. (There's only one source locally, high $, low quality.) She happily sucks the brain out of the head. Once the person in front of us didn't want the head, she happily accepted it when I suggested it, all the food was gone off it by a block away.

Duck tongue. Over in China you can get a plate of it at a dim sum place.

Fish heads. I know she eats the eyes, I think she eats the brain.

Catfish whiskers. She thinks they are very good.

Some part of a crab that we don't normally eat. She was given some supposedly whole crabs. She went to eat one and found what she considered the best part to be missing. Given the difficulties of translation I don't know what part it was.

Gristle. She loves to chew on it, she thinks it's much tastier than the filets. More than once she's argued with the meat-carver in a buffet to get some bit he was about to discard.
The normal handling of meat with us is that I get it first and take what I consider to be the good parts. I give her what's left--and she feels she's getting the good parts.


One she won't touch: Durian. It's considered a delicacy in Singapore and Malaysia. It's supposedly quite tasty. I know it's in season when I first enter the Chinese market here, though--it stinks up the whole store. It smells rather like someone didn't flush.

lisarea

Durian's sort of like a very garlicky mango with hot sauce and limburger cheese. YUM!

What truly disgusts me is when people make squishy baked pasta by putting water in the pan with the uncooked pasta. Like that crap they have the commercials for, with the little talking ziti?

Someone made that for me once, and I ALMOST DIED. It's all slimy and watery, with little random crunchy parts, and on top of that, that sauce has that metallic chemically taste to it. It is just so horrific that I am hard-pressed not to sit in moral judgement of those who would endorse such a thing.

I am not making this up: Just thinking about it is activating my gag reflex.