worst thing you ever ate?

GRASSHOPPER TACOS: 1/2 lb grasshoppers; 2 cloves garlic, minced; lemon; salt; 2 ripe avocados, mashed; 6 tortillas.
Roast medium-sized grasshoppers for 10 mins in 350° oven. Toss w.garlic, juice from lemon, salt to taste. Spread avocado on tortilla: sprinkle w.grasshoppers to taste.

(That final "to taste" always amuses me. Locusts are known to aficionados as the "prawns of the air" — and are equally non- kosher...)

The silkworms I ate tasted better than that.

So now you see there's a reason that I don't eat meat any more.

If anyone mentions offal on this thread I will come round and hit you with a chair. Offal = food of gods.

At a Taiwanese lunch buffet once I ate intestine. I didn't mean to. They all kept saying 'try this Emma' and out of great politeness I sampled a small portion foolishly not asking what it was. It was vile. It tasted like you imagine intestine would taste and probably still had turd in it.

I blame my parents and their 'don't say you don't like something till you've tried it' bollocks. Sometimes you just know.

And as she pointed out, it wouldn't be the first time she has been found lolling around the flat sucking the lifeblood of an unsuspecting passing animal.

xoxo

> Peanut butter was invented in America, widely reviled in Europe. What do you think? I think it stands as a bit of Americana. Cary Grant once ordered a peanut butter sandwich in New York's 21 club.

So, is peanut butter American for marmite/vegemite? (Marmite/vegemite, yuuuuuuuch!)

BTW, I think that page might have erred in claiming that European Jews ate kishke. I'm pretty sure that kishke would be treyf. The Poles and the Hungarians love kishke, though of course they're not bound by kashrut.

Dan, would you like to join my crack team of people-paid-to-make-me- look-good-on the internet? The pay and conditions are similar to the ones you describe above.

I'm all about anything involving crack. (Except, of course, butt lint.)

NO GLANDS FOR DINNER.

That is all.

They ain't called sweetmeats for nuttin'.

My mother's remarks on sweetbreads and private medicine are on another thread.

I had a Mr Dog salad last night.

Also: I never, ever, ever drink coffee made from granules. Bad food is never a convenience.

Wonder what my worst was? Hm...probably something rotting.

In my first encounter with sushi, I popped the entire little pile of the pickled ginger into my mouth and discovered to my horror that it tasted not unlike dishwashing liquid. And I had to swallow the whole thing down without complaint because the whole family was celebrating my 14th birthday. I have since learned to love pickled ginger, and I use it to cleanse my palate between servings of Philadelphia Roll and Futo Maki.

I was at some nameless college in Cambridge as part of my European Teen Tour From Hell, and the main dish they served was some smoked fish concoction. When I could get all the goddamned bony crap disloged from my throat...mmm...imagine polyurethane-flavored BBQ chips.

Beets! Num-num beety goodness yum-yum!

NB. I did not eat these.

Out of one of those little minibar bottles, very, very warm.

"while they do not not taste distinctly of beef, biting into one does impart the lingering flavoring of processed cheese."

And just 4g of fat per fry!

Too right. The place should have "Radioactive if taken internally" printed inside the menu.

If you have just ordered something that looks like green stringbeans on a Thai menu, have a pitcher of water handy. Odds are that tis the hottest pepper known to man.

Mmmmmmm... Nutraloaf

Taste-Testing Nutraloaf: The prison food that just might be unconstitutionally bad

kate st claire to thread

lol nutraloaf

I think the answer for me might be MRE XIX Menu 4, "Ham Slice," and I've eaten bugs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRE#MRE_Menus

(most of the other MRE's I've ever had to eat weren't that bad at all. at least they basically all come with a dose of tabasco so you can correct for the badness in all the dishes with sauce or gravy etc)

I lol'd at this part:

Even unsympathetic courts seem willing to concede that Nutraloaf is pretty disgusting, but after reading through the court filings in these cases, I couldn't shake a nagging question—just how bad is it? Nutraloaf is made differently in different prisons. Vermont's penal cookbook calls for a combination of vegetables, beans, bread, cheese, and raisins. I recently spent $15 on a nearly identical dish at a vegan cafe in New York—and it didn't even have raisins.

Their low dietary fiber content could cause constipation in some so they were also known as "Meals Refusing to Exit" or "Massive Rectal Expulsions". While the myth that the gum found in MREs contains a laxative is false, the crackers in the ration pack do contain a higher than normal vegetable content to facilitate egestion.

dirt

once i was smoking outside and my parents got home so i got scared. so i ATE A LEAF.

What kinda leaves you been smokin boy???

Sea Cucumber is no treat

jellyfish

Worst in terms of idea: When I was 14, on vacation in oregon with my parents, and brain-cloudingly horny, I for some reason masturbated into a glass of Sunny D and downed it all in the bathroom. Tasted OK.

-- Ramosi, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (6 years ago) Link

Six years have gone and still no one comments on this most bizzare of posts.

Worst thing I ever ate was some dish at my brother's wedding that gave me (and about half the guests) virulent food poisoning. I may as well have chugged a pint of ipecac, so much did I heave. We never did figure out which dish it was, though.

Sea cucumber is awesome!

Some pasta that had lemon sauce. We didn't want to offend the person who'd cooked it, so we just kept on adding loads of black pepper - like most of a pepper mill full - to try and make it more palatable. We went from saying "hey this is really great" to "you really need a lot of black pepper" to "fuck this shit is inedible".

xp I had sea cucumber for the first time just a couple weeks ago, at a Chinese wedding reception, and I couldn't stop thinking about that one scene in Jackass, which scene will probably plague sea cucumbers into eternity. But it was okay -- sort of like, um, sea urchin I guess. But more rubbery, maybe? (And I say that as a major octopus fan.)

It was definitely better than papaya, which tastes like somebody puked at the beach to me. And one time in college, I had some weird exotic fruit that looked like some sort of orange tomato (I think it started with C?), which was even worse. Only thing worse than that is this one eggs benedict recipe I had a couple years ago at some Irish bar in Queens where the cook clearly had no idea how to make eggs benedict (or, really, hollandaise I guess), which I usually love. (Don't want to use the trusty vomit comparison again, but how else to explain it?)

better than papaya, which tastes like somebody puked at the beach to me.

omg i feel this way abt papaya too! and i always feel bad abt it b/c it seems like everyone freakin' loves papaya! even worse is that i always think it's going to taste like mango but it tastes nothing like the awesomeness of mango. blaargh

Was that orange tomato-looking fruit possibly a persimmon? I think papaya's great by the way. Very nutrititious as well.

Nutritious, even.

Photo of persimmon:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Persimon.jpg

I agree they're not the tastiest of fruits.

A vegan chocolate chip cookie. Seriously disgusting

xpUm...maybe! It was a long time ago, but I'm pretty sure it looked something like that. (So maybe it was a persimmon that the grocery store had erroneously placed in the "calabash" section, or something?)

And xp to rrobyn: Yeah, getting stuck with papaya when you think you're getting mango is the worst. (There doesn't seem to be much middle ground on papayas, by the way. I know other people who've called them the worst foods they've ever ate, as well. But other folks seem to totally love them.)

One of the worst things I've eaten was a little dried fish. I was at a summer camp (I was about high-school age at the time) and we had a skit night, and for the skit I was in, I was supposed to take a bite of this little dried fish, like a sardine - I'm not sure where it came from, I think someone had bought a bag of them at an Asian market. In the rehearsals, I only pretended to take a bite, but for the actual performance I actually bit into it. Since I was onstage I couldn't just spit it out, which was what I immediately wanted to do. It tasted awful, but I had to chew it up and swallow it and pretend as if I was enjoying it.

Rubbery Aldi burger with bits of bone in it at a stude barbeque, so drunk and hungry I just wolfed it down.

a horse in china.
knew about it only afterwards, otherwise...

raw whale

my mom makes some damn good persimon cookies!

yogurt soup

I've eaten a whole host of really out there shit (list includes raw bioluminescent squid and whale bacon) but the only thing that I've ever truly hated is shellfish. Your basic, run-of-the-mill serving of scallops will make me want to vomit, collapse and die on the spot. Objectively the worst thing ever deemed fit for human consumption.