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

[J_Dee]

I'm a lightweight. The local Chinese buffet tests my limits. But it's infinitely better than the horrors below.

I would not try worms. Ever.




Same goes for this.

Spoiler

 

[funKYcat75]

Accidentally eating a fried chicken liver. I don’t know how people do it. Got mixed in with chicken tenders or something either at Cracker Barrel or KFC. I assume I got a very bad liver also because it felt like I was chewing on ash.

Honorable mention: I’m sure the Venn diagram of people who enjoy cauliflower and those that like fried mushrooms has very little overlap. Ordered fried mushrooms from Richies and popped one in my mouth …. fried cauliflower. So disrespectful.

 

[kyboy1998_rivals34276]

So I’d been drinking and was young…never mind.

 

[chroix]

Andouillette de Troyes - basically French chitterlings (layers of pig intestine that are wrapped in a pigs colon). They taste worse than that sounds.

 

[JDHoss]

As a teenager, a buddy and I cleaned out an old lady's garage and basement and hauled it off to the dump in my dad's truck that I borrowed. She paid us $30 each (in 1976 that was a decent amount of money) and had made a chocolate cream pie that she insisted we have a slice of before we left. She gave us a slice of it, and Cokes. I don't know if she left something out or doubled up on something else, but it was incredibly bitter. We both took the first bite about the same time and were like WTF? I'm glad we had the Coke, because we'd take a bit and chase it with a drink.

Had a coworker who made some muffins with coconut flour once. They were like finely ground Styrofoam that was formed into muffins.

 

[Get Buckets]

Sardines on a pizza at Joe Bologna’s as a kid.

 

[KenTucker]

Escargot . Bleh! That was disgusting. I was dating this girl at UK, see. I wanted her to think I was cool, you know. So I ordered something French, not knowing what it was till they brought it to the table. So I was obligated to eat them.

I’m sure she remembers that date much more fondly than I did. She probably still has a laugh remembering how I struggled to get them down and then keep them down.

Yes, she was that pretty. That I ate snails to impress her, that is.

 

[MegaBlue05]

Vegemite.

Had a couple classes with an Australian exchange student at our high school. He brought some vegemite for us to try.

It tasted like what I imagine feces would taste like. Only one kid in an entire classroom didn’t spit it out or gag. One girl puked. Aussie kid found this to be hilarious.

 

[warrior-cat]

While in high school (mid 70's) dissecting crayfish I was given $10.00 to eat part of the tail. I did.

While stationed in a small special weapons unit in Germany we had a commander (major) who had been through Ranger school and talked about things they ate during survival training and challenged some of us to eat the things he had to eat. He started eating live bugs and even cockroaches and I matched him with what he was eating. Told him I would not let him out do me. Not my finest hour for sure. Swallowed mostly without chewing. Best way to do it.

 

[warrior-cat]

I'm a lightweight. The local Chinese buffet tests my limits. But it's infinitelySpoiler better than the horrors below.

I would not try worms. Ever.




Same goes for this.

Spoiler

LOL at the spoiler.

 

[warrior-cat]

Escargot . Bleh! That was disgusting. I was dating this girl at UK, see. I wanted her to think I was cool, you know. So I ordered something French, not knowing what it was till they brought it to the table. So I was obligated to eat them.

I’m sure she remembers that date much more fondly than I did. She probably still has a laugh remembering how I struggled to get them down and then keep them down.

Yes, she was that pretty. That I ate snails to impress her, that is.

Actually, I liked snails the way it was prepared at a restaurant in Erlensee Germany near Hanau. The sauce they had it cooked in gave it the good taste it had. Not sure what it (the sauce) was, but I do know butter and garlic was in it.

 

[cole854]

Something from the "special cooler" at Nagasaki years back when entertaining some of our Japanese co-workers who were in town. They ordered and it wasn't on the menu....thanks for plenty of Sake that night.

 

[MdWIldcat55]

A shank of camel meat covered in flies bought in the market in Mogadishu, served with some onions and tomatoes over gray spaghetti. I called it Camel Boulognese.

Or maybe Masgouf in Baghdad -a big ugly carp slaughtered before my eyes, splayed open and driven into the ground on an iron spit and cooked on an open fire with a bellows blowing the flame into the meat.

As for that French girl mentioned above, Antionette de Troit, I think I was familiar with her too, years ago in Paris. And yeah…

 

[H. Lecter]

Ate a nightcrawler at work cause they didn’t think I would. They pitched up $17. Dummies.
Ate some stuff with my katusa soldiers while stationed in Korea. Not sure what it was but they ate it so I ate it. Some good some not at all

 

[Hank Camacho_rivals115797]

My ex was Armenian and her family would throw huge parties. The food was utterly fantastic. They'd grill huge skewers of various meats, had all kinds of pickles and salads, handmade dolma and pastries. The works.

Her granny had been in Siberia during the war and acted like she didn't speak any English but she'd always try to get me to eat some of the weirder stuff like turkey necks and whatnot. Wasn't big deal and was usually delicious.

However, one time they got an entire beef tongue and served it sliced. Granny served me a big platter and I tried but it made me wretch. The flavor was ok but the texture was like eating a tire and the taste buds were visible which set me over the top.

I did get back at her granny, however, by taking my drunk ex upstairs after and wearing her completely out.

 

[JonathanW_rivals]

Celery, in terms of taste.

Steak tartar, in terms of the sound & appearance of it. But it was a work lunch in Italy, so I thought I should at least taste it.

As for drinks, any beer. Just disgusting in taste.

 

[WildcatfaninOhio]

Mine was very recent. Visited New Zealand in February. We were hanging out one evening with the dude we were staying with, drinking wine and snacking on a few things. Dude says he has some cheeses in his fridge if we wanted to try. The first was a bleu cheese that was fresh and delicious. The second he brought out from the very back of the fridge and let us know that he wasn’t exactly sure how long it had been in there. Even without unwrapping it already smelled foul. After peeling back a piece of the plastic wrap I was hit with a stench that woulda knocked a buzzard off a **** wagon.

I was already three glasses of wine into the evening and had already boasted that I’d try any cheese he brought out. So I did. It was oily and gross and it tasted like it smelled. I have no idea how I kept from puking right then and there.

 

[Johns721]

Balut on a dare. Got me $25 and free beer for the rest of the night.

Taste isn't bad, but the texture is highly unpleasant.... And don't look at it after you take a bite. Depending on how "grown up" it is/was, it can get pretty disturbing.

But if you really want to try it, there are a few Asian groceries in Louisville that sell the eggs for around $2 each. Viet Hoa on Preston is one of them.

 

[K86]

White Castle

 

[chroix]

Blood sausage is another one that was hard to keep down.

 

[warrior-cat]

Blood sausage is another one that was hard to keep down.

Goes good with blood wine if you are Klingon.

 

[BBdK]

Guava Duff, Freeport Bahamas.

 

[Bill - Shy Cat]

So I’d been drinking and was young…never mind.

Smells like fish……., tastes like chicken

 

[KenTucker]

Balut on a dare. Got me $25 and free beer for the rest of the night.

Taste isn't bad, but the texture is highly unpleasant.... And don't look at it after you take a bite. Depending on how "grown up" it is/was, it can get pretty disturbing.

But if you really want to try it, there are a few Asian groceries in Louisville that sell the eggs for around $2 each. Viet Hoa on Preston is one of them.

Barbarism is alive and well in the 21st century.

 

[berniecarbo]

Saw a guy eat a dog turd (a small dry one) to win a couple of cases of beer in a bar bet.

 

[rick64]

I took a big bite of augrautin potatoes once made with blue cheese.

I HATE BLUE CHEESE!!!

 

[rbs]

Large live tobacco hornworm

 

[JDHoss]

We were in Greenville, OH a few years ago at a customer's facility for a week doing a new product trial. Several of the guys there recommended that my coworker and I go to a place called Maid-Rite for lunch. We took them up on that one day. They specialized in "loose meat" sammidges. I got the Big Jim, which was sickeningly sweet (they added sugar to it) ground beef with a paper thin slice of deli ham, a slice of cheese, pickles, onions and mustard served on a steamed bun. It was almost as awful as their infamous "Wall of Gum" on the side of their building. When we got back from lunch, one of them asked how we liked it. I tried to be polite and said it was okay. I guess the look on my face said I was lying because he said "you can be honest with me. People either love it or hate it, and some call it ****-Rite." I told him the way my stomach felt, I was going with ****-Rite.

 

[JDHoss]

Ate a nightcrawler at work cause they didn’t think I would. They pitched up $17. Dummies.
Ate some stuff with my katusa soldiers while stationed in Korea. Not sure what it was but they ate it so I ate it. Some good some not at all

I used to work with a guy back in the 80s who ate a live lizard on a bet. I told him afterwards if he needed some money that bad, I would have given it to him.

 

[chroix]

We were in Greenville, OH a few years ago at a customer's facility for a week doing a new product trial. Several of the guys there recommended that my coworker and I go to a place called Maid-Rite for lunch. We took them up on that one day. They specialized in "loose meat" sammidges. I got the Big Jim, which was sickeningly sweet (they added sugar to it) ground beef with a paper thin slice of deli ham, a slice of cheese, pickles, onions and mustard served on a steamed bun. It was almost as awful as their infamous "Wall of Gum" on the side of their building. When we got back from lunch, one of them asked how we liked it. I tried to be polite and said it was okay. I guess the look on my face said I was lying because he said "you can be honest with me. People either love it or hate it, and some call it ****-Rite." I told him the way my stomach felt, I was going with ****-Rite.

Nothing classier than a wall of gum.

 

[LOL_Man]

I had been drinking a few coca colas too many one time in National City, CA and a Filipina woman took me into this flip restaurant and they gave me a big plate of who knows what. I took one bite and spit it across the restaurant with impressive distance and they jeered me out of the place. I left in shame and weakness.

 

[Wildcats1st]

The street vendor bogota late night chicken under cooked had the worst outcome.

 

[Kooky Kats]

Fermented stinky egg.

 

[rudd1]

-don't eat anything gross on purpose. Love offal/organ meat, Liver/ kidney/brains etc.

^most disappointing was duck heart at a normally reliable French joint. Just way too chewy.

-tongue is delicious when done properly, nasty when not. Same with tripe/chitlins.

 

[Barleycorn]

There is a pretty good restaurant in Guadalajara that has some “bug” options on the menu. I’ve been a couple of times.

Ant larvae was pretty tasty actually. It was almost like rice? With tortillas and toppings.

Grub worms, they were sautéed and seasoned, not great, but also not bad.

Crickets with melted cheese and blue corn tortillas. Basically a cricket quesadilla. It was disgusting. No amount of hot sauce, cheese or tortilla could cover it up. Stuff was crunchy, stuck in your teeth. Several of us were gagging. Thought I was going to puke right onto the table.

 

[8titles_rivals270261]

Balut on a dare. Got me $25 and free beer for the rest of the night.

Taste isn't bad, but the texture is highly unpleasant.... And don't look at it after you take a bite. Depending on how "grown up" it is/was, it can get pretty disturbing.

But if you really want to try it, there are a few Asian groceries in Louisville that sell the eggs for around $2 each. Viet Hoa on Preston is one of them.

Got pushed to eat a 25 day balut in the Philippines off a street vendor cart. First off, I don't think I could handle the actual crunch, but the worst part was seeing people eat them off this street vendor cart. No need for details but I politely declined.

 

[Col. Angus]

Raw goose eggs and ground duck beak.

 

[JDHoss]

-don't eat anything gross on purpose. Love offal/organ meat, Liver/ kidney/brains etc.

^most disappointing was duck heart at a normally reliable French joint. Just way too chewy.

-tongue is delicious when done properly, nasty when not. Same with tripe/chitlins.

Any taqueria worth going into will have a tounge taco on the menu, and it will be awesome. I usually get a lengua and chorizo taco on corn tortillas. Never had tripe, but can eat chitlins if I have some Tabasco Chipotle sauce.

 

[roguemocha]

Raw goose eggs and ground duck beak.

I drank 6 raw chicken eggs for 3 years every morning but had to stop recently because my LDL was crazy high.

 

[Col. Angus]

I drank 6 raw chicken eggs for 3 years every morning but had to stop recently because my LDL was crazy high.

Ever had a goose egg?