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What's the most disgusting thing you've ever eaten?

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ditesco | 2 years, 1 month ago
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I have been in the Philippines and I have eaten a "Balut". Balut is a fertilized duck (or chicken) egg with a nearly-developed embryo inside. It is then boiled and eaten in the shell, before drinking the juice inside. It is actually very tasty, but then again quite disgusting. These pictures are not so disgusting but there are worst. I figured you might just want to have an idea.
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hollyjahangiri | 2 years ago Report

Man, I cannot believe you won this one. My vote goes to sea urchin. Love ya, Ditesco, but having eaten balut, I say you won only on the emotional/psychological "ewwww" factor. Tripe would've come in a close second, for me. And I've eaten some weird things in my life... I want to know what that thing in the can is, though - whatever that is, it has to win. Is that for real? @#$%, what is that, canned vampire rat?

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imadrid | 2 years ago Report

I am from the Philippines and I don't find the food mentioned here disgusting. Its just an acquired taste. But then again I was born and raised here. A lot of the stuff is normal to me. I also never thought of becoming a Chef as a career.

Growing up as a kid I find the Balut yolk very good and the broth tasty when you first cracked the egg. I just leave out the disgusting almost developed duck part and give to my Mom. BTW there is a Yolk only version of the Balut called "Penoy." But nowadays I eat the whole egg. Except for that inedible hard white part that's bone solid.

For the Western World a lot of the food that is alien to your culture can be considered disgusting. But that doesn't mean it doesn't taste good. Its all a matter of taste. There are tons of tasty but disgusting food you could find here. If you happen live in a any poor country. You'll learn to use every part of the animal.

A glorious example would be the Pig and the Chicken. In any street food vendor with a grill. You can buy "Isaw" pig intestines. "Balat" - pig's skin. "Betamax" - cubed pig's blood. "Adidas" - chicken feet. I can't seem to recall what funny name they call the "Chicken's Neck"

If your into the greasy stuff. For cheap you can have a "One Day Old Chicken" thats literally a young baby fried chicken. Deep fried hard boiled eggs in a batter "Kwek-Kwek" for the small Quail and "Tuknene" for Chicken.

Those are just few examples. For the perfect Beer match you can find in any bar. Anthony Bourdain loved "Sisig" - pig face skin that is grilled, chopped, fried and served in a sizzling plate. Food that is invented when there was a US Military base in Clark, Pampanga Buthers simply threw out as scraps.

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t_hoo | 2 years, 1 month ago Report

Are those ... feathers?!

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ditesco | 2 years, 1 month ago Report

Depends on yor imagination I think. I see eyes as well, do you?

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jtprice | 2 years, 1 month ago
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The nastiest TASTING thing I ever ate was sea urchin sushi. It's made from the gonads of sea urchins, and apparently it's quite a delicacy in Japan, but a lot of Western people think it's  mushy and fishy and oily and *blaarrgghhhh*

Excuse me.

The grossest looking and feeling thing I've ever eaten was a pickled baby octopus. It didn't taste that terrible, I think, but I'm not really sure because I was so grossed out by the feeling of having a rubbery thing with little tentacles pop in my mouth like an eyeball or something. And yes, I ate it on a dare.

And then there's chitterlings, which is pig intestines, and they smell like pig poo. I refuse to even try to eat those, no matter how good anybody tells me they are.

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maggieray | 2 years, 1 month ago
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For me it would be Japanese Nato which is a fermented soy bean dish. I have not eaten Balut but have seen it and yes, there are feathers. I can't get past the concept of what it is to make myself try it though I know many people who say it is quite tasty. I don't know to many people who describe Nato as tasty
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dsaldridge | 2 years, 1 month ago
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I guess it would have to be chitterlings or "chittlins" as they are called in my home state of SC. They are fried pig intestines. Of course, they are well cleaned, boiled to kill any bacteria, then fried in deep fat. If you can get past the smell, they are actually pretty good. They sell them in boxes in grocery stores in the south, so you can cook them up yourself. I've never bought them. I ate them at the Chittlin' Strut, a festival that is held in October every year when they butcher the hogs.
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brendonbarnett | 2 years, 1 month ago
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Believe it or not, the most disgusting thing I've ever eaten was a fruit. The durian fruit is so putrid when ripe. My ex girlfriend's father would eat them like candy, yuck!

I don't know how people can eat it! Even Andrew Zimmern couldn't eat it! He described the taste as, "completely rotten, mushy onions." Anthony Bourdain said, "Its taste can only be described as...indescribable, something you will either love or despise. ...Your breath will smell as if you'd been French-kissing your dead grandmother."

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proxxies | 2 years, 1 month ago Report

yup thats disgusting.. im from philippines that fruit is from the province of davao here in philippines... the smell is so yuck as in it's like your smelling a shit and eating aswell.. but when you taste it the taste was like a jackfruit or yummier than that but the smell duh you want to get rid of it.. other people what they're doing is they just cover there nose with there hand so they could'nt smell it...

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amiesugat | 2 years ago Report

If you freeze it first, the smell goes away for the most part and it develops a vanilla pudding flavor. after freezing it i have even cooked it into a sauce that smelled heavenly and tasted out of this world. but when raw and not frozen or cooked after freezing, its...indescribably disgusting. You can buy them in some parts of California relatively cheap.

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coltech88 | 2 years, 1 month ago
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I think of several things, such as scrambled brains and eggs, but perhaps the worst was sopa de mondongo, as it is called in Costa Rica, also known as or tripe soup, Tripe is the stomach of cattle, which has a rubbery texture. The watery part of the soup was okay, but the rubbery aspect of the stomach is unappealing to say the least. What is the most disgusting is that these pieces of rubber are usually very large, so it takes several minutes to successfully chew it up and swallow it - meanwhile I have a strong urge to throw up while I am diligently chewing it into swallowable portions. I have eaten it twice, once by choice to try it out and once because it was offered to me by a friend's mother - couldn't refuse it that time.

We also occasionally eat fish head soup, which I though was a joke until I got here - watch out for the bones!
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brianwalton | 2 years, 1 month ago
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Escamoles -Sometimes, in the world of strange ethnic cuisines, ignorance is bliss. Like with hot dogs ? salty delicious mystery meat that we?re all better off knowing as little as possible about it?s questionable origins. The same goes for Escamoles, which have the constancy of cottage cheese and taste (according to wikipedia) buttery and slightly nutty. But what are Escamoles? Sometimes known as insect caviar, Escamoles are actually the larvao is large black ants who make their home in the roots of the agave and maguey plant in Mexico.

That?s right you?re eating ant eggs. Grossed out? Well, don?t be ? we eat chicken eggs all the time, and people eat fish eggs as caviar, or salmon roe on their sushi, so why not fry up some ant eggs, add a bit of cheese and a daub of guac for a nice ant egg taco. Ole!

Here?s a you tube video that starts with a strangely fitting photo of George W Bush eating a cat (wtf?), and then shows a greasy chef preparing Escamoles and referring to them as ?a delicacy worthy of gods, like the worms of maguey? OMG, they eat worms too. And I used to love Mexican food.
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carriep | 2 years, 1 month ago
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Fried, breaded Okra.

It was part of school lunch when I lived in the South. Being from the North, I did not develop a taste for okra as a kid.

This may seem somewhat tame compared to other people's answers, but when I was a kid, all I could think about was how the seeds reminded me of sacs of spider eggs.

*shudder*

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carriep | 2 years, 1 month ago Report

Heh. I'm trying to get over this food phobia, but it's been hard. I even bought some fresh okra to cook but couldn't bring myself to do so. If you have any recipes...hold that thought, I'll post a question.

I did have *dried* okra the other day, which was odd but awesome.

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carriep | 2 years, 1 month ago Report

Heh. I'm trying to get over this food phobia, but it's been hard. I even bought some fresh okra to cook but ran out of time

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dsaldridge | 2 years, 1 month ago Report

ROTFLMAO! I'm from the south, and I love fried okra, but I can understand that, because I hate most pasta, and food cooked with NO seasoning, so I could never live up north.

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phendrix130 | 2 years, 1 month ago
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a cricket covered in chocolate!:)
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prasanth1 | 2 years, 1 month ago
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A few months ago I took some stale food and did not understand for some time that it was stale. I realized late in the night. The food was a rasam rice.

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irishstephen1974 | 2 years, 1 month ago
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I think there's something wrong with me, but I HATE banana pudding... gew! BLECH!!! Everyone in Texas thinks it's mana from heaven but it makes me gag.

So I was at a party at my friends house and eveyone brought food. I happened to walk into the kitchen while my buddies were in there eating, and all I heard was, "oh man... Oh that's so good...Delicious!!"
"What's up guys? Whatcha eating then?" says I.
Kenny turns and goes, "Here, eat this man!" and, not realizing what they were eating, he pops a ball of sticky rice thickly coated in banana pudding into my mouth.

The horror of the concoction in my mouth was immediate. While throwing up in the sink, my "buddies" were dying from laughing so hard.

With friends like this...

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potterarchy | 2 years, 1 month ago
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People have eaten some pretty funky stuff on this thread... but personally, the most disgusting thing I've yet eaten was fish eggs. My friend in high school really loved sushi (I am not so much of a fan) but she dared me to eat a fish egg once, and... well, let's just say it popped. I was not amused.
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