Totally gross food - beat this.

MsGneiss · Oct 13, 2009

What absolutely disgusting food do your friends and family consume? You know, the kind of stuff that just makes you puke. My list is pretty extensive.

- My 4.5 year old likes peanut butter and cream cheese sandwiches.
- My 1.5 year old likes cod liver, and he drinks up the cod liver oil from the tin once he is done.
- My husband drinks pickle juice out of the pickle jar once all the pickles are gone. He also puts anchovies and capers on EVERYTHING.
- My grandparents pickle watermelon. They also boil cows tongue, and eat it straight up. Ugh.
- My mom makes this gelatinized chicken soup called "holodets," which is probably the most foul thing I've ever seen. (http://www.humble-traveler.com/images/holodets.jpg)
- My best friend purees boiled okra and spreads it on crackers.

The people in my life are so gross when it comes to food. I feel ill just writing this list. Can you beat it?

Maryn · Oct 13, 2009

My mom loved scrapple and oxtail soup. Growing up during the Depression did odd things to people's tastes, I suspect.

Maryn, knowing this will be topped

smoothseas · Oct 13, 2009

A Filipina friend of mine eats baluts.

A balut is a fertilized duck (or chicken) egg with a nearly-developed embryo inside that is boiled and eaten in the shell. It is commonly sold as streetfood.

MsGneiss · Oct 13, 2009

smoothseas said:
A Filipina friend of mine eats baluts.

A balut is a fertilized duck (or chicken) egg with a nearly-developed embryo inside that is boiled and eaten in the shell. It is commonly sold as streetfood.

Yep. That's pretty gross.

writerterri · Oct 13, 2009

Your people are. So. Wierd.

My mom ate p-butter and mustard or mayo sandwiches.

MIL- jelly and bologna sandwiches sometimes with cheese.

I like dry roasted p-nuts in my salad. My kids get grossed out.

I also like cottage cheese with green salsa on corn chips. Or Dorito's with cottage cheese.

I had a girl friend who liked p-butter and bacon sandwiches with onions.

My old stepdad liked Speghetti O's and baked beans poured over Frito's. I tried it, it was pretty good.

Millicent M'Lady · Oct 13, 2009

Ever hear of black pudding over there? It's basically whatever extra bits you can scrape from a dead pig and shove into a sausage skin.

Lovely, ain't it?

It's honestly a lot better than it sounds.

Wayne K · Oct 13, 2009

Rocky mountain oysters. My friend Jerry loves them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Mountain_oysters

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writerterri · Oct 13, 2009

That's it! I'm hiding the dog when he comes around.

cray · Oct 13, 2009

writerterri said:
That's it! I'm hiding the dog when he comes around.

i,....you,....but,....we...

*decides not to get bannitated today*

aadams73 · Oct 13, 2009

Nothing in this world is more disgusting than casu marzu cheese.

Behold: http://www.boingboing.net/2009/01/15/maggot-cheese-that-t.html

Wayne K · Oct 13, 2009

aadams73 said:
Nothing in this world is more disgusting than casu marzu cheese.

Behold: http://www.boingboing.net/2009/01/15/maggot-cheese-that-t.html

Just............no.

DeleyanLee · Oct 13, 2009

The worst thing I've ever seen eaten is when a friend was pregnant. She'd get a Big Mac and stick it in the freezer until it was cool and the sauces and fat had started to congeal--THEN she ate it happily.

Ewwww.

Neurotic · Oct 13, 2009

aadams73 said:
Nothing in this world is more disgusting than casu marzu cheese.

Behold: http://www.boingboing.net/2009/01/15/maggot-cheese-that-t.html

How did I know that was going to be maggot cheese?

And why did I click the link anyway?

Anyway, gross things my family consume would probably be natto. They assure me it's perfectly delicious and the sticky texture is simply a delight, but I will never in my life put anything that smells like that inside my mouth.

writerterri · Oct 13, 2009

cray said:
i,....you,....but,....we...

*decides not to get bannitated today*

writerterri · Oct 13, 2009

DeleyanLee said:
The worst thing I've ever seen eaten is when a friend was pregnant. She'd get a Big Mac and stick it in the freezer until it was cool and the sauces and fat had started to congeal--THEN she ate it happily.

Ewwww.

I was waiting for the part where you were going to say you ate the placenta.

i'll move on though.

aadams73 · Oct 13, 2009

Neurotic said:
And why did I click the link anyway?

Anyway, gross things my family consume would probably be natto. They assure me it's perfectly delicious and the sticky texture is simply a delight, but I will never in my life put anything that smells like that inside my mouth.

Because you're a glutton for punishment.

I won't touch natto either. If I don't like the smell of a food, no way in hell am I going to eat it. I shun all nasty foods including all offal.

MoonWriter · Oct 13, 2009

Neurotic said:
How did I know that was going to be maggot cheese?

You knew more than I. Soon as I clicked the link and read the title, I closed it before the picture loaded ... thank goodness. I love cheese ... maggots, not so much.

I can't come close to topping any of these. Just the thought of some of them got the old gagging reflex going.

meeeeegin · Oct 13, 2009

my aunt ears pig ears and feet raw....

cray · Oct 13, 2009

MoonWriter said:
gagging reflex .

yep.

Adam · Oct 13, 2009

I'll pass, thanks.

sunna · Oct 13, 2009

Okay, until I read this thread I thought my MIL's pineapple+ mayonnaise+ canned peas+ chopped onions + shredded cheddar + cherry jello salad was the most disgusting thing I'd ever seen, but maggot cheese beats anything I got.

*puke*

Mr Flibble · Oct 13, 2009

smoothseas said:
A Filipina friend of mine eats baluts.

A balut is a fertilized duck (or chicken) egg with a nearly-developed embryo inside that is boiled and eaten in the shell. It is commonly sold as streetfood.

My son so wants to try that! He and his best friend became friends when my son found out he was Filipino and the first thing he asked was 'Have you eaten balut, what does it taste like?'

meeeeegin · Oct 13, 2009

...boo....

Lyra Jean · Oct 13, 2009

Balut is supposed to be an aphrodisiac.

Chicken or Cow livers. Also Chicken gizzards. Yuck!

TerzaRima · Oct 13, 2009

A Singaporean friend of mine insisted I eat bird's nest soup with her one New Year's Eve---"it's a delicacy". Yes, where "delicacy"="horror the consistency of half melted Jello tasting like the unholy union of sugar water and feet."

I'll also wager that none of you chicken fetus dilettantes has eaten lutefisk, which is really the mack daddy of gross food.

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