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Worked for a Japanese company and visited the head office in Tokyo. One of the more senior managers took us to his favorite local sea food restaurant.
I hate seafood. Especially when it's fancy and you get baby squid that looks like they were just fresh out of the water with no preparation etc (part of the "fancy"). However, culturally I had absolutely no possibility to do anything but eat, smile and praise. The courses just kept coming, each one being more disgusting than the last.
Durian fruit. That is the most vile thing I have ever tasted and the after taste lasted for like 5 hours.
That shit is fucking evil.
Once took durian chocolate home from a trip to Malaysia. Had to open it on the balcony. Tasted like someone vomited right into my mouth. Had to leave the chocolate on the balcony for a few days because I could not stomach the smell.
0/0 never again.
It's not bad as long as you don't think about baby poo while you eat it
"It's not bad as long as you don't breathe."
I have that same mantra about life
I've eaten chicken feet, haggis, blood pudding, sisig, century egg, durian, dinuguan, tripe and tongue tacos, frog legs, snails, alligator, whole softshell crab, and probably a few more delights that I ought to remember. The only one I absolutely cannot stomach is the century egg.
How was the century egg prepared? I knew some guys in high school that decided to buy random stuff at the asian grocery store and they ate the century egg as if it was a regular boiled egg then threw up. I've had it in small pieces with congee and that was pretty good though.
Anything I've bought at a sports stadium. The FootyScran twitter account catalogues some similar examples -
That's straight up disrespectful
Looks like a euro burger on a US bun.
Aspic
Never had aspic but I had some unflavoured gelatin one time for a temporary restricted diet and I swear it tasted like licking the armpits and feet of a pig that had freshly been smeared with sheep shit.
That's about accurate :3.. honestly aspic doesn't taste that bad? I mean it's just meat and vegetables essentially, but the texture is horrible. It's not like commercial gelatin you buy in packets, it's more firm and grainy, while still having that wobble, and it just makes me gag
Preface: All seafood makes me violently ill. I wish it weren't so, but here we are.
While living in Switzerland we went to an ikea and found what I thought to be spreadable cheese in a toothpaste type tube. For reference lots of stuff over there comes in those types of tubes. Why not cheese?
I was so excited to get home and immediately tore the cap off and squeezed a giant dollop of what my mouth expected to be something like cheez whiz.
NOPE. NOPE FUCKING NOPE. It was some kind of fish paste with roe...
I puked for like 30 minutes straight and couldn't get that taste out of my mouth until we found some kirsch liqueur that I also hate, but whose taste will overpower anything.
Picture related: The culprit
In their defense, it literally says "kaviar."
Oh they have none of the blame! I am a big stupid man who didn't bother to read it at all.
I’ve eaten a lot of pretty crazy stuff by western standards. The most challenging thing I have eaten was a giant water bug. The most challenging thing I haven’t been able to bring myself to eat was balut.
The water bug was definitely not the worst thing I’ve eaten though; it was unbelievably fragrant. Practically like eating perfume.
Nettle stew. Yes, it’s good for you. It tastes like cow shit to me.
There's a local grocery store chain here that has the most bland tasting everything in their prepared food counter. You've never eaten such tasteless food in your life. Poor seasoning? Try none at all. Everything tastes like cardboard.
Want to simulate what it's like to eat food as a 30 year long habitual chain smoker, shop at Freson Bros.
Kellogg would cum his pants on the spot discovering such blandness could exist.
Their potato salad gave me depression. I didn't know you could make a calzone taste like the box it came in.
Balut, it tasted good actually but the physiological hurdles I could only eat one and could not do it again.
Couple months ago I got a tonsillectomy. I got nerve damage in my tongue as a side effect of a tool they used and everything tastes different since. Tomato based pasta sauces have been the absolute worst, it tastes very metallic. The only normal type of food I can stand is Asian food that isn't breaded/fried.
Witloof, its this variant of cabbage that is long thin and completely white. And it has one of the most pungent bitter tastes ive ever had the misfortune to discover. The taste is hard to describe, but it's similar to bee spit,also known as honey, except replace all the love and care that the bees spat with, with pure malice and wasp hatred. It is incredibly sweet, ungodly bitter and has after cooking the texture of overcooked pasta
I don't know about THE worst, but every single thing I ate while at Disney land was pretty fucking bad. I had some barbeque skewers with my dad that were extremely bland, dry, and flavourless. I also had some sort of pink sugary drink that tasted kind of weird. My brother said his hotel burger had a really bad musk to it
Properly prepared or improperly prepared?
I had a chicken sandwich once that was still pink in the middle... Disgusting!
Lentil soup. One kid in the entire school ate it.
How the hell do you wreck lentil soup that bad? Heck, there are lots of different cultures around the world that make tasty lentil soup. There's German lentil soup with potato, carrot, and ham; there's Indian dal in a range of flavors and colors; there's Turkish Ezogelin soup with bulgur and paprika ...
100% agree. Lentil soup is like the one dish that I have found very pleasent in all countries I've been to
Hard to say. I tend to opt for safe things most of the time. Twice as a child I was conned into taking a spam fritter under the belief it was fish. I like battered fish. It was not fish. I do not like spam.
Texture-wise, I cannot abide kidney. Used to love steak and kidney pies but something changed when my adult teeth came in.
Thirdly, I still have flashbacks to a serving of whitebait I ordered out of curiosity in a restaurant one time. They didn't taste terrible that I remember. Just... whole little fish cooked and to be eaten whole. Never again.
And then there was the case of the Kit-Kat that I was eating blind, piece by piece from my coat pocket, and one of the pieces was hard and unpleasant. I am still not sure there wasn't something else in my pocket that I grabbed and ate by mistake, but that's pretty up there.
Unripe persimmon. I can't even say it has a flavor, more a sensation of your face trying to implode into your mouth. Bitterness is an insufficient descriptor for it. That's part of it, but also your mouth feels dry in a way that defies belief. It's like being stuck on the dentist's vacuum too long.
bitter melon
I have never wanted to go back in time and prevent myself from doing something more than in the moment of tasting that wretched vegetable
it took every shred of my willpower to get it down and not spit it out dramatically (was in polite company)
Cocolate pudding in a hotel in reims france.
I dont know what it was but it wasnt chocolate!
I once went to an Ethiopian restaurant with my family. Never again.
I can't even describe it, but whatever evil concoction they call their version of bread is easily the worst thing I ever attempted to eat.
I dunno, I think the Ethiopian food itself more than makes up for it. Unseasoned polenta on the other hand…
It's like a sourdough pancake. Absolutely delicious, and even more so when it soaks up the juices from the rest of the platter.
The lady who owns the Ethiopian place near me told me that it’s really hard to get the injera right when you first try it the US. The wild yeasts that occur naturally in Ethiopia are not present here. Is like how “real sourdough only comes from San Francisco.”
She said she couldn’t get it to work right with pure teff like back home and to play around for a long time with the mix of wheat, rice flour and teff before it was even edible.
Maybe the place you had it was still figuring it out.
