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

[Blue Hills]

I'm pretty hardy with flavours. Anything slimy or soft and slippery textured makes me retch

Positively freudian.

 

[Dave7]

Middle class whinge coming up:

Lunch at the National Trust's Anglesea Abbey restaurant a couple of years ago. It was the first time I'd seen shepherds pie poured onto a plate and settling out as a pool, level with the plate rim. A group of French tourists were at a table next to us and sending photos of their equally awful food to friends in France as examples of British cooking. It was very embarrassing to be British as the site is near Cambridge and had a lot of foreign tourists visiting it. They all seemed to be treating their food with (justified) suspicion.

National Trust catering has become dire in the last few years. They've got shot of their local caterers and replaced them with lowest common denominator contract ones. We had a similar experience at Blickling, where the food had been hot-held for so long that it had jellified into a homogenous lump on a plate. At least it explained why a restaurant there that used to be packed had just two people when we walked in at peak time. There was also a cafe for walkers there that was largely bereft of food items, which the person on the till said was normal. I wrote to the NT and got back a standard letter and a cream tea voucher, which just added insult to injury, so we flounced out and are no longer members.

You "flounced out".
Are mere mortals allowed to "flounce".
I thought only people called Drago could flounce.

 

[Dave7]

Fried mackerel I find inedible. Cooked any other way they are very tasty.
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I did that some weeks ago. It took several days to get rid of the smell. Awful.

 

[Dave7]

As a kid, my mum's fried liver. Good god, horrendous. She wasn't a great cook but it was like chewing fried cardboard. I won't eat any 'iffy' organs since I realised what it was. Hated it as a little kid.

We used to enjoy liver until somebody said to MrsD "you do realise you are eating a body organ".
We have never eaten it since.

 

[Dave7]

I had an earwig in my pancake in Kathmandu in 1973. It was alarmingly bitter.

I did the "half a grub" in your apple once.
Had chewed and swallowed the first bite then looked down to see the other half still wriggling.

 

[youngoldbloke]

I did the "half a grub" in your apple once.
Had chewed and swallowed the first bite then looked down to see the other half still wriggling.

We have numerous plum and apple trees (an orchard, even?) A very common occurrence when trying the ripening fruit - the ones with bugs invariably ripen first!

 

[further]

We used to enjoy liver until somebody said to MrsD "you do realise you are eating a body organ".
We have never eaten it since.

What did you think it was ?

 

[cheys03]

Linda McCartney sausages. just horrid

 

[Chris S]

I used to like tinned haggis when I was a child so I bought a can from my local Asda yesterday. It smelt like excrement when I was heating it up. I didn't dare eat it so my neighbour's cat got it.

 

[byegad]

School meals Fish. Grey, smelly, disgusting and contributing 99.9% of the amount served to pigswill.

I had a conversation with the County Nutritionist, responsible for the school meals menu.
Her line was that fish was a vital part of nutrition for a healthy life. Mine was that the nutritional value of uneaten fish was zero.

 

[sevenfourate]

‘Cardboard’. Or should that be McCardboard ? Basically anything in Yellow and Red wrapping and served from underneath those Golden Arches….

Rancid. I’m sure the outer box would taste better.

 

[Andy in Germany]

I had a conversation with the County Nutritionist, responsible for the school meals menu.

Yes, but did she actually claim the grey stuff served was fish?

 

[Regular.Cyclist]

Whenever I go to a restaurant I have a compulsion to try order anything on the menu that I have never had before.

I get my way through a lot of things that others may find disgusting but have yet to find something I found disgusting myself l

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Haggis - not fit even for dogs.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Sprouts and cauliflower are up there