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

[G3CWI]

Raw sea urchin

I was once stranded on an island where we ran out of food. We developed a taste for raw sea urchins and other abundant shellfish. They do taste (and look) a bit odd. Bright orange as I recall. Not so sure that I would want one now.

For the curious, this was my island: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desolación_Island

 

[MichaelW2]

Natto bean.
Japanese breakfast treat for people who have lost the flexibility to lick between their own toes and are not on so familiar terms with anyone else.

 

[Grant Fondo]

I was once stranded on an island where we ran out of food. We developed a taste for raw sea urchins and other abundant shellfish. They do taste (and look) a bit odd. Bright orange as I recall. Not so sure that I would want one now.

For the curious, this was my island: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desolación_Island

Yes i had the misfortune in Hawaii, totally gross. Had some fairly rank abalone in hong kong as well, but the sea urchin breaks the puke-o-meter.

 

[presta]

Octopus: like lumps of gristle.
The most disgusting food I've never eaten was sea cucumber, a slug the size of a cucumber which quivered on the plate like a giant bogey.

Sheep poo.
I was camping. It was dark. I knocked my pan over................

"An experienced fellwalker can tell the difference between bilberries and sheep droppings by the taste"
Alfred Wainwright.

 

[Edwardoka]

Mrs cisamcgu, when we were in Paris a few years ago where in one of the department stores, Printemps I think. We went to the cafe on the top floor. I had some egg creation, not too bad at all, but Mrs Cisamcgu had, what we have always described since as a "poo sausage" - it was disgusting, stank of sewage or worse, looked like a huge, pale thing from a 1970's Dr Who show.

Just inedible.

Like most sensible people who try it, any thoughts I had entertained about being open-minded about French cuisine died the moment I ate andouillette.

 

[Grant Fondo]

Octopus: like lumps of gristle.
The most disgusting food I've never eaten was sea cucumber, a slug the size of a cucumber which quivered on the plate like a giant bogey.

"An experienced fellwalker can tell the difference between bilberries and sheep droppings by the taste"
Alfred Wainwright.

Sea cucumber sounds vile , but i virtually lived off octopus in Sardinia last year, yum!

 

[Grant Fondo]

Bizarrely, the one thing most tourists baulk at in Hong Kong, namely jellied chickens feet, i really like. Imagine knobbly bits of bone wrapped in tripe and not far off, yum!

 

[Andy in Germany]

Octopus: like lumps of gristle.
The most disgusting food I've never eaten was sea cucumber, a slug the size of a cucumber which quivered on the plate like a giant bogey.

I've eaten both and enjoyed them in Japan. However, I dislike a lot of Sushi.

 

[Grant Fondo]

I've eaten both and enjoyed them in Japan. However, I dislike a lot of Sushi.

Goose foot soup fairly rancid due to:
a) the smell, and
b) the whole goose foot floating in it, and,
c) the smell
My Chinese colleagues thought it was great and a real delicacy

 

[presta]

Sea cucumber sounds vile , but i virtually lived off octopus in Sardinia last year, yum!

I've seen celeb chefs on TV argue that it's overcooking that makes octopus gristly, mine was from a local takeaway.
As I say, I passed on the sea cucumber, but that was just one course of a ten course Chinese wedding banquet and the rest of it was great.

 

[swee'pea99]

Imagine knobbly bits of bone wrapped in tripe

Mmmm!

 

[gbb]

I was once stranded on an island where we ran out of food. We developed a taste for raw sea urchins and other abundant shellfish. They do taste (and look) a bit odd. Bright orange as I recall. Not so sure that I would want one now.

For the curious, this was my island: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desolación_Island

Wow, I didn't know the bottom end of Chile had such a mass of islands. Nearest for me was Uruguay, not terrible food but possibly the most bland uninspiring food I ever tasted.

 

[postman]

Over 30 years ago in in Blackpool.I was on a weekend away with a Singles group.A Big Mac,i have never tasted anything so horrible,before or since.The container would have tasted better.Never been inside a Mac's shop since.

 

[Drago]

Agreed. You need a serious grudge against your taste buds to eat anything from McDonalds.

 

[Smudge]

Junk food from Mcdonald's and Burger King are an occasional guilty pleasure for me. Only yesterday i had a double mac burger canadian stack, large fries and a coke.