What is the worst thing you have ever eaten? - Share the yuck

[keytar]

As a kid I was one of those freaks that would eat bugs and stuff if the other kids dared me. I think the worst was a live slug. 0/10 would not recommend

 

[Yandex Captcha Solver]

Went to Chinatown, ate at a very Chinese restaurant. Ordered stir fried kidneys because it sounded exotic. Absolutely vile. The smell, the taste, everything. It would be a tossup if I'd rather eat that or dog shit. I ate some of it anyways because I was too autistic to ask for them to switch it out with something that was edible.

Fuck chinks and their weird ass food.

Another time I was in a posh city. Went to a restaurant just opening up. Ordered some walnut shrimp as I had never had it. Was the sweetest thing I've ever ate. It was so sweet, it'd make a southerner blush. Absolutely vile and somehow it was in a posh city, in a posh area. Hipsters can't do anything right.

Ate a live cricket for a dare. Still had it's back legs on so it was hopping up and down my esophagus. I'd do that 10 times over the above examples.

 

[Iron Jaguar]

Any of the disgusting fish dishes my dad would make, then scream at me for refusing to eat. "THIS IS AN INSULT TO MY COOKING!!!"
Also, the revolting fish pie the Victorian woman who owned the kindergarten I went to used to try to feed us, because it was cheap.

Segue: I've noticed that people who like seafood are absolutely unable to comprehend the fact that other people may find the smell and taste of it nauseating and offensive. This is why I never bother going to any of the Christmas parties I get invited to - they're always at some bullshit seafood restaurant and the host is convinced he's making some grand gesture that everyone will looooooove.

@keytar
the worst was a live slug

That is an extremely dangerous and stupid thing to do.

 

[Tablet County]

I once ate an underripe persimmon and my tongue felt like it was covered in bitter powder for hours.

 

[Beef Void]

I had a bag of roasted pumpkin seeds sitting next to my computer that I hadn't eaten from in a while. Without really looking at what I was putting in my mouth, I spent a good hour taking grabs into the bag and eating seeds while focused on my computer screen. They still tasted good. After way too long, I actually looked at one of the seeds I was about to eat and realized it was utterly covered in fuzzy, white mold.

I vomited profusely a few hours later.

 

[King George III]

The "Marco Polo" pizza from this pizzeria in Korčula. Sardines and capers. It was saltier than the water around the island.

 

[OrionBalls]

Chicken Helper Honey Mustard Rice. I'm not sure if it exists anymore, and that's not a bad thing. It tasted like brown sugar and cheap mustard powder, but for some reason still had milk products in it?

 

[Jason Wynn]

Working a 16 hour shift back in my security guard days, so out of desperation I bought a premade chicken sandwich from a Plaid Pantry (convenience store chain in Oregon and Washington)

Sweet Jesus it was bad. The chicken patty was somehow rubbery and gristly at the same time. Cheese was this little hockey puck that tasted like vomit and the bread was stale.

Worst $5 ever spent.

 

[keytar]

That is an extremely dangerous and stupid thing to do.

Holy shit, if my slug-eating days weren't already over they would be now.

 

[Triple Flutz]

Had soup at a Korean restaurant on a date like 10+ years ago, and I guess they didn’t strain one of the components of the broth that comprised the base of most soups. It was some sort of conch-looking or snail-looking thing, but very chewy and definitely not meant to be bitten. The texture was sponge-like and impossible to chew through, which is great because the pressure of my teeth released the foulest, most concentrated disgusting taste. I can see how the taste would have been appealing and would have built complexity whilst heavily diluted in a broth and removed before serving, but it wasn’t and I wanted to die, lmao. I can still remember how bad it was, and any effort to identify it has failed me since.

 

[Harbinger of Kali Yuga]

Durian was foul. It was frozen, not fresh, fairly fibrous piece, and I kept belching up the nasty tasting gas for over an hour after.

Had soup at a Korean restaurant on a date like 10+ years ago, and I guess they didn’t strain one of the components of the broth that comprised the base of most soups. It was some sort of conch-looking or snail-looking thing, but very chewy and definitely not meant to be bitten. The texture was sponge-like and impossible to chew through, which is great because the pressure of my teeth released the foulest, most concentrated disgusting taste. I can see how the taste would have been appealing and would have built complexity whilst heavily diluted in a broth and removed before serving, but it wasn’t and I wanted to die, lmao. I can still remember how bad it was, and any effort to identify it has failed me since.

I bet it was a sea squirt.

 

[DagothUr]

glass

 

[Dude Snakes]

Your mom's pussy.

 

[RussianParasite]

In Texas of all places I ate at a restaurant that served me a Salisbury steak that was obviously made from one of those tubes of ground beef, was undercooked, and served with raw onions. I mean Gordon-Ramsey yelling RAW onions.

That wasn’t even the worst crime inflicted upon me that day: they then managed to deep fry a quail so badly that it was desert dry and burned in the edges. How the fuck does someone make, let alone have the audacity to serve, a dry quail!?!

 

[Titty Figurine]

The first time I played Outlast I was eating a bowl of super thick kettle chips. It was dark in the room and being one of my first experiences with games that go "Quiet... Quiet... RUN!" I was oblivious to everything going on around me.

The shitty little old house in a culturally diverse area I used to rent got invaded every summer by those brown marmorated stinkbugs. It got invaded by everything else under the sun too (except bedbugs, thankfully we never had to deal with those but unlike the rest of the college kids saving a buck by living in the hood we had the sense to never pick up free nigger couches) but this is the only one of our seasonal visitors I ever accidentally ate. I did step on a dead mouse outside on the back porch once after the hoarder who lived next door got an intervention and unleashed a plague of mice on our street but at least I didn't put it in my mouth.

My bowl of chips was empty and I thought I had dropped one on the desk next to it. It was not a folded over kettle chip crumb. It was a stinkbug. I realized the texture was wrong as soon as my teeth crunched down, just an instant too late to tell them to stop, and I was rewarded with the worst taste of my life. It was survival instinct triggeringly bitter, like nail polish remover and bitter melon distilled into one evolutionary get this poison out of your mouth. I spat it out into the empty bowl and beat feet downstairs gagging, ran my mouth under the tap, grabbed the toothbrush but at the last second decided I didn't want to taint my toothbrush with what I assumed initially was some kind of chemical from a tiny pouch my boyfriend was tinkering with electronics at the desk with, and went for milk, sugar, and salt in that order first. It tasted so much like an unpleasant chemical that I didn't even think it was a bug until I looked at it in the light to see if I had to call poison control. That shit lingered too, ended up alternating between cough drops and vigorous brushing for a few hours.

It's been over a decade so it's a funny story now, but I was on the warpath murdering every one of those little bastards I could find for the next couple years. We still get them out where I live now, but at least it's in the country and they're part of the cast of occasional visitors we get instead of a twice yearly plague of them. After the incident and subsequent jihad I can't stand the smell of crushing them anymore though so I just throw them back outside or put them in a jar for my kid to play bug doctor with. I used to think they just smelled like fresh paper and celery but now it turns my stomach a little.

If monarchs eat milkweed to deter critters from munching on them stinkbugs must subsist entirely on the mustache drippings of hipster high IBU evangelicals, which would actually explain why their population exploded with the gentrification of the shithole we lived in then.
Nature's little Nintendo cartridges.

I will not eat the bugs.

 

[Begemot]

Food in Eritrea. No wonder so many are starving.

I think we need a bit more context, can you give us more particulars?

 

[Lemmingwiser]

I think we need a bit more context, can you give us more particulars?

Everything was shit. Breakfast. Lunch. Dinner. They make injarra which is like pancakes made out of the stomach lining of animals. Because it's made out of an organ that resists digestion, it doesn't digest. I've had it once outside of eritrea and it actually tasted good, but I had it almost every day there and it sucked. The sauces and herbs are all fucked. They had some middle eastern type sauces but the proportion of herbs were all fucked. I'm someone that likes a lot of different foods, but I couldn't find anything worth eating.
They had some western foods and it all sucked too. Bread, fries. The fries were like they had been drenched in water. Some of the freshly baked bread was passable. I'd make an example of some other type foods, but thats about all the western foods they had.
Of course all the hygiene of the food prep was messed up too. Made our whole group sick all the time. One night I went doen to the bar in the hotel and the bar man was eating raw meat out of bowl with his hands.

There's a lot of things I liked about the country, but the food just sucked donkey balls and the only only exception was a single day where I ate with some rural farmers who slaughtered and prepared a goat. With injarra of course, but at least grilled meat wasn't ruined in any way.

 

[kangaroo teller]

A dish called "mole".
I've eaten many bad things because I like trying Asian dishes so I know that things can get quite gross when it comes to food. I also usually forget about dishes that have brought disgust to my palate but I still remember mole to this day because of how stinky it was, it kind of was as stinky as curry. It had something else in it which made the smell stick in my nostrils.
I think the worst "dish" anyone could eat is a Philippine dish called "pagpag" though. With curry and mole you at least know that they are just stinky because of how many spices they have, but pagpag has to be the most depressing, gross and nauseating thing you could "cook" ever. Even 嗦丟 is less depressing.

 

[N Space]

I once wanted to prepare some orange juice but my lazy ass didn't want to extract the juice, so I just threw a pair of oranges into the blender to make a smoothy. Thick, bitter, acid and ugly, I really tried to drink it out of pride but a few sips made me change my mind.

 

[Neurotypical Mantis]

i once had a pizza (in seattle, of course) with cheese that was so rubbery it genuinely could not be xhewed and broken down. the strawberry funnel cake Frappuccino was pretty bad too given it somehow had the aftertaste of SHRIMP.
squid nigiri (without soy sauce which may have been a sin on my part) tastes like how a dirty aquarium smells.