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

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Several years ago, I had to do a 20 hour shift at a job.

However, a mild disaster happened and those 20 hours turned into four days. Four days without sleep and almost no food (I had a Snickers bar on day two and an apple on day three). On day four, the disaster was contained, a very generous overtime check was given to me, along with a full week of paid leave, and I was free to go home.

I was hungrier than a Somalian dog, but it was, like 5 AM and nothing was open.

On the way home, I saw some guy throwing pizzas in a dumpster. He was the owner of a very shitty pizza place, and was throwing out the stale pizzas no one ate from the last several days. I begged him to give me one. "OK. $3." The fucker had the audacity to charge me for literal garbage. However, I didn't give a shit anymore and paid him.

It would have been wiser to pick one of the ones he had already thrown in the trash for free.

The crust tasted like dry cardboard and sawdust. The olives were bitter, the meat smelled bad and tasted like battery acid, and the mushrooms were probably starting to become poisonous. That pizza was at least two days old, and probably wasn't even good when it was fresh out the oven.

I ate half of it.

I went home and slept for 15 hours. Then I went to my parent's house and my mom cooked me a great meal.

I love my mom.
 
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Suckling Pig @ El Sobrino De Botin.

Supposedly they're the oldest restaurant in the world so you'd think they'd have practice making a tasty pig, but I couldn't eat any of it. It just tasted foul. Ended up just eating the fruit that came with it and later getting cheese-in-cones from a little shop a few blocks away.
 
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I visited a Romanian friends house and helped them make a salad with a lot of pickles, vegetables and mayonnaise in it, the closest approximation I can find online is Romanian A La Russe salad. I said I'd try some afterwards to be polite and not offend them. I couldn't get passed a single bite, it just tasted like pickle chunks in mayonnaise. Ironically this did indeed offend the parents and the friend never spoke to me again afterwards.

I too know how it feels to lose a gal pal because of pickles :(
 
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Country Fried Steak from Cracker Barrel when I was a little kid. I remember it not tasting right but I was always told to finish my food. So not long after eating it I threw up all over the parking lot as we were leaving. Haven’t been to a Cracker Barrel since.
 
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I had an experience with a place that sold deep fried chicken gizzards and livers that a friend took me to. He was smacking on them like they were candy so I ordered some thinking they were going to be really good and I really liked the batter they were fried in but that's when I discovered the flavor of liver. Concentrated skunk started to overwhelm my mouth until I couldn't bear the weird dry gross party going on inside. I couldn't get rid of the flavor, not even raping my mouth with brown listerine worked so I slept it off and that somehow did the trick.
 
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I love my grandmother dearly but she once made the single worst pizza I have ever eaten, it was only pizza in the loosest sense of the word.
I recall the base being a very dry round of pita bread, topped with feta cheese that might have been going bad due to how funky the flavor was, and strips of lox. It put me off of both feta cheese and pita bread for a very long time though surprisingly lox never really bothered me.

One of the worst things I've personally ever made was inspired by a challenge on Next Food Network Star, where for some godforsaken reason the contestants were asked to take cereal and some other sweet thing and combine it with meat?! I don't remember what it was but some lady made a marshmallow fluff and fruity pebble crusted chicken because God is dead and we killed him. I was maybe 14 at the time and a beginner cook and that seemed like a great idea, so I made Crunch Berries breaded chicken breasts. It was not a good idea. It was in fact, a dreadful idea.
I was still not confident with stovetop oil-frying to I followed a recipe for oven-cooked breaded chicken breasts (this was also before the prevalence of air fryers) I never flipped the chicken so there was a sort of soft crunchberry coating on top and a nearly puree'd mushy crunchberry layer on the other. I was worried about undercooking the chicken so it ended up being the opposite- this was a very thick, very dry, slab of chicken fully coated in a cloyingly sweet purple-tinted mush that I proceeded to eat with BBQ sauce and a side of mac n' cheese.

TyrasGuard said:
Coliflour

You can fuck up any meal, even if you use the right ingredients but coliflour is naturally disgusting to me, the smell, the taste or lack thereof, the texture. I've tried many ways to cook it and it always makes me gag.
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Riced cauliflower is probably my most hated food, it tastes like depression. It's an actual crime against the concept of flavor.
 
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About two years ago I filled a wok with an inch or two of some weird foreign peanut oil. I got it smoking hot, and then I battered some steak bites in an egg and cornstarch mixture before double frying it. Chinky fried steak?

Anyway, I ate it, but it was so oily and greasy. Not a great flavor, texture, smell, or really anything you'd care about as an eater. The weird oil, which was probably expired or not sealed properly (who knows) made it not good.

Eating it over white rice made it worse because the steak bites weren't saucy, so you could see all the excess oil and grease left behind on top of the rice.

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Country Fried Steak from Cracker Barrel
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I wish we could take the pepsi challenge on who had the worst chicken fried steak. I imagine it's a food that has never been prepared well because it's inherently disgusting.

The worst thing someone else has prepared for me that I ate was a 7-11 (USA) cheese pizza. It was $3.14 for a whole pizza on Pi Day, so I figured I'd try it.

I took one bite, and it was familiar like school pizza, but so much worse. The sauce had an awful, stale taste. I spent about a minute frantically thinking about what to do next. I threw the pizza away.

Even though the pizza was terrible, throwing an entire hot/fresh pizza into a dumpster while it still had steam coming off of it really hurt me to my soul. It didn't feel right doing it. But I knew I couldn't even give it to a homeless or starving person, it was that bad. Knowing that anything I'd try to do to be "nice" would only make the situation worse is what helped me accept the fact I had thrown away an entire hot pizza minus one bite.
 
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