What"s the worst thing you ever ate ?

[JonB_in_Glencoe]

potato chips made with fat-free fat (olestra)
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-olestra.htm
ya gotta love food that lists side effects:

"The side effects—including loose stools, abdominal cramping, and olestra's interference with the body's ability to absorb certain crucial vitamins, namely Vitamins A, D, E, and K—were enough to cut sales in half by 2000 to $200 million USD. Although the intestinal side effects, which became commonly known as "anal leakage" "

[JonB_in_Glencoe]

also, my Alaskan cousins (they are part native) would reconstitute dried Pike with seal oil...that was tough to choke down.

[dbosman]

About the only thing I don't want to eat is brussel sprouts. They just taste bitter to me.

Brussel sprouts in Texas probably taste bitter to everyone.
I can't stand them until after the first frost gets to the plants. The sugars convert and then they're great.

My two worst, that I can remember, is head cheese and Durian.

[gbrown]

Brussel sprouts in Texas probably taste bitter to everyone.
I can't stand them until after the first frost gets to the plants. The sugars convert and then they're great.

My two worst, that I can remember, is head cheese and Durian.

Mine have always been store bought, have no clue where they were raised. My mother loved them and cooked them from time to time. Ate 'em, cause I was supposed to. As said, didn't enjoy them. My family eats them, but I don't. Any other vegetable I will eat, including pickled stuff, like kimchee, sauerkraut, greens of all sorts, etc. Just leave out the brussel sprouts. Give me a thousand recipes, I'll try 'em all, less the brussel sprouts. LOL

Edit--Head Cheese? OMG. Good Head Cheese is like the ultimate. Thick slab of head cheese on good bread with a thick slice of sweet onion? Wow! We all have our own tastes.

[Dale in Louisiana]

gw-

I've often wondered why we Cajuns didn't already include squid and octopus in our repertoire. I love 'em, but I have trouble finding fresh ones. Every place I ask around here has them as bait until I go visit our Vietnamese friends. To me, seafood is seafood.

Brussels sprouts -- yeah, if you do the 'boil 'em until they're slimy' recipe. I take fresh ones, clean off the outer leaves, cut them in half and saute 'em with onions and garlic and browned-down smoked sausage. They're great.

Worst thing I ever ate? I dunno. An 'I dare you' hot pepper when I was a kid? Green persimmon? They have a well-deserved reputation for puckering you up something fierce.

dale in Louisiana

[Hickory]

Beets, . . . I consider any beet crop a failure.

[2AMMD]

Love brussel sprouts cooked any way. Keep the slimey okra for fertilizer.

[condorjohn]

Hey Hiclory, +1 on the beets. I always say "lips that touch beets shall never touch mine."

Condorjohn

[Finster101]

"Few years back, while in China, got into a batch of bad chicken feet, tore up for about a week. That's about the only thing I don't eat anymore."



I Can't believe there is a good batch of chicken feet.

[WilliamDahl]

I'm not much of a plant eater -- I eat the animals that eat the plants.

Now, having said that, I would have to say that there are a lot of things that I have encountered overseas that I could not get past the look, much less the smell. For the most part, I have determined that just drinking their beer is usually safe and most herbivore mammals are acceptable grilled over an open fire.

[TheCelt]

Shot some Blue Jays when I was a kid......toughest, stringiest no-flavor piece of meat I ever ate. Got both of em down but never shot another.

[Trey45]

I normally don't tell this story since it sounds unbelievable, and I freely admit that. But it really happened, I saw it with my own eyes.

About 20 years ago I was working for a shipyard on Norfolk's waterfront. It was October and we were on 10 hour days working 70 hours on the USS Shreveport. The gedunk at the yard had decent lunches during the normal work week, but weekends if they were even open they had leftovers, I got some beef noodle for lunch on a Saturday that was so bad I threw it out on the pier for the seagulls to eat....

They wouldn't. They flew off and left it on the pier.

[chadschroeder]

okra and chicken hearts

[nagantguy]

Eat most anything but on a deployment came across the most vile thing I've ever eaten, pickeled fish sausage. Even a Marine two days behind on chow could not stomach that stuff.

[Artful]

I'm fixin' to ruin what little reputation I may have here on C/B's but.....All thinks pork. Can't stand it.

A friend went on a tour, they visited some cannibal's - one of the questions was what they like to eat now - answer was pork - caused it tasted like chinamen.

[Stonecrusher]

Anything containing cilantro. I don't understand with the fascination with this evil weed. I can taste bug spray and soap no matter how little is used. It definitely keeps me out of a lot of mexican restaurants. There is even a website called "I Hate Cilantro".
Other than that, I'll eat most anything.

[MaryB]

Durian (shudders) that has to top my list. Second is my grandmother on my mom's side hamburger gravy, that lady fed 10 people with a 1/4 pound of hamburger boiled in water and thickened with corn starch (complete with corn starch lumps, slimy little dumplings)

[Cosmiceyes]

A bar of soap! Ivory!

[mikeym1a]

Air Force chow at BeinHoa, 1970. Not that the food was bad, but everything I ate there gave me the trots, and not just me. A lot of us ended up eating at the Airman's Annex. Same cooks as the mess hall, but, never got the trots from that food.

[6bg6ga]

Tofu sucks big time.