The most disgusting food ever?

[Grayjack]

I've never eaten it, but Lutefisk looks disgusting.

 

[ae86gamer]

The most disgusting food ever is.... Spam. Need I say more?

 

[FolkLikePanda]

Fucking paté I CAN'T STAND IT! I THROW UP WHEN I TRY TO EAT IT! Also black pudding buts that tasty.

 

[Zero47]

Need to lose some pounds, thought I'd try this.
Fucking. Aweful.

 

[Starnerf]

Any fish, but specifically salmon. I don't know why, but just the smell makes me retch.

I threw out a can of tuna with a decent amount still in it and after a few days my garbage started to smell like salmon. I don't like fish very much.

 

[Julianking93]

Haggis and Feta Cheese.

Ugh...

 

[Akai Shizuku]

<url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casu_marzu>Casu marzu. It's a rotting cheese with live maggots in it.

Eating it can kill you. Literally. It's illegal.

 

[FranzTyphid]

i have a soup-phobia

 

[EmoDan]

cockles and other such seafood you get here in the uk at beaches
i remember as a child in blackpool my father trying to get me to eat a cockle
i think it was about the same time i learnt to swear lol

 

[Quel0]

I ate beef tongue when i grew up... the only food that can taste you back!

But the worst food i've ever had was blood sausage.

 

[Supernovajake]

altho i hate tons of food, the worst ever has to be:

#1.Balut


From:
The Philippines

What the hell is it?
Behold, for our journey of horror reaches its destination. Balut are duck eggs that have been incubated until the fetus is all feathery and beaky, and then boiled alive. The bones give the eggs a uniquely crunchy texture.


They are enjoyed in Cambodia, Philippines and the fifth and seventh levels of hell. They are typically sold by street vendors at night, out of buckets of warm sand. You can spot the vendors because of their glowing red eyes, and the faint, otherworldly sound of children screaming.

Wait, it gets worse ...
... Because you're never going to look at an egg the same way. Tell yourself that every time you crack open an egg from now on you won't be half expecting a leathery wad of bird to come flopping out into the skillet.

Yes, balut is upsetting on about a half-dozen levels. Sure, all meat eaters know on some level that the delicious chop on your plate used to belong to something cute and fluffy, which gambolled in the sun during the brief spring of its life. Most of the time, it' perfectly possible not to give a shit. But, when you're biting into something that hasn't even had a chance to see its mother' face ... well, it' different.

Danger of this turning up in America:
Actually, marketed properly, these eggs could be a damn good motivator. When you've looked death in the face at breakfast time, what the hell else can the day throw at you?

Ah yes, balut.

Spoiler: Echer123 is not responsible for sudden vomiting or thoughts of suicide.

Those crazy filipinos...

Thats... just... wrong. I love a tasty bit of duck as much as the next person but that is absolutely disgusting.

 

[Simply Simon]

I hate mushrooms, although that probably has more to do with my phobia against them than actual taste.

As for disgusting foods... in Sweden we have an infamous dish called surströmming, which is infamous for its odour. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surstr%C3%B6mming
Although I've heard that it's only the smell that's horrible, and it's quite good for eating.

 

[fix-the-spade]

Spaghetti Carbonara made by someone who has no idea how Carbonara sauce should be served.

It's like getting a plate of cheese flavoured snot with some pasta in the bottom.

Black pudding.

Nah, it's resourceful rather than disgusting. How else are you going to make blood into an edible substance?

Besides, it's almost staple breakfast food in the UK, you can't have a full English Breakfast without a chunk of Black Pudding.

 

[GoldenRaz]

I think that a couple of episodes of EXTREME Survival on Discovery can give quite a few good options.
More specifically when he eats some semi-digested food right from the stomach of a dead camel.

 

[Dark Sup3rn0va]

It has to be mushrooms, even the smell of them makes me want to puke.

 

[Syndef]

There's a South Asian counterpart to black pudding:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiet_canh
(The picture in that article is much too good-looking. Typically, it looks exactly Jell-O, but if the Jell-O was made of blood--I'm serious).

It's coagulated blood. At least the English blood sausages are cooked.
These blood cakes are just made from freshly drained blood, rendered solid through refrigeration. Leave it outside for too long, and you'll be drinking the stuff.

 

[Rory]

Most of this [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Eorramatur] sounds and looks bad, but it's mostly very tasty, aside of few things.

 

[Zildjin81]

Polenta, hands down.

Or placenta... if that's food...

 

[ejb626]

In Korea they eat live octupi and apparently while chewing you also have to kill them with your teeth and they cling your mouth I think if theres a chance that the food can crawl up your throat if you don't chew it well enough its pretty gross.