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What's the most vile food you've tasted ?.
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Flat Matt
10-02-2013
Seaweed.

I went to school with a Chinese kid who ate it as a snack all the time. I tried a bit and nearly threw up. It tasted like a particularly unpleasant mouthful of seawater. Absolutely rancid.

Can't stand shellfish of any kind either.

I'm allergic to kidney. It makes me violently sick and even the smell of steak and kidney pudding makes me reach.
HungerCult
10-02-2013
Onions are satan's turd - I would literally eat my own raw flesh before I'd taste onion again.
haphash
10-02-2013
Snails, absolutely disgusting
Terual
10-02-2013
Originally Posted by felixrex:
“The humble Turkish Delight beats any strange foreign delicacy I've ever sampled in the 'vile food' stakes.”

Glad I,m not the only one who thinks "delight" is most inappropriate in this product. Utterly vile
Terual
10-02-2013
In Vietnam I once saw on the English translation menu of a Chinese resturant the following
Fallopian Tube!!! It didnt state from which beast this was obtained but needless to say it was not my choice for dinner that evening.
chris1978
10-02-2013
My nan used to cook tripe and onions. I was offered some once and it made me gag.
Banana is one for me - they make me feel sick it's the texture.
Also once ate fish stomach by mistake when I was abroad and we got served a complete fish on a plate. I didn't realise the guts hadn't been taken out.
Ancient IDTV
10-02-2013
Lancaster tinned hotdogs in brine. Absolutely vile.
humdrummer
10-02-2013
Durian - I think that is how to spell it anyway.

No 'fruit' should taste or smell like sweaty Camembert. It's a crime against nature!
DaisyBill
10-02-2013
Mango chutney
tinned spinach
The whole pie and mash thing. This includes just being in the shop where other people are actually eating jellied/stewed eels.
Kebabs
Full fat milk, especially in Cornwall.
Pek ham.
And loads more.
Yes, I am a fussy eater. My parents did the 'eat what you're given or go hungry' thing. I usually went hungry.
ylomyloh
10-02-2013
I quite like snails. Lime pickle made me want to hurt myself though.
ylomyloh
10-02-2013
Originally Posted by Terual:
“Glad I,m not the only one who thinks "delight" is most inappropriate in this product. Utterly vile”

Oh and this!!! Turkish delight from Turkey was lovely. The little purple stuff over here tastes like Fairy Liquid!!
ladymoanalot
10-02-2013
Mussels
whatever54
10-02-2013
Originally Posted by TOONARMY12:
“Uhoh!http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casu_marzu”

Originally Posted by lemoncurd:
“Snails and frogs legs are just tasteless, IMO. The fact that they need to be dowsed in garlic butter suggest that they need some flavour.

On the other hand, a friend of mine from Sardinia once held a soiree, and they served a local cheese. It stank, was ridden with maggots and had yellow liquid inside it. It tasted worse than it smelt, but they insisted it was a delicacy, so it seemed rude to heave.”

is it wrong that I would quite like to try this, I love really stinky cheese
trevgo
10-02-2013
Originally Posted by Fibromite59:
“Yorkshire Pudding (I would retch if made to eat any),”

A proper Yorkshire (not the pathetic dry little round things served up these days), but pan sized and cooked in the tin once the beef has been removed to rest - crisp on top and underneath, but soft and doughy in the middle, eaten before the main course with fantastic gravy - is the food of kings. Or rather, paupers, as that is how it started. A Midlands/Northern habit that has virtually died out. I still do it this way if I do a roast, and everyone loves it.

My food hell is beetroot and French style goats cheese. It has an aftertaste that makes me wretch (though I love sheeps cheese, like Feta). Waitrose do a "beetroot and goats cheese melt. The thought of it makes me feel ill.
_ben
10-02-2013
Nigel Marven did a program called human senses and in the episode on taste they took a British and a Chinese family and swapped their favourite delicacies to show that they were acquired tastes. The British family's delicacy was a nice blue stilton, the Chinese family's delicacy was something called century eggs, which are basically raw eggs that have been buried in the ground for 100 days until they go black and petrify. They sounded so revolting I wanted to get hold of some just to give them a try but so far have never seen any. I mentioned this to a Chinese friend and he set about looking for blue stilton to give that a try. He came back saying the stilton with blueberries was very pleasant, but he had reported the cheese shop to health and safety because some of the stilton in there was full of mould
mazzy50
10-02-2013
Originally Posted by _ben:
“Nigel Marven did a program called human senses and in the episode on taste they took a British and a Chinese family and swapped their favourite delicacies to show that they were acquired tastes. The British family's delicacy was a nice blue stilton, the Chinese family's delicacy was something called century eggs, which are basically raw eggs that have been buried in the ground for 100 days until they go black and petrify. They sounded so revolting I wanted to get hold of some just to give them a try but so far have never seen any. I mentioned this to a Chinese friend and he set about looking for blue stilton to give that a try. He came back saying the stilton with blueberries was very pleasant, but he had reported the cheese shop to health and safety because some of the stilton in there was full of mould ”


I really dislike marsh mallows (texture and taste) and parsnips.

I was in China on holiday and at breakfast one morning they were offering congee (a kind of savoury porridge) with thousand year egg, which is the same as century egg, I believe. The thousand year egg was in a separate dish, so I lifted the lid to have a look. I cannot say it was the vilest thing I have ever tasted because I'm not sure what it would take to persuade me to put any of that item in my mouth. Here's a picture:

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=th...1%3B1024%3B576
Caxton
10-02-2013
Sprouts, without a doubt. Vile tasting things.
Toriamath
10-02-2013
Prawns, I can't stand them
TOONARMY12
10-02-2013
Originally Posted by whatever54:
“is it wrong that I would quite like to try this, I love really stinky cheese”

Well if you fancy possible internal bleeding go ahead lol
acker
10-02-2013
Another one for Olives....only ever did it once.
Auld Snody
10-02-2013
Fermented herring, in Sweden . Had to be helped down with aquavit. Funny thing was the next morning I got a craving to try it again
whatever54
10-02-2013
Originally Posted by TOONARMY12:
“Well if you fancy possible internal bleeding go ahead lol”

ooh maybe not then, especially as I also just read this about it:

Because the larvae in the cheese can launch themselves for distances up to 15 centimetres (6 in) when disturbed,[1][7] diners hold their hands above the sandwich to prevent the maggots from leaping. Those who do not wish to eat live maggots place the cheese in a sealed paper bag. The maggots, starved for oxygen, writhe and jump in the bag, creating a "pitter-patter" sound. When the sounds subside, the maggots are dead and the cheese can be eaten.[8]

I'm out
GamerGirl
10-02-2013
Peanut Butter (& by association roasted salted peanuts) - I still have nightmares from childhood when I had the first and only taste of it before I threw up!
Tripe - My Father loved it so Mum cooked it. The smell alone was enough to make us kids retch.
Olives, parsnips, mushrooms, smelly cheeses, offal in general, escargots, marshmallows, vanilla, pickled anything, chutneys, any alcoholic drink whatsoever (don't understand why anyone would keep drinking it to get to the stage of actually liking the stuff ), ......so many things.....
bbclassics
10-02-2013
I don't like many foods and tbh I rarely try new foods, one I defintely cannot stand is Cheese on Toast. My family love it but I hate the lingering smell.

Also:
Eggy Bread
Pancakes
Anything Cinammon Flavoured
Tripe
Christmas Pudding
Warm (large) cookies
Mint Chocolate
Nuts

the list goes on...
_ben
10-02-2013
Originally Posted by mazzy50:
“https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=th...1%3B1024%3B576”

Mmmm, that's the stuff, black rotten eggs - what's not to like
I'm starting to think its a good thing I never found any as I would probably have chickened out.

Marsh mallows and parsnips are two of my favourite things, as are many of the other 'vile' foods people have mentioned on this thread, fussy eaters you lot!
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