Food you tried once and would never touch again

[Spymaster]

Sea slug. Absolutely vile, puss filled fuckers that taste just how you'd expect a slug to taste. I managed one slice but my throat actually tightened and I was physically unable to swallow more without retching.

 

[trashpony]

I'd never eat Guinea Pig again - maybe it wasn't properly prepared but I thought that it was nastily oily and pretty rank with far too many bones to be worth the effort.

The front limbs are useful as toothpicks, though.

Was just like chicken I thought. Not that exciting

 

[May Kasahara]

capers

You mad thing! I'm addicted to these delicious salty blobs.

 

[fortyplus]

my food would be vegimite, its a repulsive, marmite wannabe

spot on. It's rank. They put MALT in it.

Actually anything with unfermented malt in it is rank. like horlicks. and those malt drinks that look a bit like guinness.

 

[Orang Utan]

I like Vegemite more than Marmite.

You know how you're supposed to either love or hate Marmite?
I just think it's alright

 

[Wookey]

I took a someone I needed to impress out for dinner once, on expenses. I took him to Quo Vadis in Soho. Because someone else was paying, and because I'm a cheeky chav from Salford, I blithely ordered the most expensive thing on the menu - which happened to be a 90 quid lobster.

So I'm quaffing the best shampoo in the house, espousing and impressin', and the waiter brings over what I can only describe as Alien on Tango. This fucking orange monster, splayed out on a huge plate, belly upwards (I think, I have no idea which way it's...... thorax (!) was pointing.)

And there were these silly silver nut-cracker jobbies on the side, and did I have a fucking clue how to eat this thing? Did I bollocks. So I tickled a bit of meat out with me fork and tried that (mmm, everything I expected it to be ), and talked like a manic gibbon for an hour to take attention away from the fact that I had neither the will nor the ability to eat this manky fucking segmented spider-monster staring up at me, with a 'You bastard' look coming from (what I have to assume was) near his facial area.

Never, ever, ever, ever, ever, even on expenses, will I order anything to do with lobster again. My heart would not take it.

Also, oysters are not meant to be ate, by law. Eating involves chewing, nature made it that way for lots of reasons. If you wanna eat a oyster, chew the b'stard. No? Ha! Then don't eat 'em. Evildoin'.

PS: The fruit and the toilet and Glastonbury? Spot on description!!

 

[killer b]

but you can chew oysters - it's just people who don't want to taste 'em who chuck them straight down their necks...

 

[rennie]

I love oysters and mussels!

 

[sojourner]

I can't actually think of anything. I love snails, and rollmops, and I'd love to try the sea/slug/lettuce thing. I even like pigs brains and trotters

Ah! Actually, there is one - tripe!

Hehe Wookey - been there and done that in posh restaurants Us working class northerners should know our place and stick with the chip butties

 

[pembrokestephen]

I find that is much more true of the evil, disgusting, devil's clackers that are mushrooms. I fucking hate the things with a passion, yet apparently all non-meat eaters constantly crave the foul taste and slug-like texture of these Cthulu escapees. EURGH.

Not me. ANd it's more than mildly disturbing that anyone catering for veggies seems to assume that if you don't eat meat, you'll eat the "vegetable" substance most resembling it in texture and appearance (when cooked). Blech.

 

[sunflower]

Jackfruit in Thailand. I ate it hungover and nearly retched. Tried it again sober and it was just as bad

 

[lynne8]

but you can chew oysters - it's just people who don't want to taste 'em who chuck them straight down their necks...

nah, it's the slimey taste going down and the blast of hot sauce and the icy cold beer chaser!

 

[lynne8]

Sea slug. Absolutely vile, puss filled fuckers that taste just how you'd expect a slug to taste. I managed one slice but my throat actually tightened and I was physically unable to swallow more without retching.

 

[sunflower]

koreans eat literally everything in the sea



dog is fucking disgusting as well

Ninjaboy, what are the pale wormy things on the right hand side of the picture? they look disgusting

 

[May Kasahara]

It all looks fucking disgusting.

 

[Ms T]

I couldn't even bring myself to try head cheese. My friend who will eat anything (apart from sweetcorn) had it in a restaurant once and pronounced it delicious.

I can understand some of the dislikes on here (oysters, snails) -- but how can you hate sweetcorn? Or mushrooms? You're all weirdos. ;-)

The thing that I hate with a passion -- MARMITE!! Absolutely vile and disgusting.

 

[polly]

I'm a bit macho about my food and will try anything. Mostly it works out well but has been to my detriment in the past. Vileness that has stood out over the years includes:

Boiled Calves' knees- those pesky koreans strike again. Like grey chunks of congealed vaseline, but more tasteless and the TEXTURE

Lampreys- like chewing a ball of springs, mud and poo, served in a light sewage gravy. UGH.

Lambie- lovely Grenadians served this to me on countless occasions- I believe it is the stuff you get in a conch shell, apparently cooked in bile. (Most Grenadian food is delish, yet they choose to eat this. bizarre)

That's it really. I'll eat anything else, except scrambled eggs *shudder*

 

[k_s]

Olives. Olives are crap. Anyone who eats them and claims to like them is lying to impress their yuppy mates.

 

[hiccup]

Olives. Olives are crap. Anyone who eats them and claims to like them is lying to impress their yuppy mates.

Oh God.

My whole life is a lie.

 

[Winkybag]

I'll eat almost anything, but in Hong Kong I ate a goose foot (very, very bad), pig's intestine (quite nice ) and a raw, warty sea slug monster, which made me dry heave

 

[felixthecat]

Lambie- lovely Grenadians served this to me on countless occasions- I believe it is the stuff you get in a conch shell, apparently cooked in bile. (Most Grenadian food is delish, yet they choose to eat this. bizarre)

Lambie is fab - IF its properly tenderised (my ma-in-law wraps it up in papaya leaves and beats it with a bloody great stick), marinated and cooked properly.

Then its the food of the gods