I had a century egg once. Like a hundred rotten eggs suspended in a salty pond-muck jelly. My body literally refused to swallow it.
Balut
Pinoy friend of mine’s sister brought ‘easter balut’ to their family’s easter. She’d made jello eggs with peeps in the middle.
Wow! What is that like?
I had a gf that adored it because of the"crunchy texture" … But I mean she ate my cum so I can’t really complain
I hope that isn’t crunchy when she eats it too…
Probably not the worst, but I once ate a massive spoonful of flour thinking it was icing sugar.
Sea urchin.
It’s a totally different taste if you can ever get it fresh (like out of a just opened shell level fresh). There’s no sliminess or fishy taste at all, just rich and savory with a hint of sweetness
Oh! This happened last week. It was a mocktail featuring iced matcha and espresso foam. It reminded me of the most disgusting thing that’s ever gone into my mouth by accident.
I was passing through Montevideo, Uruguay, and me and some folks at the hostel I was staying at were out trying a local restaurant. The guy who owned the place saw we were tourists and said he wanted to treat us to a local specialty, and so brought out… something. It was something like animal bits, chunks of fat, and who knows what else all suspended in a hard gelatin. It was truly vile, and I swear it had bits of hair in it as well. To be polite we all tried a small bit, and then got the heck out of there as quick as we could.
To this day I can’t tell if he was sincere, or if he really hated tourists and gave us the contents of his dish trap. Googling has turned up nothing, but thankfully our politeness didn’t extend to actually finishing the awful thing.
Sounds like head cheese.
Fucking gross. I did a year at the deli, hated cutting head cheese. Even the name is disgusting. Only old people bought it.
Oh my God that’s exactly what it was. Awful!!! It was really not good.
ahhh, but that’s a delicacy ! I always buy a few slices when we go in town. With mustard it’s fantastic
They sell this stuff at the Kroger deli and I’ve always been curious. This thread has made me less curious.
I wouldn’t buy a whole thing from the store unless you know you like it, but if you like cilantro and jalapeno, a banh mi with head cheese and pate is a good way to try it. It’s a delicious mix of fresh, savory, fluffy, crunchy, and chewy.
Mouldy yoghurt
This was something like 16-17 years ago now so it’s clearly left a mark
It was about 2-3am, I lived on the ground floor of a student house and I wanted a snack. Remembering I had bought some yoghurts a day or two before I figured that’s what I was going for.
Now I’m not really sure what happened, if I picked up an old one I’d not noticed or it was just bad from the shop, but it didn’t notice until after I’d taken the first mouthful.
Needless to say it tasted genuinely awful and put me off yoghurt in general for a good while
After a rough basketball injury put my tooth through my lip, I ended up with a mucal retention cyst on the inside of my lip a few days later. I was in the doctors waiting room, and it burst in my mouth. It was a thoroughly unpleasant experience, as I rushed to the bathroom to spit it out.
An oyster
The town I grew up in is famous for them, we even learned about them in school but I’d never tried one
Finally decided to just before I moved away for university and eugh, salty mucus-y blob, had to spit it out again, poor lil guy
I adore oysters. You could have spat it out into my mouth and I would have eaten it.
Is this a service you offer for free?
For the price of admission and a belly full of oysters.
Imagine being a waiter in that restaurant
Only way I eat them is fried. Still not my favorite and kinda weird, but much less slimy.
pig intestine from a chinese restaurant, a meeting of the ‘adventurous eaters meetup’. consistency of a mouthful of snot.
Natural casings from quality sausages are pig intestines. And chitterlings.
yeah. this was a plate of really fatty, soft, uh, bits.
Honestly that’s not even that bad in terms of weird Chinese food. The sliced pig hooves were what did me in. Also, I hate the “gunk at the bottom of the hotpot after several hours” gravy that my wife goes ape shit for. Also I just have to ignore nainai’s crazy bad food safety practices. Squid bucket is the same bucket we use to wash the floor. I honestly wish I’d just listened to wiser folks and stayed out of the kitchen.
I’ve had some not so good pig intestine and some phenomenal, and the worse ones were similar to how you described it. If you ever decide you’d try it again, I think it’s so much better when crispy. The texture reminds me of bacon with a gelatinous, melt in your mouth center almost like burnt ends.
I dint know if the most disgusting, but the biggest delta between expectation and reality was root beer.
Expected something vanilly or maybe gingery, got mouthwash. I genuinely spit the first sip.
Two things could hardly be more different than root beer and mouth wash. To be fair, there are a lot of different varieties of root beer - some with a heavy licorice flavor, others stronger vanilla or whatever, but they’re all sweet.
As someone else suggested, maybe you got a strong ginger beer? Those can be pretty spicy.
Nope, A&W root beer. Maybe a have some weird gene mutation like some people have one that makes cilantro taste like soap. I bought a can and even got a root beer float. Still mouthwash (not the ice cream part).
Oh, that’s really strange. Kind of reminds me of when a friend said pineapple makes your whole mouth feel like when you lick a 9v battery, and be didn’t get why people like it. Turns out he has some generic thing that’s like an allergy to it.
Mouthwash? You sure you weren’t drinking a bad sample? A&W brand root beer has a decently strong vanilla taste, although I personally prefer Barq’s which doesn’t.
Mouthwash isn’t minty everywhere. Japanese usually also don’t like root beer because it has an overlap with some medicines’ tastes here
Ginger bier is quite spicy, hot if it has enough in it. What you expected sounds like sarsaparilla?
Not ginger beer, root beer. Ginger beer tastes exactly as advertised :)
Sioux City sarsaparilla ?
Yeah, that’s a good one.
Make sure root beer is ice cold, like nearly frozen. Room temp (warm) root beer can have a cough syrup flavor to some people.
Also there are a TON of different types of root beer. Some are better than others. I’m a 1919 and Triple XXX fan. Sprecher is also good, but the others are better, just sprechers is easier to get.
Warm root beer is an entirely different drink. Still good IMO, the taste is softer and more drawn out. Cold rootbeer is crisper with a cleaner (by comparison) finish.
If you’re ok with warm root beer then you are the minority. I don’t mind most root beer if it’s warm, I like it better cold, but most of my root beer drinking friends absolutely hate warm.
Definitely in the minority. I like grapefruit juice too.
O damn, yea you’re in the minority for sure lol
Probably psyllium husks with water. It’s supposed to help digestion, but the texture is fucking awful. AFAIK you can also buy these as pills, but I’ve never seen any in a store.
Also, gristly meat.
I know someone who rawdogs it with plain water. Dunno how he does it.
What else would you mix it with? I can’t imagine anything that would actually improve the awful texture, and the taste isn’t so hot, either.
I mix it with applesauce. Doesn’t make it great, but it goes down way easier than water.
The other night I made pancakes for dinner because I was tired, hungry, and lazy, and the bag of psyllium husk powder happened to be sitting on my counter so I decided to add a spoonful to my pancake mix to get some extra fiber. It worked out pretty good, I could taste it, but just barely (I also had added blueberries and chocolate chips, so they probably helped mask any unpleasant flavors and textures)
Most of the premade products mix it with orange juice powder. So it’s like a thick orange juice shake. You can probably mix it with whatever flavor and drink it cold so it feels like a shake.
Plain husks are pretty bad but the orange flavored ones are actually kind of pleasant if you ever need to consume them again.
Crushed up amoxicillin tablets.
I refused the liquid because it made me gag but I couldn’t swallow pills yet. Tried putting it in any and everything to hide the taste but it still made its way through. Made me hate eggnog for a long time, too.
Made me hate eggnog for a long time, too.
Eggnog has amoxicillin in it? Where are you from?
One of the things my parents put the amoxicillin in was egg nog, lol. I had strep during the holiday season.
One time I got the bright idea to siphon the water out of my ~50gal aquatic turtle tank for some long overdue cleaning. I anchored one end of a water hose at the bottom of the tank and strung the other end out into the yard and proceeded to start the siphoning process with my mouth. Got force fed a giant gulp of whatever got sucked off the bottom of the tank.
I’ve put some nasty shit in my mouth since then and nothing comes close.
For future reference you can siphon from a tank very easily by just filling up the tube inside the tank and then capping it with your thumb
Yeah, that’s how I drain the swamp coolers at work now. I learned a lot that day.
Another neat trick if you have a long run, is pump your siphon hose up with water from another hose until it starts coming out in the tank you want to drain. Then take the hose away and the siphon will (usually) start itself.
Slug.
When I was small I left my kazoo outside in the yard, and then when I went to play it the next day, I learned the hard way what slugs taste like.
They’re bitter.
they do produce the slime as a deterrent, plus they are also likely filled with parasites too.
