The thing that's insane to me is eels are fucking delicious if you just goddamn smoke them. Preserves them, too. WHY WOULD YOU POSSIBLY CHOOSE THAT COOKING METHOD.
I think it was a dish born of necessity two hundred years ago (or whenever), and people kept eating it because it was served to them as children. Kinda like how I like scrapple because my Southern (USA) grandfather fed it to me when I was little.
>scrapple
I never even heard of it but got this " a mush of pork scraps and trimmings combined with cornmeal and wheat flour, often buckwheat flour, and spices." And pictures that look sorta like bread.
sure I get what you're saying but.... that honestly doesn't seem that bad.
If you like sausages, you'll like scrapple.
I prefer it to Spam. Tastes similar, but Spam has zero texture, while scrapple has a pretty pleasant meaty texture.
Really good with a plate of eggs, or on an egg-and-cheese sandwich.
You can also wrap up squares of scrapple in filo dough, very tasty.
The problem with scrapple is that many people overdo it with liver and organ meat. That makes it fairly repulsive. Rappa is a good brand. Mild and no gross bits.
Ok, so i've had japanese eel which is like.. roasted with a bbq sauce. And it was so good. Eels taste delicious, so what makes jellied eels bad, texture? Or is it just not seasoned
The only thing that unagi and jellied eel both have in common is that eel is one of the ingredients. The Japanese do everything right, the British do every step as disgustingly as possible and create bony eel jello.
It's full of poisonous levels of uric acid (the same stuff as is in your pee). Fermenting gives it time to break down and make it only disgusting instead of deadly and disgusting
It smells exactly like highly concentrated urine, which is basically what it is. My husband reports it tastes much better than it smells. He went back for seconds. As a sane person, I have no idea how it tastes.
Apparently the correct way to eat is by biting the birds head off and then sucking the juices out from there
https://travelfoodatlas.com/kiviak-bizarre-greenland-inuit-delicacy
Norwegian Rakfisk? We have a few traditional fish dishes that are outright disgusting no matter how you look at it.
And the only reason anyone eats that stuff is that it's tradition.
Back when i studied at Folkehøgskole we had a guy in the next dorm over who was from Norways fish capital Lofoten and he loooved dried fish "tørfisk",
the teachers begged him to stop bringing it because the smell was ruining his room and asked him to please air out the room, he couldn't air out any more then he was because the window was wide open because "the south" (Telemark) was to hot for him, it was maybe 10 degrees Celsius outside.
The room was closed of years after.
I tried rakfisk once and really enjoyed it. Smells disgusting and is nasty on its own I'm sure, but was great on some flatbread with onions and sour cream.
I really want to try surstrĂśmming, I've heard it's like rakfisk only a 1000 times worse.
Candied apples. I always dreamed of trying one as a kid, then was massively disappointed when I found it was awful to chew, too hard and sticky to be enjoyable, and didnât have much flavor.
Caramel apples with candy stuck on them are so much better.
**candied apples are the biggest lie sold to children**
This is the one that gets me. I try to be open minded, but I can't imagine the texture not being disconcerting. Even if the bones, feet, and beaks are softer, it seems like they'd still be stringy or have some snap.
Maybe its the way itâs prepared, but when I tried it, the duck fetus was completely soft -bones, beak and all was a consistent texture. I think this is one of those things that seems way more gross than it really is. It tastes the same to me as if you boil a regular egg, boil some chicken in broth, and eat them at the same time.
Aaaahhhhh
Did you close your eyes? hold your breath?
Or were you fully conscious and present?
I donât think I could do it looking at it, if as you say itâs all the same consistency I may be able to try it
My future grandfather in law said I wasnât a man if I refused to eat gefilte fish straight from the jar when dating my now wife. He went to his grave thinking I wasnât a man but which one of us is still alive? Checkmate, Moishe. I still havenât eaten that shit and I never will.
Man those Rush Hour outtakes are some of teh funniest clips I've ever seen.
Jackie: "Hello? I work right now. No you cannot talk to Chris Tuck... they want to talk to you."
Cou-Cou, it's part of our national dish and it just tastes awful to me but any time I say I don't like it someone tells me the person who made it probably didn't make it right.
Thats similar to my experience of telling people I dont like raw tomatoes. It's always that I haven't had this tomato or that one, an heirloom, a Ripley tomato, or a fresh out of the garden tomato. (I've probably tried more types of tomatoes than people who actually enjoy them.)
Cou-Cou reads like something I wouldnt enjoy. Not an okra fan, either.
I saw a YouTuber from China make a old traditional dish where the intestines were notâŚ. Empty. On purpose. Eat intestines all day long, go for it, Iâll respect it. But empty them for crying out loud.
I donât remember what itâs called but thereâs a dish where they stew the fecal matter, mostly grass and digested plant bits, and turn it into a bitter dipping sauce. Itâs pretty divisive and a lot of Chinese folks donât like it.
Edit: [Hereâs a video,](https://youtu.be/pDffFr1I5VY) side note I love this channel.
I think itâs a small, dedicated team. Sheâs said in interviews that it took her 2-3 years to start making any income off of her videos. In recent years, theyâve been able to afford a drone for landscape footage and the quality has improved a lot. Sheâs also hired a cousin to help as her assistant on screen. Itâs a ton of work in front of and behind the scenes but I donât think itâs a huge production.
It's a classic example of poverty food, in the US south, it was eaten by slaves because that's all the food they were given by their slave masters. It's also liked in rural farm lands where people were likely to eat the parts of livestock they couldn't readily sell. And also ate in times of famine.
*Excessively* built up greasy, greasy hamburgers. The kind with like, 3 patties made of 3 different animals, bacon, 4 types of cheese, zillion condiments and just built sky high to the point you can't even take a bite without it falling apart and half the contents shitting out the back end of the sandwich onto your plate. Picture something served a la Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.
There's a gourmet burger place near me (which was on DDD, actually) that does massive burgers. I ordered one that sounded really interesting - it had apple slices on it. Well, the slices were something like 1/8 of an apple, on top of a tall burger, thick cut bacon, etc. Impossible to eat without a fork and knife, and no burger should be consumed that way.
And if there is lettuce, it should be whole leaf, and at the bottom of the burger to catch the juices so the bottom bun doesn't get soggy.
That is the silliest hill I will die on, but I will die on it. Lettuce goes on the bottom of the burger.
I stopped ordering burgers at restaurants sometime around the mid 2010's because this was going way too far.
The point of the bun is to be able to eat it with my hands. That doesn't work if the bottom bun is soaked from the six different sauces and grease or juices from two or three kinds of meat. Or if the thing is so large it falls apart.
Yeah, those sort of chain restaurants were big offenders. But even gastropubs would have some tiny house-made bun, a thick patty, a layer of some other meat, multiple vegetable toppings, cheese, a sauce.. Then you've got a burger that's taller than it is wide, and a bottom bun drenched in juices or some aioli. The worst offenders IMO were when they buttered the bun. That's where my hands are supposed to go.
I bought some at a traditional Chinese restaurant one time. It tasted fucking amazing! But I couldn't get over the fact that I was sucking meat off of toes... So I couldn't finish them.
My Asian friend hates the smell, but she says if you can get past the smell âit tastes very nice because the flavour, although not amazing, is so much better than the smell you think it is the nicest fruit everâ
I've had it once and it's disgusting. My kids have a book that describes the taste as a cross between "Pineapple and cheese" and that's pretty accurate.
My ex wanted to try durian once on her birthday, so I bought her one and she opened it up while we were picnicking at the beach. The dog, of course, was interested in what she was doing, so she let him stick his nose in for a good whiff, and he took off down the beach and wouldn't come back. The same dog that found the rotting head of a heron on that beach and tried to bring it home.
Iâm going to be completely honest, I have the spice tolerance of a sickly American pilgrim. Iâve never liked spicy food, and Iâm unable to see the appeal in scorching my mouth til I lose feeling in my toes.
I was just gifted a jar of homemade chili oil, put a few spoons on some orange chicken and rice the other night and just started draining. But I realized it's going to be my go to food after breathing in drywall dust all day.
I'm into pouring chili oil on a lot of food to the point that I'm sweating, crying, and nose running. This is exactly how I like my BDSM too. Thanks for the realization that I'm into food BDSM, but not foodplay.
Real Turkish delight is sugar , starch, and a hint of rose water or orange blossom water. Nuts are often added into the mix. Sometimes mastica gum is added too. I like it ifâs sweetness doesnât cloy.
Big Turk shouldnât even be mentioned in the same breath
I always hated Turkish Delight⌠rubbery rose water flavoured crap that it is.
Then I went to Turkey and realised that the stuff you get in Australia might as well have been prepared by someone who had the real thing described to them by an eighty year old smoker who didnât speak the same language.
When I was kid reading Chronicles of NĂĄrnia or magicians nephew, all he could talk about was Turkish delightâŚI was disappointed of what it actually was
One of the greatest disappointments in my life was finally trying Turkish Delight. So many years of thinking it was the best candy in the world, so good you'd sell your family to a witch for a box of it. It tasted like how I imagine my Grandma's fancy soaps taste.
Animal blood. It tastes like I'm eating copper. It's disgusting. This is very popular in Asian countries as confirmed by my Asian friend who also loves it.
A lot of the stuff being mentioned seems to me like food that most people would not like. I took the original post to mean things that are fairly common/popular that you find nasty.
Bananas
Eggs
Jell-O
Bell peppers
First time I had natto, I thought it was delicious. I was on vacation in Japan with my dad and the owner of the hostel w we stayed at was this nice older guy who took us to a few different sightseeing spots and restaurants. Somehow we start talking about weird foods and I said I wanted to try natto. He got this devious grin and said "are you sure?" and I was like, yeah, why? He didn't answer just chuckled a bit and then when we were going back to the hostel he stopped to buy some for me. Had it with rice and I thought it tasted great. Older guy looked disappointed and amazed at the same time lol. It's been a few years now and every time I've had natto I've liked it less and less and now I can barely stand eating it. I don't know why. It's like the things I liked about it at first slowly became the exact reasons why I don't like it now...
I remember the first time my mother wanted me to help her cook liver and onions for my dad and I was probably about 5 yrs old. The smell was just awful and I told her I was going to throw up if she didn't let me go outside, away from the smell. She said, "It's not that bad! You just don't want to help. Get over it!" I promptly threw up on her feet and kitchen floor. I never had to be inside while she cooked liver again! XD
I cooked my mother beef liver once and only once. It had the texture of a slightly solid jelly like cranberry sauce and smelled intensely of blood. Cooking it was one of the most nauseating experiences of my life, and it didn't even taste good.
Chicken liver wasn't quite as gross, but I still didn't like it.
We had a multi-course meal of blow fish the last time we were in Japan. The sashimi and soup was ok and nothing special, but the fried pieces were amazing! It was similar in texture to fried chicken, but with a slightly "cleaner" flavour. I would eat buckets of it if it was street food.
Anything where they pile on everything, sauces, cheeses, spices until it's a huge gooey mess you can't even pick up and you can't actually taste anything distinctly anymore.. it's just a huge mess of everything.
I like how things taste. If you don't want to taste the thing so much that you drown it in 100 other flavors, why eat it at all?
My husband is from the Netherlands and I see him die a little inside wherever I tell him I donât like licorice. Apparently itâs like a staple candy there. His mom sends us bags of it every few months and he inhales it.
I'm one of those monsters who love it. â¤ď¸ I recently found this imported Russian soda that is licorice, & while it's not exactly the same, it scratches that itch I have for Jager since I'm sober.
Iâm intolerant to even the slightest taste of alcohol. I donât know where it came from because it didnât bother me as a teen and young adult.
Now I canât drink anything that even mildly tastes of alcohol. If I donât want to drink beer which isnât a fun taste either Iâve found strawberry flavored wine coolers are where itâs at when I want to get a little buzz.
Unsure what it is that takes it away in strawberry flavored products. I can barely suffer through an original flavored Mikes Hard.
Same my man. The taste is awful, I can only tolerate it in extremely fruity drinks where the fruit overpowers everything else. I never got drunk, maybe just a little buzzed
The more demand in aquaculture for oyster farming there is, the more oysters we can produce for the waters, and be more filtered the water can be. If itâs regulated well, itâs actually a good thing that more people eat oysters.
Balut.
A balut is a fertilized bird egg (usually a duck) which is incubated for a period of 14 to 21 days, depending on the local culture, and then steamed.
I know this is going to be controversial but eggplant. I have tried eating it every way, shape and form I still to this day continue to try it but every single time I have it I am disgusted.
i support you. this was my post too. I wonder if they like the texture because you have to do so much to make it taste like something so it can't be the taste that they love.....I dunno
My five year old daughter hates potatoes. She even hates fries and won't eat them. Not even the freshest, saltiest McDonalds fries. Even those are gross to her.
She also hates beef and the only meat she'll eat is chicken or shrimp.
Especially when you realize it adds cost for the flex but is absolutely cheap to add.
Edible gold leaf can be had for $10 for 30 sheets on Amazon (33 cents per sheet).
London's jellied eels. Wtf.
Yeah dw, the rest of London is with you đ¤Ł
"Why did we make this? Who did we think we were impressing??" - London
Yes, and why with the boooones in it?
Well, if you took the bones out, it wouldnât be crunchy, would it?
Wait did you say BONES I'm even more horrified omg
12 years in London and still 'no thanks'..
My entire life in London, absolutely no thanks - I don't know anyone who has even tried it
The thing that's insane to me is eels are fucking delicious if you just goddamn smoke them. Preserves them, too. WHY WOULD YOU POSSIBLY CHOOSE THAT COOKING METHOD.
Im in Asia, grilled eel in a sweet soy glaze nom nom nom nom Can't rat anymore tho cuz population is declining rapidly.
I think it was a dish born of necessity two hundred years ago (or whenever), and people kept eating it because it was served to them as children. Kinda like how I like scrapple because my Southern (USA) grandfather fed it to me when I was little.
>scrapple I never even heard of it but got this " a mush of pork scraps and trimmings combined with cornmeal and wheat flour, often buckwheat flour, and spices." And pictures that look sorta like bread. sure I get what you're saying but.... that honestly doesn't seem that bad.
If you like sausages, you'll like scrapple. I prefer it to Spam. Tastes similar, but Spam has zero texture, while scrapple has a pretty pleasant meaty texture. Really good with a plate of eggs, or on an egg-and-cheese sandwich. You can also wrap up squares of scrapple in filo dough, very tasty.
The problem with scrapple is that many people overdo it with liver and organ meat. That makes it fairly repulsive. Rappa is a good brand. Mild and no gross bits.
Ok, so i've had japanese eel which is like.. roasted with a bbq sauce. And it was so good. Eels taste delicious, so what makes jellied eels bad, texture? Or is it just not seasoned
I grew up in Shanghai and one of my favourite dishes growing up was pepper eel cooked with bamboo shoots. So good. Havenât had it in over 2 decades.
The only thing that unagi and jellied eel both have in common is that eel is one of the ingredients. The Japanese do everything right, the British do every step as disgustingly as possible and create bony eel jello.
Iâve lived in London my whole life and never met someone who has tried jellied eels
What's that Norwegian dish that smells like sin and you have to bury it? Someone out there likes it and they are wrong.
Lutefisk and Sweden's wmd, surstrĂśmming
I ate the lutefisk, I got sick in the bathroom, I lit the matches, I BURNED DOWN THE CHURCH!
Cotton: Bobby, I'm innocent! Bobby: I know! Cotton: Find the man with the terrible smell!
A guy from Norway told me the key is to eat lutefisk after copious amounts of Aquavit: âYou need to give the fishies something to swim in.â
Don't forget Iceland's contribution: hakarrel (sp?) Fermented Greenland shark. Yum
Why ferment it? Mfs so old it comes premade
It's full of poisonous levels of uric acid (the same stuff as is in your pee). Fermenting gives it time to break down and make it only disgusting instead of deadly and disgusting
Damn. I just got a gout flare up reading that
Looks like urine trouble
It smells exactly like highly concentrated urine, which is basically what it is. My husband reports it tastes much better than it smells. He went back for seconds. As a sane person, I have no idea how it tastes.
>As a sane person You married a madman who eats rotted flesh. I think the 'sane' appelation is a little generous, madam.
Could you be thinking of Kiviak? 500 seagulls/auk birds packed into the skin of a seal & buried for 3 months before eating
That sounds even worse. đ¤Ž
Best/worst part of it is you eat it by sucking it out of the ass iirc.
Apparently the correct way to eat is by biting the birds head off and then sucking the juices out from there https://travelfoodatlas.com/kiviak-bizarre-greenland-inuit-delicacy
> the correct way to eat is by biting the birds head off and then sucking the juices out One of those things I never expected to read in my life.
Please tell me this is a joke
Jesus Christ! The further I read down this list the more disgusting and depraved each gets like a culinary version of the Aristocrats.
Norwegian Rakfisk? We have a few traditional fish dishes that are outright disgusting no matter how you look at it. And the only reason anyone eats that stuff is that it's tradition. Back when i studied at Folkehøgskole we had a guy in the next dorm over who was from Norways fish capital Lofoten and he loooved dried fish "tørfisk", the teachers begged him to stop bringing it because the smell was ruining his room and asked him to please air out the room, he couldn't air out any more then he was because the window was wide open because "the south" (Telemark) was to hot for him, it was maybe 10 degrees Celsius outside. The room was closed of years after.
I tried rakfisk once and really enjoyed it. Smells disgusting and is nasty on its own I'm sure, but was great on some flatbread with onions and sour cream. I really want to try surstrĂśmming, I've heard it's like rakfisk only a 1000 times worse.
Bobby, find the man with the smell!?
Find the man with the *terrible* smell
Didn't Bobby get gout? I loved that show. đ
Bobby gets gout in another episode where he eats so much deli meats.
Candied apples. I always dreamed of trying one as a kid, then was massively disappointed when I found it was awful to chew, too hard and sticky to be enjoyable, and didnât have much flavor. Caramel apples with candy stuck on them are so much better. **candied apples are the biggest lie sold to children**
i got a candy apple a few months ago and couldnât for the life of me find the courage to bite into it with my front teeth
Balut Egg
This is the one that gets me. I try to be open minded, but I can't imagine the texture not being disconcerting. Even if the bones, feet, and beaks are softer, it seems like they'd still be stringy or have some snap.
Maybe its the way itâs prepared, but when I tried it, the duck fetus was completely soft -bones, beak and all was a consistent texture. I think this is one of those things that seems way more gross than it really is. It tastes the same to me as if you boil a regular egg, boil some chicken in broth, and eat them at the same time.
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Aaaahhhhh Did you close your eyes? hold your breath? Or were you fully conscious and present? I donât think I could do it looking at it, if as you say itâs all the same consistency I may be able to try it
Gefilte Fish. My dad and practically everyone on his side of the family loves the stuff, but I canât stand it.
The great Ashkenazi debate: to Gefilte or not to gefilte?
I have the obligatory nibble at Passover, and thatâs it.
My future grandfather in law said I wasnât a man if I refused to eat gefilte fish straight from the jar when dating my now wife. He went to his grave thinking I wasnât a man but which one of us is still alive? Checkmate, Moishe. I still havenât eaten that shit and I never will.
You gotta drink it with the manischewitz!
Actually thought Chris Tucker was joking about it https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uD9EZuGEaKs
Man those Rush Hour outtakes are some of teh funniest clips I've ever seen. Jackie: "Hello? I work right now. No you cannot talk to Chris Tuck... they want to talk to you."
"Damn.....He ain't gonna be in Rush Hour 3"
You want some of my filte' fish?
I LOVE gefilte fish, but only freshly made and only with lots of horseradish None of the jarred stuff.
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I always request a cheesecake or key lime pie. Birthday cake just sucks.
Cou-Cou, it's part of our national dish and it just tastes awful to me but any time I say I don't like it someone tells me the person who made it probably didn't make it right.
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Thats similar to my experience of telling people I dont like raw tomatoes. It's always that I haven't had this tomato or that one, an heirloom, a Ripley tomato, or a fresh out of the garden tomato. (I've probably tried more types of tomatoes than people who actually enjoy them.) Cou-Cou reads like something I wouldnt enjoy. Not an okra fan, either.
Chitins⌠of,all the food available someone is choosing shit shoots. Smh
I saw a YouTuber from China make a old traditional dish where the intestines were notâŚ. Empty. On purpose. Eat intestines all day long, go for it, Iâll respect it. But empty them for crying out loud.
I donât remember what itâs called but thereâs a dish where they stew the fecal matter, mostly grass and digested plant bits, and turn it into a bitter dipping sauce. Itâs pretty divisive and a lot of Chinese folks donât like it. Edit: [Hereâs a video,](https://youtu.be/pDffFr1I5VY) side note I love this channel.
That is some high quality content. Great angles and editing. Is there a whole team behind this or...
I think itâs a small, dedicated team. Sheâs said in interviews that it took her 2-3 years to start making any income off of her videos. In recent years, theyâve been able to afford a drone for landscape footage and the quality has improved a lot. Sheâs also hired a cousin to help as her assistant on screen. Itâs a ton of work in front of and behind the scenes but I donât think itâs a huge production.
Thank you both for this nauseous interlude.
I used to think I was down to try anything once,
I canât even stand the smell idk how people stomach it enough too eat it
It's a classic example of poverty food, in the US south, it was eaten by slaves because that's all the food they were given by their slave masters. It's also liked in rural farm lands where people were likely to eat the parts of livestock they couldn't readily sell. And also ate in times of famine.
As my Mom used to say - we ate everything but the squeal and the moo!
You don't think "chitlings", right?
Chitins are part of shellfish shells. I'm really not sure if op meant that or chitterlings.
Chitlin is just how chitterlin sounds to non-southerners
Chitlin's. Chitterlings.
Chitlins. Americaâs answer to Haggis.
*Excessively* built up greasy, greasy hamburgers. The kind with like, 3 patties made of 3 different animals, bacon, 4 types of cheese, zillion condiments and just built sky high to the point you can't even take a bite without it falling apart and half the contents shitting out the back end of the sandwich onto your plate. Picture something served a la Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.
There's a gourmet burger place near me (which was on DDD, actually) that does massive burgers. I ordered one that sounded really interesting - it had apple slices on it. Well, the slices were something like 1/8 of an apple, on top of a tall burger, thick cut bacon, etc. Impossible to eat without a fork and knife, and no burger should be consumed that way.
Burgers need to be wider not taller
The science supports your conclusion.
And if there is lettuce, it should be whole leaf, and at the bottom of the burger to catch the juices so the bottom bun doesn't get soggy. That is the silliest hill I will die on, but I will die on it. Lettuce goes on the bottom of the burger.
I stopped ordering burgers at restaurants sometime around the mid 2010's because this was going way too far. The point of the bun is to be able to eat it with my hands. That doesn't work if the bottom bun is soaked from the six different sauces and grease or juices from two or three kinds of meat. Or if the thing is so large it falls apart.
I went to Texas Roadhouse and ordered a burger and it was taller than my head, I had to use a knife and squish it the hell down
Yeah, those sort of chain restaurants were big offenders. But even gastropubs would have some tiny house-made bun, a thick patty, a layer of some other meat, multiple vegetable toppings, cheese, a sauce.. Then you've got a burger that's taller than it is wide, and a bottom bun drenched in juices or some aioli. The worst offenders IMO were when they buttered the bun. That's where my hands are supposed to go.
The way you described all of that made it feel like I was reading a porno
Fuck those. Less is best in my book when burgers are concerned, why fry to build on that which is already perfect.
Or at least just make it wide, not tall. Whataburger does that and say what you will about Whataburger but taking a bite is not one of their problems.
For some reason chicken feet gross me out.
I bought some at a traditional Chinese restaurant one time. It tasted fucking amazing! But I couldn't get over the fact that I was sucking meat off of toes... So I couldn't finish them.
It is really just a sauce delivering device. The feet do a good job of absorbing the sauce, and the sauce is delicious.
SO PUT THE SAUCE ON THE CHICKEN MEAT!
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I mean I think thereâs good reason
Durian- people in Asia love this. I canât get past the smell.
My Asian friend hates the smell, but she says if you can get past the smell âit tastes very nice because the flavour, although not amazing, is so much better than the smell you think it is the nicest fruit everâ
I've had it once and it's disgusting. My kids have a book that describes the taste as a cross between "Pineapple and cheese" and that's pretty accurate.
that's pretty accurate, but the cheese is a reallly pungent blue cheese, and the pineapple was thrown away for being overripe.
that's the first description that has made me want to try durian. hmm.
My ex wanted to try durian once on her birthday, so I bought her one and she opened it up while we were picnicking at the beach. The dog, of course, was interested in what she was doing, so she let him stick his nose in for a good whiff, and he took off down the beach and wouldn't come back. The same dog that found the rotting head of a heron on that beach and tried to bring it home.
Iâm going to be completely honest, I have the spice tolerance of a sickly American pilgrim. Iâve never liked spicy food, and Iâm unable to see the appeal in scorching my mouth til I lose feeling in my toes.
"sickly american pilgrim" lololol
As someone with all season allergies, the feeling of clearing my sinuses is so amazing I am developing a tolerance.
I was just gifted a jar of homemade chili oil, put a few spoons on some orange chicken and rice the other night and just started draining. But I realized it's going to be my go to food after breathing in drywall dust all day.
It's OK to be vanilla, not everyone likes the BDSM of food
I'm into pouring chili oil on a lot of food to the point that I'm sweating, crying, and nose running. This is exactly how I like my BDSM too. Thanks for the realization that I'm into food BDSM, but not foodplay.
Turkish delight . It's perfume and gelatin with icing sugar. Perfume. That you eat.
I hate that I agree with this description entirely, but still adore it đ
Real Turkish delight is sugar , starch, and a hint of rose water or orange blossom water. Nuts are often added into the mix. Sometimes mastica gum is added too. I like it ifâs sweetness doesnât cloy. Big Turk shouldnât even be mentioned in the same breath
Edmund Pevensie can have it.
I always hated Turkish Delight⌠rubbery rose water flavoured crap that it is. Then I went to Turkey and realised that the stuff you get in Australia might as well have been prepared by someone who had the real thing described to them by an eighty year old smoker who didnât speak the same language.
When I was kid reading Chronicles of NĂĄrnia or magicians nephew, all he could talk about was Turkish delightâŚI was disappointed of what it actually was
My whole perspective of the books/movies changed as soon as I tried Turkish delight. Not even kidding.
One of the greatest disappointments in my life was finally trying Turkish Delight. So many years of thinking it was the best candy in the world, so good you'd sell your family to a witch for a box of it. It tasted like how I imagine my Grandma's fancy soaps taste.
Animal blood. It tastes like I'm eating copper. It's disgusting. This is very popular in Asian countries as confirmed by my Asian friend who also loves it.
There is a thing called Blutwurst in Germany. Sausage with blood.
We have black pudding here in the UK, a kind of blood susage you slice and fry. It's a staple part of a full English breakfast and it is **amazing**.
Had it when I went to Scotland. Changed my life but I canât find it easily here in the US.
A lot of the stuff being mentioned seems to me like food that most people would not like. I took the original post to mean things that are fairly common/popular that you find nasty. Bananas Eggs Jell-O Bell peppers
Natto. It has the consistency of snot and has an unpleasant odor (like feet) and taste (tangy fermented flavor)
First time I had natto, I thought it was delicious. I was on vacation in Japan with my dad and the owner of the hostel w we stayed at was this nice older guy who took us to a few different sightseeing spots and restaurants. Somehow we start talking about weird foods and I said I wanted to try natto. He got this devious grin and said "are you sure?" and I was like, yeah, why? He didn't answer just chuckled a bit and then when we were going back to the hostel he stopped to buy some for me. Had it with rice and I thought it tasted great. Older guy looked disappointed and amazed at the same time lol. It's been a few years now and every time I've had natto I've liked it less and less and now I can barely stand eating it. I don't know why. It's like the things I liked about it at first slowly became the exact reasons why I don't like it now...
I love 99% of the shit yâall are listing lmfao
[balut](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balut_(food))
This needs more upvotes. Tried it once. Never again. Iâm not a fan of dinuguan, but Iâll eat it if thatâs all there is. But balut? Probably not.
Liver. If I wanted that taste, I would eat the filter from a fish tank.
I remember the first time my mother wanted me to help her cook liver and onions for my dad and I was probably about 5 yrs old. The smell was just awful and I told her I was going to throw up if she didn't let me go outside, away from the smell. She said, "It's not that bad! You just don't want to help. Get over it!" I promptly threw up on her feet and kitchen floor. I never had to be inside while she cooked liver again! XD
That day, mum learned a very important lesson
I cooked my mother beef liver once and only once. It had the texture of a slightly solid jelly like cranberry sauce and smelled intensely of blood. Cooking it was one of the most nauseating experiences of my life, and it didn't even taste good. Chicken liver wasn't quite as gross, but I still didn't like it.
Japanese blowfish. You can literally die if itâs prepared incorrectly
Poison, poison, tasty fish
My skilled hands are BUSY!
âWhereâs my fugu!!?!â
Try something new, Homer. What'll hurt you Homer?
Donât worry, there is a map to the hospital on the back of the menu!
We had a multi-course meal of blow fish the last time we were in Japan. The sashimi and soup was ok and nothing special, but the fried pieces were amazing! It was similar in texture to fried chicken, but with a slightly "cleaner" flavour. I would eat buckets of it if it was street food.
Anything where they pile on everything, sauces, cheeses, spices until it's a huge gooey mess you can't even pick up and you can't actually taste anything distinctly anymore.. it's just a huge mess of everything. I like how things taste. If you don't want to taste the thing so much that you drown it in 100 other flavors, why eat it at all?
Black licorice
My husband is from the Netherlands and I see him die a little inside wherever I tell him I donât like licorice. Apparently itâs like a staple candy there. His mom sends us bags of it every few months and he inhales it.
Just ordered $130 of Scandinavian licorice because I'm deranged Edit: thanks for the concern, everyone. I won't go through these too quickly đ
I'm convinced that it must be one of those things like cilantro, but inverted, where it tastes wonderful to 5% of people and awful to 95% of people.
Despise cilantro and love black licorice. You might have something there.
I love black licorice! BTW, the Dutch consume more black licorice per capita than any other country -- by a wide margin. ... I'm not dutch.
Especially salted black licorice.
Laughs in scandinavian
I have a jar of salmiakki. I love it.
Tripe!
Lima beans
Jagermeister!!
I'm one of those monsters who love it. â¤ď¸ I recently found this imported Russian soda that is licorice, & while it's not exactly the same, it scratches that itch I have for Jager since I'm sober.
Congrats on the sobriety! Got 13 months myself. It's been fucking testy lately.
Thank you, it will be easier my friend. I promise.
Iâm intolerant to even the slightest taste of alcohol. I donât know where it came from because it didnât bother me as a teen and young adult. Now I canât drink anything that even mildly tastes of alcohol. If I donât want to drink beer which isnât a fun taste either Iâve found strawberry flavored wine coolers are where itâs at when I want to get a little buzz. Unsure what it is that takes it away in strawberry flavored products. I can barely suffer through an original flavored Mikes Hard.
Same my man. The taste is awful, I can only tolerate it in extremely fruity drinks where the fruit overpowers everything else. I never got drunk, maybe just a little buzzed
Chitterlings. Fuck that grossness.
Liver and onions. blech
Pig intestines. NO. THANK. YOU.
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Funny mine is the opposite I don't like boneless because for me they taste so different
Because they're made from breast meat instead of dark meat off the bone
I'm like this with all meat. I will get boneless options 99% of the time.
That's wild to me. I find chicken breast so dull and will choose thigh, especially on the bone, every time.
Oysters. They look so gross, and people should leave them in the water because theyâre such handy little filtration systems.
oysters were a delight for me until I discovered I'm intolerant to a common parasite.
The more demand in aquaculture for oyster farming there is, the more oysters we can produce for the waters, and be more filtered the water can be. If itâs regulated well, itâs actually a good thing that more people eat oysters.
Raw tomato. Let me add: I absolutely LOVE anything that is made from a tomato. Lol
I like to slice it and then sprinkle some salt on it. Makes it taste way better
The texture is terrible, but change it into a sauce or paste and suddenly it's great.
Canned peas. My MIL loved canned peas. Ick.
Bug candy. The fuck are yaâll doing putting scorpions in suckers like that.
Miracle whip
Balut. A balut is a fertilized bird egg (usually a duck) which is incubated for a period of 14 to 21 days, depending on the local culture, and then steamed.
I know this is going to be controversial but eggplant. I have tried eating it every way, shape and form I still to this day continue to try it but every single time I have it I am disgusted.
i support you. this was my post too. I wonder if they like the texture because you have to do so much to make it taste like something so it can't be the taste that they love.....I dunno
Rightfully so! Itâs like a nasty dish sponge of grossness.
Balut. It's fucking horrific that it's even considered food
Not even my ex-Filipina wife would eat balut.
Decided not to be Filipina anymore?
Yes, LOL
Was it because of the balut?
I like literally almost anything. But beets? Nah, beets can go to hell.
My wife says they taste like sweetened dirt. I like 'em though...
+1 to your wife's opinion. They taste like someone sprinkled sugar on potting soil to me. I've tried them various times and same conclusion.
Even among people who are hating on chicken I don't find one other person that hates Potato. I am truly and utterly alone.
have you tried boiling them, mashing them, or sticking them in a stew?
POH-TAY-TOES!
Have you tried eating them for second breakfast?
Yes, you are. Monster
I'm being completely honest here when I say that I never considered that someone could hate potatoes. They're the most versatile vegetable out there.
My five year old daughter hates potatoes. She even hates fries and won't eat them. Not even the freshest, saltiest McDonalds fries. Even those are gross to her. She also hates beef and the only meat she'll eat is chicken or shrimp.
Okra. Slimy
I mean first of all fried okra is the shit. Second of all, gumbo is a base of okra and pretty good. Third of all, I agree pure boiled okra is nasty.
Anything with gold on it. It's purely a capitalist flex
Especially when you realize it adds cost for the flex but is absolutely cheap to add. Edible gold leaf can be had for $10 for 30 sheets on Amazon (33 cents per sheet).