OK I found a thread for Favorite Food here but none for the worst food. So here's the question.
What's the worst food you have ever eaten?
Where was it at?
Could you get out of eating it without offending someone?
Mine was Zebra, in Zambia Africa. And as it was the first meat that some of these folks had eaten in awhile and they were sharing with me I had to eat it. I noticed that they were putting a lot of red stuff on it. I mean lots. I did as well and was gratified. It was a sauce so hot that it killed your taste buds. I mean this was horrible tasting meat.
So what was your bad experience.
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Bush Trekker
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What did the zebra taste like that made is so awful?
Reading your post reminded me of a book called A Primate's Memoir, by Robert Sapolsky--a bit where he makes fun of himself for facing his first ethical dilemma as a former vegetarian when some poachers give him a leg of zebra meat. His politeness and desire for cultural adaptability win out, and he takes it, but I can't remember if he talks about what it tastes like.
And I'm curious because I probably won't ever get the chance to find out for myself!
Reading your post reminded me of a book called A Primate's Memoir, by Robert Sapolsky--a bit where he makes fun of himself for facing his first ethical dilemma as a former vegetarian when some poachers give him a leg of zebra meat. His politeness and desire for cultural adaptability win out, and he takes it, but I can't remember if he talks about what it tastes like.
And I'm curious because I probably won't ever get the chance to find out for myself!
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Aw, man, does it have to be just one thing? There's so much to choose from.
I found tête de veau (veal's head) to be pretty nasty, perhaps more because of what it is than how it tasted.
Barbecued snake on a stick in Cambodia was pretty gross too.
I found tête de veau (veal's head) to be pretty nasty, perhaps more because of what it is than how it tasted.
Barbecued snake on a stick in Cambodia was pretty gross too.
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Naw just list whatever turned you off in your travels.
Zebra tasted like pure rotten garbage and the meat was fresh. I still have nightmares about that stuff.
Zebra tasted like pure rotten garbage and the meat was fresh. I still have nightmares about that stuff.
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Rotten shark meat, Iceland.
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Hungarian speciality "Hurka", or blood sausage, is pretty damn nasty
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Mystery meat, Battambang Cambodia
Still sporting the fur.
Uh, gross.
Still sporting the fur.
Uh, gross.
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B-B-Q Rattlesnake - The guys I used to work with convinced me to go to a wild game feed with them. I tried some weird stuff - bear, mountain lion, alligator, but the worst was the snake. It was oily and tough - just plain nasty.
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Being vegetarian, I've been spared the nasty meat experiences, but I got a free sample of durian candy in a mall in Borneo. I couldn't get the taste out of my mouth for hours.
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[mmmm durian... what mall was this, Haci Richard?]
Balut. It was disgusting. And i didn't even get to the chick embryo.
In the Philippines.
I couldn't help myself. I vomitted it out on the streets. People (my relatives) laughed at me. I don't think I offended anyone however.
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I just wrote about my experience with a 10,000 year old egg in another post but I'll share it again.
I work in a Chinese restaurant and the owner and I were talking about crazy foods our parents used to feed us. Well he started telling me about the 10,000 year old egg and told him I'd try it. The next week he brought one in and I felt like I was on Fear Factor. It was black and shiny. He told me to eat it plain so I did. The smell of my breath alone, smelled like someone just laid a nasty one!! Needless to say I spit it out and rinsed my mouth out with vinnegar. Never again!!!
I work in a Chinese restaurant and the owner and I were talking about crazy foods our parents used to feed us. Well he started telling me about the 10,000 year old egg and told him I'd try it. The next week he brought one in and I felt like I was on Fear Factor. It was black and shiny. He told me to eat it plain so I did. The smell of my breath alone, smelled like someone just laid a nasty one!! Needless to say I spit it out and rinsed my mouth out with vinnegar. Never again!!!
Coffee: Tastes like progress!
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quote:Originally posted by globalguppy:
I just wrote about my experience with a 10,000 year old egg in another post but I'll share it again.
I work in a Chinese restaurant and the owner and I were talking about crazy foods our parents used to feed us. Well he started telling me about the 10,000 year old egg and told him I'd try it. The next week he brought one in and I felt like I was on Fear Factor. It was black and shiny. He told me to eat it plain so I did. The smell of my breath alone, smelled like someone just laid a nasty one!! Needless to say I spit it out and rinsed my mouth out with vinnegar. Never again!!!
My buddy(an American) actually LIKES the things!
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quote:Originally posted by braslvr:
My buddy(an American) actually LIKES the things!
I think that's cool that as an American your friend picked up a taste for something like that. I find alot of Americans picky and freaked out when it comes to foreign delicasies. I'm usually pretty liberal and adventerous about eating such things (I grew up eating fish eyesballs, and pig blood stew for cryin out loud) but keep me far away from those eggs man!! Maybe if they didn't smell so bad?!
Coffee: Tastes like progress!
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I like just about everything except beets and liver. But there is also one more thing that I can't stomach and that is Chorizo (or however you spell it.) When I was pregnant, just the smell of that stuff cooking sent me running for the restroom! What is it anyway? I'm afraid to hear the answer...
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