"Nastiest" food you have personally eaten
 

Since the TS's thread seems slightly hijacked onto nasty and smelly food items, I thought this thread might be needed.

What is the nastiest, ugliest, smelliest, weirdest, most gross thing that you have eaten or seen eaten. Then please comment as to whether it was actually good or not. :munchin

Cooked cow ears, covered in some type of Cambodian bbq sauce was one of the more disgusting *sounding* things I've ever eaten.....but it tasted great.

Nasty, goat from the middle east.

wierd:

Monkey, Cobra, Kudamundi, Rattlesnake

Steamed dog dumplings in Mongolia.

1993, USMC, SgtMajor invited a handful of NCOs over to his house for dinner where his wife served a very undercooked, large slab of beef liver. It scarred me for life.

Vegemite

Smells just about like it tastes

Rattlesnake -- tastes like chicken
Fish eyes - helps your vision, hard to chew
Curried fish jaw - so hot it was good
Durian - foul fruit smells for days, but I like it
Ants - did not care for them
Crickets - did not care for them
Spam - nasty stuff

Waterbugs... scorpions... centipedes...

Bull testicle, didn't taste bad, though.... just the thought of it.

In Thailand some people had a noisy mutt. A friend of mine couldn't sleep at night and politely asked them if they would control their dog. They ignored him.

One night he invited the neighbors over for diner. They said the diner was sure good and asked what it was.

"Your dog!", he replied.

Marmite. Blackish/brown foul-smelling spread. Tastes wonderful if used sparingly on toasted full-grain bread and butter. SPARINGLY! I've seen confused countrymen spread it like peanut butter and then complain about how it tasted. :confused:

Wolf. Tasted like... well, I can't really describe it. It was good with some marinade. The off-putting thing was that the head was sitting just across the room from where we were eating, it seemed as if it was watching us.

Steak Tartar. Raw minced steak mixed with egg. It's a delicacy and looks and smells great, is eaten on toast. In moderation, it's excellent, but where I ate it they served large portions and I was not disposed to insulting the people I was eating with by not finishing. I was served just over a pound of it. Halfway through I felt ill. Afterwards, I had to puke. Safe to say now I stay the hell away from it!

Foie Gras. Goose liver pate. Many people are put off by the smell of it, and depending on how it's cooked it can look absolutely disgusting, like a loaf of alien flesh. However, when on some warm brioche or in a salad with truffles, it's superb.

Solid

Growing up on my Grandparent's farm, chitlins, hog brains and eggs, fish roe and eggs, tripe, scrapple.

Grub worms during survival training.

Haggus.

The absolute worst?

Balut, hands down.

TR

Haggus is fairly nasty stuff.
What do grub worms taste like and did you prepare them, or just gulp 'em down?

Thank you,

Solid

Ants - Roycroft has had them I know. Very good.

Just had Haggis at Burns night this year - not bad, but I wouldn't make a meal of it. More of an appetizer.

Hogshead cheese - very good with beer and crackers, especially with a hangover

Posssum - bad juju.

Raccoon - requires proper preparation

Grubs and other assorted protein - Survival phase Mmmm

Snake - Rattler I like, boa not so much

Monkey on a stick - Mmm

Iguana - Mmmm

Cow Udder - Roycroft?

Dove and Quail - good

Crow and Pigeon - not so good.

SPAM - doesn't belong in the thread. Delicacy.

What's Balut?

Balut:
http://www.asiacuisine.com.sg/Nacws/1998/9/314/

"The wayward nature of the itik (native Filipino duck) must be the reason for an unusual Filipino delicacy - balut - a fertilised egg with a partially developed duckling, which is eaten boiled. Balut is a very nutritious snack food, which most Filipinos appreciate. However, non-Filipinos generally take a bit of convincing before taking their first bite."

It was on Fear Factor once.

Out-googled me. Bastard! I was going to post the same thing.

1000 year old egg. First was the smell, then I saw what it looked like. The Chinese in my office tried to explain it was a delicacy, but delicacy or not, that smell was not going to get it close to my mouth.

It's like Johnny Ringo vs Doc Holliday !


I forgot one - GRITS

My dragon style is strong....

LOL.

Dunbar: Grits? Low blow, man. Low blow. You weren't eating them right.

A delicassy of the Philli9pines. Fertile eggs buried in warm sand to rot and ferment. In Vietnam they are called "100 day eggs".

In Thailand I was offered a roasted monitor lizard at a graduation party at the end of the final FTX for RTASF students. I popped it in my mouth remembering the training I had received concerning insulting local customs. As it turned out I was only supposed to suck the meat off of the legs. It didn't bother me much. I guess that was the reason for the warm cobra blood and mekong.

Listen here Yankee boy... back off the grits!!!

That is momma's good cookin'. It is a delicacy like SPAM... Off limits in this here thread. :D

You beat me to it. I take great pleasure in asking servers in non Grits Friendly areas for a plate full just to hear how they respond. "Grits? What the hell is a grit?"

I'm your huckleberry.

What the hell is a grit? :D

I really don't know. Always thought it was some sort of oatmeal-like stuff.

OMG! Who trained you?

Nevermind... I checked the map and you are justified in the fact that you have no friggin clue!!! :p Where to start with your indoctrination...

Grits are small broken grains of corn. They were first produced by Native Americans centuries ago. They made both "corn" grits and "hominy" grits.
Falls Mill produces "corn" grits.
Corn Grits
Falls Mill mills locally grown whole white hybrid corn. The corn is dried to a 14% moisture content, then each kernel is cleaned with forced air. The kernels of grain are run through the mill stone where they are ground to a certain texture and then sifted through two wire mesh screens. The three products sorted are white corn meal, white corn grits and the bran that pops off. There is a fine bran still in the grits product. This bran will never soften up with cooking. Depending on personal preference, the bran can be left in or removed by rinsing the grits before cooking. Yummy!

Hominy is made from field corn that is soaked in lye water (potash water in the old days) and stirred over the next day or two until the entire shell or bran comes loose and rises to the top. The kernel itself swells to twice its original size. After the remaining kernels have been rinsed several times, they are spread to dry either on cloth or screen dryers.

Thanks, Air.

Now, clowns, tell me how this isn't kind of like oatmeal.

I'm no botanist, but I'm pretty sure that corn is not an oat.:D

Grits are delicious. Butter and brown sugar, cheese and black pepper, you name it - deeeeeelicious.

Mhhh southern food.

What? You didn't like my visual aid I made for you. LOL
No respect....No respect... :boohoo

I can Google too:D

D9 is right though, They are kinda like Wallpaper paste if you don't doctor them up right

BROWN SUGAR!?! Ack. Butter, salt and pepper. That's it. :p

One thing I did know about grits is that you people can never agree on the "proper" way to eat them. :rolleyes: LOL

I forgot. The nastiest stuff I've ever had is natto. My youngest son loved it, but the rest of us (and most of my Japanese students) hated it. I didn't like it, but I tried it.

So far I'd say Tripe. Smells to high heaven too. ~shuddering~ When I was a young girl my grandmother fixed it every Sunday for my uncle along with pasta, meatballs, sausage and gravy for the rest of us. She made me try it once, I got sick right there....and that was the end of that.

The natto reminds me that I've had blowfish. It was good, but not all it's cracked up to be. I very much enjoy sea urchin roe with quail egg too.

A lawyer, who has not seen "My Cousin Vinnie"?

Are you truly a member of the Bar, Sir?

TR

I take it from the question that you've seen all the Rambo movies, right? LOL

Actually, I didn't remember anything about grits in the film, and still don't recall. But these are classic:

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Great film.

"Are we to believe that boiling water soaks into a grit faster in your kitchen than in any other place on the face of the earth?

Or perhaps the laws of physics cease to exist on your stove?

Were they magic grits?"

TR