"Nastiest" food you have personally eaten

If someone offered me 'smelt', I would have thought it was a little fish (silver in color).

Roycroft 201
(living in the Great Lakes area)

[Air.177]

If memory serves me, I believe that Masago is smelt eggs

[echoes]

Air.177
"If memory serves me, I believe that Masago is smelt eggs"

Well, since this is the "nastiest food" thread, I just thought I would give my little opinion. For me, it is a no-go!

Honestly, I think I would be Ill if I was subjected to most of the foods listed in the thread so far. I am just an old-fashioned simple girl, who enjoys home-cooked southern cooking!

(and making cherry pies...)

Holly

[Air.177]

I had some stuff one time that I think was called Eel rice. It was a little crockware pot that had some terrible smelling eel based substance mixed with rice inside. Of course, the friend who suggested such a choice neglected to tell me what it was, he just said here, try this. I also had a Chinese dish that had whole squid in it that still had beaks in them and I bit down on one.

[echoes]

Well, IMO, eel is wonderful...only saltwater variety, but...to each his own, right?

Hollly

[pulque]

Originally posted by D9 I'm no botanist, but I'm pretty sure that corn is not an oat.

I am a botanist. Corns and oats belong to the same plant family (grasses) and have been succesfully cross-hybridized.

My good friends in Texas wouldn't let me get by without trying grits. Mmmmm.

[DoctorDoom]

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[Ockham's Razor]

Steak Tartar.... mmmmmmm raw meat.

The Mad Cow says "Moooooooooooo"

Perhaps the most vile concoction ever passed off as "Haute Cuisine".

[Air.177]

Originally posted by DoctorDoom
Mmmmmmm... squid...

No problem with squid, just beaks

[Ghostrider]

Originally posted by The Reaper

Balut, hands down.

TR [/B]

Concur.....but of course, given the fact that I agree with NDD that SPAM shouldn't be on this list, what do I know??

[DoctorDoom]

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[Key West]

Parrot Fish and Trigger Fish in the interior mountains of Jamaica.
It wasn't the taste but rather the chance of ciquatera not to mention that while in Jamaica I never saw so much as a single ice cube used to keep fish that made the meal just a tad unpalatable.
I hadn't eaten for two days so I went for it.
Oh yeah, Scorpion really sucks.

[Key West]

Originally posted by DoctorDoom
Sea cucumber anyone? mmmm good.

Repulsive...Umm yep, that's about all I can say on that one!

[CrashBurnRepeat]

Originally posted by Air.177
I had some stuff one time that I think was called Eel rice. It was a little crockware pot that had some terrible smelling eel based substance mixed with rice inside. Of course, the friend who suggested such a choice neglected to tell me what it was, he just said here, try this. I also had a Chinese dish that had whole squid in it that still had beaks in them and I bit down on one.

Air.177 is right, Eel rice is NASTY. It's usually got some sort of congealed eal leavin's in it too.

Worst thing I ate was a baitfish called a Sarkia. They look just like bala sharks you keep in your aquarium. The roll them up and cook them with a little water. When the fins start popping up they are done.

They're oily, bony as hell, don't taste very good and they've got these mutant scales that are the size of a dime. Those little scales get on EVERYTHING, and they're sticky to boot. I was picking fish scales out of my teeth for three days. YUCK.

I've had boiled goat that I swear died of natural causes. That was horrible. I've had salamander and that was fine. Goats head cheese in iceland is also not too bad.

Haggis I don't mind at all.

[Spartan359]

I'm curious to know what's the strangest food you gentlemen/ladies have ever eaten? For me personally it's the following:

1. Live octopus- Japan
2. Cobra Hearts- Singapore
3. Tarantula- Hong Kong