[Kerrigan]

Snakes, chicken heads, scorpions, moose penis, there are many gross things out there which you can eat.

What is the grossest thing you have eaten, and why?

[The Godfather]

Some people will think it is gross, but I could eat Guinea Pig any day of the week Delicious and protein-rich.

[badidea]

Yes, it tastes like chicken!


Does not taste like chicken!

[Eug Wanker]

Originally Posted by Kerrigan

Snakes, chicken heads, scorpions, moose penis, there are many gross things out there which you can eat.

What is the grossest thing you have eaten, and why?

Have you eaten all of the above? I've had snake, and it was pretty good actually.

BTW, I didn't try these, but they were popular with some of the locals in Beijing:



EDIT:

Great minds think alike...

[badidea]

Originally Posted by Eug Wanker

EDIT:

Great minds think alike...

[Albert Pujols]

Burger King Chicken Fries

[PB2K]

Yesterday at a party of some Swedish friends, i ate these, boiled but cold. i opened the shell without looking. It's like dissecting a bug that featured in Starship Troopers.

the taste isn't that great, very salt. I prefer beef.

[His Dudeness]

Lunch the other day aboard the USS Enterprise.

[Eug Wanker]

Originally Posted by PB2K

Yesterday at a party of some Swedish friends, i ate these, boiled but cold. i opened the shell without looking. It's like eating a bug that featured in Starship Troopers.

the taste isn't that great, very salt. I prefer beef.

Yeah, conceptually I don't consider eating shrimp/crayfish/lobster/crab all that different from eating scorpion.

[budster101]

Raw egg. Tastes like snot.
I eat bugs all the time in my sleep. I think the average person eats at least 10 spiders per year while they are asleep... sleep with your mouths closed.

I ate a beetle once. ok twice.

The first oyster I ever ate was disgusting, but good at the same time.

[DeathMan]

ox tongue was pretty tough (no pun, it was quite rubbery though). I haven't eaten much in the way of exotic foods, though.

[Albert Pujols]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmiakki

This stuff is extremely salty. I was expecting something sweet and delicious as I shoved a whole handful of it in my mouth. I killed a few taste buds that day.

[PB2K]

i think you overestimate the amount of spiders that crawl into your mouth, where should they come from, how big are they? did you ever notice one in your mouth when you woke up i breathed a big fly into my mouth once, that's gross. your mouth is dry in a second, not to mention the moving legs that you feel in your throat.

what i ate were crayfish. or greybacks, they are too big. eww

[PB2K]

heh. and there is nothing like the good old "tripe" waaah that's gross !!!!

[Doofy]

I saw a guy eat a dog turd for a bet once.
I didn't fancy it myself, so passed on it.

[nredman]

Creamed Corn

[budster101]

Calimari.

Ok, I think it's actually like 4 spiders per year. We have a lot of spiders in our apartment though...

http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mspidereat.html

[PB2K]

i like calamari, but it has to be fried, i accidentally ordered it boiled once, that wasn't a success. i considered to throw it against the window of the shop that sold it to me.

[badidea]

I almost forgot - the grossest thing was Durian!!


(yes, that's the face you make when you eat it)

[BlueSky]

My father once tricked me into eating beef tongue, wouldn't tell me what it was 'til I was done. It was mushy, yucky, like french kissing a cow.

Then there was the stuffed eggplant. Urg.

[jcadam]

Originally Posted by PB2K

i think you overestimate the amount of spiders that crawl into your mouth, where should they come from, how big are they? did you ever notice one in your mouth when you woke up i breathed a big fly into my mouth once, that's gross. your mouth is dry in a second, not to mention the moving legs that you feel in your throat.

Just wash it down with some whisky.

Oh, and CHEESE is the most disgusting thing I have ever eaten. Can't stand the stuff, the smell makes me nauseous. Drives my wife nuts (she loves cheese). I rarely eat pizza, and if I do, I order it cheeseless.

"Say What?" - guy on phone at Papa John's
"I said NO CHEESE, at ALL."
"Ok, man, whatever you say."

20 minutes later, pizza shows up. Being the eternal pessimist, I check it.

"There is cheese on it." say I.
"Uh...." - Pizza guy
"I ordered it with NO cheese."
"ok... you'll have to call the restaurant." -Pizza guy looks at me like I have a third arm growing out of my forehead.
He leaves the pizza with me and goes

I call Papa John's
"Yep, order's wrong. I wanted no cheese."
"We're sorry, would you like credit for a free pizza."
"No, I'm hungry and would like what I ordered."
"Can't you peel the cheese off?" - My wife calls from the kitchen, with a slice of cheese pizza in her mouth".
"No woman, some of the cheese flavor seeps onto the crust!!!"
"Ok, we'll send out another driver..... (cussing, mumbling in background)"

And I make my wife gargle some mouthwash and/or brush her teeth after eating cheese before I am willing to snuggle/kiss/etc.

I remember one time I was being baby-sat (about 5 yrs. old) and the mean 50 year old woman scooped some cottage cheese onto a plate for me. There's your lunch, eat it.
"It's cheese. It smells like it."
"Don't give me that, eat it."
"No"
"You WILL eat at that, and I will watch you."
I slowly scooped a spoonful, and raised it towards my face. As the scent reached my nose, the gag reflex started kicking in.
"EAT IT!!!!"
With tears in my eyes, I crammed the spoonful in my mouth and swallowed as quickly as possible. It came right back up, onto the plate with the rest of the white, clumpy, sour milk smelling foulness the old hag had put in front of me.

[budster101]

I'm so sorry you were traumatized into hating cheese. My mother-in-law hates split-pea soup because her mother made her eat it all the time. That's abuse!

I hopy you can get over that. Cheese is actually pretty good. It's great with fruit, and wine.

[The Windozer]

Originally Posted by jcadam

Cheese.

Yum!

[nredman]

mmm there is nothing better then a piece of really sharp cheese - sorry you dont like cheese - its the bomb yo

[ghporter]

Crawfish. No doubt about it. It tasted great, but I had to close my eyes the first time. And the second... And my first experience with crawfish was cooked by a wonderful Thai lady, so not only did it taste good, it was HOT!!!

However the thing that made me lose a little (ok, a lot of) control was finding out that a bee had decided to explore the inside of my Coke can-because little Ms. Bee wound up in the first big swig after she entered the can. YUCK!!!!!!!

[PB2K]

well cheese can be a big downer for your appetite. you know the corsican cheese? that stinks, really stinks. i guess only corsicans are used to the smell of their decaying cheeses.

sometimes i don't notice a smell either, which someone else finds repulsive. Passchendaeler cheese tastes like ordinary dutch cheese, but according to my friends it smells like smelly feet.

and when the taste isn't taht different than something that's more ordinary, i don't understand why i should eat it, so i wont eat bugs that taste like chicken

[sek929]

I don't know how some people can eat this, but Codfish cakes for breakfast would probably be the worst imaginable thing to eat at 6AM.

I kinda like codfish cakes, but for breakfast, blech....

[iDriveX]

Vagina.

[His Dudeness]

Originally Posted by budster101

I'm so sorry you were traumatized into hating cheese. My mother-in-law hates split-pea soup because her mother made her eat it all the time. That's abuse!

I hopy you can get over that. Cheese is actually pretty good. It's great with fruit, and wine.

Do you have any Venezuelan Beaver Cheese?

[Rolling Bones]

I don't know what it was but I was on a motorcycle at the time and it went right down my throat. Some kind of giant bug.

[Oisín]

Originally Posted by Albert Pujols

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmiakki

This stuff is extremely salty. I was expecting something sweet and delicious as I shoved a whole handful of it in my mouth. I killed a few taste buds that day.

*Salmiakki image snip*

Are you kidding me?!?

Salmiakki are awesome. They're the best sweets in the world. Yum.

badidea: One of my old flatmates loves durian. The facial expression goes for anyone who gets within a hundred feet of a durian, but, according to her, the taste is very yummy.

[The Godfather]

Ah. In the south mountains in Peru, I had goat head soup in 1995. The head was sliced in half, and the skin was falling off the bone. It was so tasty, but the eye has a weird texture and it was too salty.

[Lancer409]

cheese is off the hook. delicious, all gooey n stringy n stuff. brie and other proper cheeses are delicious as well (although i will admit that i had a small wedge of blu cheese where ... i guess i caught a big blue vein. talk about strong.. wow)

durian. it smells bad at room temperature. my dad eats it whenever it's going at a good price in chinatown. they are sold FROZEN, I choose to eat mine semi frozen. Then it's like eating ice cream with no smell. (granted ur breath might become offensive to some). It's very good that way. To open it, slice down along the bulges, but dont cut too deeply or you will tear into the flesh of the durian. anyways, slice along the outside, and open up the rind. then take out the little pods of fruitflesh .. lol. go all the way around, making sure you dont miss any of 'em. then promptly place them into the freezer in a bowl/dish with plastic wrap over it. try it that way, and i doubt you'll find it as offensive.

as for crawfish/super large prawns... it's like eating shrimp or lobster. lol
and ... yes .. i do realize how it's very similar to bugs (atleast in appearance) but i try to put that idea out of my head...

i guess it's because i'm chinese. chinese people eat all kinds of wierd stuff. (try tripe in a chinese restaurant. it's very good. it's like eating beef stew (i believe they have kidneys and other parts in it as well, not just tripe). i'm serious when i say it's like eating beef stew. put a little bit of that chinese chili sauce/oil on it.

i've also had 2 types of sea snails (chinese ones) but now that i'm a bit older, i'd get freaked out by eating it again. i remember how good it was when i was a kid though...

and ..i'm deathly afraid of eating those grasshoppers/beetles/larvae pods or whatever those other brown ones are...

[Eriamjh]

Originally Posted by Albert Pujols

Burger King Chicken Fries

I second that. Yuck!

[budster101]

"Burger King Chicken Fries"

OMG I think I'm going to hurl... at the thought of those things.

[jonasmac]

Anything from Long John Silvers...

Gag.

[budster101]

Give me a pod thingy before long john silvers... patewy.

[Randman]

Bat wing. Though I had to pass on the uncooked cow's brain and other "delights".

[X-Ray]

Definitely liver. I forced myself to eat a piece once and it came right back up. Fortunately I was outside when the said bit of cow internal decided to become vomitus projectilus.

[boardsurfer]

caviar...

I've gulped sea water that tasted better.

[DeathMan]

My mom gave me candy from the Philippines, (I think it was durian). It tasted alright for about 5 seconds, and then got so foul, I had to spit it out. Apparently they smell like a land-fill when they're ripe.

[lurkalot]

Crow.
Disgusting sensation.

[budster101]

Nobody has had crispy duck skin?

Oh, I've eaten some crow before too. It's not the taste that is disgusting so much as the act itself.

[rickey939]

Oh wait...wrong thread...

[Cubeoid]

Lols

[jasonsRX7]

I've had chocolate covered ants. They weren't bad, you really only tasted the chocolate, and they crunched a bit like rice crispies. Everyone I tell just assumes they were horrible, though.

[scaught]

Originally Posted by iDriveX

Vagina.

youre insane.

[ghporter]

Originally Posted by scaught

youre insane.

That assumes that what he ate was properly prepared and presented. You know presentation is a big part of the meal!

[wdlove]

I haven't eaten anything that I would consider gross. Certainly nothing like on "Survivor."

[budster101]

My wife's first homecooked meal for me... <ba-dump-bump-tish....>