FOOD What Are The Most Horrifying Food Products You Have Eaten, Seen, or Encountered?

Bps1691

Bps1691

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Any innards from an animal ...

Had to eat a lot of that when a kid because we used every bit of the food the family raised.

Once I got old enough to understand what I was eating, scrambled eggs and brains, stuffed heart, pigs liver, pickled trotters, etc. turned from ok to yuck. Never fond of pickled eggs at bars, there is just something totally wrong about a pink egg...

Add in raw oysters as well. Only way I could ever eat those while on the road consulting was with a ton of the red hot sauce and with a double vodka martini before, during and after eating them.
 
Red Baron

Red Baron

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Marthanoir said:
Being Irish our diet consists of a lot of offal, I used love to Tripe, but you don't see it much anymore,
Kidneys and liver are great, the fresher the better.

But I do draw the line at Crubeens , Pig Trotters , :kk2:
And Brawn or headcheese as y'all call it , gross
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In German it is called Sülze. I love it.

My mother is from the Upper Bavarian region of Franconia and they serve it as a salad/appetizer. This version has a bit of vinegar, pickle and spices.

I've had this at German restaurants and it is divine.

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Glorious Malone's in Milwaukee makes a Deep South version that is fantastic. It is available in a regular or a hot version. The hot version is fantastic especially on rye bread or a rye cracker.

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Murt

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I like squirrel and fresh hog brains scrambled in eggs---when I grew up we didn't have much and I acquired a taste for a lot of "different" things
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the nastiest thing that I can remember eating was ham and egg C rations---looked like a green sponge and tasted terrible
 
Grouchy Granny

Grouchy Granny

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Well darn - I love snails (escargot) simmered in chicken stock, cooked with garlic and butter and with a phyllo pastry cover - YUMMMM! Also love raw oysters on the half shell with a side of spinach salad. Rest of the sea food is wonderful too. Love doing a lobster and clam bake!

Couldn't do my grandfathers scrambled eggs and brains - that was just gross!

Worst thing I ever ate was my mothers creamed eggs on toast (sliced hard boiled eggs in cream sauce). You can't even rescue that with ketchup.
 
Codeno

Codeno

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This isn't so much a bad food story, as it is a bad packaging/processing story.

In the 70's I worked for a large company that had a wall full of hot and cold food vending machines in the lunchroom. One day I bought a hot Italian sausage sandwich for lunch, and there was one of those copper box staples, probably an inch and a half long, in the sausage itself.

Another time in the same lunchroom, I bought a two pack of brownies out of the sweets vendor, and there was a very large finger or thumb print in the frosting on top of one of the brownies.
 
packyderms_wife

packyderms_wife

Neither here nor there.
Freeholder said:
Oh, and then there are Red Delicious apples, unless they are freshly picked. They may be red, but they certainly aren't delicious. Taste more like wet sawdust.
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This^^^ Bought some at the local food co-op one year that were grown at the university and they were tree ripened and had a flashback to my childhood when my mom would pick them at a local orchard. If they're tree ripened they are truly delicious otherwise yes they taste like wet sawdust.
 
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thompson said:
Saw this on an Amazon page a day or so ago ... :shkr: :kk2:

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Amazon.com : Rose Pork Brains with Milk Gravy 5 Ounce Cans (4 Cans Per Pack) : Canned And Packaged Meats : Grocery & Gourmet Food

Amazon.com : Rose Pork Brains with Milk Gravy 5 Ounce Cans (4 Cans Per Pack) : Canned And Packaged Meats : Grocery & Gourmet Food
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Don't know about the canned variety but brains and scrambled eggs and biscuits are very good.Just taste it,don't think about it.
 
AlfaMan

AlfaMan

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The most vile food I've ever experienced is scrapple.

Scrapple is by far the most hideous food ever invented. The missus loves the stuff; I nearly wretch when she cooks the stuff.

Another vile food is green English peas. I've hated green peas since I was a baby apparently. Mama said she could feed me anything-but when it came to peas I'd spit them out the second she put them in my mouth. Eeeew!
 
Walrus Whisperer

Walrus Whisperer

Hope in chains...
I loved goulash when we made it in home ec. My mothers version was inedible. To this day I don't care for macaroni. I hated peas when I was a kid, l Loooove them and green pea soup now. I tried to fix tripe for the dog I had years ago, the SMELL gagged you. I made that dog eat it outside. And wet raisins in anything. Mother made this weird sweetened rice dessert with raisins, Ewwwwwwww. In cookies, fine, but not moist. I love Spam, sliced thin, fried crispy.... And potted meat is disgusting.
 
Red Baron

Red Baron

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et2 said:
Cooked liver. :kk2:

Funny thing is I love liverwurst, onion and mustard on rye bread.
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DD and DW couldn't stand pan fried liver so the Wiener Dog and I would have a marvelous treat of pan fried beef liver and onions.

DW did like pan fried chicken livers. I used crushed BBQ pork rinds instead of a flour coating.
 
Snyper

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vessie

vessie

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My Norwegian grandma Hilma's Lutefisk.

Horrifying!

I would rather drive a nail through my tongue than to ever eat anything she cooked, Especially Lutefisk!

I overheard my dad (Indian, feather not dot) explain to his friends how Lutefisk was made, when asked about it.

He said, "First you stuff a bunch of Lute fish in barrels of lye to cure it.

Then after a long time, you take it out and lay it all out on the sidewalk during the hot summer months, for all the neighbor dogs to pee on it and then put it into jars.

When the roof of the house blows off, it's ready to eat". V
 
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