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

mzkitty

mzkitty

I give up.
Loretta Van Riet said:
I actually like Haggis. Cottage cheese is disgusting.
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Mostly it is. I've tried every brand here in FL that I can find, and they all suck.

I got so spoiled in NY. Friendship cottage cheese. Very small curds, very well blended, almost like an unsweet ice cream.

I miss it.

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samus79

samus79

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My dad used to eat liverwurst and onion sandwiches when I was a little kid. Of course, wanting to be just like dad I would eat them too. I always thought it tasted kinda funny and then my mom told me what it was...I’ve never touched the stuff since and just the smell of it makes me want puke.

My girlfriend is Chinese and let me tell you, she eats some absolutely foul stuff. The stir fried pig intestines, thousand year eggs, beef tendon. No thanks. She gets “black chicken” from the Asian grocery and the skin and the meat are almost jet black, very strange looking. I imagine it probably tastes ok but when she cooks it, it just has this weird smell that puts me off plus black chicken meat just doesn’t look appetizing.

She also loves to eat pigs feet, they are fried and still have hair on them, my mom loves them too but then again she always loved pickled pigs feet :kk2:
 
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Border Collie Dad

Flat Earther
The most vile food I've ever experienced is scrapple.
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You and Dennis must not have eaten the right stuff.
When I was a youngster and we butchered pigs, my mom made scrapple from the water she cooked "liverwurst" in.

Fried liverwurst and scrapple were real treats here.
She called it liverwurst but I have never been able to find anything close to it.
Her recipe died with her and I wish I had some
 
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mikeabn

Finally not a lurker!
Red Baron said:
My first candidate, Prairie Belt Sausage.

Maybe, as a young lad, I watched too many GI war movies with soldiers happily cracking open K-Ration tins. I still love any meat product in a can. I love the notion of a mysterious meat product that is actually deemed suitable for human consumption.

That is until I bought this Holy Testament to Processed Pink Slime.

This nefarious product makes canned Vienna Sausages seem like a Michelin 5-Star meal.

Open the can, and one is immediately assaulted by a "chicken stock" broth that smells like rotting gym shoes. The sausages themselves are devoid of any texture and have a rather bitter note, no doubt inherited from the inclusion of the dreaded pork spleens in the meat slurry.

On a dare, gather your drinking buddies and crack open a six pack of this industrial waste.

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mikeabn

Finally not a lurker!
Red Baron said:
My first candidate, Prairie Belt Sausage.

Maybe, as a young lad, I watched too many GI war movies with soldiers happily cracking open K-Ration tins. I still love any meat product in a can. I love the notion of a mysterious meat product that is actually deemed suitable for human consumption.

That is until I bought this Holy Testament to Processed Pink Slime.

This nefarious product makes canned Vienna Sausages seem like a Michelin 5-Star meal.

Open the can, and one is immediately assaulted by a "chicken stock" broth that smells like rotting gym shoes. The sausages themselves are devoid of any texture and have a rather bitter note, no doubt inherited from the inclusion of the dreaded pork spleens in the meat slurry.

On a dare, gather your drinking buddies and crack open a six pack of this industrial waste.

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The village of the damned eyes on the kid should give you a clue...
 
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mikeabn

Finally not a lurker!
I had fried clams in 1960. Was violently sick. Until then I loved them. Was at a seafood place and lady friend ordered them-we are now in 2015, mind. They tasted delicious but the gastric upset lasted for MONTHS. Never again.
 
canis-major

canis-major

Who?
Hmm...
 

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fi103r

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Red Baron said:
I am by no means a food snob by any measure. My parents lived in Germany and the Balkans during WWII and encountered all manner of deprivation both during, and for a long time, after the war.

Given that parentage, it should be easy to derive that being a "picky eater" was simply not an option for me growing up. I am not implying that I was fed sub-standard food. Not at all. Mom expertly made a wholesome variety of meals.

The rules were simple at home. Mom cooked three times a day and you ate it, period, end of story. Snacks and treats were an unknown concept outside of my three daily meals. At best, I would use my very meager allowance to secure a rare bottle of Yoohoo chocolate drink or a treasured Goo Goo Cluster candy bar.

Anyway, I have a high tolerance for anything that doesn't crawl off the plate, move too fast, or shoot back.

Regardless, I'm sure all of us have encountered a food product that is just plain shoddy and makes one wonder, what the hell the producers were thinking when they conceived of that product.

What are the most notorious food products you have encountered?
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Tofu, once tried to cook some, *Never Again*
And this is from a guy who eats South Texas Menudo (Tripas soup, not that Godforsaken avacado dip they call menudo in So Kali)
 
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Dozdoats

On TB every waking moment
Souse.

Head cheese with vinegar, basically.

Souse

Souse also known as Sulz is a head cheese to which vinegar has been added
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Souse also known as Sulz is a head cheese to which vinegar has been added. It is a jellied meat sausage that is stuffed in a large diameter casing or simply as a jellied meat loaf. As most people add vinegar or squeeze some lemon juice into head cheese when eating it, so it should not be a surprise that producers add vinegar (5%) into the mix. This added the benefit of a longer shelf life of the product as all foods containing vinegar last longer. The reason is an increased acidity of the product which inhibits the growth of bacteria. Souse is similar to sulz but not limited to pig's feet only.
 
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willowlady

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Freeholder said:
I think the nastiest thing I ever tried to eat was whale blubber -- smelled like rotting fish. I also turned down moose brains on a hunting trip in Alaska one time -- my grandfather liked them, but he couldn't get any of us kids to try them.

I like tongue. I like head cheese. I can eat kidney, though it isn't my favorite. I can eat menudo, which I think is the same thing as tripe only packaged for the Mexican market, but it's not my favorite, either. I've eaten porcupine, and it was good.

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.

Kathleen
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Right! When I was a kid growing up and even until the mid 80's or so, I loved red delicious apples. Somewhere along the line either they changed or I did.... indeed they now taste like slightly sweetened sawdust.
 
day late

day late

money? whats that?
This is going back a ways, but In April 1977 while in the Army I had just eaten my C-Ration meal. (Spaghetti and meatballs iirc.) For some reason I turned the can over and read the packing date. It was 06/44. I had just eaten food, if you can call C-Rations that, that was 12 years older than I was.
 
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tm1439m

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One time I ate some broccoli and after cutting a large part in half and eating it I looked down to get another bite and what do I see but half of a giant spider.

Once I had a bottle of Orange Crush in my hand and was about to pay for it when I decided to shake it up a bit which is what you did with them back then. I happened to see something slide across the bottom. I tip it up and there is some sort of rodent toe about half as wide as the bottle. I sure was glad I saw it first.

One time I bit into a baked potato at work and it had a small rock in it which cracked my tooth. Had to get a crown.

A buddy of mind was drinking one of those school size small milk containers when he felt something hit his lip. He looked inside and it was a dead mouse. He blew his groceries.
 
bw

bw

Fringe Ranger
day late said:
This is going back a ways, but In April 1977 while in the Army I had just eaten my C-Ration meal. (Spaghetti and meatballs iirc.) For some reason I turned the can over and read the packing date. It was 06/44. I had just eaten food, if you can call C-Rations that, that was 12 years older than I was.
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I went in in '68, and we were eating WWII rations all the time. Perfectly fine. Eggs and ham was my favorite.
 
vessie

vessie

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One of my most Favorite things to eat is deep fried artichoke hearts with aeoli sauce on the side for dipping.

And always ordered two plates of it at a very famous cafe' in Hanalei on the island of Kauai.

I won't say which cafe' that's by Bubba Burgers because I know the cafe' was not at fault, they were from a restaurant supply company.

So anyway...

I'm sitting there last year with my husband, his sister and their cousin Elaine and Elaine and I are all exited about the soon to arrive order of the deep fried artichoke hearts!

They arrive, Elaine and I dig in and I'm holding one up like a prize, telling my husband, "Look at this Beauty! I could eat these til I popped!".

So I bite into it, pull half of it away and look at the half that I'm still holding in my hand and what did I see?

I saw a whole dead white and black striped caterpillar waste deep into the artichoke with it's mouth open wide and forever frozen in a silent scream.

Luckily, I didn't get any in my mouth, but that was The Last Time I have Ever had deep fried artichoke hearts! Aaaack! Lol! V
 
mzkitty

mzkitty

I give up.
vessie said:
One of my most Favorite things to eat is deep fried artichoke hearts with aeoli sauce on the side for dipping.

And always ordered two plates of it at a very famous cafe' in Hanalei on the island of Kauai.

I won't say which cafe' that's by Bubba Burgers because I know the cafe' was not at fault, they were from a restaurant supply company.

So anyway...

I'm sitting there last year with my husband, his sister and their cousin Elaine and Elaine and I are all exited about the soon to arrive order of the deep fried artichoke hearts!

They arrive, Elaine and I dig in and I'm holding one up like a prize, telling my husband, "Look at this Beauty! I could eat these til I popped!".

So I bite into it, pull half of it away and look at the half that I'm still holding in my hand and what did I see?

I saw a whole dead white and black striped caterpillar waste deep into the artichoke with it's mouth open wide and forever frozen in a silent scream.

Luckily, I didn't get any in my mouth, but that was The Last Time I have Ever had deep fried artichoke hearts! Aaaack! Lol! V
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Ooh, I'll never order them !!

I do remember having a lovely artichoke hearts/Swiss Cheese creamy kind of baked dip at a friend's house once. Now that was awesome!

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StarryEyedLad

StarryEyedLad

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I cannot eat Creamsicles. One night, when I was about four years old, we were out with lots of family, having a wonderful time, and I had an orange soda and a vanilla shake - rare treats because we were poor. Later, I puked it all up; I don't know why. I can't even look at Creamsicles and still dislike most things vanilla. It took me many years, into my teens, to be able to drink an orange soda again.
 
day late

day late

money? whats that?
bw said:
I went in in '68, and we were eating WWII rations all the time. Perfectly fine. Eggs and ham was my favorite.
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And here I am thinking I'm the only one who liked them. I never had a problem trading whatever I had for eggs and ham.
 
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Yarnball

Yarnball

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I was at a fancy party and they had cavier on the food table. Thinking I was all that and more, i sashayed up and filled my plate like I did it every.day. Put that shit in my mouth and near about died. First and only time I have spit food into a cloth napkin. Good lesson... putting on airs is a waste!
 
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mikeabn

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Anybody remember the name of the Filipino cooked cow intestine ? Had it once at an Asian restaurant. Incidentally the food was great and EVERY SINGLE WORD on their posted handwritten menu was perfectly spelled. A lot of home grown Americans wouldn't pass that test.
 
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