Ok I just found out that swedes eat, probably, the most disgusting thing i've ever heard... and i've heard of people eating some really nasty $hit in my lifetime. Surstromming is what swedes call to rotten fish in a can.. thats basicaly what it is. They get fish, can them and leave it to rot for a long time. Then they open it up and eat it as a delicacy. Swedes describe it as sour. Although swedes admit that its not the best smelling food in the world, it definately makes up for its taste. Now I dont know about swedes' taste buds, but to me, if it smells like $hit, it must taste like $hit! Any other gross $hit you've heard about that people eat? Peru y tu?
It's a thing across Scandinavia the whole rotten fish thing. They do it with shark in Iceland (I could be mistaken) - except they bury it in pits then dig it up after a while. I'm sure it was on here (perhaps a cheese related thread) that I heard of some Italian (Sicilian/Sardinian??) cheese that's festooned with maggots. It's pretty much illegal everywhere, but Italy being Italy it gets made anyway. I'm not sure there's a bountiful export market for it anyway.
aside from the obvious crazy sh1t like dog and what not... coconut hands down - the smell, the taste, the everything - coconut... or as i like to call it: insta-vomit
No offense intended towards our friends from Down Under but vegemite has to be one of the most disgusting foods I have ever tasted. It was vomit-inducing. Bluedaddy, coconuts? Wow. As a Pacific Islander, dislike for coconuts is inconceivable. ;-) Different strokes, I guess.
Just like me with onions & raisins... can't eat the things, my throat completely closes up; hate them anyway. I ate Xmas cake once, not knowing raisins were in it (good few years back now) and woke up in the school nurses office in a cold sweat 20+ minutes later. Odd, no?
Tough one. Vegemite is pretty vile. I'm not particularly fond of sea cucumber. My Scottish friends would disagree, but haggis doesn't sound too appetizing. Severely overcooked pasta-a real abomination. Most of the overcooked side vegetables in English pubs- pretty vile. Of course, there's always dog or cat or rat, but I haven't had the pleasure.
Are you talking about lutefisk? That stuff is brutal. I think lye is a crucial ingrediant. Now, when preserving fish was a problem, before refrigeration, I can see taking desparate measures to insure survival, but now... there's no reason for it. My wife and I once lived in a small Minnesota town with a heavy Swedish-American population. Our first month there, I went for a walk by the V.F.W. lodge. They had the doors open, and it smelled like there were dead bodies decaying inside. It was brutal. Turns out, they were preparing for the annual "Lutefisk Festival" (a true oxymoron). It was at that moment I vowed never to eat anything that smelled worse than my feet, thereby ruling out lutefisk. So, it gets my vote for most disgusting food ever, even though I've never eaten it. Most disgusting thing I've ever eaten was gorgonzola ice cream at some stinking yuppy nouveau cuisine place in the Twin Cities.
Escargo. WhatTF would poses someone to eat an animal while its still alive? A slimy one at that. And WhyTF are nasty foods always called a "delicacy"?
They aren't still alive - far from it - well the intense heat of the oven does for them. I've had them lots of times - mostly in France but also in Italy. But I get your point about nasty foods being deliccies - prime example being oysters - like licking phlegm off a tortoise.
whatever, they are still nasty, the concept is nasty. Speaking of.... any body here ever watch faces of death? Remember the one where they bash the poor monkeys head with a little hammer then eat the brains? I must take a moment and thank my male friends from my youth for that horrible memory. Hanging out them was always vile. The social heirarchy of adolencent behavior demanded that we sit there while they watched either faces of death or porn.
A very attractive young woman once explained to me why oysters are an aphrodisiac - because once you put that in your mouth, you're ready to put anything in! So, no votes for hog's head cheese yet?