Worked for a Japanese company and visited the head office in Tokyo. One of the more senior managers took us to his favorite local sea food restaurant.
I hate seafood. Especially when it's fancy and you get baby squid that looks like they were just fresh out of the water with no preparation etc (part of the "fancy"). However, culturally I had absolutely no possibility to do anything but eat, smile and praise. The courses just kept coming, each one being more disgusting than the last.
My mother in law is Korean so out of curiosity I had her pick up the Korean dish made from it (meonggae) after seeing the lemmy post. It taste like the smell of a dank metal spiral stair case at Seaworld. Even through all the (imo) tasty spices and seasoning. I asked my MIL what she likes about it and she said, "it tastes so fresh because one bite and your transported to the sea". Especially with the older generation, the context can make the food way more than the taste
That's like the one seafood I don't like, specifically because of the metal taste. You can be "transported to the sea" without needing to lick spoons while you're underwater.
Once took durian chocolate home from a trip to Malaysia. Had to open it on the balcony. Tasted like someone vomited right into my mouth. Had to leave the chocolate on the balcony for a few days because I could not stomach the smell.
I think the most famous description of Durian is "like eating custard in a sewer". I've never tried it, since we don't get it in the UK, but I'm curious. I had a Malaysian friend who loved it, but said many businesses and public transport would have signs up saying no Durian due to the smell.
I've eaten chicken feet, haggis, blood pudding, sisig, century egg, durian, dinuguan, tripe and tongue tacos, frog legs, snails, alligator, whole softshell crab, and probably a few more delights that I ought to remember. The only one I absolutely cannot stomach is the century egg.
How was the century egg prepared? I knew some guys in high school that decided to buy random stuff at the asian grocery store and they ate the century egg as if it was a regular boiled egg then threw up. I've had it in small pieces with congee and that was pretty good though.
I'd used it in a recipe to try and make congee, inspired by a pop-up in Seattle called Secret Congee. Theirs is good as hell, but my first try deterred me entirely from that questline.
Oh, that 😂 I'm so ashamed I didn't get it straight away even though I'm Filipino 😅
What type of sisig did you have? It's traditionally made with pig's head but if you don't want that, you can't go wrong with pork belly or chicken cut into small chunks 👍🏽
It was pig's ear and other head stuff, but the real problem was that it was about half as fresh as it should have been. I only mentioned sisig in this post as a way of listing all the gnarly stuff I've liked over the years to compare it to the one thing I just can't handle (except as an ingredient in one dish ever apparently). Little quiet karaoke place with no customers that used to be in Seattle, back when I lived stateside. Not surprised to find out that it's gone, they needed a different crowd.
Never had aspic but I had some unflavoured gelatin one time for a temporary restricted diet and I swear it tasted like licking the armpits and feet of a pig that had freshly been smeared with sheep shit.
That's about accurate :3.. honestly aspic doesn't taste that bad? I mean it's just meat and vegetables essentially, but the texture is horrible. It's not like commercial gelatin you buy in packets, it's more firm and grainy, while still having that wobble, and it just makes me gag
I actually just googled the unflavoured gelatin to see if other people agreed with me and it seems to be the specific "knox" brand I got. They must scrape it off the floor of a pig processing factory or something, I even tried mixing it with some gatorade and it tasted like eating solidified sweat right out lebron's ass crack midgame
Preface: All seafood makes me violently ill. I wish it weren't so, but here we are.
While living in Switzerland we went to an ikea and found what I thought to be spreadable cheese in a toothpaste type tube. For reference lots of stuff over there comes in those types of tubes. Why not cheese?
I was so excited to get home and immediately tore the cap off and squeezed a giant dollop of what my mouth expected to be something like cheez whiz.
NOPE. NOPE FUCKING NOPE. It was some kind of fish paste with roe...
I puked for like 30 minutes straight and couldn't get that taste out of my mouth until we found some kirsch liqueur that I also hate, but whose taste will overpower anything.
I had that in Norway, and it is the best shit ever. I'd eat that in such vast quantities if it was as cheap and available here as it is in the Nordics.
Hah ! my dad loves this stuff. Couldn't ever figure out why. As a child I would get excited seeing a tube of paste in the fridge thinking it might be concentrated milk.
I’ve eaten a lot of pretty crazy stuff by western standards. The most challenging thing I have eaten was a giant water bug. The most challenging thing I haven’t been able to bring myself to eat was balut.
The water bug was definitely not the worst thing I’ve eaten though; it was unbelievably fragrant. Practically like eating perfume.
Probably. I know it’s a pheromone and is much more concentrated in males making them more valuable/desired
My question for folks, though…:
When faced with eating a giant water bug for the first time, would you bite the head side first or the butt side first?
There's a local grocery store chain here that has the most bland tasting everything in their prepared food counter. You've never eaten such tasteless food in your life. Poor seasoning? Try none at all. Everything tastes like cardboard.
Want to simulate what it's like to eat food as a 30 year long habitual chain smoker, shop at Freson Bros.
Kellogg would cum his pants on the spot discovering such blandness could exist.
Their potato salad gave me depression. I didn't know you could make a calzone taste like the box it came in.
I seem to write better when I'm passionate about something. What gets me is none of it looks* off/shitty visually. Like the coleslaw looks appealing until you eat a mouth full and wish to die from your utter disappointment. If the Demiurge is real, one of his angels runs their kitchen just to fuck with people.
Couple months ago I got a tonsillectomy. I got nerve damage in my tongue as a side effect of a tool they used and everything tastes different since. Tomato based pasta sauces have been the absolute worst, it tastes very metallic. The only normal type of food I can stand is Asian food that isn't breaded/fried.
My neighbor growing up had chickens and would bring us eggs all the time. One day, I was making boiled eggs with them and a couple of them were partially developed. I was around 12 at the time and I don't think I ate eggs again till I lived on my own years later.
I don't know about THE worst, but every single thing I ate while at Disney land was pretty fucking bad. I had some barbeque skewers with my dad that were extremely bland, dry, and flavourless. I also had some sort of pink sugary drink that tasted kind of weird. My brother said his hotel burger had a really bad musk to it
I've had that and it wasn't bad per se, it was just like... why? None of the benefits of the flavors of other raw meats like steak or horse, just bland and boring
She used an insta pot, loaded to the brim with turkey legs, but she set it on air fryer mode by accident. Mine was on top, so it looked fine, and she didn't notice the lower ones were raw until I'd already started eating.
Witloof, its this variant of cabbage that is long thin and completely white. And it has one of the most pungent bitter tastes ive ever had the misfortune to discover. The taste is hard to describe, but it's similar to bee spit,also known as honey, except replace all the love and care that the bees spat with, with pure malice and wasp hatred. It is incredibly sweet, ungodly bitter and has after cooking the texture of overcooked pasta
Hard to say. I tend to opt for safe things most of the time. Twice as a child I was conned into taking a spam fritter under the belief it was fish. I like battered fish. It was not fish. I do not like spam.
Texture-wise, I cannot abide kidney. Used to love steak and kidney pies but something changed when my adult teeth came in.
Thirdly, I still have flashbacks to a serving of whitebait I ordered out of curiosity in a restaurant one time. They didn't taste terrible that I remember. Just... whole little fish cooked and to be eaten whole. Never again.
And then there was the case of the Kit-Kat that I was eating blind, piece by piece from my coat pocket, and one of the pieces was hard and unpleasant. I am still not sure there wasn't something else in my pocket that I grabbed and ate by mistake, but that's pretty up there.
I hated kidneys for a long time because the first time I ate one (served with a mixed grill) I thought it was a mushroom. I love mushrooms and saved it to the end. Put the whole thing in my mouth and it was so much not mushroom that I couldn't face kidneys for years afterwards. I very much enjoy a steak and kidney pudding now though (has to be proper steamed suet pastry).
Vegemite tastes like what I imagine the under-side of a cow to taste.
It tastes like the smell of road surface.
It should have a warning label: Not to be taken orally.
It's clearly a prank that Australia plays with everyone.
Also, I was born in England, but have lived in Australia for 25 years.
Vegemite is just brewers yeast post-brew, with added salt. It's was invented to use up the leftover brewers yeast after brewing beer (well really, Marmite was, and Vegemite was invented as an Australian version of Marmite).
Brits like the taste of beer, Brits made Marmite. Aussies like the taste of beer.. Vegemite.
Its ok if yanks don't like the taste of beer, we get it, we've tried your beers.
Unripe persimmon. I can't even say it has a flavor, more a sensation of your face trying to implode into your mouth. Bitterness is an insufficient descriptor for it. That's part of it, but also your mouth feels dry in a way that defies belief. It's like being stuck on the dentist's vacuum too long.
How the hell do you wreck lentil soup that bad? Heck, there are lots of different cultures around the world that make tasty lentil soup. There's German lentil soup with potato, carrot, and ham; there's Indian dal in a range of flavors and colors; there's Turkish Ezogelin soup with bulgur and paprika ...
Two things. Once I had fish in the student cafeteria that gave me food poisoning. Since then, I can't stand fish and seafood anymore.
The other was a lasagne I had at a Tesco cafe. I took one bite, and returned it to the counter, stating that this is the worst lasagne that ever happened to me.
Ordered indian takeout from a place in thr UK. The butter chicken tasted like they cooked a frozen chicken breast and strained a can of Spaghetti Os sauce over it.
The lady who owns the Ethiopian place near me told me that it’s really hard to get the injera right when you first try it the US. The wild yeasts that occur naturally in Ethiopia are not present here. Is like how “real sourdough only comes from San Francisco.”
She said she couldn’t get it to work right with pure teff like back home and to play around for a long time with the mix of wheat, rice flour and teff before it was even edible.
Maybe the place you had it was still figuring it out.
I ordered andouillette in a Paris restaurant once not knowing what it was. I had a little dictionary with me (pre-internet) that translated it as "chitterlings". I didn't know what that was either.
Never again - it had chopped-up bits of rubbery guts on it that resisted chewing, it was vile.
I love haggis, and that's all horrible bits and pieces cooked in a sheep stomach. No rubbery chunks though. I'll give andouillette another whirl next time I'm in Paris, maybe I got a dud.
Haha weirdo checking in, tastes like soap but it's like refreshing? Kinda like you can say something minty tastes like toothpaste but it's not really a bad thing
Either live octopus or raw stingray. The former is chopped up and dipped in spicy sauce to make it writhe. The latter absolutely reeks of piss (stingrays are full of ammonia apparently). Silkworm larva are surprisingly delicious.
That would explain the smell and the taste. The one upside to this is that stingray meat never really goes "bad". It pickles itself. Which as I understand it is the reason people started eating it despite the awfulness.
I made pancakes once. I didn’t know the difference between baking powder and baking soda. It tasted like chewing aluminum foil or licking a 9v battery.
I grew up hating a lot of vegetables because my grandfather - who I'm sure meant well - used to boil the life out of them. Green beans or broccoli would be soft, mushy, and greyish (while the water became green), and taste like unseasoned sadness.
One day when I was in grade school in the year nineteen eighty-bad, the cafeteria served hot dogs which had gone greyish and we were all told it was fine. They smelled awful and made a bunch of kids sick.
I mean there are foods designed to genuinely taste bad, but - keeping to food that I guess is supposed to taste good - I know one of my worst experiences as a kid was with a particular boiled sweet.
I don't know what flavour it was supposed to be, but it tasted like somebody had shoved fly spray in my mouth. It was vile.
Once I was with a group at a breakfast buffet, and I had a piece of bacon that was about 95% fat. Someone said they'd give me $5 to pour a packet of Sweet'n Low on it and eat it.
I regretted taking them up on it.
My true worst isn't technically food, but we cooked down a bunch of San Pedro cactus to try to make mescaline. The juice tasted like ultra concentrated dirty bong water.
It was something like mashed pumpkin. I forget the exact variety.
I was for dinner at some friend's place. He gives me a bit of that pumpkin stuff, saying I have to taste it because it turned out so great. It was left-overs from the previous day. I take a spoon and it tastes absolutely rotten. Well, ok. He is trying his best to be an amateur chef, but I do have doubts about some of his culinary judgments. So, I put on the polite face and just eat it.
After a few spoons, I can't take it anymore. I say: "Sorry, this tastes absolutely rotten." He tastes of it, nods and hurries out the room to throw it away. So yeah. I ate spoiled food. I didn't get sick but I haven't eaten pumpkin since. The taste really stayed with me.
Steak, fish, boiled potatoes and fish pudding, basically anything my dad made.
I was 18 when I found out steak wasn’t supposed to be rubber. The foods in themselves should be good, but the way he prepared them, ruined everything.
Now as an adult with my own kitchen and money, I can make the meals phenomenal in comparison to what dad made.
Take the dish fried rice, everyone is head over heels about it, billions of people eat it. But for me it’s associated with some really terrible shit. Soggy rice, canned corn, grey minced meat, canned champignon and lots of oil. No seasoning except salt and the oil.
Rancid butter. My mother bought it from a farm and insisted it was fine. It was so, so bad. I was only 4 years old at the time and I seriously thought I didn't like butter for years.
Maybe there was a translation issue, but there were a dozen or more of us at the dinner and almost all of us found it unpalatable. A couple asked 'what the last dish we had was' when the next dish came out and were told it was sea urchin.
Did some searching, apparently it can be variable in taste due to sea urchin diet, freshness, and preparation. There are commercially prepared pastes that aren't very palatable.
The urchin I had was really expensive and was a special that was rarely available. This sushi place had very good stuff, you could also order freshly grated wasabi from imported Japanese roots (I totally recommend).
Probably similar to canned crab vs fresh crab. Stuff in the can is terrible and I don't know how people eat it.
It's almost always due to freshness and diet. Freshly caught and cracked sea urchin is pretty mild and like any other seafood, starts to get stankier by the second.
It's funny, I can think of the worst drink (I dislike Negroni to the point I don't even understand how people like it, so intensely sweet and bitter and nothing else)
and the worst perfume (Im Nebbel, smelled like burning rubber) but food, all I can think of is the time my ex made a spaghetti with a sauce of yellow tomatoes that looked exactly like vomit, and when I was trying to eat it, commented that he thought it was "a little loose" and I just lost it, could not eat it, though it didn't taste awful.
Worst restaurant food was a Mexican place in San Antonio, got a chicken mole and the mole was made with sweetened chocolate chips; an enchilada with American cheese slice was another highlight of that meal, it was comically bad.
I did not find Nattō that bad actually. You need to spread it out over enough rice.
That said, I had a dish recently, stir fried prawn with Thai "stinky beans" that reminded me of Nattō somehow. To be fair they did warn me that it really was stinky when I tried ordering it. I insisted to try it anyway. It was really difficult to get down. It really did stink on my plate. I had to carefully ensure that no spoonful had to much of the bean mush. It was salty and gave the impression of decay.
I know that people like them but I can't get past the syrupy intense sweetness, it is nauseating to me. Tastes a lot like a migraine feels. I do like lighter bittersweet stuff, Chinotto soda is good. And do like Campari in fruity drinks, it adds a welcome edge and the sweetness is moderated but Negroni tastes horrible to me still.
My friend must make them less sweet than is standard, it's kind of syrupy but not too bad, maybe a little citrussy and of course that herbal bitterness. I might be an outlier though I've been known to sip straight Mallort.
Steve and his girlfriend Samantha went off to college in August. She went to Florida State, he went to Penn. So, she decides to fly to PA to visit him. He was really happy to see her so he decided to give her some oral action.
He had done this numerous times before and he always enjoyed doing it...but for some reason, this time, she smelled really horrible, and she tasted even worse. He didn't want to offend her though because he hadn't seen her in months...so he put a Jolly Rancher in his mouth to cover it up, even though it didn't do much to help.
In the course of eating her out, he accidentally pushed the candy inside of her... and stuck a finger in to grab it out. He took it out, and put it back into his mouth and bit it. Only...it wasn't the Jolly Rancher.
It was a nodule of gonorrhea.
As in, the blister-like structure that gonorrhea makes filled with diseased pus was the size of a fucking Jolly Rancher and the poor guy BIT it. I guess it was really dark in the room. He freaked out and started vomiting all over the place when it exploded in his mouth...
He demanded to know what was going on, turns out she had cheated on him at a club like, the first week of college, and fucked some random guy and the stupid bitch had no clue what was wrong with her. She noticed a strange smell though.
So now, Steve is freaking out that he now has gonorrhea of the mouth and God knows what else.
The first thing that comes to mind are these frozen turkey burgers. They weren't offensive but they were so flavorless. Nothing I added to them made them palatable. It was the damnedest thing.
Opposite here, olives are so good, so far there are none I have not enjoyed. Used to get some sort of olive at the Lebanese grocer, they scooped them out of a sketchy looking barrel, still so delicious, I freaking love olives.
Having said that - I can imagine easily not liking them. They are very intensely flavorful and unique in their flavor. Just like I can understand people not liking cantaloupe, or blue cheese, though I love those too.
An old Valencian woman once told me, the authentic Valencian paella is the produce one, the paella you improvise with the produce you have in the kitchen when some friends came to visit and told them to stay for lunch that we'll make a paella for everyone.
I LOOOOVE sushi. I love allll sushi. I’ve never had a piece of sushi I didn’t like.
…until I was at a nice sushi place, and I got sushi with a quail egg on it. I don’t know what else was on it, because the semi-raw or raw quail yolk ball was horrid. I couldn’t stand it. I spit it out and I felt soooo bad.
See, that's a perfectly respectable opinion, but it is so different from my own that I cannot fathom how someone could hate broccoli. It just tastes so good, specially with olive oil.
The food that happened the most frequently so I remember it was egg whites tasted horrible when I had braces.
Otherwise I've eaten a number of bad things because we traveled a lot as kids and you ate what was put in front of you. If it was truly gagging we could stop though. Sometimes we'd get a chewy bar like thing later if it was clear we simply weren't going to eat whatever horrible it was.
PB&J sandwiches. I hate them. They literally make me gag. Can’t stand the taste, the texture, the smell… even the sight of them or hearing them being made bugs me. An assault on all five of my senses.
But if I don’t like it, that it means more for everyone else.
I’m pretty open-minded about trying new foods, and there’s not a lot of foods I really hate - honestly, besides pb&j, I can’t think of a food I’d turn down.
It is weird to me that my dislike of it bothers people. I think everyone has one commonly beloved food that they don’t like. Hell, my wife hates bacon. BACON! I still love her tho. She keeps the pb&j away from me, I keep the bacon away from her.
It's funny because peanut butter, jelly, and bacon go so well together. Throw a little banana in there and fry it up, and you've got a Fat Elvis.
I think PB&J is just in a different category. I could eat them literally every day and never get tired of them, and I've heard the same from most other adults and children I've talked to about it.
My brother never liked peanut butter growing up, so he'd eat cream cheese and jelly sandwiches. I don't feel the need to say that in a way that expresses disdain, because I imagine it's impossible to read that sentence without the disdain being implied.
Worked for a Japanese company and visited the head office in Tokyo. One of the more senior managers took us to his favorite local sea food restaurant.
I hate seafood. Especially when it's fancy and you get baby squid that looks like they were just fresh out of the water with no preparation etc (part of the "fancy"). However, culturally I had absolutely no possibility to do anything but eat, smile and praise. The courses just kept coming, each one being more disgusting than the last.
Someone on lemmy posted this recently: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_pineapple
My mother in law is Korean so out of curiosity I had her pick up the Korean dish made from it (meonggae) after seeing the lemmy post. It taste like the smell of a dank metal spiral stair case at Seaworld. Even through all the (imo) tasty spices and seasoning. I asked my MIL what she likes about it and she said, "it tastes so fresh because one bite and your transported to the sea". Especially with the older generation, the context can make the food way more than the taste
That's like the one seafood I don't like, specifically because of the metal taste. You can be "transported to the sea" without needing to lick spoons while you're underwater.
Durian fruit. That is the most vile thing I have ever tasted and the after taste lasted for like 5 hours.
That shit is fucking evil.
Once took durian chocolate home from a trip to Malaysia. Had to open it on the balcony. Tasted like someone vomited right into my mouth. Had to leave the chocolate on the balcony for a few days because I could not stomach the smell.
0/0 never again.
It's not bad as long as you don't think about baby poo while you eat it
"It's not bad as long as you don't breathe."
I have that same mantra about life
I think the most famous description of Durian is "like eating custard in a sewer". I've never tried it, since we don't get it in the UK, but I'm curious. I had a Malaysian friend who loved it, but said many businesses and public transport would have signs up saying no Durian due to the smell.
It's honestly not bad after a few tries. For me, the texture and overwhelming smell was a surprise at first but the actual taste isn't that bad.
I am not a picky eater and enjoy many exotic, strong smelling/tasting foods.
But not durian.
I've eaten chicken feet, haggis, blood pudding, sisig, century egg, durian, dinuguan, tripe and tongue tacos, frog legs, snails, alligator, whole softshell crab, and probably a few more delights that I ought to remember. The only one I absolutely cannot stomach is the century egg.
How was the century egg prepared? I knew some guys in high school that decided to buy random stuff at the asian grocery store and they ate the century egg as if it was a regular boiled egg then threw up. I've had it in small pieces with congee and that was pretty good though.
I'd used it in a recipe to try and make congee, inspired by a pop-up in Seattle called Secret Congee. Theirs is good as hell, but my first try deterred me entirely from that questline.
Sisig mentioned rahhh 🇵🇭🔥💯
We're a "barrel man on the mantle" type of family, you know?
I dunno what that means but I'm guessing it's not good. You also did mention Dinuguan which I like also.
Matter of taste I guess - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrel_man_(novelty)
I like dinuguan and sisig, but I've definitely had plates of sisig I've regretted.
Oh, that 😂 I'm so ashamed I didn't get it straight away even though I'm Filipino 😅
What type of sisig did you have? It's traditionally made with pig's head but if you don't want that, you can't go wrong with pork belly or chicken cut into small chunks 👍🏽
It was pig's ear and other head stuff, but the real problem was that it was about half as fresh as it should have been. I only mentioned sisig in this post as a way of listing all the gnarly stuff I've liked over the years to compare it to the one thing I just can't handle (except as an ingredient in one dish ever apparently). Little quiet karaoke place with no customers that used to be in Seattle, back when I lived stateside. Not surprised to find out that it's gone, they needed a different crowd.
I had a hunch it's the way it's cooked, should always be fresh.
The crab poboy sandwich with the legs hanging out of it was as a staple of my childhood, whenever we went to New Orleans I wanted one.
Alligator we can get here but it's unremarkable in flavor.
Anything I've bought at a sports stadium. The FootyScran twitter account catalogues some similar examples -
That's straight up disrespectful
Looks like a euro burger on a US bun.
Oh… I’m so sorry. That should be illegal.
Did they scrape that off the bottom of one of the seats?
Relevant daily game: scrandle.
Never smelt one but I assume really sweaty?
My mouth is watering. No wait, those are tears of sadness.
Let me put this in my tinder bio immediately
Aspic
If you warm it up, it becomes soup!
Never had aspic but I had some unflavoured gelatin one time for a temporary restricted diet and I swear it tasted like licking the armpits and feet of a pig that had freshly been smeared with sheep shit.
That's about accurate :3.. honestly aspic doesn't taste that bad? I mean it's just meat and vegetables essentially, but the texture is horrible. It's not like commercial gelatin you buy in packets, it's more firm and grainy, while still having that wobble, and it just makes me gag
I actually just googled the unflavoured gelatin to see if other people agreed with me and it seems to be the specific "knox" brand I got. They must scrape it off the floor of a pig processing factory or something, I even tried mixing it with some gatorade and it tasted like eating solidified sweat right out lebron's ass crack midgame
Thanks for painting that beautiful picture with your words
I've been called the lovechild of Picasso and shakespeare. Not by others, just myself. And not often, just once. Like 20 seconds ago.
It is boiled feet, skin and bones. The purifying process can only do so much.
Preface: All seafood makes me violently ill. I wish it weren't so, but here we are.
While living in Switzerland we went to an ikea and found what I thought to be spreadable cheese in a toothpaste type tube. For reference lots of stuff over there comes in those types of tubes. Why not cheese?
I was so excited to get home and immediately tore the cap off and squeezed a giant dollop of what my mouth expected to be something like cheez whiz.
NOPE. NOPE FUCKING NOPE. It was some kind of fish paste with roe...
I puked for like 30 minutes straight and couldn't get that taste out of my mouth until we found some kirsch liqueur that I also hate, but whose taste will overpower anything.
Picture related: The culprit
In their defense, it literally says "kaviar."
Oh they have none of the blame! I am a big stupid man who didn't bother to read it at all.
I had that in Norway, and it is the best shit ever. I'd eat that in such vast quantities if it was as cheap and available here as it is in the Nordics.
This is a staple food in Norway. The Norwegian variant is made with smoked cod roe.
Think the Swedish variant is some kind of freshwater fish? Can't imagine IKEA will deliver culinary greatness tho'
Hah ! my dad loves this stuff. Couldn't ever figure out why. As a child I would get excited seeing a tube of paste in the fridge thinking it might be concentrated milk.
I’ve eaten a lot of pretty crazy stuff by western standards. The most challenging thing I have eaten was a giant water bug. The most challenging thing I haven’t been able to bring myself to eat was balut.
The water bug was definitely not the worst thing I’ve eaten though; it was unbelievably fragrant. Practically like eating perfume.
Esters I bet it's rich in esters
Probably. I know it’s a pheromone and is much more concentrated in males making them more valuable/desired
My question for folks, though…:
When faced with eating a giant water bug for the first time, would you bite the head side first or the butt side first?
I struggled with this decision…
ETA: (for reference)
Ok...it's not a competition...but you win...
Is that someone people actually eat?
Probably, entomophagy is not that uncommon outside of western countries.
It is popular in a lot of Southeast Asia. You can even buy commercial chili pastes with the essence of water bug in them.
Balut actually tastes pretty good chicken and egg. Even though it was a duck egg. But yah I could never do it again.
Giant water bug? I love those things!
Nettle stew. Yes, it’s good for you. It tastes like cow shit to me.
There's a local grocery store chain here that has the most bland tasting everything in their prepared food counter. You've never eaten such tasteless food in your life. Poor seasoning? Try none at all. Everything tastes like cardboard.
Want to simulate what it's like to eat food as a 30 year long habitual chain smoker, shop at Freson Bros.
Kellogg would cum his pants on the spot discovering such blandness could exist.
Their potato salad gave me depression. I didn't know you could make a calzone taste like the box it came in.
I am weirdly intrigued. You make it sound like a curiosity
I seem to write better when I'm passionate about something. What gets me is none of it looks* off/shitty visually. Like the coleslaw looks appealing until you eat a mouth full and wish to die from your utter disappointment. If the Demiurge is real, one of his angels runs their kitchen just to fuck with people.
Or Famine, one of the horsemen of the apocalypse. Make food that looks good but doesn't feed anyone, made of sawdust and wax.
I need to try this now
I actually like the taste of unseasoned food.
Couple months ago I got a tonsillectomy. I got nerve damage in my tongue as a side effect of a tool they used and everything tastes different since. Tomato based pasta sauces have been the absolute worst, it tastes very metallic. The only normal type of food I can stand is Asian food that isn't breaded/fried.
LOL, 80% of our home cooked meals either have tomatoes and/or fried Asian food. :)
Balut, it tasted good actually but the physiological hurdles I could only eat one and could not do it again.
Anytime I've seen a video of them, they mention the feathers/skull/or juice and I'm thinking "please stfu"
My neighbor growing up had chickens and would bring us eggs all the time. One day, I was making boiled eggs with them and a couple of them were partially developed. I was around 12 at the time and I don't think I ate eggs again till I lived on my own years later.
Oh my g….. you just took me back to my childhood! I miss balut! My kids loved it until they grew up and figured out what it was. 🐣
ugh it didn't taste good to me and gave me three days of diarrhea. Balut was definitely my worst meal
Surströmming with mämmi
Would it have been better with papi?
I don't know about THE worst, but every single thing I ate while at Disney land was pretty fucking bad. I had some barbeque skewers with my dad that were extremely bland, dry, and flavourless. I also had some sort of pink sugary drink that tasted kind of weird. My brother said his hotel burger had a really bad musk to it
So that's where my ballsack burger went!
Properly prepared or improperly prepared?
I had a chicken sandwich once that was still pink in the middle... Disgusting!
Chicken sashimi is a thing in Japan, so consider yourself cultured
They also vaccinate their chickens against salmonella and don't wash them with chlorine in Japan, unlike in the US.
I've had that and it wasn't bad per se, it was just like... why? None of the benefits of the flavors of other raw meats like steak or horse, just bland and boring
Never had it but I've heard it kinda resembles a mild cut of sashimi
Cultured? 🤔
Hey, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Logically, you should be thanking whoever made that for you.
Mother in law fed me pink turkey.
She used an insta pot, loaded to the brim with turkey legs, but she set it on air fryer mode by accident. Mine was on top, so it looked fine, and she didn't notice the lower ones were raw until I'd already started eating.
Fun night. Didn't get sick 🤷♂️
Witloof, its this variant of cabbage that is long thin and completely white. And it has one of the most pungent bitter tastes ive ever had the misfortune to discover. The taste is hard to describe, but it's similar to bee spit,also known as honey, except replace all the love and care that the bees spat with, with pure malice and wasp hatred. It is incredibly sweet, ungodly bitter and has after cooking the texture of overcooked pasta
My mother used to serve it without sauce, ham, or anything else to hide it. Vile.
Hard to say. I tend to opt for safe things most of the time. Twice as a child I was conned into taking a spam fritter under the belief it was fish. I like battered fish. It was not fish. I do not like spam.
Texture-wise, I cannot abide kidney. Used to love steak and kidney pies but something changed when my adult teeth came in.
Thirdly, I still have flashbacks to a serving of whitebait I ordered out of curiosity in a restaurant one time. They didn't taste terrible that I remember. Just... whole little fish cooked and to be eaten whole. Never again.
And then there was the case of the Kit-Kat that I was eating blind, piece by piece from my coat pocket, and one of the pieces was hard and unpleasant. I am still not sure there wasn't something else in my pocket that I grabbed and ate by mistake, but that's pretty up there.
I hated kidneys for a long time because the first time I ate one (served with a mixed grill) I thought it was a mushroom. I love mushrooms and saved it to the end. Put the whole thing in my mouth and it was so much not mushroom that I couldn't face kidneys for years afterwards. I very much enjoy a steak and kidney pudding now though (has to be proper steamed suet pastry).
And I love whitebait!
Minke whale. I've had hákarl and I prefer that over minke whale.
How was it prepared? Whenever I've seen whale cuisine it's typically a piece of blubber eaten raw.
It was raw. My grandpa loved it though.
That's one of the advantages of becoming old. Your taste buds stop working.
Apparently none y'all have tried vegemite.
Come at me Australia!
Vegemite tastes like what I imagine the under-side of a cow to taste. It tastes like the smell of road surface. It should have a warning label: Not to be taken orally. It's clearly a prank that Australia plays with everyone.
Also, I was born in England, but have lived in Australia for 25 years.
Don’t forget Marmite. I can eat that straight out of the bottle. Yum.
🤮
Funny thing is, I hate 98% of all vegetables. They literally make me ill. But I can eat marmite all day long. Go figure.
I tried it as a kid when my school had some kind of international day and lunch was a catered buffet of tons of different food from around the world.
It was basicslly pure salt on my tastebuds.
Vegemite is just brewers yeast post-brew, with added salt. It's was invented to use up the leftover brewers yeast after brewing beer (well really, Marmite was, and Vegemite was invented as an Australian version of Marmite).
Brits like the taste of beer, Brits made Marmite. Aussies like the taste of beer.. Vegemite.
Its ok if yanks don't like the taste of beer, we get it, we've tried your beers.
Unripe persimmon. I can't even say it has a flavor, more a sensation of your face trying to implode into your mouth. Bitterness is an insufficient descriptor for it. That's part of it, but also your mouth feels dry in a way that defies belief. It's like being stuck on the dentist's vacuum too long.
Indeed, it's not really a flavor, but that sensation is called astringent.
That's the skin. The fruit is sweet as honey.
The fruit is incredibly astringent when unripe.
bitter melon
I have never wanted to go back in time and prevent myself from doing something more than in the moment of tasting that wretched vegetable
it took every shred of my willpower to get it down and not spit it out dramatically (was in polite company)
It is delicious if you make it right - sweet curry or dry spicy fries.
you can have all of my share, all yours 😫
I literally had it today.
I used to hate it like most people, then I understood that most people don't cook it the right way.
AhEhEhm, AcKsHuAlLy...issa fruit
I'm a fruit, and I say that dastardly curse of a produce doesn't deserve to share a label with me lol
Just be happy you're not a vegetable
this is a good point haha
Lentil soup. One kid in the entire school ate it.
How the hell do you wreck lentil soup that bad? Heck, there are lots of different cultures around the world that make tasty lentil soup. There's German lentil soup with potato, carrot, and ham; there's Indian dal in a range of flavors and colors; there's Turkish Ezogelin soup with bulgur and paprika ...
100% agree. Lentil soup is like the one dish that I have found very pleasent in all countries I've been to
I have no clue. This was a school lunch 25 years ago, and we usually had really good lunch.
Cocolate pudding in a hotel in reims france.
I dont know what it was but it wasnt chocolate!
Two things. Once I had fish in the student cafeteria that gave me food poisoning. Since then, I can't stand fish and seafood anymore.
The other was a lasagne I had at a Tesco cafe. I took one bite, and returned it to the counter, stating that this is the worst lasagne that ever happened to me.
Ordered indian takeout from a place in thr UK. The butter chicken tasted like they cooked a frozen chicken breast and strained a can of Spaghetti Os sauce over it.
I once went to an Ethiopian restaurant with my family. Never again.
I can't even describe it, but whatever evil concoction they call their version of bread is easily the worst thing I ever attempted to eat.
Whaaaat injera bread is really good. Not even an acquired taste.
Til about https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teff
You don’t enjoy the unholy union of packing wrap and kitchen sponge?
Too accurate 😭
How about tripe, the other kitchen sponge?
I dunno, I think the Ethiopian food itself more than makes up for it. Unseasoned polenta on the other hand…
Zil Zil Tibs.
It's been like 20 years since I've had Ethiopian food and I still remember exactly what I will get next time.
It's like a sourdough pancake. Absolutely delicious, and even more so when it soaks up the juices from the rest of the platter.
The lady who owns the Ethiopian place near me told me that it’s really hard to get the injera right when you first try it the US. The wild yeasts that occur naturally in Ethiopia are not present here. Is like how “real sourdough only comes from San Francisco.”
She said she couldn’t get it to work right with pure teff like back home and to play around for a long time with the mix of wheat, rice flour and teff before it was even edible.
Maybe the place you had it was still figuring it out.
Maybe. This was in Israel. There's a sizable Ethiopian population here but it still might be difficult.
Fermented teff flour? I've always wanted to try it with raw kitfo out of curiosity
You can get close by way overfermenting regular sourdough. It's very lactic.
Does it get that same floppy texture?
Yeah, almost rubbery.
Tête de veau and andouillettes.
I'll try everything once but the first is just jelly with cartilage, reminding you it used to be a face.
The second is offal sausage that smells like the intestines weren't washed out properly.
Oh
Headcheese?
Nope, looked it up. Similar though.
Do people still buy it? Damn. Only old people did when I worked deli, and that's long enough ago that they're all dead.
I ordered andouillette in a Paris restaurant once not knowing what it was. I had a little dictionary with me (pre-internet) that translated it as "chitterlings". I didn't know what that was either.
Never again - it had chopped-up bits of rubbery guts on it that resisted chewing, it was vile.
A good andouillette is fantastic, but I understand how it would sneak up on the unprepared foodie
I love haggis, and that's all horrible bits and pieces cooked in a sheep stomach. No rubbery chunks though. I'll give andouillette another whirl next time I'm in Paris, maybe I got a dud.
It's supposed to be from Troyes, in case you happen to be in the vicinity... I've yet to try haggis but I'm optimistic, looks right up my alley
Cilantro/coentro/coriander
Soap gene eh?
I must be the one weird fucker that thinks it tastes like soap and likes it 😅
Haha weirdo checking in, tastes like soap but it's like refreshing? Kinda like you can say something minty tastes like toothpaste but it's not really a bad thing
Would you describe yourself as a masochist?
Nah - it just tastes clean and fresh to me…it’s refreshing
I imagine you also like to wear tight fitting latex or leather and be beaten because "it's important to be disciplined sometimes"
Stinky Beetle gene.
Just had a pinch . It's 🆗️ . Do "soap gene" peops taste like really strong soapy taste or some thing ?
Apparently it does taste like soap or lye to them but I can't give you first hand testimony
First-hand testimony: yes, it does taste of soap. Lick a bar of soap if you want to know what it's like.
But how do I know soap tastes the same to you as it does me? What if the soap gene actually makes soap taste like cilantro?
I used to eat hand soap when I was a kid because I loved the taste. I also love cilantro. What does any of this mean?
Hmm...not sure. Might be a super power, might not be. Either way, I'm impressed you're capable of reading and writing still.
It's actually a myth in my experience, might taste soapy to some folks at first (my experience) but I love coriander and it tastes good now
Chick-fil-A. Soggy, rubbery chicken. So fucking gross.
I have had some truley awful CFA sandwiches. When they are good they are fine. But Everytime I go to one it is really hit or miss. So why bother?
Either live octopus or raw stingray. The former is chopped up and dipped in spicy sauce to make it writhe. The latter absolutely reeks of piss (stingrays are full of ammonia apparently). Silkworm larva are surprisingly delicious.
I think rays are one of those animals that urinate through their skin, like sharks
That would explain the smell and the taste. The one upside to this is that stingray meat never really goes "bad". It pickles itself. Which as I understand it is the reason people started eating it despite the awfulness.
Surprising strategy, but why not.....
I can't have octopus ever since I watched My Octopus Teacher. But am fine with squid
A Pizza. It was in Milan. Directly in front of the cathedral. It tasted like a frozen pizza, and I was utterly disappointed.
I can relate. One of mine is a pizza in Naples. Also looked and tasted like a frozen pizza. I can only assume pizza da turista idiota is a thing.
Next time in Naples, go to da Michele!
The only time I don't like pizza is when they use that weird cheap dough that resembles a giant version of what you get in lunchables
It's really easy to get bad food in touristy parts of Italy (well, anywhere, really)
When I was in my twenties I met this girl. I got really sick, and she wanted to impress me and made soup. She knew nothing about cooking.
She boiled a chicken, did not separate anything. Chopped up a head of parsley and threw it in.
Then she served it to me with glistening eyes and a hopeful look. "I want you to feel better, I made soup for you".
It was just basically grey chicken fat with bones, cartilage, skin floating in it.
Was your sickness related to your soap eating?
No that only lasted until I was about 10 years old
Did you poop bubbles?
you're becoming annoying at this point
Aaaaand blocked
I made pancakes once. I didn’t know the difference between baking powder and baking soda. It tasted like chewing aluminum foil or licking a 9v battery.
I’m generally not allowed in the kitchen.
This is why the correct way to make pancakes is from a box.
Preferably with applesauce instead of egg, but you do you.
almost ate raccoon that dads friend caught in traps.
I grew up hating a lot of vegetables because my grandfather - who I'm sure meant well - used to boil the life out of them. Green beans or broccoli would be soft, mushy, and greyish (while the water became green), and taste like unseasoned sadness.
One day when I was in grade school in the year nineteen eighty-bad, the cafeteria served hot dogs which had gone greyish and we were all told it was fine. They smelled awful and made a bunch of kids sick.
I mean there are foods designed to genuinely taste bad, but - keeping to food that I guess is supposed to taste good - I know one of my worst experiences as a kid was with a particular boiled sweet.
I don't know what flavour it was supposed to be, but it tasted like somebody had shoved fly spray in my mouth. It was vile.
Once I was with a group at a breakfast buffet, and I had a piece of bacon that was about 95% fat. Someone said they'd give me $5 to pour a packet of Sweet'n Low on it and eat it.
I regretted taking them up on it.
My true worst isn't technically food, but we cooked down a bunch of San Pedro cactus to try to make mescaline. The juice tasted like ultra concentrated dirty bong water.
The worst part is it didn't work.
Flamin Hot Cheetos Mac and Cheese. Had to open all the windows to get the smell out
It was something like mashed pumpkin. I forget the exact variety.
I was for dinner at some friend's place. He gives me a bit of that pumpkin stuff, saying I have to taste it because it turned out so great. It was left-overs from the previous day. I take a spoon and it tastes absolutely rotten. Well, ok. He is trying his best to be an amateur chef, but I do have doubts about some of his culinary judgments. So, I put on the polite face and just eat it.
After a few spoons, I can't take it anymore. I say: "Sorry, this tastes absolutely rotten." He tastes of it, nods and hurries out the room to throw it away. So yeah. I ate spoiled food. I didn't get sick but I haven't eaten pumpkin since. The taste really stayed with me.
Sea cucumber.
Slugs are not for eating.
Snails are popular even in western culture and what is a snail but a slug with a backpack
🎒🐌
I find snails to have a vastly different texture.
I can't with escargot, but eel in sushi is nice.
Steak, fish, boiled potatoes and fish pudding, basically anything my dad made.
I was 18 when I found out steak wasn’t supposed to be rubber. The foods in themselves should be good, but the way he prepared them, ruined everything.
Now as an adult with my own kitchen and money, I can make the meals phenomenal in comparison to what dad made.
Take the dish fried rice, everyone is head over heels about it, billions of people eat it. But for me it’s associated with some really terrible shit. Soggy rice, canned corn, grey minced meat, canned champignon and lots of oil. No seasoning except salt and the oil.
Rancid butter. My mother bought it from a farm and insisted it was fine. It was so, so bad. I was only 4 years old at the time and I seriously thought I didn't like butter for years.
Sea urchin sushi.
Thoroughly unrecommended.
It was like someone boiled the souls of a thousand fish down into a paste and then let it ferment underground for a year. I was not prepared.
For the record it was part of a set multi course meal in a fancy Japanese restaurant - I didn't seek it out in particular.
Strange. I've only been able to have it once. I found it to be buttery, with a mild taste, about as fishy as salmon. I really enjoyed it.
Maybe there was a translation issue, but there were a dozen or more of us at the dinner and almost all of us found it unpalatable. A couple asked 'what the last dish we had was' when the next dish came out and were told it was sea urchin.
Did some searching, apparently it can be variable in taste due to sea urchin diet, freshness, and preparation. There are commercially prepared pastes that aren't very palatable.
The urchin I had was really expensive and was a special that was rarely available. This sushi place had very good stuff, you could also order freshly grated wasabi from imported Japanese roots (I totally recommend).
Probably similar to canned crab vs fresh crab. Stuff in the can is terrible and I don't know how people eat it.
It's almost always due to freshness and diet. Freshly caught and cracked sea urchin is pretty mild and like any other seafood, starts to get stankier by the second.
I was warned off natto.
It's funny, I can think of the worst drink (I dislike Negroni to the point I don't even understand how people like it, so intensely sweet and bitter and nothing else)
and the worst perfume (Im Nebbel, smelled like burning rubber) but food, all I can think of is the time my ex made a spaghetti with a sauce of yellow tomatoes that looked exactly like vomit, and when I was trying to eat it, commented that he thought it was "a little loose" and I just lost it, could not eat it, though it didn't taste awful.
Worst restaurant food was a Mexican place in San Antonio, got a chicken mole and the mole was made with sweetened chocolate chips; an enchilada with American cheese slice was another highlight of that meal, it was comically bad.
I did not find Nattō that bad actually. You need to spread it out over enough rice.
That said, I had a dish recently, stir fried prawn with Thai "stinky beans" that reminded me of Nattō somehow. To be fair they did warn me that it really was stinky when I tried ordering it. I insisted to try it anyway. It was really difficult to get down. It really did stink on my plate. I had to carefully ensure that no spoonful had to much of the bean mush. It was salty and gave the impression of decay.
Wth negroni is the best drink
I know that people like them but I can't get past the syrupy intense sweetness, it is nauseating to me. Tastes a lot like a migraine feels. I do like lighter bittersweet stuff, Chinotto soda is good. And do like Campari in fruity drinks, it adds a welcome edge and the sweetness is moderated but Negroni tastes horrible to me still.
Can you describe what it tastes like to you?
My friend must make them less sweet than is standard, it's kind of syrupy but not too bad, maybe a little citrussy and of course that herbal bitterness. I might be an outlier though I've been known to sip straight Mallort.
Mashed potatoes from KFC. It just tastes like an empty sadness.
a durian
Nothing tops the Jolly Rancher story.
Steve and his girlfriend Samantha went off to college in August. She went to Florida State, he went to Penn. So, she decides to fly to PA to visit him. He was really happy to see her so he decided to give her some oral action.
He had done this numerous times before and he always enjoyed doing it...but for some reason, this time, she smelled really horrible, and she tasted even worse. He didn't want to offend her though because he hadn't seen her in months...so he put a Jolly Rancher in his mouth to cover it up, even though it didn't do much to help.
In the course of eating her out, he accidentally pushed the candy inside of her... and stuck a finger in to grab it out. He took it out, and put it back into his mouth and bit it. Only...it wasn't the Jolly Rancher.
It was a nodule of gonorrhea.
As in, the blister-like structure that gonorrhea makes filled with diseased pus was the size of a fucking Jolly Rancher and the poor guy BIT it. I guess it was really dark in the room. He freaked out and started vomiting all over the place when it exploded in his mouth...
He demanded to know what was going on, turns out she had cheated on him at a club like, the first week of college, and fucked some random guy and the stupid bitch had no clue what was wrong with her. She noticed a strange smell though.
So now, Steve is freaking out that he now has gonorrhea of the mouth and God knows what else.
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/9wcte/comment/c0er6q4/
The question is about the worst food you've ever eaten. Are you Steve?
The first thing that comes to mind are these frozen turkey burgers. They weren't offensive but they were so flavorless. Nothing I added to them made them palatable. It was the damnedest thing.
I love eating fish. Most fish is incredible.
Fish with too much lime is, however, HORRIBLE and makes me want to puke. Poorly made noodles are also not great.
Poisonous cheese soup. It was so salty.
Is this something homemade or commercially available?
Homemade :/ I think my parent was having a bad day and didn't do it right, and didn't notice. I was pretty little. But it was a very strong memory.
Caine's.
With both Raising Caine's and Chik-fil-a being super popular, I have to assume that mediocre chicken is more well liked than actually good chicken.
Olives
Opposite here, olives are so good, so far there are none I have not enjoyed. Used to get some sort of olive at the Lebanese grocer, they scooped them out of a sketchy looking barrel, still so delicious, I freaking love olives.
Having said that - I can imagine easily not liking them. They are very intensely flavorful and unique in their flavor. Just like I can understand people not liking cantaloupe, or blue cheese, though I love those too.
Raw? Pickled? Black? Green? Whole? Pitted? Garlic stuffed?
All of the above.
Paella
Was it made poorly or do you just not like seafood?
An old Valencian woman once told me, the authentic Valencian paella is the produce one, the paella you improvise with the produce you have in the kitchen when some friends came to visit and told them to stay for lunch that we'll make a paella for everyone.
I LOOOOVE sushi. I love allll sushi. I’ve never had a piece of sushi I didn’t like.
…until I was at a nice sushi place, and I got sushi with a quail egg on it. I don’t know what else was on it, because the semi-raw or raw quail yolk ball was horrid. I couldn’t stand it. I spit it out and I felt soooo bad.
Think it was a spoiled/rotten egg?
I love getting Uni with quail egg.
I don’t think so. I just didn’t like the texture and taste, it wasn’t rotten or anything. It just wasn’t for me.
I loooove Uni! Soooo sea-tasting. It flavors all the sushi I eat after it, too!
Uni certainly is tasty.
Bitter gourd curry. Was so so so bitter. I'll bet it tastes different to different folks.
Reminds me of a migraine medicine. I have to eat candy for a few hours after taking that.
Smoked kippers, at 7 years of age.
Mini-spew.
surströmming, though i would classify it more as a bioweapon than food.
From memory , worst → least worst
Jesus, I thought this was a single recipe at first
Seems like you have an issue with texture more than you do flavor.
Deep fried calamari. Imagine deep frying a tyre, same texture and taste.
It was overdone.
Human food…
Is that food made for humans? Or made of humans...
Yes
Broccoli and cauliflower. Just including either of these ingredients ruins the dish. I would rather eat dog shit.
See, that's a perfectly respectable opinion, but it is so different from my own that I cannot fathom how someone could hate broccoli. It just tastes so good, specially with olive oil.
Saute the (halved) broccoli in butter or oil. If all you've had are the bitter mush from boiling, you may discover a huge improvement.
Cauliflower is incorrigible, but put some melty cheese on that and it's ghetto fabulous.
The food that happened the most frequently so I remember it was egg whites tasted horrible when I had braces.
Otherwise I've eaten a number of bad things because we traveled a lot as kids and you ate what was put in front of you. If it was truly gagging we could stop though. Sometimes we'd get a chewy bar like thing later if it was clear we simply weren't going to eat whatever horrible it was.
What do egg whites taste like with braces? Did this happen with other foods?
They tasted very metallic with braces. If it happened with other foods I didn't find out during the years I had braces, sorry!
Boiled beef tongue, no seasoning. Taste/texture as you'd imagine.
Oh lord. Tongue can be so damn good if prepared well.
I have many UK relatives, and I know the horror of which you speak.
Roe
Cambozola cheese. Nearly vomited.
PB&J sandwiches. I hate them. They literally make me gag. Can’t stand the taste, the texture, the smell… even the sight of them or hearing them being made bugs me. An assault on all five of my senses.
I know objectively that it doesn't matter, but I'm finding it really hard not to judge you as a person.
But if I don’t like it, that it means more for everyone else.
I’m pretty open-minded about trying new foods, and there’s not a lot of foods I really hate - honestly, besides pb&j, I can’t think of a food I’d turn down.
It is weird to me that my dislike of it bothers people. I think everyone has one commonly beloved food that they don’t like. Hell, my wife hates bacon. BACON! I still love her tho. She keeps the pb&j away from me, I keep the bacon away from her.
It's funny because peanut butter, jelly, and bacon go so well together. Throw a little banana in there and fry it up, and you've got a Fat Elvis.
I think PB&J is just in a different category. I could eat them literally every day and never get tired of them, and I've heard the same from most other adults and children I've talked to about it.
My brother never liked peanut butter growing up, so he'd eat cream cheese and jelly sandwiches. I don't feel the need to say that in a way that expresses disdain, because I imagine it's impossible to read that sentence without the disdain being implied.
Anyway, doesn't really matter. You do you.
Most people who think they hate peanut butter hate soybean oil.
I’m not a big fan of plain peanuts either (again- the smell), and I don’t mind Nutella. Also I love tofu, and other soy-based foods.
Raw tomato, Taco bell breakfast, Oysters, Moon cake thing from China.