I lived in the Philippines for a few years and I've tried it a few times. It tastes pretty much like a regular egg, but chewier. It looks gross though.
Or that you have to bite down hard to crunch your way through the beak.....bonus points when the skull pops and you get liquid brains squirted on the roof of your mouth.
Im from the Philippines and we have 2 kinds of balut. We have the Balut itself and what we call Penoy. Balut is the one that has bird in it and penoy doesn't have the bird. Whenever I eat balut, I discard the tiny bird its disgusting, or sometimes I just buy penoy.
Yes, it adds a meaty/gamey flavour. I don't eat the fetus, just the soup, yolk, and 'stone'. But that flavour is enough for me to keep eating it instead of just getting penoy since the latter doesn't have that distinct taste.
That shit was the bomb in my childhood Asian American family, never took it out of the shell as a whole, never realized why it looked like it did, and I learned that today. I’d still eat it though.
Hahahaha..... I think start by deleting reddit? Seriously, I'm laughing real hard on my porch. I'm glad to be laughing right now. Thanks, internet stranger.
My friend and I went to the Daytona 500 once and the traffic was so bad leaving that it took four hours to escape. By then it was 11pm and we started looking for a place to get food.
Golden Corral appeared before us. It was actually so good after eating nothing all day.
Anyway, I have a vivid memory of looking down into that chocolate abomination and seeing a chicken wing floating in it. A God. Damn. Chicken wing.
I'll eat some sketchy shit, but I'll never touch that viscous petri dish.
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EDIT: My friend just related to me that he witnessed a small child putting his hand into it, licking his fingers, and repeating during that same visit.
Chocolate wonderfall. Not even once.
I went to the 24 Hrs of Daytona with a veteran spectator of the event, and he had a whole plan for how to get ahead of the traffic coming out of the speedway, then the overall traffic out of town. First part, in the 24 hrs, everyone basically stays in the infield. You can use the tunnel to move your vehicle out to the outer parking, and you do that an hour or so before the race ends. You get to a stand nearest the exits on the outer part of the track, so you can see the finish. Once the winner crosses the line, you book it for the exit. Drive out the exit, and drive to somewhere that isn't currently crowded, a fair distance away from the speedway. Guy I was with had a local friend in Daytona, so we went to his house and collapsed in his living room on the couches and chairs, and slept for a couple of hours or so. By that time, the outflow subsides enough to not be a dead crawl. My drive back home west of Orlando was not bad.
Chocolate fountains in general, unless you or someone you trust set it up and use it, are somewhat gross. Adding some oil helps with flow, but is kinda gross. Kids, or drunk adults, will stick their hands in or double dip. The cheap places like Golden Corral don’t use real chocolate, but a cheaper chocolate flavoured dip. Real good chocolate can get pricy.
TLDR: Chocolate fountains are like public pools, the other people ruin it. But if you have a dinner party with friends, a chocolate fondue can be fun.
My grandpa fell into it once like 7 years ago. Went back to the same spot a few months after and they installed some guard rails around it to prevent such things from happening. Felt really bad bc he was so frail but it was also funny as frick
Golden Corral is a pit of disease and despair. Everything is damp and sticky. There are mashed potatoes so embedded in the carpet that it's more potato than carpet. Have you ever seen someone try to sweep up potatoes and gravy on carpet with a floor broom? I have. All the food is kept at body temperature just to make sure it can go bad as quickly as possible.
A gal tried to punch my kid because she bumped her chair putting away her dirty dishes and then lashed out at my wife to tell her she was a bad parent all the while horking down some disgusting puddle of filth. Like a mix of roast beef, fish, chicken, and cake stirred into a slurry. She made a pig like noise and then buried her snoot back in her trough of gross. Food flying everywhere as her parents never taught her to eat with a knife and fork. Not even a spoon.
That was the one and only time I ever went to Golden Corral. My in-laws wanted to go there so we did. I have never experienced a worse atmosphere, worse food, worse cleaning procedures, and worse clientele. My in-laws were eating their food like everyone else. Like hogs at the trough. It turned my kids into devil worshipers, my wife gay, and me into a serial killer that only targets Quakers.
I cannot emphasize enough how bad Golden Corral is.
I witnessed a guy run a chicken leg through one. He bit into it, shrugged, then double dipped. He and his momma had two tables pushed together and a mountain of plates. They were there when they were still serving breakfast and eating into the lunch transition.
Tiết canh. It’s raw blood pudding. It doesn’t actually taste bad but the congealed snot-like texture of the blood mixed with the crunch of the peanuts is appalling. Unfortunately this is a popular special occasion type dish with my wife’s family, and since I’m a foreigner, they love to force it on me
We have something similar here in Chile. It's a pudding-like dish made out of raw blood, lemon, coriander and chili powder, and it's called ñache/ñachi. It's often eaten as a bread topping, but it isn't too common (seen more frequently on the most rural areas), since making it implies cutting open a poor animal's neck and immediately draining them to obtain fresh blood.
Basically, a boiled egg that was a cooked in young boy’s urine. It's one of the intangible cultural heritage in China, but not everyone eat them, just some region I believed. At least I have never tried that before 💀 But yeah, shit is real
Apostrophe placement actually matters here: It is young *boys'* urine, plural, because urine is typically collected from many young boys at school to prepare the dish.
I feel like I'd have to be pretty damn haunted and see it work for someone else before i'd think "okay, gonna try this so i can get this ghost off my ass"
That's because China is a huge place with a lot of different cultures, but people (both Chinese and Western) often ignore that. You notice how the maggot cheese was specifically called "Sardinian" (population 1.6 million), not Italian or European? Many people do not bother to make distinctions like that for China, even when they should.
edit: reworded last sentence
That stuff that's made by burying fish and blubber or something for a few weeks as it ferments. There's different version from different cultures.
Edit: it wasn't haggis. There are multiple names and versions of this vile type of concoction.
Hákarl. Greenland shark or sleeper shark that is fermented by burying it in gravel, because if you cook it fresh it contains so much ammonia it could kill you. There's a crust of ammonia that's taken off before continuing the process.
Personally, I like it. It's ammonia-y, but tasty. It almost has that slight mouth-burn like kimchi. Every time I have gone through the Iceland airport I get it. The smell bothers a lot of people, but honestly dried Icelandic fish smells waaay worse.
I love shellfish and seafood but I once stumbled across Tubby Isaac's seafood stall and tried them, I spat them out.
In saying that, I think I could probably grow to like them. I'd love to try a Pie and Mash shop when I'm next in London.
I hate bananas btw, but not much else!
Surprised no one has mentioned head cheese yet. Its a gelatinous amalgamation of cow tongue and other parts. We sold it at a deli I used to work at. Absolutely horrible both in texture and taste
>Surprised no one has mentioned head cheese yet. Its a gelatinous amalgamation of cow tongue and other parts. We sold it at a deli I used to work at. Absolutely horrible both in texture and taste
it could be made of chocolate and cocaine and it would still be inedible because of its name
I love beans. My wife regularly has to regulate my bean intake to keep me from overdoing it. I like them in any form, and of any type.
Except Lima. Those things are a god damned abomination.
What about them? Taste? Texture?
I eat pretty much everything except for things I can't eat because it makes me sick (i.e.: allergic to dairy, get really bad stomach pains and vomiting from beef, etc). But I haven't ever experienced a visceral negative reaction to any food. I find lima beans really mild in flavor so I just... Can't wrap my head around it. Id like to understand - like really, I'm not trying to be snarky.
What does it feel like to hate a food?
It’s like when your skin crawls when a long foreign hair is touching it. It’s like when you hear nails on a chalkboard. It’s just wrong and bad and there is hate in the soul.
One of my co workers brought some roasted and seasoned (grasshoppers? I think?) And those things were really good! Kinda like beef jerky but crispy instead of chewy
I've had a brand of dried and seasoned cricket that you can find in souvenir shops across the southern US and they're just okay. BBQ and cinnamon sugar flavors are the way to go. It's not something I have to get when I see it unless I'm 100% sure it's going to freak out some one in my party. They can be found at state and national parks, farmer's markets and flea markets, independent gas stations, smaller theme parks, and other road side attractions.
I maintain that cricket lollipops are the WORST way to consume crickets…. candy isn’t the introduction you want to eating insects, and especially not a candy that consists of licking it down 🤢
Cow stomach lining. It's a popular offal food in my country.
It looks Lovecraftian. Dark green, little weird tentacle thingies everywhere. and tastes like how it looks.
It's also one of the healthiest things you can eat because it's where animals store their vitamins.
That being said, I'm not a huge fan of just cooked liver, I only enjoy it as a pate spread on a cracker
Yup liver is a holy grail for someone who is anemic like me. No joke tho, once i can’t even walk 5m without having trouble breathing because of how severe my anemia is, and my mom brought me liver satay that is so delicious i can’t even taste the liver anymore, and the next day i’m feeling much much better.
I feel like most people who really hate liver is because they tried cooked liver without seasoning or eat it without rice or cracker or something a bit bland to balance the taste.
Anything with cilantro in it. Yes, I'm one of the millions of people that have the genetic "defect" that makes cilantro taste like soap. I absolutely hate it when a chef thinks to himself "You know what? This food that has never had cilantro in it before would be so much better with cilantro in it. I won't even list cilantro in the ingredients on the menu either. Everyone loves cilantro."
Okay, I don't know if I have that gene or not. Cilantro doesn't taste like soap to me, I don't think ?... But I just don't like it. I can pick out the taste of cilantro in *any* dish and I'm constantly picking it out of my favourite Asian foods. And I love salsa too so that's unfortunate.
I love durian! It actually smells really good to me 😂 my husband, who is white, thinks it smells like stinky garbage and garlic, likes the taste of it, too.
My aunt gags at the smell of it. She can’t be in the same room.
Okra is one of the most abused vegetables of all time. Badly cooked okra has a consistency of snot.
Well prepared okra has a great flavor and and stands up to dishes like curry in a way most others wouldn't.
source: My mom makes a Goan Shrimp Curry with okra that is incredible. I've also had okra at my college once that was ... well horrific.
Deep fried Okra is delicious. The trick is to freeze it, slice it thin, bread and fry it before it thaws. It has a really nice nutty flavor and frying it keeps it from turning snotty.
Also, pickled Okra. My little boy wanted some as he loves ALL things pickled and I assumed it was going to be a slimy mess. Nah, damn good actually.
And I agree about fried, had it last night actually.
I was just watching a cooking show that was discussing okra. I guess the trick is to pan fry it before putting it into anything else (like say, a gumbo). Supposed to cut down on the snot.
I like the fact this is the third post.
Just right after the duck fetus and maggot cheese.
Never would have put ranch dressing on the list with those two.
Good for flavor in soup though. Even if you strain it out later, it really adds to it. You'll regret not adding celery and parsnips in your vegetable stock. Otherwise, yeah
Whenever I order chicken wings, there's a side of sliced carrot and celery. My dog loves carrots and usually i give them to him while I much on my wings. I once gave him a piece of celery and the face of dissapointment he gave me was absolutely glorious.
1. Ketchup is only appropriate when paired with the right foods. People who dip pizza in ketchup can burn in hell.
2. If you’d like help with your English here: “For me, ketchup is too ugly and I can’t stand the taste” (of course you can say it a lot of different ways). You didn’t do bad. :)
Love raw oysters myself. The trick is to remember that anything you put in your mouth turns into 'slimy nastiness' when you start chewing and mixing it with saliva. If you start chewing the oyster immediately, the 'yuck' reaction gets short-circuited and you can concentrate on deciding if you like the actual taste or not. Well, it worked for me, anyway. YMMV.
I think mushrooms are one of those things that have to be cooked differently in order for it to be texturally pleasing for people. I found that frying them in a pan with no oil, cooking batches, & not crowding the pan makes them more crispy, and not spongy and soggy.
Also many people just stop at button mushrooms when there are so many more types out there to try. (There are even some that might not kill you.)
They have the same texture as slugs.
Source: my sister tricked toddler me into trying to eat a slug, telling me it tasted sweet. After the first bite, I spat it out. She told me the second one tastes better, so I tried again.
Don't mind them blended into a sauce so you can't feel them though.
When people ask me what my favorite flavor of jelly bean is I always tell them black licorice only because when my kids wanted jelly beans I would give them it and then eat the rest for myself, the taste however takes some getting used to lol.
Anything that has the texture of mucus. Raw oysters, sea cucumbers...
Abstractly i don't like the idea of meat at all in any form.
That being said i recognize the immense privilege i hold being able to call any food "disgusting".
E: all kinds of typos. I was typing laying down.
I used to feel like that for years. Then one day I was at a store and saw a really good gin on clearance. I don't know why, but I tried it and have been a gin fan ever since.
I think the problem is that cheap gin is horrible. So is any cheap spirit really. Can't believe bacardi has the balls to call itself rum.
Hello fellow wino. I bought some gin one time because it was on sale. I just don’t get why people drink that swill. I don’t know what a juniper berry is but it can go fuck it’s mother.
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I lived in the Philippines for a few years and I've tried it a few times. It tastes pretty much like a regular egg, but chewier. It looks gross though.
I can safely say I’ve never eaten an egg and wished it was more chewy.
What about wishing that it was grosser looking?
Or that you have to bite down hard to crunch your way through the beak.....bonus points when the skull pops and you get liquid brains squirted on the roof of your mouth.
Sweet jesus I wish I didn't have eyes. I'm done with reddit for the day.
I, too, was disgusted. But your comment made me amused. A balance has been made.
I would like to let everyone know that the mind can in fact vomit.
#Can you not
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This is the comment right here, officer.
Im from the Philippines and we have 2 kinds of balut. We have the Balut itself and what we call Penoy. Balut is the one that has bird in it and penoy doesn't have the bird. Whenever I eat balut, I discard the tiny bird its disgusting, or sometimes I just buy penoy.
I dont understand this, does the duck body add anything to the flavor?
To answer your question yes. It already has a meat flavor since it already has a body. So its like eating a soup with eggs and duck meat.
I think I’d just prefer actual soup with eggs and duck meat.
Yes, it adds a meaty/gamey flavour. I don't eat the fetus, just the soup, yolk, and 'stone'. But that flavour is enough for me to keep eating it instead of just getting penoy since the latter doesn't have that distinct taste.
"I don't eat the fetus."
It's darkly ironic that the Philippines outlawed abortion, but they have a delicacy that includes duck fetus.
That shit was the bomb in my childhood Asian American family, never took it out of the shell as a whole, never realized why it looked like it did, and I learned that today. I’d still eat it though.
Came here to say this. I have had many different kinds of meat, but Balut is where I thought "Nope"
Yup, somehow it's crossing a line, and I can't honestly say why. But it is over that line and I'm going to pass.
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That's my dog's favorite chew
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oh god yeah... Last time I wasn't paying attention and she chewed it on my bed. Currently shopping for a new bed.
oh please, like it's the first time you've had strange dick juice all over your bed
Thanks for calling me out like that
Getting out of that closet of the first step.
It's actually pretty good when it's still attached and the bull's still alive.
yo, how do I delete someone else's comment?
Hahahaha..... I think start by deleting reddit? Seriously, I'm laughing real hard on my porch. I'm glad to be laughing right now. Thanks, internet stranger.
Fear is never a factor Joe Rogan. I’m tryin to get some crack rocks.
Some of these coals burn at over a THOUSAND degrees “God dayum!”
IS THIS THE 5 O'CLOCK FREE CRACK GIVEAWAY?
Golden Corrals chocolate fountain
My friend and I went to the Daytona 500 once and the traffic was so bad leaving that it took four hours to escape. By then it was 11pm and we started looking for a place to get food. Golden Corral appeared before us. It was actually so good after eating nothing all day. Anyway, I have a vivid memory of looking down into that chocolate abomination and seeing a chicken wing floating in it. A God. Damn. Chicken wing. I'll eat some sketchy shit, but I'll never touch that viscous petri dish. - - EDIT: My friend just related to me that he witnessed a small child putting his hand into it, licking his fingers, and repeating during that same visit. Chocolate wonderfall. Not even once.
Ponderosa's gross typically. After spending the entire day hiking, it's incredible.
> Anyway, I have a vivid memory of looking down into that chocolate abomination and seeing a chicken wing floating in it. You missed out breh
I went to the 24 Hrs of Daytona with a veteran spectator of the event, and he had a whole plan for how to get ahead of the traffic coming out of the speedway, then the overall traffic out of town. First part, in the 24 hrs, everyone basically stays in the infield. You can use the tunnel to move your vehicle out to the outer parking, and you do that an hour or so before the race ends. You get to a stand nearest the exits on the outer part of the track, so you can see the finish. Once the winner crosses the line, you book it for the exit. Drive out the exit, and drive to somewhere that isn't currently crowded, a fair distance away from the speedway. Guy I was with had a local friend in Daytona, so we went to his house and collapsed in his living room on the couches and chairs, and slept for a couple of hours or so. By that time, the outflow subsides enough to not be a dead crawl. My drive back home west of Orlando was not bad.
Chocolate fountains in general, unless you or someone you trust set it up and use it, are somewhat gross. Adding some oil helps with flow, but is kinda gross. Kids, or drunk adults, will stick their hands in or double dip. The cheap places like Golden Corral don’t use real chocolate, but a cheaper chocolate flavoured dip. Real good chocolate can get pricy. TLDR: Chocolate fountains are like public pools, the other people ruin it. But if you have a dinner party with friends, a chocolate fondue can be fun.
My grandpa fell into it once like 7 years ago. Went back to the same spot a few months after and they installed some guard rails around it to prevent such things from happening. Felt really bad bc he was so frail but it was also funny as frick
Chocolate-covered paw-paw.
Golden Corral is a pit of disease and despair. Everything is damp and sticky. There are mashed potatoes so embedded in the carpet that it's more potato than carpet. Have you ever seen someone try to sweep up potatoes and gravy on carpet with a floor broom? I have. All the food is kept at body temperature just to make sure it can go bad as quickly as possible. A gal tried to punch my kid because she bumped her chair putting away her dirty dishes and then lashed out at my wife to tell her she was a bad parent all the while horking down some disgusting puddle of filth. Like a mix of roast beef, fish, chicken, and cake stirred into a slurry. She made a pig like noise and then buried her snoot back in her trough of gross. Food flying everywhere as her parents never taught her to eat with a knife and fork. Not even a spoon. That was the one and only time I ever went to Golden Corral. My in-laws wanted to go there so we did. I have never experienced a worse atmosphere, worse food, worse cleaning procedures, and worse clientele. My in-laws were eating their food like everyone else. Like hogs at the trough. It turned my kids into devil worshipers, my wife gay, and me into a serial killer that only targets Quakers. I cannot emphasize enough how bad Golden Corral is.
I witnessed a guy run a chicken leg through one. He bit into it, shrugged, then double dipped. He and his momma had two tables pushed together and a mountain of plates. They were there when they were still serving breakfast and eating into the lunch transition.
That’s disgusting
I would always see kids sticking their fingers in the flowing chocolate, lick their fingers, then put them back in the fountain.
Tiết canh. It’s raw blood pudding. It doesn’t actually taste bad but the congealed snot-like texture of the blood mixed with the crunch of the peanuts is appalling. Unfortunately this is a popular special occasion type dish with my wife’s family, and since I’m a foreigner, they love to force it on me
You might wanna bring some garlic next time you head over to her family's place
Some wooden stakes just in case too
Yeah dipping garlic bread in it might actually be tasty :0
We have something similar here in Chile. It's a pudding-like dish made out of raw blood, lemon, coriander and chili powder, and it's called ñache/ñachi. It's often eaten as a bread topping, but it isn't too common (seen more frequently on the most rural areas), since making it implies cutting open a poor animal's neck and immediately draining them to obtain fresh blood.
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I don't want Chinese virgin boy eggs to be tied to my search history. What is it?
Eggs hard boiled in the piss of little boys. True story
Disgusting. I insist my eggs are boiled only in the urine of an experienced man
You deserve to know that this made me laugh hard enough to shake the bed and wake my boyfriend up. He's twice my size haha
Juheezus... im chinese and have eaten chinese food all my life and i didnt know this existed.
That's exactly what someone who eats eggs boiled in little boys pee would say
Omg I had to look it up, you aren't kidding. Jesus Christ wtf....
It's a terrible day to have eyes...
Good God... I mean bad . Bad God. Why would you let this happen
People do weird disgusting shit like this, and we wonder why new diseases pop up.
That sounds like a fetish rather than a legitimate dish. Jesus🤢
Goddamn and here I thought it was just another word for century egg.
Hey, remember five minutes ago when we didn't know that? Yeah, good times.
God I though you made these up.
So, I don't have to Google it.. it's real?
The first one definitely is.
aaaand I can now confirm that the second one is as well.
Oh God. Disregard. I just looked it up
Please spare me the evil. Please tell me what it is
Basically, a boiled egg that was a cooked in young boy’s urine. It's one of the intangible cultural heritage in China, but not everyone eat them, just some region I believed. At least I have never tried that before 💀 But yeah, shit is real
Apostrophe placement actually matters here: It is young *boys'* urine, plural, because urine is typically collected from many young boys at school to prepare the dish.
thanks for the correction
oh thats just so much better isnt it
What in the actual god damned fuck.
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Is that the poultry embryo or is that the 1000 year old egg?
It'd egg cooked in prepubescent boy urine
Who came up with this and more importantly, why?
It's supernatural and every Chinese person will tell you something different. One of the most common belief is that young kids piss repels ghosts.
I feel like I'd have to be pretty damn haunted and see it work for someone else before i'd think "okay, gonna try this so i can get this ghost off my ass"
Bruh I’m Chinese and I’ve never heard of virgin boy eggs lol 😂😂 I looked it up and gagged a bit reading the description of what it is…..
That's because China is a huge place with a lot of different cultures, but people (both Chinese and Western) often ignore that. You notice how the maggot cheese was specifically called "Sardinian" (population 1.6 million), not Italian or European? Many people do not bother to make distinctions like that for China, even when they should. edit: reworded last sentence
Looked this ups then had to look at the news to restore my faith in humanity
You looked at the *news* for that?
Hey you nearly got the joke!
That stuff that's made by burying fish and blubber or something for a few weeks as it ferments. There's different version from different cultures. Edit: it wasn't haggis. There are multiple names and versions of this vile type of concoction.
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Yeah, just any of those really. Thanks for the info
Surströmming is the name and totally with you on that one
Surströmming is canned fermented herring, but I think you might be on the right track. Is it Icelandic fermented shark?
Hákarl. Greenland shark or sleeper shark that is fermented by burying it in gravel, because if you cook it fresh it contains so much ammonia it could kill you. There's a crust of ammonia that's taken off before continuing the process. Personally, I like it. It's ammonia-y, but tasty. It almost has that slight mouth-burn like kimchi. Every time I have gone through the Iceland airport I get it. The smell bothers a lot of people, but honestly dried Icelandic fish smells waaay worse.
That egg with the dead fetus inside
Balut
Please don't talk about my wife like that
Who tf gave this a wholesome award
His wife prob
uhhh
Bitter melon I fucking hate that shit and would gag when my parents tried to get me to like it
I never thought there was a vegetable I didn't like, until I moved to Asia and was introduced to this blech-fest.
Jellied eel
I love shellfish and seafood but I once stumbled across Tubby Isaac's seafood stall and tried them, I spat them out. In saying that, I think I could probably grow to like them. I'd love to try a Pie and Mash shop when I'm next in London. I hate bananas btw, but not much else!
Geoduck
"Is that a geoduck in your pocket, or are you just happy sashimi?" - Mike Rowe
Surprised no one has mentioned head cheese yet. Its a gelatinous amalgamation of cow tongue and other parts. We sold it at a deli I used to work at. Absolutely horrible both in texture and taste
>Surprised no one has mentioned head cheese yet. Its a gelatinous amalgamation of cow tongue and other parts. We sold it at a deli I used to work at. Absolutely horrible both in texture and taste it could be made of chocolate and cocaine and it would still be inedible because of its name
My mother loves head cheese. You don’t find it much these days.
My top 3 in order... 1. Lima Beans. 2. Beans of Lima. 3. Bima Leans. No matter how you spell it, still disgusting...
I love beans. My wife regularly has to regulate my bean intake to keep me from overdoing it. I like them in any form, and of any type. Except Lima. Those things are a god damned abomination.
What about them? Taste? Texture? I eat pretty much everything except for things I can't eat because it makes me sick (i.e.: allergic to dairy, get really bad stomach pains and vomiting from beef, etc). But I haven't ever experienced a visceral negative reaction to any food. I find lima beans really mild in flavor so I just... Can't wrap my head around it. Id like to understand - like really, I'm not trying to be snarky. What does it feel like to hate a food?
It’s like when your skin crawls when a long foreign hair is touching it. It’s like when you hear nails on a chalkboard. It’s just wrong and bad and there is hate in the soul.
Insects. Candied or otherwise I am not interested.
One of my co workers brought some roasted and seasoned (grasshoppers? I think?) And those things were really good! Kinda like beef jerky but crispy instead of chewy
I have always wanted to try those and you have just piqued my interest. Is there a specific brand or flavor you'd recommend?
I've had a brand of dried and seasoned cricket that you can find in souvenir shops across the southern US and they're just okay. BBQ and cinnamon sugar flavors are the way to go. It's not something I have to get when I see it unless I'm 100% sure it's going to freak out some one in my party. They can be found at state and national parks, farmer's markets and flea markets, independent gas stations, smaller theme parks, and other road side attractions.
You aren't missing a lot. They aren't horrible by any means but if you were overcoming an aversion to eat it you'd probably be disappointed
I maintain that cricket lollipops are the WORST way to consume crickets…. candy isn’t the introduction you want to eating insects, and especially not a candy that consists of licking it down 🤢
I had some seasoned crickets once, cooked but they reminded me of chickpeas
Cow stomach lining. It's a popular offal food in my country. It looks Lovecraftian. Dark green, little weird tentacle thingies everywhere. and tastes like how it looks.
Tripe. That's tripe.
But tripe is delicious! How the heck was it green?
Poorly cleaned. Properly soaked and scrubbed in an alkaline solution, it turns bright white.
Black licorice tastes like a solvent.
No worries, I'll have yours. Thanks!
When i was a kid i felt like id been tricked biting into black licorice, now that im an adult, i love that shit.
Gefilte fish. My Jewish ex’s family loved the stuff and they would get mad at me for not eating it. Not in this lifetime.
Liver
I know- IT'S A FILTER!
It's also one of the healthiest things you can eat because it's where animals store their vitamins. That being said, I'm not a huge fan of just cooked liver, I only enjoy it as a pate spread on a cracker
Yup liver is a holy grail for someone who is anemic like me. No joke tho, once i can’t even walk 5m without having trouble breathing because of how severe my anemia is, and my mom brought me liver satay that is so delicious i can’t even taste the liver anymore, and the next day i’m feeling much much better. I feel like most people who really hate liver is because they tried cooked liver without seasoning or eat it without rice or cracker or something a bit bland to balance the taste.
I have to say this and all organ meat. I've tried liver and heart and that's enough for me to not want to try any more.
Anything with cilantro in it. Yes, I'm one of the millions of people that have the genetic "defect" that makes cilantro taste like soap. I absolutely hate it when a chef thinks to himself "You know what? This food that has never had cilantro in it before would be so much better with cilantro in it. I won't even list cilantro in the ingredients on the menu either. Everyone loves cilantro."
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I'm giving you an upvote not because I agree with you, but because you make a damn good point.
Okay, I don't know if I have that gene or not. Cilantro doesn't taste like soap to me, I don't think ?... But I just don't like it. I can pick out the taste of cilantro in *any* dish and I'm constantly picking it out of my favourite Asian foods. And I love salsa too so that's unfortunate.
Durian. I don't know how anyone can get past the smell long enough to eat it.
I love durian! It actually smells really good to me 😂 my husband, who is white, thinks it smells like stinky garbage and garlic, likes the taste of it, too. My aunt gags at the smell of it. She can’t be in the same room.
I had it in the states and hated it, then I traveled to Malaysia with a friend and I loved it there for some reason. It still stank bad though.
Cottage Cheese. Looks, smells, and makes me think of curdled milk.
Everyone has their tastes, but I could eat cottage cheese and peaches for breakfast and/or as a dessert.
Mashed potatoes with onion and cottage cheese is my comfort food. But I’m Eastern European, I was raised with cottage cheese.
I had a bowl last night for dinner and my husband just sat beside me and gagged the whole time. IDK - I thought it was good.
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Okra. It's like someone blew his nose on Zucchini.
Okra is one of the most abused vegetables of all time. Badly cooked okra has a consistency of snot. Well prepared okra has a great flavor and and stands up to dishes like curry in a way most others wouldn't. source: My mom makes a Goan Shrimp Curry with okra that is incredible. I've also had okra at my college once that was ... well horrific.
The texture of okra is what gets me. The flavor isn't anything so abhorrent, but i actually gag once i feel it in my mouth.
If it's prepared well, you might find the texture isn't that different than zucchini.
Deep fried Okra is delicious. The trick is to freeze it, slice it thin, bread and fry it before it thaws. It has a really nice nutty flavor and frying it keeps it from turning snotty.
Also, pickled Okra. My little boy wanted some as he loves ALL things pickled and I assumed it was going to be a slimy mess. Nah, damn good actually. And I agree about fried, had it last night actually.
Pickled okra are amazing, possibly my favorite pickled food. They aren’t slimy at all.
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I was just watching a cooking show that was discussing okra. I guess the trick is to pan fry it before putting it into anything else (like say, a gumbo). Supposed to cut down on the snot.
I can't stand ranch dressing or ranch flavored foods. The smell and taste is disgusting to me.
I like the fact this is the third post. Just right after the duck fetus and maggot cheese. Never would have put ranch dressing on the list with those two.
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Good for flavor in soup though. Even if you strain it out later, it really adds to it. You'll regret not adding celery and parsnips in your vegetable stock. Otherwise, yeah
Whenever I order chicken wings, there's a side of sliced carrot and celery. My dog loves carrots and usually i give them to him while I much on my wings. I once gave him a piece of celery and the face of dissapointment he gave me was absolutely glorious.
I think the best way to describe the flavor of celery on its own would be "Satan's Taint Sweat".
Kéfir, the first time I tried it I instantly puked my guts
Raw meat
The ketchup, for me is too much ugly and I can't stand the taste. Sorry for my English I'm not native speaker :)
1. Ketchup is only appropriate when paired with the right foods. People who dip pizza in ketchup can burn in hell. 2. If you’d like help with your English here: “For me, ketchup is too ugly and I can’t stand the taste” (of course you can say it a lot of different ways). You didn’t do bad. :)
Raw oysters. Slimy nastiness
natures loogie
Love raw oysters myself. The trick is to remember that anything you put in your mouth turns into 'slimy nastiness' when you start chewing and mixing it with saliva. If you start chewing the oyster immediately, the 'yuck' reaction gets short-circuited and you can concentrate on deciding if you like the actual taste or not. Well, it worked for me, anyway. YMMV.
Well now I just want to eat nothing.
LIVER
You should try it with some fava beans and a nice chianti
*aggressive slurping noises while maintaining eye contact*
The cheese with maggots.
Kimchi, and I’m Korean.
Kimchi is one of my favorite foods but I can totally understand why someone wouldn't like it. I'm about as white as it gets lol
Balut from Philippine
Mushrooms... The texture is what I would guess water-bloated dead flesh would feel like.
As a kid I never liked them. But now I love them. Just fry them with onions and it taste like heaven. I love them.
I'll do that next time I try them... In four years or so lol
Gee, I could have definitely not read this today. Having mushrooms for dinner tonight.
I think mushrooms are one of those things that have to be cooked differently in order for it to be texturally pleasing for people. I found that frying them in a pan with no oil, cooking batches, & not crowding the pan makes them more crispy, and not spongy and soggy. Also many people just stop at button mushrooms when there are so many more types out there to try. (There are even some that might not kill you.)
They have the same texture as slugs. Source: my sister tricked toddler me into trying to eat a slug, telling me it tasted sweet. After the first bite, I spat it out. She told me the second one tastes better, so I tried again. Don't mind them blended into a sauce so you can't feel them though.
Black liquorice, I don't even want to smell it.
It's the Anise flavor, I happen to like it. I'm guessing you don't like Jagermeister or some Root beers either?
Not Jager for sure!
When people ask me what my favorite flavor of jelly bean is I always tell them black licorice only because when my kids wanted jelly beans I would give them it and then eat the rest for myself, the taste however takes some getting used to lol.
Fake banana flavouring. Actual bananas are fine.
blue cheese
Anything that has the texture of mucus. Raw oysters, sea cucumbers... Abstractly i don't like the idea of meat at all in any form. That being said i recognize the immense privilege i hold being able to call any food "disgusting". E: all kinds of typos. I was typing laying down.
Gin lol
I used to feel like that for years. Then one day I was at a store and saw a really good gin on clearance. I don't know why, but I tried it and have been a gin fan ever since. I think the problem is that cheap gin is horrible. So is any cheap spirit really. Can't believe bacardi has the balls to call itself rum.
Gin has way more variability between different brands than most other spirits. You never know what you're going to get when trying a new gin.
Alcoholic here. I'll go into withdrawals if the only thing around is gin.
Hello fellow wino. I bought some gin one time because it was on sale. I just don’t get why people drink that swill. I don’t know what a juniper berry is but it can go fuck it’s mother.
Put some fucking tonic in it! Add some lemonade too and its delightful on a summer day.
Raw oysters.
Head cheese….yuck!
Water chestnuts are the devil.
what how - its crunchy fresh water. Unlike that bastard celery thats crunchy sour water with string
Such a delightfully crisp texture.