What's the grossest thing you've ever eaten, intentionally or unintentionally?

[Anonymous]

Deep fried cod roe. It came as part of a frito variado, which is a bunch of deep fried seafood, which the waiter dumped ceremonially upon a paper table cloth for the group.

I don't like seafood, so when I saw this nondescript brown lump in the pile of tentacles and fish parts that looked a lot like a hushpuppy, I took a big bite. Instead of sweet crunchy mild dough, it was this horrible bright yellow pungent wasabi-tasting thing. When I found out it was fish eggs...even worse.

[Anonymous]

Escargot. Which wouldn't have been bad in and of itself, except that I was recovering from a horrible bout of food poisoning from bad shellfish the night before. So my stomach was still really touchy, all I really wanted was ice water and plain bread. But we were traveling, and checked in with a new family that afternoon, and they greeted us with a fancy meal with all of their delicacies, and my command of the language was not really good enough to explain why I wasn't eating. So I choked down a few snails to be polite. In retrospect, I'm sure they were absolutely delicious and I'm actually really sad that I couldn't appreciate them at the time.

[Anonymous]

I have eaten snail, dog, ants’ eggs, crickets, and snakes.

But by far the worst meal I ever had was Cracker Barrel. Thag was just shit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Had to go to some very expensive restaurants in Tokyo many years ago. Fish eyes, still moving fish because that's considered very fresh, eel, and other awful food. Tempura was great on a positive note!

Eel is my daughter's favorite food!!! Don't you dare criticize Japanese grilled eel. It's delicious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have eaten snail, dog, ants’ eggs, crickets, and snakes.

But by far the worst meal I ever had was Cracker Barrel. Thag was just shit.

I should add I have had chitlins, scrapple and sweetbreads. I loved sweetbreads.

[Anonymous]

Sheep kidneys in steak and kidney pie! They literally taste like what piss smells like.
Black pudding- tastes like what it is- blood. Reminded me of when. I had bad nosebleeds as a kid.

And I had to choke this stuff down in front of my English and Irish aunties to be polite.

[Anonymous]

I’m a very adventurous eater (Asian family) so i like a lot of weird foods (jellyfish, chitlins, giblets, weird seafoods bits, etc).

My least favorites from my forced “try everything once” childhood are probably: lung (gross texture) and congealed blood (like silken tofu but brown coppery and eww). I also am not a huge fan of sea urchin, fish bladder or bitter melon.

[Anonymous]

Unintentionally, some kind of toffee made of cow blood. My host mom in Russia gave it to me, and I thought it was a piece of candy. It had the look and texture of a Tootsie Roll, but tasted kind of metallic. I didn't think to ask what it was until after I ate it, at which point my host sister said it was a vitamin made of blood. I didn't ask any further questions, but wanted to throw up immediately.

Intentionally, liver stew (tame compared to some of the dishes here, I know) - also made by my host mom.

[Anonymous]

A freshly killed octopus. It was still moving and the tentacle wrapped itself around the chopstick. The suction cups stuck the the roof of my mouth and I had to pry it off with my tongue. It was a business dinner in Seoul. I love octopuses and still feel incredibly guilty for eating it.

[Anonymous]

Intentional: elephant milk

Unintentional: dog (they called it “like beef”)

[Anonymous]

Boiled cows tongue and blood sausage. Both were delicious btw.

[Anonymous]

Bite on roach while sleep. Luckily I woke up. I still hate that landlord to this day. Joseph!

[Anonymous]

Rocky Mountain oysters.

[Anonymous]

Rat (cooked but whole, on a skewer)

Goat brain, scraped off the skull, cooked over a fire

Both in very rural west Africa

[Anonymous]

Wild boar — very gamey and strong taste.
Kidneys — unpleasant texture and taste
Mutton — did not care for it