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Title: What has been the most disgusting food you ate or saw?
Post by: ChrissyRyan on January 15, 2024, 06:58:13 AM
Post by: ChrissyRyan on January 15, 2024, 06:58:13 AM
What has been the most disgusting food you ate or saw?
Chrissy
Chrissy
Title: Re: What has been the most disgusting food you ate or saw?
Post by: Jenn104 on January 15, 2024, 07:31:54 AM
Post by: Jenn104 on January 15, 2024, 07:31:54 AM
My step mom loved something called ptcha. I think I have it spelled right. it's jellied calves foot. she described it as kind of like garlic jello.
Title: Re: What has been the most disgusting food you ate or saw?
Post by: big kim on January 15, 2024, 10:53:11 AM
Post by: big kim on January 15, 2024, 10:53:11 AM
Tripe, UCP tripe shops were common as a kid growing up in 60s Lancashire. Snails & octopus are pretty disgusting too
Title: Re: What has been the most disgusting food you ate or saw?
Post by: ChrissyRyan on June 03, 2024, 11:24:04 PM
Post by: ChrissyRyan on June 03, 2024, 11:24:04 PM
Fermented shark.
Title: Re: What has been the most disgusting food you ate or saw?
Post by: NancyDrew1930 on June 14, 2024, 08:33:57 AM
Post by: NancyDrew1930 on June 14, 2024, 08:33:57 AM
Olives. To me they always taste like I'm eating shoe polish!
Title: Re: What has been the most disgusting food you ate or saw?
Post by: Lori Dee on June 14, 2024, 10:29:20 PM
Post by: Lori Dee on June 14, 2024, 10:29:20 PM
Tofu
Slippery, slimy, and no flavor at all. What is the point?
Slippery, slimy, and no flavor at all. What is the point?
Title: Re: What has been the most disgusting food you ate or saw?
Post by: ChrissyRyan on June 15, 2024, 09:24:26 AM
Post by: ChrissyRyan on June 15, 2024, 09:24:26 AM
I like tofu. Add it to a soy sauce style soup base with green onions, maybe eggs, tempura, and it tastes really good! Add those fat udon noodles too!
Tofu is also an estrogenic food.
Plain tofu from the market... bland, it is for sure.
Chrissy
Tofu is also an estrogenic food.
Plain tofu from the market... bland, it is for sure.
Chrissy
Title: Re: What has been the most disgusting food you ate or saw?
Post by: Paulie on June 16, 2024, 03:06:44 AM
Post by: Paulie on June 16, 2024, 03:06:44 AM
Tripe is up there on the list, but I'd have to go with Sea Cucumber. I had that a a Chinese wedding many years ago. I was much more adventurous back then.
Title: Re: What has been the most disgusting food you ate or saw?
Post by: davina61 on June 16, 2024, 03:14:57 AM
Post by: davina61 on June 16, 2024, 03:14:57 AM
A take away lamb sag, tasted wrong and had loads of chilli. Ended up in the bin.
Title: Re: What has been the most disgusting food you ate or saw?
Post by: Oldandcreaky on June 16, 2024, 09:39:29 AM
Post by: Oldandcreaky on June 16, 2024, 09:39:29 AM
Quote from: LoriDee on June 14, 2024, 10:29:20 PMTofu
Slippery, slimy, and no flavor at all. What is the point?
Tofu is flavorless, but it's a flavor sponge, ever ready to absorb all sorts of yummy flavors. I, unlike you, quite like the texture. It's like a scallop.
Title: Re: What has been the most disgusting food you ate or saw?
Post by: NancyDrew1930 on October 25, 2025, 05:29:29 AM
Post by: NancyDrew1930 on October 25, 2025, 05:29:29 AM
Olives. They always taste like shoe polish.
Title: Re: What has been the most disgusting food you ate or saw?
Post by: AlisonM on October 25, 2025, 05:49:56 AM
Post by: AlisonM on October 25, 2025, 05:49:56 AM
Rocky mountain oysters... lol
Title: Re: What has been the most disgusting food you ate or saw?
Post by: Susan on October 26, 2025, 04:20:33 PM
Post by: Susan on October 26, 2025, 04:20:33 PM
I'm unusually sensitive to bitterness, likely due to a TAS2R38 gene variant. Liver of any kind is intolerable, and the tannins in red wines make them register as extremely bitter and undrinkable. Despite hating tannic reds, I've always loved sweet white wines like moscato—though I can't have them anymore after my recent diabetes diagnosis.
Uni (raw sea urchin) is a hard no for me—the briny/iodine note and slick, custardy texture were instant deal-breakers.
These taste traits are mostly independent; the cilantro "soapy" effect is tied to variants near OR6A2—luckily, I don't have that one.
Chili heat barely registers—my TRPV1 response to capsaicin seems dialed way down—so I can enjoy the actual flavors of even the hottest peppers without blowing the thermostat. I taste the fruity brightness of ghost peppers (~0.8–1.0 million Scoville units), scorpion peppers (~1.2–2.0 million), and Carolina Reapers (~1.6–2.2 million) rather than just pain.
While in Thailand, I tried durian with ice cream. The first taste was nasty—everything people say about the fruit's smell and taste is true—but once I got past that initial shock, the richness with the ice cream was heavenly.
Uni (raw sea urchin) is a hard no for me—the briny/iodine note and slick, custardy texture were instant deal-breakers.
These taste traits are mostly independent; the cilantro "soapy" effect is tied to variants near OR6A2—luckily, I don't have that one.
Chili heat barely registers—my TRPV1 response to capsaicin seems dialed way down—so I can enjoy the actual flavors of even the hottest peppers without blowing the thermostat. I taste the fruity brightness of ghost peppers (~0.8–1.0 million Scoville units), scorpion peppers (~1.2–2.0 million), and Carolina Reapers (~1.6–2.2 million) rather than just pain.
While in Thailand, I tried durian with ice cream. The first taste was nasty—everything people say about the fruit's smell and taste is true—but once I got past that initial shock, the richness with the ice cream was heavenly.