h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Yesterday, someone placed in front of me a plate of SuperNoodles. Rather than water, they had been made with half a tin of Special Brew and enriched with a soupcon of Buckfast tonic wine. I managed one spoonful...

Can anyone beat that?

I've had a KFC breakfast if that counts

You're Scottish, man! I'm sure you can do better than that!

Have you *seen* the KFC breakfast? There's a reason they're trialling it in Scotland you know



Many years ago I caught, killed, cooked and (mostly) ate a rat. I don't think KFC used such quality ingredients.

I've eaten rat, it was quite nice.

I've actually eaten most things. My dad joined the navy when he was young, and rather than drinking in ports he went off and learned how to cook the local cuisine. And he then taught me how to cook. Plus, never dismiss a food until you've tried it.

Personally, I hate octopus and squid. The texture is just wrong.

But the baby octopus are nice

Worst thing: peanut butter

I've eaten tadpoles.
Locus.
roadkill.
But I can't quite decide for the worse thing I've ever eaten, between a takeaway pizza I was force fed a few weeks back, a 'walls' sausage', or the Mc donalds 'breakfast' I was forced fed on my way to see black sabbath at donnington... its eitehr the Mc D 'breakfast', or those 'walls' sausages... oh. hang on.....
many many years ago, some unkindly soul involved with the supermarket home delivery service, placed in my delivery, an unordered (by me), item.
I duely cooked and tried* to eat it.
It was some kind of 'George Forman', 'lamb rosemary grill', or whatever the eck it was called... man, that was hidious. It'd clearly been made with additional fat, butter and lard, in order I imagine, so you could marvel, at just how* much fat the drip tray on your forman grill collected.
Even after really serious over-cremation, to attempt to ensure sufficient fat and water had escaped its pale gray exterior, the resultant 'slab' of whatever the eck it was, was, utterly, utterly tasteless.
Like ... like nothing I've ever encoutnered, a kind of cross between small wooden beads/paper balls, made into a paste, with lard, butter, goose fat, gristle and... naa, it was truely indescribable...
but... its either that, the Forman lamb 'thing', the walls thing, err sausages, or the McD 'breakfast', diffiult to chose. I'd pay to not have to eat any of them. The pizza was less disgusting, and more confussing... for somewhere which one imagines, makes hundreds of pizzas a day, profesionally, to sell to the public, with a proper pizza oven, they, just failed... Baffling... truely baffling... the base was raw. the sauce was, no idea it wasn't on the pizza, and the cheese... well what was there was basically burnt.

I still stick to the hummus we ate in Israel back in the seventies. Looked and tasted like it had already been eaten. Served in a falafel. In fact, most of the food in Israel was pretty awful - it was Passover, and the bread was unleavened. We seemed to be living on hard-boiled eggs.

But not much can be worse than that green gunge. Bought from a roadside vendor somewhere near Bethlehem.

Cow's brain. It was some time ago. I was in France and couldn't speak or read much French.

They were in a breadcrumb coating and were sort of grey and soft and just a bit unpleasant.

If my French had been better we would have been eating beef burgers.

PP

I had braun (sp), once when I was very young... I'd heard what it was, which I now can't qutie remember (isn't it cow brain too?), and was curious... so had some... didn't taste very nice, but nothing too* aweful... Just not anything tasty enough to want to eat again

Snails in omelette.



My granddad collected the snails on a beech near his holiday home in the southeast of Ireland, and prepared them himself.

I was quite young at the time, but I still remember it quite clearly.

TRiG.

When I was five, my sister dared me to eat a caterpillar. It tasted like chokecherry leaves, which is probably what it had been eating. I didn't get sick from it, but I still remember the acrid taste.

In 1989, I went on a choral tour of Taiwan. In one cafeteria, they served us pig's brain soup, accompanied by chunks of pork fat in gravy. In Taipei, we sang at the Chiang Kai Chek performing Arts Center. because we were so busy rehearsuing for our concert, we were provided with takeout Chinese food from a local fast food joint. It turned out to be the worst Chinese food I have ever tasted. This was anomalous, because most of the food I had in taiwan was superb....

That putrid shark stuff they have in Iceland. Smells like ammonia.

Shark's not bad if it hasn't rotted, though. Quite a meaty, unfishy texture.

Disgusting to me, or to other people?

I've eaten raw squid and absolutely loved it, but I've described the experience to people and watched in fascination as they've visibly changed colour.

I've eaten things you wouldn't step in, which weren't particularly pleasant for me either, but I don't go into details.

But in terms of things that actually make me heave, liver and onions is hard to beat. Put it with some celery and I'd find it hard to stay near the plate, much less eat any of it.

Liver bacon and onions Never had raw squid, as far as I know... But when its cooked well... There's a Chinese dish with it in, that a place near me does rather well

Hubby's mum used to make the most disgusting Potato Hash, everything was boiled, including the onions

This thread reminded me of the time I told my oldest ; 'Shhhhhhhh, walls have ears'
He's never eaten one of their pies since !!!!!!

Boiled Baby which was our name for the leftovers that we got on Thursday evening for our school meal. It was leftovers topped with whatever potato leftovers they could find mashed together. Truly disgusting.

and Babies Heads in the army when on exercise and no opportunity to cook - done properly they're yummy steak and kidney pudding, cold they are just...

worms and beetles and stuff, mostly for a dare (not always as a kid)
and i have been the very first person in a Pass the Mars Bar. Don't ask.

Pedantic Pronunciation Police:

steak and kidney puddings are correctly referred to as a "Babby's Yed".