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[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Machinist@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

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.

[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

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.

[–] nik9000@programming.dev 2 points 4 hours ago

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.

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 3 points 5 hours ago
[–] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 12 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I am weirdly intrigued. You make it sound like a curiosity

[–] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

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.

[–] raldone01@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

I actually like the taste of unseasoned food.

[–] TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

I need to try this now

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

almost ate raccoon that dads friend caught in traps.

[–] Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works 8 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 2 points 5 hours ago

I can't have octopus ever since I watched My Octopus Teacher. But am fine with squid

[–] TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

I think rays are one of those animals that urinate through their skin, like sharks

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 2 points 5 hours ago

Surprising strategy, but why not.....

[–] Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 hours ago

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.

[–] Hugin@lemmy.world 7 points 11 hours ago

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.

[–] PacMan@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

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/

[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

The question is about the worst food you've ever eaten. Are you Steve?

[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Was your sickness related to your soap eating?

[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

No that only lasted until I was about 10 years old

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[–] HakunaHafada@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Mashed potatoes from KFC. It just tastes like an empty sadness.

[–] CannedYeet@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago

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.

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Poisonous cheese soup. It was so salty.

[–] TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Is this something homemade or commercially available?

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 10 hours ago

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.

[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 9 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Chick-fil-A. Soggy, rubbery chicken. So fucking gross.

[–] echindod@programming.dev 4 points 13 hours ago

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?

[–] peetabix@sh.itjust.works 3 points 12 hours ago (2 children)
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[–] 418_im_a_teapot@sh.itjust.works 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

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.

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