What's the most disgusting thing you ever ate?

The most disgusting thing I ever ate was sea-urchin raw and straight out of the shell. Still makes me gag at the thought of it!

Marmite! When I was in the first year at primary school I swapped a sandwich with a friend and thought it was the most horrible taste ever.... I've never got over it, although I can just about eat a Twiglet or two.

Whale - though eaten is an exaggeration as I never managed to break it down enough to swallow any.

Marmalade. Can't stand it since I lost my two upper incisors on a piece of toast and marmalade on an Easter Sunday when I was young!

Andouillette -a sausage made from intestines and served as a local specialty in Normandy. Smelt like poo and one mouthful finished me off. Even DH who can eat almost anything could not manage it and he's normally my plate- hoover!.

Heinz beans. Yuck, yuck yuck. Still makes me boak when I see them on someone's plate. Tete de Veau, served to us by our French neighbours.

Jellied eels....all grey and slimy. Thought I was being clever - digging my little wooden fork into the dish and a plug of greyness splodged out....

Gagagran andouillette. Forgot about that one. One mouthful was more than enough. Euch.

Laverbread, with Steak Tartare (sp?) coming a close second.

Normally any cheese tastes good to me no matter how 'interesting' the smell. However, a French one that my ex was partial to turned me right off. I think it was called Chaumes.

Chicken feet in China - only tried one but could not understand why they are more expensive than the breast. Other than a tasteless chew I can't think how else to describe them so left the rest to SiL who loves them. I also let him eat the ducks brain !!

When the kids were small we went to stay in France at the house of some French friends. Told to eat anything in the fridge DD and her dad attacked the Roquefort cheese. After a while I pointed out to them that the cheese was moving over the plate due to the large quantity of maggots. A large (probably about a kilo) of best Roquefort hit the bin !

Snake. A boyfriend in South Africa put it on the barbecue after we had run over it in the car. Served with fresh onion and tomato sambals (a sort of salsa). Ugh! What were we thinking?

andouillette - isn't that the one made of the sphincter muscle of the pig? Bit lower down than the intestines?

tiggy in some parts of Africa chicken feet and heads are a treat, they are advertised as 'walkie-talkies'.

JessM No, andouilletes are made with pork intestines which, if properly washed, shouldn't smell of poo. The fillings vary according to the region. Cambrai andouilletes contain only veal, for example.

I have eaten all sorts of weird and wonderful things from all over the world but nothing compares with the horror of school spam fritters.

What about andouille then absent - either French or Cajun?

tiggy that sounds as bad as the Italian cheese Casa Marzu, a pecorino cheese containing maggots!

A gourmet meal of offal from a hare. Lungs heart and kidneys laid out on a plate with the liver as a pate. Very tiny. The chef had most of them returned apart from DH who eats most things.very expensive hotel in Scotland. Went bust.

Like Jess I was once served a plate of sheep's head when in a remote village in Bulgaria. I found looking into the holes where it's eyes should have been a trifle unnerving and I didn't manage to sample any of it - far too disgusting. The Irish stew we were given at boarding school, full of gristle and fat, put me off anything lumpy for life as did an unfortunate incident with an oyster. I can't even look at one without remembering how ill they made me

It has to be snails - the first time I ate them they were OK, but the second time they were like garlic flavoured rubber.

Talking of rubber, I reckon calamari tastes like crumbed rubber bands.

Tamarrillo is pretty grim too.

BUT junior school dinners 1950-1956 have to top everything in disgust and revulsion. Cubes of grey fatty meat, more cubes of woody turnip, peas like bullets, greasy gravy, and dark green cabbage, with 'frogspawn' for dessert (some sort of pasta I think)

gally - they removed the eyes? How sophisticated.
Ah yes, that gristly meat they used in school dinners. I suspect local authority corruption had something to do with that.
Yes I tried oysters gallly. Just the once. Go straight to the toilet, do not pass go. Actually - it was twice now I come to think of it - I made a huge mistake and ate a couple of smoked ones some years later and had horrendous food poisoning all over again. We were 48 hours into a holiday in NZ. DH got a boil in his ear and a raging temperature and we had spent a joyous evening trying to track down medical assistance in Invercargill just before my world dissolved. Both of us spent the next day in the motel bed, groaning in turns. We were supposed to be checking out but fortunately they had not let the room.

Chicken feet - on a dim-sum lunch in Sydney... actually 'eat' isn't quite the right verb - all you could do was suck on them - revolting!

We used to have 'frogspawn' too, Joan, it was tapioca. Another horror was lumpy semolina with a tiny blob of watered-down jam.

Tete de veau, andouillette, raw sea urchin, frogs’ legs, squid, octopus, jellied eels, oysters, tripe - I've tried all of these and they all make my stomach churn!!