What's the most disgusting thing you ever ate?

Meat and fish.

Another vote for Andouillette. In a tiny French village we ordered the "menu du jour" - big mistake! I say it was the most disgusting thing I ever ate, though I'm not wholly sure I actually ate any of it. It's appearance was enough to put me off. My DH polished it off, though, while I just ate the vegetables.

The worst things I have ever eaten have always been where we have been visiting somewhere, outside the UK where we have been served something we do not like and nobody is eating it and then, because I get bothered about not causing the host any embarrassment or upset. I eat my portion.

In one case, cold jellied consommé in Pakistan. I and my sister(aged 14 and 15) were flying home to Singapore as unaccompanied minors and had to stay over because the plane broke down (it was the 1950s). The hotel served us cold jellied consommé. My sister refused even to lift a spoon to it, so I forced mine down. I still really dislike it.

in the second case a few years later, in Belgium, I was with DF and DS and the dish was sweetcorn and buttermilk soup. DF and DS wouldn't touch it, so I ate mine and I LOATHE milk in any liquid form. I did it so well I was offered a second helping, which I politely declined.

Chinese cakes can be grim.
We also once stayed in a little Greek hotel where Yaya (gran) took a shine to us and kept giving us home made sweet things in our room. But what to do with the one we really couldn't eat much of? Sort of cross between jelly and blancmange. Flushed it down the loo.

Pork belly - very trendy now. Why would anyone want to eat lumps of fat?

Jess I think the eyes had sort of dissolved in the cooking!

I have tried and liked all of the above. No wonder I am a little on the plump side of plump. The only thing I loathe is tapioca, and there is a malaysian pudding that is very similar in texture that looks like like grains of jelly, usually served on heaps of ice so that the jelly doesn't melt. I think it's fairly common all over asia. It's far too much like frogspawn, as is tapioca. Blancmange is also not very popular, or semolina. School dinners have a lot to answer for.

I prefer andouillette to our own black pudding. It's far more delicate though. Every time we eat out I always try the weirdest thing on the menu. I haven't managed crocodile yet. I'm really cross about that, I missed it in a local restaurant by two weeks.

Cold custard, or lumpy custard. In fact, badly cooked food, rather than the ingredients, are my problem when it comes to what I can eat.

Retsina wine. Does that count? We bought a bottle many years ago on a Thomson holiday to Kephalonia. It was horrible. The room next door said it shouldn't go to waste. Hated it. They passed it to a honeymoon couple upstairs. They admitted to passing it to the family in the end unit. Lost track of it then.

Likewise janerowena - I always like to try things I have never had before but do draw the line at somethings !
My school lunches were obviously much better than most as I love semolina (with jam of course) and cold custard. I can still taste the Cheese and Onion Pie we had at Primary school - delicious, but I have never come close to replicating it and nor could my mother all those years ago.
Anyone got a recipe ?

I sometimes just make a cheese and onion crustless pie. I haven't got a recipe - I just get about 5 eggs, separate and beat a couple of the whites, then beat them all together and pour them into a buttered pie dish. I grate some cheese into it, and drop in some finely chopped onion. Bake at 200c for about 45 minutes -ish.

It's a nice snack, or can be used as the protein in a main meal. It keeps itself together so that you can cut it into wedges, even without pastry.

I don't remember cheese and onion pie in school dinners at all - it was always meat or fish, unfortunately.

I do remember a failed potato crop one year, ans schools were ordered to provide bread and butter instead. They probably meant margerine, but orders are orders, and we got lovely freshly backed bread and loads of butter.

PS
Margerine or its various modern equivalents is something I refuse to eat - hate the taste. It's butter or nothing.

I was asked to write an article about ready foods v home-cooked. I bought some ready-meals from different shops (same meals). Some were tolerable, although not wondrous, but the spag bol from all of them was completely inedible. Btw I was not the only one doing the taste test on them.

My mother's set egg custard. Too thin and runny. Not eggy enough. Horrible texture. Put me off crème brûlée for life, I think.

Pickled peppers in Romania.. YUK !!!!!
And Polenta pudding.... bright yellow, so dry that it sticks the throat.
Double YUK !!!!!

@Annodomini - Chaumes - wonderful! Stinks, true, but the taste... divine.
Reminds me, it seems to have disappeared from Sainsbury's (like so many other things).

@Joan - I'm with you there on margarine - vile stuff, although I'm not sure it is still sold in this country. Dyed and deoderised, it was still rubbish that clung to your back teeth. The deodorant was there to hide the smell of boiled linseed oil,which was decidedly 'off'.

The dye hid its unappetising pearly white colour ('Margarine' from Gr. Margaron - pearl, as is 'Margaret!') - In one state in the US oleo-margarine had, by law, to be dyed red - as a warning I suppose.

The old recipe for cheese and onion pie was cubed cooked potato, fried onions and lots of strong grated cheese. Years ago I read a school dinners forum and it said that that the school version was made with smash, smaller amount of finely diced fried onion, and cheese sauce. That sounds about right to me, as the real cheese pie is very robust, but the school version is quite a thin layer as I recall.

Sea Slug otherwise known as Abalone - many years ago in Singapore at a Chinese wedding banquet.

Revolting !

My mother used to bake her own cakes and puddings which were delicious. Every once in a while she would buy a cake. Sometimes she would bring home a seed cake. Yuk! It was like eating what I imagine the bottom of a budgie's cage would taste like. I have often thought of trying some now, as I eat so many things now that I hated as a child.

Our school cooks would never have heard of 'Smash' I think ! Their pie was pastry top and bottom and a thick layer of cheese and onion all held together with an egg or two I expect. Makes my mouth water just thinking about it - I think I shall try again to replicate it but if my mother couldn't do it 50+ years ago I don't fancy my chances !

I forgot to mention that it was all encased in pastry! I can remember it as the forum described, I did like it though.

Yes, I had abalone as a child and I can't remember being impressed. Not revolted though.

I chose calves sweetbreads once at a restaurant in Tenerife and a friend had to rush out and be ill when she discovered what they were.

My aunt lived in Singapore for a while and she did the same when they were taken out for a very special meal by a chinese company. It was monkey brains - eaten from a freshly killed monkey's head that was placed in a central reservoir in the table. They were then all given long handled spoons to scoop out the interior, she described it as 'like a boiled egg'. Of all the things I have heard, that revolts me the most. Please note that I did wait until after you had all eaten your dinner before I posted this.

That is pretty special janerowena -if this was a competition, which it is not, you would be a strong favourite!
Smash had not been invented when I ate school dinners. (it is vile though) but a species of grey, lumpy potato had - perfect for mashing .
Abalone (they of the beautiful shells) are called Paua (pronounced paarwaar)
in NZ. They are much prized and paua rustling rings exist, illegally fishing in restricted areas. Much like tar-black squid I reckon.
Was it caraway seeds they used in seed cake? Can't remember the last time I saw seed cake.

Yuk! Caraway seed cake. My friend at school told me it was made with head lice, when I was five.

I seem to remember caraway seed cake being called 'seedy cake' and I think it was associated with Easter. Just a vague memory though. I quite liked it.

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I remember being given a cake called 'flies cemetery' wouldn't touch it when I was a child, convinced it was actually full of dead flies. Now I love it, it is pastry top and bottom, filled with sweetened raisins.