What's the most disgusting thing you ever ate?

That's what children here in Manchester called Chorley cakes, Agus. They're delicious, so are Eccles cakes.

when my mum loved caraway seed cake I used to make one especially for her, can't say it was a favourite of mine.

We called Eccles cakes flies coffins, they really are delicious warm or cold.

We called it Fly Pie (still do !) and it is different to Chorley and Eccles cakes in that it was made in a slab and cut up.

I don't think I could manage Monkey brains

YIPEE - just seen a woodpecker on the bird table !

Marrow and broad beans.

Not together! Well, especially not together.

Love caraway cake. But as I'm the only one I never get it.

I thought sweetbreads were the pancreas, not testicles?

It's used for both phoenix and they taste similar too.

Sweetbreads are the thymus gland and pancreas from sheep, calves and, occasionally, pigs. Testicles are called animelles or, in Spain, white kidneys. Pancreas sweetbreads could be confused with testicles because of their round appearance but they are prepared differently.

Just shows how everyone is different,I love broad beans jingle, especially young ones.

I always forget the thymus bit!

HATE Lady's Fingers or Okra, it's not just the taste it's the texture as well.

In some places absent - Wales for one - testicles get called sweetbreads. Pancreas is not a smooth oval, its kind of blobby. Thymus not shaped like cojones either. (I speak as ex-biology teacher. You should trust me on this. I've done a few dissections in my time. )

When I have tasted Eccles cakes and they have a similar taste but made with puff pastry? tiggy has given a better description of what I know as fly cemetery and made with shortcrust pastry finished off with sugar on top.

What have you dissected jess?

We had that at school, Agus - we called it 'dead fly pie' but it was actually quite nice!

Yes, Chorley cakes are individual versions of the large pie you described, Agus, but the commercially made ones aren't as generous with the filling. Lovely!

I love tapioca. But it's fattening.

It is quite nice Ana but whoever thought up the names like fly cemetery or dead fly pie, a sure guarantee to put any child off, especially when school friends shouted, agh, you're eating dead flies.

rats, frogs, chicks, dogfish, worms, a hare, a gerbil etc jing

Oh right jess. It was the mention of cojones

All in a day's work as a biology teacher.

I love sweetbreads, but can only find them rarely.
The best ones are the 'ris de veau' smiles of the calf. Ie veal testes!

A runny egg

I have not read through this thread, nor do I intend to. I just came on to say that I have NEVER eaten anything disgusting in my life. Why would you?? When I was a child and we visited the Great Aunts we were often presented with potted hough, or tongue and I just politely said that I was sorry I could not eat that and was given perhaps a boiled egg, sometimes just bread and butter or HM Jam - YUM.

I watched one episode of 'I'm a Celebrity' where they were forced to eat disgusting things, while the presenters laughed. I have never watched it again and cannot fathom why anyone would voluntarily - it is SICK

How do you know if you will find it disgusting, if you don't try it? How will you ever know if you are missing out on something that you will find delicious? Once you have tried it and decided that something is disgusting to you, fair enough. But I have a very enquiring mind and was brought up to try a huge variety of foods and had family who had travelled all over the world. I would eat tongue and hough perfectly happily, my mother used to make brawn from pigs' heads. I doubt if there's a single thing my mother wouldn't eat - apart from spotted dick and custard with skin on it! It's funny what strikes us individually as disgusting. I had horsemeat and chips a few times in Belgium, very nice but the yellow fat is a bit offputting. I really laughed at all the uproar that caused, although I didn't like the deception.