What's the most disgusting thing you ever ate?

Jane That is exactly what my husband says! but I would argue that why waste money on something you may (probably) not like when there are other things you love on the menu. I have so many favourite, delicious dishes that there are not enough meals in two months to squeeze them all in. I really don't need to spend time, money and calories trying out other things, particularly things that look or smell disgusting, when I am hankering after something that I have not enjoyed for ages.

But each to their own, people can eat what they like as long as I am not forced to watch them gagging over it.

That is is euphemism of the day galen - "smiles" indeed !!!

Love runny eggs!

So does my son - but I'm not overkeen. He eats boiled eggs virtually raw.

Until my DS was about 12 he turned his nose up at Lemon Meringue Pie. When he eventually tried it he found to his horror that it was delicious and still regrets the years of not eating it !

Not disgusting but I have eaten Iguana on a tug boat pushing bauxite barges up the Esaquibo river in the then British Guyana in 1963

Iguana - wow - did it taste like chicken? I ate little green ants in Australia (alive - no one else would do it) and they were delicious. Lemony and refreshing I seem to remember. Couldn't face the grub things though.

You mean the baby ants nfk ?

100 year old eggs in China not really 100years old but taste like it Tripe my Nan used to love and in KL a pigeon complete with little head eyes and beak put me off completely having that looking at me

I will try things as until you try them you don't know whether you like them or not! When on a cruise if there is something different on the menu I will try it, knowing that if I don't like it I can send it back and have something else (not so easy in a restaurant though!).

The most disgusting thing I have ever (not) eaten - a Tesco ready meal! After my DH died I just couldn't be bothered to cook and mostly lived on sandwiches until I bought the Tesco ready meal (I think it was supposed to be some sort of pasta). It was so disgusting I threw it away and started cooking again (so perhaps they did me a favour!)

Semolina, raw egg-white in underdone eggs, tapioca, tripe and tongue. YUCK.

Also wasn't keen on the duck gizzardy thing in salads we were served up in France. Or pate de fois gras. Vile!

For every Yin there's a Yang I love tongue too expensive to have often but as a treat yum yum

Andouillettes!!! I was in France with a friend and they were the local speciality, in all the charcuteries so we ordered them in a restaurant. Ugh! My friend was amazed that I finished mine so quickly, well before she finished hers - the reason being that I didn't want her to finish first and gloat over me still struggling. When we looked them up in the dictionary we realised why they smelt and tasted as they did.

I do not know HOW you actually ate the andouillettes!!! (tripe, etc, sausage). Normandy people get all upset if you don't appreciate their locally made andouillettes- but there is NO way I could ever eat any- just the smell is enough to make me .... barf.

Eel is the other!

Jess the grub things were BIG things. The size of my little finger. White and wiggling. This aborigine lady dug one up - but there were no takers. She didn't eat it either!

not the baby ants then. hmm. i guess you would have to be pretty hungry, and then cook it. My DS and DIL recently had fried crickets in a posh mexican restaurant. Proud of her for trying one. (take it for granted that he would have)