What's the most disgusting thing you ever ate?

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)

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!

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!

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.

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

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!

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!)

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

You mean the baby ants nfk ?

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.

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

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 !

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

Love runny eggs!

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

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.

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.

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

A runny egg

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

Oh right jess. It was the mention of cojones

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

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

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.

I love tapioca. But it's fattening.

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!