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Worst tasting thing you\'ve ever eaten?
Since some recent posts have talked about favorite foods, I thought I'd try the other side...
What's the worst tasting thing you've ever eaten? By eaten, I mean put in your mouth - you didn't have to swallow; and by "thing", I mean something that was intended to be eaten and which was in its normal eatable condition (not spoiled, etc.) when you put it in your mouth, i.e. refrigerator and barnyard accidents don't count.
And tastes vary a great deal, so please, I hope no one takes offense if someone's gag food happens to be their favorite delicacy. We're just trying to entertain each other and broaden our horizons.
Anyway, I'll start. My mother liked persimmons (a sort of greenish tomato looking thing) so she gave me one once. I guess there are 2 kinds, the good tasting kind and the other kind. This was the other kind and it wasn't ripe yet, I guess, but this was my MOM so I took a bite.
God, it was...AWFUL. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/icon15.gif
I've never tasted anything so sour and bitter outside a chem lab ever. It actually numbed the inside of my mouth for a time after I spit it out.
Later, she said she had some of the other kind and it was better and I should try some. I said no thanks, the fact that the other thing shared even the same name as the thing I had had was a reason to avoid it.
Another time, I was offered a Swedish delicacy whose name I forgot (but it was fermented fish) at a party. Luckily, I got a whiff of that before it got in my mouth (which automatically clamped shut on its own), so it doesn't count as something I "ate", but it was real impressive to my nose. It must be a really acquired taste.
Anyone else?
BTW, this is also an opportunity for those who are talented at making up colorful graemlins to come up with new ones.. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
[OK, if you really want, you can tell barnyard accident stories, you can...]
Since some recent posts have talked about favorite foods, I thought I'd try the other side...
What's the worst tasting thing you've ever eaten? By eaten, I mean put in your mouth - you didn't have to swallow; and by "thing", I mean something that was intended to be eaten and which was in its normal eatable condition (not spoiled, etc.) when you put it in your mouth, i.e. refrigerator and barnyard accidents don't count.
And tastes vary a great deal, so please, I hope no one takes offense if someone's gag food happens to be their favorite delicacy. We're just trying to entertain each other and broaden our horizons.
Anyway, I'll start. My mother liked persimmons (a sort of greenish tomato looking thing) so she gave me one once. I guess there are 2 kinds, the good tasting kind and the other kind. This was the other kind and it wasn't ripe yet, I guess, but this was my MOM so I took a bite.
God, it was...AWFUL. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/icon15.gif
I've never tasted anything so sour and bitter outside a chem lab ever. It actually numbed the inside of my mouth for a time after I spit it out.
Later, she said she had some of the other kind and it was better and I should try some. I said no thanks, the fact that the other thing shared even the same name as the thing I had had was a reason to avoid it.
Another time, I was offered a Swedish delicacy whose name I forgot (but it was fermented fish) at a party. Luckily, I got a whiff of that before it got in my mouth (which automatically clamped shut on its own), so it doesn't count as something I "ate", but it was real impressive to my nose. It must be a really acquired taste.
Anyone else?
BTW, this is also an opportunity for those who are talented at making up colorful graemlins to come up with new ones.. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
[OK, if you really want, you can tell barnyard accident stories, you can...]