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What is the grossest thing imaginable that people eat?

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Originally posted by: jumpr
Haggis. 🙁

I ate that once because i didn't know what it was. It actually wasn't half bad! Kind of tasted like a stuffed cabbage roll (pig in the blanket/golumpki for all you Polish people out there).
 
I love hogshead cheese. What's so gross about it? Gelatin is basically the same parts that everyone thinks is so disgusting about it. Think about that next time you have some JELLO.
 
Originally posted by: Fritzo
Originally posted by: Atomicus
Originally posted by: Fritzo
My inlaws eat tripe on a regular basis.

How's this for NASTY! It's the lining of a cow stomach

Tripe = fantastic

Go to your local Chinese dim-sum restaurant and then report back.

Anyone else like pig intestines? chicken claws? pigs feet? cow/pig tongue? 🙂

YUCK! They have to boil it to get out the crap...it smells like someone's heating up a dirty urinal, then you eat the stuff and it has a texture like tenticles from a raw squid. The honeycombed meat actually stuck to the roof of my mouth! GAG!!!!!

They eat a Mexican stew called menudo, and it tastes good, but texture is everything. Nasty stuff.
It's tasty when prepared well. Actually, it's the intestine, I think.

It shouldn't smell bad. Maybe you're eating it at the wrong place. There are also different kinds of tripe, so if you don't ilke the honeycombed kind, you can get the kind that has "buds" on it.
 
..fast food from drive in/out roadside establishments. Some of you even bring your kids to em. Do you feel lucky?? Unknown ingredients prepared by unknown people of questionable health and backround..and now your going to EAT it..
 
Originally posted by: IGBT
..fast food from drive in/out roadside establishments. Some of you even bring your kids to em. Do you feel lucky?? Unknown ingredients prepared by unknown people of questionable health and backround..and now your going to EAT it..
In all fairness, the ingredients aren't any more "unknown" than most anything you buy at the grocery store.
 
Originally posted by: Howard
Originally posted by: Fritzo
Originally posted by: Atomicus
Originally posted by: Fritzo
My inlaws eat tripe on a regular basis.

How's this for NASTY! It's the lining of a cow stomach

Tripe = fantastic

Go to your local Chinese dim-sum restaurant and then report back.

Anyone else like pig intestines? chicken claws? pigs feet? cow/pig tongue? 🙂

YUCK! They have to boil it to get out the crap...it smells like someone's heating up a dirty urinal, then you eat the stuff and it has a texture like tenticles from a raw squid. The honeycombed meat actually stuck to the roof of my mouth! GAG!!!!!

They eat a Mexican stew called menudo, and it tastes good, but texture is everything. Nasty stuff.
It's tasty when prepared well. Actually, it's the intestine, I think.

It shouldn't smell bad. Maybe you're eating it at the wrong place. There are also different kinds of tripe, so if you don't ilke the honeycombed kind, you can get the kind that has "buds" on it.

They make it. When you buy it raw from the store, it is uncleaned. You have to clean it yourself, and trust me, you'll need to wash the curtains when you're done boiling that crap 😛
 
Originally posted by: Howard
Originally posted by: Fritzo
Originally posted by: Atomicus
Originally posted by: Fritzo
My inlaws eat tripe on a regular basis.

How's this for NASTY! It's the lining of a cow stomach

Tripe = fantastic

Go to your local Chinese dim-sum restaurant and then report back.

Anyone else like pig intestines? chicken claws? pigs feet? cow/pig tongue? 🙂

YUCK! They have to boil it to get out the crap...it smells like someone's heating up a dirty urinal, then you eat the stuff and it has a texture like tenticles from a raw squid. The honeycombed meat actually stuck to the roof of my mouth! GAG!!!!!

They eat a Mexican stew called menudo, and it tastes good, but texture is everything. Nasty stuff.
It's tasty when prepared well. Actually, it's the intestine, I think.

It shouldn't smell bad. Maybe you're eating it at the wrong place. There are also different kinds of tripe, so if you don't ilke the honeycombed kind, you can get the kind that has "buds" on it.

i love eating that stuff...tastes friggin amazing! 😀 i can go for some now.
 
deep fried cow brains


raw oysters are probably the most disgusting thing i've ever eaten. the first man to open up an oyster and slurp out the insides had to be pretty fscking hungry. that said, raw oyster is damn delicious.
 
I remember seeing a documentary on some south american tribe living in the jungle... They'd fell a tree and leave it for 6-12 months, then come back & pull out the grubs which were dining on it, which were then eaten as-is.
 
I like tripe, sweetbread, kidneys, pigs blood, dried fermented fish and tofu, intestines,tongue,liver,bull testicles,chicken gizzards and hearts,turkey butts...

I really do!
 
Let's see...I've had:
Balut
raw eggs, beef, fish, oysters
pig brains
rotten fish (chinese barbeque sauce)
pig & duck blood, snake blood (i forgot what kind, but it was poisonous)
fish eyes/brain/eggs
every body part of a pig/cow/duck you can imagine besides the inedible stuff (e.g. feathers)...even the penis

ate a peacock once...that was good

any of those strike your fancy?

but personally i think the most disgusting things are fast food burgers...god knows what goes into that shit.
 
Originally posted by: eLiu
Let's see...I've had:
Balut
raw eggs, beef, fish, oysters
pig brains
rotten fish (chinese barbeque sauce)
pig & duck blood, snake blood (i forgot what kind, but it was poisonous)
fish eyes/brain/eggs
every body part of a pig/cow/duck you can imagine besides the inedible stuff (e.g. feathers)...even the penis

ate a peacock once...that was good

any of those strike your fancy?

but personally i think the most disgusting things are fast food burgers...god knows what goes into that shit.
Egyptians used to serve peafowl when other royalty came-a-callin.
It's damn near the same as a turkey in the order of things.

 
My list would contain brains (of any kind), living animals, insects, spineless sea creatures (anything below fish on the evolutionary ladder), and lungs (yuck).
However, I love gizzards (yummy) and I like head cheese (it's not considered exotic at all where I live).
 
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