What's the most disgusting thing you've eaten?

[Sterlo]

I Have a daily fish oil 🐟 capsule. I have a bad habit of trying to swallow it while eating food, instead of washing it down with tea or coffee. I've just attempted to swallow today's capsule while eating a sandwich. My chicken and tomato on wholemeal bread was 'flavoured' by the fish oil as I bit into the capsule thinking I'd successfully swallowed it a few seconds earlier!

I switched to flaxseed oil for that reason, maybe not quite as strong but no after taste and quite a bit cheaper.

 

[Accy cyclist]

I switched to flaxseed oil for that reason, maybe not quite as strong but no after taste and quite a bit cheaper.

Is it Android or iPhone?

My Android has a setting in the Camera App for "Save Selfies as Previewed", which says under it "Save selfies and selfie videos as they appear in the preview without flipping them".

Just tested it both ways, and if that is set on (which I think was the default), then the image is mirrored, if it is off, then the image is normal.

It's a Samsung Galaxy A10, whatever that is.

 

[Alex321]

It's a Samsung Galaxy A10, whatever that is.

That is Android. You should have the same setting available, if you click on the gear icon while you have the camera open.

Mine is also a Samsung Galaxy, but the S22.

 

[Legs]

Vegan cheese (Violife, I think it was called), and taramasalata are definitely on the very short list of things I will never eat again.

 

[palinurus]

Was in Hungary recently to visit a factory and do a bit of face-to-face with our biggest customer because my boss couldn't make it (wouldn't normally be let loose on stuff like that). I've been there before* and the trick is to email in advance and request a vegetarian meal for lunch - they'll fix up a special. This time I forgot. Anyway they had some vegetable soup. I had that, some bread. The soup was cold- it was supposed to be cold, chilled in fact- and sort of fruity. Really horrible, and to make it worse I was very hungry. Bread was too dry alone so...

*First time I went got stuck in snow for 24 hours until tanks were deployed- but I had a good lunch.

 

[Chris S]

I bought a tin of shitake mushrooms from my local Chinese supermarket. When I opened it they came out whole and looked slimy and horrible. I touched one and it felt like the end of my willy so I put them in the bin.

 

[Gwylan]

Be alert for anything described as a local delicacy.

Pickled lambs foot.
A delicacy in bits of France

White sausage, like black pudding. But what do they use to make it?
Andouillette - I'm not saying.

Mysterious dishes, with items and brown gravy - east of Moscow.

Always pack diocalm and charcoal tablets.
In Romania and parts of Africa you can get a diocalm type thing that contains opium. It really is fantastically effective. But unavailable in UK.

Anything still twitching and not identifiable.

 

[palinurus]

New entry: I had some cardoons. Didn't know how to cook them so I looked online. Chose a recipe from the Guardian*. Spent a good long time de-stringing them. Tried eating one piece, then scraped the whole lot into the food waste caddy. This is the only time I can remember throwing away the entirety of a meal- I sometimes have cooking disasters but not of the completely inedible kind. Would be interesting to try some cooked by someone with experience of cooking them.

*I know.

 

[Dave7]

New entry: I had some cardoons. Didn't know how to cook them so I looked online. Chose a recipe from the Guardian*. Spent a good long time de-stringing them. Tried eating one piece, then scraped the whole lot into the food waste caddy. This is the only time I can remember throwing away the entirety of a meal- I sometimes have cooking disasters but not of the completely inedible kind. Would be interesting to try some cooked by someone with experience of cooking them.

*I know.

I had to read that twice. I read your first sentence as 'I had some condoms'... glad I read it again. I thought 'what happened to this thread with Chris S telling us the end of his willy is like a mushroom and you eating condoms.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Tripe, when you have to drown it in salt & vinegar to remove the taste (very little) of the tripe
There used to be a shop in Wakefield that sold it, on the outside of the old Market Hall, along Brook Street
The older generation would queue up outside
Likewise,  Bag is another one I wouldn't want to try again (Cows Udder)

I do like, Haslet & Brawn

 

[Alex321]

New entry: I had some cardoons. Didn't know how to cook them so I looked online. Chose a recipe from the Guardian*. Spent a good long time de-stringing them. Tried eating one piece, then scraped the whole lot into the food waste caddy. This is the only time I can remember throwing away the entirety of a meal- I sometimes have cooking disasters but not of the completely inedible kind. Would be interesting to try some cooked by someone with experience of cooking them.

*I know.

I'd never heard of cardoons, so just looked it up.

A type of thistle with many cultivated varieties, including the globe artichokle?

Which variety do you mean?

[EDIT] Having read the article more fully, I now realise there is one cultivar which is specifically called the cardoon for culinary purposes. And it is the leaf stems you eat, after braising.

 

[Dogtrousers]

I grow cardoons in my garden. The flowers are always covered with bees. I've never tried eating them as they don't look very appetising - for all I know they may not be an edible variety - and I don't want to deprive the bees of their dinner.

 

[lazybloke]

I'd never heard of cardoons, so just looked it up.

Same here.

A type of thistle with many cultivated varieties, including the globe artichoke?

Hmmm, I like globe artichokes in antipasto from the shops.
I can't stand them when my wife brings them home from the allotment and serves a boiled vegetable; they taste faintly of ashtray.

 

[raleighnut]

I bought a tin of shitake mushrooms from my local Chinese supermarket. When I opened it they came out whole and looked slimy and horrible. I touched one and it felt like the end of my willy so I put them in the bin.

I always use dried shitake mushrooms, you soak em for a while then chop them and add to Chinese dishes. If you opened a tin of 'button mushrooms' they do again seem 'slimey' but chuck em in a sieve/colander and rinse under a cold tap and they're fine.

I'd post a link if I could but there is a fantastic clip from Catherine Tate where they go on about "5hit ache" mushrooms in a soup where any one who cooks knows it is pronounced 'She-tar-kay' and they have a lovely delicate flavour.

 

[Beebo]

I always use dried shitake mushrooms, you soak em for a while then chop them and add to Chinese dishes. If you opened a tin of 'button mushrooms' they do again seem 'slimey' but chuck em in a sieve/colander and rinse under a cold tap and they're fine.

I'd post a link if I could but there is a fantastic clip from Catherine Tate where they go on about "5hit ache" mushrooms in a soup where any one who cooks knows it is pronounced 'She-tar-kay' and they have a lovely delicate flavour.

Here you go.

View: https://youtu.be/HpUn9tzwj2E?si=7YBj-VT2gEk5oYb9