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

[SpokeyDokey]

In the last half dozen or so posts the hellish triplets of vile foods have all been mentioned...

... haggis, tripe and brawn.

 

[Dave7]

I like brawn. Years ago, whenever I visited my wife's mum she'd give me a huge stack of sandwiches to eat on the train when I left. Often featuring brawn. (The danger that people might suddenly starve to death was never far from her mind, and she was always taking precautions)

I was forced eat Brawn just the once as a kid. I managed to get one mouthful down the projectile vomited across the table. They never tried that again

 

[Alex321]

In the last half dozen or so posts the hellish triplets of vile foods have all been mentioned...

... haggis, tripe and brawn.

Eaten all of them, don't dislike any.

Haven't eaten tripe or brawn for years, but have haggis several times a year.

 

[Reynard]

I love chicken and turkey livers as liver. Mainly just pan-fried with bacon, or devilled. Likewise kidneys, which are also great in a casserole or pie. I'm not particularly fond of the cooked sliced tongue you can buy in the supermarket, but braised tongue is bloody lovely - it's rich and tasty and the meat just falls apart. Heart is lovely in soup, as it makes such a flavourful stock.

Not a fan of pigs liver as it is, but it's absolutely delightful turned into homemade pate.

I have a love-hate relationship with brawn - or salceson as it's called in Polish. I'll eat it if it's given to me, but I wouldn't have it out of choice. Although pigs trotters make a nice terrine / potted meat.

I remember quite liking brains the way my uncle cooked them - they were mixed with other meats (can't remember what exactly) and the resulting patties were then rolled in egg and breadcrumbs and deep fried. But of course you can't get that now, so I can't say whether my memory of them is accurate or not.

 

[Dave 123]

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.

We need photos of both so that the people can decide!

 

[Kawasaki Kid]

Fried rattle snake. Tastes like salty fish but chewy like rubber.

 

[Ripple]

Brawn. Now I know how this evil of a food is called in English.
My grandma used to dump almost anything left of a pig into it and pieces of hairy pig's skin was common together with other unrecognizable ... stuff.
Smoked pig's fat. Just fat preferably without a single fibre of a muscle. Absolute bleurrrgh.

 

[newts]

Brawn. Now I know how this evil of a food is called in English.
My grandma used to dump almost anything left of a pig into it and pieces of hairy pig's skin was common together with other unrecognizable ... stuff.
Smoked pig's fat. Just fat preferably without a single fibre of a muscle. Absolute bleurrrgh.

Everything from the rooter to the tooter is usable on a pig, not much waste. 🐷

 

[ExBrit]

Easy - Seafood soup in a Thai restaurant in Soho. Just because you found it underwater, doesn't make it seafood. There were tiny octopi, single suckers from big octopi, something that looked like fish brains, bits of rubber, slime, crazy stuff. Mind you, close your eyes and it tasted good.

 

[Ripple]

Everything from the rooter to the tooter is usable on a pig, not much waste. 🐷

Still

 

[Andy in Germany]

Everything from the rooter to the tooter is usable on a pig, not much waste. 🐷

My Romanian friend tells me that under Communism, Pigs trotters were called "patriots" because they were the only part of the animal that didn't leave the country.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Haggis - way past foul and not even fit for a dog.

I love haggis, even the vegetarian one
I have "invented" a yummy haggis pasta sauce too

 

[Reynard]

Brawn. Now I know how this evil of a food is called in English.
My grandma used to dump almost anything left of a pig into it and pieces of hairy pig's skin was common together with other unrecognizable ... stuff.
Smoked pig's fat. Just fat preferably without a single fibre of a muscle. Absolute bleurrrgh.

Ooooh, smoked slonina!!!

Agreed, not great to eat as is (shudder, spare the thought!), but is FABULOUS when rendered out and used as dripping. It makes the best fried bread EVER!

It's also good cut into strips and used to lard very lean joints of meat.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Haslet is another mashed up bits of pig thing that I quite like. (And another thing my late MiL used to feed me)

Probably fairly unpopular.

 

[Reynard]

Haslet is another mashed up bits of pig thing that I quite like. (And another thing my late MiL used to feed me)

Probably fairly unpopular.

Thumbs up for haslet here. It's essentially meatloaf.

Umm, and faggots. I looooooooove faggots in onion gravy with mash and savoy cabbage