WHILE WE WAIT FOR THE RUSSIANS TO STOP MINCING AROUND. WHAT'S THE MOST DISGUSTING DISH YOU'VE EVER EATEN?

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Whale. Whale tastes like fishy, rubbery steak. Bad combo. Also not very tree-huggy, but I figured he was already dead so I may as well do him the courtesy of eating him.
 
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Obviously killed for 'Research', they are trying to find out if it still tastes like sh!t. Don't tell Les frogs or they'll be after selling it to tourists as 'a delicacy' as well.
 
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Nayf said:
I also have a strong aversion to chicken hearts. My wife’s Brazilian and she was introducing me to one of her fellow country people who lived in London. She cooked chicken hearts, something I’d never had before. The texture was awful, a bit like eating the rubber bungs for test tubes.
Thing was, this was the start of our relationship, and being very English and thus polite, I kept on making the right noises and taking another plate, and another…
After my sixth plate I was about to wretch, my wife asked I was even paler than normal, told her.
The laughter and the pisstaking hasn’t really ended, seven years later.
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Nowt wrong with chicken hearts IME. Obviously people differ!

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I have partaken of many “challenging” meals courtesy of my hosts on business trips where they seem to go out of their way to present me with stuff they think I will refuse to eat.

Sheep’s heads and eyes and various offal based stuff in the Middle East, and snake skinned alive and boiled in front of me with chicken feet in the Far East along with all sorts of unmentionable seafood items have all gone down a treat, but I was defeated by an egg!

My Chinese hosts had already made me eat with shiny metal chopsticks where everything slipped from their grasp, and told me that resorting to stabbing the grub with them was the height of bad manners.

Then up came “Century Egg” a green preserved egg that stank as bad as it looked. I’m not a fan of the white of fresh chicken eggs and this was the last straw. I got it in my mouth but was not able to swallow it so my hosts declared victory much to their amusement.
 
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I've heard of that, Frank. An abomination surely designed only to amuse the locals while the visitors try not to barf. Snake was ok when I had it in Vietnam. Rubbery, but pretty flavourless.
 
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Was the 'rubbery snake' attached to a 'female' of doubtful lineage? l know a couple of guys that went down for the 'portal of delight' and ended up with a handful of meat and two veg. A very odd part of the world.
 
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BennyD said:
Was the 'rubbery snake' attached to a 'female' of doubtful lineage? l know a couple of guys that went down for the 'portal of delight' and ended up with a handful of meat and two veg. A very odd part of the world.
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Ok this occasion, mercifully, he'd been skinned and stewed. Lineage unknown, I'll confess.
 
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I like chicken's feet (at least how they're served as dim sum)

Had century tofu in KL. Wouldn't rush back but wasn't completely inedible

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I had chicken feet soup in Transylvania. Not the tastiest bit of a chicken from what I remember. Which isn’t much as they opened the absyth.

Sliced raw octopus tentacle salad in Porto was an experience that has stayed with me more.
 
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When we flew the Haddj from Indonesia, the cabin crew always started the day with chicken's feet in the front galley. For the rest of the flight, the flight deck was tainted with the stench so they ended up being told to cook them in the rear galley, or else. I've yet to work out why you would eat something made from bone and gristle, that has spent its life covered in mud and sh!t. The pangs loved them, so go figure.
 
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midlifecrisis said:
Considering that Mongolia is a landlocked country I'm surprised shark is on the menu.
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God knows it was a very long time ago. Could it have been some fermented stuff or something?

I remember it clearly though all ingredients were set out and you put stuff on your own plate. There were cards up showing typical dishes.

Then there was a large round hot plate you give the chef your plate and he literally tipped it all on, fried it and have you it back lol
 
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Nayf said:
I also have a strong aversion to chicken hearts. My wife’s Brazilian and she was introducing me to one of her fellow country people who lived in London. She cooked chicken hearts, something I’d never had before. The texture was awful, a bit like eating the rubber bungs for test tubes.
Thing was, this was the start of our relationship, and being very English and thus polite, I kept on making the right noises and taking another plate, and another…
After my sixth plate I was about to wretch, my wife asked I was even paler than normal, told her.
The laughter and the pisstaking hasn’t really ended, seven years later.
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Chicken hearts are gorgeous. Not casting nasturtiums on your wife's cooking but if they were rubbery, they were severely overcooked.
 
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Doctor Houx said:
I have partaken of many “challenging” meals courtesy of my hosts on business trips where they seem to go out of their way to present me with stuff they think I will refuse to eat.

Sheep’s heads and eyes and various offal based stuff in the Middle East, and snake skinned alive and boiled in front of me with chicken feet in the Far East along with all sorts of unmentionable seafood items have all gone down a treat, but I was defeated by an egg!

My Chinese hosts had already made me eat with shiny metal chopsticks where everything slipped from their grasp, and told me that resorting to stabbing the grub with them was the height of bad manners.

Then up came “Century Egg” a green preserved egg that stank as bad as it looked. I’m not a fan of the white of fresh chicken eggs and this was the last straw. I got it in my mouth but was not able to swallow it so my hosts declared victory much to their amusement.
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I'm pretty open to eat most things, but century eggs really made me gag and I didn't even eat them.
I was very 'tired' after a night of drinking and karaoke etc at a Chinese nightclub in Shenzhen with my Chinese contractors.
I was sitting at breakfast watching our Japanese supplier eat three or four Century Eggs with such gusto that revisiting last night's drinks became inevitable.
 
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doodlebug said:
Chicken hearts are gorgeous. Not casting nasturtiums on your wife's cooking but if they were rubbery, they were severely overcooked.
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Wasn’t my wife’s, her friends. They tasted nice, but the texture. Was how I imagined eating an ear might be like
 
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Bull foot soup in the Caribbean last year. It’s got skin, tendons and cartilage from the animal’s hoof/ankle. Just big old lumps of white wobbly jelly that doesn’t resemble meat. It is probably highly nutritious, but even I couldn’t eat a whole bowl of it.
 
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