What's The Grossest Thing You've Ever Ate?

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Just out of curiosity since I'm bored.
This doesn't mean that what you ate was gross to you (or maybe it was) but other people might think so.

Thanks
Steve
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  • human placenta soup
    eggs soaked in children's urine
    soups with various insect moulds

    Just want to add that the above were supposedly for treating asthma. I am not even going to mention snake because that is kindergarden stuff.
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    • The cake I baked for my wife's birthday.
    • Derek,

      I'm familiar with TCM, and for the rest of the crew--it works! in Traditional Jewish Medicine, Maimonides ( physician to Saladin in the 12th century ) recommends mouse droppings for high blood pressure.

      I was dying from asthma, chronic bronchitis and COPD. What worked for me was hyssop, honey and lemon. Drink like water for 3 days, then drink as your body dictates for 3 weeks. Go off for one week, and back on again. Drink around your pharmaceuticals--using the two hour rule. I've been pretty much free from symptoms for the last six years, but I still can't do vigerous excercise...it'll put me into an attack. I can now focus on relaxing the lungs to get over it without medication. I'm on a tea now ( TCM ) that tasts like old, dirty socks soaked in mold for anxiety and keep my nerves from becoming inflammed ( damp heat, yin deficiency ).


      The grossest thing I ever ate ( by accident ) a cockroach that fell into my food.

      Dot
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    • Derek, You must have had the worst case of Asthma ever recorded to even consider these remedies
  • Conch fritters - slimey little creature that lives in the big conch shells. They're ohhh so yummy deep fried.
  • Chicken blood soup. The blood was congealed.

    Mark
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    • Derek Wong... you have a problem but that's ok. There should be a clinic in your area.
      this is thinking a hard time after dereks post....
      I've had rocky mountain oysters translated to pig balls (deep fried with ranch dressing) and escargot.
      This really doesn't top the anything else I've see but yeay and eww

      Ok since I started it tell me more
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  • Humble pie!

    Ray

    PS I've just realised this may not make sense to US readers. It's the UK equivelant of "Eat Crow"
  • Human placenta and children's urine for asthma??? I'm guessing it wasn't a physician who suggested that...

    You know, if you're still having a problem, you might try toenail clippings dipped in used motor oil.
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    • No Ray. You are right.
      At least where I'm from humble pie is correct. Never heard of "eat cow".
  • Cow tongue!

    Really, I didn't know what it was...it was in a stew a friend of mine made, all sauteed with onions and smelled wonderful. He didn't dare mention what it was till I swallowed.

    I have vowed to never eat anything he cooks, ever again.
  • I'm in the US (East Coast) and Eat Crow is more common than Humble Pie but they both are generally understood to mean the same (although I think eat crow is harsher.. as is "would you like some salt with that crow?"
  • Dead animal meat.

    Think about it.

    I've eaten Haggis too. A lot of people think that is gross. It's
    like sausage. All flesh is basically similar. I ate all meat
    for 22 years and then I stopped. I'm not interested in going
    back but it's not like there isn't a social price to pay for
    being an herbivore.
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  • Thank for your concern about my asthma. Thankfully, those remedies were taken a long time ago when I was still a child and I was not told what they were. Just to give more details.

    My father was a physician and my mother got the placentas from a hospital where he worked before. The placenta was then washed at least 40 times in the kitchen sink before it was prepared as a soup. I was told it was "pig's lung soup" and it had a creamy taste, like chicken mushroom soup.

    As far as the eggs soaked in urine was concerned. The urine was obtained from a child of a physican friend who was a neighbour. The eggs were soaked in his urine overnight. Again I did not know what it was.


    Derek
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    • I would try snake. I've been living here in Florida for about six years and haven't had gator tail yet but I hear it's good.
      I was in a bar in Indy that was serving rocky mountain oysers (pig balls) and tried it - deep fried slices with ranch dressing. It wasn't bad.
      I had raccoon about a year ago at a wild game feast at my church. It tastes just like pot roast.
      I had escargot and thought it was just nasty.
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  • My dad said I ate poop before. Thank Goodness, I don't remember it.
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    • Haha, that is gross. I remember being told that I drank out of the toilet with a teaspoon.

      I'm just glad the two girls and one cup girls are not on this forum cuz I don't want to go there. Haha.
    • My mom remembers the day when I ate MY OWN poop. I don't remember it but am sure it happened. How? Everyone in the family knows is

      Talk about gross...
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  • Ha I dare you to try this...

    YouTube - Will It Blend - EXTREME GROSS OUT - They actually drink it!
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  • I suppose live mealie grubs I had to eat at a Massai wedding would seem gross but the worst part was the method of eating. You had to hold the things by their heads and nip the heads off with your finger nails before chewing them (too big to swallow whole). They tasted remarkably pleasant - a bit almondy - similar to spiders but not at all crunchy.
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    • Some common food around my area, we find delicious...

      - aborted duck eggs
      - pigs blood soup
      - pigs internal organs topped with brain
      - roasted aborted piglet
      - cows balls soup
      - cows eyes in congee
      - chicken feet
      - chicken intestines

      and so much more... yummy!
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  • I read a story once about a guy surviving a shipwreck eating his own feet - was that Stephen King? Anyway....

    It is said that we each eat around 8 live spiders during our lifetimes (while we are sleeping) and that one does it for me. gaaaak.
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  • I ate dog once and it's funny how people react when they hear me say that because there is so much emotional attachment to dogs here in the West.

    HaveFaith
  • A boyhood friend of mine spent years in the Phillipines
    with his missionary parents. He said they kept dogs
    as pets but if the dog got run over the owning family
    would throw a barbecue party and invite the neighbors.
    Waste not, want not.
  • Wow. You folks have got me beat... I'm scared.
  • My son when he was about 18 months old ate a june bug. He was crunching away like it was delicious!

    dorothy
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      crispy grasshoppers cooked in soy sauce
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  • OK...I don't eat gross food but the next time I need to lose a couple of pounds, I'm going to come read this thread again and again because it completely curbed my appetite.

    BLAH!!
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  • Canned asparagus in an egg omelet. Just terrible. Slimey and stringy at the same time.

    As a small child I went 24 hours without food because my mother kept trying to force me to eat it - the 3rd meal she caved.

    Years later as a teenager she tried the canned asparagus again and I threw up in her brand new husband's plate. That cured her.

    Other than that I had two different experiences with hair being put in food in restaurants. One in a burrito where it looked like someone shaved their beard, the other at the bottom of a bowl of soup and it looked like rat hair.

    Geez I can almost make myself vomit just thinking about it.
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  • lol

    what is worse than finding a worm in your apple?

    finding half a worm.

    gag eeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwww
  • I tried fried silkworms at a Cambodian restaurant once. They looked like tasty glistening morsels of beef. They tasted, honest to goodness, like rancid sh*t!. I could not get the taste out of my mouth or the smell out of my nose for over four hours! Never ever again. I'd rather drink lumpy spoiled milk or chew up live goldfish again!
  • Well, seeing as I'm a student living away from home I'd have to say the the food that my dorm serves - absolutely repulsive!

    But in all seriousness, the strangest and grossest thing I ever ate was probably a frog leg. Not too exotic, I know...but being 8 years old and realizing that I was biting down on a frog was enough to make my stomach turn!
  • To boil a Calves Head.

    Take the head, skin, and all unflayed, scald it, and soak it in fair
    water a whole night or twelve hours, then take out the brains and
    boil them with some sage, parsley, or mint; being boil'd chop them
    small together, butter them and serve them in a dish with fine
    sippets about them, the head being finely cleansed, boil it in a
    clean cloth and close it up together again in the cloth; being
    boil'd, lay it one side by another with some fine slices of boil'd
    bacon, and lay some fine picked parsley upon it, with some borage or
    other flowers.
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    • Yeah but did you actually eat this?
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  • Rocky Mountain Oysters.
  • Snake soup..thats the most wierd thing I have had till now
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    • At least I didn't know what I was eating when I had human placenta soup and urine-soaked eggs.

      The most upsetting experience for me was when I had snake soup. This was not the type of the usual snake broth which I still enjoy from time to time. In fact, my mother had just bought a few skinned snakes that had their heads and tails removed and cut right down the middle in half. When she told these snake halves out of their wrapping, they starting flipping around? The sight was just horrifying. She then proceeded to put these snake halves into a crockpot and filled it with boiling water and made a clear soup out of it. I really felt horrible when I drank it.

      Derek
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  • When I was a teenager, I purchased a big mac at the local McDonalds. Low and behold there was a squished cockroach on the bottom of the container. I threw it away and walked out the door. Wish I would have known about THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT at that time....I would have turned them in! I now RARELY eat a McDonalds.

    dorothy
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    • Just those rare times when you get a cravin' for cockroach... I know what you mean.
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