Ugh. Once when I was a kid I got the idea in my head to stick my face in between the couch cushoins and inhale hard. I still can kinda see the cursed salad I was spitting out for a while.
Cat treat. Ate it on a dare. It was fucking foul. 0/10.
I used to work in a pet food store and tried a bunch of treat samples we had. They’re not very good if you aren’t a dog or a cat, turns out
I remember a food chemist telling me that one of their hardest problems was making things that smell and taste good to dogs and cats, but didn’t smell too gross for the humans.
The smell of canned cat food makes me retch.
The stuff I used to give my cat was fine, but she had kidney disease now and is on a prescription canned-only diet. The new stuff smells gross and it makes her poop smell much worse.
It’s because they’re not giving your pets the same high quality food you get.
You think you get high quality ingredients in store bought snacks and candy ?
You’ve seen them eating literal poop, right?
No, that was not it at all, according to her. It’s that things that smell really good to the animals don’t generally smell good to humans. She said it would be really easy to make food the animals would be excited about, but their owners would open the can and it would smell bad, so they didn’t want to buy any more of it.
There are posh producers who do 100% freeze dried meat pet food and treats. Even so, probably not something you want or need in your body.
I’ve tried both wet and dry cat food. The wet food was very bad, but still relatively edible. It was also the one I expected to be good (it was one of those really expensive and premium brands). The dry food, however, tasted exactly like fried anchovies. It wasn’t bad, honestly.
Edit: I’ve also tried dog cookies. Most of them are bland, because their main ingredient is actually ash. I don’t know how healthy that is. They’re also pretty hard. However, there’s a specific kind that is actually very tasty, and I liked it. It’s way cheaper than actual human cookies, so I still buy them every once in a while, as a treat. I still don’t know if they’re super healthy to eat, but I’ve never felt sick after eating them.
Mouldy yoghurt
This was something like 16-17 years ago now so it’s clearly left a mark
It was about 2-3am, I lived on the ground floor of a student house and I wanted a snack. Remembering I had bought some yoghurts a day or two before I figured that’s what I was going for.
Now I’m not really sure what happened, if I picked up an old one I’d not noticed or it was just bad from the shop, but it didn’t notice until after I’d taken the first mouthful.
Needless to say it tasted genuinely awful and put me off yoghurt in general for a good while
Jelly while on a trip in the UK. There was solid stuff inside that looked and tasted like vomit.
Solid stuff? Someone did a really shit job of making it then. Unless you mean something that isn’t called jelly here. Taste is subjective but if they fucked that bit up then I wouldn’t be surprised if other things were done wrong too.
I’m wondering if they had marmalade with chunks of rind
So not jelly at all?
The Elvis. The sandwich American rock singer Elvis Presley made famous. Peanut butter, banana, and bacon. Grilled like a grilled cheese sandwich.
Addendum: I am allergic to peanut butter. I got ahold of a soy-based alternative called Wowbutter, and people who are not allergic tell me they nailed the taste, but the aftertaste is kinda not good. So, the first thing I did was shove a whole teaspoon-full of it in my mouth. My brain goes “you dumb fuck, you’re gonna die,” but I didn’t, because it wasn’t toxic. So I went and tried everything made with peanut butter (BTW, strawberry > grape for PB&Js), including the Elvis. A lot of it was kinda gross. I guess if you were raised on peanut butter, maybe, I can see it, but I didn’t think the experience was anything special. Not when Nutella exists… which I also can’t have. But then there’s Biscoff spread, which is non-toxic, apparently it’s also vegan (wouldn’t peanut butter be, too?), and it’s ten billion percent better than all that other shit. Though, you would be absolutely right in saying I’ve never had real peanut butter, or your favourite variety of it.
As someone not allergic to peanuts, but who grew up in Europe, I was probably about 20 when I tried peanut butter for the first time. I agree with you, it’s meh. Not terrible, not great.
Nutella, ovomaltine, pistachio or white chocolate spreads are much better. Never tried biscoff, sounds promising.
nutella and biscoff pretty sugary from what ive tasted. peanut butter is better when its the crunchy version.
I’m kinda the opposite of you. I’m American and grew up with peanut butter. I didn’t try Nutella until my 20s, and while it was ok, I didn’t think it was nearly as good as what people made it out to be.
While I don’t have peanut butter often nowadays, it’s still one of my favorite things when added to sweets, like peanut butter cups or peanut butter fudge. Peanut butter + chocolate is a heavenly combo.
The trick to peanut butter on toast is to butter the toast with cow butter first
Can I use milk butter instead?
Biscoff butter is great. Absolutely horrendously unhealthy IIRC, but tastes great.
Also, there are so many chocolate spreads out there that are a hundred times better than Nutella nowadays, don’t sell your palate short!I buy ovomaltine, it has little crunchy bits and a nice aroma.
Wait just a minute! You’re comparing sugary spreads to our peanut butter? Imma remember this next time somebody from Europe gives us shit about sugar in our sandwich bread.
My wife has a severe nut allergy. We have tried wow butter and I have to be frank, it’s maybe somewhat similar to the shitty ultra processed refined sugar peanut butter but just barely, and you’re bang on about the aftertaste. It’s sickly.
We much prefer Sun Butter (the no sugar added variety).
But if I’m being honest that also isn’t quite the right taste substitute for peanut butter either, but it’s the closest I’ve tried.
Sun Butter? Is that made from sunflower seeds? I’ve had fake Reese’s cups that were made from sunflower seed butter rather than peanuts. I thought it was pretty good.
An oyster
The town I grew up in is famous for them, we even learned about them in school but I’d never tried one
Finally decided to just before I moved away for university and eugh, salty mucus-y blob, had to spit it out again, poor lil guy
Only way I eat them is fried. Still not my favorite and kinda weird, but much less slimy.
I adore oysters. You could have spat it out into my mouth and I would have eaten it.
Is this a service you offer for free?
For the price of admission and a belly full of oysters.
Imagine being a waiter in that restaurant
Live ants.
This was 30 years ago. I lived on the second floor of an apartment. I left a half-eaten bag of Little Debbie chocolate donuts on the floor next to my bed. The next night, in a dark room, watching David Letterman, I remembered and reached for the bag. I was three donuts in before I noticed the slightly strange taste, and the ant crawling on my face.
Ants taste a bit sour and bitter.
Very similar story. I noticed my second bowl of cereal was moving.
Well duh. You didn’t cook em first
In places where it’s not taboo, people like the sour. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen them on a nice salad in place of citrus.
Formic acid is named after the scientific name for ants, and is also known as “ant acid” because they make it.
That’s probably the sour part of the taste you described, since acids tend to be. (Think citric or vinegar)
A raw firefly squid marinated in soy sauce. ホタルイカの沖漬け。
I’d try it.
To each their own. The taste wasn’t bad, but I almost threw up because of the texture. I could feel the firmness of the unrefined, unprocessed, raw creature. I could feel how my teeth made their way through the various organic structures - muscles, innards, brains and all the other organs - of a creature so fresh, that it felt like it could’ve swam away if I’d spit it out and cast it into the ocean instead of grinding, crushing and ripping it apart inside my mouth.
I’m not a vegan btw.
Probably dextromethorphan powder, it’s absolutely disgusting, sulbutiamine powder is pretty bad too
this feels like a trap…
Why you feeling up traps?
As long as it was legal and ethical.
Glad you said that second part, because that first part all too often doesn’t overlap very well with it.
When I was around 3 or 4 y/o, a neighbour kid managed to convince me to take a bite of a dried dog shit.
I don’t remember what he’d said that convinced me, I just remember the laughter when I actually did it… I wasn’t the brightest kid, but very curious and gullible.
I got a belly full of white dog crap and now you lay this shit on me?
Oh that reminds me of when I was like 4, one of the neighborhood kids convinced a bunch of the other kids to eat some of those cicada exoskeletons they leave on trees. I did not, but I’m pretty sure some of the other kids did.
pig intestine from a chinese restaurant, a meeting of the ‘adventurous eaters meetup’. consistency of a mouthful of snot.
Honestly that’s not even that bad in terms of weird Chinese food. The sliced pig hooves were what did me in. Also, I hate the “gunk at the bottom of the hotpot after several hours” gravy that my wife goes ape shit for. Also I just have to ignore nainai’s crazy bad food safety practices. Squid bucket is the same bucket we use to wash the floor. I honestly wish I’d just listened to wiser folks and stayed out of the kitchen.
I’ve had some not so good pig intestine and some phenomenal, and the worse ones were similar to how you described it. If you ever decide you’d try it again, I think it’s so much better when crispy. The texture reminds me of bacon with a gelatinous, melt in your mouth center almost like burnt ends.
Natural casings from quality sausages are pig intestines. And chitterlings.
yeah. this was a plate of really fatty, soft, uh, bits.
I dint know if the most disgusting, but the biggest delta between expectation and reality was root beer.
Expected something vanilly or maybe gingery, got mouthwash. I genuinely spit the first sip.
Two things could hardly be more different than root beer and mouth wash. To be fair, there are a lot of different varieties of root beer - some with a heavy licorice flavor, others stronger vanilla or whatever, but they’re all sweet.
As someone else suggested, maybe you got a strong ginger beer? Those can be pretty spicy.
Nope, A&W root beer. Maybe a have some weird gene mutation like some people have one that makes cilantro taste like soap. I bought a can and even got a root beer float. Still mouthwash (not the ice cream part).
Oh, that’s really strange. Kind of reminds me of when a friend said pineapple makes your whole mouth feel like when you lick a 9v battery, and be didn’t get why people like it. Turns out he has some generic thing that’s like an allergy to it.
Make sure root beer is ice cold, like nearly frozen. Room temp (warm) root beer can have a cough syrup flavor to some people.
Also there are a TON of different types of root beer. Some are better than others. I’m a 1919 and Triple XXX fan. Sprecher is also good, but the others are better, just sprechers is easier to get.
Warm root beer is an entirely different drink. Still good IMO, the taste is softer and more drawn out. Cold rootbeer is crisper with a cleaner (by comparison) finish.
If you’re ok with warm root beer then you are the minority. I don’t mind most root beer if it’s warm, I like it better cold, but most of my root beer drinking friends absolutely hate warm.
Definitely in the minority. I like grapefruit juice too.
O damn, yea you’re in the minority for sure lol
Ginger bier is quite spicy, hot if it has enough in it. What you expected sounds like sarsaparilla?
Sioux City sarsaparilla ?
Yeah, that’s a good one.
Not ginger beer, root beer. Ginger beer tastes exactly as advertised :)
Mouthwash? You sure you weren’t drinking a bad sample? A&W brand root beer has a decently strong vanilla taste, although I personally prefer Barq’s which doesn’t.
Mouthwash isn’t minty everywhere. Japanese usually also don’t like root beer because it has an overlap with some medicines’ tastes here
Salted chips without the chip. I was mindlessly eating some chips from the bag and suddenly there was this intense salt flavour quickly overpowered by way too much rotten oil flavour. When I spit it out, it looked like a clump of deep fried salt.
Aftermath
The next day I continued eating the bag of chips and there was an even bigger clump still in the bag, which I again noticed once it was too late…
I once got a burger from a cheap looking fast food place and my first bite was funky and cold.
Looked at the meat and it was basically still raw and partially frozen in the center.
It was a bad time.
