Bitter gourd curry. Was so so so bitter. I'll bet it tastes different to different folks.
Reminds me of a migraine medicine. I have to eat candy for a few hours after taking that.
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The first thing that comes to mind are these frozen turkey burgers. They weren't offensive but they were so flavorless. Nothing I added to them made them palatable. It was the damnedest thing.
Flamin Hot Cheetos Mac and Cheese. Had to open all the windows to get the smell out
Once I was with a group at a breakfast buffet, and I had a piece of bacon that was about 95% fat. Someone said they'd give me $5 to pour a packet of Sweet'n Low on it and eat it.
I regretted taking them up on it.
My true worst isn't technically food, but we cooked down a bunch of San Pedro cactus to try to make mescaline. The juice tasted like ultra concentrated dirty bong water.
The worst part is it didn't work.
It was something like mashed pumpkin. I forget the exact variety.
I was for dinner at some friend's place. He gives me a bit of that pumpkin stuff, saying I have to taste it because it turned out so great. It was left-overs from the previous day. I take a spoon and it tastes absolutely rotten. Well, ok. He is trying his best to be an amateur chef, but I do have doubts about some of his culinary judgments. So, I put on the polite face and just eat it.
After a few spoons, I can't take it anymore. I say: "Sorry, this tastes absolutely rotten." He tastes of it, nods and hurries out the room to throw it away. So yeah. I ate spoiled food. I didn't get sick but I haven't eaten pumpkin since. The taste really stayed with me.
Sea cucumber.
Slugs are not for eating.
Snails are popular even in western culture and what is a snail but a slug with a backpack
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Rancid butter. My mother bought it from a farm and insisted it was fine. It was so, so bad. I was only 4 years old at the time and I seriously thought I didn't like butter for years.
I mean there are foods designed to genuinely taste bad, but - keeping to food that I guess is supposed to taste good - I know one of my worst experiences as a kid was with a particular boiled sweet.
I don't know what flavour it was supposed to be, but it tasted like somebody had shoved fly spray in my mouth. It was vile.