What's the worst food in the world?
Either something you've tried, or something you've heard of but would quite frankly rather starve to death than ever eat.
I'll start with three...
Casu marzu cheese, which contains live maggots [en.wikipedia.org]
Canned whole chicken [oddee.com]
Canned pork brains in milk gravy (check out the cholesterol level on what must be the least kosher food ever invented) [static.neatorama.com]
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Balut. It's especially appalling as a vegetarian. I consider myself adventurous when it comes to food, but I draw a hard line at eating boiled duck embryos.
Gravija
Level 5
Mar 3, 2018
5
I concur. I was offered balut in Manila. No thanks, but pass me some more pancit.
Jnei:
At times like that I'm glad to be vegetarian - I can claim it's "for religious reasons" as a polite way to say "absolutely no way I'm eating that!"
I got you all beat! Surströming. Quite literally it is putrified raw herring in a can.
Jennigirl81
Level 2
Mar 4, 2018
4
Omg...gross
Chitterlings with hog maws
DGJ0114
Level 7
Mar 3, 2018
5
Had to Google both of those!
@LittleAnimal255 You're obviously not from The South. Other areas have that too, but you can't have lived in the south and not have heard of this. I've never seen it spelled before though. I always figured it was spelled like it's pronounced - chit'lins.
Haggis. It's all my nope, cooked in more nope with a side of nope. (Sheep internal organs cooked in its own stomach, for those blissfully unaware of this..thing)
2nd one: Vegemite. Ew.
Ersomething
Level 6
Mar 3, 2018
5
I'll assume you marinated your nope in pure nope beforehand.
Haggis is delicious delicious
Any organ that filter urine or has urine come out from it. Ditto for any involving feces
MrHugz4Kizzes
Level 3
Mar 3, 2018
4
I shall never open, nor taste, a can of Surstromming..ever..not even if hell does freeze over...or if the mountains crumble to the sea..
Charlene
Level 9
Mar 3, 2018
4
What is that?
@Ravenwolfcasey It's a Swedish delicacie..of aged herring..it comes canned..It is extremely maloderous...I can't tell you what it tastes like..but it definately Stinks of dead fish..
@Charlene gross
@Ravenwolfcasey eeeeeyes!
Head Cheese.
AustinSkepticus
Level 7
Mar 3, 2018
4
Jnei:
Even the thought turns my stomach! I think I'd rather eat spider abdomens and some of the other stuff mentioned in these comments!
Brussels sprouts. To me they taste the way dead things smell. Blech.
memorylikeasieve
Level 7
Mar 3, 2018
4
Jnei:
To me, they taste how farts smell. Never understood why people want to eat the things.
Brussels sprouts are little balls of evil.
Love them.
Jnei:
@FrayedBear Yes, but you live in the country that came up with the pie floater 
They turned out to not be bad at all raw. Never cook the little stinkers though - yuck!
@FrayedBear I love them..roasted is best!
@Charlene Someone told me to have them with chestnuts ... keeping buying the chestnuts but forget to do them. When you roast do you give the a wipe of oil or fat first and if so any particular favoured? The goose, pork or beef fats particularly spring to mind.
@Jnei lol.which country? Are you refering to meat pie in mushy peas? ... and lol, be careful or I may start mentioning wasabi peas and other eastern delicacies.
haha...I love canned chicken....we called it 'the punk challenge'...Watching people eat large fried spider abdomens still makes me queasy and I have had survival training. Let's just say I would have appreciated some cheese with my maggots.
JohnnyThorazine
Level 7
Mar 3, 2018
4
ROFL! spider abdomens ... 
@MST3K oh, now you dunnit! Let me see if there is a youtube video...I saw the video in survival training, showing us the wide selection of yummies in the wild...this isn't the video we saw, but it works:
Jnei:
Survival training is much easier here in the UK - you just walk a couple of miles in any direction and you'll find either a 24-hr petrol station or a Tesco Express. No consumption of spiders required!
Canned chicken, canned vegetables, fried fast food, food with preservatives,salt.
sassygirl3869
Level 9
Mar 3, 2018
3
Stove top stuffing. Growing up it was cheap and my family was poor and we ate that a lot. I hated it my brothers and sister hated it. I refuse to ever eat that again.
noworry28
Level 8
Mar 3, 2018
3
What is it?
@FrayedBear Wet bread crumbs with seasoning.
@noworry28 Thanks. The equivalent of English bread and dripping without the calories but more flavour.
I can't even read these responses. Just. No.
DelilahJones33
Level 6
Mar 3, 2018
3
Marzipan, or any of its derivatives.
The worst thing I have ever tasted, however, was a pot noodle imitation, bought by my friend for about 20p. It tasted of wrong, rubber and death.
Davethecrow
Level 5
Mar 3, 2018
3
Litmus test "would the rat eat it?"
I like casu marzu , but for me , the worst thing I, ve ever tried is that putrid ,,rancid , fermented shark as a delicacy in Iceland. I can't even pronounce it.
MarcIveson
Level 6
Mar 3, 2018
3
Sounds horrid. Shark is best poached.
It took a brave or very hungry person to eat the first oyster.
FrayedBear
Level 9
Mar 3, 2018
3
Jnei:
You do have to wonder who first looked at one and thought "that looks like something I want to eat", don't you?
Jnei:
You also have to wonder how many people died from eating kidney beans before someone worked out you have to soak them for several hours and then boil them - and why, after the first people to eat them died, they bothered.
@Jnei I had no idea what I was doing with my first batch of pinto beans, and I was told later that I could have died. They were so disgusting not soaked that I guess I couldn't eat enough to do any damage. They probably just figured out pretty quickly that to make them more palatable, soak them a long time first. People died so often of so much that far back that people probably didn't figure out that unsoaked beans killed people until they noticed that people didn't die after eating soaked beans.
Or someone with a heavy cold .
@MarcIveson yuck. Mind you we had a Prime Minister caught on camera eating his earwax.
The severed pickled "feet" of swine in glass jars.
LilAtheistLady
Level 7
Mar 3, 2018
3
Tripe
Pigs feet
Fermented Shark
( never ate any of these but have handled tripe for a dog treat product...the most vomit inducing stench I assure you)
Ravenwolfcasey
Level 7
June 2, 2018
2
The worst food in the world is LIVER ugk.
I would not give that shit to my dog.
thepassionate1
Level 4
Apr 19, 2018
2
Your dog would love you..and Liver is one of the healthiest things you can consume...Native Americans always ate pieces of raw liver from Buffalo...I believe it's high in Vitamin K
Try #TurkeyLiver
Balut. Look it up (if you dare) - I'd rather look up two girls; one cup than think about eating balut.
DannyLandrum
Level 5
Mar 7, 2018
2
Microwaved frozen okra. I could not swallow it - the texture was like baby slobber with chunks, and tasted like I imagine that would taste, too.
ElizabethI
Level 6
Mar 4, 2018
2
Oh, and either Beef-Not or Chicken Not vegetarian meat substitute. Feels and tastes like sponge, no matter what you soak it in or for how long. How dare they call that "food." Basically unswallowable.
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