What is the grossest food you've witnessed someone eat?

[Dirty Hippie]

At a family gathering I watched as my cousin reached into a plate of fried squirrel and took a fried squirrel head. She cracked it open and ate the brains.

As you can guess, I come from a long long line of rednecks.

[Rowdyboy]

1. Chittlins

boiled or fried hog intestine, mmmm....The smell is enough to make me ill.

Also, once a woman brought "possum salad" to a Christmas party. I really tried to taste it, but just couldn't get it past my lips.

[mitchum]

15. I refer to those as tasting like a deep-fried rim job

they are truly repellent

[Somawas]

2. haggis

[daveskilt]

12. nothing wrong with haggis - especially if it has plenty testicles in it

[Keebs]

3. I don't know what my neighbors eat

but it stinks up our hallway and I have to hold my nose to run out of the door. Our apartment is strange and much like the ones on Friends with inclosed hallways. I dunno what it is but I don't -ever- want to eat there. It smells disgusting. - Er, it doesn't help that I'm pregnant and can smell every thing now. I smelled it before I got knocked up but now it's worse.

[LizW]

31. What is it with being pregnant and getting

a super sensitive sense of smell? When I was pregnant, my husband and I were driving down the road and I kept saying "I smell Christmas trees. Don't you?" (It was the middle of summer.) Way down the road, we came to a place where they were logging a pine forest. Husband was amazed. He said, "I can't believe you could smell that way back there!" :D

[bratcatinok]

38. I don't know what it is either

but I have always loved Mexican food. Since I'm from Texas I've been eating it all 52 years of my life. When I was pregnant I couldn't go to the mall because there was a mexican food restaurant there and the smell of corn tortilla's would literally make me gag.

As soon as I was un-pregnant I could go back to eating my weekly fix of Tex-Mex. Mexican food was the only thing that affected me that way while I was pregnant.

[TNDemo]

4. A live octopus.

I saw it on TV. The thing was wrapping its legs around the guy's face as he swallowed it.

[LibDemAlways]

7. I saw that too...eeeeeewwwww

Amazing how eating a live octopus or all manner of insects is considered "entertainment" on tv reality shows. Disgusting.

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. A friend of mine from Alabama LOVES squirrel brain

it's his favorite food.

I've never tried it.

Grossest thing I know of, and I did't see anyone eat it but I saw a big old bag of it for sale at the food mart in Kyoto, was whale sperm. or if not whale, some kind of sea creature. Big old bag of it - must have a couple pounds worth.

And yes, they eat it. But I didn't want to know any more, and told my partner that she could quite happily just put it back in the cooler from whence she picked it.

[Syrinx]

6. I saw a friend crack a squirrel skull open before

But he wasn't a redneck -- he was a "blackneck." :)

The grossest thing I saw someone eat was pork brains. And it was me! A friend and I were drunk and challenged each other to eat them. Actually tasted pretty good (in scrambled eggs), but I wouldn't want to have them again.

[Kellanved]

8. Sheep Brain

I'm not exactly squeamish, but that was too much: my brother ordered (and ate!) it in an Restaurant in Alsace.

In second place come various insects (worms, crickets, ...) available at a nearby place. I've even tried it , but did not find it to my liking.

[flamingyouth]

9. Sweetbreads

Although they didn't look too horrid in the restaurant we were eating at, the mere thought of eating glands just makes me want to :puke:

[Kellanved]

10. oh yes

forgot about that one. :hi:

[Pale Blue Dot]

26. I've had sweetbreads before

They weren't terrible, but I don't see any need to have them again. They were lightly breaded and served with a rasberry vinagrette.

[ForrestGump]

11. I once saw someone eat -- avert your eyes, sensitive stomach types --

Spam.

And, yes, even Velveeta...

The horror....

[Webster Green]

14. Eeeuw!

Was the Velveeta atop the Spam? Eeeeuw!

[madrchsod]

13. any all you can eat buffet

ohhhh- you meant the food....

[mitchum]

16. As a bored teenager working in a pet store, I ate countless live goldfish

Hey, I said I was a bored teenager

[Forkboy]

17. deep fried tarantula

no kidding :puke:

[sundog]

18. Cow Tongue

sometimes they put it out in the grocery store :puke:

[jus_the_facts]

19. Hog Head Cheese...or Souse.....

:puke:

[jdonaldball]

20. Bull's penis (but not attached to the bull)

[Hoping4Change]

21. In Mondo Cane (Dog's World) a 80's film it showed Mexicans

during a festival spreading honey on tortillas then scooping a fistful a live maggots from a barrel and depositing the maggots on the tortilla which they then rolled up an ate. I won't even mention the last shot.

Really does it get any worse?

[Ivan Sputnik]

22. Bull testicles

in Mexico, and pigeon meat in Morocco.

I not only watched others eat them, I tried them myself.

Tastes just like chicken!

[unhappy_guy]

23. some unintelligable seafood item

it was really disgusting looking, and my buddy didn't seem to care that he didn't know what it was. I was completely grossed out.

[VoteDemocratic2004]

24. Brains & Balls

Bulls balls with a cream sauce :puke:

[Pepperbelly]

25. chicken feet ... kinda creepy, particularly with the ...

sucking sound one apparently makes when eating them.

[Lefty48197]

27. Scrambled eggs with ketsup

or one of those breakfast burritoes. Instant barf.

[Deja Q]

28. In Portugal... (warning, graphic)

Raw octopus tentacles
Brain covered in a red sauce
Testicles (I forgot which type of critter they came from)

For now on, it's a healthy vegetarian diet...

[Skittles]

29. a plate of crawfish

dear GOD. :puke:

[MrScorpio]

30. Balut in the Philippines

Chicken embryos

YUCHHH!!!

[philosophie_en_rose]

32. Balut is duck embryo!

It's disgusting! I've seen it eaten many times, usually boiled but sometimes even raw.

It smells terrible and I can't be in the room when people eat it.

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[yvr girl]

37. I've seen this too

It's odd seeing something on a buffet table that they eat on Fear Factor. Some people just like the taste of bones, beaks and feathers - go figure.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

33. One of my Chinese clients invited me to eat live lobster

in a restaurant. They brought it to the table live and chopped it up. Some of its legs were still moving. On my trips to China I've had a lot of what I consider weird stuff, like jelly fish and snake.

But I heard (didn't see) about a practice in parts of China where they cut open the skull of a live monkey and eat the brains. They fit the head through a round hole in the table. Some Chinese people have sworn to me they've seen it, while others tell me it's a fable. I don't know. I have seen other people open up a live turtle's shell and eat the thing alive. That was too much for me.

[Unperson 309]

34. Was It A Box Turtle? eom

[Rhiannon12866]

35. Actually, this was something someone drank

It was on "Keith Famie's Adventures" on The Food Network. He was in Vietnam and these little old ladies in doorways were selling some sort of alcohol-based drink. The thing that was horrific about it was that it came from these jars which were also filled with snakes. The jars were completely filled with dead snakes, of all colors and sizes, wound around, stacked up in the jars. Apparently, the alcohol is poured over them and people, I guess only men, then buy this liquid and drink it. It's supposed to have some special sort of significance.

This has to be the most creepy thing I've ever seen. I can't explain my reaction, but it truly made me physically ill. Actually, I feel pretty queasy just recalling it. Fortunately, Keith was sensible enough not to drink this stuff, but he gave it to some young guy passing by on the street and he drank it.:puke:

[HEyHEY]

36. I paid a guy $5 buck at a party to drink a jar of pickle juice

He did it, bastard didn't tell me his parents were ukrainian!

[politicat]

39. Russian drink called kvas

I KNOW it's supposed to be a bread-based, sweet, mildly fermented drink.

Bull$#!t.

It's a molded sour dough starter. My hosts in Kiev actually lifted off the top of the mold and offered me a piece since I was the guest!!

when I refused, they gladly chowed down, but I could not get past the idea that essentially, this was the same stuff my mother baked into pancakes and bread.

Ick.

Pcat