Sea urchin sushi.
Thoroughly unrecommended.
It was like someone boiled the souls of a thousand fish down into a paste and then let it ferment underground for a year. I was not prepared.
For the record it was part of a set multi course meal in a fancy Japanese restaurant - I didn’t seek it out in particular.
Strange. I’ve only been able to have it once. I found it to be buttery, with a mild taste, about as fishy as salmon. I really enjoyed it.
Maybe there was a translation issue, but there were a dozen or more of us at the dinner and almost all of us found it unpalatable. A couple asked ‘what the last dish we had was’ when the next dish came out and were told it was sea urchin.
Did some searching, apparently it can be variable in taste due to sea urchin diet, freshness, and preparation. There are commercially prepared pastes that aren’t very palatable.
The urchin I had was really expensive and was a special that was rarely available. This sushi place had very good stuff, you could also order freshly grated wasabi from imported Japanese roots (I totally recommend).
Probably similar to canned crab vs fresh crab. Stuff in the can is terrible and I don’t know how people eat it.
It’s almost always due to freshness and diet. Freshly caught and cracked sea urchin is pretty mild and like any other seafood, starts to get stankier by the second.
Boiled beef tongue, no seasoning. Taste/texture as you’d imagine.
Oh lord. Tongue can be so damn good if prepared well.
I have many UK relatives, and I know the horror of which you speak.
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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I find snails to have a vastly different texture.
I can’t with escargot, but eel in sushi is nice.
Smoked kippers, at 7 years of age.
Mini-spew.
Caine’s.
With both Raising Caine’s and Chik-fil-a being super popular, I have to assume that mediocre chicken is more well liked than actually good chicken.
Two things. Once I had fish in the student cafeteria that gave me food poisoning. Since then, I can’t stand fish and seafood anymore.
The other was a lasagne I had at a Tesco cafe. I took one bite, and returned it to the counter, stating that this is the worst lasagne that ever happened to me.
Apparently none y’all have tried vegemite.
Come at me Australia!
Vegemite tastes like what I imagine the under-side of a cow to taste. It tastes like the smell of road surface. It should have a warning label: Not to be taken orally. It’s clearly a prank that Australia plays with everyone.
Also, I was born in England, but have lived in Australia for 25 years.
Vegemite is just brewers yeast post-brew, with added salt. It’s was invented to use up the leftover brewers yeast after brewing beer (well really, Marmite was, and Vegemite was invented as an Australian version of Marmite).
Brits like the taste of beer, Brits made Marmite. Aussies like the taste of beer… Vegemite.
Its ok if yanks don’t like the taste of beer, we get it, we’ve tried your beers.
Don’t forget Marmite. I can eat that straight out of the bottle. Yum.
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Funny thing is, I hate 98% of all vegetables. They literally make me ill. But I can eat marmite all day long. Go figure.
I tried it as a kid when my school had some kind of international day and lunch was a catered buffet of tons of different food from around the world.
It was basicslly pure salt on my tastebuds.
I’ve eaten chicken feet, haggis, blood pudding, sisig, century egg, durian, dinuguan, tripe and tongue tacos, frog legs, snails, alligator, whole softshell crab, and probably a few more delights that I ought to remember. The only one I absolutely cannot stomach is the century egg.
How was the century egg prepared? I knew some guys in high school that decided to buy random stuff at the asian grocery store and they ate the century egg as if it was a regular boiled egg then threw up. I’ve had it in small pieces with congee and that was pretty good though.
I’d used it in a recipe to try and make congee, inspired by a pop-up in Seattle called Secret Congee. Theirs is good as hell, but my first try deterred me entirely from that questline.
Sisig mentioned rahhh 🇵🇭🔥💯
We’re a “barrel man on the mantle” type of family, you know?
I dunno what that means but I’m guessing it’s not good. You also did mention Dinuguan which I like also.
Matter of taste I guess - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrel_man_(novelty)
I like dinuguan and sisig, but I’ve definitely had plates of sisig I’ve regretted.
Oh, that 😂 I’m so ashamed I didn’t get it straight away even though I’m Filipino 😅
What type of sisig did you have? It’s traditionally made with pig’s head but if you don’t want that, you can’t go wrong with pork belly or chicken cut into small chunks 👍🏽
It was pig’s ear and other head stuff, but the real problem was that it was about half as fresh as it should have been. I only mentioned sisig in this post as a way of listing all the gnarly stuff I’ve liked over the years to compare it to the one thing I just can’t handle (except as an ingredient in one dish ever apparently). Little quiet karaoke place with no customers that used to be in Seattle, back when I lived stateside. Not surprised to find out that it’s gone, they needed a different crowd.
I had a hunch it’s the way it’s cooked, should always be fresh.
The crab poboy sandwich with the legs hanging out of it was as a staple of my childhood, whenever we went to New Orleans I wanted one.
Alligator we can get here but it’s unremarkable in flavor.
Poisonous cheese soup. It was so salty.
Is this something homemade or commercially available?
Homemade :/ I think my parent was having a bad day and didn’t do it right, and didn’t notice. I was pretty little. But it was a very strong memory.
The food that happened the most frequently so I remember it was egg whites tasted horrible when I had braces.
Otherwise I’ve eaten a number of bad things because we traveled a lot as kids and you ate what was put in front of you. If it was truly gagging we could stop though. Sometimes we’d get a chewy bar like thing later if it was clear we simply weren’t going to eat whatever horrible it was.
What do egg whites taste like with braces? Did this happen with other foods?
They tasted very metallic with braces. If it happened with other foods I didn’t find out during the years I had braces, sorry!
Couple months ago I got a tonsillectomy. I got nerve damage in my tongue as a side effect of a tool they used and everything tastes different since. Tomato based pasta sauces have been the absolute worst, it tastes very metallic. The only normal type of food I can stand is Asian food that isn’t breaded/fried.
LOL, 80% of our home cooked meals either have tomatoes and/or fried Asian food. :)
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.
bitter melon
I have never wanted to go back in time and prevent myself from doing something more than in the moment of tasting that wretched vegetableit took every shred of my willpower to get it down and not spit it out dramatically (was in polite company)
AhEhEhm, AcKsHuAlLy…issa fruit
I’m a fruit, and I say that dastardly curse of a produce doesn’t deserve to share a label with me lol
Just be happy you’re not a vegetable
this is a good point haha
It is delicious if you make it right - sweet curry or dry spicy fries.
you can have all of my share, all yours 😫
I literally had it today.
I used to hate it like most people, then I understood that most people don’t cook it the right way.
Sorry folks, not a big fan of Dinuguan. Everyone I know loves it. Not a fan of Sisig (sorry @Dis32) and bitter melon.
I do love Kuhol with and without the gátâ (coconut milk). My grandmother used to make it and that’s how I fell in love with those ugly snails. Yum. Frogs legs are delicious!
D@mn! Now, I’m hungry and I miss my grandma.
PB&J sandwiches. I hate them. They literally make me gag. Can’t stand the taste, the texture, the smell… even the sight of them or hearing them being made bugs me. An assault on all five of my senses.
I know objectively that it doesn’t matter, but I’m finding it really hard not to judge you as a person.
But if I don’t like it, that it means more for everyone else.
I’m pretty open-minded about trying new foods, and there’s not a lot of foods I really hate - honestly, besides pb&j, I can’t think of a food I’d turn down.
It is weird to me that my dislike of it bothers people. I think everyone has one commonly beloved food that they don’t like. Hell, my wife hates bacon. BACON! I still love her tho. She keeps the pb&j away from me, I keep the bacon away from her.
It’s funny because peanut butter, jelly, and bacon go so well together. Throw a little banana in there and fry it up, and you’ve got a Fat Elvis.
I think PB&J is just in a different category. I could eat them literally every day and never get tired of them, and I’ve heard the same from most other adults and children I’ve talked to about it.
My brother never liked peanut butter growing up, so he’d eat cream cheese and jelly sandwiches. I don’t feel the need to say that in a way that expresses disdain, because I imagine it’s impossible to read that sentence without the disdain being implied.
Anyway, doesn’t really matter. You do you.
Most people who think they hate peanut butter hate soybean oil.
I’m not a big fan of plain peanuts either (again- the smell), and I don’t mind Nutella. Also I love tofu, and other soy-based foods.
