Mon dieu. Zere iz nothing worse than hardened Friskies, mah friendz, and don't let anyone tell you different. Unless you can tell me different, right here. What nasty things have you put in your mouth? Oh, I already see a joke coming here. Oh, there's another one. I am a very, very dirty-minded feline. Spank me. Hoh-huh.

-- Anonymous, April 21, 2000

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Okay *perhaps* it's not as bad as dated friskies - buuuut the orange grease dripping double daves pizza rolls drowned in ranch dressing that I just ingested are quickly turning themselves into the worst thing I've ever eaten.

ugh.

-- Anonymous, April 21, 2000

16, over at a friends house. Helped myself to a bowl of a Muslix- type cereal. You know the type, different rice and grain crunchies, with odd dried fruit bits, a couple flakes... Started chomping away, talking to my friend in between spoonfuls.

Then I looked down. One of the grain crunchies was moving itself out of the bowl. In fact, A LOT of the crunchies were moving around on their own accord. I was eating a bowl of bugs with milk. Still have nightmares about it.

Hey Pamie: My work's firewall is forbidding me from reading any April 2000 entries. Do you mention panties in every one?

-- Anonymous, April 21, 2000

When I was about ten I thought it'd be fun to drink pickle juice... and then I chased that with a raw hotdog smothered in chunky peanut butter. As I recall, I don't think I puked, but for all intents and purposes I think I should have.

-- Anonymous, April 21, 2000

Shark Fin soup has to be in the top ten - that stuff is NASTY. I had the distinct 'pleasure' of getting to try two different varieties while in Singapore recently. Well, that and anything with tentacles.

When I was much younger my mom, in a moment of baking bravado, found this recipe for broccoli fritters with cheese sauce, and decided, brave soul she, to serve these culinary delights for dinner one evening. The fritters were a faint green color, and the aroma that issued forth should have been a warning. They were, without a doubt, perfectly nauseating. They have become a family legend. My poor mother will never live them down, and this was probably at least 20 years ago.

-- Anonymous, April 21, 2000

Oh! I almost forgot the lemonade thing:

One hot summer when I was 7, I was being babysat at my mom's friend's house. It was really hot, so I went into the fridge looking for something to drink. In a plastic juice canister, was some lemonade. So I grabbed it and took a big gulp...of oven grease.

I don't know WHY they saved oven grease. Or WHY they decided to put it in a container normally used for juice. I learned my lesson though.

-- Anonymous, April 21, 2000

You choose:

* Donkey sausage (I thought it was a euphemism)
* Rattlesnake (tastes like chicken)
* Gator fritters
* Wabbit
* Venison
* Eel
* Zucchini
* Broccoli (love it)
* Squid
* Coconut (makes me sick--violently so)
* Carrots dipped in white sugar
* Gummi worms
* Rice cakes (tastes like styrofoam)
* Dead moths (age 2)
* Japanese "candy"
* Tofu
* Sprouts

My brother drank tadpole-filled ditch water when he was 5. (I'd put it in Coke bottles.) I think that's probably worse than dead moths, but not by much.

-- Anonymous, April 21, 2000

This didn't happen to me, but it's pretty nasty anyway. A couple of my guy friends, David and Mike, were in seventh grade and they had just discovered the endless fun of video cameras. So they were taping pretty much anything... and they walked into the kitchen and found a little pile of *ahem* feline vomit. Mike got an evil glint in his eye and told David to "make sure you get this on tape". Mike proceeded to scoop ice cream into three bowls, and to one of them he added the, um, extra kitty seasoning. He then covered the ice cream with lots of chocolate syrup and called up our friend Cory. While Cory was on his way over, Mike and David hid the camera behind some pillows facing the couch. When Cory got there, Mike and David played it cool like they were just watching tv. Mike casually asked if anyone wanted ice cream, and they all sat down with their bowls. Cory had the bowl with the puke, of course. He took one bite, then another, and another, pausing only once to give a head shake like he was getting brain freeze, until the bowl was empty. I would not have believed this if I hadn't seen it all on tape. uuughhhh... I would rather eat stale friskies the FIRST time around, thank you.

-- Anonymous, April 21, 2000

Having visited Hong Kong several times, I've been exposed to many things that would be nasty by Western standards.

Lemme see..

Pigeon.
Snake.
Toad's legs.
Pickled Jellyfish.
Snapping Turtle. (Made into a soup.. mhmm mhmm.. lol)
Sea cucumber. (gaggaggag)

Mhmm.. lucky I'm not fussy about what I eat!

-- Anonymous, April 22, 2000

Note to self: Don't read anything else from this thread while eating.

Gag.

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-- Anonymous, April 22, 2000

Oh, man. As gross as bugs and vomit are, the whole "raw hotdog with chunky peanut butter" thing just grosses me out beyond belief. Ditto for the raw carrot dipped in white sugar. Blah.

It kind of reminds me of this concoction I put together when I was younger - probably 10 or 11? I had these awesome cookies - the kind with the chinese noodles and peanut butter? - at a friend's house and wanted to try to make them myself. Unfortunately, we were missing most of the ingredients. So I assembled peanut butter, honey, and marshmallows (which doesn't sound too bad, but wait) on a toothpick (?? I don't know either) and then dipped it in granulated sugar. It was the worst thing I have ever put in my mouth. I know it doesn't sound that bad, but just try it sometime. It's disgusting.

-- Anonymous, April 22, 2000

a lot of edible stuff is gross to me, i have been a vegitarian for 12 years, but the grossest i have consumed... remember i am/was a vegitarian... freshman year of high school i went on a mission trip deep into the scary parts of mexico city. we stayed in government housing facilities, orphanages, and yes, leper colonies. on this trip we ate what was served, any qualms like ,"how was this cooked?" were thown out. dinner at the charming catholic orphanage/animal shelter was an experience. i witness dinner come in, a bag full of live chickens, and dinner was served, yellow soup with chicken parts, i don't recall actual meat, only beaks and feet- i blacked it out. i just keep repeating ,"you cannot refuse food from a nun in a third world orphanage while sitting next to a brain damaged child that was found in a river" i survived. and was the only one on the trip that did not experience digestive problems. mind over matter baby.

-- Anonymous, April 22, 2000

I don't ever recall eating anything stranger than the usual bugs and dirt when I was a kid. However, recently (about 3 weeks ago) I *did* try rice (paper?) candy that my mom brought home from San Francisco. She swore by it because she used to work at Pier One and they sold it and she loved it. I tried it, and it was distgusting. It was like...flavorless taffy taking over your mouth. You can chew or swallow the stuff...I had to spit it out and my mom ate the rest of it.

Some things, while not disgusting, I can't hold down. At this coffee shop where my friends and I hang out, they make sandwiches. Now mind you, my father works for a huge deli-meat company, so I'm used to that stuff...anything else, I really can't stand. Anyway, I had roast beef and it was so fatty that I had to spit it out...I could not swallow the damn stuff. It was very gross... I tend to do this with a lot of meats, but I"m not a veggie.

I think in high school (maybe in college and up, not sure yet), everyone is *required* to know at least one person who will be paid to eat anything. For me, this is my sister's boyfriend, Nick. My sister and he (before they started dating) went to Disneyland (I live about an hour and a half away from Orlando) with a friend and my sister's boyfriend at the time (does that make sense?) Anyway, they were eating somewhere and they place had, instead of ketchup packets, the little tubs which you could dispense ketchup into. To begin with, my sister just loves these machines, and get a little tub of ketchup...and she bets Nick a dollar to eat the ketchup. He does, and get his dollar. The rest of the time, he walks around the resturant telling other patrons that the ketchup was tainted. Another time, we were at lunch at school and a friend of mine was eating dry ramen noodles, and wasn't using the little "chicken" seasoning. So, my friend Erin and I get it and try to bet Nick another dollar to eat the seasoning...he didn't, but Erin and I tried it anyway. It wasn't too bad. Very salty, but not bad.

-- Anonymous, April 23, 2000

I ate spiders and worms as a kid. I had three younger sibs to impress. They weren't that bad as I recall.

There's a restaurant in London (Ontario) called Garlics. Most of their offerings are the regular TrendMed fare, but they are famous, in their little Southern Ontario orbit, for their garlic ice cream.

I was in London the other night for a ballet performance, and Garlics turned out to be right next to the theatre. My friend and I went in after the show for coffee and dessert.

The waiter said, "I'd recommend one bowl, two spoons." He was a funny guy. The ice cream wasn't that bad. In fact, it rather grew on one: little bits of sugar-caramelised garlic, in vanilla ice cream. It reminded me a bit of that Thai fruit, durian, which I was fed once by my cousin the former missionary. There was, however, an adornment atop the bowl: a roasted clove dipped in chocolate.

Now, that was vile. Truly a crime against nature. Ick.

-- Anonymous, April 23, 2000

A few years ago while I was visiting family in Monterrey, Mexico we went out to eat. We ordered some appetizers, & one of them was a sizzling plate with oddly-shaped twists of meat on it. I was offered one, so a took it & asked what it was before popping it in my mouth. Now my Spanish isn't very good, so it took me a little while to understand that the thing I was chewing was a cow's saliva gland.

Actually, it didn't taste bad, like beef. But the knowledge of what it was kept me from having any more.

As for the most discusting thing I've tasted, that would have to be the "smoked cheese" from one of those holiday gift packs from Hickory Farms. It wasn't so bad at first, although the smoky flavor was rather strong. But once you swallowed, the aftertaste kept growing, and the smoky flavor became less palatable the stronger it became. We eventually decided that it wasn't smoked cheese but smogged cheese.
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-- Anonymous, April 23, 2000

I actually don't eat stuff that I am not aware to what they are :)... although I have a story..

my friend and I were at her house, the house of "we have only chocolate and sea food"(yes, yes). anyways, we were really bored, so we decided to eat something. I guess her mom cooks the food at home because there was a black sealed box that contained LIVE TADPOLES... so we thought it would be really funny to see if they eat chocolate, so we placed the box on the floor (to prevent any fallage of the box and POOF) and started throwing chocolate inside. so one tadpole suddenly jumped out (how?!!!) and we both screamed and got up running when my friend accidently kicked the box, so SWAM! we had like 20 LIVE TADPOLES on our floor... eww god.

Well that is not something I ate, but still, it something HER MOM eats.

-- Anonymous, April 23, 2000

I ate whipped butter once at a restaraunt... a whole one of those little cups they come in with your waffles.. it was good. Most people I talk to think that's absolutely disgusting, but I like butter.

-- Anonymous, April 23, 2000

Sea Urchin.

By far the most horrible thing on the planet, and it should never be placed inside anyone's mouth. My husband and I are pretty adventurous eaters, we love most sushi, raw oysters, escargot, octoups & squid, ostrich, alligator, shark, etc. We are fearless, or at least we WERE fearless until the day we thought we'd try sea urchin. The taste stayed in our mouths for days, and kept popping back up after rigorous tooth-brushings and mouthwash gargling.

-- Anonymous, April 24, 2000

I was fifteen. My friend Joanna was having a party. We were making margaritas. When we ran out of Margarita mix, we made oreo cookie milkshakes, with Tequila. Just typing that makes me want to vomit. It was so freaking nasty. I still have a hard time with the smell of tequila. And I have yet to eat oreo cookie ice cream.

-- Anonymous, April 24, 2000

Hey, I LIKE Botan rice candy. Should your mom ever want to get rid of a whole bunch of it, I'm your gal. I could eat that stuff all day long, but it sells for ~25 cents a piece here, and you get a tacky sticker to dispose of with the box (giraffe in a bulldozer? elephant in a dump truck? Eh?). The stickers are kitsch-less ergo bad, but the candy is good.

-- Anonymous, April 24, 2000

OK, I didn't do this, but I was a witness.

Military survival training. About 100 19- and 20-year-olds, mostly guys. We have to slaughter a calf so we can make beef jerky to take with us on our "escape and evasion" exercise. The instructors put out a challenge for someone to eat the calf's eyeballs.

Two guys go to the front of the class and put the eyeballs in their mouths. Calves' eyeballs are BIG, people. Very, very big. One guy almost lost it (and, by "it," I mean not only the eyeball, but everything he'd eaten for several days).

Just watching put most of us off our feed for a while.

-- Anonymous, April 24, 2000

Ok, seeing the story about the Oreo cookie/tequila mixture reminded me of this (darn you!):

On night during the summer after my junior year of college a bunch of us decided to share a bottle of Devils Springs vodka (180 proof). Well, 3/4s of the way through the bottle we ran out of mixers. So I had the bright idea to mix it with some milk and strawberry Quick. Accck! The milk actually curdled.

-- Anonymous, April 24, 2000

This isn't an eating story, actually, but I guess it qualifies as an ingesting one.

I tended bar for a number of years, and one night saw several people make a terrible bet with a rather drunk guy. They bet him twenty bucks that he couldn't snort, as in snort like you would cocaine, five packets of Sweet N Low (who I bet would be thrilled for this product placement...).

Well, he spilled them out, cut 'em into lines and snorted them up like a vacuum-powered anteater.

The scary thing? This guy, who snorted sugar substitute to make twenty lousy dollars, was a cop. Lovely, hmm?

-- Anonymous, April 25, 2000

So. I was in third grade and hanging out over at my best friend Erica's house, playing barbie in the basement. We each had a glass of juice, mine was in a red cup. At one point, I picked up a red cup (see where this is going?), took a great big swig of... chunky, sour, MILK!! It was absolutely the most disgusting thing I have ever tasted. Even cat food is better (yup, tried that too), and the thought of it turns my stomach to this day.

-- Anonymous, April 25, 2000

"you cannot refuse food from a nun in a third world orphanage while sitting next to a brain damaged child that was found in a river"

I could say that all day and it would still be funny.

-- Anonymous, April 25, 2000

Picture this: Your 15, at a skating rink with some of your friends..hanging out and trying to be cool. You cruise over to the concession stand to get some candy and a coke. You buy a bag of Goobers *chocolate covered peanuts* and open them and quickly woof them down because your hungry. The last little bit is left in the bag so you pour it out into your hand and what do you find? 4 chocolate covered peanuts and many, many white squirmy things....You got it! Magets!

-- Anonymous, April 26, 2000

When I was 24 a friend of ours committed suicide. There is nothing funny about that. However, all of the friends got together one night to discuss her life and how happy we all thought she was (including her fiancee), which is what I guess made it all that more dramatic. Anyway, we always had parties with Jungle Juice-200 proof grain alchohol mixed with punch. We held the gathering at a freinds cabin (no lights, electricity) in the woods in the middle of winter, so by the time we all got there it was dark. We pulled out the punch bowl, poured in the ice, poored in the grain, and poured in the punch, mixed, and taste tested. It was fine. While we were hanging out someone showed up with a lantern - ahh lights! We turned the lantern on and someone says, hey, who added the berries to the punch? Turns out it wasn't berries, it was rat tird floating on top. Gross, huh?

-- Anonymous, April 26, 2000