Worst Food

[bazh]

Everything is food. If it's on this Earth and won't kill you if you eat it, it's food to someone.

Trust me when you're lost out in a desert or jungle with no food for 3 weeks, the survivor standing next to you will suddenly look quite appetizing.

When it's cooked, stripped off the bone you can't tell the difference between pig meat or human (fact)  .

So there should be no thread like this exist because when you're about to die, no foods are bad, arcording to your logic

[berserkfan]

The sight of this even makes me sick.  I don't think anybody thinks of it as "food" though, so I don't know if it even qualifies for this thread.

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I love McDonalds! They even have free wi-fi, so I can go on the Net with a different IP address when needed.

Free wi-fi is about the only reason (other than free use of toilet) to love McDonalds.

As for the stuff they serve you, look on the bright side. It's not fit for human consumption but it is genuine organic material. Sure beats eating melamine fried in recycled motor oil, which you get in some Chinese establishments.

BTW if you're in Asia, Kentucky Fried Chicken is the place to go if you need to go.

ps why do I have this nasty little feeling about your comment that you sometimes need to use a different IP address? You don't do shill bids on ebay, do you?

[dante]

Hard Boiled Eggs: I'll eat eggs many different ways except this method.  Can't stand the smell or texture.  And yes, before you chime in with "deviled" I can't stand them that way either.

[Elrick]

So there should be no thread like this exist because when you're about to die, no foods are bad, arcording to your logic

Exactly.  Your survival instinct is such that you forget about morals and religious dogma when it comes to simply staying alive above all else.

It's nice in the western world to judge others for anything that is committed yet non have gone through those same circumstances.  There are places on earth that is extremely tough to survive off the landscape, simply because we never grew up in that environment. 

The indigenous populations have no fear of living off the land yet they too come across bad seasons where nothing is available to eat.  It's rare but it happens, yet there is no moral outrage in their societies for surviving by any means possible.

[tp4tissue]

So there should be no thread like this exist because when you're about to die, no foods are bad, arcording to your logic

Exactly.  Your survival instinct is such that you forget about morals and religious dogma when it comes to simply staying alive above all else.

It's nice in the western world to judge others for anything that is committed yet non have gone through those same circumstances.  There are places on earth that is extremely tough to survive off the landscape, simply because we never grew up in that environment. 

The indigenous populations have no fear of living off the land yet they too come across bad seasons where nothing is available to eat.  It's rare but it happens, yet there is no moral outrage in their societies for surviving by any means possible.

Nothing that has ever happened could've happened any other way..

This remark isn't to denounce free will or your choice for your future..  Merely to alleviate you from ever wasting time looking for scapegoats for which is all nicely summed up by -a force of nature-

Move on..


How interpersonal negotiations occur is separate from the eat or be eaten fact at our CORE..  Nothing will change that..   

The misplaced angst in judgement you speak of is the result of the imperfect communication capacity of individual humans..

That is not the result of a choice.. it is a feature..

[microsoft windows]

Hard Boiled Eggs: I'll eat eggs many different ways except this method.  Can't stand the smell or texture.  And yes, before you chime in with "deviled" I can't stand them that way either.

You're weird. I love deviled eggs!

[Findecanor]

Birds wrapped in seal skin left to ferment under rocks for 3 months or more, and then eaten raw. Yum.

I believe I saw a documentary on that too. The birds are puffin. Some indigenous people in the Arctic do that. Catch the birds in the summer, save them until winter, if I recall correctly.

Hard Boiled Eggs: I'll eat eggs many different ways except this method.  Can't stand the smell or texture.

Smell? ... Hard boiled eggs can be overcooked. I don't like boiled eggs either, except when chopped/mashed with chopped parsley and black pepper on a piece of toast.

[iri]

since there is no "surströmming" on this page: surströmming.

plus hákarl.

russia also contributes with karelia's lovely kevätkala.

[noisyturtle]

since there is no "surströmming" on this page: surströmming.

plus hákarl.

russia also contributes with karelia's lovely kevätkala.

Naader The Machine vs a full can of surströmming. For my bros over at WE  :

[Findecanor]

When I was in 7th grade, another student thought it was funny to bring a ripe can of Surströmming to school. It stunk up the whole school building ...

I am a vegetarian, so I have never tried it, but I have heard it tastes much better than it smells. If you ever get hold of a can, remember to open it under water and rinse the herrings before you eat them.
Herring in Sweden is served with potatoes (almond potatoes with surströmming), sourcream, dill, chopped chives (or red onion), butter, flatbread and of course lots of vodka. Don't drink milk -  surströmming will react badly with milk and upset your stomach.

[paicrai]

surstrømming is essentially chemical ****ing warfare

[Frenir]

Call me weird but I would really like to try Surströmming.

 It would have to be in the traditional way with the bread and the creme fraice (I don't think that's what it is), not like how the Americans in various youtube videos do it - just eating them straight out the can.

[berserkfan]

When I was in 7th grade, another student thought it was funny to bring a ripe can of Surströmming to school. It stunk up the whole school building ...

I am a vegetarian, so I have never tried it, but I have heard it tastes much better than it smells. If you ever get hold of a can, remember to open it under water and rinse the herrings before you eat them.
Herring in Sweden is served with potatoes (almond potatoes with surströmming), sourcream, dill, chopped chives (or red onion), butter, flatbread and of course lots of vodka. Don't drink milk -  surströmming will react badly with milk and upset your stomach.

I wonder what's worse, stinky tofu or surstroemming.
I really detest stinky tofu.
That said, I eat durians, and durians are banned in many Singapore public buildings. Smell takes weeks to disperse, and for some reason, the molecules will decompose or something, ie the smell gets worse before it vanishes.

Swedish being a Germanic language, your o with two dots should be the same as the German umlaut making it oe, right?

[bazh]

heard about that surstromming once on Discovery, they said its smell is so strong that it should be opened far from the house...


Although the way they make it looked a lot like what with the fish sauce (and others like shrimp, crab,... types) in Vietnam, that level of smell is so far the craziest )

[microsoft windows]

Any arachnid eaters around here?

[tp4tissue]

Any arachnid eaters around here?

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Spiders taste like crabs..

and Roaches taste like Lobster..

Scorpions...  I'm not sure... but i'd imagine, probably like crab..

[FrostyToast]

Any arachnid eaters around here?

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I see Sifo took a break from eating dogs.

[hwood34]

heard about that surstromming once on Discovery, they said its smell is so strong that it should be opened far from the house...


Although the way they make it looked a lot like what with the fish sauce (and others like shrimp, crab,... types) in Vietnam, that level of smell is so far the craziest )

I shelled out around $20 just to get a can of surstromming from sweden (nowhere to get it here ). It was one of the worst things I had ever smelled in my entire life, but suprisingly, the taste, while god awful, was not as gut-wrenchingly putrid as people would have you believe

[tp4tissue]

heard about that surstromming once on Discovery, they said its smell is so strong that it should be opened far from the house...


Although the way they make it looked a lot like what with the fish sauce (and others like shrimp, crab,... types) in Vietnam, that level of smell is so far the craziest )

I shelled out around $20 just to get a can of surstromming from sweden (nowhere to get it here ). It was one of the worst things I had ever smelled in my entire life, but suprisingly, the taste, while god awful, was not as gut-wrenchingly putrid as people would have you believe

lots of things smell bad.. but taste ok..

the reason for that is...  Technically your tongue only does 5 things.  but there is a smell sensor on the back of your soft palate,   and in combination with "odor"  completes your sensation of food..


But you really only have 5 tastes on the tongue..


so if you mentally nullify  "smell"...  then ANY food will fall into  the 5 taste, and so.. can't possibly be "bad"..

[hashbaz]

Never eaten it, but my wife describes a Filippino delicacy known as 'balot' or 'balut' (pr. BAH-loot).

Balot

A balut or balot is a developing duck embryo that is boiled alive and eaten in the shell. It is commonly sold as streetfood in the Philippines. They are common food in countries in Southeast Asia, such as Laos (khai look ໄຂ່ລູກ in Lao, Cambodia (pong tia koon ពងទាកូន in Cambodian)[1] and Vietnam (trứng vịt lộn or hột vịt lộn in Vietnamese). They are often served with beer.

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The Filipino and Malay word balut (balot) means "wrapped" – depending on pronunciation.

... no thank you. Unappetizing on a lot of levels.

I win.

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I've had balot, can confirm it is horrendous.  My little duckling had embryonic feathers and felt like eating a bag of salty dirt in chicken broth.  I forget whether I got the yolk down or not.

[tp4tissue]

Never eaten it, but my wife describes a Filippino delicacy known as 'balot' or 'balut' (pr. BAH-loot).

Balot

A balut or balot is a developing duck embryo that is boiled alive and eaten in the shell. It is commonly sold as streetfood in the Philippines. They are common food in countries in Southeast Asia, such as Laos (khai look ໄຂ່ລູກ in Lao, Cambodia (pong tia koon ពងទាកូន in Cambodian)[1] and Vietnam (trứng vịt lộn or hột vịt lộn in Vietnamese). They are often served with beer.

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The Filipino and Malay word balut (balot) means "wrapped" – depending on pronunciation.

... no thank you. Unappetizing on a lot of levels.

I win.

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I've had balot, can confirm it is horrendous.  My little duckling had embryonic feathers and felt like eating a bag of salty dirt in chicken broth.  I forget whether I got the yolk down or not.

do they salt it in brine first,  or did you add the salt afterwards.

[heedpantsnow]

My buddy says to pour a bunch of salt in the shell before you eat it. He's a white guy married to a girl from the Philippines. Watches foreign dudes try it all the time. Told him he should start a photostream of it lol.

[SpAmRaY]

The sight of this even makes me sick.  I don't think anybody thinks of it as "food" though, so I don't know if it even qualifies for this thread.

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I had that for dinner tonight along with the new double jalapeno burger it was excellent.