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Folks were talking about yucky foods from all over the world today, so that got me wondering.. what’s the grossest thing that you like to eat?

For me I think it would be scrapple. It’s usually a breakfast meat, goes good with eggs & buttery toast. They basically take everything that’s left over after making hot dogs, then grind it all up and form it into a brick. Then you slice it, cook it and eat it! I like it sliced thin and fried crispy in a pan, but most restaurants and diners around here will cut it in big chunks and deep fry it. I don’t like it that way, cuz I don’t like when it’s squishy inside.

So how about you?

Pineapple & Anchovies Pizza

 Necros wrote:
Folks were talking about yucky foods from all over the world today, so that got me wondering.. what’s the grossest thing that you like to eat?

For me I think it would be scrapple. It’s usually a breakfast meat, goes good with eggs & buttery toast. They basically take everything that’s left over after making hot dogs, then grind it all up and form it into a brick. Then you slice it, cook it and eat it! I like it sliced thin and fried crispy in a pan, but most restaurants and diners around here will cut it in big chunks and deep fry it. I don’t like it that way, cuz I don’t like when it’s squishy inside.

So how about you?

Very few people know about Scrapple unless one lives in the areas

Kim-che!

Cheese Pizza with crunchy peanut butter

Spam/Canned Foods in general. I get weird looks from my family every time I mention that I enjoy Spam.

Generally whatever I pick up from McDonalds now and again.

Going to sound crazy but......had it in Nashville. Peanut butter, banana, and bacon sandwich.

 Jihadin wrote:
Going to sound crazy but......had it in Nashville. Peanut butter, banana, and bacon sandwich.

That's not gross... that's F'N awesome!

 whembly wrote:

 Jihadin wrote:
Going to sound crazy but......had it in Nashville. Peanut butter, banana, and bacon sandwich.

That's not gross... that's F'N awesome!

If it was good for the King then it was damn good for me. We're talking thick and I mean THICK slice bacon

Cheese. Most cheese is pretty awful. Still eat a lot of it though on sambos or on pizzas etc. hmmm.

Anything with blood.

Blood sausage, black pudding, those kind of things, lovely.

Canned vienna sausages.

I'd eat everything listed so far. Here's one.

lutefisk

For those of you not blessed with Scandinavian heritage or who haven't lived in the midwest among the various Swedes and Norskies, it is perfectly good cod that has been preserved in lye. Lye, as in drain cleaner or homemade soap reagent. When you are ready to eat it you soak it in water, draining and refilling the vessel several times. Then you steam or boil the cod until it reaches the consistency of Jello. It is served on lefsa, a potato based flat bread, with melted butter.

It takes a strong will to eat the stuff. It tastes faintly of soap and it's consistency is like warm fatty tissue with a fishy taste.

Most foods from Scandinavia were developed on a bet. "Ay Sven, I've found this rotten shark meat that I buried for a month. I'll bet you a sheep you can't eat it all."

Through the (good?) fortune of having lived in Minnesota, I have tried lutefisk.

It actually wasn't too bad. Honestly I've got a strong tolerance for most foods except for overly sweet things, which make me sick to the stomach.

 Necros wrote:
Folks were talking about yucky foods from all over the world today, so that got me wondering.. what’s the grossest thing that you like to eat?

For me I think it would be scrapple. It’s usually a breakfast meat, goes good with eggs & buttery toast. They basically take everything that’s left over after making hot dogs, then grind it all up and form it into a brick. Then you slice it, cook it and eat it! I like it sliced thin and fried crispy in a pan, but most restaurants and diners around here will cut it in big chunks and deep fry it. I don’t like it that way, cuz I don’t like when it’s squishy inside.

So how about you?

I make it from neck bone meat. I simmer the neck bones for a few hours with onions, carrots and celery. Then I strain the meat and bones out of the broth. I cool it all down and pick the meat from the bones. I make the corn meal with the broth and add the meat and chopped garlic along with other herbs and spices. When the corn meal is fully hydrated I pour the mush into bread loaf pans to cool. The bricks get wrapped up and all but one get frozen. We tear though it pretty fast around here, pan fried till crisp served with easy over eggs and toast.

Yummo! The docs like it when I have it because it's plenty of protein. Makes the blood tests look good.

"English food" probably.

Seriously, since coming to America I keep seeing and hearing how "English food is terrible" and I have no idea why this is a thing. Typical English dishes are meat and veg (i.e. The same as typical American dishes), what is objectionable about that? I even see things like Shephard's Pie or Fish 'n' Chips frequently featured in restaurants and on the Food Network TV channel, but still, "English food is terrible"...

Various cheese.

Blood sausages are awesome.

Uh... Pizza Crust, Indian Bread, and breadsticks. Dunked in milk

I like Akutaq, or eskimo ice cream, it is whipped animal fat and berries mixed together. Also I like to eat cold canned raviolli, spagetios, ect.

What's with this notion that cheese is gross? It offends me.

A lot of Amerifats cant understand that there is more than pepper jack mozzarella nacho cheddar cheese and MURICA Cheese.

Hard to say, since I actually like the stuff I like. I've really developed a taste for some of the less-than-americanized stuff at Chinese restaurants. Like I sometimes get the odd are you sure you want that when I order the dry-cooked pork intestine, or pig's feet. I certainly do get some skeptical looks from friends too when I try to encourage them to try it.

If we're talking gak that's just kind of bad-for-you bachelor chow, probably those strawberry pop tarts when the hard/dry frosting.

 Alex C wrote:
"English food" probably.

Seriously, since coming to America I keep seeing and hearing how "English food is terrible" and I have no idea why this is a thing. Typical English dishes are meat and veg (i.e. The same as typical American dishes), what is objectionable about that? I even see things like Shephard's Pie or Fish 'n' Chips frequently featured in restaurants and on the Food Network TV channel, but still, "English food is terrible"...

When I was going to culinary school, a couple of the chefs talked about how there's still this ongoing view of English food as bland and lazy, and that it's kind of permeated its way into our culture somehow, even though, like you say, it's not too different from typical "American" cuisine.

They blamed the French, but the French take responsibility for a lot of things in cooking, I think.

English food has a bad rep. I think it is the salsbury steak and that ilk, but yeah, any country is going to have bad and good food. I've had terrible food in places Central America, but then incredible food the next day, same at home.

American fast food is mostly disgusting. I don't usually eat bad food, so this is a hard question. Foods I like to eat I don't consider gross, but I've had some nasty things, Scrapple (do not like), "American" cheese (Shame to call it that), but.....

I'll go with one of my favorites that sounds weird and tends to get gross reactions, Oreos dipped in Guiness.

I love cheeses of all kinds, but on a regular burger I do prefer regular yellow american cheese, more for the color and the creamyness. There's a supermarket chain called Wegmans that opened up near me that has a pretty big cheese section with all kinds of things I never heard of, and were the first store around to have queso fresco.. or at least the first place I saw it. My girlfriend is from wisconson and has cheeses from back home flown here just about every week. They accidentally sent her some ghost pepper cheddar once, and I think that one burned more on the way out than the way in.

I always wanted to try and make my own scrapple, but I thought i would do it with regular cuts of pork and just pulverize it in a food processor. I have a long list of things I want to try and make someday, I think root beer and pickles are at the top of the list right now.

Anything done on my smoker, to include but not limited to Boston Butt, ribs of all types, turkey, chicken, brisket, bacon explosion, and more.

 CptJake wrote:
Anything done on my smoker, to include but not limited to Boston Butt, ribs of all types, turkey, chicken, brisket, bacon explosion, and more.

Who would consider any of this gross?

also

 Desubot wrote:

 CptJake wrote:
Anything done on my smoker, to include but not limited to Boston Butt, ribs of all types, turkey, chicken, brisket, bacon explosion, and more.

Who would consider any of this gross?

I misread the thread title.

For grossest, would have to go with fanihi soup. The first time you get a piece of bat that still has hair on it can be interesting.

Bone Marrow. Boil the bones and bite them open and suck out the marrow.

Mhm, not even sure if this counts but..

When I go to my local greek restaurant (which I do a LOT) I always order the octopus tentacle as my starter.

Also, Dutch Herring (raw and pickled) would probably gross out some people.