Terrible or just bad food that you accidentally eat

[Aerides]

Oh I do still love Marmite too. I don't think it would be possible for an adult to try it for the first time and feel anything but horror.

One time I was in a semi-fancy restaurant in Paris, and knew just a teeny bit of french, at least enough to think I could order for myself with no help....
Waiter: "Madam, you have ordered the veal kidneys..."
Me: ...."Yes I have"

 

[neihn]

Camping with kids when they were little - My youngest son wanted to go pee so bad but would not want to walk all the way to the restroom. Instead he just grabbed the empty Coke can on the picnic table.

You may guess the rest of the story

 

[candrew]

I'm recalling a lunch meeting incident at a restaurant from back in my wage slavery days. Boss shows up late (as usual) having phoned ahead and encouraging the rest of us to order - which we did. Several ordered the prime rib and our server brought out unadulterated horseradish as an accompaniment along with bread and butter.

Boss shows up, grabs a seat, a piece of french bread, slathers it with a generous amount what he *thought* was butter and shoved it into his mouth. Wrong choice.

The restaurant dining room was entertained by a human glow stick.

 

[Rummy]

On a flight from New Delhi to the Taj Mahal, the flight attendant (stewardess at that time) offered me a "spot of tea." It was fine, until I found a maggot in the bottom of the cup.

53 years later I can still see it... Ugh

 

[GravitySucks]

I ordered a Seltzer, Cranberry, and Lime in a Casino bar once while traveling. Bartender thought I ordered Saltwater with premium cranberry and made it though warned me it wasn't premium cranberry. I learned to enunciate better in loud environments.
DW once cruelly gave her sister one of my pups Frosty Paws. She ate the whole small treat but said it tastes odd.

PS
Is Seltzer Cranberry, and Lime a go to bar drink for tea tottalers and Designated Drivers other places or is it a local thing? Around here most places give them to me free assuming I'm the DD that evening.

 

[Rustic23]

Well jalapenos are cheaper than Cat food

This is about $3.60 at Sams

 

[W2R]

Well jalapenos are cheaper than Cat food

This is about $3.60 at Sams

They should pay YOU to take it out of their store!

 

[bushpilot]

Many Moons ago I was on a Cameroon Air flight from Douala, Cameroon to Kinshasa, Congo. A stewardess gave me a meal on the airplane. I was sitting next to two other woman and inquired as to what I was eating. They asked me in their broken dialect “Where are you from?” I said the USA. Their response was “your eating a local delicacy.” It was at that point that I knew that whatever it was - would be the first and last time I would ever eat it. I believe that it was Bush Meat or Giant Rat.

I think the best meat I ever ate was bush rat in a village in the DR Congo!

 

[NW-Bound]

Spice and seasoning can make a lot of difference.

 

[Scuba]

W2R, you and I are direct opposites as I LOVE sliced jalapenos and put them on sandwiches and salads.

I also love jalapeños, especially on burgers, pizza, and with any/all Mexican food.

 

[Scuba]

I accidentally put some type of small flying bug in my mouth last weekend. We had eaten cupcakes earlier with chocolate sprinkles. The lights were dim and I saw something that looked like a chocolate sprinkle. Picked it up and put in my mouth, but luckily did not bite down. Quickly realized what it was and spit it out. Yuck!

 

[Jerry1]

I don't eat sea food. Tried some of it and just can't eat it. Went to a after work meeting and grabbed some of the onion rings that were already ordered and on the table. They were nasty - because they were calamari. Gross. Of course the team enjoyed it, knowing I did not eat sea food. More to the point, not one of them said anything until I was already eating. That's how you know you're in the company of true friends.

 

[limeyx]

The thread title is self-explanatory. I will go first.

I often snack on Jack Links and SlimJim sticks. Sometimes I would try some lesser known brands. And we usually keep them on the shelves in the utility room which is dark.

One day, I went in to grab a small stick, and it tasted funny. I took out the wrapping from the trash can and looked at the brand. It was intended for cats! My wife bought them with the intention of giving them to my children's cats, which my daughter calls our "grandcats".

I did not die from this apparently. Did not taste horrible, but definitely not like any stick I have eaten. Will be more careful next time.

PS. I have also eaten some exotic jerky sticks made from unusual meat like salmon, trout, etc... Yes, they are meant for human consumption, but the taste is definitely different and I will not buy again.

Just had some nice Fajitas with sour cream.
Polished off a few and the wife says "Hey honey, did you see the green stuff growing on the sour cream"
Evidently not, or I would not have consumed three of them

 

[footenote]

Meticulously made chocolate-covered green olives in chocolate-covered cherry molds for April Fools one year.

Co-worker snarfed one, stopped chewing after one chomp and said "Wha i in mah maouf..."

 

[CyclingInvestor]

bacon

 

[gretah]

Poutine ! Ugh!

 

[GravitySucks]

Poutine ! Ugh!

YUM!

 

[braumeister]

Poutine ! Ugh!

This is one of those foods that gets a bad rap IMHO.

I've had really excellent poutine, and really enjoyed it.

Unfortunately, that represents about 5% of my poutine experience. Most places I've had it are clueless and just hand you a plate of whatever slop they have.

Like most foods, it's all in the preparation.

 

[NW-Bound]

Just had some nice Fajitas with sour cream.
Polished off a few and the wife says "Hey honey, did you see the green stuff growing on the sour cream"
Evidently not, or I would not have consumed three of them

Apparently, you did not taste anything different.

And what you don't know cannot hurt you.

 

[gamboolman]

Bush meat from West Africa, Bats, Rats, and Mystery Meat...

Trust me when I tell that what you don't know can and will hurt you....

Snails the size of footballs....in Equatorial Guinea

Mystery meat.....Open Air Markets with gazillions of flys over the goat meat that you just watched get freshly killed and fish brought in from the Bight of Benay.....Ice haha.....not a issue in the Delta...cause there isn't any.....

Then the housekeeper putting glass in my beans, rice and mystery meat .......good times in Port Harcourt down in the Delta.....Nigeria

Severe gut infections.....unscrew the cap of Pepto Bismol and throw it away....buy Pepto by the case....

Retirement is end of Dec this year and cannot come quick enuff. Never say never but I hope that ms gamboolgal I never get another GD stamp in our passports again.

in retirement back in Gods country, i.e., Texas - ms gamboolgals cooking from meats and vegetables growed in Texas is all I want to eat. I'm planning on killing most of our meat and between the Farmers Market and side of the road stands.....we'll get our vegetables.
And by Gawd American whiskey 100% of the time

Lifes A Dance And You Learn As You Go....
gamboolman.....

 

[Rianne]

Great thread. A few years ago I had a beautiful bunch of blueberries from a farm in our state. Put them in a colander to wash them, shaking around in the water. A small movement caught my eye, one of them had legs. My SIL was mad at me for telling that story to my young niece and nephew. They refused to eat blueberries for a very long time.

 

[NW-Bound]

Trust me when I tell that what you don't know can and will hurt you....

I was joking.

I was hurt bad by eating food served in restaurants twice in my life. Once in Louisiana quite some years ago. The 2nd time just recently, at a cafe in Spain.

The food tasted good both times. I only paid the price later.

 

[gamboolman]

NWB - I was not responding or picking on your comment....

2 days later laying on a couch with a trash bag covering my head....

One of the men said to the medic when I was bad sick on a platform and high sea's - that lots of folks paid a lot of good money to get that F'd up..... that time was a hospital visit.....once I made it ashore....

Another mega corp initiative from the "cost efficient food stuffs the GD bean counters got us for offshore"......

Seriously - if something we are eating tastes, feels, smells off or is just not right - ms gamboolgal and I both will spit it out and not touch it.....It may have took awhile but we both learnt our lesson(s) in this department.....

Ahh...the life of the glamorous international oilfield worker.......

Can't wait to be chasing ms gamboolgal around our 4 poster bed buck neckid...and then asking her to make me fried baloney sammich with Mrs. Bairds bread....
I was a youngster growing up up across the street from Mrs. Bairds granddaughter in Ft. Worth, Texas.....along time ago....But I digress.....

Lifes A Dance And You Learn As You Go.....
gamboolman....

 

[Stormy Kromer]

Lutefisk. Its a Minnesota thing that I can't describe.

 

[braumeister]

Lutefisk. Its a Minnesota thing that I can't describe.

Thanks for your discretion. Much appreciated.