Worst one...

Rowan2222 said:
A few things I can remember.
One was smoked haddock poached in milk. I tried it once and almost threw up, but because my dad liked it it would be cooked almost once a week...which reminded me that I wanted to throw up. That stuff stinks.
Another is Oranges. I can't stand the white fluffy bits if I peel them myself, but even worse is the smell if somebody else is eating an orange in the room, which was unfortunate because my brother liked them and there was always a big bowl full of them at Christmas. I later found out I was allergic to orange oil.

Marginal food items - I think Wands wins with the mealworms, but I regularly like blackpudding with a fry up. Not sure if you have it there but is basically just pigs blood and chopped fat soaked into oats then stuffed in intestines.

And the Haggis of course.
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What is that in the pic ? A rat with a wig?
 
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WitchAndShaman said:
Anyone have any marginal food items - like something atypical that you have been considering trying? Or, anyone want to share a “fun name” for a questionable food item?

I’ll go first:

1. I’ve eaten meal worms - they were the key ingredient in a cookie.
2. “Calf Fries” - sliced, battered, and deep fried bull testicles.
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In 1985, my best friend and I went to South Africa to be in another of our friend's wedding. At the reception, they had a huge buffet line that stretched the width of the banquet facility where it was being held.

The bride's sister, 15-16 years old at the time, appointed herself to be our escort throughout the event. As we were going through the buffet line, she answered our questions and made suggestions about the various food items. At one point my friend spooned a few things onto his plate that looked like lightly breaded hush puppies, and then popped one into his mouth. As he was eating it, little sister asked, "Mike, how do you like the fish balls?". He immediately spit it out, thankfully onto the floor as opposed to another guest. It took him a few seconds to understand she meant they were balls made of fish, not fish testicles. He became the star of reception.
 
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Duke said:
In 1985, my best friend and I went to South Africa to be in another of our friend's wedding. At the reception, they had a huge buffet line that stretched the width of the banquet facility where it was being held.

The bride's sister, 15-16 years old at the time, appointed herself to be our escort throughout the event. As we were going through the buffet line, she answered our questions and made suggestions about the various food items. At one point my friend spooned a few things onto his plate that looked like lightly breaded hush puppies, and then popped one into his mouth. As he was eating it, little sister asked, "Mike, how do you like the fish balls?". He immediately spit it out, thankfully onto the floor as opposed to another guest. It took him a few seconds to understand she meant they were balls made of fish, not fish testicles. He became the star of reception.
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I had the same reaction in Japan at age 15 myself. But, they really were wonderful.
 
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I've not posted in here before because I come from a family where there wasn't food on the table every day. When there was it was bread and potatoes if we were lucky, plain flour and water only pancakes if not. So I would literally eat anything with gratitude includung offal which I grew up thinking was meat. I didn't realise it was innards. lol.

But one day we were fed something so vile I'd rather starve, so I did, and still wont eat it. Cod roe. ;vo
 
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Rowan2222 said:
One was smoked haddock poached in milk
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I reckon you were luckty Rowan,that's on my top three favourite meals.I grew up fishing a lot near Sydney so the smell of it cooking didn't bother me(it is pretty full on though lol).
 
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Lime marmalade is one of my favourites, but again it brings me out in a rash, so is a love hate relationship with it. Took me years to work it out because it takes about 3 days to show up.

The thing in the photo is our native Scottish haggis. ;) That one a left-footer by the look of it (one side is longer than the other so they don't fall off the hills)
 
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Qwynie Rose is cod roe anything like lutefisk? Herring fermented in lye.
That's one I will not touch.;)
 
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