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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWhat's the worst thing you've ever had in your mouth?
It doesn't have to be food, but it could be.
Mine would be gear oil. The smell alone is enough to make you gag.
Foodwise, I would have to say an oyster. Come to think of it, I would rather have gear oil than an oyster!
SHRED
(28,136 posts)It really infiltrated my mouth quickly.
So gross.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)I knew it was wrong of me.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Usually pizza.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Err, then again, maybe it's not odd ...
Anyways, I damn sure remember the very small handful of tequila times ... it's particularly bad coming back up ... way worse than beer ...
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)we decided to go down to the bar. Since I didn't think I was going to be able to drink, I downed seven shots of tequila as fast as possible. Turned out the bar was so crowded that no one checked ID and I continued drinking. Geez, that was a rough night!
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JDC
(10,127 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)The slider went down fine why oh why did I add a fish sandwich ? Oh yeah the whiskey......
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)At the Oysterfest in Shelton, WA, we got to slurp them raw after the shucking contest. I loved them, and my in-laws at the time had their own oysterlands, we had breaded pan-fried oysters for every Christmas breakfast.
But, I understand where you're coming from, my mom (who is not a native Northwesterner) still refers to them as pus bags.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)It was in a restaurant, and I think I spit it out into a napkin. Pus bags indeed!
Marthe48
(16,949 posts)My uncle came over one afternoon to say hi to my Mom, but she wasn't home. My younger brother was home, too, and one of us mentioned that there were raw oysters in the fridge. Uncle Louie asked us if we ever ate raw oysters. Being around 10 or 12, no we hadn't. We had chili sauce too, so we got the oysters out and Uncle Louie showed us how to eat them raw. He told us to toss them to the back of our throats and swallow. I managed one. I watched them eat several, standing over the kitchen sink, dipping them into the chili sauce and tossing them into their mouths. I have never eaten another raw oyster, but I do like them fried or scalloped.
Worst thing I've ever had in my mouth was sour milk I didn't know was sour.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)were just a couple of blocks from the Fulton Fish Market, and there was an oyster bar I tended to take new hires to.
They poked, prodded and sniffed, but like good employees they eventually sucked one down.
Then another
And a few more dozen were ordered.
Besides the half shell, though, Oysters Rockefeller is most definitely food of the gods.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)and gagged on oysters. My mom used to fry them in saltine cracker crumbs, I could not get past the slippery texture.
fortunately, the rest of the family loved them so much, they did not mind my passing my share along.
Doreen
(11,686 posts)trev
(1,480 posts)drm604
(16,230 posts)There was the time a roach got in my cup of coffee...
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)I'm assuming you drank the roach, but how did you know it was a roach unless...
I may not want to know the answer.
drm604
(16,230 posts)I felt something squishy in my mouth, spit into the coffee, and nearly freaked when I saw it.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)I once had a centipede land on my cheek in the middle of the night. This was in NM, and the house had wooden beams that, evidently, centipedes were using as highways. Looked for it everywhere. Then I found it curled under my pillow. I couldn't help but think about what would have happened if it had landed a couple inches over. It would have gone in my mouth.
Midnight Writer
(21,753 posts)a couple of these fools decided to have a gross out contest. Bet 20 bucks on it.
Ski found a cockroach, picked it up, talked to it a while, and then ate it.
Eddie then led us to this bar's bathroom. He walked to the urinal so nasty it looked like somebody crapped in there. He reached in and grabbed the urinal cake. Held it up and showed it to us. And then he bit off a chunk.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)I try not to do that, but every once in a while...damn.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Just saying...
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gordianot
(15,237 posts)Very unpleasant to the point of a phobia. I have no idea where this comes from?
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I keep trying to spit it out, but I can never get rid of it all.
quickesst
(6,280 posts).... I took a swig of Tuborg Gold beer. Everything I've had in my mouth since may not have been pleasant, but it was better than that shit!
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,853 posts)Recycled snot. I have never understood why that "food product" has ever been popular. I never ever made jello for my kids while they were growing up. I know, the most deprived boys in the United States ever.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,490 posts)Too many years have passed to remember what it was.
In my drinking days, at parties we would play devil-dare and mix Bloody Marys and heat them up with Tabasco 'till hardly anyone could drink them.
There's a bunch of dentist's tools that bring back bad memories. And when I got older, the absolute worst was when they're fitting dentures using those damned molds...
Doreen
(11,686 posts)Oh yeah, a story, well kind of. Remember the New York steak scene in Mommy Dearest? Well, put liver in its place and that is what my dad did.
eShirl
(18,490 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)That's precisely where I went first.
AnnieBW
(10,425 posts)I don't remember his name, either, but he was an asshole.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)tymorial
(3,433 posts)However I'm with you though unfortunately I do remember his name
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Cartoonist
(7,316 posts)I like jerky, but this was special. I was watching TV with no other lights on. I would take a piece out and eat it without looking at it. One piece was unusually soft and didn't taste right. I took it out of my mouth and turned on the light. It and other pieces in the bag were covered in a white mold or fungus.
I didn't get sick, but I did call the hospital to ask if I was going to die.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)What did the nurse at the hospital say?
Cartoonist
(7,316 posts)Call us if you get sick.
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Funtatlaguy
(10,870 posts)The Figment
(494 posts)Pachamama
(16,887 posts)I confess - I like them both and I am not even an Aussie....
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)spread thin on buttered toast.
lastlib
(23,224 posts)I do not know how those Aussies can stand to eat it, let alone enjoy it!
Lunabell
(6,080 posts)Yuch, who thinks that nasty tasting mucus plug is delicious?
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)I would never dare put that in my mouth!
3catwoman3
(23,975 posts)It tasted terrible and felt hairy/furry.
rampartc
(5,407 posts)bp has made sure they taste about the same.
have you ever had balut? or my ex wife? about the same.
yonder
(9,664 posts)I think it was octopus blood or something. Balut with purple stuff. bleccchh
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)I would rather drink a gallon of gear oil and fifty oysters than have one. I don't understand how it is considered a delicacy.
yonder
(9,664 posts)about the song "Black is Black"
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10181228515
It brought back memories of my time in the Philippines so I made a comment about not being able to get away from hearing that song. That song, street vendors yelling "balut, balut" and the sound of Honda 250 and 305's roaring up and down Main Street all day and all night is bringing it all back.
Yep, balut. Once was too many times.
jpak
(41,757 posts)Tastes like lemon juice.
stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)pansypoo53219
(20,976 posts)newspaper recipe in my mom's hands was disgusting. i took over cooking as soon as i could. she does not have cooking genes. i do.
Freddie
(9,265 posts)I used to like Special K with strawberries. Its freeze-dried strawberries that get soft in the milk and you get strawberry seeds on the bottom of the bowl. Except one time the strawberry seeds were moving - I had eaten a bowl of cereal infested with flour bugs. The box had previously been opened. Will never eat Special K with strawberries again 🤮
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)You know that sort of thing must have happened on a daily basis a hundred years ago. Think about what food was like before the FDA. Even now, they have guidelines for how much bug material can be in our foodstuffs and still be considered "safe".
Cartoonist
(7,316 posts)Impossible to be 100% bug free.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)It makes you want to stop eating altogether.
3catwoman3
(23,975 posts)...filth."
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)Scoopster
(423 posts)Had been working on a fire alarm panel that was acting up & that was the reason. Accidentally put my hand in my mouth after replacing the battery... UGH!
Aristus
(66,328 posts)My mother tried weird cooking experiments when I was a kid. Not all of them worked out, and that was one of them.
Every time I get nostalgic for the Southern foods I grew up on, I ignore that awful failure...
Shrek
(3,979 posts)The relief when they were pulled was exquisite.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)They were impacted, so the dentist had to use a scalpel to cut the gum and a chisel to smash the teeth into little bits, which he then removed. I had nine shots of novocaine, and I still felt ever second of it. Then my cheeks swelled up so that I looked like a chipmunk for the next week.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,683 posts)Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)I had to pass
FM123
(10,053 posts)When I go to a Korean restaurant, man du (dumplings) is like my favorite thing to order!
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)When I in jr high I was running in the mountains of CO, breathing hard, tried to eat the wasp. Wasp didn't take kindly to that and stung me inside my mouth and I was somewhat allergic at that age so my mouth was swollen.
SWBTATTReg
(22,114 posts)mentioned that what I was eating was a dog treat...I spit it out immediately and washed/washed/washed my mouth out!! The dog treats were in a similar bag of human treats that I had gotten too, and totally got them mixed up!
Ruff ruff!!
Adsos Letter
(19,459 posts)Our clothes dryer stopped working, and my wife and I used a local laundromat while we waited for the new one to be delivered.
Standing in the laundromat, waiting for things to dry, I reached into my sweatshirt pocket and discovered a few Charlee Bears left over from a previous dog walk. Charlee Bears=little dry, oyster cracker-shaped treats, with a piece of dried liver tucked inside. Tossed it into my mouth and started chomping away vigorously...
Little bone-dry oyster cracker-like treats, with the strongest liver flavor I've encountered anywhere.
And nothing to drink to help rectify the situation.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)The trainer stuffed his mouth with doggie treats and would take one out to reward a dog. After training was done, he would just eat the leftovers. I mean, he had those treats in his mouth for five minutes at a time. They were the little bite sized squishy kind that really stink.
3catwoman3
(23,975 posts)...give them to the dogs after they strut their stuff for the judges. Gross.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)I'm sure you've seen them. They are about the size of an Altoid, and they stink to high heavens. I almost puke just opening the bag. And this guy put a heaping handful in his mouth.
njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Inquiring minds want to know!
njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)rsdsharp
(9,170 posts)Looks like shredded cabbage, but has the consistency of rubber bands. I refuse to describe the taste.
The stewed eels were pretty good, though.
Paladin
(28,255 posts)Preliminary to some work on my gums. I'm not a wimp when it comes to medical or dental procedures, but the pain from that shot haunts me to this very day. And it's been a huge incentive for keeping my gums in good shape.
Jane Austin
(9,199 posts)I jumped in the pool, took a deep breath through the snorkel and got a mouthful of June Bugs, which had taken up residence in the snorkel.
Bleh!
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Dozens and dozens of them. My parents noticed her cheeks were full, so they made her open up... Big surprise!
FM123
(10,053 posts)Many years ago when I was in my twenties I ordered a frozen fruity umbrella drink at a dive bar and felt something weird and hard in my mouth when I took a gulp, thank God I spit it out instead of trying to chew it up or swallow it...
Grammy23
(5,810 posts)It was in my childhood a very, very long time ago. And yet. And yet, I still remember the metallic taste at the back of my tongue to this day. Just thinking of it brings back that taste experience.
Liver is another runner up. Tastes like I imagine dirt tastes. My mother once insisted I eat one bite. I chewed and chewed and the cud just got bigger and bigger. Finally I lied that it was eaten but it was tucked in my cheek. I left the table, ran straight to the sewer and threw the cud in. For years after that I thought about that thoroughly chewed bite of liver and if it was still there. Thats how a kids mind works, I guess.
MichMan
(11,918 posts)Not a good idea to use an empty Coke bottle as a receptacle when bleeding a caliper.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)I use empty bottles, but I get a 5/16" plastic tube, cut a little hole in the bottle cap, stick the tube through, and put a zip tie around it to keep it in place. Then you can connect the other end of the tube to the bleed nipple. Or, I suppose, you could use it as a straw!
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)The texture of both was just disgusting, but I actually think the sea urchin tasted worse. I did not swallow either one. I honestly think I would have vomited if I had.
Skittles
(153,160 posts)OMFG
Kaleva
(36,298 posts)defacto7
(13,485 posts)Disgusting.
Or Crepe Susette made with a standard 8 year brandy, OMG.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)It is simply gauche!
defacto7
(13,485 posts)NNadir
(33,516 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)But I'm not going to ruin lefsa with it!
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)I could not get that stuff down. My parents used to drink scotch and soda back in the 50s. The smell was terrible and the taste worse.
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)redstateblues
(10,565 posts)Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)Most gawd-awful medicine made.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,185 posts)dawg day
(7,947 posts)Nuff said.
Stuart G
(38,421 posts)After the last surgery, it has been gone for 12 years. I am so grateful
Glorfindel
(9,729 posts)Boiled up in a big iron washpot outside as a special treat. I was about 7 years old. I swallowed one bite. It stayed down about 10 seconds. Never again, as God is my witness.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)We went to a nice Georgian restaurant (country, not state,) and they ordered it. The stuff came out heaped high on a gigantic plate. OMG that was disgusting! Some people love it I guess. Menudo is super popular in NM and CO. I find it strange that people across the globe ever thought to eat the same nasty thing.
sorcrow
(418 posts)As a new overtired dad, I grabbed the first tube of stuff by the sink to brush my teeth. Yuck.
On the other hand, I love oysters, uni, sweatbreads, and liver.
Regards,
Crow
GReedDiamond
(5,312 posts)...yeah, I think the geoduck was worse than the bong water.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)And how much did you win?
GReedDiamond
(5,312 posts)...refilled the bong with clean water, forgot about the glass of bong water, and, most likely being, as they say, "stoned," sometime later just picked up the glass and took a swig.
Fortunately, I did not swallow the bong water, and still never have since.
I guess you could say I have evolved.
ON EDIT: I just want to reiterate that the geoduck was WAY worse than the bong water.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)was improperly made chocolate chip cookies that still tasted delicious.
Those were the good old days. Now weed is legal and has evolved into a snobbish subculture.
GReedDiamond
(5,312 posts)...I'm 60+ y.o., been there/done (______) back in '72...but when I go into a dispensary with all of the exotic options to good ol' Bud, I have no clue - haven't kept up with the "kids" and their oils, vapes, edibles, etc.
Get off my lawn, I mean grass!
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)I'm afraid of entering a dispensary because I will look like an amateur and be laughed at. What would they say if I asked them about different tastes as sucked through a beer can I poked holes in? (Remember doing that to make a pipe?)
GReedDiamond
(5,312 posts)...paper towel tube wrapped in foil...plus somebody passed me an apple that was made into a pipe...there was always a way.
Nowadays, I actually strictly obey the rules of my doctor's recommendation. I treat it just like regular prescription meds. Never drive high, never medicate in public - then again, I don't get out as much as I used to.
Midnight Writer
(21,753 posts)Back in the Sixties, pot dealers were really cool hippie types. Who would have you in. Who would give you a taste. Let you listen to some tunes. Then if wanted, you could buy a bag. And if you didn't, my guy would always twist one and tell me to keep it behind my ear for later.
brewens
(13,582 posts)MLAA
(17,288 posts)RockRaven
(14,966 posts)VarryOn
(2,343 posts)It has the fishy taste I strongly detest plus the mouth feel feel did help!
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)I've caught a lot of them, and I've seen them cooked. Are they like salmon, all oily? I can't take salmon anymore.
RockRaven
(14,966 posts)... if you do not like most fish, you would likely not like rainbow trout... At least that is my guess (not knowing precisely why most fish make you gag), with the caveat that I am not the most experienced fish connoisseur.
In my experience, rainbow trout is a bit fishy, dry-ish, with a fine-grained flakiness.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)I can do most white fish like cod and halibut. Years ago I convinced myself I liked salmon. Then I wised up and admitted to myself that I actually hate the stuff. Probably the worst fish I've had has been sole. That was really fishy.
One time I managed a youth hostel on Cape Cod. A Russian man stayed for a couple days. One evening he brought in some eels to cook and eat. I don't know if you are supposed to create as much rancid eel smoke from cooking those things! The kitchen smelled nasty for a long time after that. The funny thing is, I found out where he had purchased those eels. He had gone into the bait shop and bought them. NOT their intended purpose!
VarryOn
(2,343 posts)It's moderately oily and not a white, flakey fish. Sort of tastes like salmon (which I dont like either) but textures arent comparable.
I've had trout grilled, broiled, baked and fried....bone and deboned...skinnned and not skinned. I've really wanted to like it. Just not happening.
I'll go fish for it, clean it, then give it away...always easy to do.
The opposite...crappie! Fried. I dare say it's the second favorite thing I've eaten!
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)On a fly rod. Used to go out in my parents' kayak and fish, fish, fish. I only ever caught a crappie (at least some sort of little pan fish) and a smallish catfish. Can you imagine a catfish on a fly?!?!
I'm just catch and release. The only fish I caught that I even thought about eating were striped bass. But that was in the Long Island sound, so I wasn't too keen on ingesting something nasty.
VarryOn
(2,343 posts)and can be fun eat. But, only from clean water. They can take on the taste of the water in which they live.
0n a fly rod, I'd be they feel like a whale!
All this talk is making me crave some craopie!
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)Bayard
(22,063 posts)Tastes like vomit to me.
My husband drank mineral spirits I had poured into a water bottle this past winter. I had to get on the phone to poison control.
yonder
(9,664 posts)TruckFump
(5,812 posts)csziggy
(34,136 posts)I had a mare who went into labor a month early. She was also lame and the only way she could stand was to sit up like a dog and rock back and forth. Often mares in labor will stand to let the foal shift but when this mare wanted to do that, the foal's head and shoulders were part way out - if she tried to sit up like she usually did, she would probably have broken the foal's back or legs.
So my husband held the mare down while I helped pull the foal out. That is the only foal I ever had to help during the process in thirty years of breeding horses.
The foal was born alive but obviously had been in distress - the amniotic fluid was brown and nasty smelling and there were bits of foal poop (tarry lumps) mixed in. By the time the foal was out, I was covered in it and it got into my mouth.
After all of that, the foal had contracted tendons - her bones had grown more than her tendons and she could not straighten her legs completely or stand without help. One remedy for this is to give a dose of tetracycline which relaxes the tendons - usually this lets the foal stand which sort of stretches them and they will adjust. This foal had an anaphylactic reaction to the drug and we almost lost her.
So instead for the first couple of months my husband and I had to wrap splints onto her legs every day so she could stand. She got so used to it that when we got out the bandaging material, she trot right over to us and lie down with her head in my lap.
She did good - she is now twenty years old and we still own her. We couldn't sell her after all the love we had poured into her. We bred her a few times and her last foal is still here on the farm sometimes - I gave him to a young friend of mine since she did most of the ground work on him.
GReedDiamond
(5,312 posts)Great you were able to save the foal. Bad you had to taste the leavings.
csziggy
(34,136 posts)But I guess I could have used a stronger word than "poop" - thirty years ago when I attended a needlework seminar, most of the class were older ladies and everyone was oh, so polite.
One woman made a mistake in her stitching and in a low voice said, "Oh, shit!" Everyone was totally shocked - this woman looked as though butter wouldn't melt in her mouth and she had just used an extremely rude word!
She realize we were all staring at her and apologized, but then said, "I was raised on a dairy farm and more than once ended up with cow manure in my mouth. I always figured if I've had the real thing come in, the word can come out!"
The class was
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)It's a huge joke over on The Root. I hate the stuff, too. I can eat it, but I would never voluntarily put it on a sandwich.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)for decades to overcome my distaste for the stuff.
It has even caused new relationships to deteriorate quickly. I remember a wonderful young lady fixing me a what as likely a delightful shrimp diner with a light colored curry/mayonnaise sauce. I could not swallow the first bite, although I knew it would ruin our second date. Nothing I could do.
Fortunately, Im so old now I can claim my doctor has determined I am allergic.
yonder
(9,664 posts)COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)Made from corn (chewed to a pulp by the toothless elders and then fermented). Tastes worse than it sounds. Vile.
lapfog_1
(29,199 posts)they had a slight nutty flavor
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)I was watching one of those "picking" on Netflix. These guys were out NV and WY looking through old barns for buried "treasure." Anyway, they went into a restaurant and one of them ordered rocky mountain oysters. Some of them were breaded, but some of them were completely raw. Neither of the guys would eat the raw ones, but a local came in and downed them. Oh that was so disgusting!
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lastlib
(23,224 posts)Instead of swallowing it, I bit into it. Ohh.My.GAWD!! Fifty years later, I can STILL taste that nasty shit!!
shanny
(6,709 posts)Kablooie
(18,634 posts)I was going to give her a little kiss on the snout but she beat me to it.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)It's always risky trying to kiss my dog's head because she jumps up to meet me. She breaks glasses and gives fat lips.
TuxedoKat
(3,818 posts)Malta Corona? from Puerto Rico - tastes like carbonated Molasses! Yuck!!! The aquarium water when trying to siphon water out of an aquarium to clean it.
Codeine
(25,586 posts)My reaction was roughly You drink that shit?!!
Should rename it Malta Pitooey. That was my unsaid reaction at drinking the other Malta too!!!
yellowdogintexas
(22,252 posts)Imagine about a tablespoon of alum in your mouth and you have a green persimmon. Every kid I knew growing up had been tricked by some adult or teenage boy into tasting a green persimmon. Awful.
runners up:
The pig version of Mountain Oysters. Boars have very large testicles and they are sliced for cooking; they resemble a fairly thin boneless pork chop. My mother tricked me into tasting them, telling me they were pork chops. I ate a couple of bites and announced that they must be freezer burned. My dad absolutely cracked up.
When you live around pig farmers you end up with some very strange meat products.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)I guess she thought you were going to love them. Then she would tell you what they actually were.
yellowdogintexas
(22,252 posts)Freelancer
(2,107 posts)50 Shades Of Blue
(9,988 posts)UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)My friend was the manager. We would open, and dozens of people would come rushing in. Then my friend would ask some of them what kind of pizza they would like. There was one dude who wanted anchovies, lots and lots of anchovies. My friend covered the pizza in them and then poured the brine they were in on top.
The dude loved it.
50 Shades Of Blue
(9,988 posts)Harker
(14,015 posts)I no longer drink water from gallon jugs, nor do I pee in them.
Codeine
(25,586 posts)without so much as a polite warning or a tap on the head. Utterly vile.
bluecollar2
(3,622 posts)Burns like hell for days...
Glad I didn't swallow any.
Never volunteered to work hydraulics again.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)You say something like, "I just got gear oil in my mouth" or "I just got hydraulic fluid in my mouth," and people don't understand how that's even possible.
People: You get into all sorts of weird positions when working on machinery!
bluecollar2
(3,622 posts)As an aircraft mechanic for over 35 years I've found myself in some interesting situations...
Your question made me think awhile...
Nastiest?
Certainly not Skydrol, jet fuel, grease, or anything in that genre...on the other hand i've worked galley changes, lavatory tank changed. Cabin reconfigurations etc. And no matter how hard you try you're going to end up "...coming into contact..." with substances that are unpleasant...
But for sheer unpleasantness/worst Skydrol wins hands down. It burns your eyes, in vapor form it burns your lungs and dont get me started on what it does if you forget to wash your hands before you pee...
I got that crap in my mouth when I was lying under a hydraulic line as I was disconnecting it to gain access to the rear spar in a 767 wheel well. The system was supposed to be unpressurized and drained.
It was...but just a few residual drops remained...
Broke the fitting loose, pulled the lines apart and somehow got two or three drops.
Mechanical work has rewards but when it sucks...
It REALLY sucks...
enid602
(8,616 posts)Spanada and Liverwurst.