The 6 Most Terrifying Foods in the World

[CGowen]

http://www.cracked.com/article_14979_6-most-terrifying-foods-in-world.html

#6.Escamoles

#5.Casu Marzu

#4.Lutefisk

#3.Baby Mice Wine

#2.Pacha

#1.Balut

[ThomCat]

1. Um... Wow.

People really will eat anything.

[MonkeyFunk]

2. I don't know any of those except for Lutefisk

but if Haggis isn't in the top 6, I don't think I wanna know.

[jgraz]

3. Heh -- I've had three of the things on that list

Escamoles, Lutefisk and Pacha (well, roasted lamb's head, but it's pretty much the same).

The escamoles were surprisingly yummy, and no less gross than honey when you think about it. Lutefisk is pretty unremarkable -- gotta say, I don't see the attraction. The roast lamb's heads are a Sicilian delicacy, but I was pretty damned traumatized the first time I looked in my Aunt Toots' oven.

[CGowen]

25. So escamoles are good......I will probably never have chance to taste it.

I only tried the fish and I don't like it.

[jgraz]

27. I'm surprised they didn't include these

Roasted maguey worms.



And yeah, they're not too bad. ;)

[LSK]

4. Anthony Bourdain eats #1 - Fetal Duck Egg (Balut)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXucin9iIaE

[CGowen]

5. yuk..n/t

[MonkeyFunk]

7. oh god

I used to see people eat that at a card club I went to. Mostly vietnamese people. It was horrifying to watch.

But they DID turn me on to avocado milk shakes, so that was cool.

[CGowen]

9. With a spoon or is his method wrong ?...n/t

[MonkeyFunk]

11. Yes, a spoon

it was so vile to watch.

It was always young, macho vietnamese guys who had it.

[madeline_con]

32. That's just wrong. n/t

[lost-in-nj]

6. I guess they have never been

to Taiwan's Snake Alley




btw

that scene in Indiana Jones Temple of Doom?? where they are eating.... The one with the monkeys.....


yeah you can do that here


lost

[CGowen]

24. No Sea cucumbers there?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_cucumber

[supernova]

8. Baby mice wine?

I might be sorry I asked.

[CGowen]

10. I haven't even tried the tequila worm...

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a990702b.html

[Ellen Forradalom]

12. They forgot Durian

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durian
:scared:

[CGowen]

13. I'm glad there is no Smell-o-vision

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smell-o-vision

[Greyskye]

14. I work with a guy who eats Balut

He married a gal from the Philippines, and has spent a number of months over there at various times, visiting her family. It is very popular there. He says that he kind of likes it, but I think he's just trying to get me to try it. HA! :puke:

[triguy46]

15. You forgot mayo.

[XemaSab]

16. I have learned many things today.

:puke:

(oh, and none of those can be as bad as natto. except maybe the casu marzu and the mice wine :puke: )

[CGowen]

18. Maybe the Durian stinks more than Natto

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x7046918#7047222

... its odor is best described as pig-shit, turpentine and onions, garnished with a gym sock. It can be smelled from yards away. Despite its great local popularity, the raw fruit is forbidden from some establishments such as hotels, subways and airports, including public transportation in Southeast Asia

[XemaSab]

23. Yeah, but with the natto there's a consistency issue...

Not only does it LOOK like giant boogers, it's got the same texture in the mouth. :puke:

That, plus it smells and tastes like what it is, which is rotten soybeans. :puke:

[KamaAina]

17. Danger of Balut (#1) Turning Up in America:

IT'S ALREADY HERE! Shit!

As a matter of fact, it is for sale not three blocks from my cozy office. How do I know this? You might well ask. There is a sign outside the place reading "Balut". I have not been inside, much less purchased any. :puke:

[CGowen]

19. is it cheap?

[KamaAina]

21. The sign doesn't give the price

you don't actually expect me to go in there and ask, do you?! :eyes:

[City of Mills]

20. I've had something similar to Pacha

with my neighbors but it was a goat head and my gracious neighbors were from Kenya. Actually had that while watching the Mike Tyson/Evander Holyfield ear fight a few years back. The meat was sort of oily.

[KamaAina]

22. Please tell me Pachamama doesn't eat #2!!

I would just hate to have her invite me over for dinner and have to go, "ummm... hummina hummina..." </ralph-kramden> !

[Lydia Leftcoast]

26. There's a bit of misinformation about lutefisk

They do rinse the lye off the fish before cooking it. :-)

Its main effect is to half-dissolve the fish and turn it into a gelatinous mass.

One of my German relatives, whose Swedish-American wife made it for him, commented that it tastes like warm snot. That's about right.

I was lucky, because I never had to eat lutefisk at Christmas, despite being half Norwegian. My father hated the stuff and never inflicted it on us.

However, lots of Scandinavian-Americans view it as some sort of nostalgic comfort food. Go figure.

Modern Norwegians tend to disdain lutefisk. They consider it food resorted to by desperate peasants, something like we think of hardtack and salt pork.

[edbermac]

28. I just ate a escamoles, casu marzu, lutefisk, baby mice, pacha, balut sandwich.

It was pretty good actually.

[CGowen]

31. You ate the mice but didn't drink the wine? n/t

[u4ic]

29. They forgot my grandmother's sour cabbage rolls

:puke:

[ironflange]

30. He forgot this

[MilesColtrane]

33. Here's some.

1) Fugu-if it's not prepared correctly you die...no known antidote.

2) Cheez Whiz-aerosol cheese? An affront to god and all that is holy, which brings us to...

3) Ortolan-a French delicacy. These tiny songbirds—captured alive, force-fed, then drowned in Armagnac—are roasted whole and eaten that way, bones and all, while the diner drapes his head with a linen napkin to preserve the precious aromas and, some believe, to hide from God.

4) Veal- another case of delicously destroying you Karma. Mmmm...you can taste the sorrow!

5) Hardee's Monster Thickburger- if Kevorkian were a chef, this would be his specialty.

5) Soylent Green- because it's made from people for fuck's sake.

[MilesColtrane]

34. kick...

...because I get tired of being a thread killer.

[Javaman]

35. You forgot twinkies...

they will feed the roaches when we are all gone.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

36. Haggis

should be on that list.

[spinbaby]

37. Natto

Grossest food ever.