What's the grossest food you ever had to eat to be polite?
Fish đ Was at a relatives' house.
--Michael D. Clarke
Liver. Might as well eat an oil filter.
Signed, million man.
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Sea cucumber, tasteless, rubbery, and it looks like an uncircumcised penis with nubs allover it.
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Muktuk, A cube of whale blubber when I went to Alaska . . .it was served raw.
shareI've always refused to play that game. But the best story I heard was in Gen. Schwarzkopf's autobiography. As a boy he spent some time in Iran with his father, an army officer.
"Once the plates were filled, servants started plucking out the sheepsâ eyeballs. The Baluchi considered eyeballs a delicacy and there was a feeling of great ceremony as they were given out. Pop, the honored guest, received the first, and I watched as he scooped it up with some rice in his right hand, popped it in his mouth, and solemnly chewed. The chief got one, and two or three of his top men. Then they started discussing me, saying, âThe generalâs son is here! Shouldnât we give the generalâs son the sheepâs eye?â It seemed half joking and I desperately hoped they werenât serious. âThe next person we are going to honor is the generalâs son!â the chief announced, and everybody laughed and clapped. My father was beaming.
So they gave me a sheepâs eyeball. With all the roasting and basting it didnât look like a staring eyeâmore like a brown fig. But it was still an eyeball as far as I was concerned. I said to my father, âIâm not going to eat that.â He said out of the corner of his mouth, âYou will eat it!â As a stranger to the tribe, I'd been given a spoon to use with my meal. Holding my breath, I spooned the eyeball up and swallowed it whole, and everyone applauded. Afterward Pop said he was glad I'd done as I was told. âThey were paying you a great tribute, and if you hadnât eaten the eye, you'd have insulted them,â he said. âBut instead you ate it, and by doing that you made a contribution to American-Iranian relations. Iâm proud of you.â Hearing him say these things made up for the fact that I'd just had to swallow a sheepâs eye."
Years later, This experience would serve him well in Vietnam:
"Toward the end of our operation, the engineers invited the airborne officers down for a bridge-blessing ceremony. We were each given a glass with a large belt of scotch. We then watched as the engineers slaughtered a pig and filled the glasses the rest of the way with blood, and then made a toast. My year in Tehran had taught me what was expected, so while the engineer battalionâs U.S. advisor wouldnât touch his drink, I gulped mine down, toasting the completion of the bridge. My Vietnamese counterparts were surprised and pleased. They later told me that the engineer battalion commander had meant to embarrass the Americans present and that by my action Iâd brought great credit to the airborne."
Frog's Legs.
I was originally going to say Haggis, but it actually turned out to be quite good.
It doesn't sound gross but I hate anything that crunches in a tuna or egg salad sandwich. I was being served by a GF's mother and had no choice but inside I was screaming.
shareI've never eaten anything that gross but I never liked round ball peas and will sometimes have to eat them when I visit my parents. Thankfully they always have a tasty meat with it that I can eat after the peas.
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