What popular foreign food (popular in it's source country) do you find disgusting? Have you ever actually tried it and if so was it as bad as you imagined it would be?
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Jack Wallace
ANSWERS: 12
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My current "favorite" is Thai "Fish Sauce". Note the name does not imply that is sauce FOR fish. They actually put fish in a press, squeeze out the juices, let them ferment, mix in even more salt, and then bottle it. And it's their #1 condiment: they put it on practically everything -- even eggs! Not surprisingly, it tastes (and smells!) like really bad fish with a lot of salt added.
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Tripe. One taste will linger in your mouth forever.
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Escargot (Snails) they are truly revolting and yes I have tried them. *Shudders at the memory* Deep fried crickets are ok though surprisingly. Like very light savoury crisps.
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"Bonaire Chicken" Which is, quite literally, an iguana someone picked up off the street (they run around the island EVERYWHERE) and grilled on a skewer. *shudder* Gross.
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Durian. Tried it, I was warned by my host that people outside of the Phillipines dont like it. I didn't, smelled bad and tasted almost as bad to me. Gas leak flavour.
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Goat eyeballs in the middle east.
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Chicken's feet. I have tried them, and cannot acquire the taste, sadly.
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Sushi. I don't actually find it disgusting, but it tastes like dishwasher soap, I don't like it. I'm not picky with food either, I've had some other oriental seafood stuff that even bikers won't touch yet delicate ol' me tried it out! I don't know what the hell it actually was but it looked like an aquatic monster in Final Fantasy or something. I can't say it was gross because it really didn't taste like much of anything but yeah, won't go out of my way to eat raw seafood if I can help it.
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I'll pick something simple, poi from Hawaii. I think it is awful. I tried it as a kid and then as an adult. Same thing, yuck!
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I was in a Southern State, S Carolina or Georgia maybe, and I tried grits, thinking it would be delicious. It really was the opposite of delicious. First and last time I tried it.
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Well, this is a hard one for me..I like almost any type of food...but one thing I do not like, that is popular in the very place I was born and raised...Oysters! It's not foreign..but I still think they are gross!
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I have another one I hate... Pigs trotters. Gross, gelatenous, slimy, bony yuck. My Grandma loved them and would happily suck on one for hours.
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