The first time I tasted ____ it was so vile I spit it out
I have two and both of them originated from the same animal: goat. I tried goat cheese at a trade show a few years ago and couldn't wait for a sample of something - anything - that would get that horrid taste out of my mouth. Fast forward to this past weekend. I went to my local dollar store hoping they'd have some caramel ice cream topping for my son's birthday cheesecake. They didn't, but they had Mexican caramel sauce made with goat milk. Long story short, I tasted a tiny bit and wanted to die. I rinsed my mouth out with hot water and brushed my teeth as soon as I was sure I wasn't going to vomit. Then I made the 10 minute drive to the nearest grocery (which I REALLY should have done in the first place) and bought what I needed.
So what your worst taste scenarios? Are you willing to try it again to see if your tastes have changed? I've sworn off anything goat-related!
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62 Comments:
Buttermilk. MANY years ago I was on a diet that required I drink 8 ounces of buttermilk a day. I think I forced it down for like 3 days and finally threw up. To this day I can't even pass the buttermilk in the dairy case without getting nauseous.
RichardCrystal at 4:15PM on 04/14/08
Guinness. Of course, now I'm a die-hard fan but at room temperature it was hard to take that first time.
LunaPierCook at 4:19PM on 04/14/08
Margarita with salt rimmed glass. Nobody warned me about the salt. Sprayed my fellow diners. Wine - I was a kid and thought it was coke - sprayed my fellow diners. I don't get invited out much. ;D
Worst thing I ever tasted was a chocolate chip cookie I made with rancid flour. Took over a week to get the taste out of my mouth. No exaggeration. I also ate cornbread once that was made with rancid something and it took a week also. Horrid.
PerkyMac at 4:28PM on 04/14/08
(it's out there now ... someone's gotta say it ... may as well be me ...)
I'll bet after eating that cookie you weren't very Perky, mac.
(yeah right, maybe I should leave now ... ;-)
LunaPierCook at 4:36PM on 04/14/08
@LunaPierCook..........parts of me are always Perky, parts of me used to be, and parts of me never are. You figger it out. haha
PerkyMac at 4:39PM on 04/14/08
Once my grandmother made an apple pie using frozen apples. Unfortunately, peeled, diced, and frozen apples look a whole lot like peeled, diced, and frozen turnips, which she also had in her freezer. So I took a big bite of cinnamon-spiced turnip pie, and promptly spit it out in her sink.
I'm sure the look on my face was priceless.
unarata at 4:42PM on 04/14/08
p.s. I made the cookies as a gift and luckily kept a few at home. I only tasted one after I got home and immediately called the recipient and said, "Throw them out, NOW!" I actually only took one small bite, so I didn't get sick, but I was afraid that taste would never leave. Thank goodness nobody else had tried one yet.
PerkyMac at 4:42PM on 04/14/08
@Perky~Porr thing! You seem to have the worst luck with rancid foods. The first time I ever posted in response to you was right after the bad garlic bread episode that you had last year.
Yogurt. I love it now and have for years, but that first time? YIKES! It was so sour and the texture was a little grainy and not at all what I had expected. Blech!
coffeefrappe at 4:42PM on 04/14/08
poor Perky! The worst thing I ever tasted was at a cousins going away party, he was joining the air force and my aunt, the worlds most grudging cook, made venison meatballs. unfortunately she was also the worlds worst cook, so they were both dry and greasy, which i never thought was possible, and totally nauseating. We later found out after a number of ppl went to the er that the venison was spoiled.
huney_bumper at 4:48PM on 04/14/08
Crown Royal on the rocks......I was about 13 and I asked my dad for a sip (my parents were the ones that would let you have one sip to try alcohol) and my dad laughed and said, "sure, go for it"....luckily we were outside on the deck.
jcrisco at 4:53PM on 04/14/08
Liver. My opinion hasn't changed...
chisai at 4:55PM on 04/14/08
Avocado. I was a child, and my mom made some sort of chicken breast or thigh dish, stuffed with avocado. Of course, by the time the chicken was cooked, so was the avocado. Anyone else who has tasted cooked avocado before will know why this is a problem.
I thought I hated avocado for many years, until I tasted one raw. Now I love them.
Nicholas H at 4:57PM on 04/14/08
This doesn't really count because I only make it and don't actually eat it myself, although I have eaten one, knowing exactly what it was
sarahj at 4:58PM on 04/14/08
I agree with the goat cheese. I'd never had goat cheese, and bought a fairly expensive log of chevre, which I'd decided would get the royal treatment and top some bruschetta. Both my hubby and I were excited to try the goat cheese... I've managed to try it again since, but I will never understand how people can enjoy cheese that tastes like a barn smells. I don't know if I could be persuaded to try it ever again.
ErikaWaz at 5:00PM on 04/14/08
@coffeefrappe......the garlic bread tasted fishy. I later got chicken wings from the same restaurant that also tasted fishy and the cheese on their pizza was even fishy tasting. I decided to NEVER get food from there again and noticed just this past week that a new restaurant is getting ready to open in their place. I wasn't THAT good a customer! haha I'm glad they're gone.
PerkyMac at 5:03PM on 04/14/08
I do not know the type of cheese it was, but it was a German cheese. My brother was doing a German dinner for our gourmet group and he got a few cheese samples. OMG. One of them smelled exactly like...human poo. He didn't throw it in the garbage... he marched it out to the incinerator shute because his kitchen garbage was not "disposed" enough for that vile stuff.
As a kid I gagged on broccoli and cauliflower... and scallops. While they are not my favorite seafood, I can enjoy scallops now, as an adult.
chiff0nade at 5:05PM on 04/14/08
@chiff..........I'll bet it was Limburger. My father used to joke about it all the time. I gather not much smells worse. Here is a wiki article on it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limburger_cheese
PerkyMac at 5:15PM on 04/14/08
@Perky ... are we back on that subject again?? ;-)
LunaPierCook at 5:30PM on 04/14/08
When I first tried beets, I had to spit that stuff out. Still can't stand them. Will seriously consider starving to death if beets were the only food available. But I think the worst thing I ever tasted was a rancid walnut - ewwww! You ain't kidding, Perky, this stuff does stay with you for a week and no amount of Listerine can make it go away!
Then there was something I luckily did NOT taste, but it was nevertheless disgusting: when I was little, I once took a large bite of a pretty apple only to discover a worm looking right at me (or so I thought:-)) out of that very apple! And even though there was nothing at all in that single bite that I took, I spat it out and was brushing my teeth for hours (I was 5 or 6 then). My Gran was trying to tell me that "it must have been a very good apple if the worm chose it", but I certainly didn't find it too convincing. I stayed off apples that entire summer...even when they were quartered:-).
brooke29 at 5:31PM on 04/14/08
@chisai--I'm with you on beef liver. That is the only food that I've ever spit out that didn't have something wrong with it (sandy spinach anyone?).
Imagine you are about 12, you're at your best friend's house, it's about lunch time and you're getting a little hungry. All of a sudden a wonderful soy sauce and sesame seed oil aroma fills the house. Your best friend groans and says "oh no, dad is cooking liver again." You say, "oh, but it smells wonderful." Your best friend continues to warn you, but you are captivated by the wonderful aroma of boolgogi marinade. So you take your first huge bite of liver. You chew once and stop and panic, because it's freaking liver for god's sake. Your best friend says I told you so and opens the trash can lid.
wookie at 5:49PM on 04/14/08
Creamed celery - Second only to sausage gravy, which looks and smells very like dog puke
fewteeth at 5:52PM on 04/14/08
I ditto the beef liver...had it as a child and have never recovered.
bessfour at 5:55PM on 04/14/08
vietnamese fish sauce.......it tasted like i bit into a big bloated rotten fish that had sat out in the sun for a week.....yucko
onepercent99 at 6:04PM on 04/14/08
I don't think I've ever had fish sauce on its own, just in curries etc. I imagine it would be gross solo
sarahj at 6:09PM on 04/14/08
Oh boy...Do I have a few of these to mention....
Brussel sprouts=wretched.
Scrapple-should not be consumed by humans. I stayed at a friends house overnight when I was 11 (I was traumatized by this, if you can't tell) and for breakfast there was something I had never seen before (I was spoiled by my mom's homemade cooking everyday). I was told it was scrapple and I should try it-it's great. THOSE LIARS!! The second it came into contact with taste buds, it was out of my mouth. God awful.
Chestnuts-I thought I could just eat one, you know, like you do with every other nut? I was wondering why it was so hard to open. Spit that baby right out. Mom was crackin up about that one.
For a drink: Tuaca. The worst product ever to come out of Italy. The bartender was dyin as he watched my reaction. Thank god I knew him-as he was wearing that nasty beverage.
Butrflygirly at 7:40PM on 04/14/08
Sushi and liver
MadelynRodriguez at 7:58PM on 04/14/08
yogurt.... i like it but i can only eat in very small bites. anything more and i gag.
my friends dad made the worlds worst cornbread... it tasted like sawdust... they warned me but i tried it to be polite... next thing i know im running to the sink to spit it out lol
listener at 8:09PM on 04/14/08
Glad to see some liver haters here.
I forgot the other most disgusting thing in the world that I spit out and will never, ever try again. Natto. It's fermented soy beans. A very popular Japanese food. It is slimy and smelly and stringy and ewww. just thinking about it makes me shudder.
chisai at 8:28PM on 04/14/08
Goat cheese - it tasted like licking a goat (so I imagine), but now I love it, the really strong stuff, too.
Ditto Stilton.
And sambuca, which I still hate.
renzata at 8:38PM on 04/14/08
for me it was a pickled egg.... oh man... the texture, taste, smell... it all got to me, I immediately had to spit it out. I just couldn't do it. I felt so bad since it was made by a woman i consider a second Mom.
Alm25 at 9:24PM on 04/14/08
Green olives cause a weird chemical reaction in my mouth. I have to spit them out immediately. I can't imagine why anyone would put one of those vile things into a lovely glass of gin...
PeanutButter at 9:41PM on 04/14/08
For me it was stilton. Our culinary school teacher brought some in for the class to taste. Told us it was the "king of cheese" (which I knew to be untrue). It turned out to be a toad. I could not get it down no matter how hard I tried. It tasted old amd moldy. The next week was caviar. It didn't go down well either. It tasted like salty rotten fish. Both were truly horrible.
beth1 at 10:12PM on 04/14/08
Here's the thing... I never spit stuff out. If I bite into something bad, It's almost like I can't believe it. Like there's something wrong with my tastebuds/ perception and not the food. I usually have to taste it a few times before I can fully process it. Weird, right?
I made chicken souvlaki for dinner tonight. It was good, but a little soapy tasting. Was it the chicken? Was it the olive oil? Did I not rinse the pan out well enough last time I used it? Nah, there must just be something wrong with the way I'm tasting it.
Kerosena at 10:17PM on 04/14/08
It's heresy in some parts but truffles ... can't bear even the smell of 'em.
kjgibson at 10:42PM on 04/14/08
when i was in siena, the waiter suggested i end my dinner with a grappa. i thought it was like drinking kerosene!
okra. eeeeeew. the smell of it makes me gag.
cybercita at 10:46PM on 04/14/08
Is this bad that I love most of the stuff everyone hates? :) Beets, salted margaritas, goat cheese, sausage gravy (yum!), stilton, and pickled eggs (again yum!).
But I do have to agree with PeanutButter - green olives are vile, vile little devils along with Kalamatas. They are about the only foods that will make my stomach churn just from the smell.
Carosone at 11:36PM on 04/14/08
I also love most of the things that other people hate. Never had pickled eggs, that I can remember, though. That does sound a bit off-putting.
My first taste of beer was a spitter, though. I must have been 4 or 5 years old, and I took a sip from mom's glass. Blech!
I've gotten over the beer problem, though. Except there was this one. Hubby was gifted with a beer of the month thing, and we'd sample them as they came in. In December, there was a Christmas Ale that was nasty. I guess it was supposed to be like mulled wine, but with beer. Hubby graciously suggested that I might want to take a sip while standing near the sink. He was entirely correct.
dbcurrie at 12:49AM on 04/15/08
Was natto really that bad?
I had some for the first time last year and have tried it again since, and while the texture is bizarre and it looks pretty gross and its messy to eat.
Neither the smell or taste were that strong. It was actually pretty bland.
It's the mouthfeel that'll get you, I think.
Also fish sauce - never to be eaten alone, only mixed in sparing quantities in other dishes or other ingredients as a condiment. It shouldn't be rotten-funky, potent and pungent, yes, but not rotten...
I can only think of one thing right now, and it didn't make me actively retch, but its one of the few things I havent been able to keep tasting for longer than a few seconds.
After a meal at a nice Indian restaurant, I tried some of the caradamon pods they offered as a refresher. The lingering resiney, bitter taste and the papery mouth-drying texture was too much. I had to keep it in my mouth until I could find a trash bin respectfully far enough from the restaurant...
But I'm still glad I now know what caradamon pods taste like!
fuuchan at 1:53AM on 04/15/08
@unarata........I can't get your story out of my head. Turnip pie instead of the expected apple would be quite a shock. The thing is, I love turnips and I think apple pie spices would be pretty good on them. If you hadn't been so shocked, do you think you might have been able to eat it, more as a savory dish? It would be a nasty prank to pull on someone, wouldn't it?
PerkyMac at 9:08PM on 04/15/08
I love you people.
I'm convinced that both the goat cheese and the caramel sauce were made with more parts from the goat than just the milk. I'm thinking hair, hooves and horns went into the vat, too.
Remind me to refuse any and all baked goods offered by PerkyMac...
Is it sad that I LIKED beer as a child? I think the first beer I ever had was Pabst Blue Ribbon but I remember preferring the Michelob dad bought occasionally. Anyone else amazed that I'm not an alcoholic?? My parents weren't total degenerates, I swear!
AuntJone at 10:14PM on 04/15/08
Natto is actually pretty good with hot mustard and soy added. That's the way my Japanese friend introduced me to it.
beth1 at 10:24PM on 04/15/08
@AuntJone...........I was planning to bring faux apple pie to the reunion and yelling "Surprise" when the turnips were sprayed. You spoiled it! Seriously though, turnip pie anyone? Anyone??? ANYONE??????
You made my sides split. The seams were already loose, but you ripped them. And made me spray my beer!!!!
PerkyMac at 10:49PM on 04/15/08
Oh yeah, another awful food (if that's what you want to call it): water chestnuts. I hate them. YUCK
Butrflygirly at 10:55PM on 04/15/08
Okay, when I tried Natto, the only description of the taste/texture that I could come up with was if a dirty, old gym sock came to life, devoured a whole bunch of lentils, died half-way through the digestive process, and then had the lentils removed from its stomach during the autopsy and left on a plate by mistake. It tasted like hurl and I nearly did.
Raw onions no longer trigger my instantaneous up-chuck reflex, but even a tiny piece of one can still spoil my day.
Stufsocker at 2:01PM on 04/16/08
Caviar UGH ! Taste like rotten fish!
Nina0411 at 6:19PM on 04/16/08
See, I haven't tried natto, but the texture looks a little bit like rice krispie treats. I know the taste is totally different, but I think I'd be cool with the texture since it reminds me of something I like.
Kerosena at 8:45PM on 04/16/08
@Perky: Turnip pie sounds like it could be good with the right spices, and mixed with apples. I like them, too. Would make it and let you know, but my daughter would gag. Turnips won't pass thru her lips, so there's many things I love that I won't make, just for me. BTW--BFE is either a place in the boonies, or in a God awful 'town' such as this one. It's a small town in N.Western Mo.. NOT like K. City or St. Louis---just a totally nothing place where even the town square is crumbling. I suspect before winter, I'll be going back to De.. Trying to give it a chance, but am batting zero. Yes, ALL rolls are called buns--even dinner rolls. Where do you hail from?
@Butrfly: Mayo for Bobbie's, but oil for Italian's. I know this isn't where I should post this, but can't find the original. No Name is a Greek joint at the end of a St. off Main--can't remember which one. Miss Napoli's, too, over in Kohl's shopping center on Kirkwood Hwy..
Nasty foods for me are okra, unless it's fried, First time I attempted to eat it, it was sliced and boiled. OMG!! YUCK!! Can't think of too much that I won't at least try, but brain fog has set in, so later. DD just read what I said about going back to De., so there will be a 'debate'. ANOTHER one.
JudyV
JudyV at 8:55PM on 04/16/08
Thousand year old eggs, enough said. I'm told you either love it or hate it. My grandmother would tell me it would make my skin pretty if I ate them. Ummm no.
ag3208 at 9:05PM on 04/16/08
@JudyV: Def oil for Italian. I am with you there. Mmmmm...Napoli. Great place. Seems like we have some similar tastes. DE definitely has some good restaurants.
Along the lines of Napoli-but a little bit better, did you ever go to Valle's in Pike Creek? Aside from great food-their Martini's are to die for.
I think we could make our own thread with these postings we have going..:)
Butrflygirly at 1:06PM on 04/17/08
A Ruben sandwich. Weird, I like corned beef, saurkraut and thousand island dressing, but I cannot stand the three together.
Mnemosyne at 1:22PM on 04/17/08
@Butrflygirly: Forgot Valle's, which is a little better, except for the tomato garlic pizza at Napoli's. Just Roma's, garlic and garlic infused olive oil. So simple, but so good.
You've been reading my mind about the thread. There are many good places to eat, but unfortunately there are those who think De. is a culinary black hole. Kinda blew my mind, but if people don't know, that's what they'll think. Let's do it!
JudyV
JudyV at 1:53PM on 04/17/08
@ag3208- I tried thousand year old eggs at a Chinese New Years party many years ago and threw up. I had totally forgotten about them! If they're supposed to be good for your skin, I'll settle for acne.
RichardCrystal at 2:25PM on 04/17/08
There are a bunch of things I don't like but I don't remember spitting anything out that wasn't spoiled or undercooked or something. Although creamed celery might give me a run for my money.
Of the things mentioned above the ones I love best are water chestnuts and beets. :-)
wellred at 4:44PM on 04/17/08
Vegemite and balut.
BITTER at 4:53PM on 04/17/08
Salted licorice. I am ambivalent about licorice; some of it is okay, like an Australian imported brand I tried once. But, not knowing any better, I picked up a Dutch brand when I was at the import store last time, since it was on sale. Popped one into my mouth, chewed... And started drooling. I could feel the saliva glands underneath my tongue squirting as I bit into this black candy that tasted like super-concentrated salt! I spit it out, after running halfway across the house to the sink, but little bits of candy were stuck to my teeth, and black drool was leaking out the corners of my mouth. Salmiakki. Nasty, nasty stuff.
Tally at 8:49PM on 04/19/08
Pickled herring. I just wasn't prepared. My then boyfriend (now husband) INSISTED I have a piece for good luck on New Year's Eve, it's some German thing. I'm sure I had a little to drink and it was after midnight. I can take it now but that first year I thought I was going to throw up all over his parents.
maggiehc at 12:45PM on 04/20/08
Sea Urchin. Or Uni Sushi.
We ordered two pieces. I took one in my mouth and thought I was eating sea urchin waste. I smiled and told my hubby it was awesome. SUCKER. He ate the other piece and has not let me live it down since.
I see others eating it now with lemon (not how we tried it 13 years ago) so I am tempted to try it again, but ya know fool me twice shame on me...
bodaciousgirl at 12:54PM on 04/20/08
@Tally: Salt licorice is most horrible!
It's the only food I've ever spit out . . . and I spit it out the window of a moving car. Granted, it was in the middle of nothingness in Iceland. No other cars -- nor people, for that matter -- were on the road.
Nordic folks apparently like salt licorice and upon seeking out a snack while visiting my sister in Iceland, I bought some by mistake. I'm sure the label stated what it was, but I don't read Islenska.
When a bunch of us embarked on a two hour roadtrip to see some waterfalls, I got hungry. And I discovered my disgust of salt licorice. Gak!
Susquehanna at 5:21PM on 04/20/08
Raw clams. Forced to eat one by my grandfather at age 10, traumatized and unable to eat fish or seafood ever since.
embolini9 at 10:53AM on 04/21/08
orange marmalade, that stuff is just awful
jobug_tincher at 11:57AM on 04/22/08
@JudyV........hail from PA, far NW burbs of Philly, but really boondocks here, so I understand. Sounds like moving back to DE would end something? I hope not. Appreciate your vote for turnip pie (makes me giggle just thinking about it), and my daughters would gag, too. I do love my root veggies and fruit, so maybe with apples, butter, spices? I'm not gonna try it until Mikey tastes it! Hey, Mikey......... ;-O
PerkyMac at 12:04PM on 04/22/08
liver
lima beans
lime jello
miracle whip
Brownie at 12:56PM on 04/22/08