Grossest food ever?

[serene]

Do not click if you're squeamish. I mean it. Just don't.

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

(Other nominations for "Grossest food ever" entertained in comments.)

Edit: Another candidate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milbenk%C3%A4se

Comments

[damned_colonial]

Casu Marzu is the official favourite cheese of my workplace (not that we eat it, just that we're amused by it.)

Alternative gross food: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A1karl

Chef Anthony Bourdain, who has travelled extensively throughout the world sampling local cuisine for his Travel Channel show No Reservations, has described shark þorramatur as "the single worst, most disgusting and terrible tasting thing" he has ever eaten.

Chef Gordon Ramsay, after challenging journalist James May to sample three "delicacies" (Laotian snake whiskey, bull penis (by which James May said it tasted "rather stiff"), and hákarl), finally vomited after eating hákarl, although May kept his down. May's only reaction was "You disappoint me, Ramsay."

[ecce]

As discovered from this list of the Most Terrifying Foods in the World, I've gotta go with Balut as the one thing that really grosses me out. Why? Because it's a fertilized duck (or chicken) egg with a nearly-developed embryo inside that is boiled and eaten in the shell.

(Don't click on those links if you have a love of small fuzzy baby ducks, or your sanity.)

[serene]

Oh, thinking about the gross stuff I've seen previous to the maggot cheese, I have to add huitlacoche

Trying to think of that blog of gross foods, something like Don't Eat That, Dan! or something. I'll go look it up.

[serene]

Steve, Don't Eat It!

[ecce]

I don't actually like non-moldy corn, but moldy (smutty? Dare I giggle like a schoolgirl?) corn is a million times worse.

Let me know if you find that blog!

[micheinnz]

There's a New Zealand version called "rotten corn", which is corn that has been left in running water for several weeks until it, well, goes rotten. Apparently it makes good soup.

[ecce]

Good soup or no, anything with the word "rotten" in it is off my menu.

[emperor]

Ah, yes, I remember discussing these delights on an IRC channel I frequent. I think "enteric myiasis" has a certain ring to it...

This is from Joyce (bastette_joyce on LJ)

[(Anonymous)]

Hey there! It took me a few days to figure out why your posts weren't showing up in my friends list on LJ. Got that squared away, and now I want to understand why my reply to this thread (which I made last night) didn't show up here. I was reading you on LJ and I used LJ tools to reply. My reply shows up under this post, when I'm reading it on my LJ friends list. But it didn't show up here. I assume that is why you didn't comment back? I guess that means I have to click the link to DW, in order to post a comment here (that you will see)?

As for the contents of last night's comment:

Hey! I finally figured out why your dw journal wasn't showing up in my friends list. All fixed, now!

Is that ant really as big as a bowl?? Eeek! No food is as horrifying to me as that.

Re: This is from Joyce (bastette_joyce on LJ)

[serene]

I think you must have replied to the syndicated entry, but those aren't actually owned/controlled by me, so I don't get notified of comments on those. I do try to check them every few days or so.

(If you want to comment over here, you can either do as you did and post anonymously, or you can use your OpenID, which is bastette_joyce.livejournal.com -- thanks for making the effort!)

And I'm with you on the eewwwwwwwww! but which ant?

Re: This is from Joyce (bastette_joyce on LJ)

[bastette-joyce.livejournal.com]

THIS ant (scroll down just a tiny bit to see it - and note its size relative to the bowl it is standing next to!):

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

Re: This is from Joyce (bastette_joyce on LJ)

[serene]

Eeeeek!