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The 5 Most Disgusting Foods. Ever.

By Gerry Pugliese

There are some real gross foods out there. And most, you'll find at the local supermarket, like greasy bacon, trans-fat packed cookies with a 10 year shelf-life and chemically engineered diet sodas. But, it could be worse, a lot worse!

So, the next time you're mad at your stomach and want to teach it lesson. Give it a hearty helping of cow entrails with a side of maggot cheese and then, wash it down with a hot steaming cup of poop coffee. Seriously.

Scorpion Kebab

Somewhere lurking in a Beijing night market is the scorpion kebab. This treacherous snack is crisp on the outside and smooth in the middle and as this street vendor says, "Healthy, delicious!"

Now, despite their menacing appearance, most scorpions are timid. Even their stinger is usually harmless to humans. But it'd still be awful to get it caught in your teeth. Eek!

Durian Fruit

It's hard to imagine a fruit, which smells like a rotting corpse, is considered as the king of all fruits. Durian fruit, native to Southeast Asia, has actually been banned in some hotels and public transportation because its reeks.

However, inside its thick thorny husk is a yellowish custard-like flesh that tastes a lot like almonds. Yeah, rotting flesh almonds.

Casu Marzu Cheese

Maggots in your food is bad! But not if you're eating Casu Marzu, sheep's milk cheese infested with insect larva. Found mainly in Sardinia, Italy, some say it tastes like soap. You eat it by smearing it on bread, maggots and all.

Casu Marzu, also called maggot cheese, has been outlawed, because it becomes toxic when all the maggots die off. Now it's sold on the black market.

Tripe Meat

It looks like a dingy dish towel and smells like stale urine. So, let's eat it! Tripe is a type of offal, the entrails and organs of butchered animals. Very popular in Italy, beef tripe is made from the first three chambers of a cow's stomach.

And here's the kicker. Typically, tripe, guts and other undesirables are used to make dog food, not people food. The stink means it's unfit for human consumption.

Kopi Luwak Coffee

Kopi Luwak or civet coffee is made by brewing the undigested coffee beans in the crap of the Asian Palm Civet, a weasel-like mammal. The civet's stomach enzymes break down proteins in the beans giving the coffee a less bitter taste.

And even though the coffee is made from feces-beans, a single cup of Kopi Luwak can cost as much as $50. Now, if you'll excuse me. I have to go vomit. Bleh!

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58 Comments

Mark

The scorpion kebab doesn't surprise me since the Chinese eat A LOT of things. I'm Chinese btw...but haven't eaten any insects or weird animal before (think dog meat)

Durian is an acquired taste, either you love it or hate it (I love it). I come from Malaysia, which is part of South East Asia and durians is a local seasonal fruit here. MOST foreigners (western or other asians) can't stand the smell, as it is too strong and pungent. That's the main reason it's being banned from hotels and other establishments where tourists frequent, not because it's deemed ghastly or unhealthy. I call it nature's custard!

About the cheese, saw it in a food documentary once, still can't believe that people can eat something with maggots in it.

Tripe is also used in certain chinese dishes, but rarely.

Civet coffee is one the most (if not, the MOST) expensive coffee in the world I believe. It's mind-boggling sometimes to think someone would pay so much to drink something that is brewed from once feces-covered beans. Must be either really good or just really rare...

Berni

Ahh Durian, it took me 3 trips to Malaysia and a whole lot of determination to understand the fanatical love some people have for this crazy piece of nature. I'm proud to say I now get it, and am looking forward to my next trip so I can sit on a plastic stool in the street somewhere and savor this smelly wonder.

Durian

one taste of durian was enough for me... BLEK

Trent

Tripe is very common in the Vietnamese Pho soup. I've had it. Trust me, it won't kill you. I had fried pig intestines recently, which isn;t bad if it's cleaned well. Tastes like fatty pork.

Balut is a popular dish in some parts of Asia. My Filipina gf loves it. I haven't had the chance to...um, "experience".... it yet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balut_(egg)

Cari from ditch diets

I've tried Durian - smells like hell and I'm not exactly lining up for more.... it really is a cultivated taste. But hey I grew up on a farm where we ate tripe and I love it. Also entrails that are properly cleaned, don't smell one bit and are perfectly delicious

Fiona

Tripe was my grandfather's favorite dish.

Ross

Tripe was very popular in the UK until relatively recently. There is a big push by Chef's to get it back on our menu's as part of ensuring sustainability in our food chain.

And if prepared, cooked and stored right it does not smell like urine, it doesn't smell of much at all.

Masteradept

Tripe is not that bad if prepared right. Anthony Bourdain loves the stuff.

Cathy

Tripe is actually really tasty if you know how to prepare it the right way. If it smells bad still, then it might mean it's not fresh anymore.

Ross

Oh and try telling the millions of people that eat Haggis on Burns night that tripe is not fit for human consumption!

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Jay

Uh, where have I heard that before?

Ryan

Whoa!
I have heard of Kopi Luwak, I'm a coffee lover, but the rest....eww...ok, I've heard of scorpion kebabs...I have family from Thailand. To each his own I guess, but it kind of sounds disgusting, especially the stomach food.

Ryan

Sandy

I hate durian with a passion, but my Filipino grandmother loves it.

Jems

Oh goodness, Hilarious! My favorite fruit is featured. I never thought it smelt bad, just really powerful. I was frightened though, when I first tried it as a kid but then the deliciousness won me over.

Tripe is also a favorite. Wow... This was a blow to the Asians. You ought to focus more on Scottish food. I hear they're really horrible. =)

Gigi

omg beef tripe is VERY popular in Mexico....LOL
used to cure a hangover!!!! and HIGHLY EFFECTIVE.
OFTEN ONLY sold on weekends sat/sun @ almost all
mexican resturants.....
Known as Menudo (yes like the singing group Menudo)
It is as popular as Pozole....
Try it ...when your hung over.
ONE bowl and your PERFECTLY NORMAL :)
ODD BUT TRUE..........

ps....I HAVE TRIED IT....I DONT DRINK
AND WHEN I TURNED 21 I GOT THE WORSE HANGOVER(HEADACHE/MIGRAIN,SUPER THIRSTY,UPSET STOMOACH,THROWING UP,DIZZY,STILL DRUNK 12HOURS AFTER LAST DRINK....JUS A MESS.......
MY LAST DRINK TOO!!!!!!!!!!!

MY PARENTS GAVE ME A BOWL OF THIS (BOUGHT @ RESTAURANT)I WAS PERFECTLY FINE........RIGHT AFTER
SHOCKING!!!!!!!!!!

LIKE MY MOM SAID : DONT DRINK UNLESS YOU WANT MENUDO!!

Katie

You know, I never like lists like these. All this means is that these foods are considered disgusting (or even just smelly) according to a specific Western mindset. I prefer Michael Pollen's thought, that things considered seven stages beyond edible in one culture are a delicacy fifty miles away.

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