The 5 Most Disgusting Foods. Ever.

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...

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.

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)

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

Tripe was my grandfather's favorite dish.

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.

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

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.

I'm kind of disappointed with this post. Being a diet site, I was hoping it would be more of this: http://www.diet-blog.com/archives/2008/06/02/the_most_sugary_beverage_is.php and not just unusual food from around the world.

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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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

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

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. =)

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!!

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.

Have you ever heard of Delicious Monsters? It's a tropical plant that gives you a mouth full of acid if you eat it raw. Wait until it ripens and it's supposed to taste like fruit cocktail.

gross! I can't even eat fatty foods like bacon anyway, because my stomach doesn't like it. some of these are just over the top.

I like that show "Bizarre Foods" with Andrew Zimmern. He's really fun to watch...he eats/has eaten most of the things on that list, plus more. I think most of the "gross" foods that he's tried really weren't "gross", just foods that are an acquired taste. I could see durian being an acquired taste. It does sound really gross, but it's probably not any different than, say, Roquefort cheese or something.

I haven't tried any of these foods, but I have eaten mealworms and some interesting fruits in Central America. Lots of the flavors are just a bit different, but some were pretty yummy.

hahahaha...i love durian. i can eat that for the rest of my life and nothing else.

the tripe meat is part of the asian cuisine, so that doesn't shock me.

ohkay..... firstly, durian does NOT smell like rotting or decomposing corpse! The first time anyone smells it or tastes it might give the person a shock, but trust me, the second time you eat it, you'll actually like it! It doesnt even taste bad at all! people here make durian cakes, sweets and all, used as flavors in many desserts, let alone the fruit itself.

and second... tripe meat or whatever, that cow stomach thing, doest NOT smell like stale bladder! it doesnt even HAVE any smell! i eat it often, i mean, it's sold in the markets, and it's used in soups and stuff. PLEASE, do NOT convey such wrong understandings and statements.

AND THIRDLY (ALTHOUGH MOST IMPORTANTLY)
QUOTE:
"Typically, tripe, guts and other undesirables are used to make dog food, not people food. The stink means it's unfit for human consumption."
Emphasis : DOG food, unfit for HUMAN consumption.
dogs are animals, what makes YOU any different from animals or in this case, specifically, dogs? To tell you the truth, i have eaten dog pellets just to have a taste of it, and my dog is allowed to eat any kind of "human food" so long as it's not going to cause harm to it. I can understand and tolerate the fact that there are many choosy eaters or people who criticizes food they do not accept, but i do not tolerate that thing about dogs.

Tripe is not very popular here (Chile) but it is common, its even sold on supermarkets. And with the right tomatoe suauce and moshed popatoes is pretty good, I love it, not smelly at all, and not hard for the stomach.

I recomend it.

Ok, I think I am officially grossed out.

The Durian Fruit definitely is the most disgusting food around, its smell is awful.

Nasty coffee poop. How could anyone consume that?

The worse thing I ever ate was cat food. And that was on a bet!

Once upon a time, I waitressed at an Italian restaurant to pick up some extra cash. This was authentic Italian -- owned and run by Italians, and patronized almost exclusively by Italians. On Wednesdays, the special was tripe, and I swear every elderly Italian from miles around would descend upon the restaurant for a dish of tripe in sauce. It may be considered gross in the States, but the old Italians adore it.

my baby girl now 25 was brought up on trout as a toddler lol! she loved it mixed with lots of vegetables and mashed..it was considered a good nutritious and easily digested meal here in the UK..Spain too. I never remember it smelling of urine..in fact it had hardly any smell at all. Smelly tripe is not fresh. I never had the guts (excuse the pun!) to try it but my baby girl loved it and thrived on it! I was a very young and hard up for money mom so it was a great to have access to this cheap but nutritious food.

I would make it in a big casserole with rice and veg then freeze it in portions for her supper.

We have had many a good laugh about it as she now could not stand the thought of having eaten tripe as a baby!

durian is nirvana. 'nuff said.

I can't believe Taco Bell didn't make the list. But then again, maybe they didn't consider that food.

The only two I would object to at least trying is the maggot cheese and the feces coffee. I wouldn't try them because they sound dangerous to try. (Make you sick or deathly ill)

I had tripe tacos and really, it tasted fine. I am scared of durian... eeeek!

I am also scared of Yak Butter tea, anybody had that?

What is actually "disgusting" is pretty subjective; I'm not insulted, but I feel like that should have been stated instead of being made to sound like people who eat said foods are off their rocker.

I've lived in Singapore my entire life and the first fruit that I ate and loved was Durian. Depending on the tree, Durians can actually vary in flavour, from more pungent and intense to lighter and sweeter. People who like them also might prefer a certain kind more than the other.

I've never tried the "poop coffee" - unlike fugu where it has to be specially prepared or you could be poisoned/dead, I've ever heard of anyone falling sick from the coffee.

Tripe stew is also common in Croatia, if cleaned properly, they don't stink.

Croatians eat bulls balls. Not to bad i might say.

I agree with all the entries in this list except durian. I'm not asian and it took me three years to try it (coz of comments and articles about how it stinks etc), but they dont call it the king of fruit for nothing.

3 of those 5 food are my favorite haha

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I find it hilarious that any editor/contributor to a site that promotes/critiques different methods of glorified starvation is calling food from other cultures disgusting.

I'll take a slice of maggot cheese over a sentence of eating cabbage soup or handfuls almonds and cottage cheese anyday.

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Durian fruit actually didn't look so bad. Fish eyes are the worst in my opinion.

The maggot cheese has to the worst! Why would people EAT that?