Nastiest tasting "appetizer" or "try THIS" food???

[SoCalDem]

Last night my son ordered "Deep fried avocado" appetizer.. What a shitty thing to do to a perfectly good avocado..yuk!!!

[salmonhorse]

1. Like avocado' aren't rich enough as it is ~

:shrug:

[Loonman]

2. Escargot

Snails, man! snails!

[thom1102]

6. Why did the snail want his car

cutomized with an "S" on the side? So that when people saw him on the road, they would say "Hey, look at that escargot!" -get it? escargot/ "S" car go? I crack myself up!

[eyesroll]

7. Ever have them tapas style?

With garlic aioli on toast -- that's the only way I can handle snails.

I have a habit of ordering deliberately exotic things, just to gross other people at my table out (especially if I'm dining with my mom). There's an Asian buffet near my mom's house, and it's got everything from sushi (I'd stick to the California rolls at a place like this) to bulgogi to pad thai to adobo. There's a Korean noodle island, and one of the garnishes is whole, dried fish (not sure what they are -- they look kind of like minnows). I got a few of those and waved them around with my chopsticks, just to bug my mom. Adults = babies in big bodies.

(Of course, she's also grossed out by California rolls, simply because they're a kind of sushi and sushi = raw fish to her, so this isn't hard to do.)

[Loonman]

8. I just can't eat 'em

Which doesn't make sense, since I eat raw oysters which some people would say are nasty, and they are, but they just taste so damn good.

[curse10]

12. I used to love escargot

before I went veggie.

Escargot in a puff pastry with brie and blue cheese.

[punpirate]

3. One worse...

... overcooked, breaded, deep-fried squid tentacle rings. Like a fish-flavored onion ring with the consistency of inner tube.

I love squid. Hate those.

[SoCalDem]

4. EEK I hate those calimari things..

The only GREAT appetizers are Nachos with guacamole or zucchini:)

I know.. I'm in a rut.. :)

[Loonman]

14. LOL

I had a coworker who loved calimari until I told her what they were.

[ima_sinnic]

5. BWAHAHAHAHA--just sprayed my coffee!

[trof]

9. pickled sheep's head

Not sheepshead, the fish.
A sheep's head.
Pickled.
Sliced in half, right between the eyes.
You got half a tongue, half a brain, and one eye.
A few little teeth; but they weren't edible.
I was at a restaurant in Rome, and they were on the antipasto table.
The young lady with me saw them and said "Eeuuuuu YUCK!".
Naturally I had to show off for her, so I added one to my plate.
It wasn't bad, even the eye, if you didn't think about what you were eating.
She wouldn't kiss me on the mouth until late the next day.
;-)

[SoCalDem]

10. That takes the prize..

How utterly NASTY :(:(:(:puke:

[trof]

11. Yeah, that's a hard one to top.eom

[TXlib]

16. KCDem won't kiss me after I've eaten beef

She claims I have "beef lips".

[Interrobang]

13. Mock kishkes...

The PIC's mom's friend offered me some at PICMom's b-day party. I should have been wary when a bunch of elderly New York City Jewish folks crowded around and said, "Try it! It's gooood...," but normally, I *like* Jewish food.

Argh. Ag. Awk. If the mock kishkes are so bad, I never, ever want to taste the genuine article (and yes, I know what the real ones are, and I've actually eaten -- if not enjoyed -- stuff almost as foul).

[slutticus]

15. Holy Sh*t!!!!!

I saw the title of the post...and I was going to reply about the disgusting avacado fries!!!!!!

These things are so vile........I have not the words to express my feelings......

[Ilsa]

17. Those breaded, fried

bulls balls.

[Kellanved]

20. Breaded Locusts

Breaded Locusts - they taste OK, but are nasty nonetheless.
http://www.soda-berlin.de/index2.html
(The dishes with insects in them are in the "das grosse Krabbeln" section. (Eng: "a Bug's life").
The dishes are:
"The Flying Dutchman": fried Locusts on Cous-Cous with curry.
"Quiche Worm" : a Quiche with mealworms
crickets with pasta, garlic and tomatoes.


It is actually my favourite Restaurant and it's always great fun to take visitors from the states there.

Most dishes aren't with insects though.

[EOTE]

18. I'll eat almost anything.

Especially things raw. I love sashimi, sea urchin, salmon, tuna, octopus, scallops, oysters. I have yet to encounter raw fish that I haven't loved. I like my steaks bloody, and whereas I like pork, I find lots of pig related items to be quite gross. Head cheese? Pigs feet? Pig tails? Yuck! Also, anything that has to do with brains also grosses me out, like sweet breads and so forth. I heard in certain parts of Asia, they eat monkey brains out of living monkeys! Barf!

[FloridaJudy]

19. Disgusting Food

I recently bought a package of "low-fat" knishes from the deli case at my local supermarket.

They are an abomination to the taste buds, and verily they stinketh. If the dudes that wrote Levitticus had encountered that particular culinary offense, they would have decreed stoning at the very least for those responsible for it.

How is it that when I was a kid, knishes were so greasy that they left an oil slick on your plate, and yet we ate them, and - ye, verily - we found them delicious! And very few of us got really, really fat.

These days everything is low-fat, low-calorie, comes with a nutrition information label that practically tells you the manufacturer's mother's maiden name, and yet more people are more overweight than ever. I'm not one to criticize the obese; I'm carrying probably fifty pounds more than I ought to, but it took me *decades* to get out of shape; I'm a Public Health nurse who deals with a mostly young clientel, and I see several three-hundred-plus-pound sixteen year olds every day. And when I find a woman over twenty who weights less than two-hundred, she's the exception.

It's just plain weird.