What's The Grossest Thing You've Accidentally Eaten
Thursday, May 1st, 2008 - 12:56pm
One evening I made myself a cup of hot cocoa and settled down to watch a movie, in the dark. After sipping my way through most of the cup, I reached the last inch or so and it was fairly cool. I chugged back the rest of the cocoa. As I was swishing and enjoying the flavor, I noticed what I though was a cocoa mix lump. After trying to dissolve it with my tongue to no avail, I spit it into my hand. It was the corpse of a daddy long legs spider.
I don't drink homemade cocoa very often anymore and even when I do, I inspect it very carefully.
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I have a friend who enjoys chewing tobbacco. He often uses empty beer cans for his spit.
I was at a party, my partially empty beer can was sitting next to his spit can...
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Are we talking about accidentally, or intentionally?
I've eaten some pretty gross stuff... surprisingly, nothing unintentional comes to mind other than the usual stupid stuff (inhaling a bug or something).
During a wilderness survival unit in an environmental biology class I ate a pillbug larva. It was really tiny so no big deal. During that SAME class (different unit) we were surveying the tree species in the surrounding woodlands and there was a sickly, crusty, nasty tree that didn't have any leaves so I couldn't readily identify it. However, we had learned to identify some tree species by taste.
It was a birch.
NOTE: This is not a doodle bug.
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I'm Chinese so I already eat a bunch of stuff you whiteys probably find offensive.
That said, the one food off the top of my head that grossed me out - scrapple, which, ironically, is very much white people food.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrapple *gag*
EDIT: Okay, it was no accident that I ate it. But still gross nonetheless.
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That is horrible.
I'm sure I've inadvertently eaten some gross things over the years, but I am lucky enough to be blissfully ignorant of them. I do, however, have a friend who accidentally ate a piece of regurgitated hamburger that I belched out of the depths of my gullet. He thought it was a piece of the chili he was eating.
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To me nothing is really "gross" I have a high tolerance for all foods (I'm curious on how dog tastes like). Probably the grossest thing people might find gross is some type of sushi. I think it was eel and starfish.
i dont think i've seen starfish on menus. but speaking of sushi, sea urchin (uni) is pretty gross.
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I'm a sushi fan and generally open-minded, but this one time a friend talked my into trying a Sea Urchin roll.
It doesn't taste too bad per-say (he rightfully described it as tasting like "the essence of the sea"), but the texture induced a literal gag-reflex. It's mushy like a long over-ripe peach and utterly disgusting.
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LOL @ Novocain's post!
It's probably when I was visiting my grandmother a long, long time ago and decided to have a glass of milk. The glass I grabbed had just contained some pickled herring and hadn't been cleaned, which I didn't notice. The combination of milk, fish-taste and vinegar was a horrible surprise.
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I've eaten plenty of "gross" stuff intentionally, but I can't think of anything I ate by accident.
I liked the flavor of sea urchin, but both times I tried it, it left a chalky texture in my mouth the rest of the night.
I've had pig kidneys, pig stomachs, brains and eggs, thousand year eggs, turkey gizzards, and everything on the sushi menu. I actually grew up eating a lot of those items, and I'll pretty much try anything once.
Two things I want to try but haven't had the opportunity are balut and prairie oysters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balut
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I ate live sushi. It tasted fine, but I don't know that I need it that fresh.
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thinking it was chiken and dumplings i had some squirrel brains
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By far, half of a 2 inch long cockroach that was hiding under a Chinese omelet from a street vendor.
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I've eaten a lot of odd things intentionally while traveling to other countries (Colombian "fat ass" ants, pigeon brains, calf brains, congealed blood, all sorts of creepy crawlies in SE Asia), but not much by accident.
Once in Brazil I visited a Lebanese restaurant, and the owner brought out an appetizer that looked like some kind of cheese ball, olive oil poured on top, and pita slices to eat it with. After I ate a big scoop, I realized that it was raw ground meat. Yuck!
I don't have a problem with raw meat, per se--I eat my steaks very rare--but not after it's been through a grinder. Those things are hard to keep perfectly clean, so I make sure any ground meat I eat is damn well cooked. It probably didn't help that I had visited a slaughterhouse on the same day I went to the restaurant.
This reminds me: one time I was at a party in college, and a friend of mine was going crazy ("a pistolas" as we used to say), drinking everything in sight. At one point he yelled, "Someone give me a drink, now!," so I jokingly handed him a glass with an inch or so of beer in it that everyone had been using as an ashtray. He didn't even look at it; he just downed it in one gulp. He immediately turned bright red--the only time I've seen someone literally turn as red as a lobster--and choked out "you bastard!" before running outside and throwing up for the next hour. Besides the foul liquid & ashes, he had swallowed 3 cigarette butts.
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Some weird fish fetus thing in Japan. Was both spicy and sour at the same time.
Accidental: I usually have a glass of juice beside my bed while I sleep. I guess I left a glass there for too long during the summer one time. I reached over one morning and I realized that the orange juice had fermented and a colony of fruit flies had taken up camp.
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We had a dumpy old movie theater nearby when I was growing up. It was really the only theater within a reasonable distance from our home without driving down to Pittsburgh (that has since changed). They didn't clean the theaters after each show, only at night once everything was done. I set down my drink on the floor, because the chairs didn't have cupholders in the armrests. I didn't pick it up again until the end of the movie, and I noticed it was warm, and very watery when I sucked on the straw. I hadn't realized it, but I had picked up a cup someone had left from some other showing, in which the ice had melted. I don't buy drinks at the theater anymore, in part because of that, in part because they're so damned expensive.
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Back in High School everyone used to dare everyone else to eat gross lunchtime concoctions. I drank a cup of mustard and ketchup one time, thought not on accident.
I ate a bloody hamburger from the school cafeteria once. This was years ago. I payed two bucks for a burger in the cafeteria and went to sit down. I casually unwrapped the burger while talking with a few friends. I took a bite and automatically shot it out of my mouth across the table. I reached to wipe my mouth with a napkin and there was blood all over it. Awful, awful school lunches!
The worst thing, although not the grossest, was a vegemite sandwhich when I was in Australia. A friend kept saying "it's good I promise. try it." I can't remember eating anything that tasted that bad.
A possible contender was on my 'Beret Exercise' after basic training in the army. After 48 hours without food, only water, we were served a herring and an eye from a sheep to eat. I ate it, but damn that combination was horrible. Not vegemite horrible, but still horrible
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I was eating this cereal that has these little seeds and grains. It looked like they were moving, and I thought it was just my imagination. Then I noticed tiny little legs attached. I have to admit I screamed like a sissy. I was in high school and my dad was leaving for work. He picked up the cereal box and saw them crawling around in there. He called the cereal company and reamed them out over the phone. What did they offer me? A free box of cereal. No thanks!
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This is not as horrible as some of the things mentioned here, but once a number of years ago, my aunt made a meatloaf using packaged oatmeal as the binder. She'd done that before, and it turned out fine. This time, however, she accidently used flavored oatmeal - vanilla, to be specific. Yuck.
My grandmother (and great-aunt and great-uncle who were living with us at the time) loved it, as did the people at her church when she took the leftovers to a church meeting. But then, old people have no sense of taste anyway.
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An unidentifiable piece of chinese cousine soaked in various liquors and stomach acid, partially digested. Why you ask? Because I was pissed drunk and more or less passed out. I also vomitted (the first time I did that from alcohol) and some of it found its way on my arm. I woke up in the middle of the night with something on my arm. I couldn't figure out what it was after looking at it, sniffing it, and touching it. So I used my last remaining sense... taste. I must say it didn't taste too good.
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lol.. I think it's whats known as an 'aquired taste' - ie if it's forced down your neck from the moment you can chew, you won't mind so much. I just had vegemite on toast for breakfast.
Other than that nothing too bad. I have managed to swallow a few adventurous flies which isnt really a great taste sensation, and I have done the lebenese raw mince meat thing as well, which actually wasnt too bad tasting, though the texture was a bit.. different. Copious amounts of beer may have assisted that one in it's passage somewhat.
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I have eaten my share of weird things intentionally. But the worst thing I ate (and kept on eating for weeks...) has to be mold...
Okay so this was in my 2nd semester freshman year in college. My roommate turned into a irresponsible and lazy slob all of a sudden (I suspect it had something to do with pledging to a frat). So he basically spends all the money on booze and take food from me
I was fine playing the "cleaning dude" roll (the toilet was the worst since drunk guys don't really aim well at all... Or they don't try to), but stealing my food so that he could go out and party all night while I starve trying to study all night w/o food was the last straw.
After confronting him with my bag of beef jerky disappearing with no success (he told me maybe the rats at it...). I decided to hide my food from him. So after I went home for the winter break, I bought back a loaf of very nice organic bread. I couldn't keep it in the fridge that I brought since I know my roommate will take it... So I decided to just hide the loaf under my bed, I mean it is winter and it is damn cold in Ithaca... Boy was I wrong... I didn't factor in the fact that my roommate is at home ALL THE TIME and he likes to keep the room very warm...
So mold quickly covered my nice organic bread... But I didn't know since I only really munch on it during my late night study sessions and I keep the lighting to a minimum since I don't want to be an ass and disturb my roommate's sleep...
For weeks I ate these moldy bread, I thought the taste was kinda funny but since that was my first fancy organic bread, I figure it must be the taste of "organic..." I also had stomach problems all of a sudden but I never connected the dots...
Until one day, I picked up a slice of bread that is almost completely covered in mold, I thought the texture of the bread was really weird, so I put it under my desk lamp... THE HORROR! Actually, I was more pissed than scared... I was pissed that the damn mold ate my food, why is it that someone or something else always eat my food for me!
I stormed out of my room with the rest of the bread and vowed vengeance -- I was going to toast the damn molds. By the time I toasted one slice of the bread my senses returned to me, I figure, it is not the molds' fault for eating my food, it was mine (and my roommate's!). So I just threw the bread into the trash can and wish the mold enjoy the food and walked away...
In retrospect, I am thankful that I didn't think to much about it and actually looked up what molds can do... I think I'd scare myself to death with that information...
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I'm told that the combination of pickle juice and milk is literally impossible to keep down; I'm not so curious to try it myself, but I can't say I haven't been tempted to throw down an epic Bluff check to get someone else to do so.
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While I didn't actually eat it, I did "win" a bobbing for pig tongue contest once. The heart was also in the bucket.
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Wasabi covered peas. Pretty bad on their own, worse if you think you're getting yogurt covered raisins.
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Once, after a very heavy night drinking, i got back home and decided that i was really hungry so i put a pizza in the oven. I ate half of the pizza and then realised i was going to be sick so i put the other half in the fridge. I forced myself to be sick so that i could sleep well and went to bed.
When i awoke in the morning i was starving (my stomach was empty after all
) so took the pizza out of the fridge and began eating. Immediately i discovered that the texture and taste was very strange so i took a second look at the pizza and found on the underside that i'd managed to bake the styrofoam base along with it the night before.
I'm just glad that i was sick before i went to bed. I can't imagine what the solidified plastic would have been like coming out the other end...
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