what is the most disgusting thing you've ever put in your mouth?

-- Anonymous, May 11, 2001

Answers

of course, I'm talking about food, but you can tell us any nasty thing you stuck in your pie-hole....

Thera-flu makes me vomit...I would rather sweat out my illness in misery than drink that revolting crap.

-- Anonymous, May 11, 2001

I'd have to say raw oysters. yeah, yeah, I know there's a whole following of people who swear by these things, but I'm telling you: they're whale boogers.

-- Anonymous, May 11, 2001

Squash makes me lose my cookies. I hate, hate, hate it, the texture, the squishyness, everything. I've lived overseas and have eaten things I've never seen again, this side of 'Iron Chef' (that eel is not dead yet!) and still, an innocent little vegetable does me in. I can't even look at it cooked. bleah.

My dad cannot handle porridge. He can't even sit at the table if someone is eating it, he gets up and leaves. He was born during the depression, and his parents carried that depression mentality throughout his childhood. If he was given poridge, (which he was every day,) then, dammit, he had to eat it, even if he threw up. Gramma was a wonderful woman, but, man, she was iron-fisted when it came to food.

-- Anonymous, May 11, 2001

The one time I tried tuna sashimi, I thought it was pretty freaking gross. I'm gonna give it one more try before I decide for sure, though.

-- Anonymous, May 11, 2001

Once I was siphoning gas out of my car. I got a mouthful and swallowed some. It was high test Amoco. Made me sick. Tasted terrible.

-- Anonymous, May 11, 2001

Deb, I hate squash too. But only when it's cooked. You should try it raw, dipped in something Ranch. Still disgusting: okra in any form.

-- Anonymous, May 11, 2001

Southern Comfort. I am literally gagging right now, just thinking about it. Bleargh.

-- Anonymous, May 12, 2001

Ginger candy.

Bought it at an organic food co-op to snack on during a road trip. It was like raw ginger or something, with a sugary crust. See, I realized when I bought it that I didn't really know what ginger would taste like. The package said "Nature's Candy".

Nature is a tasteless whore. It's revolting. It burned and made me gag. Vile, vile stuff.

-- Anonymous, May 12, 2001

No! It's good if you take it in tiny, tiny bites. Sort of like Red Hots.

-- Anonymous, May 12, 2001

I love my coffee, but I spit it out at "Nature is a tasteless whore." Shit, Robyn, that was funny.

Buckley's cough syrup. It's like eucalyptus (sp?) mixed with spit. Hideous.

-- Anonymous, May 13, 2001

ok i guess theres no way to beat around the bush on this one. most disgusting thing would be...cum. contrary to what my fiance says, it DOES NOT taste like cotten candy.

-- Anonymous, May 13, 2001

It doesn't?

What's your fiance been eating?

Just kidding. Heh.

-- Anonymous, May 13, 2001

I wouldn't say it tasted like Cotton Candy, but it's not as bad as...oh, I don't know, like GINGER CANDY!

Gwen, if I ever stumble across it again, I may give it a nibble just to see if I was wrong. But if I have the choice between ejaculate and ginger candy, I can't promise that I'm going to eat the ginger candy.

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

I've had that ginger candy stuff and Gwen's right - it's okay in tiny amounts (and I mean tiny).

When I was a kid, I couldn't eat stewed tomatoes or hamburgers from McDonald's (or anywhere else) without gagging. I'm still no big fan of stewed tomatoes, but I've cooked various dishes with them and they're great that way. I think my problem with hamburgers was that my sense of smell wasn't very good, and since smell contributes so much to the perception of taste I paid a lot of attention to texture. The feel of hamburger and bread in my mouth was gross. I got over it.

When I was a teenager, a girl described for me the generic taste of semen as "a combination of buttermilk and Clorox [bleach]."

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

I never liked stewed tomatoes, either. I can now eat stuff that contains them, but I usually eat around them and leave them on my plate. I like sun-dried tomatoes, though.

Semen tastes like raw egg whites mixed with sea water.

-- Anonymous, May 14, 2001

Oh, cum on folks. Semens like it may have unique flavors based on the individual. Whatever the taste, I hear it is highly nutritious. I shall qualify my answer. The grossest thing I have ever *swallowed* (we could digress here to a whole other issue), was raw squid or something else just as slimy and smelly at a very traditional Chinese restaurant.

-- Anonymous, May 15, 2001

Tripitas. But I like em? Does that count?

Letty

-- Anonymous, May 16, 2001

Raw sugercane. Yucky. Too sweet and it has a woody texture.

-- Anonymous, May 21, 2001

I love raw sugarcane, woody taste and all! LM

-- Anonymous, May 21, 2001

I like raw sugarcane, too. Maybe you just got a bad batch, Travis. :-)

-- Anonymous, May 22, 2001

I would have to say fried lettuce. I had it in Japan. I hadn't prepared myself for the searing feeling that was going to overcome me seconds after I put it in my mouth.

-- Anonymous, May 22, 2001

I probably hate it cause I'm not real big on sweet stuff anyway. That and it was gross. :)

I thought of another one. Cranberries suck. Yuck yuck yuck. You see cranberries where gods way of saying invent the slingshot but did humans get it? No. We tried to eat them. Typical.

-- Anonymous, May 23, 2001