In China, many people consider hasma dessert the perfect punctuation to a great meal. Every night vendors do sell their baluts along the city streets. you sound like you're from singapore or malaysia, Actually, we malaysians and the neighbouring Singaporians don’t eat these icky foods.just so to let you know. wife nor my current wife would eat it. a lot of people say it wrong. I saw it for sale once at a supermarket and bought it on impulse. odd list but black pudding is flippin gorgeous, Wow. Nice article! Top 10 Mind-Blowing, Yet Thought-Provoking Movies, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surstromming, http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/mostof_blackpud, http://www.geocities.jp/hongkong_bird_nest/index_e.htm, Seemingly Important Things That Don’t Really Matter, Future Archaeologists Will Find These Things Very Weird…, Fascinating Facts About the Indus Valley Civilization, 10 More of History’s Strangest Punishments, 10 Awesome Greek Gods You’ve Never Heard Of, Josip Broz ‘Tito’ Biography: Too Tough for Stalin, Adrian Carton de Wiart Biography: The Unbreakable Soldier. Boy oh boy….what you’re describing is like Chicken Mcnuggets in America. Those ballpark hot dogs? When I was younger, I had no idea what I was eating. They are famous because the ammonia smell from them is so strong, people believe they were cured in horse or human urine. These are just good old fashioned traditional foods. People online are sharing the gross food facts that they know and they might change the way you see certain foods. That being said, find bologna (and nearly all hot dogs) pretty vile as well. By the way my last name is pronounced FEAR-MAN. Ignorance talking here. A lot of the kids in our group were able to stay in until about round five. I’m a vegetarian and find eating chicken gross and this site is sick. u eat CATS? Thank You Scream. You should put the Swedish dish Surströmming on there. On top of that is the choice of two: cheeseburgers, hamburgers, red or white hots (hot dogs), Italian sausages, chicken tenders, haddock, fried ham, grilled cheeses, or eggs. AND DAMN, I WISH I HADN'T READ THIS LIST! This disgusting dish is basically the fallopian tubes of frogs. http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/mostof_blackpud… I'm officially changing #1 to Black Pudding. Actually if you eat it, you would be surprised it tastes good. Still, it’s made mostly of skin making it a little gelatinous in texture. There are varieties with onion or rice instead of potato and it is used often in tapas. you neglected to add corn smut to this list or rather Ustilago maydis which i believe roughly translates to disgusting black pustules or something along those lines, “…as resembling stuffed intestines more than sausage”. *retch* I don't think I'll be eating anything today. Really??? Take a second to support Toptenz.net on Patreon! Ugh – these are ALL disgusting (and don't give me guff about, "It's there culture that approves of foods like this…") Most of this stuff is made of parts of animals that should've been tossed or fed to something on the complete bottom of the food chain. Really gross foods eaten are: dead HUMAN BABIES, monkey BRAINS, chocolate covered COCKROACHES, pig BRAINS, a cow PENIS, a STILL beating heart of a COBRA, AND THAT IS JUST THE BEGINNING!! It’s up to you. Well, you can bring back the cinematic fun to your next party with a Fear Factor Food Challenge. I just wanted to put that out there. Don’t need to be rude about it. I also had black pudding in of all places France and that I enjoyed. HOW CRUEL I have had haggis, served in a "traditional" scottish way which was with mashed potatoes and mashed turnips, and it was pretty good… no one else has mentioned that it is insanely spicy! It neither smells bad or tastes bad. After the heads are lopped off, they’re buried in the ground for at least a few weeks. Everything nicely chopped up so it’s fine. It is delicious and I don't care what it is made from I love it. You can find tons of gross food at your local Asian store. It's nutrious. I think the bat or chicken embryo is worse. Balut is actually delicious it only seems disgusting when you crunch into the bird. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surstromming. Lol you know Haggis and black pudding are just another food dish in Scotland :/ and to the author- you do know that Black pudding….isnt…pudding? If people actually went into the foods they eat every day; bugs, rodent feces. What a wasteful nation we have become! Biographics – History, One Life at a Time. I’m American-born and my family is from Guyana. and the frogspawn probably isn't as bad as you're making it out to be. Also, I haven't tried haggis but the balkan version, diado is absolutely mouth watering. If you want to see a photo of balut you will never forget, look up “Filipino Cuisine” on Uncyclopedia. I HATE ANYTHING ASIAN….CHINA ESPECIALLY WHERE THEY BIND A DOG’S MOUTH, TOSS THEM IN BINS AND SELL..ITS SICKENING…THEY PUT LIVE BATS IN BOILING H20 FOR SOUP. I want to try all this food……… and balut doesnt taste bad at all, Nice post. A good haggis is very well-spiced, and has lots of flavour. May not like them, but there are many 'conventional' foods that I don't like. Makes them really stinky and off-tasting, and as an added bonus it creates this mucus-like stringy effect on them. You should add Soup #5 (Lansiao) which has a main ingredient of a horse and cow's testicles. It's a Japanese food, basically inoculated and fermented soybeans. haggis is lovely but possibly because im scottish i think that. Black pudding and white pudding (kidney) is nice for a real breakfast. ), though both are my favorites! If you’re lucky, picking out the visible bits and repeated soaking got most of the partially-digested food and pig poop out of the tiny folds. I actually watched foreigners eating baluts as a dare and stuff…but i myself dont have the guts to have it tasted…. Fine. I've eaten harshma since young at weddings and as an expensive dessert (double-boiled harshma with snow fungus and pear sugar, yes it tastes really good). Blood Pudding is delicious! I love black pudding and haggis! That is some [email protected] food right there. 1. It was originally a Pennsylvania Dutch recipe. Note that cod is the source of the 11th and 12th most disgusting foods: Cod sperm (japanese, 11th) and lutefisk (Norse, 12th). I hate it when bloggers throw up a list of disgusting food and 5 of them is from Asia. It's about the same, guts and meat mixed together but then they bury it in the ground for a few weeks. Think Crisco consistency and appearance with a far worse taste. Chou doufu… take your run-of-the-mill tofu, let it soak a few hours in a broth of rotten vegetables, rotten fish, rotten shrimp, and brine that has been fermenting for 6 months. Haggis doesnt look or taste anything like stuffed innerds. Me neither, in fact I'm wondering if the list is backwards? Ehm… Excuse me? Oh, BARF! #10 on this list seems way grosser than #1…. And I don’t plan to. It certainly did for me !!! Creamed whale blubber with raw fish and berries not gross enough? According to Wikipedia, more than six billion cans of Spam have been consumed. If you have kids playing, you might want to go a little easier on them. A grim gallery of weird foods from around the world – from strange food to downright disgusting food, see pictures bound to get your stomach churning. Seem very unhealty. Nations are stupid concepts. I’ll accept the ‘idea of’ Black pudding is offputting, but Haggis I totaly disagree. and also we have here one of the bests meat in the world. Tastes really good… yeah, I thought it was gross at first, but wow, you won't regret it. The one food that I could really put a dent into are stuffed grape leaves from Greece. I am from south africa and we dont eat any of the above! and is not at all sweet. Or did you refrigerate it after hatching? Brothers not twins try eating and test random funny foods you would never eat with your friends. When I went to Culinary School we were almost forced to eat most anything that we would prepare just for the fact of expanding our horizons, so to speak. During the cooking process, a delightful skin is produced atop the goo. 1. It's a heck of a lot better than the lamb's kidneys we get as a side dish every time we go to lunch at our uncle's house in Wales. Eating eggs? Really gross foods eaten are: dead HUMAN BABIES, monkey BRAINS, chocolate covered COCKROACHES, pig BRAINS, a cow PENIS, a STILL beating heart of a COBRA, AND THAT IS JUST THE BEGINNING!!! MCDONALDS, TACOBELL, BURGER KING… AND ALL OF THAT GARBAGE AMERICANS EAT. Eating chicken? Before you try to eat foods in the wilderness, you should be sure that you know exactly what foods are safe based on the way they look, smell, and feel. It's probably not the healthiest thing to eat, but it's delicious. Bury market black puds and new potatoes….HOLD ME BACK!! Haggis is not as bad as it sounds, it just feels like it has small pieces of rubberband in it.. Nether my ex. I’m still not eating it though. Balut puts me off rather a lot but the rest are quite pleasant but can be an acquired taste. I've seen some other pretty gross stuff on Nat Geo – in one of the more rundown Asian countries, they liked to fry up little patties made of mashed-up sandflies, and also raw mince doused with bile. Take a glass of coca-cola and drop a human tooth into it and wait 48 hours. Then the restaurant grills the snake and you eat it. I WON’T GO FURTHER..IT MAKES ME SICK HOW PEOPLE TORTURE ANIMALS ……COSMETIC CO’S ESPECIALLY…HELLO REVLON!…..SHAME ON YOU……………………………………….. And of course, always look for water which is available. I have never in my life ate those. This gross food is also enjoyed in the northernmost of the United States. Then, the eggs are cooked and served with a dash of salt and a few squirts of lemon juice. I'm a vegan now, but when I was a child, I ate meat and blood pudding wasn't at all uncommon or considered "strange" (I live in Sweden), however, those other things on the list, I would never have touched! I agree that the ordering of this list is a bit mixed up, maggot cheese and duck embryos would definitely be higher up on my personal list. I wonder how do they taste. Black pudding is known as morcilla in Spain and is a very common food used in some of the most popular dishes like fabada or cocido. Anything different from your own insignificant and inferior culture and habits is considered disgusting. It is then put back in water and then boiled. And you should actually because ignorant people like you with that kind of ethnocentrism really are just fucking stupid. Those figs you love so much? If it exists, someone, somewhere will try to eat and/or have sex with it and/or get high from it. No Peter, tripe is made from the first three chambers of a cow’s stomach. People always used all the parts of animals (clothing? No. In my hole life i never ate cows poo and that’s what my mum makes with our food.YUK! They also enjoy eating goat testicles. I think food must not be judged by its looks!!! On a side note, Haggis is the best dish I think I've ever had. black pudding, marag dubh, blut wurst, morcilla, boudin noir -seems like these are all different names for blood sausages "From Scottish breakfasts to Spanish tapas, blood sausages have a long and colourful history." 3. Often they put lots of flour into the blood from a pig in most cases and mix it up. In my country, (no it's not china lol) we eat Hasma (which is actually spelt Harshma). Haggis and Black Pudding are DELICIOUS! Otherwise you're just wasteful. Haggis doesn't look or taste anything like stuffed innards. Bull testicles are eaten regularly in some areas of the US. I’m a mom to four silly squirts and wife to one big squirt. But what makes this food so disgusting is the way it’s prepared. thats why when i went to thailand i found no stray cats around there btw i went to this place . All the taste comes from the sweet soup. List of food items we used for the challenge. I couldn’t for days and eventually threw the book away because of its constant reminder…. Don't know if should like the black pudding or not. Please don’t say stuff like that You’re beginning to sound like an moron. Blood pudding is one of my favorite things, hands down. I used the word intestine for lack of a better word. What the Hell is wrong with humans? Well!!! Uh… liver is terrible for you. We are citizens of the world. !Don’t just show disgust towards a food just because it looks unfamiliar!!! ai ai you dont live in manila near morato ? Not gonna lie, black pudding isn’t that bad if you eat it in sausage form- I guess you could call it blood sausage. Every one should give it a try, it is genuinely one of the most delicious and most unique tasting foods you will ever try but i am sure there are other disgusting sounding foods that are actually nice, open your mind. its spicy and sour but i am a fan… served as kemchi pancakes is how i feel in love with it though it may be an acquired taste…. it’s called Torpedo. Balut came from China then became popular in Vietnam and afterwards, it reached the islands of the Philippines. Very yummy! In Thailand we eat cats, they are really good, like a real gamey pork sort of. Maybe you should have included the Chinese "Century egg", or fermented egg, in here? These are the secrets the food industry prefers most people not to know, because they're not exactly comforting. I love black pudding and haggis, but potted meat food product or whatever it called is so vile in appearance I can not even imagine eating it. Kill yourself. I can’t believe you put in potted meat as the token American food, instead of chitlins (chitterlings): Boiled pig intestines which smell atrocious from a thousand feet away – outside. Haggis fine. They have to wait to drink until after they have completely eaten each item. Black Pudding just tastes like a sausage with a different texture, and is not bad. Replace haggis with Hakarl. anyway i hear kemchi, korean cabbage, is dusgusting…apparently its left to rot for a time before it is packaged but I love it! balut is very famous in philippines. “get over yourselves and see what you could be missing, culinary wise and culturally.”, Rocky Mountain Oysters should be on this list too… — as they are buffalo or bull testicles. It's because the human body can't digest (human)blood.That is how they find intestinal bleeding,when you have a lot of black in your stool.Another reason human beings can't be vampires.What,did I just offend Twilight fans ? Have you ever actually eaten haggis? It also has oats in it, which you missed out, which adds to the yummy texture. As a rule, we told everyone that they can’t wash the food down with water. Haha. duck embryos are really common here in the Philippines. There is nothing disgusting about haggis unless you are 10 years old. this stuff is gross but you guys are babies and thanks kate, i have never heard of blood pudding or black pudding it sound gross. Thank you. For more food items from beyond the realms of imagination, check out The 3 Most Disgusting Breakfasts in America and 7 Japanese Fast Food Items (Almost) Too Insane to Be Real. Sausages are meat stuffed in intestines. Why you should eat them anyway: Putting aside the old rhyme about beans, they have a ton of benefits: they’re high in protein, fibre and other micronutrients, and they’re incredibly cheap given how nutritious they are. come to think of it, I think i've eaten the black pudding before…and it was quite good :)..Though I thought it was tofu when i first ate it…, i've tried balut before and well,it's delicious =). I mean, I eat each of them maybe once a year. Compared to this list Haggis and black pudding are completely normal and also delicious. Just curious. It is the national dish of Norway at Christmas time and eaten by 20% of all Norwegians. Days old and stored in the same water for way longer than is sanitary. and because I’m pilipino , my family doesnt eat the bones. I was reading up on blood sausages and I came across your list. Oh, and there’s tasting sessions too. Eating an underdeveloped chicken embryo? What is the POINT? And as for the potted meat, i agree its disgusting inferior ingredients but if thats there then 90% of an average american persons diet could be too. After all plenty of people will gladly eat stuff like hotdogs that consists of that euphemism "mechanically recovered meat", which means it could be almost anything from the cow that you are eating. in our book, the grosseset food are avilable in mcdonalds, KFC, etc. I have news for you: proper sausage IS stuffed intestines. Just because you eat some of these foods regularly doesn’t mean they aren’t disgusting. And the frogspawn probably isnt as bad as you're making it out to be. Sometimes American burgers can be worser than everything in the list, you may never know what is in it. And I thought calf's liver was gross. Severed Fingers in a Bun ~ Hot dogs never looked so scary! And, while some foods can be identified as gross with a simple glance, others aren’t as easily spotted until you learn about their ingredients. Gross-ology Party Food ~ Plan a menu of gross food for your next party or for a fun snack for the kids. I provided some boxes of candy as a prize. Take a class on Sanitation and Food-borne illnesses, that will wake you up. Good with bacon or seasonings. OMG ARE YOU SICK???!!!! Many describe haggis as resembling stuffed intestines more than sausage. I love potted meat. They served it regularly at school here in sweden. Yummy! However, although they admit it looks unappealing, Haggis-lovers swear that those who are brave enough to taste it will come running back for more. I have been told that haggis, with bits of smoked bacon mixed in, battered in Guinness tempura and deep fried is amazing! And here’s 100 different and disgusting food ideas for you to choose from. I'm not exactly sure where my line of taste gets drawn but I know that black pudding is this side and embryos, maggots et al are waaaaaay over the other side. You fry it till it’s brown and crispy, and it’s deeeeelicious It’s definitely a local thing. Why is it cruel to eat cats but not cows, sheep, or pigs? You have it in a fry up, you don’t eat it with a spoon! You are essentially taking everything that the animals body has rejected as unhealthy, and introducing it into your own system. I got on the phone and called the head chef of this upscale restaurant and he said “boil it for one hour per pound, take off the membrane and slice it up and serve” The tongue weighed 3 lbs. Urgh. Sometimes referred to as ‘maggot cheese’, casu marzu is a Sardinian cheese made from goat’s milk. The blood pudding is delicious, (in Belgium they just call it blood sausage) and i'll eat it a lot if i'm there again!! again, probably yum!!! Haggis is also delicious, in my opinion it’s far better to eat offal than throw it in the bin! Thousand-year eggs… these are eggs where the albumin has turned a translucent speckled brown and the yolk a grayish black. 15 Gross Foods from the 1970s We Actually Want to Try The '70s may seem far away, but the themes of social unrest and living a little more simply are in the air today. I love blood pudding though I would call it black pudding. Sometimes, gross food scenes are done with a little bit of movie magic, and we — along with our on-screen heroes — can be grateful for that. Tasteless. The 20 Top Weird, Unusual, a bit disgusting foods you can find in France! ). IF ANYONE CARES ABOUT TORTURED ANIMALS…..CHECK ON THE THE NET FOR CO’S THAT DON’T USE ANIMALS….FOR our benefits?….its not cool is it. Of the mentioned foods, the only ones I'd probably not try myself in the balut and bat paste. A grilled lamb/pork chop with the kidney attached, chicken livers and bacon, steak and kidney pudding, liver and onions, tripe and cabbage and a beef heart sandwich! All of them are gross, except of one. There is relatively little meat on them so you basically chew on the orange skin, ripping it from the bones. Mmmmmmmmm, doesn’t that sound just tasty ? Why they’re gross: Beans, beans, they’re good for the heart, the more you eat, the more you… well, you know the rest. Hopefully something will pique your interest. There are types of sausage sold in South America with ingredients that make hagiss look like prime steak cutlets. Once served as a garnish along side many traditional French foods, cockscomb is still used as a common ingredient in many Italian dishes and sauces. Instead of using just clay, a mixture of wood ash, quicklime, and salt is included in the plastering mixture, thereby increasing the pH and sodium content of the clay mixture. They’re all very tasty. Hot Dogs are legally allowed to contain up to 2% "other." taste it! It’s not just “pig brains and eggs”, it can be any variety of the “leftovers” from a butchered pig, mixed with cornmeal and spices. Casu Marzu, a pecorino cheese and Sardinian specialty, surely wins among most disgusting cheeses of ... 2. Here are the grossest, weirdest foods from every state in the US. It gives breasts, thighs and legs and whole different meaning. It is edible, there are people that like it, and it's not bad for you. Thanks for visiting my blog! I live in America. I can't believe I used to eat dat sh*t. Ew. Balut – only at No 9 ??? Dude who will this?DUDE! If you’ve ever seen the floppy red mass resembling an upside down glove on the top of a rooster’s head, then you’ve seen a cockscomb. You actually have to do it in specific places or else it won't taste right. There’s just something about watching kids eat food that they don’t like that brings a smile to your face. What the hell do you think eggs (unfertilized of course) are but exactly that! Haggis?!?! 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