People Share The Worst Foods They've Ever Eaten

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Eric Lund
Dec 3, 2021 4:00 PM EST

There are a lot of reasons to try something bad. Maybe you're being polite and you don't want to offend your mother-in-law by spitting out her famous "salt pie." Maybe you're open minded but your palate just isn't used to the flavor of uric-acid flavored shark carcasses. Or maybe the person feeding you just doesn't care. Everyone has a story of the worst foods they've ever eaten because man they're hard to forget.

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  • 01
    Font - Deadlifts_n_Riffs · 20h I was visiting Fort Huachuca, AZ for work (not in the military). They have a knock-off Panda Express there. Identical menu with different names. Like those bootleg KFCS in China that are identical to KFC but it's "Kevin's Funky Chicken" or something. Anyhow, I'm hungry, bootleg Panda seems like a good deal. I order up the usual. Chinese food, like pizza, gets pretty wide latitude. Even if it's lousy, it's not that bad. This was straight-up inedible. I don't even ha
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    Font - DrGingeyy · 22h There was a week where my mom was out so my dad had to cook for my brother and I. His first day he made chili. By chili I mean that he browned some beef, threw it in a pot with water and added one single packet of chili seasoning to the water and served it to us. We had frozen pizza the rest of the week.
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    Font - SugarHooves - 19h My ex MIL's meatloaf. She literally just pressed ground beef into a square baking pan and threw it in the oven. Zero spices. Zero anything but hot ground beef. She also made "baked spaghetti" which was cooked spaghetti noodles with plain tomato sauce in a pan and baked. Her cooking made me realize why I had to twist my ex's arm to try REAL meatloaf and baked ziti the way it's supposed to be made.
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    Font - BitPoet · 21h College. Let me clarify: we were ranked in the top 10 worst food lists for several years running. While I was there, a pizza hut thing was added that we could use as a meal for dinner. I don't mean a franchise, I mean they got a bunch of frozen pizzas, squirted some oil on them and fed them through a conveyor belt. This was a giant step up in quality. You no longer had to do things like sniff the milk before putting it on cereal to make sure it hadn't gone off. Our food was
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    Font - Candy_Lawn - 18h my own chicken, honey, lemon concoction which was less 'Italian summer' and more like fisherman's friend lozenge.
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    Font - JoshPoshTheGreat · 19h · edited 16h In the Dominican Republic, there is a mountain in Puerto Plata called Isabel de Torres. On that mountain there is a restaurant. That restaurant sells the worst goddamn burgers you will ever eat in your life.
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    Font - LycheeEyeballs · 22h Jellied salad. Lots of my family still thinks aspics are a necessity for family dinners so there'll usually be a variety of jellied salads. Tomato salad, shredded cabbage salad, usually some kind of weird olive and hard boiled egg combo for some reason. All sitting on their plates, perfectly rectangular, wiggling away...
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    Font - that-nerd · 22h On New Years day a few years ago, my dad bought ribs to make for dinner. Upon taking my first bite, I spit it out immediately. I don't think I've ever spit food out like that other than this one time. It turned out they were totally rancid, and to this day I still can't eat ribs. Thankfully, none of us actually got sick.
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    Font - Spiderbubble - 18h In High School I got pizza from the pizza shack in the lunch area. The pizza was soggy as hell from the grease. Upon taking a bite, it tasted like alcohol. The bread had fermented.
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    Font - ardcorewillneverdie · 18h Went to a Surströmming party in Sweden a few years ago. I had to stand outside for almost the whole thing and the smell seemed to actually get worse in my nose. Couldn't bring myself to try it so I suppose it doesn't really count
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    Font - Bastard_Wing · 22h Once I was in hospital in France and I had the second-worst meal of my life: - 4 square inches of cabbage that looked like a relief map of a swamp. - A chicken thigh garnished with two whole olives, one of which was to the side, and the other was directly on top, so it looked like a small, hairless one-legged creature with big black eyes that had been stunned and lain in a couple of milimetres of grease. Earlier that week I'd had the worst meal of my life, which was str
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    Font - CheriGrove · 18h Went to a dingy basement restaurant in Toronto and ordered shrimp with lobster sauce. Unseasoned, poorly cooked shrimps with some gelatin-textured brown sauce containing bits of presumably lobster but possibly Fancy Feast
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    Font - ghostofmyhecks · 18h O ahh that has to be my dad and brothers favorite "cheese" Sapsago. It is a hard, green doorstop. I swear you could kill someone with it. It smells like cursed feet. it's one of the Very Few foods I actively hate.
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    Font - spacepharmacy · 18h my mom made this thing when i was younger called cheeseburger pie. no clue what box she got it from but my god did 9-year-old me not enjoy it. i just thought it was a deconstructed cheeseburger, but no, there were like five other things in there and nothing made sense together. she also made meatloaf a few weeks later and it was drier than the damn sahara desert. never again.
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    Font - 1_art_please · 19h Unripe persimmon. It tastes ok but the tanins in the fruit, if not properly soft and ripe, make your mouth immediately feel fuzzy, like your tongue is shot with novocaine. A completely unexpected mouth feel where your immediate reaction is " Get this out of my mouth NOW!" Now i know!
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    Font - Hollywood899 · 22h - edited 15h One of my ex gf's grandmother had the whole family over for dinner one night. She cooked spaghetti and my ex's mom warned me that it would be terrible. Boy, was she right. Her grandmother boiled water, put in the noddles, DID NOT DRAIN THE WATER, and then dumped some salt, pepper, and KETCHUP into the pot and served it. I had to excuse myself to the bathroom so I could dry heave over the toilet.
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    Font - AmexNomad - 18h I went to a lady's house for lunch in Amsterdam. She served some sort of fried liver croquettes on hamburger buns. She was so sweet and there was nothing else to eat, so I had to gag it down. It was really the worst thing I've ever eaten in my entire life.
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    Font - Nearby_Job8272 · 18h Not a food, but sweet corn flavored soda was definitely the worst thing I have ever tasted in my entire life
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    Human body - Kaaykuwatzuu - 18h Once judged a cake baking contest between 4 groups of seven year olds. Not only was there terrible flavor but not one cake was fully baked.
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    Font - itswednesdaylemon30 · 18h I had the worst sandwich of my life at a conference once. It consisted of the following: a massive, uncooked, stale piece of french bread. The driest thing in the world. - a singular piece of ham - tomato paste. like from a can. not ketchup. - a packet of mayo on the side thats literally it
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    Font - mongoose3000 · 17h I recently saw Heinz Macaroni and Cheese in a can at World Market. It seemed too weird not to try it. It was one of the worst things I've eaten, and I once ate the contents of an ashtray when I was like 2. It was super watery and bland, but the bland taste was like liquified newspaper.
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    Font - Helicocccter · 20h My former roommate (26M) can't cook anything to save his life. He attempted to make rotel by microwaving velveeta with canned tomatoes and a heap of salt. To say it was the most fowl, inconsistent substance I've ever ingested is an understatement
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    Font - ElCactosa · 15h When I was a kid my dad cooked chicken thighs with the bone taken out and replaced with a banana. Banana and chicken.
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