People Tell The Grossest Things They've Eaten out of Politeness

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Eric Lund
Aug 26, 2019 4:00 PM EDT

Is offending someone's grandma worse than eating soup the noxious soup she made out of rotten chicken, soy sauce and boiled eggs? For some people it was. It's actually amazing what kind of food atrocities some people will put themselves through to save face. It's harrowing, in a gross sort of way.

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    Text - philemonslady 16.0k points 17 hours ago My beloved but very elderly gram-in-law made chocolate chip cookies in which she messed up the sugar and salt AND mistook the dried black beans in her cupboard for chocolate chips. Ohhhhh dear
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    Text - besameputo 11.6k points 16 hours ago A girl I dated was trying to impress me, so she tried to make green curry. She added too much curry paste and we both sat there sweating and crying.
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    Text - UnusualBloo 10.6k points 16 hours ago I came home from school one day and was hungry and told my mother that and she told me there was blueberry muffins. So I took one and when I took a bite it was the dryest most flavorless thing I've ever eaten. So as to not upset my mother I ate it and when I came back my mom was laughing and I asked what was funny and she told me they were a friend of her's muffins and my brother had spit them out when he tried it. So basically I got pranked by my mom
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    Text - 16 hours ago nostarshawn 8.7k points 2 My grandpa made sushi. With tuna, rhubarb, yellow mustard, seaweed, and undercooked rice. Watched me eat it make sure I got a taste of each ingredient. The entire time I ate it, I thought "this tough bastard made it through the beaches of Normandy, eat the sushi and smile"
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    Text - coffeeislife00 7.6k points 15 hours ago 2 Chitlins (chitterlings). My husband begged me to try it. It's his favorite dish. I tried a small bite. It tasted like straight shit. Straight fermented shit. I told my friend about my experience and she insisted it just wasn't prepared right and I needed to try hers. I went to her house and saw that she prepares hers with green peppers and onions. I was reluctant but hopeful. I took a bite. It tasted like straight fermented shit with a side of gre
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    Text - ninerdawg 7.2k points 15 hours ago Was working in China. They had a big celebratory banquet for us. They served a local delicacy - "sea worms." It was a white tube that when immersed in near freezing water essentially dissolved into a gelatinous lump. Think fish-flavored jello, with just a hint of residual gristle. Ugh Had to eat several servings while downing shots of maotai
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    Text - worlds-best-frycook 17.5k points 16 hours ago Husbands mom made a lemon pie, but it was a "special recipe" she learned from her friend where there was no sugar and the crust was made of saltine crackers. Don't even have words for how sour and salty it was. But you best believe I ate it as it was "delicious"
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    Text - RonSwansonsOldMan 7.1k points16 hours ago My ex-sister in law's spinach casserole. My daughter puked it up into their heat vent and I had to clean it out.
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    Text - erinshut 6.7k points 15 hours ago My husbands grandma made us a "miso soup" that was almost black from teriyaki and soy sauce in it. All of the vegetables in it were slimy and overcooked. It so barely resembled miso that the next day I made some regular miso for myself and she was offended that I didnt eat the "perfectly good" leftovers. I was all confused until my husband whispered to me that she thought the abomination she served us was miso soup.
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    Text - GoonsAndGhouls 6.3k points 16 hours ago When my sister was 5, she had my mom, friend and I sit for her tea party. She made us drinks. I asked her what she gave us and she said it was water and sparkle perfume
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    Text - 14 hours ago .edited 4 hours ago holmesla0319 27.4k points I am actually the one who made the horrible meal. When I was around 8, decided I wanted my Mom to relax while I cooked her dinner and did the dishes. I made way over cooked spaghetti with a plain can of diced tomatoes that I added water to because I thought that is how sauce worked. Finished it off with every seasoning herb we owned plus some ketchup because the sauce looked a little too much like water and oh, heck some mustard,
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    Text - edited 1 hour ago theofiel 5.8k points 17 hours ago An undercooked potato, garlic, feta, chopped meat package in aluminium foil. It was supposed to be a Greek dish. We all got sick.
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    Text - maddomesticscientist 4.9k points 16 hours ago S I know this is a horrible thing to say but because I was beaten into eating my food as a child, I can eat pretty much anything no matter how much I don't like it. But my in-laws god awful Thanksgiving dinners tried me to the limit. I quit going to their thanksgivings because of how nasty it was. And for me to say that, it means the food was NASTY. Not a one of them knows how to cook and I think they subsist entirely on cheap microwave dinner
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    Text - ElmerTheAmish 4.3k points 16 hours ago Girlfriend in college wanted to be nice to my roommate and I because she often ate over at our apartment, so she was to cook dinner one night. Teriyaki steak. Somewhere along the line, she got tbsp and cup mixed up, and added 3/4 cup of salt. Pretty sure we were nearing the LD50 of salt for a human, but I ate as much as I could, and drank as much water as I could for the next few days...
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    Text - 14 hours ago S Much_Difference 4.1k points This one's actually kinda funny My grandma died right before Christmas. We all got together for the holiday and my aunt was understandably still taking it really hard. She'd made something she called "vanilla angel food pudding cake." It was in a shallow casserole dish. Top layer was whipped cream and cookie crumble. Middle layer was vanilla pudding. Bottom layer was crumbled angel food cake... soaked to the top in a massive pool of bourbon. The
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    Text - Everyone else was sufficiently guilted into eating at least some of what they'd scooped onto their plates. That shit was physically painful to eat. Everything burned. Looking around the table you would've thought we were all downing spoonfuls of wasabi. I was 19 but I guess my parents were more worried about my aunt than me getting underaged sloshed on pudding but about halfway through my portion they found a discreet way to dump my plate. The whole place reeked a couple minutes after we
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    Text - TorrenceMightingale 2.9k points 15 hours ago Sea snails with my Vietnamese friend. I paid for it when I tried to pull it out with my teeth instead of using the little toothpick. Since it is in a spiral inside the shell, it snapped out of the shell and sprung forth, bouncing off my face and onto the table, leaving my face covered in fishy smelling, briny sea water. I would have run straight to the bathroom, but I was temporarily brineded.
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    Text - 15 hours ago edited 13 hours ago RustyRoughneck 2.9k points I went to Kenya on a college trip. For the first week we were there we built a kitchen into a school. Every day my buddy and I would joke about this goat at the school and his big it's nuts were. Well fast forward and the last day we were there the school put on a feast, eating corn, beans and kale (grown at the school) with goat meat. The local elders came by at the end to show their appreciation. My teacher (who was from Kenya)
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    Text - 15 hours ago nutraxfornerves 2.4k points Back in the late 1970s, I was sent from California to a rural Maryland town for a 6 months job assignment. I was used to the wide variety of very fresh vegetables grown within a couple of hours of my city. In that rural Maryland town, I rarely saw what I would consider good fresh vegetables, except for a very short season when farmers markets had local produce. I really missed my good veggies. I rented part of a house that had been converted to apa
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    Text - 14 hours ago aguitadelmar 2.2k points Was visiting Guatemala, and this old lady invited us to dinner. In this country, it's extremely rude to not eat what was placed before you. Unfortunately, this lady served us a vegetable soup with some meat in it that tasted like chicken broth from hell. She didn't eat with us, as she was being polite or something. She didn't even talk to us during the dinner We took a taste, and nearly wanted to puke. However, due to the country customs, we decided t
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