My most horrible food mistake so far...

[Phil Pascoe]

I remember the last meal at a scout camp when I was about fifteen. As was the custom we ate everything that left after the camp for breakfast on the last day. Fried mackerel, cornflakes, porridge, sausages fried together topped with cold canned custard.

 

[SeeO2]

Tripe. Just...don't.

I used to be a butcher and selling some tripe to a customer once, remarked I’d never tried it, she cooked it and brought me some in.
I agree with you, just don’t.

 

[SeeO2]

Well, my first one, as a teenager, was thinking putting marmite in coffee might be nice... Nope!
My second one, recently, was accidentally making tea with the descaling water from the kettle, full of citric acid and dissolved limescale. Truly horrible.

This evening, I found something worse than these. Worse even, than if these things in some nightmare scenario, were combined!

Ready?

Rancid ramen. (You know ramen, those instant noodles that come with a packet of mysterious but nonetheless delicious powder)

Apparently my nose doesn't detect "rancid" and only registers it as "a bit stale". Not that I checked in the first place - why would I? So the noodles were only a year past their best before date as I found after the event. Not something that would normally bother me.

So I'm munching away, thinking, these really do seem rather on the stale side. I must have eaten half the bowl before I decided that actually they had a horrible chemical taste and seemed to be burning my tongue slightly and I could not bring myself to eat any more. So the remainder went in the bin. I like a fried egg with my noodles. Even the egg had become inedible!

Well I've eaten crisps, prunes, Gorgonzola, various biscuits, drunk strong coffee, eaten more biscuits, shortbread, and it must be 4 or 5 hours after the event and I can still taste it! Even worse, I keep getting er, "reminders" every so often. And I know I'm not going to sleep well after that coffee...

So take it from me, don't ever eat rancid ramen! You will regret it, I promise. Even more than your other bad food mistakes.

We put out of date packet suet into dumplings in a beef casserole once, tainted the whole thing, had to dump the lot.

 

[Bingy man]

We have so many different things to eat these days most look quite delicious and I’d have no problem trying some of the more exotic foods but why on earth would you eat these disgusting and not fit for human consumption foods . You could understand it if your country was ravaged by war and the infrastructure was destroyed and it was a case of eat it or starve but people are eating the most disgusting food just for likes and followers on social media . Rats, roadkill , wild birds etc

 

[John Brown]

I love meat of many types and I’ll try anything- my latest was ostrich ( very nice ) but I don’t do offal- force fed liver as a child( cooked for hours ) nasty kidney , heart , brain, liver etc are not for me ,, and not wanting to offend any vegan members but does anyone know why given their resentment of meat eaters like myself and rearing animals for food - why do all of their foods contain words like vegan - bacon, vegan sausage rolls, vegan chicken , etc just wandering…

I think it's because some people stop eating meat for ethical reasons, not because they don't like the experience.

Albanian liver in Turkey is delicious. I've tried without success to cook it at home.
My father ate tripe, and I tried it once, although I did eat some when I was working in France many years ago, and it wasn't so bad. Sheep's brains, also in France. It's risky when you overestimate your linguistic abilities.

 

[AJB Temple]

I must admit I do find it odd when, as popped up in this thread somewhere, people say they don't like eating animal innards such as liver. It's quite common. Everything we eat as carnivores is animal innards: why differentiate a bit of rump from sweetbreads or liver? It's all bits of a body. I am quite partial to calves liver, sweetbreads and such like - yet others find the very thought of this repulsive, yet will happily gnaw the flesh off a rack of rib bones. Must just be societal conditioning I suppose.

 

[Jester129]

Had to tell my dear old mum that I no longer liked liver, because she used to cook it in the oven for hours! I personally love it fried quickly, with some fried onions (lightly salted) and buttery mashed spuds. Wonderful!

 

[throbscottle]

We put out of date packet suet into dumplings in a beef casserole once, tainted the whole thing, had to dump the lot.

Yeah. Rancid is a horrible word for a reason...

 

[Cozzer]

Liver.
Kidney.
Anything with garlic in.
Buttermilk.

The first three are my father's fault. He loved 'em, so as a then-rebellious teenager, I didn't.
However, I did try them when a little older.
I was right, first time.

As a kid, we used to visit a relative in the wilds of Galway, a farmer's wife who "knew what was good for you".
I used to dread going. You could see her farmhouse "moving" from yards away...countless millions of daddy-longlegs used to be crawling all over the outer walls. And then there was the buttermilk she used to give you in a tumbler....in effect, warm milk that had gone off.
Disgusting.