On the other hand, and surprisingly enough, one of the very best meals I've ever had was on an airplane------Beef Wellington--and all the trimmings---compliments of Air Canada.
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Worst meal you ever ate multiple times?
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My Swedish father would disagree, but for me it would be a traditional Scandinavian Christmas meal - Lutefisk.
Balut is better if it’s less than 14 days gestation and you don’t look at it. I work in the land of balut. I only eat it when trying to impress a lady. It’s better than soup #5
I had to look this one up on Google.
Sorry, but that is just plain disgusting.
I wouldn't eat that ONCE much less multiple times. Not even to impress Raquel Welch, Christie Brinkley, or (substitute the name of your favorite babe here).
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Brings back memories – bad memories! When I was a kid, and dollars were short, my mother once engineered quite a triumph; she bought a whole beef heart. We ate it seemingly for a month (probably only three or four days, as we always, as traditional Episcopalians, ate/eat fish on Fridays).
After about one night of the beef heart (which my dad and I pronounced differently, as Bee-fxxt) it was clear that something was not OK in culinary heaven. Never had it since; never want it again.
This was much unlike the tasty calves liver, with onions, bacon, mashed potatoes and veggie; and the excellent roast lamb, with either mint jelly or homemade mint sauce.
Thanks, I guess, for the memories. Urp.
After about one night of the beef heart (which my dad and I pronounced differently, as Bee-fxxt) it was clear that something was not OK in culinary heaven. Never had it since; never want it again.
This was much unlike the tasty calves liver, with onions, bacon, mashed potatoes and veggie; and the excellent roast lamb, with either mint jelly or homemade mint sauce.
Thanks, I guess, for the memories. Urp.
When I was in the Navy (mid 60s) we visited Subic Bay in the Philippines. They were quite popular at several bars we frequented. Of course someone dared me to eat one and he would keep me in beer the rest of the time we were in port.
I choked it down and it was a job not to puke, it was touch and go but I did it.
I am not sure the beer was worth it.
Never again, so it doesn’t really qualify for the OP question.
The good news is that when you're done with Balut or soup #5 (c'mon, it's just beef penis soup), there's pichi-pichi, or maybe buko pie!
I almost fell out of my chair laughing! Very mind-image provoking. I can imagine all of you sitting around the table, green in the face and wondering who was going under the bus!
Ah hahahahaha.... Made my day!
Blech! Lutefisk. Mom would make it at Christmas for my aunt. We'd open all the windows. It didn't matter how cold it was, we had to have fresh air. I don't know how you get close enough to it to eat the darn stuff.
I worked with a Norwegian company some years ago. One guy often said "well, you know us Norwegians. We always wonder just how bad it can smell and still eat it." This is the guy that loved gamalost. The company placed him and his old cheese at the far end of the lunch table.
keith44spl
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Fifty years ago...
My sweet lit'l bride fix me sweet & sour spam.
I bragged on her culinary skills. But, after the third or forth
time, we finally both agreed it was awful....
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My sweet lit'l bride fix me sweet & sour spam.
I bragged on her culinary skills. But, after the third or forth
time, we finally both agreed it was awful....
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Cold is the worst. In my lifetime, three times in my lifetime memory of traveling for holiday dinners.
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Here's the intersection with balut: I was at a Filipino potluck a couple years ago and was sampling a soup. The elderly lady who made it told me it was chayote. I finished it and later learned it was a gourd from the islands, not the wild canid I thought she was talking about. I look forward to my next bowl of chayote soup.
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Boarding school "food" for a couple of weeks while my folks were away. The very worst of English institutional cooking. Makes me nauseous to think of it even now. I swear the instructions emblazoned on the wall of the kitchen was, BOIL UNTIL UNRECOGNIZABLE.
Just thought of Spike Milligan's description of the soup when he was in the Army in WWII. Thin and gristly, one of his battery mates swore that if you put your ear down to the pot you could hear a little old lady yelling, "Help!"
Just thought of Spike Milligan's description of the soup when he was in the Army in WWII. Thin and gristly, one of his battery mates swore that if you put your ear down to the pot you could hear a little old lady yelling, "Help!"
Liver - my dad loved it and my mom would make it. There was a rule in our house, you sat at the table till you ate what was on your plate. Every couple of weeks we would have quite the standoff, but mom won. I learned to just gag it down then move on. I think she took pity on me after a while and gave me small helpings.
I am not a picky eater by any stretch of the imagination, but liver, heart tongue, liverwurst, braunschweiger, not for me.
Not a big fan of lima beans or cooked spinach either.
I was wondering how long it would take for lutefisk to show up.
I am not a picky eater by any stretch of the imagination, but liver, heart tongue, liverwurst, braunschweiger, not for me.
Not a big fan of lima beans or cooked spinach either.
I was wondering how long it would take for lutefisk to show up.
The worst thing I can think of off the top of my head is the McDonalds McRib sandwich. And I never ate another one again during any of the repeat performances. (shudder)
Ahhh.... "Barf, Congealed, Soldiers, For The Use Of."Once was quite enough, thank you.
Looks like a fairly recent pic. You kept a few tins around for reasons of nostalgia?
Lutefisk. Most people find it disgusting. I do not, and I am far from alone. Unless there is a pandemic on, I go back for it year after year. Sometimes it is not so good, like a fish jello. I don’t take seconds. Sometimes it is excellent, like this year at West Emmanuel Lutheran, near Star Prairie, WI. If it is good, I will have another helping.
Either way, I think of it as the dues you pay to get to the meatballs, mashed rutabagas, mashed potatos, not to mention the lefse, krumkake, and römmegröt.
The one dish I found inedible was a cow’s eyeball. A Mexican family had invited my family to a Christmas feast where they roasted a cow’s head. Tongue, brains, cheek meat, al ok, tasty even. But I only made it halfway through the cow’s eyeball before I had to say no mas.
Either way, I think of it as the dues you pay to get to the meatballs, mashed rutabagas, mashed potatos, not to mention the lefse, krumkake, and römmegröt.
The one dish I found inedible was a cow’s eyeball. A Mexican family had invited my family to a Christmas feast where they roasted a cow’s head. Tongue, brains, cheek meat, al ok, tasty even. But I only made it halfway through the cow’s eyeball before I had to say no mas.
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My Buddy claims this is an old Lithuanian tradition.
I reply your full of it!
He puts Pepper Balls in a jar of Vodka or Alcohol , in the closet until they dissolve. Then a shot of the dissolved pepper into a bottle of Vodka.
Now you got Pepper Vodka.
The honorees line up and he pours a shot in your glass, gives you a slice of lemon.
Then he spoons coffee directly from the can onto your lemon.
Then the Toast, drink the shot, bite the lemon.
Now you coffee grounds in stuck your teeth!
He swears it’s an Old Tradition and I just swear that I’ve Got Coffee Stuck in my Teeth!
I reply your full of it!
He puts Pepper Balls in a jar of Vodka or Alcohol , in the closet until they dissolve. Then a shot of the dissolved pepper into a bottle of Vodka.
Now you got Pepper Vodka.
The honorees line up and he pours a shot in your glass, gives you a slice of lemon.
Then he spoons coffee directly from the can onto your lemon.
Then the Toast, drink the shot, bite the lemon.
Now you coffee grounds in stuck your teeth!
He swears it’s an Old Tradition and I just swear that I’ve Got Coffee Stuck in my Teeth!
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I almost don't belong on this thread, because, at least in a past life, I would try anything and enjoy almost anything. And I was spoiled in the Navy, which has good chow to start with, and is apparently even better among the airedales.
My mother was also a good cook on not much money, but she pretty much screwed up chopped liver, probably from overcooking the liver. Didn't enjoy lunch so much on those days. However, she usually didn't overcook it when it was the main dish, and I still like liver to this day.
My mother was also a good cook on not much money, but she pretty much screwed up chopped liver, probably from overcooking the liver. Didn't enjoy lunch so much on those days. However, she usually didn't overcook it when it was the main dish, and I still like liver to this day.
Lutefisk
(How about surströmming? ) Cow's eyeball??
That's it- I'm unsubscribing from this thread. It's beginning to put me off my food
I remember going into a post office and walking past a car with a bumper sticker that read, "LEGALIZE LUTEFISK". I mentioned this to the lady at the counter and she smiled and said, "That's my car. My husband is Norwegian."
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