What is the worst food in terms of flavor or lack of

The English have chippy and sausage and I think it’s disgustingly bad

  • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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    2 months ago

    In terms of just general nastiness, I present Snickers Salad

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    It's a heady blend of chopped up Snickers, granny Smith apples, marshmallows, and most importantly, lots of Cool Whip™️

    I like most of those things separately, but together it's like chewing on a damp bowl of sugar

  • FALGSConaut [comrade/them]
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    2 months ago

    It's a cheap easy answer but fast food slop. Just a bunch of sugar, salt, and grease moulded together in a grotesque parody of food that tricks your brain into thinking you like it. It's one even slightly redeeming feature was it's low cost, and it doesn't even have that anymore

  • egg1918 [she/her]
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    2 months ago

    One time I ordered beef tartare without knowing what it was. Why the fuck people like that I have no idea, genuinely the worst thing I have ever tried

      • ihaveibs [he/him]
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        2 months ago

        It's honestly pretty mild. I've only ever had good tartare though, so idk what it would be like with low quality ingredients. Hard to describe. My best description would be imagine eating sashimi but it's beef lol but it's a pretty light flavor.

  • Chronicon [they/them]
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    2 months ago

    The wisconsin specialty: the cannibal sandwich

    literally just a raw ground beef sandwich with onion salt and pepper. Nothing else

      • Chronicon [they/them]
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        2 months ago

        yeah honestly its just the pure carnism of it all, plus the fact that in the modern day with grocery store ground beef that's sat around for god knows how long its a great way to get food poisoning lol. I guess it's just redneck tartare on a sandwich but like... no. please no

        I just have to spread the word of this barbarity when given the chance

        • SpiderFarmer [he/him]
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          2 months ago

          Most people that still carry on that tradition have the sense to get freshly ground or go to the higher-class butcher shops, but I can't speak for the conditions the cow was in before that.

  • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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    2 months ago

    Cabbage that has been cooked even very slightly is one of the foulest things I've ever encountered. The stench spreads and lingers horribly if it's heated even briefly, and more than the lightest exposure to heat gives it a sickening aftertaste.

    Raw cabbage is ok if not great, and pickled it's actually quite good especially if it's pickled with garlic, onions, and hot peppers, it's just heat that does something horrible to it.

  • SpiderFarmer [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    The hate in here on cabbage and pickled herring. This feels like anti-Polish sentiment!

  • NoLeftLeftWhereILive
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    2 months ago

    Pickled fish, omg.

    Back in my day in my country where the fashy values were never too far from the surface, the idea of education included the fun times of having to eat or at least taste everything on offer at school lunch.

    My elementary school did pickled fucking herring, the kind where the fish is all red and slimy. And we all had to eat one fillet or throw up trying. They lined us up and watched that we all take one piece and eat it. It scarred me for life.

    Some people apparently love that stuff, with new potatoes or whatever. I personally won't be in the same room with an open jar of that nastiness.

    • SoyViking [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      I like having pickled herring on rye bread once in a while (and wash it down with beer and aquavit) but I can understand why people wouldn't like it. It is a very particular taste.

    • Chronicon [they/them]
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      2 months ago

      I love pickled herring lol, its literally just pickled fish, so idk why people hate it so much unless they don't like fish or pickles

      the tough one is lutefisk, (or surstromming)

      • NoLeftLeftWhereILive
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        2 months ago

        The texture and smell is the issue for me. Love fish and love pickles, separately.:D

  • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2 months ago

    I'm a bit of a garbage can, but pimento loaf and that cheap-grade deli meat that was sliced and packaged so long ago it has that kinda wet slickness to it makes me lose my appetite, no matter how much it's churches up with condiments and whatever.

    • Chronicon [they/them]
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      2 months ago

      slimy deli meat does get me too. I'll eat processed slop, whatever, bologna doesn't bother me, but when its slimy it's just like "fuck this, this is rotten or on the verge of it"

  • Guamer [she/her]
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    2 months ago

    Raw cucumber, it's the "soap cilantro" gene but all the time.

    Infinitely inferior to cooked or pickled.

    • Ath3ro [none/use name]
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      2 months ago

      Have you had pico de gallo or ceviche? I’m don’t like plain raw cucumbers but i’ll throw some lime and salt on them and eat them that way

      • Guamer [she/her]
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        2 months ago

        Not sure if I've had those with cucumbers in them, but I'd be willing to try if not!

  • SoyViking [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    Cheese. I can eat almost anything, any vegetable, any legume, any spice, any meat, any cuisine, anything but not that. It smells horrible, looks horrible and tastes horrible. And people go mad for it.