Guys ... come on ... google is your friend ... the Walkers Crisps corporate site is the top hit for a google on "walkers crisps", ditto Bovril and the wikipedia entry for a full English is first hit for a fry-up.

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Dog.

I worked at a Thai restaurant when I was in high school ; the son of the owner was a good friend of mine. After the restaurant closed every night they cooked up a big meal and sat and ate in in a communal fashion. One night we had something tough and a bit stringy. After much laughter from some of the other, Thai-speaking waitstaff, they finally told me that it was dog.

It isn't anything that they would have cooked to serve the actual patrons of the restaurant but they enjoyed it now and then.

It wasn't *that* bad really. Just stringy.

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natto.

May be the worst food ever.

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I would have to say coming home to my mother frying up some beef kidneys and the smell of urine permeating my nostrils. Worse yet was tasting them and guess what they tasted like....ugh!
http://www.noshtalgia.blogspot.com/

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Good ol' raw oysters. Tried them for the first, and last, time this past weekend. And here I was thinking chitlins were bad.

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In Seoul, I was at a Japanese restaurant and I ordered Sake. I was hoping for nice, cold Sake, but it came out hot. Not just hot, the waitress actually lit it on fire as she poured. When I lifted the glass, I noticed at the bottom a fish tail, about the right size for a large goldfish. You couldn't taste it at first, but after a few minutes, it got really stinky and pungent. Just terrible.

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i second what Alex says...but i'm also not sure which readers would find references to Bovril or Walkers Crisps 'nearly meaningless', especially when you consider that the majority of Slashfood visitors likely have at least a rudimentary knowledge of world foods/product names.

plus it's Bovril, and fry-ups, and crisps, that you've mentioned...it could be my Canadian background showing, but who on earth doesn't know, or couldn't at least take an educated stab, that 'crisps' are 'chips', for example? or that a 'fry-up', is, well, a....frying up of something? once you've established the basics, details are only seconds away from being illuminated, thanks to Google.

no offense intended to the author of this article - i guess i just like to think that all Slashfood readers - or maybe anyone with an interest in different foods and cultures - would be as compulsive about filling in their personal gaps in food and cultural knowledge as i seem to be. so instead of a list in parantheses that we're supposed to shake our heads at in amused bafflement, why not hyperlink the terms, so that we're learning instead?

sigh. this is probably way too intense. perhaps i've had too much coffee this morning.

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ahem....parentheses. not parantheses.

too much coffee for sure.

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yay! you provided links!

thank you, Emily.

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yay! you provided links!

thanks for listening.

e.

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Worst thing I ever put in my mouth was the first generation of the toaster pastry breakfasts, I can't even rememebr what they were called.

I broke the cardboard-ey crust and came upon the flavors of raw whey, salty ham water, and manufactured egg and damn near threw it down on my plate. I just about puked... which is strong wording coming from someone who deosn't mind tripe soup, snails, just about anything a sushi chef can throw on a plate, natto, etc...

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When I started my first business, I was too poor to buy food, so I ate 6 month old eggs with various condiments for about a week.

I also run http://trashyeats.com I would love to see some pictures of gross things you like to eat.

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Frog Egg drink, a Taiwanese specialty, it's overly sweet fruit juices, served with slimy tapioca balls that have the texture of frog eggs. It's absolutely disgusting.

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I love all manner of offal, but the vision (and mouthfeel) of cold, grey slabs of brain on an otherwise unadorned white lunch plate at a Lebanese restaurant in midtown Manhattan will haunt me to my dying day.

If someone could go ahead and munch out the part of my brain that's retaining that memory, I'd be forever in their debt.

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Mine is simple, and unforgettable. I was dating a guy who invited me over to his mother's for one evening of movie watching. The Fly with Jeff Goldblum had just come out, which was pretty queasy-inducing on its own, and then, during this movie showing a man-fly vomiting on his food to break it down, she made us a snack. I had to eat it to be polite, but it was singularly the worst thing I'd ever eaten -- not because it had offal or kidney or smelly cheese or anything else. Just because it was this:

Mrs. Grove's Sandwiches

Take two slices of wonder bread
Spread liberally with Miracle Whip*
Layer one slice of bologna on bread
Layer with thin slices of red bell pepper
Layer with thin slices of jalapeno pepper
Layer with several clumbs of diced black olives from a can
Layer with a slice of freshly unwrapped, bright orange American Cheese
Heat in the microwave until the cheese melts, the fat in the bologna soaks the bread, and the miracle whip bubbles
Cut in quarters, and serve with Orange Tang

*This stuff is so utterly noxious I could stop right there and be done with this story and 50% of you would agree with me.

I have to go lay down.I'm sick again.

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I would say that the creamed venison my mom made and canned and served to us for an entire Minnesota winter was probably the grossest food I've had. And I think in close second was the chicken dish my stepmom made that contained marshmallows, mandarin oranges, and coconut. Imagine ambrosia salad hot with chicken.

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Kazunoko is the worst thing I've eaten by far. These are herring roe eggs compressed into blocks, dried, then soaked in dashi or other broth for comsuption. As much as I disliked them, I greatly appreciated the serving of these expensive fish eggs by a good Japanese friend of mine. Thankfully I was able to keep a pleasant face while eating this delicacy.

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