by jaakkeli » Mon 20 Jun 2005, 10:51:48
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('I_Like_Plants', 'Y')ou know, I was going to add on here that blue cheese, the really good stuff with little caves in it you can see the silky moss growing in, has got to be about the worst thing people eat.
MMMM! Blue moldy cheese is my absolute favourite food of all. <i>Nothing</i> beats blue moldy cheese. When I was a kid, I used to beg for someone to buy moldy cheese more than I begged for candy or ice cream.
The worst food of all comes from... Sweden. Big surprise! The Swedes call it "surströmming". Basically, it's rotten whole fish, specifically Baltic herring. Nowadays they have some industrial way of preparing it, but the traditional method was to take some herring, kill them, lightly salt them, let them sit in the sun for a few days and then bury them in a barrel for a few months. Then they're ready. Preferably accompanied by large doses of vodka. The smell is unimaginably terrible.
The worst Finnish food is not actually food, but a drink, called "salmiakkikoskenkorva". It is vodka heavily flavoured with ammonium chloride (which in other countries is mainly used in batteries). It was banned for a while after a 1990s fad, because, according to some health officials, it tasted so bad that people forgot there was alcohol in it (40 %) and salmiakkikoskenkorva became a huge source of alcohol poisoning deaths.
Other than eating, the worst thing I've done with food is chopping a large bunch of habaneros with my bare hands and going to take a leak right after without even washing my hands (which wouldn't have helped much, as the burning stuff doesn't wash off with water). And then, after feeling the burn, thinking that a shower and a thorough washing down there would help... I could wear pants the next day, but I still felt the burning for days.
(Eating those things is no problem, of course.)
But personally, I hate nothing more than cooked whole potatoes. Dunno why, but I just can't eat them. The worst food I've ever eaten were pressure-cooked potatoes at school.