It's a toss up between pickled beets and spam for me. Ewwww to both!

Years ago my dad thought it would be fun to celebrate a week of receipes to all of the cultures from my mom's family and his.

My dad's Irish and he made boxty and coddle..All I can say.:praying::blink::seeingstars::|:fart::bolt:

Need I say more?

Beets—they taste like dirt smells. Blech!

Reading everyone's posts this morning ... they are making me laugh.

I am surprised to find so many do not like beets. I love them.

I had a cube mate years ago and sometimes I would open a small can of those Del Monte brand sliced beets in the mornings at like 8:30, get a fork and eat them straight out of the can - knowing all the while I was grossing her out. She left for another job out of state about three years back. I still miss her. We have continued our friendship. Every once in a great while, she will mention something in an email about me eating those beets in front of her. I did the exact thing to her with little cans of cold spinach too. LOL! I eat that stuff same as before in the mornings but it is not nearly as much fun without Misty being there. How I loved getting her going! She always delighted in taking pokes at me too. It was never one sided.

Cow brain... blech!

Hot dogs - do you even know whats in those things? Everything that fell through the grate to the floor (as Grandma would say)...lol

Guinea Pig - They are wild and an abundant food source in Ecuador. I felt TERRIBLE...I had visions of our grade school classroom pet when the farmer, whose barn we stayed in, so proudly brought us dinner. It was cooked whole and served on a stick like a corn dog...although I had a taste I just couldnt do it and passed it to one of my climbing mates when he wasnt looking.

Green Peanuts ! With my Girlfriend in Georgia last year...they are bitter and sharp and have absolutely no redeeming qualities (Yep, I'm a Yankee).

Blood Sausage, Brains, Chitlins, Chicken Gizzards, Fish Eyes, Pickled Pork Feet, roe, tartar and a host of other oddities...I'm amazed I still travel , most of these weird things have been while traveling.

HaHa! I love mashed rutabaga with salt, pepper, butter and cream. Make it just like mashed potatoes. YUM!

Raw octopus.....nice and chewy!....yummy in the sushi bar!....lol...:)

friend from syria-
 

ewww
 

escargot or canned asparagus yuuuucccckkk

foie gras & pate

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I eat just like that too....My wife doesn't care for that many veggies....

I can eat almost anybody's cooking from any culture, but the one thing that always gets me is eating sea urchin roe at the sushi bar.....Omg!....Talk about smelling and tasting the ocean in something that looks like a baby's poop....Yuck!....Not all the wasabi in the world can take away that taste outta my mouth!

deep fried oysters....utterly the most disgusting thing i've ever paid for to eat..:watereyes:

Ahhh, all of my favorite foods I love to eat....My mom makes (and so do I) make a wicked patitas recipe (stewed pigs feet)......But your description---priceless!...lol

You made me laugh.....We eat this all the time.....lol

Now aren't you glad you didn't have them raw....That's an experience by itself....lol

quite frankly i'd rather have them raw...they tasted (to me) like a big crunchy snot rocket(shudders)...at least i could swallow them raw..

To me, it's pretty tasteless and the color is pretty. :)

Um, nope. At least when they are fried, they have that crunch factor (and the poop is hidden unless you cut into them). When they are raw, it's all semi-hard snot.

Blech.

I had gator tail while in FL. It's not bad to me. I don't think I'm a fan of the frog legs, though.

I enjoy eating menudo and liver. However, living where I live, I cannot find a restaurant that serves liver. In my family, when I was growing up liver, and onions with a baked potato was considered to be a tasty meal.

Something I really do not like in my food is celantro. Celantro is used often in mexican food and I find I get pretty weird looks when I specify, "No Celantro."

oysters, clams, unagi, okra, and bananas!

I love these

Meee toooo, oysters fixed any way! Yummmmm...

xcept...mountain oysters. :|

I am a rather picky eater so my palate is limited especially with not eating meat but the one food I DESPISE is brussel sprouts.....they have got to the most atrocious apparently edible food on the planet. A little dramatic I know but I really cringe even thinking about them.

I hate them too
little cabbage abortions

pork
 

The pork patties in the c-rats or mre's as the are called now, when I was in the Marine Corps. And one time I tried snails when I was in Korea. Just testing my gag reflexing, is what that amounted to.