Inspired by Gross Kid's Food and My Lunch

What foods do you like that look really gross but taste yummy?

And/or

What foods have you made or bought that looked really yummy but tasted gross?

My Lunch: Tortillas chips with cheddar cheese and refried black beans (baked) and green salsa drizzled on top.

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People have told me that they think shad roe looks gross. To me it looks like shad roe, and therefore appetizing. In season as we speak.

Somehow it looks really gross but really tasty to me vinny. I might have to try it sometime.

Sandwiches with vegemite, cheese and walnuts.

My mummy used to make them. Sometimes she added lettuce as well. As an adult I like that combination still so maybe I should put it on the foods I liked as a child thread as well.

Biscuits and gravy, Southern U.S, Style

How in the world did your mum come up with that combination sneaker?

I've never had biscuits and gravy, Anonimo. The last time I briefly thought about getting it (at a hotel), the gravy looked like warmed up snot. The gravy in that picture looks a lot better (if you keep in mind that the brown lumps are just sausage). But I still don't think I'll like biscuits and gravy.

I have no idea but I strongly suspect she wasn't the only one. I know a lot of people who would eat combinations of that - vegemite and cheese, vegemite and lettuce especially.

What foods do you like that look really gross but taste yummy?

Last Sunday at friends' - wife to her husband:
-Julius (name of their little puppy) has pooed on the floor
-hmmm... no, it must be a bit of goose liver that I dropped on the floor.

What looks gross depends on presentation, I guess.

sneaker - I've never had vegemite but, from what I know of it, the cheese and lettuce don't sound to weird, it's throwing in the walnuts that really makes it sound bizarre.

Fieldgate - hee hee, that's great.

What looks gross depends on presentation, I guess

While I think goose liver has the potential to look like poop wherever it is, I'm sure it looks even more so in the floor.

i know. It's still one of my comfort foods.

Much like macaroni cheese and chippie (potato crisp) sandwiches. They just make me feel nice.

sachac - my bad. That was supposed to be about two different meals - the first one being Mac & Cheese. The second one being potato chip sandwich.

Recipe for a chippie sandwich:

Bread
Butter
Potato chips/chippies/chips/crisps

Take 2 pieces of bread
butter each slice lightly
take a handful of chips and layer them over the two pieces of bread
join two slices together in a nice crunchy mess

bite and chew and swallow.

#6.Actually it's quite tasty.We sometimes do a similar toasted version using Marmite:))

Mac & cheese chippie sandwich!!!! That sounds really gross! A pizza place near us has a mac&cheese pizza. Besides the fact that the it looks a horrible mushy mess, I like my mac&cheese in a bowl with a spoon and my crisps on a plate next to a sandwich. Okay, occasionally on a sandwich - maybe a falafel or some tuna but not m&c.

Just thinking of macaroni cheese and chippie sandwiches give me a carbo-adrenalin hight:))

Hmmm.Sounds good,especially if the chippies are onion/chilli flavoured.

I remember seeing spaghetti sandwiches in New Zealand. Cold canned spaghetti on white bread. Like this

How about cat box cake?

This was a practical joke turned inside out:

This is a petri dish with colonies of bacteria growing on something called "blood agar." It is made with real blood, usually from sheep, plus other nutrient stuff. Agar is a gelatin-like thing derived from seaweed that makes the solution stay stiff, like thick jello. It is sterilized before use.

My father, when visitors were expected in his lab, would make up a petri plate with tomato aspic and dots of mayonnaise for the colonies. At some appropriate moment, he'd turn up with the dish, open it up and start eating, freaking out the victim. Until the day one of Dad's coworkers replaced his aspic mayo with real blood agar mayo.

Thank you sneaker! I feel much better. I've heard of chippie sandwiches here before and thought it sounded terribly disgusting. Like I said, I used to eat potato chips on tuna but on white bread with butter - ew.

Nutrax - I've heard of kids eating spaghetti sandwiches before, yuck! That cat box cake is a perfect example of why I put in the disclaimer. Your poor dad!!

Lutefisk.

W.

Ugh!

Lutefisk doesn't look gross at all. It just doesn't taste good.
Oh well, part of Scandinavian culinary tradition...

I wouldn't say it looks gross just rather unappealing.

@Fieldgate

Come on now, lutefisk is delicious when prepared properly: definitely an acquired taste though...

Mzingu,
I'm not native Scandinavian so it might be too late for me.
A collegue once told me, when he was a child he couldn't eat lut(e)fisk when he had braces (tandställning). He said the lutfisk tasted as if he was licking a battery. I think, that put me off lutefisk for good.

For uninitiated TTers - lutfisk undergoes fermentation in an electrolite-like liquid.
Wiki says "It is gelatinous in texture, and has an extremely strong, pungent odor.". Could b my own words.

@fieldgate

But surely no responsible person would serve lutefisk to an innocent child?

A friend of mine, vulgarly but rather aptly, once compared lutefisk to cunnilingus: it's not something you should try too early in life, and you have to master it to enjoy it (and to master it you have to respect its infinite complexity) - but eventually the doors of perception open and it becomes a highly enjoyable... dish.

W.

Sounds somewhat reminescent to the fermented fish dish/condiment called "budu" consumed in the South Thailand and north eastern states of Malaysia which stinks to high heaven.

Isn't lutefisk made with lime - the building material kind that is? I saw a show that briefly went into making it and it just didn't sound appealing.

It's made with lye, I think. Although lime and lye can be used for similar purposes, e.g. turning corn into hominy, so maybe it can be made with lime as well.

mzungu, I suppose there are guys who didn't like giving head the first time they tried it, and I further suppose you and your friend may be two of them, but don't speak for whole gender.

So you were good at it from day one Vinny? You're an amazing guy!

@VinnyD

I didn't say that it's not possible to enjoy it the first time you try it, I was just pointing out that to excel as a cunnilinguist one needs a certain maturity, and that it's therefore unwise and irresponsible to serve lutefisk to minors.

W.

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I love oysters on the half shell, but they do look pretty gross.

Vinny, Lime is almost always used at home because lye is so dangerous. In México, tortilla dough (masa) is usually made with lime in tortilla factories. Again because of the dangers of lye, and also because the lye process requires a lot more washing -- water and time expenses, etc.

Strauss, that's a meat pie? That is one of the most disgusting looking foods I've ever seen! But at the same time, it looks rather yummy.

I'm with ya on the oysters rolly. I guess I can't complain about food made with lime any more, since I love my home made papusas, made with masa, of course.

@strauss1944

That looks like a collapsed volcano. Geografood, anyone?

W.

what the hell is slime doing on top of that pie??

I was appalled not only by cold canned spaghetti sandwiches, but also cold baked bean sandwiches, consumed by schoolkids in country West Oz.

I love roast stuffed lamb heart, fried lambs liver & devilled kidneys. The mere thought of consuming such delicacies sends friends into paroxysms of disgust! However, tripe & brains are definitely off the menu for moi.

It's pretty standard, or at least it used to be, to use up cold baked beans in a sandwich in Boston. But these would be actual baked beans from a beanpot. I don't think anyone in Boston puts canned beans in a sandwich.

I like brains. I think what puts people off is the mushy texture when they're expecting meat. But it's less mushy than scrambled eggs, and people like that. I'm with you on heart, kidney, liver, and with the negative on tripe. Tongue is good too.

Tongue no... I simply don't like the texture. Similarly with brawn. As far as I'm concerned, meat jelly should be used to make a good gravy.

One morning my husband and daughter decided to make themselves breakfast as I slept. They made themselves canned baked beans on tortillas. I thought it was bizarre but they enjoyed it.

I like chicken livers and gizards, never had sheep. I admit to being prejudiced toward brains. They just don't look or sound appealing though I've never tried them. I also used to love kishka - back when it was stuffed into sheep intestine. Since they stopped using the intestine I don't like it as much.

I also like tongue. My husband hates it. One time in Germany, when we got our orders he had accidently ordered tongue and I had accidently ordered rabbit. It wasn't so much the rabbit I didn't like but the way the prepared it. We traded dishes.

I love head cheese/souse/brawn. But I can understand not liking that texture.

I don't really hate tripe, but it doesn't do anything for me. Chitlins similarly.

That's just reminded me that I saw baked beans on tortilla in a child's recipe book lately. With some grilled grated cheese they were really quite yummy.

That's cool sneaker.

I've never had head cheese either - don't like the look of it or Chitlins - never had the opportunity.

#33, we have two types of popular, yes they are populuar, one is the meat pie topped with mashed potato, and the other type is topped with mushy peas. This pie has first coated with l level of mashed potato, and the 'Slime' on the top is mushy peas. I know it looks gross, but it is not half bad!

The idea of putting stuff outside the pie seems weird from this distance. If you want potatoes and peas with your meat pie, why not put them inside with the meat?

I can kinda see keeping them on the outside if that's the way you like them. The flavors would be different and would combine differently that way. What I don't like about it, personally, is that it seems the pie crust would get mushy. If you like it that way, more power to ya. But I'll take my mashes on the side, thank you.