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TheViking
05-07-2004, 19:33
Hi...
Wondering: what is the most disgusting you have ever been eating, when in the woods, practicing bushcraft?? ;) :D I mean... you do eat natural plants you find don't you?
Sprouts. Honest. I hate them. Really hate them.
Tomato - the devils fruit! :***:
Plants? Sloes :yikes:
Critters? Limpets :eek:
Um hedgehogs in mauritius taste bad, fried wasp larve or locusts are nice and crunchy but are like eating chips that have been stuck in the fryer for far too long
I havent found a plant that really tastes bad yet most that I'm not fussed on are those that just taste like leaves
RovingArcher
05-07-2004, 21:40
Big ol grub that was living in a dead fall in the Sierra Nevada Mtns. I figured if a bear could eat them, then I could. :yikes: I needed a couple :uu: after that one.
Mopani worms may look pretty bad, but fried they are surpricing acceptable....
stuart f
05-07-2004, 22:17
The worst thing has got to be Tripe with Onions in a white sauce.
OOH! I think i,m gonna Barf just thinking about it. CHEERS STUART F.
MagiKelly
05-07-2004, 22:22
Sprouts, no contest, simply the work of SATAN!
Cheese in all its foul incarnations. why anyone would choose to eat the stuff is beyond me.
The smell makes me violently sick. What's worse my wife loves the stuff.
Aren't slugs supposed to be edible? That would disgust me - I dunno why, but snails sound OK - but slugs - yuck.
Sprouts no contest. Texture wise though it has to be Jews Ear. Fairly tasty in a stew (as long as the stew is reasonable) but the texture is awful.
Aren't slugs supposed to be edible? That would disgust me - I dunno why, but snails sound OK - but slugs - yuck.
Sprouts are worse!
;)
Sprouts are worse!
;)
I like sprouts - but then I like tripe too (only the bleached stuff, nice with vinegar).
I like sprouts - but then I like tripe too (only the bleached stuff, nice with vinegar).
Then I'm certain you'd like slugs too! ;-)
RovingArcher
05-07-2004, 23:52
Mopani worms may look pretty bad, but fried they are surpricing acceptable....
If they are like the smallish grubs that live under the bark of a tree, I've eaten similar and they can be quite tasty fried up. Not too bad raw, but I eat berries or other foods to help with the flavor.
This one was very different in taste, appearance and texture. They are quite large, being around 12cm long and 3cm thick and look like a big ugly marshmallow that are very soft and mushy feeling. They taste very bitter and my auto rejection mode kicked in, so it didn't make it into my stomach. I'd rather chase down a PO'd rattle snake and swallow it head first, than eat another one.
C_Claycomb
06-07-2004, 08:06
I like sprouts :lol: well, as long as not over cooked.
I have heard that there is nothing you can do with slugs that make them worth eating, they are just too slimey to fool with. Can't say that I have tried though.
Texture wise, boiled tendon, as in soup or stew, that gelatinous crunch just turns my stomach.
I reckon that as far as contents goes, tinned sausage is probably the nastiest thing you could eat while in the field. Mechanically separated chicken is a lot worse than almost any grub you could find!
TheViking
06-07-2004, 08:31
Hi...
I've heard that if you want to eat slugs (then :You_Rock_ ) you must boil them in water and thereafter let them dry.... This should remove most of the slimy stuff!? ;) :-D Never tried though!
MartiniDave
06-07-2004, 09:03
Kath,
You're not supposed to eat the sloes until after they come out of the gin and you've covered them with melted chocolate! Trust me, they're good like that! Don't think it works on sprouts though.
Not natural food, but I'm not at all keen on Quorn.
I've gone off rabbit lately too, shame cos theres loads about.
Dave
jamesdevine
06-07-2004, 12:58
I don't like sprouts or cabagge and I am not a huge fan of chesse but if it's mild I will eat it.
I absolutly hate Liver :yikes: . From any animal the smell of cooking and fell of it when I am eating just turns my stomach.
I have eaten it but would reserve it for emergances.
James
If they are like the smallish grubs that live under the bark of a tree, I've eaten similar and they can be quite tasty fried up.
No, they're not small at all - average size is about 8 cm or so, although I've seen some as big as 10 - 11 cm. We used to collect them in the bush when I was a kid running about learning bushcraft in southern Africa. Flying ants was eaten the same way (mostly fried, sometimes boiled) - average size of a flying ant is about 4,5 cm or so.
This is a live one
http://www.nfi.org.za/inverts/BIG12/mopani%20worm.jpg
And you may see a closeup of a dried one here http://www.nfi.org.za/Displays/Worm.jpg
You may read more about them here
http://www.nfi.org.za/inverts/BIG12/mopani.html
http://www.scienceinafrica.co.za/2003/june/mopane.htm
Kath,
You're not supposed to eat the sloes until after they come out of the gin and you've covered them with melted chocolate! Trust me, they're good like that! Don't think it works on sprouts though.
Not natural food, but I'm not at all keen on Quorn.
I've gone off rabbit lately too, shame cos theres loads about.
Dave
hmmm I've still got about a gallon of sloe gin here with the sloes still in.....
MartiniDave
06-07-2004, 16:47
Forgot to say you should remove the stones from the sloes before covering with choccy.
Dave
RovingArcher
06-07-2004, 17:45
No, they're not small at all - average size is about 8 cm or so, although I've seen some as big as 10 - 11 cm.
Nope, different species. I hope that they are able to protect them better than they do some of their other protected species. Otherwise, the poachers will be on them and as we all know, they don't care about the environment or leaving the trees undesturbed for future generations of worms. They only care about the money they get when done with the job.
Hmmmn....
would have to be Guinea Pig-the national 'delecacy' of Ecuador.
Appearance wise was(the first taste is with the eye...), we were off to a bad start, as the thing had been panned, shaved(mostly) and then deep fried. Served in all its oily glory with little squinting eyes and splayed out claws :yikes: What was disturbing was the fact that their faces seemed rather more point that a guinea pig's which led us to the possability that we were eating rats...
I took one bite of some of the ''meat'' off of a hind leg- tasted like bland, Very chewy and oily chicken. That was my first bite, and after finding something hard-ish in it, my last also.
Our guides were happily noshing away, laughing at our faces of horror.
Worse though was when i cracked open the poor little blighter's skull and had a taste of the brain. This was absolutley rank, tasting slightly of egg(slightly!!!), but it was a dare from a mate and consequently I had all of my drinks bought by him later on(Needless to say, I drank rather alot :lol: )
Cheers.
PS Simple rules of survival eating:
Do not eat anything the name of which you cannot spell or pronounce; which is larger than your head... or tomatos!!!!
Plants? Sloes :yikes:
Critters? Limpets :eek:
Kath... I agree about the Limpets
However they make excellent bait fer a crab line
TheViking
13-07-2004, 14:45
Hi...
Could one of you deepen what a limpet is? :roll: I'm dane and sometimes have to look up the dictionary... :wink:
Cheers :uu:
Hi...
Could one of you deepen what a limpet is? :roll: I'm dane and sometimes have to look up the dictionary... :wink:
Cheers :uu:
Here are some pictures ... http://www.woodbridge.tased.edu.au/mdc/Species%20Register/limpets.htm
As has been said before, better fishing bait really but because they are grazers rather than filter feeders they tend to be safer to eat.
I've heard that if you want to eat slugs (then ) you must boil them in water and thereafter let them dry.... This should remove most of the slimy stuff!? Never tried though!
I steer clear of slugs.... they can feed on some nasty toxic stuff thats builds up in their bodies, not really good for you if you know what I mean.... snails on the other hand are another story ;-)
Worst wild food..... ummmm.... Has to be rosehip.... a nice cup of that soon made me oraly shed my daily calorie intake.... not a pretty sight.... :yuck:
Ed
Great Pebble
14-07-2004, 09:43
Chicken & Mushroom Pot Noodle.
With dodgy duck a close second. Duck is so variable and dependent on where the bird has been feeding.
i have to agree with those of you who have said that limpits are pretty disscusting, but the texture is ok, where as winkles.... they are soo much worse texture wise and dnot taste much better!
Cheese in all its foul incarnations. why anyone would choose to eat the stuff is beyond me.
The smell makes me violently sick. What's worse my wife loves the stuff.
I wholeheartedly agree.
Cheese is the devils sperm.
:censored:
Danzo
Hjaltlander
19-07-2004, 17:05
hmmm, I'm surprised no one has mentioned baked beans, the very thought of a baked bean on my plate with my breakfast would make me run a mile and go hungry for at least a week! (well 5 minutes, lol)
Justin Time
19-07-2004, 21:27
Dock leaf, verrrrryyyyyyyyyy bitter, yeuch
I wasn't too taken with the taste of Burdock shoots either, will probably give thew root a try this weekend
Yes, very bitter ... must try dock pudding though one day!
How did you cook them?
Ed
Squidders
21-08-2004, 18:22
I once ate a ladybird by accident... thinking about it, they really do advertise the fact that they taste like s :***: t being covered in bright red with black spots.
Maybe it is disgusting to someone else, but I actually liked stone-grilled grasshoppers and wood larvae.
-Emile
Maybe it is disgusting to someone else, but I actually liked stone-grilled grasshoppers and wood larvae.
-Emile
I agree with you on that (that it's good) :-P
mealworms aren't bad at all, crickets have no flavour - they're just sharp and silkworms taste soapy. I don't mind hakarl but it's kind of a long trip to get any from here.
Anyone tried young stinkhorns? I'm wondering if they're worth a taste.
Realgar
Greywolf
07-06-2005, 17:58
roast chestnuts, I love them but my system doesnt and autorejection kicks in, they really taste bad coming back :(
Greywolf
roast chestnuts, I love them but my system doesnt and autorejection kicks in, they really taste bad coming back :(
Greywolf
My dad said that if you thought you might be sick, eat strawberry jam, it tastes the same coming back up as it did going down :D
Disgusting?... nowadays it's just meat of any kind. Thirty years ago, when I did eat meat, it had to have been finding bones and tendons in food. The Scots phrase is, "It fair made me boak" , i.e. it made my gorge rise. :(
Taste wise I detest coconut and boiled spinach, absolutely revolting stuff.
Cheers,
Toddy
'll eat most things (and I probably have) but the thing that makes me sick whenever I think about it is a pigs face I had to eat in Irian Jaya (it's a long story)
It had been about 6 hours in a hangi under several tons of rocks. It looked like roadkill and when I realised that there was baked pig snot still in it I had to force it down and then make my excuses and go throw up!
George
For me its boiled eggs and its twin culinary evil,egg mayonnaise. These have made me vomit since childhood.When I worked on the wards as a nurse there was nothing which could 'turn me '. As a student I once threw up over a ward sisters shoes as she dished up egg mayonnaise.I can cope with any bodily fluid/discharge/waste product or horrific sight but those eggy spawn of auld nick himself -yeuuch(am gagging now).
Coleslaw. Just the smell of it is enough to set me off :(
raskusdrotti
07-06-2005, 20:13
I once bit the tail off a ragworm while trying to gross out my friend by pretending to eat one.....
...and i did!
It made me blow chunks (and tails) :eek:
Motorbike Man
07-06-2005, 20:30
Jellied Eels should be banned by law
cooked mushrooms, they just make me sick. It got worse after the ebarressment when I first when to a girlfrinds house for dinner.
Greywolf
08-06-2005, 06:59
Parmasan!
why would anyone want to eat stuff that smells and tastes like baby sick?
The smell makes me ring head north via me stomach
http://www.my-smileys.de/smileys2/kotz_2.gif
Greywolf
Tomatoes. As a child, I went to a "pick your own" farm and made it to the tomato field. You know what PYO farms are like? one for me, one for the basket. In the end, I threw up pure tomato and had the skin and pips stuck in my teeth. :(
From that day forward they became known as "The devils testicles" :eek:
I 'm alright with any tomato products (soup, ketchup, pasta sauce) cooked into food. It's just raw tomato. Oh, except when you have a lovely fry-up and they put cooked plum tomatoes on it !!!!! You might as well put it straight in the bin then.
Martin
Keith_Beef
08-06-2005, 09:53
Hi...
Wondering: what is the most disgusting you have ever been eating, when in the woods, practicing bushcraft?? ;) :D I mean... you do eat natural plants you find don't you?
I think that there is no food, apart from garlick, that I really loathe. Ramsons, then would be my bushy bugbear.
Maybe the only times I've spat out something that I've harvested and munched would be crabapples or unripe fruit.
I once spat out a mouthful of supemarket-bought apple. I took a bit, another bite, a third bit.
Thought "this has a funny flavour", sort of like the dry musty smell of dry rot in wood.
I looked inside, and scurrying around in the core were a dozen woodlice. And a half woodlouse.
Woodlice were apparently given as a quack rememdy for something or other... I don't know what.
Keith.
arctic hobo
08-06-2005, 10:13
Mine's similar - bit a maggot in an apple in half once, not realising - looked at the pear, there's the other half in the middle of the part I'd bitten. I'd swallowed by then so it was too late. I wasn't sick but I got a horrible paranoia for the rest of the day, checking every inch of my food :eek:
Povarian
08-06-2005, 11:20
Worst veg: Celery - induces technicolor yawn every time, even just the salt of it.. Oh and Rhubarb which is just celery with custard on it.
As for sprouts and cheese, I love 'em. Don't get sprouts very often since the missus detests the things. Funnily enough, I'm not overly fond of the smell of a whole field of the things though.
Spacemonkey
08-06-2005, 15:20
Had a Raven ready meal once. Just once. Uuuurgh....
For me it would have to be tomatoes, baked beans or anything else made from nasty, stinking, tomatoey badness.
I did once eat a chocolate covered boiled sprout. I can report that unfortunately the vile sprouty flavour somehow diffused into the chocolate and made that taste foul too.
Pappa
As an healty dutchman, sprouts and cheese are my favourite food, but he most disguisting foodstuff to me is peanutbutter.........only the smell of it makes me sick!!
zackerty
08-06-2005, 21:57
Take one animal, kill it, eat it.
Or if you want more protein, gut it, and leave for a day...the maggots that "arrive" will provide more to share with your buddies.. :D
Visually disgusting, the writhing mass of off-white wigglers, but when curry powder is sprinkled on the meal, it taste good..just keep your eyes closed. :D
When I was hunting rabbit with my buddy we shot a few pregnant does' (sounds bad I know, but it's pest control). We were camping over night and we were eating some of our shot rabbits (Mmm pan fried bunny) My mate decided to deep fry a rabbit foetus and eat it, I nearly threw up watching him crunch it.
Dazz
ChrisKavanaugh
09-06-2005, 00:26
I was at a filipino party and offered what I took to be a hardboiled egg. Only it was a duck egg delicacy called balut- something akin to poultry veal with a partly developed duckling inside quickly boiled. It wasn't quite as bad as the half rotten whale blubber an inuit offered me during a visit or the boiled stalk of Yucca at a california Indian pow-wow with rabbit and acorn cakes. Boiled yucca looks and tastes like grey wallpaper paste with a hint of redwine vinegar. :eek:
Keith_Beef
09-06-2005, 09:13
Boiled yucca looks and tastes like grey wallpaper paste with a hint of redwine vinegar. :eek:
I've had something similar in France. A thing called "patisson", a sort of flattish, round fruit in the cucurbitacea family (cucumbers, marrows, pumpkins).
http://home2.pi.be/eb349940/images/vers/patisson.jpg
The flesh is white, has virtually no flavour, and is far too easy to overcook.
This stuff is the bland king of blandness, so you really need to add something to it. And French dressing (oil + mustard + vinegar) was on mine... but without the oil or the mustard.
As for a Dutchman who doesn't like pindakaas, I think you must be the only one!
Do you eat pink and white mice on toast?
Keith.
I've had something similar in France. A thing called "patisson", a sort of flattish, round fruit in the cucurbitacea family (cucumbers, marrows, pumpkins).
ISTR that our transatlantic cousins know these as "Patty Pan" squash.
Far too bland to be entirely revolting. Taste mostly of "grey"
I can eat and keep down most things, but I am really REALLY unimpressed by:
Polenta
Risotto - any sort, tried loads incl. cooked by Italians
Couscous
They don't make me ill, I'd just rather eat rice, bread, spuds or, at a pinch, papier mache.
Nearly everything foraged I find acceptable when I've finally checked that it's non-toxic 10-15 times :rolleyes:
Jim.
arctic hobo
09-06-2005, 15:23
Ho yus, also the meat substitutes I just can't keep down, Quorn and Tofu - ugh! :eek:
Ogri the trog
09-06-2005, 15:40
Why has no-one mentioned Marmite yet?
In polite society it is the "Devils Earwax", among friends it's made of "Monkey sp*nk and brick dust".
Slow moving sea food is all poisonous, mussels, winkels, cockels etc as are insect grubs - I'd rather eat my own ears! Whereas crabs, lobster and prawns are great. How can this be?
Peanut butter and sprouts are food to the gods, but I have to agree with the cheese thing as I've recently become dairy allergic!
ATB
Ogri the trog
Keith_Beef
09-06-2005, 16:13
I am really REALLY unimpressed by:
Polenta
Risotto - any sort, tried loads incl. cooked by Italians
Couscous
They don't make me ill, I'd just rather eat rice, bread, spuds or, at a pinch, papier mache.
Polenta. Quite tasteless stuff; needs flavouring. It can be nice when it's refried to a thin "biscuit" in olive oil and butter, then eaten as the carb with a stew or soup.
Risotto. Great stuff. Easy to make. Fry a chopped onion and diced salami in some butter or oilve oil. Add 1 cup of arborio rice, two cups of water, a stock cube, a handful of peas, or some other veg chopped small. Red or yellow peppers (capsicum) is good for colour. DO NOT ADD SALT as there's already more than enough in the salami. Cover, and wait for the rice to absorb the water. This can take 20 minutes for arboria rice... At the end of cooking, remove from the heat, and stir in a bit of cheese.
Couscous is almost tasteless, but has a bit of texture. Put some currants or sultanas in dry couscous, add some spices (ras-al-hanout, wu hsiang fen, or whatever is to hand). Pour over enough boiling water to wet it all, stir then leave to stand for a couple of minutes so the grains swell.
Most grains can be used instead of rice and are available from healthfood shops.
I often eat rye, wheat, spelta (a variety of wheat), barley and kamut. Often, these are sold with the husk still on; cooking times are longer than polished white rice, but the texture is better and you get some more protein and much more fibre.
Keith.
Keith_Beef
09-06-2005, 16:14
Why has no-one mentioned Marmite yet?
Because everybody except for you loves it.. ;)
Keith.
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As for a Dutchman who doesn't like pindakaas, I think you must be the only one!
Do you eat pink and white mice on toast?
Keith.
It depends: if it is a girl.....yes, if it is a boy i eat blue and white mice on toast :p
Just out of interest has anybody ever tried those Teredo Worms, I seem to remember them pictured in one of RM's books. There's not much I won't eat but the look of those things was enough to put me off for life!
In the mediterranea island of Sardenia, it is traditional food a kind of cheese with maggots.
Now it's forbitten to be sold (due to European laws on food). But it was the staple diet with the shephards of the island. It seems they use to particularly appreciate the maggots, so much that they called in "maggots with cheese". The maggots were from a rare fly found only on the island.
I tried it once.... I really liked it!!!!
However, HEINZ Baked Beans are the worst thing I know.
Worst thing I ate in the bush was fish. Not any kind of fish, though...
"Survival" outing. I was around 12 or 13 I guess. Near a river. I had found an old rusty iron can to use as a billy. Then I saw a whole cloud of mini, mini salmons. You know, about 2-3 inches long salmons... I grabbed my baseball cap and easily got a few of them... I was so hungry (you know, I had skipped a meal ;)).
I put the fish in the rusted can, lit a fire, and boiled them. Now that was the stupid part of the plan. As I boiled them (alive), a weird smell started to hover around the whole area. Like concentrated, rotten fish oil. Then rusty colored foam started to appear on top of the water... Dark orange, almost red foam that bubbled and smelled like the end of the world. The smell was just horrible, but the taste, I have to admit, was much, much worse. It's hard to describe, actually. Think of a mix between rehydrated mommy and rotten concentrated fish liver oil, with a subtle, but very robust rust seasoning...
This is the time in my life when I was the closest to abandon the "what you kill, you eat" principle. 15 minutes afterwards, as I puked my soul out, I decided that from then on I'd poach bigger fish ;)
Cheers,
David
Keith_Beef
10-06-2005, 09:43
In the mediterranea island of Sardenia, it is traditional food a kind of cheese with maggots.
There's a similar cheese from Crosica, supposedly. But I've never found any and never met anybody who's really seen any...
It's mentioned in this page:
http://www.outdoorsmagic.com/forum/forummessages/mps/utn/3231/dt/4/srchdte/0/v/1/sp/328508336162364783300
In at least one book by Jean Anglade ("La soupe à la fourchette", probably, but maybe "Dans le secret des roseaux") there is mention of farmhouse cheese in Auvergne that has some sort of animalcule living on or in the rind... I don't know if it's an insect, or some other invertebrate; I think it's called an "artison"...
Keith.
Plants? Sloes :yikes:
Critters? Limpets :eek:
got to agree with the above! They are the dryest wet fruit ever! :eek:
Limpets are not a patch on Sloes
A cold grilled green pepper - yak supreme
Sprouts - totally vile
Potted Hock - something my Scottish godmother used to force feed me as a child when I visited. Cold boiled mutton that has been shredded and set it its own juices (jelly). Better stop - I'm going to puke. Her homemade chicken soup was, on the other hand, sublime.
Not eaten anything 'au naturele' that has yet to disagree with me - so far!