What is the most disgusting thing you have eaten by accident?

Bacon. It literally makes me gag.
Not even the maggots I once had the misfortune to consume with a chicken leg caused me to gag. Bacon does.

menses

I was sleeping on my back with my mouth open. An insect flew down my throat , waking me up just in time to taste it and was it repulsive!

O.o Menses?

Somebody had some “splaining” to do.

Thankfully, I don’t remember. I wanted to forget it thank you. Yuck.

@woodcutter likes the Detroit Red Wings

Some housemates went scuba diving and brought back urchins and made them up for an hors d’oeuvre. Turns out they weren’t sushi chefs and they served up a paste/dip from the digestive system.

Apologies to my British jellies, but Marmite may be he worst thing I ever tasted. A spoonful of it was given to me in England as a joke. He told me it tasted like chocolate icing. Trust me, it doesn’t.

@Pachyderm_In_The_Room I do love marmite :) well it certainly beats hand crushed bugs :(

One other thing I tasted when I was a kid and hated—not by accident but because my dad talked me into it—was Halavah.

It’s okay @Shippy. I still love ya. I just don’t want to eat marmite or halavah with you. ;-)

I love Halavah too. Guess you wont be coming to dinner anytime soon!!

I prepared a bowl of ramen and found, on the bottom after consuming the rest, many mealworms, nicely rehydrated. I taped them to an index card and mailed it to the company demanding a refund. Received coupons for free replacement. Yeah. Right.
That didn’t make me puke.

I grabbed an open bottle of V-8 (tomato juice for the non-Americans) one hungover morning and took several deep swigs before a very slimy textured ball went down…. immediate barf into the sink revealed black fungal scum resembling satan’s left testicle.

THAT, was gross.

I was on the road for work and I grabbed a couple of apples and a banana for lunch. I was driving and eating one of the apples when I got a foul taste. i looked at the apple and there was half of a worm.

@Adirondackwannabe What’s worse than biting into an apple and finding a worm? Finding half

@Blueroses Fortunately the window was down so I could spit. Gross.

@Blueroses That really is gross. When I drank many years ago. I took a swig out of what I thought was my beer bottle. And swallowed some lumps. Ugh! cigarette ends. Suddenly my bugs are sounding a whole lot better :)

heh heh, bugs aren’t so bad at all now

I also drank pipeline cleaner acid when I was four, but I don’t remember how that tasted. I’m sure it wasn’t good.

@Adirondackwannabe loll. Got you thinking now? I do recall being told I ate a centipede when I was little. I obviously have acquired a taste for bugs and just ignored the lumps. Knowing secretly they were not lumps. ;)

The worse part is though, and I couldn’t even share this ‘till now, but when I was eating my steamed potato. I could see bugs on my legs. which had jumped off my plate

@Shippy A centipede? They can deliver mean bites. The legs would feel cool going down though.

@Adirondackwannabe don’t move this into NSFW

@Blueroses I wasn’t thinking of that type of going down.

Other than grubs and worms as required when I was in the service, I think Natto (Fermented soybeans) was the nastiest food item I’ve experienced.

@Adirondackwannabe and yet, your mind went there. Proof enough that it was already slipping down

@Blueroses Pinched again. My mind is always in the gutter. I can’t help it, it just goes there.

One time when I was little, I was at my grandparent’s house and I went to go grab some strawberry wafer bars from the cabinet. I started chewing and ate almost the whole thing until I realized, all the wafers (including the one I was eating) were full of maggots squirming about. Since then I have not been able to eat another wafer cookie. Worst day of my life.

Oh god, my worm story pales next to yours.:) I could never touch food after that.

@Shippy, did you see Paul? an amusing send-up of every alien movie ever made. There’s a funny scene in a trailer home involving marmite.

@Pachyderm_In_The_Room: Dude, Marmite is just dessicated yeast. Humans eat far worse things. Have you ever had bread, or beer, or cheese? You’ve eaten microbes then ;)

I’ve eaten meat by accident after being vegetarian for years. It didn’t disgust me on a psychological level, but it did make me physically sick. I’ve ingested insects in drinks and soup and fruit. Kind of hard not when you’re living somewhere tropical. It’s going to happen.

So what’s everybody bringing to the next Fluther potluck?

Not much. I’m resilient, and not much is gross to me as long as it isn’t battery acid or raw toad rectum. But once I had a nose bleed, and accidentally swallowed a big gulp of blood. I just about threw up, but managed not to. The blood itself doesn’t taste bad, but the effect it has inside you after you swallow is like, say you drink too much alcohol, too fast. It just wants to come all back out, but it kind of doesn’t IF you make an effort to hold it in; but it feels like it WILL any second now.

Durian. It is a fruit common in S.E. Asia. The taste isn’t so bad, but it smells like shit. In fact, some airlines don’t allow you to bring it on board. When you cut open the fruit, the smell is really bad. They say it is an acquired taste; I guess I just haven’t acquired it.

@bookish1, I don’t doubt it’s an edible product. I just don’t flat like the taste. To each his own, eh?

There was an incident where I was in first grade at lunch. I was enjoying my milk when I felt a chunk go into my mouth. I spat it out to see it was a dead fly in my milk. That incident scarred me for life, it was so traumatizing that milk now makes me physically ill and I refuse to ever drink it ever again!

There was another incident involving water, but not quite as traumatizing. I used to keep this bottle of water by my bed at night and I would just keep reusing the same bottle. One night I noticed the water tasted different, sort of sweet. I didn’t think much of it. The next morning I reached for another sip of water when I noticed there was algae or something infesting the bottle I’ve been drinking from all night. I’ve learned that it was probably a good idea to replace a bottle before too long.

Some of these stories are making me sick just by reading them, I’m glad I never had the misfortune of experiencing a worm incident..or a mystery scum incident..