What's the worst thing you've eaten by accident?
Dec 28th 2008, 5:08 am
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Re: What's the worst thing you've eaten by accident?
Originally Posted by DebsyW
They sold fried sparrows on sticks (with feathers) in the food markets in Thailand. We didnt partake. Im sure I ate dogs bollocks in a soup though. I never did find out what they were but I keep telling myself that they were prawn balls.
Dec 28th 2008, 11:15 am
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Re: What's the worst thing you've eaten by accident?
Originally Posted by Bri and Katee
...in a harbourside taverna on the greek island of Aegina, I had served up sea anemone, not wanting to lose face I attempted to spoon in the living mollusc, it can only be described as mucus covered nasal snot. It stayed in my mouth for about 10 seconds before it came back up! Yet the Greeks love it as an aphrodisiac.
Couldn't even find them in the dictionary - had to Google 'ortiguillas' to find out what they were.
Dec 28th 2008, 12:43 pm
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Re: What's the worst thing you've eaten by accident?
Originally Posted by sidneee and kinnyboy
The second worst was trying durian fruit. I was told it was a wonderful taste, it smelled like a dead horse that had the sense to die several week previously and tasted like someone had mixed onions and ice cream, with the texture of candle wax
[/QUOTE]Had Durian in Singapore and loved it. A little pungent maybe :-)
They smell so bad that it is apparently illegal to take durian on the underground.
Dec 28th 2008, 1:12 pm
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Re: What's the worst thing you've eaten by accident?
Originally Posted by bob_day
Mmmm! Can i have that on toast please?
They smell so bad that it is apparently illegal to take durian on the underground.[/QUOTE]
in Hong Kong you can't take them into hotels, taxis can refuse to take you, and its banned on the MTR and buses
Dec 28th 2008, 2:53 pm
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Re: What's the worst thing you've eaten by accident?
Originally Posted by DebsyW
They sold fried sparrows on sticks (with feathers) in the food markets in Thailand. We didnt partake. Im sure I ate dogs bollocks in a soup though. I never did find out what they were but I keep telling myself that they were prawn balls.
Dec 28th 2008, 5:22 pm
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Re: What's the worst thing you've eaten by accident?
Originally Posted by Fuzzlepop
Did they taste meaty or fishy?
good question!
Dec 28th 2008, 6:09 pm
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Re: What's the worst thing you've eaten by accident?
Definitely something fishy if it smells that bad as i have never got a whiff from meat that is that bad and i have been a veggie for 21 years (but please lets not go down that passage - pretty please!!!!) 
Dec 28th 2008, 7:59 pm
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Re: What's the worst thing you've eaten by accident?
Originally Posted by Fuzzlepop
Did they taste meaty or fishy?
Dec 28th 2008, 8:18 pm
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Re: What's the worst thing you've eaten by accident?
i had a close encounter with the above mentioned chicken feet (these were just there, full size, floating about) 
and they were served with rice, which had this suspicious sauce with it... GOD! i am feeling sick just remembering it.. the sauce was made with the chicken's blood, HOW SICKENING CAN YOU GET. i need a shuddering smiley here. GROSS.
and they were served with rice, which had this suspicious sauce with it... GOD! i am feeling sick just remembering it.. the sauce was made with the chicken's blood, HOW SICKENING CAN YOU GET. i need a shuddering smiley here. GROSS.
Dec 28th 2008, 8:55 pm
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Re: What's the worst thing you've eaten by accident?
Originally Posted by featherbum
i had a close encounter with the above mentioned chicken feet (these were just there, full size, floating about) and they were served with rice, which had this suspicious sauce with it... GOD! i am feeling sick just remembering it.. the sauce was made with the chicken's blood, HOW SICKENING CAN YOU GET. i need a shuddering smiley here. GROSS.
and they were served with rice, which had this suspicious sauce with it... GOD! i am feeling sick just remembering it.. the sauce was made with the chicken's blood, HOW SICKENING CAN YOU GET. i need a shuddering smiley here. GROSS.We went to one restaurant that had `toad on a bed of fried rice` - I wanted my OH to order it to see what it was like but he wouldn`t. Wimp. I know that the toad would have been in strips like with chicken but I couldn`t get the thought of a big, fat, green toad sitting on a plate of rice!
Dec 28th 2008, 9:05 pm
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Re: What's the worst thing you've eaten by accident?
Originally Posted by DebsyW
Sounds awful!!
We went to one restaurant that had `toad on a bed of fried rice` - I wanted my OH to order it to see what it was like but he wouldn`t. Wimp. I know that the toad would have been in strips like with chicken but I couldn`t get the thought of a big, fat, green toad sitting on a plate of rice!
We went to one restaurant that had `toad on a bed of fried rice` - I wanted my OH to order it to see what it was like but he wouldn`t. Wimp. I know that the toad would have been in strips like with chicken but I couldn`t get the thought of a big, fat, green toad sitting on a plate of rice!
Normally i've had toad/frogs looking like chicken..perhaps the cook had gone home?
Dec 28th 2008, 9:23 pm
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Re: What's the worst thing you've eaten by accident?
Originally Posted by encodeme
Are you sure they weren't testing the Brits out?
Normally i've had toad/frogs looking like chicken..perhaps the cook had gone home?
Normally i've had toad/frogs looking like chicken..perhaps the cook had gone home?
I meant strips of toad meat. It was in Malaysia - they may well have been testing the tourists but we weren`t gonna try !!
Dec 28th 2008, 9:29 pm
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Re: What's the worst thing you've eaten by accident?
Originally Posted by DebsyW
I meant strips of toad meat. It was in Malaysia - they may well have been testing the tourists but we weren`t gonna try !!
Dec 28th 2008, 9:31 pm
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Re: What's the worst thing you've eaten by accident?
Originally Posted by encodeme
Ok, I'm happy now.. as long as it wasn't just cooked and sitting on a bed of rice watching the world go by.....
Dec 29th 2008, 2:13 am
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Re: What's the worst thing you've eaten by accident?
Originally Posted by DebsyW
They sold fried sparrows on sticks (with feathers) in the food markets in Thailand. We didnt partake. Im sure I ate dogs bollocks in a soup though. I never did find out what they were but I keep telling myself that they were prawn balls.
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