What is the worst side dish you ever tasted, or at least witnessed??

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come on people is not that bad u have to try it at least once,if u were to close ur eyes and have it fed to you ,you couldn't tell the diference between a boiled egg and BALUT i'm not lying they taste the same. but of course if you look at it then that's a diferent story.
 
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Guinea pig in Ecuador. NEVER going there again. Once again, didn't know until it was too late.
 
My worst dish serven had to be boiled chicken. My mother in law is a health freak but cheap,so instead of getting skinless boneless or free range she buy the cheap cuts then boils the heck out of them ,serves it stright out of the pot with no seasoning!This caused me to actually throw up when I smelled chickens during my 3 pregnancies,even store roasted would have me hurling,yuck!
 
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But boiled eggs are not crunchy.
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Or feathery.....
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Worst side dish I can remember right off (and I consider myself lucky after reading the rest) was when we were hosting Christmas at our house. A neighbor was moving soon and their house was already packed up so they came over to eat with us, offering to bring their 'world famous, everyone loves and asks for them, mashed potatos.' I love mashed potatos, so yay. The wife brings in this HUGE bowl and it's potatos that she's blended (I'm guessing) with enough milk to make a REALLY thin melted ice cream texture. One of the other people there actually thought that they cream gravy and asked where the mashed potatos were. The gravy really was thicker than the potatos. Every time their name comes up, so do the watery mashed potatos that 'everyone asks for.'
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oh gosh, my first trip to the Netherlands (I was 19), at some small surfing beach snack shack I was starving, nobody spoke English and my friends weren't there, so I pointed to the fries with brown sauce that someone had just ordered, I got them, sat down and took a bite... and heaved... it wasn't brown sauce it was liquid PEANUT BUTTER.
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I'm scarred for life!
 
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Shrimp seasoned with a crust of cocoa and pepper, then deep fried.


In my friend's defense, she was a very novice cook and was making a dish her boyfriend referred to as 'coco-pepper-shrimp'. It just didn't occur to her that coco, in this case, meant coconut.
 
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You could serve chocolate shrimp as an appetiser for the chocolate cover rabbit.

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My dad's youngest sister is only about 5 years older than my twin brother and I, and I remember some of her teenage "Aunt-ics" well. She is personally responsible for putting me off of liver and onions, permanently.

One year we were at my Grandparents for Thanksgiving, and just to be difficult, my Aunt decided she was making herself fried liver and onions instead of turkey. She got her pan nice and hot down in the basement on the stove where my grandmother cooked the turkey, and proceeded to burn a perfectly good piece of beef liver on both sides until it was literally charcoal. Because she was in the basement, the entire house stank for the rest of the day.

To this day the smell of liver cooking is enough to make me gag. (Some people say that's a natural reaction to liver cooking anyway, but what do I know...??).

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My DH's Grampa's "Borscht". Oatmeal, pickled beets, milk, and sometimes if he wanted it extra special some pickles. Served with bacon and eggs. He delighted in offering it to the grandkids!

His own worst experience as a child was "sucker fish patties." Growing up poor, his mom was good at canning, and very thrifty. A nearby walleye hatchery was giving away suckers by the gunnysack, so she and my mom went up there and brought back a trunkfull of suckers. After canning them all, the only recipe they ever used them in was "sucker patties." They would drain all the fluid out of them, add some onion, press them into patties, squeeze as much fluid out as possible, then fry them until all remaining moisture departed. The kids would drown them in Ketchup, but they were still awful. Made even more so by his dad pontificating about how great they tasted!

As an adult, my DH was on a hunting trip and ran out of food. Spurred by hunger and a conversation with a person he had talked to who believed a person should only kill an animal that they eat (he traps furbearers and had a job trapping problem animals, as well), he decided to eat fox for dinner. He had shot and skinned a fox earlier that morning, and flung the carcass into the bushes. Returning to camp after an unsuccessful day hunting, hunger gnawing at his belly, he retrieved the fox and looked it over. It was very dark, rich, fatty looking meat, leaving his hands greasy from handling it. He removed the backstrap, which is the New York if its beef. It still smelled pretty much like the fox skin, so he decided to boil instead of frying it, hoping to boil off any off flavor. He boiled it twice, throwing out the first pan of water. He dumped a bunch of Mrs. Dash into it, then stabbed a fork into the first chunk. It was very tender, well seasoned, and tasted EXACTLY like the foxes musk glands. (Think skunk on a smaller, sweeter scale.) As hungry as he was, he choked it down, and managed a second bite. Stomach rolling and twisting now, he threw out the rest. Strangely enough, he had no more desire for food.
 

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