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

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Okay, I've laughed and gagged on this thread....so here are some of mine

Turkey dressing made with oysters.....ewwww
Weird jello salads at virtually every church potluck I ever attended. Why would someone think lime jello, macaroni, onions, olives and mayonnaise actually could be considered food? Strawberry jello, celery, walnuts and canned fruit salad? Don't buy the church ladies' cookbook, just don't!

But for me, the absolute worst is a fairly common dish where I'm from. My sister loved it, my brother tolerated it, and my mother made it all too often. Even the smell was enough to make me gag. Deep fried hooligan or candlefish. This is a small, herring-like fish that is very oily, and is generally dumped in the deep fryer completely whole, guts
head and all then eaten.

http://www.akmk.com/hooligan.html
 
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Omg I can not stop laughing right now LMAOOOOO That's hilarious. My brother once peed in an empty McDonalds cup and stupid put it BACK on the desk with his girlfriends McDonalds sweet tea. Well you can see where I'm going with this. Good thing the window was open. I would feel compelled to knock someones teeth out if that happened to me
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. Ugh, the more I think about it the more I wanna vomit!
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mom'sfolly :

But for me, the absolute worst is a fairly common dish where I'm from. My sister loved it, my brother tolerated it, and my mother made it all too often. Even the smell was enough to make me gag. Deep fried hooligan or candlefish. This is a small, herring-like fish that is very oily, and is generally dumped in the deep fryer completely whole, guts
head and all then eaten.

http://www.akmk.com/hooligan.html

That's just wrong
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This isn't a side dish either but while we were in NY this Christmas, my sister brought her bf and he was super excited to make his favorite dinner. At the store I could see he bought chicken breasts, a packet of the ranch dressing dip, mayo, some noodles and a few other things. Just the smell of this stuff cooking made me sick. It seemed KINDA normal and I didn't wanna be rude so I got some. I'm getting sick just thinking about this stuff, I can feel me throat tingling. UGH. Anyway, it was disgusting. I keep picturing it on the plate. I'm gonna go puke now​
 
Thousand-year duck eggs. It took my dad 15 years of going to the same Chinese place before they realized he actually wanted one, and wasn't kidding when he asked for it. I can deal with the color, the smell, the IDEA of it. But the texture---too much.

But I buy my dad a half dozen for his bday every year.
 
I think i will post a link to this thread on the "who wants to lose weight with me' thread in the family section. It is keeping me nauseated and unable to eat and I havent even dared to look up Balut....

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PLEEEASE will you all quit quoting the "Istanbul" story? It was all I could do to keep from losing it the first time!!!
I thought I had tried some really horrible recipes before I read this thread but I don't have anything to compare! Even my sister's notoriously horrible cooking does not compare to these stories. Seriously when I read Jello and tuna fish I thought that was the worst thing ever! Boy was I wrong!
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Speaking of gelatin salads, I worked as a cook at a summer camp once, and the cafeteria supervisor was a notorious cheapskate who did not like to throw anything away. This was a state camp, so we got government surplus foods. She made up a recipe where we took red jello, mixed it up with surplus orange juice instead of water, and put surplus raisins in it. The orange juice made the gelatin a sort of murky dark orange color and the raisins didn't help either. It didn't look very good so few of the campers took it. We hauled out that leftover gelatin every day for about two weeks. Finally the juice running out of it and the raisins started fermenting, so it developed an aroma reminiscent of MadDog 20/20. Got more popular after that!
 
When our boys were younger I was in a rush making dinner & one of the boys had to be dropped off at boy scouts so I left the boiled potatoes in the hot water and left, figuring when I come back I'll finish draining & mashing. When I came home I put the heat back on to warm the potatoes up. I drained them & mashed adding milk & butter and noticed a little difference but put them in a dish on the table. We sat down to eat and my husband took a scoop of potatoes. They just sort of pulled and stretched on his dish. He laughed and said "I think you made glue" That was almost 20 years ago and we still laugh about that one
 

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