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We eat with our eyes first. But sometimes, our eyes witness such horrors that we don't even feel like eating at all. Food is supposed to be appetizing and look the part while doing it. Why then, do some people cook up stuff that could be straight from Hell's kitchen? We aren't talking about the neighborhood in Manhattan. Nor are we referring to Gordon Ramsay's reality show. What we are addressing is the issue of so-called "dishes" straight from the depths of Hell.
Think apple and mayo sandwiches, fish tacos where the taco part is a fish's head - teeth and all, hot dog water jello with chunks of hot dog suspended in it. You get the awful picture... If that wasn't enough to put you off, there's an entire food-shaming community dedicated to calling out "creations" that people had the audacity to come up with. Cursed Food is a wall of posts bound to test your gag reflexes, and Bored Panda has put together a list of the best, or should we say worst.
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Yum Yum
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Rata-Tooie
Have you ever wondered why some people love things like apple and mayo sandwiches or chicken feet, while the mere thought of those dishes might make another person want to throw up?
Rachel Herz is studies this kind of stuff. She's a neuroscientist who specializes in taste and smell. She's also the author of Why You Eat What You Eat, and The Scent of Desire. According to Herz, whether or not you think something is unpleasant has to do with the meaning of whatever it is to you.
"The emotion of disgust is highly learned," she says. "You need an intact, healthy brain in order to turn the mechanism on. But after that, it’s really a function of our experience, culture, and learning."
#4
Found This On Facebook
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Probably Has Enough Sodium To End A Horse
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It’s That Time Of Year Again!
Herz adds that what we deem as disgusting is malleable and can change based on the situation we're in and the meaning we ascribe to whatever it is we think we’re perceiving.
"If you were sitting in a fancy French restaurant and started smelling something and noticed a waiter with a tray, you’d go, 'Oh, it must be the cheese course; I’m excited, I’d like to have some taleggio.’ But if you encountered that exact same smell while walking down an alley behind a dive bar, your thoughts would construe the aroma as something totally different," she explains. "And you’d probably feel totally disgusted."
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Spaghettio's Jello Cake I Made
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Most Illegal Thing In The Book
We don't only experience a gag reflex when we find something disgusting, says the expert. There's a lot more going on in our bodies than many of realize. For example, Herz reveals that disgust can trigger physiological responses like a drop in blood pressure and an increase in sweating.
"In extreme cases, you can faint or even vomit," she adds. "Serotonin gets suffused into the stomach, which is actually an adaptive measure to help initiate vomiting. From a primitive perspective, it’s about protecting us from being contaminated from something on the outside getting into our bodies."
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Found On Facebook
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Onion Milk 😋
Interestingly, there's also a reason why we make a certain face when we see, smell or taste something gross. From an evolutionary standpoint, it's to shield our body from the outside. So the eye squinting, for example, is a bid to take in less light so that we can't clearly see the disgusting object.
"In addition, the nose scrunches up and nestles around the cheeks, which closes air off to the nostrils so you can’t catch the smell as well," says Herz. "And our mouths purse as a means to keep things out, or if something got in, it’s a way to get it out. It’s all about protecting the holes on our face, as it were, from contamination."
#14
My Boyfriend Fell Asleep Making Pizza, It Cooked For Nine Hours
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First Try At Banana Bread
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When The Cookie Judges You
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This Is Bad At All
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Pepsi Ramen
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Blended Apricot Ramen
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Not Sure If Posted Here Yet
Sara Frazer 9 hours ago
Reminds me of last year my sister and I did "meatloaf cupcakes" 🤣 yes, meatloaf cooked in a cupcake tin, and we topped them with cheesy mashed potatoes and bacon bits. It was quite good
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Cursed Milk
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Chocolate Covered Pickles
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Fresh Bred
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Yummy
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Spotted In An Albertsons Today
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Pasta With Or Without Milk?
Huddo's sister 1 hour ago
We used to eat this for sweets/dessert when I was a kid, but used evaporated milk. We also did with rice or bread.
#35
This Tasted Horrible (Yes I Ate It)
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Fruit By The Foot Pie
#37
This Looks Pretty Fire
#44
Steak Donut
LakotaWolf (she/her) 4 hours ago
I'm ashamed to say I'd probably eat it XD That is the perfect steak doneness for me!
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Would Recommend 10/10
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Eating Good Tonight 😋🍽
LakotaWolf (she/her) 4 hours ago
Had to check Reddit. Apparently this is some memelord-level thing called "Nyquil chicken". According to a commenter, "It became something of a meme after the Nyquil company tweeted out that it's not for cooking in response to a picture of some Nyquil chicken that someone made."
#52
I Need New Friends Who Don’t Do This Stuff
LakotaWolf (she/her) 4 hours ago
Honestly, it's probably not so much outright "disgusting" as it is "gaggingly overly sweet". I used to drink a lot of those energy drinks when I was working at a grocery store during the pandemic, and they're almost all universally cloyingly sweet. Pour that over sugary candy rainbow ribbon and you've just got liquid sugar on top of solid sugar XD I'm not saying it'll be tasty, mind you, but less inherently vomituous than, say, a chocolate-covered pickle.
#55
My Sister Dipping Her Chocolate Chip Cookie In Mac And Cheese
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Cursed_longbread
Elladine DesIsles 6 hours ago
Bakeries cut bread this way to make rolled, filled sandwiches for fancy tea parties and the like. It is also sometimes dyed pastel colours for these events. You won't find this in your average grocery store's bread aisle, but it's not that odd. (What can be odd, however, is mixing and matching the spreads and filling into unexpected combinations, which I may or may not have participated in when helping to cater as a teenager. Tuna salad and maraschino cherries was, obviously, a bad idea).
#61
Some Dinner My Friend Made
#62
Delicious Blue Waffles
LakotaWolf (she/her) 4 hours ago
Hurr, hurr XD Does the youth of today even know this terrible meme?
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Kid Came Up To Us During School Lunch And Tried To Hand Us This Doritos Bag Full Of Chocolate Milk
#68
Who Ever Said Jelly Doesn't Go On Eggs?!?!
#69
A Nice Thing Of Beer
#70
"English Food" Bread And Butter With Raisins Soacked In Milk
Blue Bunny of Happiness 4 hours ago
Needs an egg beaten into the milk with some sugar before pouring over the bread and allowing to soak before bunging it in the oven. Yummy!
#73
It's Just Egg On Toast... Why
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