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Food is a pretty subjective notion, we all have cultural biases, different eating habits, dietary restrictions, and just plain old personal taste. But there are some culinary concoctions that manage to really unite us all in bone-chilling horror. 

These dishes could even be considered “cursed” in the parlance of our time, and the “Cursed Food” Facebook gathers the best (or worst) examples out there. So get comfortable, make sure your stomach is at ease, and scroll through. Be sure to upvote the best submissions and comment if you see some you disagree with or just add your own cooking horror stories.

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Em
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'd feel bad for the lizards, but not particularly bothered about the lizardrice. I've probably eaten worse.

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There is a school of thought that we eat with our eyes, which I believe is just a way to say you are a visually picky eater. What exactly is visually appealing is also deeply subjective, but here are a few examples from history of people who may have taken it so far that it entered “cursed” territory. For example, the Romans, reportedly, at feasts pickled mackerels live, so they could watch the silvery fish thrash about in the vessel. 

Medieval feasts would often involve live animals, primarily birds, inside of dishes, which would fly out when, for example, a pie was cut. While this was perhaps an interesting spectacle, one has to imagine the mess of feathers and other droppings inside the dish. One presumes the panicked animals then would simply fly around the hall for the rest of the feast, probably adding some unsanitary aspects to the proceedings.

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"It better f**king stay there"

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Our medieval ancestors had other strange predilections when it comes to food. Obviously, they did not have the benefit of abundant produce like we have today, so they would find protein wherever was convenient. As a result, hedgehogs and porcupines can be found in a number of recipes, as well as the entirety of a pig. This would include ears, snout, tail, tongue, and womb, some of which you can still find on the menu in certain countries today.

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I call BS. I have never seen a Full English look like that. No eggs, bacon, mushrooms, tomato or black pudding. It would never have a baguette, would be toast or fried bread.

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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Similarly, almost any bird you can think of was also eaten. Exactly how much meat one can get from a sparrow is questionable, particularly since it seems like they would be pretty annoying to catch, but hunger makes people do unusual things. Modern humans would probably balk at the idea of eating a pigeon, for good reason, it’s hard to imagine that meat looking, smelling, or tasting enjoyable in almost any scenario. 

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The Leaning Pasta of Pisa

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Ultimately, we have always let hunger dictate what we do. Food poisoning has been recognized since the times of ancient Greece, but this has not stopped us from consuming everything that moves, dairy in a time where preservation was not fully understood and any digestible root and berry from the forest. But it’s easy to be judgmental, they didn’t really know any better and had to eat one way or another.

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I get the desperation of a parent to get anything with even the slightest amount of nutrition into a picky eater. However, as a former preschool teacher, we only served what we made for lunch, with no non-allergy special requests. I saw everything from the kid who’d eat a live octopus if it was on their plate, to the kid who would only eat “a 1:3 ratio of margarine to butter on his 96° F organic vegan gluten-free twenty-seven grain bread.” Guess what? They ALL loved Spaghettios with chicken meatballs along with homemade garlic bread, and grilled cheese sandwiches with tomato soup. Oh, and they ate broccoli, and even *gasp* salad. That being said, if you choose to defend your flag on the hill of a peaceful dinner out, a bowl of ranch is not going to kill them.

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Joseph Gelfo
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What's the deal with ranch? I swear there's at least 1 person that drinks it straight out of the bottle ya WEIRDOES

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pov
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

logan's roadhouse's ranch is slammin tho. my aunt works there and she gives us a bottle or two every time she sees us! its gone in like 3 days tho

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Riley Quinn
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A child? I can only assume the child was accompanied by an adult, which is even scarier.

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is my toddler. We cannot have any sauces out or she just gets a spoon and has sauce for her meal...

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Whitney White
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Happens all the time in the Chili's I used to qork at in Gainesville Georgia. What's worse is the parents ordered their own bowls of ranch as well. 🤮🤢

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What is with little kids and ranch? My neighbors kid can drink it by the gallon, an does. Thanks Walmart

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April Pickett
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I would. I love ranch dressing and always put too much on my raw veggies to drink/eat after the veggies are gone.

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've seen a child eat an entire container of sour cream, she couldn't wait for the wedges. Mind you she also liked eating glue too. I wonder if she made it past childhood.

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My 3 year old niece calls sour cream "sauce". And if we're not careful she will eat it with a spoon like yogurt. Blech!

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Reinaldo Fuentes
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There's an entire novel's worth of bad parenting prior to this scene.

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Marcia
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm afraid for this child. Somebody this dense has no business having children.

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But, we shouldn’t disregard our senses, they exist primarily to protect us from, as mentioned above, foodborne illnesses and poisoning ourselves. Hence our inherent distrust of mold which has evolved to the point of feeling repulsed by situations that might lead to mold. Images of cheese left out in the sun make us uncomfortable, even if the cheese seems perfectly fine because we know, internally, that some items need to be stored properly. 

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

cooking on prnhub? i don't think so. ugh reminds of that one post where that guy said that he wanted to take the eggs out of a women and then cook them in a omelette. *pukes*

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Here we go again with big brands trying to make more money than they already have 🙄 I only paid $1.99 for my Kroger Microplastic and it tasted just the same as the $5.99 McCormick Microplastic!

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ha, reminds me of the time I made someone a red velvet cheesecake. It came out awesome, except it was multiple layers annnd I left the parchment paper in between two of 'em. (It was fairly easy to pull out, and this was a reasonably close friend, so it wasn't a big deal, mostly just hilarious.)

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"My lungs feel funny"

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Foe discretely poisoning your loved one. Chill before serving.

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11 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

perhaps spotted on the post about p**n hub? Edit: I wrote P**N not THAT... why censor

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So this is just a butterfly cut steak.... probably a Valentine's Day special in the supermarket

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