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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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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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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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Charlie the Cat 2 years ago
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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Ellinor 2 years ago
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Em 2 years ago
Commented on the lizard one (currently) directly above. Thought about adding something to the effect of "the only creature that would truly gross me out is worms/maggots." Scrolled down and flailed my phone halfway across the table.
Sunny Day 2 years ago
Reminds me of a Calvin & Hobbes cartoon. Mom asks Calvin if he'd like a jelly donut. Calvin says "Eeww! Yuck! It's like biting into a big bug and having their guts squish out the other side!" He leaves. Mom looks at her donut and pushes it away with a sigh. "And my friends wonder how I stay so thin."
María Hermida 2 years ago
It would be great if you decided to go on a diet, though
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Jessica Bertram 2 years ago (edited)
Not this larva, but, black fly larvae are carbon sequesterers. they eat food waste. drying them and grinding them to a flour makes a great protein additive, for a tiny tiny fraction of the space and resources a chicken farm or cattle feed lot. Currently getting it approved for human consumption in the west. we westerners are weirded out by insects as food, but the truth is more than a third of humanity eats insects, arachnids, etc as part of their regular diet.
Jessica Bertram 2 years ago (edited)
here is a paper from the NIH discussing some issues with the larvae, indicating more research: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8394208/
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Debbie 2 years ago (edited)
Is this verified? I can't imagine this is real. What caterpillar gets as big as that, ant the lines you see on the croissaint are the rolled dough. The lines DO NOT MATCH the bug. So this is fale. Also, croissaints are baked, not fried. I think it's 4 unrelated pictures.
Kevin the Manager 2 years ago
Those are incredibly high in protein, and will probably make up a significant part of the "food of the future," since their cultivation requires a small fraction compared to livestock. Might as well make 'em tasty!
Kevin the Manager 2 years ago
I like how your "Nope" response morphs into "open" partway through the text.
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Riley Quinn 2 years ago
TIL grub worms grow really large in other parts of the world. Holy cow!
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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David Wambold 2 years ago
Don't get me started on nipple butter (hint: it is not a condiment).
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The Leaning Pasta of Pisa
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
I've never seen the trunk of the spaghetti tree without its bark on....
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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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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Korean Boi 2 years ago
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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Susan Robinson 2 years ago
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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Em 2 years ago
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"
Chexmy Licks 2 years ago
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cats_from_the_void 2 years ago (edited)
perhaps spotted on the post about p**n hub? Edit: I wrote P**N not THAT... why censor
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cats_from_the_void 2 years ago
god. imagine if you're in a white shirt at a uber fancy restaurant and then-
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Ellie Hope 2 years ago
I'm from the UK and have never heard of this! Please don't believe these lies!!!
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Lakota Wolf 2 years ago (edited)
I can’t even tell what I’m looking at. Plain pasta? Pinkie mice? The pieces of dumpling dough left over in the pot after you boil up a batch of em? Bits of that thick skin you peel off of your heel? Fetal hamsters?
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cats_from_the_void 2 years ago
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cats_from_the_void 2 years ago
wellll, it's better than dyeing a WHOLE F***ING WATERFALL isn't it?
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Bruhwhydothat 2 years ago
Even thought half of these people are joking I'm still gonna find their location
Debbie 2 years ago
I really believe half of these were fake/jokes/trolling - do you actually see the people picking the digusting item up and using them in cooking and then eating it? A few were brainfarts (like the melted cutting board), I don't think those belong on here either. Bad cooking..yes.
(っ◔◡◔)っ blush 2 years ago
Ok, vote, what's worse, lizard jerky, pornhub eggs, or toilet mushrooms?
The Doom Song 2 years ago
It's a tie between lizard jerky and toilet mushrooms
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Artsy Bookworm 2 years ago
I'm currently having a stomach upset, I should not have opened this post 🤢
Century Foods 2 years ago
I found your forum very informative. Thanks for sharing. I absolutely loved your ideas.
Bruhwhydothat 2 years ago
Even thought half of these people are joking I'm still gonna find their location
Debbie 2 years ago
I really believe half of these were fake/jokes/trolling - do you actually see the people picking the digusting item up and using them in cooking and then eating it? A few were brainfarts (like the melted cutting board), I don't think those belong on here either. Bad cooking..yes.
(っ◔◡◔)っ blush 2 years ago
Ok, vote, what's worse, lizard jerky, pornhub eggs, or toilet mushrooms?
The Doom Song 2 years ago
It's a tie between lizard jerky and toilet mushrooms
Load More Replies... Artsy Bookworm 2 years ago
I'm currently having a stomach upset, I should not have opened this post 🤢
Century Foods 2 years ago
I found your forum very informative. Thanks for sharing. I absolutely loved your ideas.
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