This Facebook Group Collects The Most ‘Cursed’ Foods That Might Test The Strength Of Your Stomach (30 Pics)
Coffee. Croissant. Chocolate. Orange juice. Pizza. Coffee. It's easy to make your stomach work overtime in just half a day. But nothing will test its strength as much as the Facebook group 'Cursed Foods.'
Hate and bullying aside, the community has no guidelines as to what its members can post, and they're really pushing the limits. From spaghetti car banana to a ground meat sculpture of Justin Bieber, the pictures that emerge in this little corner of the internet are a hard-to-describe mix of funny, strange, and nasty, so it's better that you just check them out yourself.
Enjoy hating them!
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It's pretty hard to imagine someone drooling over most of these pictures. But chances are each of them has at least one fan. Taste can be very, very subjective.
"The sense of taste is a sensory system like the eye," Ilene Bernstein, Ph.D., a professor of psychology at the University of Washington, explained. "The tongue is sensitive to different tastes -- sweet, sour, bitter, or salty. Taste as a sense is the perception of a combination of these chemical signals on the tongue."
While it may sound simple, taste involves so much more than these four categories that we learned about in grade school. From genes, to environment, to a fifth taste referred to as umami, experts say there are a lot of factors that determine whether or not we like what we're biting into.
Taste is a combination of how food smells, looks, and sounds. When we eat celery, for example, it has to crunch. When we drink espresso, we expect a certain aroma. Plus, how a person perceives taste also has to do with nature and nurture.
"Taste is a product of our genes and our environment," Leslie J. Stein, Ph.D., from the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, said. "Our food preferences are determined by multiple factors, including genes, experience, and age."
Genes play their part by giving a person a predetermined preference and our environment is a factor in learning new tastes.
"Research has demonstrated that our genes help to determine how we detect the basic tastes by influencing the configuration of taste receptors," Stein continued. "Part of why you might like broccoli while your best friend finds it bitter is because you have different genes, which code for different bitter receptors."
Similarly, "Experience is also an important determinant of food preferences," says Stein. "For example, infants and young children need to learn what foods are safe to eat. Even before birth, information about specific flavors of mothers' diets passes to infants through amniotic fluid."
WHY WOULD YOU RUIN CAKE FOR ALL OF US LIKE THIS, YOU MONSTER!!!!???
But genetics and upbringing aside, it sometimes seems as if everyone has at least a little bit of a sweet tooth.
"I would say that as a species, almost everyone has some degree of a sweet preference," Bernstein said. "We are born having automatic positive responses to sweetness."
However, when it comes to salt preference, an unlikely factor plays a role.
Bread cut this way is perfect for making 'finger sandwiches', you get the maximum amount of use!!
"Salt has a lot of variability in terms of preference, and I don't think we know too much about it," Bernstein highlighted. "But we did do this amazing study some years ago that found one factor that contributes to salt preference is whether or not a person's mother experienced severe to moderate morning sickness."
Bernstein, who co-authored the study, said researchers found that the loss of electrolytes and sodium during morning sickness has an impact on the offspring's salt preference.
It's worse than it looks... starving college student... hell I'm Southern and said "never again..."
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If I was hungry and a food bank or aid-worker gave me this, I'd be well chuffed, just needs reheating and browning-off for a bit of colour.
Put it on display. The jelly should harden into a clear substance, protecting your chicken for years to come.
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OMG! I have seen this in the grocery and have never dared to buy it out of fear of it being disgusting! Yes, my curiosity is satisfied. This is more disgusting than I had ever imagined.
It says it’s Home Style. What pray tell is home style about this monstrosity?
I have eaten that. It's pretty good. You are supposed to boil it with a chicken broth that usually comes attached to the top in another can.
I mean...yeah it looks nasty AF like that, but once you cook it stuff like that up, it's equally delicious as the fresh stuff, while cutting down on the potential for food waste. People really need to adjust their views on this kind of stuff
Awesome find in a post apocalyptic world. And that's the best thing I can say about this.
I tried it as a student. It's perfectly fine if you don't try to eat it cold.
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Used to eat this back in the day. It looks horrifying now, but I didn't bat an eye at it when I was six.
I've had one of these in my pantry for years now, I'm sort of sacred to open the can.
I remember watching this on the show "Chopped" as one of the ingredients. I gagged when it slowly emerged from the can with a squelching sound...
I don't think I would even feed that to my dog. Maybe the cat though.
No, don't give the dog cooked chicken. Seriously, the bones are hazardous.
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I seen spuds in a can in my local supermarket and i was disgusted by it but this is on another level! Disgusting looking and what is that sludge stuff all over it?
So…it’s chicken with afterbirth. And visibly uncooked, contrary to the cans promises. I don’t know who this “Sweet Sue” is, but she’s clearly a deranged woman who spends her days shoving chickens into cans.
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Thank you. Was honestly curious how this sloshed out of a can and now I know. Looks raw though
Did anyone else here a weird slurpy plop sound when looking at the picture?
i’ve never eaten this but when you make broth it turns gelatinous in the fridge…so this is probably just like that
Tell me you can hear a picture without telling me you can hear a picture.
My eyes!! Someone pass me acid so I never have to see this again!
not cooked but it is a big chicken. it looks as if it was just born by a can
My mother used to do great chicken noodle soup with canned chicken and frozen egg noodles. That bird does have some tasty potential.
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One more the contents have nothing to do with the advertisement on the can.
is that you, the villain from Robocop who was smashed through some chemical in a huge tank ?
While training yourself to like something you despise can sound like torture, sometimes a person needs to eat foods that they may not be fond of.
"We can't change our genes, so some food likes or dislikes may be difficult to alter drastically," Stein said. "Repeated exposure can increase relative liking for a food but may not be able to change a disliked food into one that is liked. In other words, exposure may make a disliked food less disliked."
And that's not all. Repeat exposure to a food can also increase liking. For instance, research done at the Monell Chemical Senses Center showed that people who stick to a lower-sodium diet over time eventually prefer lower levels of saltiness in their food, Stein explained.
Then there are acquired tastes, such as caviar.
"If you really hate something, having it over and over again may not change it," Bernstein said. "But we know people develop tastes for something — in social settings you have to eat things you may not like but eventually, you acquire a taste for it."
We've all heard of sweet, salty, sour, and bitter, but ... umami? "[It] is the taste of glutamate, an amino acid found throughout the human body and in protein-containing foods," Stein said. "Glutamate elicits a sensation, which is often described as brothy, full-bodied, meaty, and savory. This savory sensation has been termed umami in Japanese, which roughly translates into 'wonderful taste.'"
As a part of Japanese cuisine for over 100 years, umami is now considered a component of taste around the world.
"To imagine savory taste, think of chicken broth, a ripe beefsteak tomato, or Parmesan cheese," Stein suggested. "Biochemical studies have revealed a separate taste receptor that can detect this amino acid, increasing the likelihood that umami is a separate and distinct taste sensation, which perhaps evolved to ensure adequate consumption of protein."
Flavor and taste sound like the same thing, but hold your nose when you're eating and you'll quickly notice a distinction.
"Most people think that flavor is the same as taste, but that's not true," Stein said. "The distinctive flavor of most foods and drinks comes more from smell than it does from taste."
While sugar has a sweet taste, strawberry is a flavor. "An airway between the nose and mouth lets people combine aroma with the five basic tastes to enjoy thousands of flavors."
To explore the difference, Stein recommends the jellybean test.
"Take two red jellybeans of differing flavors, such as cherry and strawberry. While holding your nose tightly closed, pop one of the jellybeans into your mouth and chew. Try to identify the flavor. You'll know that it's sweet but won't be able to determine whether it's cherry or strawberry until you let go of your nose and let the olfactory information whoosh up into your nose."
Flavor also includes texture, temperature, and irritation - such as with chile peppers.
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Our sense of taste is powerful enough, but we're nothing compared to one special group of people.
"A supertaster is someone who has an enhanced genetic ability to detect bitterness," said Mary Ellen Camire, Ph.D., a professor in the department of Food Science & Human Nutrition at the University of Maine. "People who have these genes pick up bitterness in addition to everything else. There's a lot of research going on around the role genetics play in taste; it's a contentious subject."
I wonder, can these folks taste these pictures just by looking at them?
Note: this post originally had 92 images. It’s been shortened to the top 30 images based on user votes.
If you went through this list without gagging then you deserve the highest honor availible
Damn...I work in the sewers and some of these made my guts want to turn inside out. Jeez criminy crickets, so much cursage here.
I managed to eat dinner while reading this. I have never been so proud of myself.
Who else was eating their perfectly normal breakfast while gagging their way through this list? 🙋🏻♀️
Ugh the hair cake one messed me up, now I feel like I have a hair in my throat and I keep gagging, can't even drink my coffee
Every single one of these left me asking, "why? WHYYYYYYYYYYYY!?!?!?"
Americans are weird. These seem to be American. And I can say that. I have an American and U.K.passport. Gotta love America. Lol.
If you went through this list without gagging then you deserve the highest honor availible
Damn...I work in the sewers and some of these made my guts want to turn inside out. Jeez criminy crickets, so much cursage here.
I managed to eat dinner while reading this. I have never been so proud of myself.
Who else was eating their perfectly normal breakfast while gagging their way through this list? 🙋🏻♀️
Ugh the hair cake one messed me up, now I feel like I have a hair in my throat and I keep gagging, can't even drink my coffee
Every single one of these left me asking, "why? WHYYYYYYYYYYYY!?!?!?"
Americans are weird. These seem to be American. And I can say that. I have an American and U.K.passport. Gotta love America. Lol.
