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There's some pretty nasty live squid sashimi on YouTube. That and the beating frog heart have given me some grief today.

Hakarl aka rotten shark - possibly named after the noise you make when you eat it

Agree wholeheartedly on liquorice! Vile stuff....

You missed my "favourite" Hopeful Combination - the very fashionable and utterly vile vanilla with fish. Why do they do it?

I remember a French au pair giving her charges milk & soda water for upset tummies - they loved it, so some people like fizzy milk (I didn't)

Don't mind liquorice - but I feel that way about tarragon, so I sympathise

Rhubarb. What is it? It's not a fruit, it's barely a vegetable; it's not even a very convincing stick.

For me it's almost certainly jellied eel. I love any other kind of jelly but that one just makes me very very nauseous.

Okra.

I actually didn't mind the shark, though my dad once microwaved some late one night after a binge. The smell...woke us all up and stank up the house for almost two weeks, stuck to the curtains' weave and everything. Put me off.

Also not sure you know the Ethiopian bread injera? Takes getting used to.

One of the worst food got to be the chinese jelly fish soup. It sounds worse when you hear that you have only a pair of chopsticks to "catch" all of those floating jelly fish pieces from the hot brown water on the bowl!

I think the worst is Balut. When I first saw them on the TV, I nearly puked right there.

These are duck eggs that have been incubated until the fetus is all feathery and beaky, and then boiled alive. The bones give the eggs a uniquely crunchy texture.
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liver... definitely the worst food ever!

I have read that one of the worlds worst food is in Southeast Asia, it is the fruit called Durian, not because of the taste but because of it's smell. Though I live in Asia all my life I can say that I have never tried this fruit. I couldn't even make my self go near this fruit because of the smell which can make my stomach flip. They say that the taste is not at all unpleasant but still I won't try it even if you pay me.

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Whelks - like eating salted bogies!

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I saw Tom Kerridge turn pollack, a healthy fish, into a very unhealthy meal by the way he cooked it. It was cooked with a lot of butter, then the finishing touch was to put a layer of pig fat on the top. I think Tom Kerridge should have a good long think about the recipes he is cooking on tv and consider what harm they could do to peoples' health. He should also consider what his health is like. Eating a lot of animal fats may cause his arteries to fur up and may lead to a heart attack or stroke. Also he might be able to do his job better if his body was in better shape. There is so much information about healthy eating available. There is just no excuse for ignoring healthy eating principles. The country is in a big hole financially, and if everyone ate healthily and exercised more the NHS could save a lot on medicines. I have lost 3 stone myself and have been able to come off my blood pressure medication. Shame on the ´óÏó´«Ã½ for not considering this when broadcasting this programme.

I don't want to slam South Korea, as I've had some very nice food there (the eel I ate at a restaurant near the border was heavenly), but....

First off, kimchi. Now, there are probably as many different kinds of kimchi as there are breads or sausages or vegetables, and I must have tried a few different kinds when I was there. Some of it was okay, nothing special by my palate, but some of it was just horrible. I don't know if it's just my palate, or if there's a lot of bad kimchi in South Korea, but the bad stuff definitely makes my list of nasty foods.

Second, I think I have to put silkworm soup here, eaten at a franchise restaurant called T'wo-T'wo. The soup itself wasn't too bad, quite nice, even. But the silkworms themselves I found unpleasant to eat, the texture just not what I'm used to.

Top of my list, though, was the raw crab's claws in chilli sauce. I don't mind crab when it's cooked, and I'll grapple with the shells if I have to, but I didn't know what to do with these. The uncooked meat resembled jelly; was I supposed to suck it out? The sauce made cracking the exoskeleton a nightmare, and I couldn't fathom why it was there, on the outside of the claws, in the first place. Just not a fun food.