What's the grossest thing you've eaten--intentionally or unintentionally? (Page 3)

OK, Hot Runner made me remember another one.

I spent a summer studying in London. English food is freakin horrible, at least the stuff served in the cafe where I was going to school, and I was too broke to buy outside meals.  At the end of the summer, I met my parents and step-sister in Belgium to see her new baby.  I was pumped to meet the new baby, but I was also so excited to eat really good food.  I got sick on the ferry ride over (it was raining and so I was inside with a bunch of smokers-bleh), and by the time my family picked me up I was ravenous.  When they said we were all going to my step-sister's PIL's house for brunch I almost cried with happiness.  I was so pumped and so HUNGRY.

We sat down to a beautiful table, outside in a gorgeous garden, and the hostess brought out the main dish, which looked like this:

Well it sort of looked like that, except it was a huge crystal bowl, and the things that you see cut up in there, weren't cut up, they were whole, so they looked more like this:

Yes, that's right, whole eel.  Yum, yum, yum. 

And what is that stuff they're in? That's right, slightly lemon flavored gelatin. More yum.

I had to excuse myself to the bathroom to sob before I could come back to the table and take a few polite bites. 

OMFG, gross.

Seriously??  Uh, you win, end thread.

And by the way, I'm surely no coroner, but WHY do you need to siphon ANYTHING from a dead body with your mouth...........???

Oh dear Gawd.  Yep, you totally win. 

You the BADDEST betch here!

I bow to you, great one.  Damn.

Pure awesome.

Yup, they were alive and thankfully very small.  Had they been larger, I may not have been so adventurous.  Not camping - on a nature trek with an indigenous guide.  And yeah, they tasted fine.  A little nutty, even.

Wow, great story, although the thought of the fluid from the decomposing body just makes me cringe. 

OMG, X100000000.  I'm sorry, but that is faching awesome.  In the true sense of the word.

BTW, good idea to interject what your occupation is right after "I was excavating a body".  Otherwise we'da wondered... 

It's never happened to me while I was "giving breaths", but this story reminded me of the two times I was doing compressions during CPR and the victim vomited into the mouth of my partner giving breaths.  I have to say, to their absolute credit, both of them turned their heads, spit, and kept going. ~hats off~

Oh man i just threw up in my mouth...bleugh.

Yep I'm from East London - jellied eels are something to behold but i can't eat them....yuck.

Not sure if this was a good thread to read or not.  We will see when it comes time to sit down for dinner tonight.

Dead body.  OMFG.  No doubt winner.

Anywho, I was involved in a "Ten Man" competition in college several times.  This is a STUPID thing to do by the way.  Basically you get 10 people together on a team, matched up against at least one other team, and it's a race to see who can drink a pony keg the fastest.  If you spill your beer, you are out.  If you leave to go the bathroom you are out.  If you throw up, you are out..... unless, (gross part), you throw up in your keg cup, drink it, and keep going.  Real hardcore teams would drink each other's puke, on purpose.  I was in the "yeh, I will drink my own puke for the team" group but never the latter group. 

It's no dead body juices but the gag factor still comes back when I think back to seeing a guy throw up in his cup, a team mate pour his puke into the first guy's cup, and first guy take it all down.  Then go back for more beer.