Vote for the Most Disgusting Delicacy in the World
While putting together our list of disgusting delicacies we realized that we may have missed some, and that our audience would likely be able to outmatch our choices. Hundreds of great entries poured in, and you guys listed some interesting dishes!
Which of these delicacies is the most disgusting?
Need more background information? Here are links to more information for the finalist entries for the crown of world’s most disgusting delicacy.
- Baby Mice Wine
- Bull Penis
- Dear Placenta Soup
- Dog Meat
- Frog Smoothie
- Hákarl
- Kiviak
- Kopi Luwak
- Kutti Pi
- Monkey Brains
- Three Squeaks
- Warthog Anus
- Widgety Grubs
The winning submission will win $500. Voting ends at noon Eastern on April 13th. Best of luck to the entrants! We track IP addresses to prevent vote stuffing and other such gaming attempts.
Update: Below is a snapshot we took to record the final results. Congratulations to Jianu Lucian for the winning entry.
March 27th, 2009 at 10:24 am
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July 28th, 2010 at 11:38 am
Hi!
Just to add on the above list.
You may click on the above link for the most disgusting “delicacies” in the world (See pic 1 and video 4/6). It’s available in Chile and Korea, they called it Sea Squirt.
http://www.labuenavida.cl/content/view/617680/Comidas-Exoticas-con-Andrew-Zimmern-Chile-subbed.html
Cheers!
Annabel
March 22nd, 2011 at 10:38 am
Your missing something that should be in the list. I just found out about this today after reading a local english newspaper (hangzhou weekly).
In Dongyang, Zhejiang in China, ‘Virgin boy urine eggs’ are sold during springtime. That’s right, eggs boiled in a vat of boy’s urine! According to the article that appeared on 3/21/2011, this is how the eggs are cooked: ‘in a large pan full of boiling urine (with a layer of foam frothing on the surface), carefully washed eggs (duh!) are placed into the pan one by one. After the eggs are boiled, the eggs are cracked and placed back into a pan of fresh urine. The eggs are boiled for one day and one night, the article further stated. Tasty, eh?
Apparently, this is part of Dongyang’s cultural heritage and some patrons praise the eggs for their ‘delicious smell’. Wait, I’m going to puke first…
October 16th, 2011 at 8:23 am
i am just new to this site …..so i think monkey brain is the most disgusting meat delicacy in my opinion. Thank you for your cooperation.
January 16th, 2012 at 7:00 pm
Dog meat as the most disgusting? REALLY people?! Ugh, I’ll take a nice K-nine steak before I drink a frog smootie, or eat a monkey’s brains, thank you very much…
Also, one of the most disgusting dishes I’ve ever heard of is tripe.
Basically it’s a French stew with nothing but cow stomachs (all 4 of them!) It takes three days of stewing before it’s edible. It reeks like hot sour milk and according to the tv chef who made the stuff, it tasted as if you were eating potting dirt with vinegar while you have acid reflux… Tasty!
March 14th, 2012 at 11:15 pm
WTF!? 3 squeek is sad !!! 🙁
April 8th, 2012 at 2:56 pm
Things is.. if beef or pork weren’t so common i bet we would be disgusted by it tooo…… i dont really like meat..like seriously i tried but i always imagine the face of the animal… *goosebumps*
May 14th, 2012 at 12:50 pm
Forgot the Most Disgusting dish…FETUS SOUP – it is real
http://theseoultimes.com/ST/?url=/ST/db/read.php?idx=7333
http://www.eutimes.net/2009/10/chinese-eat-baby-soup/
June 17th, 2014 at 4:40 pm
omg if any of u vote Bugz N’ Cheez u wil get an unwelcoem guest at ur door and it is ME !!!!!!!!
July 24th, 2014 at 7:09 am
Dog meat tastes like horse and beef but more soft. Nothing gross about it. For me, Hakarl is more disgusting.
November 6th, 2014 at 11:57 pm
very funny and stupid that “dog meat” should be voted as most disgusting (probably reflecting a very western demographic in voters), they might as well have nominated “human meat” then that would’ve been #1 nastiest in 99% of the world’s demographics
November 7th, 2014 at 9:43 pm
One of the most disquesting things you can ever eat is surcherral fish from sweden. It is a fish packed with enough salt to prevent the raw fish from rotting. It usually comes in a can. The smell is offensive and so is the taste of the fish itself.
December 26th, 2014 at 12:31 pm
There’s this “drink” they make in South America, the women chew corn until it’s mushy and spit it into a brewing pot of other stuff they are “cooking” or making (I don’t want to know) but after enough mushy chewed corn and, obviously, the saliva of the chewing women is mixed in, it is processed and given to YOU to DRINK. Supposedly it is “alcoholic” but I am not sure even the bravest home made beer drinker from the Midwest would have the courage to try this drink.
There are also fried Tarantulas in Thailand and cooked large centipedes in Laos, you might want to look into those.
Some plant based foods are gross, too. “100 year old egg” is popular in Asia.
December 26th, 2014 at 12:34 pm
In North America it was supposedly a delicacy at one time to serve bull scrotum as well…
January 6th, 2016 at 8:39 pm
Dog meat is delicious! I bet a lot of us have eaten dog meat and had no idea. If prepared properly, it’s quite tasty.
March 4th, 2016 at 11:27 am
The monkey brains does not sound particularly pleasant to you but put it this way- I’ve tried it and it is disgusting!!!
December 24th, 2016 at 12:49 pm
Oh my gosh, why would people be so cruel to animals as to serve their customers monkey brains? Warthog anus? Bull penis? Baby mice wine? Look, these people have got to be kidding. Who the fuck agrees? Sorry for such language, but this is so damn ridiculous. And yet I’m on the wrong side of the internet again. -_-
January 3rd, 2017 at 7:28 pm
Stupid fucking retards voting for dog meat… This is the dumbest list to vote on.
Different place, different culture. We also eat animals like cow, horse, sheep, etc… Just because a dog is a pet in many countries doesn’t mean it’s sacred and can’t be touched for anything else than being a pet.
March 7th, 2017 at 7:58 pm
i like all of its nasty and not fit for humane comsumtion
May 25th, 2017 at 11:31 pm
WTF!! All this complaining about cruelty and yet we eat sheep. We cut them up. We sell their hearts. What is crueler than that??? Just kidding. Cannibalism (human) is still practiced… So shouldn’t that be the most disgusting delicacy? Or are we going to pull the anti-Asian race card and vote dog meat.
July 15th, 2017 at 12:27 pm
The Three Squeaks is fake look it up
January 16th, 2018 at 3:33 pm
this is gay
April 16th, 2018 at 4:27 am
I’m quite suprised that the Swedish stinky delicacy Surströmming (Fermented Herring) isn’t on the list
February 21st, 2019 at 9:27 am
Dog meat only scored the highest because we see them as pets not food. It is disgusting but only because they are our pets – it is not along the same lines as eating an anus, a brain or baby mice !!
March 21st, 2019 at 2:40 pm
I’ve had Hakarl in Iceland. It was the ammonia that traveled up my nasal cavity through to my nose that was the worst. My father told me war stories when he was in the Korean conflict about the locals eating dog. They had a flat rock outside their huts to do the dirty work.
February 25th, 2020 at 7:27 am
A lot of people are saying eating dog is the same as eating other meat. Maybe a lot of people who voted for that DON’T eat other meats, either. But dog is different, because dogs are uniquely co-evolved with humans, unlike cows or even the clever pig. A LOT of these are both disgusting and cruel. Anything requiring live mammal torture is kind of unconscionable. I’m not particularly turned off by what parts are served, but the animals in question all kind f matter and there is a lot of cruelty in this list. “Different cultures” is no excuse to accept suffering. Here in America we have a brutal and terrible system of torture in the factory farming industry; unless you buy from a humane farmer running a traditional farm or ranch, it’s nothing any feeling person ought to be okay with, unless they are especially ethically stunted. On that note, another commenter mentioned tripe, which is very common across many cuisines in different preparations and can be delicious, if you consume beef or pork (which I generally do not but have in the past). I quite liked it-it doesn’t taste like dirt; that chef must not be very good. There are also different kinds of tripe with…not textures, exactly, more structure or grain…different mouthfeels. I think I was partial to honeycomb.
June 22nd, 2020 at 3:51 am
Eating barky fur babies is something most of us would never think of doing, and think people who do it are nuts. But… I have a friend in China, who loves dog meat. Born and raised there, she has been eating it for her whole life. They cannot understand how we eat, and why we eat this way. They cannot fathom owning something you arent going yo eat. Dogs and cats do not matter there. They normally will eat anything. Rice goes with everything (it really does). They cannot understand why we are so limited in our cuisine.
Why we do not eat good things like tarantula, maggots, and bat, to name a few. As for me, i only eat ham and bacon from the pig, beef from the cow, turkey, and chicken breast. Im more of a vegetable and fruit person. Im really surprised the wonderful DURIAN isnt on there. Most disgusting fruit ever!!
October 15th, 2020 at 11:01 pm
“UrMom” probably won’t see this but thanks for having common sense! it’s a breath of fresh air seeing someone that isnt retarded in the comments
January 18th, 2021 at 4:30 am
I think it is the warts hog anus.