What Have You Eaten (Raw) That You Shouldn't Have?

airzone on 10/06/2018 - 19:29
Last edited 10/06/2018 - 19:30

Many years back - 15-20, my company (at the time) imported a new employee from overseas who ended up being my boss. She was nice, but naive.

I got a call from her one evening asking me to drive her to the hospital (we lived about 5 minutes apart, and she couldn't drive).

She had eaten a sausage raw and was sick as a result. Not a chorizo or a twiggy stick, but a standard, run-of-the-mill coles pork sausage. Raw.

I was wtf - how could you eat a raw sausage? And her answer was that in her country, sausages you buy from the shop are already cooked and can be eaten "raw".

But still, my 5yo kid is smart enough to know not to eat a raw sausage…

It has haunted me to this day…

For myself though, I used to lick the beaters when making a cake, despite the raw egg in it..

Food & Grocery

Comments

  • justwii on 12/06/2018 - 20:01

    Sperms. Cooked actually taste way better. But either way you just swallow whole.

  • Blargman2001 on 12/06/2018 - 20:02

    When I was 4 I ate a raw garden snail.

  • DiscoJango on 12/06/2018 - 20:41
    +1

    we never had cordial at home when i was young. went to a friends house once and he asked if i wanted some juice, ok. put some cordial in the cup, i was thinking, thats not much, but oh well. drank it. dam this stuff is potent! he was like, you need to put water in it. i was like. oooooohhhhh.

  • iSamurai on 12/06/2018 - 22:43

    I remember when I was at uni living in a college dorm, one of my mates was so lazy to make mi goreng, he simply opened the packet, put the sauce and the powder on the dried noodles and ate it. After eating it he drank a few sips of water. Meanwhile there is a kettle sitting right in front of him.

    I was like WTF dude! He said he’s always done it. Just by the way if you think he’s an idiot, he’s now a doctor.

    • John on 13/06/2018 - 02:08

      Dry noodle snacks are common in asia. Mi goreng is basically the same deal, just that its normally cooked to soften it.

    • A fish on 13/06/2018 - 10:34

      An idiot doctor?

  • [Deactivated] on 12/06/2018 - 23:34

    Raw fish straight from the ocean.

    Should I have eaten it? No.
    Did I get sick? No
    Will I do it again? Yes, it was delicious!

    Also, have had raw beef and mince. It's a traditional dish.

  • John on 13/06/2018 - 02:06

    Octopus tentacles.. chopped but still wiggles
    Abalone.. fresh off the sea, sliced it thin and had it with soy sauce

  • goms on 13/06/2018 - 08:25

    Kangaroo food. My friends tricked me saying that it was nuts, so I took some into my mouth. Then they started laughing. Its tasteless.

  • Xodus on 13/06/2018 - 14:11

    Raw chicken from KFC

  • El Grande on 13/06/2018 - 15:54

    Salmon and cookie dough.

  • ozice on 13/06/2018 - 18:14
    +1

    I went to China on a business trip for my company. The first night I was invited out to dinner at a ritzy seafood restaurant, which sounded great. Trying to impress, the hosts ordered the most expensive thing on the menu, lobster, sounded even better. Unfortunately (particularly so for the lobster) it was still alive and trying to crawl off the plate. I had to eat a bit with my chopsticks so as not to upset the hosts, but it tasted so bland, white flesh with a slippery quality

    Eventually I did totally upset them by asking for it to be cooked. At least it tasted much better.

    • virhlpool on 13/06/2018 - 22:21

      How do they even think of eating alive and moving creatures? Lol.. And I bet it's quite common in some places.

      • timbo83 on 14/06/2018 - 16:10

        My father in law told me a story of a work trip he took to China. They cooked a turtle in view of the diners, putting pinches of spice down its throat as it gasped for air (as water temperature increased).

        Made me sick just hearing the story, let enough being there.

        • El Grande on 14/06/2018 - 23:34

          While we are discussing China business dinner stories I got one too. It was my 4th day there so I was sick of eating the same food and I wanted to go to a non-Chinese restaurant. Our host insisted the place he was taking me had regional Guangdong food and I would love it. When we got there our host placed the order at a restaurant. Everyone got the normal seafood fare and we dug in. Half way into the meal he remembered he had promised me something different and ordered a special dish just for me. I got a whole cooked papaya cut horizontally 4/5 of the way up from the base with the rest of the papaya acting like a lid. When I removed it had a white filling in it. I asked him if it was a desert and I don't think he heard me but nodded in approval. I took a bite and it tasted like rice pudding made in coconut milk and soft young coconuts jelly minced into the milk. I was absolutely delicious. Turns out the coconut jelly was actually baby frog meat.

  • echelon6 on 13/06/2018 - 22:28

    This guy regrets eating a snail raw I bet - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2018/03/08…

    • airzone on 13/06/2018 - 22:51

      Yeah slugs and snails are serious stuff..

  • myusername on 14/06/2018 - 09:46

    sausage ate one when i was really young and drunk one night

  • ensanguined on 14/06/2018 - 09:53

    My wife made me a beef stir-fry dish once and left it in the fridge, ready for me to cook when I wanted it (and she even wrote as such on a post-it note stuck to the container). I totally missed the note, heated it up in the microwave thinking it was already cooked and ate three-quarters of it before realising everything tasted so odd…because it was raw. Oh man, it was terrible lol.

  • battler on 14/06/2018 - 10:09

    bait prawn.
    (for a bet/dare)
    did not get sick.

    • greatlamp on 14/06/2018 - 20:26

      Double or nothing

      Would you eat a bait clam?

  • The Gent on 14/06/2018 - 11:55

    Ha.

    Reminds me of when my dad ordered a sausage roll in Menorca and it came with a cured meat called "sobrasada" inside…he told the guy behind the counter that he forgot to cook it before realizing it was some insane local delicacy. It most certainly tastes nothing like chorizo.

    Me? nothing raw I shouldn't have, thankfully.

  • ozlab on 14/06/2018 - 13:27

    live octopus in korea and it's still moving in your mouth while chewing

  • Haters.Inc on 14/06/2018 - 15:09
    -1

    ITT: Lots of white people.

  • boiiiii on 14/06/2018 - 17:29

    Bought some marinated octopus but didn't realize it was raw. Was displayed next to cooked items which fooled me.

  • sund00bie on 14/06/2018 - 20:27

    dumbest thing ive done is drunk goats milk (from a dead goat). Tasted good but i got pretty sick :(

  • GalaxySkater58 on 14/06/2018 - 21:52
    +2

    Booty

  • guystingy on 14/06/2018 - 23:33

    Snake liver dipped in cognac. Gulped down the liver and cognac

  • dylancarey on 20/06/2018 - 23:01

    I was eating raw eggs for a week to support my friend who was on protein diet
    worst
    experience
    ever

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