Most freshwater fish sucks. And all offal is awful.
Edit: Mutton is also garbage tier meat lamb is pretty good though.
Human tastes pretty weird. Like pork but much more salty.
Oyster. Anything with the consistency of snot that you’re supposed to swallow without chewing isn’t food. I can make my own salt water that tastes much less disgusting.
Hear me out. Have you tried them grilled in garlic butter with a little sprinkle of parmesan?
If it’s not for you then you won’t get any hate from me. I just wanted to throw that out there.
You can totally chew them
I don’t hate myself that much, though.
Any “big game”. Moose taste like swamp.
Venison can be good if it’s properly butchered and stored. It so often isn’t though. People will shoot a deer then leave it to hang for a day in 50-60 degree weather. Just gross.
Bears are too greasy. And they’re too smart, eating them is just bad karma.
A lot of game meat can be good, people just have no clue what to do with the processing side of it. They’ll spend thousands of dollars buying the most ridiculous gear to kill the damn thing, and then just fail at butchering and preserving. Hunting is the easy part.
Most people make the mistake of harvesting old bulls. The young ones are tasty.
Perch and Catfish are pretty awful. Catfish more for the texture. Perch just tastes bad.
I always wanted to try catfish, and there was a restaurant I really like that does everything else really well, so I tried it and… Nah. Tasted like fishy dirt meat. I’ve had bad duck, too.
Tasted like fishy dirt meat
I’m not a fish-eater in general, but I am an avid fisherman (I just catch them, the wife eats them,) so I’ve heard a lot of stories from my fellow anglers (which should, of course, be taken with a grain of salt, there’s a reason they’re called “fish stories”)
There is a persistent rumor I’ve heard that some people will take catfish and other bottom-feeders like carp home alive to let them swim around in a bathtub of clean water for a day or two to sort of flush all of the mud and everything out of their system before cleaning and cooking them
Allegedly it’s more of a southern thing.
That’s a really good idea, honestly. If your goal is to eat catfish, that is.
I would put catfish above mahi mahi
Mahi Mahi is delicious and has a wonderful texture. As does monkfish.
Oh, man… I’m not a huge fish eater, but I can honestly say some of the best fish fry days I remember were when we couldn’t catch enough walleye to feed everyone. Someone would take a few of us kids out to have us catch a couple dozen perch. Beer battered and fried in a cast iron pan over an open campfire? Perch are effing delicious.
Perch are good if you fry them right. But I live up north where the water stays cooler, I think it makes the fish taste better. You go down south and anything you catch just tastes like swamp.
Whatever perch were were getting in Massachusetts were gross.
Uni (sea urchin) at a Japanese restaurant. It was like cold fishy jelly. Although I’m told that fresh uni is different. Not gonna try it again unless someone else at the table orders it.
I think uni is overrated as well. It’s not bad, but overrated.
I wasn’t a big fan of goat
You said not lamb but lamb. Nothing will ever taste worse than the lamb steak I had from a high end Brazilian churrascaria once. It straight up had the taste and texture of poop. Thinking about it makes me gag.
That’s also where I learned how much I hate filet mignon
What would your favourite meats be?
I’m honestly not a big meat eater but venison is good. I’m a bigger fan of sausages and smoked meats.
Gotta be possum. That shit is musky
I have yet to find seafood that I like.
Irony of ironies is that I love fishing. Luckily anything I catch worth keeping my wife is more than happy to eat.
People always tell me that good fish shouldn’t taste/smell fishy. I retort that I suppose good beef shouldn’t be beefy either.
I’m willing to hear people out, try different fish prepared in different ways, still haven’t found one that I liked, at best they’re mostly tolerable.
I’ve figured out that I generally tend to enjoy freshwater fish over saltwater. If I catch a couple nice trout I’ll eat that for dinner with my wife instead of having to make a separate dish for myself, I won’t hate it, but I won’t like it either and I’d probably rather have a hot dog.
And I like raw fish better than cooked.
I might actually kind of like raw oysters, but they are in no way worth the cost.
Lox isn’t bad, but I’d prefer just about anything else over it.
There are a couple fish-based products out there that are so far removed from fish that they’re hardly worth mentioning for the purposes of this comment that I do enjoy, like Worcestershire sauce and Asian fish sauces, katsuobushi, Caesar dressing, Crab Rangoon (let’s be real, you could probably leave the crab or “krab” out of most takeout rangoons and it wouldn’t change much) some Japanese fish cakes, etc.
The absolute worst is shrimp though. Nothing about shrimp is appealing to me, the taste, smell and especially the texture are all pretty repulsive.
I’m not otherwise a guy with a lot of food hangups and consider myself a pretty adventurous eater. Weird tastes, textures, bizarre fermented stuff, strange meats, etc. are all generally OK in my book, there’s not many other foods out there that I don’t enjoy. In my house right now I have some double salt salmiak licorice, a bottle of Malört, a wide selection of hot sauces going up to around 1 million scoville, I’m pretty sure I have both Vegemite and marmite somewhere in my fridge, some very peaty scotches, and plenty of other very divisive foodstuffs that I enjoy.
I have tentative plans to visit Iceland next year, so I’ll probably end up torturing myself with some hákarl at some point. And I don’t intend to seek it out, but if it happens to be offered to me for free somewhere I may consider trying whale, which I suppose is technically seafood.
Cockroach (if that counts) and rat.
What’s the story with the rat
We’re just glossing over the cockroach, huh?
I had a salt and pepper fried cockroach once. It was like a papery gusher with questionable insides
Those words in that order are a pretty wild ride.
I ate a chicken ball dipped in spicy peanut sauce one time because my dad told me it was a chicken ball. It was the testicle of a chicken. It actually tasted fine before I found out what it was.
Woof. I haven’t had nearly the same adventures in meat as you have, but I can say that duck tongue is gross.
Another one of those things that taste pretty ok if you don’t know what it is. I think that’s why hotdogs are popular.
Street food vendor was selling kabobs. Later found them catching and cleaning rats in a nearby alley.
Yikes, did you notice something was off when you ate it?
It was seasoned really heavily. Tasted pretty bad as I recall but honestly my memory of the actual taste and texture has been overrun by the memory of finding out what I just ate.
I tried kangaroo in Australia and it was not good.
Donkey.
Venison, and for the same reason as lamb
I don’t like muscles from the Puget Sound because they taste like it smells and I cannot get past that.
