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Pickles

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Pickling anything, from cucumbers to eggs, is the best way to make perfectly nice food seem like its been boiled in your own sweat. Or make already bad food even worse (see: pickled pigs feet, a real thing).

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Gefilte fish

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Some people believe that fish are not subject to the "evil eye" because they are under water. Anyone who has gotten a whiff of this fish dinner knows better.

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Total Votes: 11,900

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The Results

1.

Stink heads

76%
2.

Century egg

67%
3.

Jellied Moose Nose

65%
4.

Haggis

64%
5.

Surstromming

61%
6.

Bat paste

61%
7.

Cazu Marzu

59%
8.

Durian fruit

57%
9.

Lutefisk

56%
10.

Chitterlings

56%
11.

Escamoles

55%
12.

Shiokara

53%
13.

Bird spit

52%
14.

Gefilte fish

51%
15.

Noni fruit

50%
16.

Tongue

50%
17.

Limburger Cheese

49%
18.

Rolmops

49%
19.

Kopi Luwak

48%
20.

Rakfisk

47%
21.

Anchovies

47%
22.

Potted meat

47%
23.

Black pudding

47%
24.

Sea slugs

46%
25.

Epoisses de Bourgogne Cheese

45%
26.

Belachan

45%
27.

Liver

45%
28.

Escargot

43%
29.

Blue cheese

43%
30.

Beef tartare

42%
31.

Scrapple

38%
32.

Boiled cabbage

37%
33.

Oysters

29%
34.

Mayonnaise

28%
35.

Broccoli rabe

28%
36.

Olives

25%
37.

Pickles

25%

20.

Rakfisk

Really, I’m not sure what’s going on in Norway, but if you ever visit friends over there be prepared for a lot of fish. This one in particular is a real delight: it is eaten raw after sitting in its own juices for a few months. Delicious.
19.

Kopi Luwak

This is the world’s most expensive coffee for a reason--in order for it to be brewed, the beans have to be eaten and digested by a cute little animal. Yep, it’s poop coffee. Can’t you just imagine that aromatic brew greeting you and your morning donut??
18.

Rolmops

Take a handful of the food on this list--herring, olives, pickles--and roll it around a big slice of onion, which we know makes everything taste better, and you've got the best sounding lunch ever.
17.

Limburger Cheese

This cheese has the same bacteria we humans use to make all our awesome body odor, and sits around in it for 3 months before being served. It’s basically like hooking up with that one kid at camp who spent the whole summer not showering--in cheese-form. Enjoy!
16.

Tongue

I'd love a hot tongue sandwich, if you know what I mean. Oh that? No, I absolutely did not mean that.
15.

Noni fruit

Good for keeping you alive with its nutritional value, if you can keep it down. This fruit is also known as “vomit fruit” for its strong smell and bitter taste.
14.

Gefilte fish

Some people believe that fish are not subject to the "evil eye" because they are under water. Anyone who has gotten a whiff of this fish dinner knows better.
13.

Bird spit

They try to dress it up by calling it “bird’s nest soup” and charging you a fortune to eat it, but the key ingredient is genuine bird spit. Apparently when you get rich, you only eat the most disgusting things on earth BECAUSE YOU CAN.
12.

Shiokara

This is like a soup made of anchovies... The day after you ate them.
11.

Escamoles

"Insect caviar"--two words that when separate sound like pretty gross things to eat, but there's something about the combination that makes the whole idea even worse.
10.

Chitterlings

Before eating these delicious pig intestines, be sure you have definitely cleaned out all the undigested food and feces Porky didn’t get the chance to finish, otherwise the thought of eating this might make you feel sick.
9.

Lutefisk

"Lye fish," a pungent, gelatinous white fish from Sweden. Be sure to eat it all and rinse your plate, otherwise the residue could be stuck there forever. That's probably not the case with your insides, though.
8.

Durian fruit

Another pungent fruit, this one is so bad that it is comparable to a cheese level of bad smells. Like Bourgogne Cheese in France, this fruit is banned from public transportation in Singapore due to its smell.
7.

Cazu Marzu

Let’s be honest, there really is no such thing as a great smelling cheese. This is one that takes that fact and adds thousands of maggots inside. But it’s okay, those maggots make it soft and less fatty! Eat up!
6.

Bat paste

You know it, I know it, Ace Ventura knows it: this is just bat poop. Delicious, nutritious bat poop.
5.

Surstromming

Swedish canned herring is a dish they suggest you enjoy outside, perhaps while camping with the family, since it has been described as "the most putrid smell of food in the world."
4.

Haggis

Because when putting something in your stomach, it usually helps if it was prepared within the stomach of the animal itself. Forget about how much your mouth totally doesn’t buy that logic, it doesn’t know anything.
3.

Jellied Moose Nose

Eaten regularly in bitter silence by Jason Alexander every time he receives a royalty check for his work as Boris in the beloved 2000 live action classic “Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle.”
2.

Century egg

The eggs aren't technically as old as the name would suggest, but they are definitely past their sell-by date and aside from looking great, they also have the ultra-enticing aroma of sulphur and ammonia. Yummm.
1.

Stink heads

They’re called STINK HEADS. But don’t worry about getting sick from these fermented white fish heads; they bury them right in the ground for you so you don’t get infected by that pesky plastic stuff.