We eat with our eyes first. But sometimes, our eyes witness such horrors that we don’t even feel like eating at all. Food is supposed to be appetizing and look the part while doing it. Why then, do some people cook up stuff that could be straight from Hell’s kitchen? We aren’t talking about the neighborhood in Manhattan. Nor are we referring to Gordon Ramsay’s reality show. What we are addressing is the issue of so-called “dishes” straight from the depths of Hell.
Think apple and mayo sandwiches, fish tacos where the taco part is a fish’s head – teeth and all, hot dog water jello with chunks of hot dog suspended in it. You get the awful picture… If that wasn’t enough to put you off, there’s an entire food-shaming community dedicated to calling out “creations” that people had the audacity to come up with. Cursed Food is a wall of posts bound to test your gag reflexes, and Bored Panda has put together a list of the best, or should we say worst.
#1 Fish Tacos 👍
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#2 Found This On Facebook
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#3 Yum Yum
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Have you ever wondered why some people love things like apple and mayo sandwiches or chicken feet, while the mere thought of those dishes might make another person want to throw up?
Rachel Herz is studies this kind of stuff. She’s a neuroscientist who specializes in taste and smell. She’s also the author of Why You Eat What You Eat, and The Scent of Desire. According to Herz, whether or not you think something is unpleasant has to do with the meaning of whatever it is to you.
“The emotion of disgust is highly learned,” she says. “You need an intact, healthy brain in order to turn the mechanism on. But after that, it’s really a function of our experience, culture, and learning.”
#4 When The Cookie Judges You
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#5 It’s That Time Of Year Again!
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#6 Pasta With Or Without Milk?
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Herz adds that what we deem as disgusting is malleable and can change based on the situation we’re in and the meaning we ascribe to whatever it is we think we’re perceiving.
“If you were sitting in a fancy French restaurant and started smelling something and noticed a waiter with a tray, you’d go, ‘Oh, it must be the cheese course; I’m excited, I’d like to have some taleggio.’ But if you encountered that exact same smell while walking down an alley behind a dive bar, your thoughts would construe the aroma as something totally different,” she explains. “And you’d probably feel totally disgusted.”
#7 Apple Mayo Sandwich
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#8 Spaghettio’s Jello Cake I Made
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#9 Most Illegal Thing In The Book
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We don’t only experience a gag reflex when we find something disgusting, says the expert. There’s a lot more going on in our bodies than many of realize. For example, Herz reveals that disgust can trigger physiological responses like a drop in blood pressure and an increase in sweating.
“In extreme cases, you can faint or even vomit,” she adds. “Serotonin gets suffused into the stomach, which is actually an adaptive measure to help initiate vomiting. From a primitive perspective, it’s about protecting us from being contaminated from something on the outside getting into our bodies.”
#10 Obama Sushi
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#11 Rata-Tooie
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#12 Found On Facebook
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Interestingly, there’s also a reason why we make a certain face when we see, smell or taste something gross. From an evolutionary standpoint, it’s to shield our body from the outside. So the eye squinting, for example, is a bid to take in less light so that we can’t clearly see the disgusting object.
“In addition, the nose scrunches up and nestles around the cheeks, which closes air off to the nostrils so you can’t catch the smell as well,” says Herz. “And our mouths purse as a means to keep things out, or if something got in, it’s a way to get it out. It’s all about protecting the holes on our face, as it were, from contamination.”
#13 Cursed Milk
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#14 Bon Appetit
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#15 Fruit Roll Up Ditto
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#16 Probably Has Enough Sodium To End A Horse
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#17 My Boyfriend Fell Asleep Making Pizza, It Cooked For Nine Hours
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#18 C R O N C H
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#19 First Try At Banana Bread
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#20 Cursed Dogs
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#21 Cursed Pizza
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#22 Spotted In An Albertsons Today
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#23 Cheesecake
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#24 Pepsi Ramen
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#25 This Looks Pretty Fire
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#26 Boiled Pizza
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#27 Perfect
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#28 Weird
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#29 Blended Apricot Ramen
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#30 Cursed Pink Curry
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#31 A Meal For The Whole Family
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#32 Pineapple On Pizza Is Good
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#33 Cursed_corn_dog
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#34 Cursed_longbread
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#35 Chocolate Covered Pickles
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#36 Onion Milk 😋
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#37 Would Recommend 10/10
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#38 Fresh Bred
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#39 This Is Bad At All
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#40 Scorpionpizza
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#41 Yummy
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#42 Cursed Nuggets
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#43 This Tasted Horrible (Yes I Ate It)
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#44 Pb Mayo Banana Pickle Sandwich
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#45 Fruit By The Foot Pie
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#46 My Friend Made A Walter The Dog Cake. It Disturbs Me Greatly
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#47 Ran Out Of Shot Glasses For My Jello Shots
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#48 Kid Came Up To Us During School Lunch And Tried To Hand Us This Doritos Bag Full Of Chocolate Milk
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#49 Not Sure If Posted Here Yet
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#50 Kitkat, Apple, Soy Sauce And Tabasco Bagel
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#51 Cursed Crackers
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#52 Some Dinner My Friend Made
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#53 Steak Donut
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#54 Delivery Driver Got Lost – Big Time
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#55 Olive Joy
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#56 Great Idea
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#57 Eating Good Tonight 😋🍽
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#58 Cursed Hotdog
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#59 Late Night Drink
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#60 It’s Time For Another One
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#61 Who Ever Said Jelly Doesn’t Go On Eggs?!?!
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#62 I Need New Friends Who Don’t Do This Stuff
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#63 A Nice Thing Of Beer
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#64 Cheeto Cereal
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#65 A True Meal Fit For A Man
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#66 My Sister Dipping Her Chocolate Chip Cookie In Mac And Cheese
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#67 I Love Breadfast
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#68 Delicious Blue Waffles
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#69 Can’t Be Any More Asian
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#70 Do Y’all Eat Your Doritos With Nutella?
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#71 My Favorite Kind Of Sandwich!
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#72 “English Food” Bread And Butter With Raisins Soacked In Milk
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#73 It’s Just Egg On Toast… Why
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