A hard thing for me to answer…

Occasionally people ask me what the worst food I have ever eaten is. I don’t really know what the answer to this question is.

Aside from one incident.

I was once hungry and bored in my Aunty Margie’s house. I looked for something to eat in the fridge and saw a tub of yoghurt.

Previously there had been a variety of fruity type yoghurts in the fridge, so when I saw this one I was delighted.

I opened it and grabbed a spoon. Then I had a mouthful.

There is a sensation I don’t normally get from food unless it is genuinely rotten. Not nausea, but more to spit the food out as quick as possible. There have been a few pieces of fruit that I have spat out when I have discovered that they were rotten and infested. The odd piece of meat, that had been in the fridge way too long. Once, after much deliberation, a piece of cheese.

In this instance, it took me about a third of the tub before I realised what I was eating didn’t taste right. It wasn’t a big tub, and a third was only a few spoon fulls.

It was also at this point I decided I should probably make sure that the tub was what I thought it was. I had noticed the word Yoghurt and not paid attention to the rest. The rest were the words “Low fat, natural, diet”.

It had more tang then yoghurt should.

It wasn’t smooth, which given that it was plain yoghurt it should have been.

I thought I may have just been being picky, as it was meant to be healthy.

Nope, one more spoonful determined that I was right and it was revolting.

I got rid of it.

I found something else to eat.

Many years later, my cousin pointed out that the yoghurt could have been out of date when I ate it, by a lot. It may have been one of the fridge dwelling items that you put in the fridge with the intention of eating and it slowly migrates towards the back. To be forgotten.

Until you clean out the fridge, or some unsuspecting individual finds it and eats it. Part of it.

I have since tried similar yoghurt and, while it has been more palatable, I still don’t like the taste.

Keeping it short tonight, eat well.

PS there are probably others, but this is the one that sticks in my head.