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• 1 jon // Aug 6, 2010 at 8:19 am

  I’m going to say a toss up between warm stale beer with a cigarette butt in it or a KFC Double Down (R.I.P.)

• 2 DirtyDanSin // Aug 6, 2010 at 9:43 am

  KFC is a big player here as I have to go with either their Popcorn Chicken or the treated lumber fencing stuff that we used to ‘chew’ so that we could spit like the big boys. I am pretty sure that was treated with arsenic.

• 3 phil // Aug 6, 2010 at 11:44 am

  Chinese desserts that are like bitter custard or rotten flan, I don’t know the name.

• 4 Tiffany! // Aug 6, 2010 at 4:16 pm

  well, recently, I ate some of the breaded fried part off of some strangers’ popeye chicken… admittedly I was drunk (probably partially because) and hadn’t had dinner.
  Come to think of it, I have never worried too heavily about germs so I have definitely eaten my fair share “three-second-rule” foods that have hit the floor.

  Oh, and hostess twinkies… jesu christo! Who said that was food and allowed a child to eat of it?

• 5 beth // Aug 9, 2010 at 12:06 pm

  @Tiffany – I would like to hear more about the “stranger” aspect of this chicken story.

  I think the grossest thing I’ve ever had in my mouth is that nasty pink molding material they use at the orthodontist (to make molds of your teeth or to build a retainer). I still have a gag reflex just thinking about it.

• 6 Tiffany! // Aug 11, 2010 at 2:29 pm

  @Beth- Yep. Strangers. No idea who they were, but for some reason (they thought I was really cool because I had a scooter jacket on… and I’m a sucker for people who like me even for all the wrong reasons), I even gave one girl my number and a promise to give her a ride on my scooter since she wants to buy one.

  I think it was on one of my late night wanderings along Divis. What can you do? I’m friendly. And usually hungry.

• 7 Joe // Aug 12, 2010 at 11:07 am

  Oh, I forgot to answer my own question. The reason I asked was because I had just returned from a dinner where somebody ordered chicken feet.

  I tried to eat one. It looked exactly like toddler fingers, was blanched and chilled, and kind of clung to the bone in a way that made it so I just kind of sucked on the fingers until some skin or gristle would come off in my mouth.

  The taste was kind of like the way the back of a mexican meat store smells.

  Here is what they look like

• 8 Tiffany! // Aug 12, 2010 at 11:10 am

  @ Joe. Amazing description. I don’t want anything going in my mouth that tastes like the smell of a carniceria .. ever

• 9 Joe // Aug 12, 2010 at 11:36 am

  Yeah, I can’t really say it is something I will ever willingly repeat. I was discussing it to my friend over dinner and we are at a loss to think of something that could be worse in terms of: texture, temperature (chilled but not cold), taste, smell or looks. There are things that would gross me out harder, but I think nothing that qualifies less as good food.

  I imagine deep fried or something they could be ok, but that is also true of everything else.

• 10 nick one million // Aug 12, 2010 at 3:24 pm

  @Joe. Along those same lines and I’m sorry to Phil for bringing this up, but Duck Feet: http://urbanmixplate.honadvblogs.com/files/2009/04/duck-feet-edited.jpg

  & for breakfast no less ::((
  & they looked more like the chicken feet in Joe’s picture than the picture I found.

• 11 Joe // Aug 12, 2010 at 4:15 pm

  @N1^6, is there anything to be said for them in the positive direction? Did we just not eat them right or something?

• 12 nick one million // Aug 12, 2010 at 4:28 pm

  @Jose. Yes, if a mouth full of tiny bones can be considered a positive direction.
  The chicken feet at Ton Kiangs on Geary are decent, mostly because they are fried hard and hella saucy, but I still don’t order them on the regs.

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