Food Disgust Test

HeavyG

Came across this simple test via another cooking forum:

Food Disgust Test

Christina Hartmann and Michael Siegrist at the Technical University of Zurich have discovered that people’s disgust concerning food can be broken into eight distinct scales. The factors that determine why people differ on the various triggers for food disgust are not well understood, but the authors hope their instrument will contribute to a greater mapping-out of individual differences in this regard. 
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Only takes a few minutes.

My results:




Apparently bendy cucumbers trigger me. Otherwise pretty chill.



Test link - https://www.idrlabs.com/food-disgust/test.php

GrateEggspectations

Is this why you never post food pics? Food disgusts you so. 😉

HeavyG

Yep. Every meal, every day...


Doesn't make for an interesting pix (I guess I could lay a dirty fork beside a bottle to stoke some emotional responses from some here).

womaus

Got a 10.25%. 

Probably from years of working in restaurants. I'll eat most anything put in front of me.

dbCooper

20.8%, if hygiene and human contamination are in check I'll apparently eat anything. 

fishlessman

20.8 as well, I guess wormy apples are not on my food list

Bellavista52

36.8% hygene and mold are not my favs.

Ozzie_Isaac

Huh.  I thought I pickier.  Mold on marmalade was main thing that bothered me.  Just because mold on soft items has tendrils that go well below the surface.

I once ate carna asada cooked on a trash can lid on a random street in Puerto Penasco, Mexico.  Stumbled on a neighborhood hood party and they invited us all.  My wife and I ate there and had a blast.  The rest of the group went to a restaurant and was sick the next day.  Wife and I were fine.

kl8ton

19.Something. 

Acn

Ended at 22.8.  Wasn’t sure how to address a couple of questions; like the hair in soup.  At a restaurant it might give me pause because it could hint at other, more difficult to see/verify issues with cleanliness or food safety in the kitchen.  At home I can base on the length whether it is mine, from SWMBO or SWMBO Jr; I know everyone’s hygiene, how we’ve cleaned, that we’ve kept things at appropriate temps, etc.  There I just pull it out and wipe it on my napkin and move on.

Legume

Ozzie_Isaac said:

Huh.  I thought I pickier.  Mold on marmalade was main thing that bothered me.  Just because mold on soft items has tendrils that go well below the surface.

This and you don't know what the mold is (unlike blue cheese mold).  I'll cut away mold from any hard cheese and eat the rest, but marmalade, condiments, nope.

lkapigian

Mold, Meh

fishlessman

I leave the jar of marmalade out on the counter, never seen mold in it. Is it orange mold.....maple syrup mold is different, edible, doesn't look good on a pancake but glazed on a ham who cares

caliking

Acn said:

Ended at 22.8.  Wasn’t sure how to address a couple of questions; like the hair in soup.  At a restaurant it might give me pause because it could hint at other, more difficult to see/verify issues with cleanliness or food safety in the kitchen.  At home I can base on the length whether it is mine, from SWMBO or SWMBO Jr; I know everyone’s hygiene, how we’ve cleaned, that we’ve kept things at appropriate temps, etc.  There I just pull it out and wipe it on my napkin and move on.

I feel that question in the test needed to be more specific... Pass if the hair in question may be a pube.

Foghorn

29%  I wasn' t at the extremes for much.

lousubcap

36.13 here- I hardly eat any fruits or vegetables so I was ambivalent on several questions.  Not a fan of worms or bugs either.  Good fun though.

paqman

fishlessman

lousubcap said:

36.13 here- I hardly eat any fruits or vegetables so I was ambivalent on several questions.  Not a fan of worms or bugs either.  Good fun though.

You can get worms eating fish with worms.  Is that some kind of phobia.....wormy apples no, fermented apples though....

danhoo

It seems I don't like bugs or people

Ozzie_Isaac

Funny though, I am not squeamish about food, but at home I am obsessively clean when cooking.  Very cautious about cross contamination, hyper vigilant about cook times/temps, wear latex gloves when prepping food for guests.

I am fine taking risks myself, but do not want anyone getting sick or have a bad experiences eating food I prepared.

fishlessman

Have gone a month with turkey soup staying on the stove top adding pasta and rice. Reheating every day nevering leaving the top of the stove.  Garlic was on top of the fridge in oil year round.  Should be dead

nolaegghead

Enjoy

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/usda-sets-new-limits-on-salmonella-in-your-chicken-wings/

RRP

Ozzie_Isaac said:

Funny though, I am not squeamish about food, but at home I am obsessively clean when cooking.  Very cautious about cross contamination, hyper vigilant about cook times/temps, wear latex gloves when prepping food for guests.

I am fine taking risks myself, but do not want anyone getting sick or have a bad experiences eating food I prepared.

I'm pretty much just like you at home when I'm handling chicken and fish...but not beef!!! Kinda weird, huh???

OTOH if I even had one clue what  R E A L L Y went on in a DECENT restaurant kitchen I'd probably go friggen N U T S O!!!

Just last week I went up to the counter at a WENDY'S and as soon as I saw the FILTHY floor behind I just turned around and left!!! (And I happen to LOVE WENDY'S!!!!)

And DON'T even read the rest of this if you are a bit squeamish...

The last time I went into a Long John Silver's as I stood there to order then a frggen cockroach ran right across the counter between me and the clerk and we both watched it and the clerk asked "What would you like?" ! I just turned around and walked out and never returned there! That was probably 25 years ago and that business is still open!!! What if the current patrons even had a clue!!!

nolaegghead

The pesticides to keep roaches at bay are worse for your health than seeing a cockroach in the kitchen, but we don’t think that way because you can see the roaches and the pesticides are invisible.

RRP

nolaegghead said:

The pesticides to keep roaches at bay are worse for your health than seeing a cockroach in the kitchen, but we don’t think that way because you can see the roaches and the pesticides are invisible.

I hear you, but that thing just walked slowly half way between us, stopped midway and did 3 push ups, gave me the finger and then strolled off...

TEXASBGE2018

You are all a bunch of chumps. I got 62%. The goal is to have the highest score right?!?!?

Legume

RRP said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

Funny though, I am not squeamish about food, but at home I am obsessively clean when cooking.  Very cautious about cross contamination, hyper vigilant about cook times/temps, wear latex gloves when prepping food for guests.

I am fine taking risks myself, but do not want anyone getting sick or have a bad experiences eating food I prepared.

I'm pretty much just like you at home when I'm handling chicken and fish...but not beef!!! Kinda weird, huh???

OTOH if I even had one clue what  R E A L L Y went on in a DECENT restaurant kitchen I'd probably go friggen N U T S O!!!

Just last week I went up to the counter at a WENDY'S and as soon as I saw the FILTHY floor behind I just turned around and left!!! (And I happen to LOVE WENDY'S!!!!)

And DON'T even read the rest of this if you are a bit squeamish...

The last time I went into a Long John Silver's as I stood there to order then a frggen cockroach ran right across the counter between me and the clerk and we both watched it and the clerk asked "What would you like?" ! I just turned around and walked out and never returned there! That was probably 25 years ago and that business is still open!!! What if the current patrons even had a clue!!!

Ron, you'll eat at a Long John Silver's but you call the food in the pic on the banner slop that you wouldn't eat.  Do I have that right?

BigreenGreg

36%, Hygiene was the biggest factor.

fishlessman

the food served at long johns keeps me out, not the bugs. long johns makes taco bell look like the best mexican food on the planet, they share a building here

Kayak

28.8%

More about hygiene for me, although I have to admit, there are some hunks of meat that seem just a little too close to living when raw: I'm thinking especially of leg of lamb or pork shoulder. Sometimes I look at them and think "Oh g*d, that could be my leg".

I still like eating them, of course.

Langner91

Your leg has more hair.