We’ve been dining out on food content recently, from TripAdvisor’s Travellers’ Choice Awards picks for the best food destinations to the world’s best cuisines and places to eat according to TasteAtlas.
And while all corners of the planet are blessed with everything from standout street food to swish restaurants, meals don’t always hit the spot. In fact, TasteAtlas has also compiled a roundup of the world’s ‘worst’ foods, according to 600,000 ratings on its platform.
Topping the list is Blodplat, a dish traditional to Sweden and Finnish Lapland of rye or barley flour and (wait for it) animal blood dumplings, which is usually served as a side dish to fried bacon, pork, butter and lingonberry jam. Interesting.
In second place was bocadillo de sardinas, a sardine sandwich native to Spain. Surprisingly, despite Spain being the land of paella, croquettes, tapas and churros, three Spanish dishes are included in the top 10: angulas a la cazuela is a Basque Country dish of spicy eels, and faves a la Catalana is broad beans cooked in stock and served with blood sausage.
These are the world’s 10 ‘worst’ foods
- Blodplat, Finland
- Bocadillo de sardinas, Spain
- Calskrove, Sweden
- Angulas a la cazuela, Spain
- Jellied eels, UK
- Ramen burger, USA
- Chapalele, Chile
- Faves a la Catalana, Spain
- Thorramatur, Iceland
- Thai fish entrails sour curry, Thailand
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