Northern anarchist Alex Riley goes in search of the most disgusting thing he's ever eaten - and finds it's not as straightforward as it seems. He discovers manufacturers with ingenious ways of transforming poor ingredients into something that looks and tastes like good food.
He unearths hidden horrors, from substitute cheese to beef connective tissue, and even creates and markets his own crap food.
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Whatever they put into '100%' minted lamb burgers. Surely pure minced lamb has no hard or gristly bits, right?
Worst top 3:
1. Vegemite (in Australia), tasted like rotten meat
2. Abalone, tasted like salt, texture of snot
3. 3am curries, just add to the hangovers
How dare these companies, with all their profits, make and sell this rubbish 'food' to us! They only make changes after major negative publicity. I literally shed tears when I saw what goes on.
Jellied Eels in Aspic in London, Vitello Tonnato (Veal in a Tuna Sauce) in Northern Italy, and Lutfisk in Norway.
Pies by the look of the crap that's allowed to go in them!
A chicken kebab from Ibiza - I thought they must have left the bones in when I found something hard in it. It was not a bone!
Personally the most disgusting products has to be hot dogs. Yuk! Thank you for your documentry. Have known about poor quality food in our country for a long time, but I did not know it was so bad!
I'm only fourteen but i didnt really care what i had eaten until i watched your show, you have inspired me and i have started doing my own reaserch about disgusting foods.
It's got to be snails from France
A Microwavable twin pack doner kebab from a supermarket. Available at Tesco's. The bread was processed, the meat total S**t.