It's hard to take this list seriously. The 99th worst rated dish consists of the following:
Peppers, onions and garlic mixed with a bit of herbs tomato sauce and olive oil.
Then added to a chicken stock to make a soup. Add rice and some meat.
Under what world is that terrible?? It feels like a stable of 20 different cultures around the world. Almost so straightforward it's hard to imagine anyway it can go wrong (other than flat out burning your ingredients).
I'm pretty sure Campbells and Progresso probably both serve a soup of these exact ingredients in a similar ratio.
It's kinda hard to take the rest of this list seriously.
It’s the worst rated dishes, not the absolute worst. (Though the top ten look pretty terrible.) The fish you mention is rated 2.8 out of 5. It looks like users of the site rate foods.
The Gule Ærter (#6, pea soup) looked positively tasty, so I can't imagine what is hidden in it to make it so bad. I'd have no problem with the Vegetable Roll (#7) and would be happy to try the Sour Spicy Fish Curry (#10, Kaeng som). I like anise-flavored candy, so Anis de Flavigny (#5) is fine.
The pizzas (#8, #3) look like gut-bombs, but I'm sure a slice would be ok. I'm not a fan of kidneys, but I once ordered a whole platefull of them in Paris by mistake, (6 lamb's kidneys, I think) and ate almost the whole lot (Devilled Kidneys, #9).
I think I could taste the spider's legs at least once (#4) and I find it hard to believe that the whitefish salad (Indigirka Salad, #2) could be that bad from it's description...
That leaves only Hákarl (#1) as the one I'm genuinely afraid of.
Indeed. 87 is small fried fish, a type of food that is eaten all over the world. We call it whitebait and I believe it's the same in former Commonwealth countries.
The kicker for me was vegetable roll (just a sausage patty) is only a couple spots away from fried tarantulas.
Rated high up there is a dish called "scouse" which sounds like a perfectly unobjectionable stew of meat, potatoes, and vegetables. Nothing fancy, but sounds like it'd be great on a cold wet night.
Peppers, onions and garlic mixed with a bit of herbs tomato sauce and olive oil. Then added to a chicken stock to make a soup. Add rice and some meat.
Under what world is that terrible?? It feels like a stable of 20 different cultures around the world. Almost so straightforward it's hard to imagine anyway it can go wrong (other than flat out burning your ingredients).
I'm pretty sure Campbells and Progresso probably both serve a soup of these exact ingredients in a similar ratio.
It's kinda hard to take the rest of this list seriously.