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Hard to take it seriously when it describes many of these "worst" dishes as

* "a popular Italian springtime dish"

* "popular throughout South America"

* "considered to be the nation’s favorite"

* "a popular dish throughout the country"

* "Florence's favorite street food"

etc etc



Yeah, about 3/4 of them seem like things I'd be willing to try, not on a dare or anything but just because they sound tasty. Then again, to each his own. I was eating with my brothers once, and the middle brother was saying "You have to try this stuff, it's great. It's Limburger cheese, 6 months past the expiration date". The youngest brother was unimpressed, he said "this tastes just like the Limburger that is only one month past the expiration date that I normally eat." As the boring old brother, I enjoyed it but didn't try to rank it.


Does Limbuger even get significantly more pungent when you age it more? At least when kept in the fridge it just seems to dry out.


Also some of the dishes are factually incorrect (Number 40 is factually incorrect). This almost seems like something a bot put together.

Actually looking at it now, does this website just have articles about dishes, and these are the entries that are lowest rated? Maybe people are just trolling the website or disagreeing with something about the description?


Taste is not neccessarily a reason for popularity. Often a dish is popular because it's cheap, or simple. And this site probably only contains dishes which are popular enough to be put on this site. So there already is a selection bias. This list is just about the worst dishes from the best dishes (of this site).




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