The ultimate French food fail has to be ortolan - WTF? Who would want to do that? Illegal now apparently.
Why the FUCK did I just google that? I really wish I hadn't . . .
Ditto,
Currywurst when I was a kid in West Germany was OK, as was chips with mayo.
The fried dish offshore in Indonesia was a bit iffy, just a fish, cut into three bits, thrown in hot oil. Thr locals went for the heads, which was fine as I then got the middle bits, no idea what happened to the tails. They had an English and a local menu on that platfrom (UK compny), but I always went for the local menu, much better.
My experience of haggis was on the sleeper from Aberdeen to Euston, it was viler than vile. Tasted and looked more like the overcarbonised lube oil from the sump of the engine pulling the train. Is it possible to make lungs taste nice?