Redditor 3L3M3NT4LP4ND4 wanted to hear about the yuck factor we've all come across at the dwellings of others.
"What's the grossest thing you've ever seen at a strangers house?"
There are just some things that can't be unseen. Especially on other people's houses.
Underneath
Giphy"A thick sheet of mold under the fridge. So thick I thought it was a rug."
a_tiny_ant
$20
"I used to work for a furniture company doing deliveries, and sometimes repos. As a rule of thumb, if you're doing a repo, the house you're about to go in is usually nasty as all hell. The one that sticks out in my memory was no exception. It was more of a compound of two or three trap dens, rotten saggy floors, roof falling in. Just f**king nasty. We had to repossess a stove they had bought maybe a month before."
"And in that short time it had become caked with grease and infested with roaches. When we got it back to the store the manager told us to put it out back, as in outside cause he didn't want the store to become infested. A week or two later a couple that refurbished old appliances came and bought it for twenty dollars."
moslof_flosom
Patients
"I’m a hospice nurse who works inside peoples homes. I have seen many many gross and disturbing things inside people's homes; hoarders, mold from flooding, floor missing etc. the worst thing I can remember was this patient who had around 10 dogs. The home was a hoarder house (not that unusual for my line of work)."
"However there was dog pee and crap all over the floor. The only path to walk through with all the clutter in the house was covered with animal feces. We would dress in full PPE (shoe covers, gowns, mask) every time we went in. The patient was very obese and his wife couldn’t care for him properly."
"He would be so saturated in urine that his waste would drip on the flooring around his hospital bed. Eventually APS got him out of the house. It was awful. I have smelled MANY terrible things but I struggled not to vomit when In this house caring for him."
ResortGlittering8183
Unavailable
"My younger sister would babysit for the couple next door. One evening, she asked if I could babysit for her instead, because she couldn't handle it. I was stupid, so I said fine. They had roaches everywhere. Kitchen. Bathroom. Living room. My sister wouldn't even sit on the couch - she sat on an ottoman in the center of the room, as did I. We only did that a few times before we weren't 'available' anymore."
jfincher42
Poor Pets
cats GIFGiphy"Animal hoarders house. You could smell cat pee from the sidewalk and when she opened the door the smell was like a physical punch in the face. Piles of poop everywhere. I ended up anonymously reporting her to animal control."
Paganduck
We should never involve the fur babies in our mess.
Everywhere
Clean House Cleaning GIF by The Roku ChannelGiphy"I went to visit a friend whose house I had never been to before. We were outside on the patio, I asked to go in to use the toilet, she was reluctant. Every dish, pot, and pan in the kitchen was dirty and filled with water. Not just on the counters, on the floors all over the place. It looked like it had been that way a while."
Botryoid2000
No Space
"I went to a friends house so he could do some work on my car. After he was finished (hours later) I really needed to pee so I asked if I could use his restroom prior to driving home. He seemed hesitant at first but finally said yes. I regret ever asking... they were a full on HOARDER family."
"There was barely enough room to walk in the front door to the bathroom and once in the bathroom literally just the toilet bowl was visible. I pretended to pee and hightailed it out of there and peed at the gas station up the street."
Firefly0434
Gotta Bounce
"Went to a friend of a friend's house who had a young, friendly and very excitable pit bull. Sat down on the couch, dog jumps up onto the cushion next to me and unleashes a TORRENT of pee, soaking the other cushion. Before I can do anything he shoos the dog off the couch, flips the cushion and hands me a beer like nothing happened. Needless to say I got up, chugged that beer and bounced within about 2 minutes."
unfinedandunfiltered
Funky
"A buck rag Used for child discipline. A very old-fashioned thing, but still used in parts of the US. You just pop the lid and hold it under the child's nose. It stinks. Easily bought from goat farmers online, apparently. It gets the smell from male goats. I was at my girlfriend's house at 16 and didn't believe her dad really owned one, so she showed me when he wasn't looking."
"A disgusting rag that clearly used to be white, but was thoroughly yellowed/greyish and discoloured and slick-looking. Double-sealed inside 2 glass jars. I almost smelled it out of curiosity (though she urged me not to) but got cold feet when I pulled it out of the drawer... even without opening the jars I sensed something smelled slightly... funky. I'm not sure if I was imagining it or if it was really that strong but I didn't want to experience it any more than that."
ciok865
infested...
Excited The Muppet Show GIF by Muppet WikiGiphy"Went to a friends house who had huge a** rats sitting on the shelves in closets when you opened them lol... place was infested with them and they didn’t even care slightly."
tmorse12
Bottled Up
"I work apartment maintenance. A few months ago someone moved out. Left a bunch of stuff. Food in the fridge, rugs, end table, cat pole. Annoying but no big deal. Then the spare bedroom. Literally thousand of empty water bottles pile in a corner. Like 3 ft high of just water bottles. About a dozen 50 gallon trash bags of JUST WATER BOTTLES."
"Still not terrible gross but annoying. Then the second bath room... the stench was horrible. My boss couldn't take it. Gagging and had to leave. Toilet seat on the floor. Brown from sh*t. Clothes pilled up it was at the top of the toilet and tub. As I start throwing the clothes away I realized it is layered like a horrifically perfect cake. Dirty clothes. Cat sh*t. Dirty clothes. Cat sh*t."
"Layered so well and even it had to be coordinated by poor cat and owner. After cleaning and spraying it down with pure chlorine nothing could get the cat shit smell out... at least the MF was hydrated. That or a guy that died and layered in the heat for 2 weeks."
Wesypoo142
It's Everywhere
"Someone I had recently met invited several people to their house to hang out. I don't know if any of the others had ever been there, but I hadn't and I hadn't known the person long but wasn't expecting a crapshow or anything. They had a toddler and a couple of dogs. It was like no one ever cleaned anything."
"There were used diapers waded up everywhere where they would just change the kid and throw them somewhere. The kitchen was full of old food and dirty dishes and stuff that was molding. They kept the dogs shut out in the overgrown back yard. There was just trash and random stuff everywhere."
KittyChimera
“watch your step”
"I went to visit an employee once to pick up some gear and he and his wife lived with several chickens - yes the chickens lived in the house. The floor was caked in chicken poop from years of not being cleaned. This was a normal house in a normal city suburb."
"They didn’t see it as unusual in any way. There was no 'watch your step' The floor is covered in chicken shit. Instead it was 'have a seat can i get you a coffee?' Needless to say I hightailed it out if there minus the coffee as soon as I concluded my business dealings."
Snouter1
Hold It!
hold it in homer simpson GIFGiphy"As a very young teenager, I went to a friend's house in the winter. I didn't know they didn't have indoor plumbing and had to use an outhouse. They had a covered pot in the kitchen for him to pee into. No I am not going to pee in front of your mom and older sister. I held it until I got home."
rontc
I Can't Breathe
"I walked into a new friend’s apartment for the first time and it turns out they were like a hard-core hoarder. The stench was… just freaking the worst thing I had ever smelled in my life. And he like did not seem to have a problem with it at all. One of the nicest people I’ve ever met to this day but man that was such a shock. We lost touch over the years but I heard he got help and is now married with 2 kids living on the east coast."
redacted_bunny
10+ piles of crap...
"Me and my friend went to his friends house to see this kid. I knew him but wasn't really friends with the kid. We walk in the house and all I could smell was poop. Turns out these people had like 3 dogs and a decent size backyard but no fence. They were that lazy to take the dogs out to go to the bathroom that they would literally lock the dogs in the KITCHEN and let them sh*t and pee all over the place. I must of saw like 10+ piles of crap. The even crazier part was that he was acting completely normal like there was nothing wrong with letting his dogs use the kitchen as a bathroom."
Zdog54
port-a-potty
"Went to a friend of a friend’s house. Their toilet had been stopped up for apparently days, no one was doing anything about it, they just kept using the toilet and couldn’t flush it. They didn’t tell me this before I went to use the bathroom. Inside the toilet was black, the smell was like a port-a-potty in the sun. They were like 'yeah, it’s been broken for a few days.' The worse part is that they had three young kids. I left then, bewildered that no one was bothered by it."
fryinpaskettimobster
Bad Owner
Ryan Gosling Snl GIF by ADWEEKGiphy"Toilet paper full of sh*t in the bathroom sink, cut up nails on the dinner table and, of course, dog poop everywhere and the poor dog just lying somewhere looking mighty sad, probably beat up too. And the most disgusting of them all - the owner."
aaaxov34
People really need to clean a little. Just a little...
There's a limit to what part of the animal I will eat...
"When we were kids, my mom said we could each choose one main dish that we didn't like, and if she served that she'd make something else for us."
"Mine was liver, which was one of my dad's favorites."
"I thought it was so gross."
"Recently my wife said she wanted to try it, so we made some."
"Nope, still exactly as gross as I thought it was when I was 8."- Fleaslayer
There's a reason they don't offer it at Starbucks.
"Koomis."
"AKA fermented horse milk."
"I mean - growing up in Kazakhstan, it was okay as a child, but I didn't take to it like the other kids and it just doesn't stack up to a good PB&J with the crusts cut off."- YouPeopleHaveNoSense
No cassoulet for me!
"Lima beans."
"Nasty little chalk pellets - NO, MOM, I’M NOT EATING THEM!!!"- OldBob10
Never trust blue, or 'bleu', food...
"Blue cheese once almost made me throw up from nearly the smell alone."
"I had it in a burger and the first bite I took i immediately lost my appetite."
"To top it off i had covid , I wasn’t supposed to taste or smell anything but blue cheese doesn’t seem to obey that rule ."- Noirrr_
It's crunchy, but not much else...
"Celery."
"I understand why it's important in soups and stuff, but god I hate it."- some-girl-online
Some people are literally born to hate it!
"Cilantro even tho it’s genetic."- AccomplishedWaltz802
They should be banned from all salads!
"Endives."
"Raw in a salad or baked with cheese."
"It's still an abomination."- Serge_Karamazov
People really eat this as a treat?
"Black Licorice flavor."
"How the hell does anyone under the age of 80 enjoy this hell spawn poison?"- Anjelikka
Who actually wants to eat a type of fungus?
"Mushrooms."
"I'm fascinated by them but I won't eat them."
"Unless they're magic."- GhettoSauce
psilocybin mushrooms shrooms GIFGiphyNo vegetable should be purple...
"Eggplant."- Suitable_Brain7650
Everyone has their preferences, and no one should have to eat any food that they don't like.
And more than likely, when you're out with a group of people, there's bound to be someone who will gladly eat your side of mushrooms.
As long as you'll eat their lima beans...
How do you make a bland food even more bland?
"As someone from the UK I don't get why so many people here love mushy peas."
"I find peas relatively tasteless and gross as they are, mushing them just makes the texture gross as well."- MHC1905
More healthy, less tasty...
"Zucchini pasta."-- dannyboyhou
Who knew fish eggs would be so popular?
"Caviar."
"I feel like whoever buys that sh*t doesn't actually like it and uses it to flaunt their money."- WapplesAreDelish
Audrey Tautou Food GIFGiphyHold the guac!
"The early 2010s was a difficult time for me."
'"I f*cking hate avocado."- drunky_crowette
No matter where it came from...
"Liver."
"Just......no."- Efficient-Bee-1855
You mean it's supposed to burn my tongue?!?
"I don't get the appeal of chili that is made to be as hot and spicy as humanly possible, to the point that it hurts to eat it."
"'I make my chili with the five hottest peppers known to man and a dash of snake venom to kick it up a notch'."
"Why?"
"That, and tofu."- MiddleAgedGamer71
Homer Simpson Eating GIFGiphyBrand names can never beat homemade!
"Industrial ice cream."
"The taste is WAAAY worse than the handmade one."- pensodiforse
Disgusting AND dirty...
"Beets."
"My wife tried to convince me to like them by saying 'they taste like dirt!'"
"Needless to say, this was an ineffective approach."- Neilpuck
Just because it's healthy, doesn't mean it's good...
"Kale."
"I don’t care how it’s prepared, there’s just no point to it."- protogens
Butter makes everything taste better... or does it?
"Lobster."
"I uh, I don't get it.'
"It always tastes a bit flavorless and just alright to me."
"Then I see people dip it in butter and yea thats fine and all and it tastes great, but then I get the feeling I'm just tasting the butter and what the f*ck is the point of this $30 dish exactly?"- Sonder332
Food Porn Butter GIF by Food Network CanadaGiphyDoesn't make everything better...
"Bacon."
"It tastes like dog food to me."- justagirl2696
Why ruin something with bread.
"Sandwiches."
"I hate almost all cold sandwiches."
"The only reason people eat them is because packed lunches, and even then you can have something else."- CrafterCat33
Toast and melted cheese?... Meh
"Grilled cheese."
"I don’t understand how ppl eat it and love it so much."- sophluvsurmom
Grilled Cheese GIFGiphyI'd rather just have a milkshake, thank you!
"Frappe from Costa."
"Water and ice and colouring."
"I’m ready to die when they asked me in counter if I want coffee with it…"- BrokenUmbrellaa
"Cheese" Louise!
"Cheese."
"Specifically Cheddar and other hard/crumbly cheeses."
"I can't understand why people seem to think cheese is some sort of ambrosia that they need to add copious amounts of to their food or force feed it to their kids."
"Sharper cheeses tend to overpower the foods they're added to and anything weaker ends up being more so for texture than taste."
"Worst cheese though is that pre-shredded fine stuff that looks like cheese dust and tastes absolutely foul yet I've seen adults pouring entire cups of it to give to their kids."- Waxburg
Can you even call it a vegetable?
"Celery."
"It tastes foul."- Mother_Strategy9309
excited shake GIFGiphyDoes it really add anything?
"Green onions as toppings."- Tangerine_Cheap
Where's Garfield when you need him?
"Lasagna."
"I honestly hate the whole concept of noodles,mince, and cheese."
"It's so gross."- itadoriyuji99
green tea thailand GIFBut did you order "Animal Style?"
"In N’ Out."- Notonfoodstamps
Some might accuse those who dislike the above-mentioned foods of not having a distinguished palette.
But maybe their palette's are so distinguished, that they know when they're tasting a fraud?
Either way, to each their own.