Reddit has determined the most disgusting and disturbing edible items in the Skyrim: Anniversary Edition released last year. Even for players without these updates, however, the game has maintained a loyal and robust player-base in the decade since its release, especially through the use of mods.
RPGs commonly contain food that players can consume, typically, though not always, with the purpose of restoring a character's missing hit points. The better the food, the better the healing a player can usually expect. However, sometimes there can be food in a game that is of dubious edibility at best, occasionally to the extent that players must wonder whether such items should restore their HP bar or reduce it further. In some games, Skyrim included, players can cook food and improve its quality. Some of the best recipes for cooked food in Skyrim yield impressive benefits that make them well worth hunting down the ingredients for and taking the time to prepare.
Redditor RickMcFlick posed a troubling question on the Skyrim subreddit today, prompting a long discussion of what the most unpleasant "edible" items in Skyrim are. There is no shortage of candidates for the grossest consumable items in the game, but troll fat and giant's toe were at the top of the list for many respondents.
Skyrim seems to lack a concept of spoiling, molding, or going rotten (understandably) as edible fruits and vegetables can often be found in crypts mere meters from the sepulcher's long-since mummified inhabitants. This helps the case of some of the more unpleasant sounding candidates, but little can be done for giant's toe, an item difficult to imagine without gross nails or putrid fungus. Some of these items are more likely to be found in Skyrim's alchemy recipes with powerful magical effects than in cooking, but consuming a potion with a chaurus egg in it is still little better than trying to eat it soft boiled.
Luckily, the Dragonborn is made of tougher stuff than the average Skyrim player, at least as far as their stomach is concerned. Many of Skyrim's recipes grant benefits far beyond simple healing, from increased Magicka regeneration to enhancing the eater's magic resistance and other benefits a determined warrior would be foolish to make do without. It is just fortunate that the food consumed by players outside of the game is assuredly less wretched.
Sources: RickMcFlick/Reddit
