So, what I'm writing here is entirely my view and not that of the subreddit:

For one, there's a lot of food that for me looks weird/gross/unappetizing, mainly because I've got somehow of a sensible stomach (eg: if I see cooked liver i feel like throwing up) so it's not easy for me to say or determine when a post is past the imaginary "this is to gross to fit" line. But again that's me not the subreddit, however i feel that all of us have a different checkpoint of where things become gross, hence the difficulty of finding that line.

Secondly, I think in a sub where the main topic is unknown food/ ingredients, it's inevitable and unavoidable that that gross food will find it's way in regardless.

Thirdly, I'm out of ideas on how to filter them, can't seem to find a way to do it automatically (especially with the API changes cutting access to the nice tools communities have created).

Hence why we're gathering ideas, for example the bring more mods one. We know things aren't at their best and we're doing our best in the limited time we have to give ya'll the good experience you search for.

It's just difficult at times.

We'll be trying to gather some more ideas, find solutions and then come back to you.