まずい
bad-tasting, bad
You get through half of it out of politeness and put the fork down. The same まずい as a situation going wrong, except that this one is actually in your mouth: まずい.
The same word まずい also covers a situation being problematic. This one is about food, where 悪い わるい would be bad in general.
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