Food You're Not Really Sure Anyone Even Buys

2mm and 99 others said:
These fucking minigun things and such. That must be a resin dummy. Or maybe I am just not the right class for that, or how you call it, tax bracket.
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I'm pretty sure it's a holdover from communism, same as that cream in a roll of ham. And I think I've even seen that encased in a jello cube, although I'm not sure now.
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Cheerlead-in-Chief said:
chick-O-sticks. I think only my stepfather buys those and has an addiction to them.
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Anytime I see these mentioned my mind immediately goes "I'm lookin' for mrs. bubblegum". I first saw chik-o-sticks with the candy sold in my middle school cafeteria like a year or two before that song came out. Anyone that doesn't know it's toasted coconut and peanut butter crisp like a butterfinger, but no chocolate.
 
Zeftax said:
I'm pretty sure it's a holdover from communism, same as that cream in a roll of ham. And I think I've even seen that encased in a jello cube, although I'm not sure now.
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The aspic whatever used to be a thing worldwide, because it prevents the inside from oxidation and going bad early. Maybe it stayed popular in some parts of Eastern block because of unstable electrical grid and its frequent blackouts, and the central planning that caused people to have outdated small-ass fridges where you'd fit 1 beer, a cup of disgusting fucking mayonnaise salad and that bag of milk and it was full, so some things had to stay outside, especially when one needed a full tray of something.
 
There's an end aisle cooler at my market that's filled with vegan stuff I'm pretty sure no one buys and also packs of cow heart I'm also pretty sure no one buys.

Props to the stockers for making vegans look at raw cow hearts if they want their shitty plant nuggies though! That cooler always gives me a chuckle.
 
BigBadBastich said:
Canned Salmon comes to mind. I mean maybe its just me but actual salmon is such an easy dish to cook, fast and reliable with almost zero room for error. Maybe try a marinade or brine it but otherwise its really hard to botch.
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You never had salmon cakes growing up? It was a standard mill family meal, because fresh salmon is expensive, and there's only so much tuna one can eat during Lent. Sometimes, as a treat, my Pap would make salmon salad with mayonnaise and lemon and fresh dill and capers. The one I've always been confused by is the little cans of mustard sardines. Sardines, sure. But mustard sardines are just rank.
 
Echoing what other posters have said. A lot of these questionable foods exist as solutions to problems we don't have to think about anymore living in places of year-round abundance with reliable grids and a working fridge/freezer in most homes, unless you go camping, enlist, live off grid, grow/raise your own food, are homeless or otherwise refrigeratorless. And there's still enough of a market for them among those groups or people who developed a taste for them while living in those conditions to keep buying them when they don't need to.

Your other option is to do things the stupid way, like Kyttie Von Toyye, and spend a king's ransom on ice to keep your cooler cold enough to ideally not get food poisoning from the fresh fish and whatever other perishables you keep buying instead of switching to shelf-stable foods.
 
Do Not Touch Me Pls said:
Fuck cashew nuts.


Like who eats those stuff?
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You could put em in sauce-drenched Chinese American food, stir-fry, jeet dishes, or a couple Thai dishes. I get either Equal Exchange or Beyond the Nut brand and eat them by themselves.

Maybe that was a rhetorical question, though.
BigBadBastich said:
Canned Salmon comes to mind. I mean maybe its just me but actual salmon is such an easy dish to cook, fast and reliable with almost zero room for error. Maybe try a marinade or brine it but otherwise its really hard to botch.
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My mother eats that stuff. The smell makes me dry heave.
 
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Orange Rhymer said:
Are you fucking joking?
Salted cashews are the fucking BEST.
meaty, salty, and a little oily.... Makes every trail mix THE BOMB.

(Take it up a notch and bake in oven, with or without oil -or even pan fry until crispy)
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I ate some of cashew nuts before and it just tastes like I'm chewing salted styrofoam.

Or is it just because I don't like nuts at all? Because all nuts have a similar texture for me.
 
Do Not Touch Me Pls said:
I ate some of cashew nuts before and it just tastes like I'm chewing salted styrofoam.

Or is it just because I don't like nuts at all? Because all nuts have a similar texture for me.
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If it's from trail mix, most of the premade ones taste stale, in my experience.

I like freshly roasted pecans. Helluva lot better than the ones they sell in the store. I could absolutely see why someone wouldn't like most nuts if they've only had the pre-roasted and salted ones from the store.
 
Do Not Touch Me Pls said:
I ate some of cashew nuts before and it just tastes like I'm chewing salted styrofoam.

Or is it just because I don't like nuts at all? Because all nuts have a similar texture for me.
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If you can't appreciate them in the can, maybe try them in a spicy Thai dish, like Super Guido described?
Do you like peanuts? (legumes, not nuts, I know...)
 
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