Food You're Not Really Sure Anyone Even Buys

[wellthathappened]

Can sympathize. I'm the only other person I know besides my ex who will touch pickled herring.

I'm actually kind of hazy on what someone even uses head cheese for. I've seen it ONCE, and no one was buying it.

I love pickled herring. Think I will pass on head cheese. Never tried it, no interest in doing so.

 

[UQ 770]

Licorice.

I just don't understand it.

Red Licorice is just decent, not-too-sweet candy.

Black licorice tastes like how I feel. It was made largely obsolete in my life once I started drinking though. Absinthe has a lovely taste as a result.

 

[MembersSchoolPizza]

I've tried head cheese once, rather accidentally by not asking questions about what was in an offered sandwich.

It's... unpleasant, but mostly it's the texture. It's simultaneously slimy, rubbery, gristly, and yet somehow also mushy. It's very offputting.

Flavor-wise... it really doesn't have much. Just a sort of generic meatyness, sort of like bologna or something, only less-so.

 

[A shitty ass clover]

Canned meats. I see food charities hand spam over to people who just want something free to eat, but who the fuck subjects their body to that crap and pays for it?

Spam musubis are a thing.

For me it's grape leaves. like what do you even do with them.

 

[TaterBot]

ngl I hate cooking or any sort of food prep, sue me.
But I can slam this back and be done with veggies and fruits for the day.

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[MembersSchoolPizza]

For me it's grape leaves. like what do you even do with them.

You make dolmadakia, of course.

 

[UQ 770]

ngl I hate cooking or any sort of food prep, sue me.
But I can slam this back and be done with veggies and fruits for the day.

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I flat-out take supplements to avoid scurvy due to the fact that fruit is expensive and it seems like it has a 50/50 chance to rot the day you buy it. It sucks because I used to enjoy fruit quite a bit as a kid, but now that I'm an adult with responsibilities like rent and a drinking problem, I can't believe people can afford to buy something that goes bad that easily. And I've tried buying from both middle-of-the-road places and expensive organic places, storiing it in a variety of ways, keeping it out, keeping it in the dark, refrigerating it, not refrigerating it, it always just instantly rots when it wants to within 1-3 days of purchase. I just gave up and decided to avoid muscle bleeding and losing my teeth by chewing vitamins like an 8 year old.

 

[Piss Clam]

There are twenty states in the US where you can't even sell raw milk. You'll get arrested for selling it.

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(as of Apr. 19, 2016) I. Introduction II. State Law Summary III. Raw Milk Laws by State IV. Sources I. Introduction States may adopt their own laws on raw milk sales. However, at the federal level, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) bans the interstate sale or distribution of raw...

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Link has raw milk words in it so have to shorten.

 

[MembersSchoolPizza]

I flat-out take supplements to avoid scurvy due to the fact that fruit is expensive and it seems like it has a 50/50 chance to rot the day you buy it. It sucks because I used to enjoy fruit quite a bit as a kid, but now that I'm an adult with responsibilities like rent and a drinking problem, I can't believe people can afford to buy something that goes bad that easily. And I've tried buying from both middle-of-the-road places and expensive organic places, storiing it in a variety of ways, keeping it out, keeping it in the dark, refrigerating it, not refrigerating it, it always just instantly rots when it wants to within 1-3 days of purchase. I just gave up and decided to avoid muscle bleeding and losing my teeth by chewing vitamins like an 8 year old.

I think you might want to see a priest about an exorcism. A normal person does not exude an aura of death and decay like you appear to.

I keep apples and oranges for *weeks* in the fridge, routinely (I don't eat raw apples, I only cook with them, so I buy a bag every couple months). Bananas last a week as long as you buy them a bit green. I love pineapple; A pineapple will keep for some time until you clean it, and a dish of pinepple chunks in a snap-top container will last a week or so - it never goes bad before I eat it.

Berries and pears can be a bitch. Peaches are a lost cause from most stores - they're picked so early they'll never ripen before they rot. But even a lazy asshole like myself who shops once a week can manage to keep a supply of fruit on hand.

 

[Sprig of Parsley]

Raw milk is a crapshoot, as there is a real threat of things like listeriosis. I had no issue with my own raw milk, seeing as how I milked it from the goats myself most of the time and observed proper procedure for reducing contamination risk.

 

[Itu aru kamusu tugeza]

Beef tongue. I'm pretty positive there's a use for them.
But the best I can come up with is stew.

 

[Sprig of Parsley]

Beef tongue. I'm pretty positive there's a use for them.
But the best I can come up with is stew.

Lengua makes good tacos. Little chewy but good.

 

[MerriedxReldnahc]

Who has ever eaten these in their life? The bags you see on the shelf are probably the same ones that have been hanging there for the last 20 years. No one eats them.
Unless you count the people who make them into Jello salad.

 

[Piss Clam]

They sell pickled pigs feet in Baltimore City at most of the convince stores.

About Us - Herb's Snack Foods

Herb's Snack Foods has over 70 years of producing quality pickled sausage, pickled pigs feet, pickled pigs knuckles, eggs and onions

www.herbssnackfoods.com

 

[MembersSchoolPizza]

Smoked ham hocks are great for making soup with.

Pickled, though... eh. They taste ok, but who wants to just sit there gnawing on some skin and bone to get the meat off in any even remotely social setting? They're like... incel food. Even more than tendies.

 

[Chalk Eater]

Anything from the Dollar Tree frozen section. All of that shit looks so sketchy when you look into what they actually put into it. There's a YouTuber that I used to watch (TheWolfePit, I think) who had a series dedicated to reviewing shit you find at dollar stores like them. 95% of the unheard brand shit is awful.

 

[d12]

Miracle whip, it's like mayonaise except instead of eggs they use high-fructose corn syrup.

 

[UQ 770]

I think you might want to see a priest about an exorcism. A normal person does not exude an aura of death and decay like you appear to.

I primarily find inconvienice with oranges and lemons, which either tend to go soft with rot (oranges) or dry up (lemons). Though I do also like pears, but unless I eat them on the same day, they pretty much immediately melt. Ironically per your reccomendation, apples tend to last the longest for me, but I'm not that big on them. They're nice once in awhile.

 

[I Love Beef]

Buddha's Hand. Basically, if a jellyfish was turned into a lemon.

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I've honestly never seen Buddha's Hand ever in my life, at least in person. I've heard that it's the pure opposite of durian though; it's really fragrant and aromatic smelling, but you can't exactly eat it. Makes for a better organic air freshener though. I also tried buying one just for fun but these things cost like 100 bucks or so.

Thing's I've never seen anyone buy.... In terms of:

Japanese food? I've never seen anyone buy shirataki noodles for sukiyaki, azuki beans, miso or for snacks, things like melon pan, the Ito En green tea, Calpis, or the super juice with a legit preserved mini tangerine in it. Everyone else buys stereotypical crap, like pocky and choco bears, it appears... I'm in access to an Asian supermarket, and strangely there's not a whole lot of weeaboos that go down there. Then again, I think the other place across town that has more Japanese food is where they go to hangout, despite being a lot more of a pain in the ass to access normally. Then there's all of those frozen instant Japanese meals, and not even weeaboos dare to try that stuff out.

Western food? I've never seen anyone buy Hungry Man meals. The only time I ever saw anyone eat a Hungry Man meal was a Japanese tourist or overseas worker at the station legit just eating it standing up, piece by piece like normal food before the train came in. My thoughts? "Do you really think that's legit food? Do you really think we consider that real food? Yeesh..."

I've also never seen anyone buy Funyuns. They're not as well known as Doritos and Lays and considering they're onion rings, which is the second class fried finger food compared to chicken strips and fries, making them into junk food seems questionable. Even the junk food styled fries get more attention than Funyuns.

Never have seen anyone eat and enjoy fried fish with tartar sauce other than Matt Groening's inspiration for Comic Book Guy, who was a fat comic book store cashier who was mouthing down the stuff by the handful. Kind of not surprised Long John Silver's doesn't really exist anymore....

 

[Vampirella]

I love pickled herring. Think I will pass on head cheese. Never tried it, no interest in doing so.

Barbacoa beef head meat, and I like it more then head cheese, which if I remember right is made from pigs head.