Food You're Not Really Sure Anyone Even Buys

[Jerri's Kid]

Island people love shit like potted meat, powdered milk and spam. I dated someone who was into that because she grew up on an island. The potted meat I couldn't take, but she could make a really good coffee using powdered milk. Spam is hit or miss, but frying it is more palatable than other methods.

Canned silkworm pupae disturbs me more than anything. I know it's a source of protein but everyone seems to hate the taste.

 

[JULAY]

Clamato. I don't get it.

Frozen veggies are great, I'm surprised people don't like them. I always have a bunch in my freezer and put them into stews or fry them. My favorite are from trader Joe's because they have some really good combos. There's one with roasted eggplant, red peppers, and zucchini that I'll cook with a can of tomatoes, some spices, maybe some meat, and it's pretty healthy and tasty. It would be great with pasta. I keep frozen bell peppers and onions mix for fajitas. Frozen spinach for meatballs or adding to sauce.
They aren't as good as fresh for sure but they don't go bad easily and they retain most of their nutrients.
What isn't good are the microwave veggie packs like "cheesy broccoli", those are awful, tasteless and rubbery. I imagine people on poorly thought out diets are the market there.

I like trying the weird food at Asian markets. I have to limit myself because a lot of it takes prep work and other ethnic ingredients you probably don't have unless you're cooking that kind of cuisine regularly.
I had a host family in Japan that purchased those prawn chips for me. I thought it was weird and didn't want them.. what was it for? Oh, to feed birds on a tour boat! They loved them. Much later I actually tried eating them, they're ok but I probably wouldn't bother again.

I have a lambs head jelly in my fridge. I don't know what to do with it. It was a stupid tourist purchase.

I'd love for someone to explain clamato. Some kind of alcoholic mixer? Old people enjoy it, like prune juice? Some ethnicity likes it? I've seriously been wondering this for awhile.

Clamato is fucking fantastic. It doesn't taste like clams at all, it tastes like a thinner, slightly sweet yet savory tomato juice. As far as ethnics, Mexicans use it to mix with beer for Micheladas (they also us it in Coctel de Camaron, Mexican Shrimp Cocktail), and Canadians use it mixed with vodka to create their version of a Bloody Mary, called a Bloody Caesar. I just like drinking it straight up, but shit is expensive as fuck. I wish I could get the generic stuff like they sell in America's Hat.

 

[Piss Clam]

I don't know how prevalent this is outside of my region, but I was dating a real southern belle from North Carolina and she loved her scrapple breakfast sandwich until the day she found a pigs hair in it. I was like WTF did you think it was made of?

It tastes good and I don't mind eating it at all, but it's not exactly made of the finest ingredients.

Scrapple - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Caesare]

head cheese is the most rancid, abominable shit i've ever eaten and anyone who likes it should die

Hogshead cheese is one of the world's great treats.

Probably blood sausage. Which I've never heard of in Asian cuisine, but it's popular in Cajun and Creole circles.

We call it Boudin. It's alright.

 

[W00K #17]

Surströmming

 

[NARPASSWORD]

I refuse to believe that anyone buys surstromming for anything other than making youtubers puke on camera.
Only a deranged psychopath would actually consider eating something like rotting fish.

 

[sadbird]

Buddha's hand is great for infusing into vodka.

I actually like Spam, and certain other canned meat. The one I don't understand how people buy is Potted Meat Food Product.

First of all, the name is fucking awful. Second, here are the ingredients:

Beef tripe, mechanically separated chicken, beef hearts, partially defatted cooked beef fatty tissue, meat broth, vinegar, garlic powder, onion powder, salt, flavoring, sugar, and sodium nitrite.

Here's what it looks like opened up:

Seriously, who the fuck looks at the ingredients, then thinks, "Hmm... Chock full of animal byproducts. Yeah, sounds good!" and then gets it home, opens it up, sees what it looks like, and still decides to put it into their body?

I opened up a can of potted meat out of curiosity once. as soon as I opened it I noticed a gnat flying around, like it was magnetically attracted to the stench. needless to say I didn't really eat it, just gave it a good stare

 

[Slap47]

Do people actually eat 7-11 food in NA? Why?

I see these at the Dollar Tree stores. Anyone ever try them? I can't imagine a dollar tree burger or chicken sandwich being particularly tasty.

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Actually good premade burger patties are cheap so I don't get how these can exist.

 

[Tookie]

Do people actually eat 7-11 food in NA? Why?

In a lot of areas they're the only place open 24 hours. Drunk/high people at 4AM are a lot of their business for prepared food.

 

[Dom Cruise]

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?

I go back and forth on Spam, I liked it as a kid, every so often I get a craving and buy a can, only to wind up not liking it as much as I think I will.

The problem perhaps may be trying to eat too much at one time, just one slice as a side with other stuff may be good.

 

[Surf and TERF]

Serious question.

At xmas, have any of you even heard of peoiple eating fruitcake?
It's like something that was made by aliens to invade our culture.

Also in regards to spam: If you're interested in canned meat, PEK is apparently the way to go. PEK gold is apparently the least fatty (and thus the least gross). Plus they don't use mechanically separated meat.

My family has a fruitcake recipe that is the responsibility of my mom and me to make every year. It’s good. Each loaf has about 2 sticks of butter and we age it in rum for a month.

I don’t get the stigma, but I’ve also never tried any other fruitcake. I’m assuming it’s something totally different and worth complaining about.

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

It’s for tacos.

 

[Clop]

I go back and forth on Spam, I liked it as a kid, every so often I get a craving and buy a can, only to wind up not liking it as much as I think I will.

The problem perhaps may be trying too much at one time, just one slice as a side with other stuff may be good.

My last word on that, really:

 

[Kaiser Wilhelm's Ghost]

Admittedly there is nothing that I wouldn't eat in a pinch, but some foods I think really are just some really weird products of a bygone era.

For example, meat spreads. They're a spreadable meat flavored type of dripping, that would essentially buff up the sandwich of your average workman while remaining cost effective.

It's tasty enough, and it really does enhance a good sandwich with other meats in it, but I can't for the life of me see why anyone would buy it to just use as is, on it's own when there are so many better alternative spreadables out there.

 

[Caesare]

Do people actually eat 7-11 food in NA? Why?

I eat their hotdogs sometimes because they are 2 for 1.99 and they have all the good stuff to put on them like onions, relish, etc. They're ok.

 

[MembersSchoolPizza]

I eat their hotdogs sometimes because they are 2 for 1.99 and they have all the good stuff to put on them like onions, relish, etc. They're ok.

Yeah, tube meat is tube meat, more or less. I mean, obviously if you buy some nice Boar's Head or whatever your local artisan meatomancers churn out, that's a different story, but fast food dog or heat lamp dog or sporting event dog or whatever, it's all hog labia and snouts.

 

[Meat Poultry Veg]

Do people actually eat 7-11 food in NA? Why?

:powerlevel: Yes, because it's walking distance away and I was high

 

[Kaiser Wilhelm's Ghost]

Another thing I've thought about.
Hot Dogs in brine.
These are literally the most disgusting things I've ever eaten. I let my curiosity get the better of me, and paid the price. The consistency was so terrible, that I didn't even need to chew, it just turned to mush.

 

[Stoneheart]

For example, meat spreads. They're a spreadable meat flavored type of dripping, that would essentially buff up the sandwich of your average workman while remaining cost effective.

Like Leberwurst? the only thing average workman like more is a mettbrötchen.

 

[Kaiser Wilhelm's Ghost]

Like Leberwurst? the only thing average workman like more is a mettbrötchen.

Nah leberwurst or pate's are fine.
I mean like Shippam's meat spreads, basically end cuttings boiled down into a paste format, and then flavored according to the type. They come originally from meat drippings, which was a British institution on sandwiches, when working class people couldn't afford meat for sandwiches.

 

[UQ 770]

Most US candy is horrifying. Who needs this much SALT in SWEETS?

Die foreigner. I can barely eat a candybar over here without suffering from diabetic shock, I have to keep my eye on which candy isn't just like biting down on a bunch of sugarcubes superglued together.

Liquid smoke is just vomit inducing. Why don't you marinate your steaks in diffusion pump oil waste instead, it's cheaper and probably healthier, too.

This statement is entirely correct. I especially hate when they add it to whiskey.