There. I mentioned it, you ninja you.
those people would shit themselves if they looked in the deli counter of a Polish market. salceson (“head cheese”) with chunks of beef tongue big enough where it licks you back as you eat it.
I love canned chili.
Frito pies made with canned chili & grated cheese is wonderful.
I prefer Cranberry sauce from a can. The rings on it reminds me of past holidays.
Velveeta is always found in my fridge.
These foods are rare treats. I don’t eat them regularly.
The main commercial Chicago dog vendors (Vienna Beef, Chicago’s Best) tout all beef franks. That isn’t to say there aren’t lips and ears emulsified in there but those lips were used for mooing, not oinking.
Very popular with Mexicans as well. They call them Chicharrones. Delicious, especially with guacamole.
I’d never call White Castle sliders inferior food. They are a national treasure.
I feel the same way about chicken nuggets (Have chicken nuggets been mentioned yet? I have to admit I haven’t read the whole thread) when people mention how they’re made from that scary sounding stuff dubbed “pink slime” by some, officially mechanically separated chicken or something like that. All it really is is the little bits of meat and other tissue left on the bone after the big pieces have been cut off. I think it would be wasteful to not make it into something palatable. The same goes for the cuts of meat that often go into hot dogs and other sausages.
Actually I think most fast food nuggets are now made from whole chicken meat partly thanks to the controversy over pink slime, but I bet some of the frozen ones you buy at the grocery store still have it.
According to Wikipedia, pink slime is from/for beef-based products, not chicken.
If you fillet chicken breasts, the remaining skeleton may not seem like much, but it makes outstanding broth and yields a suprising amount of meat.
Chicago-style hot dogs are pretty good and not too unhealthy if you don’t eat them too often. Maybe too good to be on a list of “inferior” foods, but that’s just my opinion and it certainly depends on the hot dog. Some of the good ones are kind of sad looking, but when the colors, proportions, arrangement, etc. are pleasing to the eye and it tastes good, it’s an impressive little dish for what it is.
Dairy Queen soft serve is great, but some franchisees don’t serve it cold enough and serve it already slightly melted. The keys are keeping the soft serve machine the right temperature and not dispensing it too quickly. Don’t make an ice cream cone for someone three cars back until they’re close to or at the window.
Feeding ten kids on a union man’s salary, ice milk was the frozen confection that my mom always selected at the supermarket, and my sibs and I all found it satisfactory.
Nowadays, I don’t think I’ve seen ice milk in a supermarket since I got married in 1983 (as a Navy man, I didn’t do much grocery shopping between 1980 and 1984).
I buy frankfurters at the Schaller and Weber German butcher in the Yorkville section of Manhattan. There is no way I would call these “inferior food.”
Not only is Panda Express (aka Sugar Chicken Land) NOT anything like anything I saw for a month in China, their ubiquitous KFCs serve nothing you’d recognize in the States.
Kraft Singles are shit cheese, but they make the best grilled cheese sandwiches bar none.
I have a soft spot for gas station Chederwurst hotdogs. I know they’ve been sitting on those rollers for days and they give me instant heartburn but still, I crave them sometimes.
I’m partial to the overcooked Polish sausages with crispy skins myself. Slathered with French’s yellow mustard, of course! :o
Colby longhorn is better. But yeah, you gotta get a great melting cheese.
Velveeta, f’rinstance. :o
Good for fishbait. Trout love it. And shelf-stable, so better for camping trips.
Vienna sausages. People recoil in horror, but I LIKE Vienna sausages.
Anyone mentioned bread yet? Sliced white bread, spread with margarine, crust cut off
A few years back one of the Dogs had to be on a pill regimen. We bought a can of Vienna sausages, cut one in half, and stuffed a pill into it. He wouldn’t touch it. Just sayin’