# Disgusting foods you crave. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 28, 2012, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-foods-you-crave/617079 "2012-03-28T20:13:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-foods-you-crave/617079/61 "2012-03-29T17:27:32Z")
How about white bread, butter and a thick layer of sugar? That’s an 8-year-old’s idea of heaven right there. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-foods-you-crave/617079/62 "2012-03-29T18:11:24Z")
Pickle juice. The neon yellow-green stuff out of the dill pickle jar. Sipped from a wineglass. Actually, the brine from my own homemade dill pickles is even better. How do y’all feel about frozen raspberries lubed up with a few tablespoons of balsamic vinegar and a sprinkle of sugar? And no waiting around for them to thaw, mind you: they are eaten sour-sweet-stone cold. If that’s disgusting, then that counts too. Oh, and: Plain low-fat yogurt with Lipton’s Onion Soup Mix stirred into it. Like trash-cuisine onion dip but with yogurt rather than sour cream. Sometimes I dip raw veggies into it but mostly it’s just me and the spoon. There, that should have spoiled a few people’s appetite for lunch. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![phxjcc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8491ac/32.png) [@phxjcc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phxjcc)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-foods-you-crave/617079/63 "2012-03-29T18:26:18Z")
From my younger years… Chef Boyardee Ravioli Mary Kitchen Corned Beef Hash Oscar Mayer Smokie Links Tuna Casserole with Kraft M&C and Campbells CofM Soup ---
**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-foods-you-crave/617079/64 "2012-03-29T18:39:43Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > How about white bread, butter and a thick layer of sugar? That’s an 8-year-old’s idea of heaven right there. Don’t tell anyone, but I have that at night before I go to bed. My mom would never have let me have that when I was 8. But ain’t nobody gonna tell me I can’t have it now. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-foods-you-crave/617079/65 "2012-03-29T18:45:22Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > How about white bread, butter and a thick layer of sugar? That’s an 8-year-old’s idea of heaven right there. > [@MLS](#): > > Don’t tell anyone, but I have that at night before I go to bed. My mom would never have let me have that when I was 8. But ain’t nobody gonna tell me I can’t have it now. My mom used to do that with leftover pancakes. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-foods-you-crave/617079/66 "2012-03-29T18:56:56Z")
From time to time I’ve had cravings for most foods mentioned in this thread. So here are a couple more: Every year or so I get a craving for Circus Peanuts. I buy a bag, eat one or two, and am instantly reminded of why I don’t buy them more often. And remember Nickles Banana Flips? Not as common as they used to be. And oh yes, pickled tongue. Still available at Jewish delis. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-foods-you-crave/617079/67 "2012-03-29T19:12:02Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Every year or so I get a craving for Circus Peanuts. I buy a bag, eat one or two, and am instantly reminded of why I don’t buy them more often. Ooh. Now me want. I also want some of those supposedly super extremely hot cheetos that dye your fingers an interesting shade of maroon. ---
**Author:** ![Philliam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/philliam/32/3011_2.png) [@Philliam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philliam)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-foods-you-crave/617079/68 "2012-03-29T19:33:02Z")
> [@GargoyleWB](#): > > I’ve been jonesing for some kimchi recently. I stopped in at a local Korean noodle place a few days ago ready to stuff myself and, upon ordering, the counter girl wrinkled her nose and said “No, you don’t want that. It’s very bad today, I don’t think you should eat.” > > It only made me want it even more ☹ You should make your own. We do our own(just had some last night with home-made bangers) and the recipe we use from a korean friend is super-simple and pretty fool-proof. Total yum, but not recommended for work lunches - too ‘fragrant’! ---
**Author:** ![FrigidLizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3bc359/32.png) [@FrigidLizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FrigidLizard)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-foods-you-crave/617079/69 "2012-03-29T19:45:21Z")
Man, this thread is making me crave all the old “trailer park cuisine” delicacies from my childhood. Toasted wheat bread spread with canned tomato sauce and sprinkled with sharp cheddar cheese, also known as ghetto pizza. Saltine crackers thinly spread with Gold’n’Soft brand margarine. White bread spread with cream cheese and apricot jelly, rolled tightly and cut into pinwheels. Not from my trailer park days but still makes people go “eww”: anchovies, straight from the can. Dang that’s good! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Noelq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noelq/32/16438_2.png) [@Noelq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noelq)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-foods-you-crave/617079/70 "2012-03-29T22:14:02Z")
Another vote for chicken livers. Once or twice a year, my body tells me I’m getting anemic, and it demands fried chicken livers. Stick of butter, half an onion chopped up, then the livers fried on top of that. The thought revulses me most of the rest of the time 😃 ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2012, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-foods-you-crave/617079/71 "2012-03-29T22:26:54Z")
Shit, there are a lot of things in this thread that make me go “Mmmmm!” ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2012, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-foods-you-crave/617079/72 "2012-03-30T00:13:15Z")
Just today I visited the bakery section of my local supermarket and saw sin incarnate: chocolate chip cookie-cake frosting “sandwiches”. I bought and ate _three_ of them. Sooo good. Sooo evil. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2012, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-foods-you-crave/617079/73 "2012-03-30T00:13:27Z")
> [@Noelq](#): > > Another vote for chicken livers. > > Once or twice a year, my body tells me I’m getting anemic, and it demands fried chicken livers. > > Stick of butter, half an onion chopped up, then the livers fried on top of that. > > The thought revulses me most of the rest of the time 😃 My best friend used to make exactly this, butter and all, when she invited me over for lunch! Only she also cooked a whole pound of bacon (separately) and divvied it up between us. This only happened a couple times a year, but I confess I could happily eat this stuff once a week. Only I don’t want to drop dead from clogged arteries. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2012, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-foods-you-crave/617079/74 "2012-03-30T02:08:23Z")
> [@wheresgeorge04](#): > > I love me some canned corned beef hash. Lips and assholes, with teeny cubes of pressed potato sweepings. Crisped up in a cast-iron skillet. Drool… > > Joe Mmm… yes. Gotta be fried until crispy. My mom will crack an egg in the middle of the hash but I prefer mine egg-free. Someone mentioned pot pies, I think it was Banquet used to make a tuna pot pie. So nasty but so good. I miss them. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2012, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-foods-you-crave/617079/75 "2012-03-30T05:58:57Z")
I’ll second the pickled pigs feet. Sometimes I’ll get a big jar of them and just indulge, eating them one after the other. Think they’re gross and don’t want them? Great. More for me. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2012, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-foods-you-crave/617079/76 "2012-03-31T21:43:15Z")
> [@FrigidLizard](#): > > Toasted wheat bread spread with canned tomato sauce and sprinkled with sharp cheddar cheese, also known as ghetto pizza. Maybe this should go in the food memories thread, but this comment made me remember a product from my early teens, so the late 1970s. It was called Pizza Quick or something like that and was merely a jar of pizza sauce meant to be consumed just as you say. Turn anything into a pizza! Bread + this sauce + Kraft Parmesan and you’ve got a Reasonable Approximation of Pizza. We gobbled it like the little hogs we were. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2012, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-foods-you-crave/617079/77 "2012-03-31T21:44:29Z")
My college munchie desperation food: Buttered toast sprinkled with soy sauce. ---
**Author:** ![living\_in\_hell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@living\_in\_hell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/living_in_hell)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2012, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-foods-you-crave/617079/78 "2012-03-31T21:56:13Z")
Kraft Dinner White fudge covered Oreos String cheese Pringles ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2012, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-foods-you-crave/617079/79 "2012-03-31T22:23:26Z")
Squeeze cheese (cheeze in a can) on low sodium Premium crackers. ---
**Author:** ![Normal\_Phase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Normal\_Phase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Normal_Phase)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2012, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-foods-you-crave/617079/80 "2012-03-31T22:29:20Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > Pickle juice. The neon yellow-green stuff out of the dill pickle jar. Sipped from a wineglass. > > Actually, the brine from my own homemade dill pickles is even better. > > How do y’all feel about frozen raspberries lubed up with a few tablespoons of balsamic vinegar and a sprinkle of sugar? And no waiting around for them to thaw, mind you: they are eaten sour-sweet-stone cold. If that’s disgusting, then that counts too. > > Oh, and: Plain low-fat yogurt with Lipton’s Onion Soup Mix stirred into it. Like trash-cuisine onion dip but with yogurt rather than sour cream. Sometimes I dip raw veggies into it but mostly it’s just me and the spoon. > There, that should have spoiled a few people’s appetite for lunch. 😉 Well done. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-foods-you-crave/617079.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disgusting-foods-you-crave/617079.md?page=5)