# Food Feast

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-feast/841539>\
**Category:** Thread Games\
**Created:** [October 9, 2019, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-feast/841539 "2019-10-09T17:14:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
**Page:** 228

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**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2023, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-feast/841539/4543 "2023-04-02T01:09:06Z")

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**Food with unusual names**

1. Headcheese
2. Angels on horseback
3. Spotted dick
4. Bubble and squeak
5. Buffalo wings
6. Welsh rabbit
7. Rocky Mountain oysters
8. Toad in the Hole
9. Clapshot
10. Scrapple

**Foods Made with Unusual Ingredients**

1.Lutefisk – dried cod marinated in a lye solution to rehydrate it

_ **-“BB”-** _

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2023, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-feast/841539/4544 "2023-04-02T04:19:09Z")

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**Foods Made with Unusual Ingredients**

1. Lutefisk – dried cod marinated in a lye solution to rehydrate it
2. Sweetbread - made from the neck (thymus), heart, or pancreas of calves or lamb

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**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2023, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-feast/841539/4545 "2023-04-03T13:07:48Z")

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**Foods Made with Unusual Ingredients**

1. Lutefisk – dried cod marinated in a lye solution to rehydrate it
2. Sweetbread - made from the neck (thymus), heart, or pancreas of calves or lamb
3. Scrapple - made from pork scraps and cornmeal, or as once advertised “everything but the oink”

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**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2023, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-feast/841539/4546 "2023-04-03T13:51:20Z")

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**Foods Made with Unusual Ingredients**

1. Lutefisk – dried cod marinated in a lye solution to rehydrate it
2. Sweetbread - made from the neck (thymus), heart, or pancreas of calves or lamb
3. Scrapple - made from pork scraps and cornmeal, or as once advertised “everything but the oink”
4. Eskimo ice cream - made from berries, snow, polar bear fat, and oil from a seal

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**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2023, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-feast/841539/4547 "2023-04-03T14:24:42Z")

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**Foods Made with Unusual Ingredients**

1. Lutefisk – dried cod marinated in a lye solution to rehydrate it
2. Sweetbread - made from the neck (thymus), heart, or pancreas of calves or lamb
3. Scrapple - made from pork scraps and cornmeal, or as once advertised “everything but the oink”
4. Eskimo ice cream - made from berries, snow, polar bear fat, and oil from a seal
5. Shiny coated candy like jelly beans - They’re often coated with shellac, a sticky substance derived from secretions of the female Kerria lacca, an insect native to Thailand.

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**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2023, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-feast/841539/4548 "2023-04-03T14:29:16Z")

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**Foods Made with Unusual Ingredients**

1. Lutefisk – dried cod marinated in a lye solution to rehydrate it
2. Sweetbread - made from the neck (thymus), heart, or pancreas of calves or lamb
3. Scrapple - made from pork scraps and cornmeal, or as once advertised “everything but the oink”
4. Eskimo ice cream - made from berries, snow, polar bear fat, and oil from a seal
5. Shiny coated candy like jelly beans - They’re often coated with shellac, a sticky substance derived from secretions of the female Kerria lacca, an insect native to Thailand.
6. Halo-halo - made from crushed ice, evaporated or coconut milk, ube jam, sweetened kidney or garbanzo beans, coconut, sago, agar, pinipig, boiled taro or soft yam, flan, slices of fruit, and topped with a scoop of ube ice cream. The ingredients are not particularly unusual (in the Phillippines), but the combination of them is.

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**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2023, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-feast/841539/4549 "2023-04-05T14:19:41Z")

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**Foods Made with Unusual Ingredients**

1. Lutefisk – dried cod marinated in a lye solution to rehydrate it
2. Sweetbread - made from the neck (thymus), heart, or pancreas of calves or lamb
3. Scrapple - made from pork scraps and cornmeal, or as once advertised “everything but the oink”
4. Eskimo ice cream - made from berries, snow, polar bear fat, and oil from a seal
5. Shiny coated candy like jelly beans - They’re often coated with shellac, a sticky substance derived from secretions of the female Kerria lacca, an insect native to Thailand.
6. Halo-halo - made from crushed ice, evaporated or coconut milk, ube jam, sweetened kidney or garbanzo beans, coconut, sago, agar, pinipig, boiled taro or soft yam, flan, slices of fruit, and topped with a scoop of ube ice cream. The ingredients are not particularly unusual (in the Phillippines), but the combination of them is.
7. Pink slime - the product is derived from the bits of meat clinging to fat that are separated by melting the fat away and spinning in a centrifuge.

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2023, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-feast/841539/4550 "2023-04-05T14:59:24Z")

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> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#):
>
> 1. Pink slime - the product is derived from the bits of meat clinging to fat that are separated by melting the fat away and spinning in a centrifuge.

OMG I remember this being a really big deal.

> **[ABC News called it "pink slime." Now, USDA says it can be labeled "ground beef."](https://thecounter.org/bpi-pink-slime-ground-beef-usda-reclassifed/)**
>
> On the semantics of a product that scandalized America—and is now on a comeback tour.

You may not realize you could be eating this today, in beef, chicken, and pork products.

still in play:

**Foods Made with Unusual Ingredients**

1. Lutefisk – dried cod marinated in a lye solution to rehydrate it
2. Sweetbread - made from the neck (thymus), heart, or pancreas of calves or lamb
3. Scrapple - made from pork scraps and cornmeal, or as once advertised “everything but the oink”
4. Eskimo ice cream - made from berries, snow, polar bear fat, and oil from a seal
5. Shiny coated candy like jelly beans - They’re often coated with shellac, a sticky substance derived from secretions of the female Kerria lacca, an insect native to Thailand.
6. Halo-halo - made from crushed ice, evaporated or coconut milk, ube jam, sweetened kidney or garbanzo beans, coconut, sago, agar, pinipig, boiled taro or soft yam, flan, slices of fruit, and topped with a scoop of ube ice cream. The ingredients are not particularly unusual (in the Phillippines), but the combination of them is.
7. Pink slime - the product is derived from the bits of meat clinging to fat that are separated by melting the fat away and spinning in a centrifuge.

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**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2023, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-feast/841539/4551 "2023-06-27T14:17:11Z")

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**Foods Made with Unusual Ingredients**

1. Lutefisk – dried cod marinated in a lye solution to rehydrate it
2. Sweetbread - made from the neck (thymus), heart, or pancreas of calves or lamb
3. Scrapple - made from pork scraps and cornmeal, or as once advertised “everything but the oink”
4. Eskimo ice cream - made from berries, snow, polar bear fat, and oil from a seal
5. Shiny coated candy like jelly beans - They’re often coated with shellac, a sticky substance derived from secretions of the female Kerria lacca, an insect native to Thailand.
6. Halo-halo - made from crushed ice, evaporated or coconut milk, ube jam, sweetened kidney or garbanzo beans, coconut, sago, agar, pinipig, boiled taro or soft yam, flan, slices of fruit, and topped with a scoop of ube ice cream. The ingredients are not particularly unusual (in the Phillippines), but the combination of them is.
7. Pink slime - the product is derived from the bits of meat clinging to fat that are separated by melting the fat away and spinning in a centrifuge.
8. Cellulose - used in shredded cheese to prevent clumping.

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**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2023, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-feast/841539/4552 "2023-06-27T14:55:07Z")

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**Foods Made with Unusual Ingredients**

1. Lutefisk – dried cod marinated in a lye solution to rehydrate it
2. Sweetbread - made from the neck (thymus), heart, or pancreas of calves or lamb
3. Scrapple - made from pork scraps and cornmeal, or as once advertised “everything but the oink”
4. Eskimo ice cream - made from berries, snow, polar bear fat, and oil from a seal
5. Shiny coated candy like jelly beans - They’re often coated with shellac, a sticky substance derived from secretions of the female Kerria lacca, an insect native to Thailand.
6. Halo-halo - made from crushed ice, evaporated or coconut milk, ube jam, sweetened kidney or garbanzo beans, coconut, sago, agar, pinipig, boiled taro or soft yam, flan, slices of fruit, and topped with a scoop of ube ice cream. The ingredients are not particularly unusual (in the Phillippines), but the combination of them is.
7. Pink slime - the product is derived from the bits of meat clinging to fat that are separated by melting the fat away and spinning in a centrifuge.
8. Cellulose - used in shredded cheese to prevent clumping.
9. Cuisses de grenouille - aka frog’s legs

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**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2023, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-feast/841539/4553 "2023-06-27T15:43:36Z")

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**Foods Made with Unusual Ingredients**

1. Lutefisk – dried cod marinated in a lye solution to rehydrate it
2. Sweetbread - made from the neck (thymus), heart, or pancreas of calves or lamb
3. Scrapple - made from pork scraps and cornmeal, or as once advertised “everything but the oink”
4. Eskimo ice cream - made from berries, snow, polar bear fat, and oil from a seal
5. Shiny coated candy like jelly beans - They’re often coated with shellac, a sticky substance derived from secretions of the female Kerria lacca, an insect native to Thailand.
6. Halo-halo - made from crushed ice, evaporated or coconut milk, ube jam, sweetened kidney or garbanzo beans, coconut, sago, agar, pinipig, boiled taro or soft yam, flan, slices of fruit, and topped with a scoop of ube ice cream. The ingredients are not particularly unusual (in the Phillippines), but the combination of them is.
7. Pink slime - the product is derived from the bits of meat clinging to fat that are separated by melting the fat away and spinning in a centrifuge.
8. Cellulose - used in shredded cheese to prevent clumping.
9. Cuisses de grenouille - aka frog’s legs
10. Dr Pepper ribs

pass

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2023, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-feast/841539/4554 "2023-06-28T22:46:29Z")

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**Food associated with a specific character**

1. Spinach - Popeye

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**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2023, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-feast/841539/4555 "2023-06-28T22:47:46Z")

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**Food associated with a specific character**

1. Spinach - Popeye
2. Chicken - Gus Fring

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**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2023, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-feast/841539/4556 "2023-06-28T23:12:07Z")

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**Food associated with a specific character**

1. Spinach - Popeye
2. Chicken - Gus Fring
3. Waffles - Leslie Knope

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**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-feast/841539/4557 "2023-06-29T03:21:41Z")

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**Food associated with a specific character**

1. Spinach - Popeye
2. Chicken - Gus Fring
3. Waffles - Leslie Knope
4. Donuts – Homer Simpson

_ **-“BB”-** _

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**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-feast/841539/4558 "2023-06-29T12:11:19Z")

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**Food associated with a specific character**

1. Spinach - Popeye
2. Chicken - Gus Fring
3. Waffles - Leslie Knope
4. Donuts – Homer Simpson
5. Carrots - Bugs Bunny

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**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-feast/841539/4559 "2023-06-29T12:12:30Z")

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**Food associated with a specific character**

1. Spinach - Popeye
2. Chicken - Gus Fring
3. Waffles - Leslie Knope
4. Donuts – Homer Simpson
5. Carrots - Bugs Bunny
6. Sandwiches - Dagwood

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**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-feast/841539/4560 "2023-06-29T13:29:50Z")

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**Food associated with a specific character**

1. Spinach - Popeye
2. Chicken - Gus Fring
3. Waffles - Leslie Knope
4. Donuts – Homer Simpson
5. Carrots - Bugs Bunny
6. Sandwiches - Dagwood
7. Ratatouille - Ratatouille

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**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2023, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-feast/841539/4561 "2023-06-30T02:35:28Z")

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**Food associated with a specific character**

1. Spinach - Popeye
2. Chicken - Gus Fring
3. Waffles - Leslie Knope
4. Donuts – Homer Simpson
5. Carrots - Bugs Bunny
6. Sandwiches - Dagwood
7. Ratatouille - Ratatouille
8. Lasagna - Garfield

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**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2023, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-feast/841539/4562 "2023-06-30T06:38:18Z")

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**Food associated with a specific character**

1. Spinach - Popeye
2. Chicken - Gus Fring
3. Waffles - Leslie Knope
4. Donuts – Homer Simpson
5. Carrots - Bugs Bunny
6. Sandwiches - Dagwood
7. Ratatouille - Ratatouille
8. Lasagna - Garfield
9. Bertie Bott’s Every Flavour Beans - Harry Potter

And his classmates.

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