# Food Items that make no sense to you. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 2, 2002, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-items-that-make-no-sense-to-you/106924 "2002-05-02T20:23:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![neofishboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/neofishboy/32/444_2.png) [@neofishboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neofishboy)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2002, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-items-that-make-no-sense-to-you/106924/81 "2002-05-06T06:56:52Z")
First, they brought Salmon patties, but I said nothing…because I did not eat Salmon patties. But then they brought… **Salmon Dogs**!!! and I knew nothing would ever be good again… ---
**Author:** ![Squish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Squish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squish)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2002, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-items-that-make-no-sense-to-you/106924/82 "2002-05-06T07:02:51Z")
I don’t have room for a sauerkraut barrel in my studio apartment, so I have to buy canned, but I **always** drain it and rinse the brine off. Yummy sauerkraut, yummy, yummy! Back to the OP, though: Velveeta - the stuff’s so sickeningly sweet it’s like cheese-flavored candy. What’s the point? Sushi (or is it sashimi?) - Raw fish. 'Nuff said. Frozen mashed potatoes and frozen scrambled eggs - how lazy can you **get**? ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2002, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-items-that-make-no-sense-to-you/106924/83 "2002-05-06T07:33:28Z")
Someone… but Im too lazy to scroll back up… said it best about food that needs to be labeled as such Velveeta is the prize winner. “processed cheese food” Sorry, if you have to explain it, Im not eating it. Clamato juice still exists… its required for Ceasar coctails… which are vile except in Squamish BC on a Sunday… I also dont grok “liquid smoke” which Renco food dehydrator infomercials assume we all have on hand to make delicious beef, and even turkey jerky. ---
**Author:** ![Arken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@Arken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arken)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2002, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-items-that-make-no-sense-to-you/106924/84 "2002-05-06T08:15:09Z")
Speaking of Sushi (which I personally love, but that’s beside the point)… Fugu makes no sense to me. Even if it’s the best taste in the world you have a great chance of dying if it’s prepared even SLIGHTLY incorrectly! :eek: (Fugu, for those not in the know, is an incredibly toxic form of puffer fish. A very, very small percentage of its body is edible, the rest is deadly. The Japanese love it… those who survive!) ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2002, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-items-that-make-no-sense-to-you/106924/85 "2002-05-06T10:03:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Arken \* > \*\* > > Marmite - Yeast extract spread. Yes, you heard that right. Yeast EXTRACT spread. I have yet to find ANYONE in the U.S. who can tolerate even a tiny taste. I used to dare friends to try it. One did and drank half a bottle of concentrated lemon juice just to get the taste out. I’m told by my father that Vegemite is even better than Marmite. Apparently it’s exactly like Marmite except it also has CARAMEL inside it. > > \*\* _raises hand_ Man, I LOVE the stuff. And I’m American. OK, I don’t actually know of any other Americans who like it, but Marmite rules! > [@](#): > > \*\* > Borscht. Yep, beet soup. In fact, I think anything with beets is horrible. How anyone can eat them is beyond me. It’s my contention that Borscht was invented in Russia so that the Czar could more effectively oppress the serfs. “You no work on farm? Okay, you drink Borscht.” Eventually, they learned to love it. \*\* Blasphemer! Borscht is the soup of the gods. ---
**Author:** ![everton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@everton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/everton)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2002, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-items-that-make-no-sense-to-you/106924/86 "2002-05-06T11:17:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sunspace \* > Oh! This was about foods we _don’t_ like? 🙂 Well no, it was s’posed to be about foods that _don’t make sense_. Seems to be a popular hijack though. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Squish \* > Sushi (or is it sashimi?) - Raw fish. 'Nuff said. So you might not like it, but I don’t see how it doesn’t make sense. Some food you cook, some food you don’t cook. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Goo \* > If you’re going to eat and drink animal secretions, why not go all the way 😃 They drink bull’s blood in Kenya. And while we’re at it, ever heard of Khoona? Apparently it’s fresh bull’s semen drunk by some Afghan men on their wedding night (when they’re not ducking bombs) and [this site](http://www.dalitstan.org/journal/brahman/bra001/brah0112.html) mentions that they drink cow’s urine in parts of India. Think that’ll replace Dr Pepper in the vending machine? ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2002, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-items-that-make-no-sense-to-you/106924/87 "2002-05-06T12:16:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Goo \* > **Peanut butter and jelly (IIRC, jelly = jam in America)** Slight hijack…jelly and jam are two different things. To quote the King, Alton Brown, from his “Good Eats” show, the [Urban Preservation](http://www.goodeatsfanpage.com/Season2/JamTranscript.htm) epsiode, “Jelly is clear, Jam is not, Conserves have nuts, Preserves have chunks and Marmalades always have peel.” ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2002, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-items-that-make-no-sense-to-you/106924/88 "2002-05-06T13:36:39Z")
My son has been given popcorn flavored suckers recently. This is gross. It smells and tastes like butter. Also: spackle? whats that? pimento? eggs, actually. I hate em. ---
**Author:** ![Erika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/47e85d/32.png) [@Erika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erika)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2002, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-items-that-make-no-sense-to-you/106924/89 "2002-05-06T13:59:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DeniseV \* > \*\* > > I knew this, don’t know the reason why either. IMO, removing caffeine from Mountain Dew also removes the reason to drink the stuff. \*\* ::shuffles in quietly:: I actually started drinking the stuff for the taste. Admittedly, I now think caffeine free Mountain Dew sounds rather ridiculous…but just noting that there _are_ some of us out there who, for no good reason, actually like the taste of it. ---
**Author:** ![Feynn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecb155/32.png) [@Feynn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feynn)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2002, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-items-that-make-no-sense-to-you/106924/90 "2002-05-06T14:32:32Z")
> [@](#): > > Clamato juice still exists… its required for Ceasar cocktails… which are vile except in Squamish BC on a Sunday… How true, and for some reason Ceasars taste better in Squamish. No-one has mentioned that culinary gift from Eastern Canada belovedly referred to as Poutine, french fries topped with gravy and cheese curds. I usually use different words to describe it but maybe that’s because cheese curds on their own are about as vile a food as there is. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2002, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-items-that-make-no-sense-to-you/106924/91 "2002-05-06T15:00:22Z")
Ditto on **Junchbailey’s** tripe. Even Websters describes it as “something poor, worthless, or offensive.” Where I grew up they used to have Menudo parties. Did the end of Braveheart make you hungry? Also… cow’s tongue. Why not just reach over the feedlot fence, grab the 3 1/2 foot long snotty spit stalactite straight off the cow’s lip and suck it down like a fat strand of warm spaghetti? If my taste buds ever come in contact with a cow’s taste buds, I’m gonna hurl. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2002, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-items-that-make-no-sense-to-you/106924/92 "2002-05-06T15:08:00Z")
Ditto on **Junchbailey’s** tripe. Even Websters describes it as “something poor, worthless, or offensive.” Where I grew up they used to have Menudo parties. Did the end of Braveheart make you hungry? Also… cow’s tongue. Why not just reach over the feedlot fence, grab the 3 1/2 foot long snotty spit stalactite straight off the cow’s lip and suck it down like a fat strand of warm spaghetti? If my taste buds ever come in contact with a cow’s taste buds, I’m gonna hurl. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2002, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-items-that-make-no-sense-to-you/106924/93 "2002-05-06T17:19:11Z")
Vinegar and Salt potato chips. I tried one and it hurt my tongue, it was so nasty. Sugary breakfast cereals…I wasn’t raised on them, so my tastes go more toward Grape Nuts with an occasional foray into Golden Grahams, but my husband eats Cocoa Puffs and the new Oreo Cookie Cereal and Cap’n Crunch…why don’t you just pour a cup of sugar in the bowl, top it with honey and molasses and douse it it milk instead? Yick a doo! Those cookies you either scoop out of a margarine bowl or break off a big slab and then slide in the overn. Half the fun of making cookies is making them from scratch…licking the bowl and the beaters, picking out a chocolate chip from the mix before you start scooping it onto the cookie sheet… Pretzels. To me, they’re bland and boring, and I have to buy the Snyders flavored versions (Buttermilk Ranch is to die for) otherwise it’s just cardboard. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2002, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-items-that-make-no-sense-to-you/106924/94 "2002-05-06T17:26:04Z")
Anyone remember Bubble-gum flavored soda? What crack marketing team came up with _that_ idea? Here’s one from Moscow --\> Basil & Nut flavored _beer_. I tried. I regretted. The nuts I can understand, but basil? Basil? WTF? ---
**Author:** ![Katisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bcef8e/32.png) [@Katisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katisha)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2002, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-items-that-make-no-sense-to-you/106924/95 "2002-05-06T20:12:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pulykamell \* > \*\*Anyone remember Bubble-gum flavored soda? > \*\* I remember that it was disgusting. Clear Pepsi was pretty baffling too, although “Mmmmm…invisible cola” is fun to say. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Arken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@Arken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arken)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2002, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-items-that-make-no-sense-to-you/106924/96 "2002-05-06T22:18:05Z")
Maybe my taste buds don’t work, but I don’t taste the ‘twist’ in Pepsi Twist. It tastes EXACTLY like regular Pepsi to me. I didn’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2002, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-items-that-make-no-sense-to-you/106924/97 "2002-05-06T22:23:24Z")
Pork Rinds. Eeww. StG ---
**Author:** ![Squish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Squish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squish)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2002, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-items-that-make-no-sense-to-you/106924/98 "2002-05-06T22:30:39Z")
> [@](#): > > So you might not like it, but I don’t see how it doesn’t make sense. Some food you cook, some food you don’t cook. If it’s wiggly, rubbery and smells bad when it’s raw, then you cook it. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2002, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-items-that-make-no-sense-to-you/106924/99 "2002-05-06T23:31:14Z")
Man, fresh raw salmon smells freakin divine. I have trouble not cramming the whole fillet in my mouth and eating it raw when I’m making salmon for dinner. Did anyone mention Bubble tea? Daniel ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-items-that-make-no-sense-to-you/106924/100 "2002-05-07T00:38:10Z")
City Chicken. It isn’t even chicken! It’s usually pork-sometimes beef-breaded and fried like fried chicken, and then put on little wooden skewers. It tastes like crap. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-items-that-make-no-sense-to-you/106924.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-items-that-make-no-sense-to-you/106924.md?page=6)