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…
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?
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.
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!)
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!
Blasphemer! Borscht is the soup of the gods.
Well no, it was s’posed to be about foods that don’t make sense. Seems to be a popular hijack though.
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.
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 mentions that they drink cow’s urine in parts of India. Think that’ll replace Dr Pepper in the vending machine?
Slight hijack…jelly and jam are two different things. To quote the King, Alton Brown, from his “Good Eats” show, the Urban Preservation epsiode, “Jelly is clear, Jam is not, Conserves have nuts, Preserves have chunks and Marmalades always have peel.”
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.
::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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
I remember that it was disgusting.
Clear Pepsi was pretty baffling too, although “Mmmmm…invisible cola” is fun to say. 
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.
Pork Rinds. Eeww.
StG
If it’s wiggly, rubbery and smells bad when it’s raw, then you cook it. 
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
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.