Guy Fieri tried this once on Triple D. He (and everyone else at that diner) said they were delicious, once you got over your initial revulsion.
My contribution: when I was a young lad, working on an archaeological dig, my fellow workers were all divided into “food groups” - essentially, groups of 8 who had to collectively purchase and prepare food for themselves. Each week, someone volunteered to do the purchasing, on a budget.
I knew it was a mistake to allow the surveyor to volunteer - he was cheap even by archaeologist standards. He drove off to purchase the food, and came back suspiciously quickly and very pleased with himself. Somehow, he’d found a giant drum of institutional-grade head cheese, very cheap - which he proposed we all eat 3 meals a day for a week.
We took a vote, and it was agreed that an unwavering diet of head cheese was not acceptable for the group and so the head cheese would be his and his alone to consume … and ate it he did, quite happily, for the rest of the dig.
Head cheese is at the best of times revolting - it’s basically pig lips, snouts and eyeballs, in gelatin - but institutional grade head cheese was beyond disgusting. It is something that ought not to exist.
Head cheese typically does not contain eyeballs (I’ve never heard of it containing eyeballs, but who knows. Maybe a eyeball variation exists.) It’s usually cheek or jowl meat (which is tasty on its own), often tongue, and stuff like that in gelatin. Sometimes hocks and/or shoulder meat. I wouldn’t want to eat it three times a day, but every day for lunch would be fine.
I love black licorice (including subsets such as black jellybeans and Good & Plenty), candy corn, circus peanuts and Now & Laters. I adore plain cheese pizza.
I grew up eating the grocery store donuts and canned asparagas and I’ll still enjoy them, although I also enjoy fresh asparagas and bakery doughnuts.
My mother is crazy about fruitcake & jujubes…
There are plenty of things I don’t like, but I think somebody likes everything.
That’s the DeLuxe version. “Now with 30% more eyeballs!”
My dad grew up eating scrambled eggs and brains. He changed the recipe for us to eggs and tuna.
Anybody actually eat lima beans except for the purpose of finishing off a serving of mixed vegetables? I personally think a mixed vegetable blend that excluded lima beans would be a huge seller.
Sure. What the hell’s wrong with lima beans?
The tiny green ones are okay. It’s those great big, mushy motherfuckers (hence the name) the size of of pie plates that are not really a food product meant for humans. I expect they were originally bred as fodder battle hogs or something.
The question is - is the institutional-grade stuff the “deluxe” version or not? :eek:
The two foods I always go back to were from an old link here on a similar thread.
I have NOT tried either of these foods nor do I have a desire to. They indeed may be delicious but I just can’t get past the visual on either one.
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Huitlacoche http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/000344.php
The second one especially, I know it is probably fantastic, but I ain’t trying it.
Pringles.
Yes. Sometimes they have bowls of lima beans in the cafeteria. Mmm, good.
Greek-style lima beans in tomato sauce with olive oil, black pepper, sea salt, and garlic are heavenly. Green (string) beans can be cooked the same way. (I always add a little basil and oregano for good measure.)
Beef heart is really underappreciated. It’s a fantastic piece of meat but it gets a bad rap for needing to be properly cleaned and the oooky felling people get about it.
Most mixed veggies around here don’t have lima beans. At least so far as I’ve noticed. When I think “mixed vegetables” I think of peas, beans, carrots, and possibly corn and maybe even bell peppers or onions. Here’s a Google image search.
Lima beans rock, but I like them mostly on their own, either slowly stewed in tomato and a bit of ham or bacon, or just a veggie version with butter, garlic, salt, pepper.
I am not a fan of the frozen kind, but I had some that were fresh or at least from a dried type and they were really good.
I will pass on the succotash though.
You’re right about most veggie mixes, but a couple of those pictures in your search include Lima beans. I’ve seen them a couple of times, and always wondered why they were in there. They never cook all the way through.
Perhaps you misunderstood. Yes, I’ve seen lima beans in veggie mix–it’s not uncommon. But it’s not like all or even most vegetable mixes contain lima beans, which is what Buck Godot seemed to be implying (by saying that a mixed vegetable blend that excluded lima beans would be a huge seller.)
Yes, I misunderstood.
I’ve always wondered - does anyone ever buy and eat those 7-11/Loaf & Jug/convenience store hot dogs and brats that sit on that grate under the heat lamps and turn, turn, turn forever? I swear that those are completely wizened and dessicated and yet ALWAYS THERE.
I would think those are foods that should not exist.