Food that should not exist.

[DrDeth]

@VOW

When I was a kid, there was a candy we ALWAYS got in our Easter baskets.

But there were ALWAYS these big eggs, almost the size of a real egg, in the typical Gawd-awful colors. The turquoise ones seemed predominant.

It was a thick candy shell, and the centers were…well…I guess the best description would be “dried icing.”

YES! I remember those- they looked so promising but they were so very nasty.

[eschereal]

@Hippy_Hollow

Ever wonder what green ketchup tastes like? Go here and find out.

Can you still get that? ISTR they discontinued the green stuff about 7 or 8 years ago and the purple ketchup a year or two after that.

[Mona_Lisa_Simpson]

@Leaffan

Labrador Deceiver: The green peppers are just peppers that haven’t ripened into red, yellow, orange, purple, etc.
Leaffan: I’m pretty sure green peppers are already ripened. That’s what they are: green peppers.
Labrador Deceiver: No, they’re slightly unripe bell peppers that will eventually turn red, yellow, orange, purple, etc.
Leaffan: Well, I’ll be damned. I think the truth is somewhere in the middle. Red, yellow, and orange peppers all come from different seeds and are different cultivars of pepper. Red peppers are simply ripened green peppers.
Labrador Deceiver: That’s exactly what I said.
*Leaffan: No, only green peppers become red peppers. That’s not what you said.
Labrador Receiver: The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the red zone.
Leaffan: The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the red zone.
Labrador Receiver: The red zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the white zone.
Leaffan: No, the white zone is for loading of passengers and there is no stopping in a RED zone.
Labrador Receiver: The red zone has always been for loading and unloading of passengers. There’s never stopping in a white zone.
Leaffan: Don’t you tell me which zone is for loading, and which zone is for stopping!
Labrador Receiver: Listen Betty, don’t start up with your white zone shit again.
Leaffan: There’s just no stopping in a white zone.
Labrador Receiver: Oh really, Vernon? Why pretend, we both know perfectly well what this is about. You want me to have an abortion.
Leaffan: It’s really the only sensible thing to do, if its done safely. Therapeutically there’s no danger involved.

Thanks for the warm fuzzies! A boyfriend and I actually did this “bit” for a talent night in our university residence. I think the humour is a bit sick now, when I realize how many of the girls in that building had abortions that year, but at the time WE thought we were hilarious!

And also, up thread, mac and cheese loaf. My grandmother had it in heavy rotation for lunch at her house. My entire year in Grade One, lunch consisted of a white bread with miracle whip sandwich of either “chopped ham loaf”, bologna, or mac and cheese loaf (maybe with occasional forays into spam, or that might have been saved for summers at the cottage…) and a bowl of Cambell’s soup.
The soups in rotation were Cream of Tomato, Cream of Mushroom, Chicken Noodle, Beef Vegetable and Chicken Gumbo. I didn’t eat okra for about 20 years after a year of weekly Chicken Gumbo soup. Then I ate it in southern Mississippi and I developed a new apprecation of it. Not enough to every attempt cooking it myself, however.

[Patty_O_Furniture]

That sounds tasty. Did you post in the right thread?

[GreenElf]

apple-flavored rice cakes - they become hardened after a couple weeks on the shelf
lutefisk - have to admit I’ve never tried it
SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM
those chocolates in gift boxes that have a nasty, ultra- sweet filling- if I accidentally take a bite of one of them, the rest of it goes in the garbage

[VOW]

@GreenElf

those chocolates in gift boxes that have a nasty, ultra- sweet filling- if I accidentally take a bite of one of them, the rest of it goes in the garbage

The maple creams! Give me coconut, caramel, nuts, honeycomb, ANYTHING but those GAWD-awful maple creams! I used to only choose the square, rectangular, or lumpy chocolates. ANYTHING round had the potential of being a maple cream!
~VOW

[Yookeroo]

@Labrador_Deceiver

MOL, I think this is quickly turning into a “food I don’t like” thread.

That’s all it ever was starting with the OP. There’s probably less than 5 things mentioned that qualify. The Halloween candy that only get passed out by cheapskates probably counts. Maybe fat free dairy products. Maybe less than 3 things. As disgusting as balut sounds, it’s obviously very popular in east Asia.

[Soul_Brother_Number_Two]

@VOW

When I was a kid, there was a candy we ALWAYS got in our Easter baskets.

I loved the chocolate bunny, I adored the spice jellybeans, and the robin’s egg maltballs were wonderful.

But there were ALWAYS these big eggs, almost the size of a real egg, in the typical Gawd-awful colors. The turquoise ones seemed predominant.

It was a thick candy shell, and the centers were…well…I guess the best description would be “dried icing.”

~VOW

Are we talking robins eggs. The ones with malted milk ball stuff in the middle. Cuz I loves me some a that.

[VOW]

@Soul_Brother_Number_Two

Are we talking robins eggs. The ones with malted milk ball stuff in the middle. Cuz I loves me some a that.

From my post above:
“I loved the chocolate bunny, I adored the spice jellybeans, and the robin’s egg maltballs were wonderful.”

NOT the maltballs. This was a bigger egg, sometimes almost triangular in cross section, and it was HEAVY. And I swear up and down, the middle was filled with DRIED ICING.

BLEAH.
~VOW

[DrDeth]

@Yookeroo

That’s all it ever was starting with the OP. There’s probably less than 5 things mentioned that qualify. The Halloween candy that only get passed out by cheapskates probably counts. Maybe fat free dairy products. Maybe less than 3 things. As disgusting as balut sounds, it’s obviously very popular in east Asia.

Well let’s face it. If it’s sold in widely in stores, it must have a fan base, even here.

But VOW did come up with those crummy easter egg *things. *

[eschereal]

@VOW

And I swear up and down, the middle was filled with DRIED ICING.

That sounds disturbingly similar to that “divinity” crap. Is there even a reason for “divinity” to exist?