I like circus peanuts. I also like candy corn and marshmallow peeps. I guess I have a high tolerance for sugar-flavored sugar 
What I’m thinking of is this. I seem to recall it having a vaguely peanut butter-ish attempt at flavor to it. Whoever said Mary Jane upthread I think is right. Here’s Mary Jane Peanut Butter Kisses. Although I suspect there are a number of taffy-like candies sold in similar wrapping.
I pick them out to eat first, before anyone else gets 'em. Feel free to post me any spares.
My contribution: rose flavour turkish delight. Lemon flavour’s a bit crap, but I can see how people could like it- but rose flavour? It tastes like sugary soap.
This whole post makes me merry: leaping canned chicken, running for it money!
The only food I can think of that I was actually constrained to eat that ought not to exist, no longer does exist. That would be ham and motherfuckers. (scroll down to the M2 menu)
I don’t know that I could ever get hungry enough to gag a whole can of the stuff down. The cardboard box the cans came in would just about have to taste better.
I see you guys blasting low-fat cheese, and raise you imitation cheese. And I don’t mean the vegan kind, either. Even worse is imitation American Cheese. No one I know like them, and I can’t imagine anyone doing so.
But I’ve never had a cherry that wasn’t a Maraschino. For a while I thought they were like cranberries and not really even edible unless they have been marinated. Sure, you can’t eat too many at a time, but they are good. (Fake cherry flavoring is a lot better, though.)
Can’t believe that nobody’s mentioned broccoli. Horrible stuff. I fully backed George H. W. Bush’s directive to not allow it on Air Force 1.
If it’s totally covered with cheese sauce I can choke it down. Bare naked? Yuck!
What a revolting example of parallel evolution!
You’ve never had a cherry pie?
Washington State University created one of the most popular cherries of ever, the Rainier yellow-and-red cherry. They almost taste like a tiny peach. But do not waste them on a cocktail, they can only be eaten raw.
::resists this thread::
::can’t help self::
::reads::
::gets disgusted::
::gets to BigT’s post::
::gets outraged::
::aneurysm::
::dies::
::requests rainier cherries at wake::
**ninja’d!
I also have to add tonic water to the list. With gin? Love it. By itself? Literally tastes like burning. In fact, all sparkling water. My parents stocked up on Perrier for Thanksgiving to be fancy. Problem is that it’s disgusting and drew much ire from my sister and me.
Sad to say, if they stock it at a major chain grocery store, then it’s because the product has a following. In the case of such stuff as Vienna sausages or Circus peanuts, I imagine the customer base is half-baked dudes coming in after min-nite, but they still sell (or perhaps are just stuffed under the raincoat furtively, but still the leave the shelves in some way).
Now, as for those little powdered donuts (and the little choco ones, too): Entemans are quite good if you have a yen for them. Hostess has a following. But there cheapo knock-offs which are usually carried in small local Mom&pop stores, are often past their sell by date (which should be within 23 hours of manufacture) , and as the Op sez- are really dry and nasty.
Mind you, there are some small local brands of these which apparently aren’t bad if they are fresh.
Tonic water and sparkling water are extremely popular. So is broccoli and lobster, for that matter. Why do they belong on this list?
They’re actually pretty damn good if you get them fresh- they’re neither dry, nor stale tasting.
(back in my younger, more crooked days, I was a bus-boy/janitor at a Chili’s restaurant, and had a deal going with the bread delivery guy where I’d give him a free coke, and he’d give me free powdered sugar donuts off the truck, almost always still warm from the bakery.)
Around here the Hostess ones are gone. The Little Debbies ones taste almost the same. (This damn thread gave me a craving and I have no willpower).
As far as I’m concerned, hot dogs and catsup are mutually inclusive*. By which I mean hot dogs are only edible if they have catsup on them, and catsup is only edible if it’s on a hot dog.
To stay on topic, my food that should not exist is “cheese pizza”. No. It’s not a pizza until it has toppings. Cheese is a necessary part of the base of the pizza, but it is not a topping. Calling it a “cheese pizza” makes as much sense as calling an empty pie shell a “crust pie”.
- With the exception that chili and cheese is also acceptable.
Has no one mentioned olive loaf yet? Just gives me the heebie-jeebies, it does. There obviously is a market for the stuff so some folks must like it. Yet much like people who claim to live in Delaware, I’ve never met one.
Also, clam juice. Bwuh?
Black licorice. With all the delicious candies in the world, I can’t imagine anyone voluntarily choosing that one.
I want a whole canned chicken - but it doesn’t seem to be available here.
*raises hand on both. I’m a sucker for those ultra-processed meat loafs. Olive loaf, pimento loaf, pickle loaf, etc. The only one I don’t get is the mac-and-cheese loaf.
And clam juice is great when you’re making clam chowder, or in a Bloody Caesar.