Food you bought for novelty... and liked.

My wife saw Couque d’Asse at the local asian store and bought some. Note the white cream filling. :slight_smile:

Once we got past the 12 year old giggles we found that they came neatly arranged and individually wrapped, and quite delicious. We look forward to trying the chocolate ones.

Harðfiskur
Dried Fish I bought in Iceland. It’s actually very similar to dried cuttlefish you can get in Chinese and Korean grocery stores, but less spicy and more Cod-dy.

I had read that Icelanders snack on dried fish so I wanted to try it. It’s good!

Chicken in a Biskit

Meat-flavoed crackers! Who can resist?!? They don’t exactly taste like chicken, but man are they yummy!

^^ I keep pausing when I see those at the grocery store, but I want to try one before I commit to buying a whole box. I do like chicken-flavored things in general, though.

My dad loved Chicken in a Biskit. With spray cheese.

Hm… I’m off to the market in a few minutes…

Back in the '80s I had to try Vegemite. I’m still eating it. (No, not the same jar! Wisenheimers.)

My grandma loved Chicken in a Biskit! I don’t remember being offered any when I was at her house though.

On a whim, I bought a tub of Vermont maple sugar cotton candy while on vacation…and it was amazing!!! It’s way better than the bagged stuff I remember getting at the State Fair, and the tub actually does a decent job of keeping it fresh.

I bought El Yucateco hot sauce for the novelty, because I thought it would be spactacularly hot. It is spactacularly hot, and also awesome. I’ve been a fan for like 25 years now. (I usually buy the green.)

Tako Octopus Flavored Chips.

Found them at the Asian grocery store and I had to find out. They were weird for sure, but really not bad. I’ve had octopus before, but I’m not familiar enough with it to speak intelligently about the accuracy of the flavoring of the chips, but I liked them. If you’ve ever had shrimp chips (the Munchos-type ones, not the fries-type ones), they tasted like a kind of burnt version of that, if that makes any sense. Now I get a bag every time I go to that store.

Me too. But I didn’t get to try it until the late 90’s. :frowning:

Wasabi Peas.

God, yes. Chicken in a Bitchkit. Awful. Awful. How’d the box get empty?

Flaming Hot Cheetos. The concept seemed so goofy and silly … oh look, they’re RED so that we know that they’re FIERY! Oooh!

I’m trying to limit myself to one bag a week (and trying not to finish the whole bag in one sitting). I can’t even eat “regular” Cheetos anymore; they seem so bland and insipid.

the only food in the world that can be described as doesn’t taste like chicken

Inspired by Chicken in a Biskit, I once tried to make chicken-flavored popcorn. Chicken corn was an idea whose time had come! And apparently gone just as quickly. It never did work right.

Snapea Crisps baked peas. They come in a variety of flavors, and I just saw cinnamon and brown sugar flavor for the holidays.

I just bought two veggies tonight, googled their names in the store and came up empty. My wife will probably be annoyed, but I’ll come back to this thread.

Novelty veggies?.. I’m intrigued.

Have you tried the jalapeno Cheetos? They’re not as spicy, but damn are they like crack, with cheese on it.

What, nobody has tried these?!?

I bought a can once. They were gross. No sweetness, no flavor whatsoever, just mealy, starchy vegetable matter.

I also once bought a can of Danish meatballs in brown gravy at a kiosk on my way to work, since I hadn’t had anything to eat all day. I got to the radio station and opened the can; the meatballs were so disgusting I couldn’t eat them, so I gave them to the studio cat. He wouldn’t eat them either!

I remember eating hamburgers from a street vendor in Cambridge (UK) late one night in the winter. They came packed in a tin with some sort of liquid and had to be warmed in a steam compartment. They were also dyed a shade of red not normally found in nature. An acquired taste, perhaps (or maybe I was just drunk), but I quite liked them with lots of ketchup and mustard!

Maybe the first item were actually plantains?

I tried stinky tofu for the novelty, but it actually tasted okay and the squeaky texture is fun.