# Foods considered "low end" that you love. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 27, 2008, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-considered-low-end-that-you-love/457887 "2008-07-27T00:53:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2008, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-considered-low-end-that-you-love/457887/81 "2008-07-29T13:32:23Z")
Bread and butter or bread and jelly, with a glass of milk for me. I can eat that when almost anything else is yucky to me. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2008, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-considered-low-end-that-you-love/457887/82 "2008-07-29T17:35:44Z")
Here’s a song for all of us - [Larry Groce, “Junk Food Junkie.” 😃](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSUh2b1ufi4) ---
**Author:** ![Kolga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e56c9b/32.png) [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2008, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-considered-low-end-that-you-love/457887/83 "2008-07-29T18:58:09Z")
[QUOTE=RiverRunner] And, **Kolga** , if you haven’t tried Arby’s jalapeno poppers, you should. They are very, very good. I’m sad that the Arby’s near my house has closed. [/QUOTE] I have not, so…thanks? 🙂 I don’t even think there’s an Arby’s anywhere near me, which is a good thing. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2008, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-considered-low-end-that-you-love/457887/84 "2008-07-29T20:33:32Z")
[QUOTE=shiftless] This thread is like a list of the foods I grew up with. Except for the shrimp toast stuff. My entry - Potted meat. They don’t even bother to name the animal - it’s just “meat”. I guess this could be called pate’, then folks would gobble it up. I throw away the little layer of fat on top then spread the meat on white bread. Mmmmmm, I may have to get some for lunch. [/QUOTE] There are a lot of things I will eat, organ meats, etc, but your choice is the thread winner, imo. Anyone that can stomach a combo of “mechanically seperated” beef, pork and chicken is a better person than I. **imagines the “mechanical seperation” process as a a bunch of greasy picking machines scraping the leftover cartialage from joint sections of bony carcasses, topped with whatever can be squegeed off the cutting room floor** Shudder. My entry would be Nishiki rice with a lot of butter and a dash of salt. So plain, so filling…I loves me some clumping rice. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2008, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-considered-low-end-that-you-love/457887/85 "2008-07-29T20:46:28Z")
[QUOTE=Booker57] White hots. If you are not from Upstate New York you might not understand [/QUOTE] Don’t forget the curly fries! ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2008, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-considered-low-end-that-you-love/457887/86 "2008-07-29T21:08:35Z")
mmmm beef on wick … spiedies … white hots … real buffalo wings. On one hand it has sucked being me, telecommuting from the rochester ny area waiting for my dad to either get well or die … [he died tuesday, now we are doing the legal crap] on the other hand - beef on wick, spiedies, wings and white hots…and with the funeral this past weekend, all last week the food fairies had been making regular deliveries to the house. My god, we have 2 fridges full of food…and Otakuluki and mrAru and I went to see Wall-E and Hellboy 2 … ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2008, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-considered-low-end-that-you-love/457887/87 "2008-07-29T21:54:40Z")
I like most everything mentioned in this thread and I had a recent experience that I’ll share with one of my favorite low end foods. Hush Puppies, the fried balls of cornbread, from Long John Silvers. The bastards sell 12 of them for like a $1.20. Saturday I bought two of those for a total of 24. And that is what I had for lunch. My innards are just now starting to recover but it was worth it. ---
**Author:** ![3acresandatruck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/e79b87/32.png) [@3acresandatruck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3acresandatruck)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2008, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-considered-low-end-that-you-love/457887/88 "2008-07-29T22:15:54Z")
[QUOTE=FoieGrasIsEvil] **imagines the “mechanical seperation” process as a a bunch of greasy picking machines scraping the leftover cartialage from joint sections of bony carcasses, topped with whatever can be squegeed off the cutting room floor** Shudder. [/QUOTE] Don’t be silly, that’s not how they do it. It’s like [this](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanically_separated_meat) : > [@](#): > > Mechanically separated meat (MSM), also known as mechanically recovered/reclaimed meat (MRM), is a paste-like meat product produced by forcing beef, pork or chicken bones, with attached edible meat, under high pressure through a sieve or similar device to separate the bone from the edible meat tissue. Mechanically separated meat has been used in certain meat and meat products since the late 1960s. Mmmmmm…meat goo… ---
**Author:** ![parsnip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parsnip/32/4564_2.png) [@parsnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/parsnip)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2008, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-considered-low-end-that-you-love/457887/89 "2008-07-29T23:34:19Z")
Hormel “tamales” --love 'em with cheese and sour cream. The sauce glows in the dark. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2008, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-considered-low-end-that-you-love/457887/90 "2008-07-29T23:43:56Z")
[QUOTE=Sattua] I really, really like white zinfandel. I’m a horrible person, I know it. [/QUOTE] Which Jerry Springer episode were you on? ---
**Author:** ![vison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e47774/32.png) [@vison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vison)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-considered-low-end-that-you-love/457887/91 "2008-07-30T01:04:23Z")
Yeah, and remember there’s no such thing as a tuna-flaking machine . . . White bread, cold sliced chicken, slathered with Miracle Whip and lots of salt and pepper. Divine. OTOH, my boys had chums over and I fixed weiners and beans for them and the visitors had NEVER had beans. Never had beans? I wonder if they are really Earth-boys. They could be alien imposters. Jeez. I mean, what kid hasn’t had beans? These guys wouldn’t eat them, so it was PB and jelly. At least they were familiar with PB and jelly. ---
**Author:** ![MadPansy64](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@MadPansy64](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadPansy64)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-considered-low-end-that-you-love/457887/92 "2008-07-30T01:54:05Z")
[QUOTE=vison] OTOH, my boys had chums over and I fixed weiners and beans for them and the visitors had NEVER had beans. Never had beans? I wonder if they are really Earth-boys. They could be alien imposters. Jeez. I mean, what kid hasn’t had beans? These guys wouldn’t eat them, so it was PB and jelly. At least they were familiar with PB and jelly. [/QUOTE] Years ago, I was chatting with a neighbor, and mentioned something about making beans. I don’t remember what exactly, could have been anything from “Cheap Groceries R Us has a sale” to a overstrong onion to the merits of hamhocks v. side pork. Anyway, she commenced to panicked blinking, and changed the subject. The next morning, there was a bag of groceries (tuna, noodles, oatmeal, canned soup, nonperishable staple stuff) on our front porch. A good half hour of “WTF?” and two cups of coffee later, it dawned on me! After carefully and delicately explaining to my neighbor that some non-southern, not-poverty-stricken, gringos actually like beans, we agreed to donate the “donation” to the local food bank. When I mentioned the incident to my mother, she said almost exactly the same thing had happened to her 30 years earlier. Quite a few people just don’t know beans, I guess. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![NicePete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-considered-low-end-that-you-love/457887/93 "2008-07-30T01:56:50Z")
[QUOTE=Mr. Excellent] Spam! [/QUOTE] Bloody Vikings! ---
**Author:** ![vison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e47774/32.png) [@vison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vison)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-considered-low-end-that-you-love/457887/94 "2008-07-30T03:29:52Z")
[QUOTE=MadPansy64] Years ago, I was chatting with a neighbor, and mentioned something about making beans. I don’t remember what exactly, could have been anything from “Cheap Groceries R Us has a sale” to a overstrong onion to the merits of hamhocks v. side pork. Anyway, she commenced to panicked blinking, and changed the subject. The next morning, there was a bag of groceries (tuna, noodles, oatmeal, canned soup, nonperishable staple stuff) on our front porch. A good half hour of “WTF?” and two cups of coffee later, it dawned on me! After carefully and delicately explaining to my neighbor that some non-southern, not-poverty-stricken, gringos actually like beans, we agreed to donate the “donation” to the local food bank. When I mentioned the incident to my mother, she said almost exactly the same thing had happened to her 30 years earlier. Quite a few people just don’t know beans, I guess. 😃 [/QUOTE] :eek: For the luvva pete! Well, I guess I thought everyone ate beans. The English are awfully fond of beans on toast, I know. And they seem to be a side dish at every BBQ and pot luck supper. My sons had them most Saturdays for lunch, with or without weiners, in special little crockery bowls that they treasure to this day. I like beans myself. Now and again I have beans for lunch, with buttered white bread. I have made Boston-style baked beans many times over the years and I’ve made fancy cassoulets, as well. Beans is beans. Wonderful white bean chowder made with navy beans, bacon, and heavy cream: more delicious than you can imagine. I think I might just write a Haiku about beans. They deserve acclaim and praise. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-considered-low-end-that-you-love/457887/95 "2008-07-30T04:32:37Z")
[QUOTE=Khadaji] A few years back a woman that I know had her son go off to a fancy prep school. I sent him a care package and one of the things I put in was those tuna packets with crackers so you can make an instant snack. He said: Mom, is this cat food? Did (Uncle) Khadaji send me cat food? What kind of kid never saw tuna in a can before? [/QUOTE] He probably did, but in his house it was only fed to the kitties. > [@ralph124c](#): > > I love potatoe salad! Also, German-style (warm) potatoe salad is wonderful! Plain cold bland white potato(e) salad is low end. Hot German red potato salad, with the mustard, vinegar 'n’at, is a damn sight classier. ---
**Author:** ![Ducktail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/43a26b/32.png) [@Ducktail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ducktail)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-considered-low-end-that-you-love/457887/96 "2008-07-30T07:42:48Z")
My high school made the best nachos ever. Generic corn chips, cheese (possibly fake cheese), watery-ish salsa (good for me because I don’t like it too hot) and lots of sour cream. What really made it wonderful, though, was the big helpings of Government Ground Beef that came with it. This being ground beef issued by one of the most overwhelmed school districts in the country (Clark County), I don’t even want to know what was in it, but I could eat it by the spoonful. It was greasy, sweet-tasting, and absolutely delicious. ---
**Author:** ![Creaky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-considered-low-end-that-you-love/457887/97 "2008-07-30T08:30:52Z")
Another vote for Spam, except I use Spam Lite. Cheap off-brand vanilla ice cream, any kind, pref. the sort in a flimsy paper container. Also love Underwood Deviled Ham and Deviled Chicken. Straight out of the little can or on lo-carb crackers or bread. Tomato sandwiches with tons of mayonnaise, NoSalt and pepper. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-considered-low-end-that-you-love/457887/98 "2008-07-30T09:28:37Z")
Vienna sausages cooked with rice. 🙂 I make a damn good recipe, cheap, and fills me up (can’t find my post). Beans are good too… I didn’t understand when I was a kid why beans were rarely showcased in cooking shows… and not only that, but when they were, the people talked about soaking the beans… Huh? They hadn’t heard of canned beans? ---
**Author:** ![legalsnugs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@legalsnugs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/legalsnugs)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-considered-low-end-that-you-love/457887/99 "2008-07-30T10:23:12Z")
Rice-a-roni, the San Francisco treat!! By itself or with anything added. Life’s good. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-considered-low-end-that-you-love/457887/100 "2008-07-30T12:45:49Z")
[QUOTE=aruvqan] mmmm beef on wick … spiedies … white hots … real buffalo wings. On one hand it has sucked being me, telecommuting from the rochester ny area waiting for my dad to either get well or die … [he died tuesday, now we are doing the legal crap] [/QUOTE] My condolences, aruvgan. I can’t contribute any comfort food, though. I don’t know how to mail buffalo wings and I don’t have any idea what the rest of that stuff even _is_! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-considered-low-end-that-you-love/457887.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/foods-considered-low-end-that-you-love/457887.md?page=6)