I may have missed it, but has nobody mentioned Marmite yet?
I grew up with Marmite toast and it’s a comfort food to this day.
My wife almost barfs at the idea, though….
Well, they certainly smell good while being roasted. But flavor-wise, yeah - blechh 
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That and Vegemite, I can eat on buttered toast- but spread very thin.
Same here! I always keep several boxes of the packaged ones at home, and also keep some at work.
Marmite, NZ marmite, vegemite, promite, mighty mite, cenovis, I love it all.
I just zapped 4 White Castle burgers in the microwave. It’s funny how I feel like I’ve eaten a lot when there was a time I’d think nothing of downing a dozen.
True. It’s just an alien idea to me.
Vienna Sausages -
Pigs in a blanket
open the can. Heat, slit, add a small slice of cheese, wrap in crescent roll dough and bake.
I sometimes take Vienna Sausages, mustard packs, and sour dough bread on car trips . Slice them in half. They make a quick sandwich at a roadside park.
Vienna Sausages sandwiches are very satisfying in a deer stand too.
I could actually enjoy Vienna Sausages if they weren’t packed in mucus.
I’ve wondered why the goo is in the can. Hot dogs are packaged without that stuff.
I rinse off Vienna Sausages and pat dry with paper towel at home. It removes some of the salt.
Seeing them on on a paper towel reminds me of a Bris. 
It’s just aspic. Who doesn’t love meat jelly 
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I loved Vienna sausages as a snack when I was a little kid, then didn’t eat them for over a decade. Started again in my early twenties when I got a job where someone ran a store out of a locker with quick meals/treats (Cup 'o Noodles, canned chili, not-Hostess fruit pies, Vienna sausage, supermarket-branded soda, etc.). Ate them again occasionally on the job for a year or two until one day I was halfway through a can then suddenly got thoroughly revolted and had to toss them. Haven’t touched them since.
I didn’t know Aspic has health benfits. I need to stop washing it off the V. sausages.
Once we had to give a pill to one of the digs and were out of pill hiders. We did have a can of Vienna sausages though, opened it, and inserted the pill into half a sausage. The dog took a couple sniffs and rejected it.
I used to love Vienna sausages, but the last time I tried one, the texture was off-putting. They were softer than hot dogs, more pasty than firm, and a little grainy, too. Not at all as I remembered them. Son-in law loves them, though, and we bought him a case of Vienna sausages from Costco.
Ooh, I’d pay top dollar for a sampler, like half an ounce of each. I’ve never had any of them and have wondered for years. I sometimes encounter retail jars of Mar or Veg in person but am always intimidated by the substantial size, highish cost, and, especially, polarizing reputations, both the product genre and the brands, country of origin, vintage, etc.
Approximite, ersatzimite, Hansolomite, clandestinite, chickentonite.
If you get the chance, try it on some toast or english muffin with melted butter. Put it on VERY THINLY. If the taste agrees with you, build on that. I love it on the muffin with butter, sharp cheddar, egg, bacon or sausage, and some sun dried tomatoes, for a breakfast sandwich. Works well in stews and chowders too. The swiss product, Cenovis is my most favorite, with the english marmite a close second. Vegemite is good too but a tad more bitter. NZ marmite is ok when I lack the others.
I had the opportunity to try them in the UK and Australia, where i was offered a single slice of toast and a jar of the stuff. I felt they were okay. Very salty, very umami, the actual flavor is weird but not actually that strong. I could learn to like them, but I’ve never really had occasion to.
But does it have Larks’ tongues in it?
Me? I hate the gelatin they used (use?) to pack canned hams. Made me nauseated when I was a kid. On the Great British Baking Show when they did “Pie Day,” it was always meat pies, and they often used gelatin to fill in the crevices. Still makes me want to hurl.
Let’s see, items I like that have been mentioned:
There’s still a place in my kitchen for those processed American cheese-food singles. Sometimes a basic grilled cheese (other times, I’ll use mozzarella with garlic/parmesan/basil butter), sometimes a kid-style bologna and cheese with just a little mayo (just enough for a little moisture and flavor, not enough to goop out at me.
Mary Kitchen roast beef hash, Dinty Moore beef stew, Nissin or Maruchan ramen: all are pantry staples over here. We both like the beef stew and ramen, DH isn’t crazy about the hash but I like it. We keep more on hand than we used to, after experiencing the supply shortages of 2020.
DH still likes the Chef Boyardee ravioli, while I never did.
Canned chili is also a staple over here, and we typically keep both “with beans” and “no beans” on hand, for different applications. Chili mac (box mac & cheese, canned chili, drained canned corn, perhaps some extra cheese) happens at least once a month.
Taco Bell is a nice fallback, and neither of us have digestive after-effects from eating there. In fact, my husband insists that his digestive system is somehow especially attuned to the food there.
I’m still fond of the Monster Cereals that come out around Halloween. We also have Malt-o-Meal’s puffed rice cereals on hand, in both chocolate and fruit flavors.
We keep Spam around (we do buy the lower-sodium, since I do have some blood pressure issues, and we both think the lower-sodium tastes a bit better). MIL used to make a tasty Spam hash that I don’t seem to have figured out doing as well, and DH has recently developed an addiction to Spam musubi.
Oscar Meyer cheese hot dogs.
Fast-food fish sandwiches, although the Filet-o-Fish is low on the list (reminds me too much of grade-school cafeteria fish sticks). I prefer Jack-in-the-Box or Burger King there. Like most fast-food sandwiches, I order them plain (just the meat and the bun, please). I don’t enjoy hot, wilted lettuce and I dislike tartar sauce. I also don’t enjoy how heavy-handed fast-food cooks get with the condiments, since I prefer to not wind up wearing portions of my meal. I still refuse to eat at Carl’s Jr. after that nauseating ad campaign bragging about how messy their food is.