I’ve never licked my cats ass, but it has to taste better than Spaghetti-o’s. Jeebus, that was nasty. Fond memories of childhood aside, spaghetti-o’s taste like the business end of a sewer pipe.
I can hardly believe I used to like them as a kid. I needed somethng for lunch a day ago and the shoppette on this post is close by. So i got some spaghetti-o’s thinking they’d at least taste like…you know, spaghetti. By Crom was I smeggin’ wrong. If those meatballs are indeed real meat they must get them from the sickest, nastiest, rancid cows on the face of the earth. It didn’t even taste like real food! I’ve had old style MRE’s that tasted better…and anyone that was in the military a decade ago knows how the pork patty MRE tasted like pork balls. Guess what…it tastes better than Spaghetti-o’s.
Do people really feed this shit to their kids nowadays? I had to gargle for ten minutes to get the foul taste out of my mouth.
As an adult you may have a bit more sophisticated palate than you did at 6. I haven’t eaten them in years either but as a kid I liked them well enough.
I don’t know when you were a kid but I can tell you that they absolutely do not taste the way they did 35 years ago.
They were never gourmet, but they did NOT used to tast like yak vomit.
Ditto Franco American canned Macaroni and Cheese, a childhood comfort food of mine that the last time I had it was more disappointing than the crushing blow that led me to seek comfort food in the first place.
Yes, I did that a few years ago, I bought a can of Franco-American Raviolio’s which I used to love to eat with Ritz crackers. Mistake!! At the time I thought, they must have changed the recipe, but it’s probably just my adult palate not agreeing with my childhood palate.
I used to eat my Spagettio’s with Parmesan Cheese and Fritos. YUM!!!
Well, when I was in chemo twelve years ago and couldn’t get that nasty metallic taste out of my mouth for weeks at a time, Spaghettios were just the thing. I didn’t even barf them up or anything, usually.
I didn’t get the kind with meatballs, though. ::shudder::
Canned pasta of any stripe never tastes like anything Mama used to make. The only spaghetti-like canned food I can tolerate is Heinz spaghetti – and even then I have to have it with toast in order to give the meal some body. Otherwise it’s like eating thin tomato-flavoured over noodles that have been left in the water for three days.
I think it is the memories colliding with reality. Reality usually wins. I found them WAY too sweet and the meatballs were totally YUK. But, I loved them lots when I was young. And now I love artichokes and snails. Whereas, I could not stomach 'em when I was young.
Actually, this part is true. At least, mostly true: the lowest grade beef, lower than commercial, utility, and cutter grade is US Canning Grade Beef. Delicious!
Although Spaghetti-O’s aren’t haute cuisine, I’ve never had that bad a reaction to them. Gargling afterwards seems over the top.
Are you sure the can hadn’t gone bad, or something? What was the “Use By” date?
I never used to eat them as a kid. One day, when I was about 8, my mom thought she would get them for me as a treat. Her freinds had told her how her kids liked them. I had one spoonfull and refused to eat the rest. I never liked them.
Spagetio’s gross me out, and it takes a lot to gross me out. I just cooked a pork hock stew because I wanted to find out what pork hock was all about. It’s a bit fatty if you must know.
