In one of those Upper Midwest restaurants where the trophies on the walls glare down at you, I ordered duck breast medallions. The flavor was not so bad, but the texture was exactly like eating the fat off a pot roast. I really dislike beef fat.
Potted meat product on wilted crackers. Bad enough, but the crackers were wilted because they were served on a dish in an apartment cranked up to about 90 degrees. (With three dozen people in and out, and two dozen of them smoking.) Gave them that certain je ne sais quoi.
Canned asparagus - slimy, foul-tasting, nasty-smelling, rubbery, stringy sticks. This was the only asparagus my mother served when I was growing up.
The first time I had fresh grilled asparagus I couldn’t believe it was the same vegetable.
Jesus Christ. Er, Moses and Aaron on a stick!
Mrs. Plant v.2.0 cooked eggs and matzoh brei until they smelled like burned hair.
Her daughter would eat gefillte fish while drinking chocolate milk.
The two most nasty things that I have refused to eat.
:rolleyes:
Sounds like bad examples of good food. Don’t blame the poor matza brei!
Fried brains and scrambled eggs.
Cozido: a traditional Portuguese dish that can be okay or dreadful, depending on your economic status. I had the latter version, which contained things like pigs’ feet, ears, gristle and other unidentifiable parts, all boiled with potatoes, cabbage, onions, perhaps an old shoe, then dumped on a plate and doused with olive oil. It was one of the few things I’ve been unable to eat.
Soylent Pizza. :eek:
“How does it taste?”
“Oh, it varies from person to person.”
Pig brains with milk gravy.
“For taste and more it’s On-Cor”
Damn it… now that’s stuck in my head.
Lutefisk. cod soaked in lye to preserve it then washed . Can you say salty fish jello
I like mofongo (I love anything made from green plantains), but I’ve never had it with unwashed masses on top. Can’t say I’m excited to try mofongo a la refugee. 
Washed then boiled
Yeah, I like the lasagna. How it can be so… well, decent, and everything else so lacking mystifies me.
I’ve had it in Puerto Rico, and mofongo is delicious, if not very heavy and filling.
For me, the only one that comes to mind is surströmming. Take your pick of video. The stuff is amazingly rancid, and I like stinky, strongly flavored foods. The smell is like a cross between a dog’s ass and a rotting human corpse. And the protestations of those who say it doesn’t taste as bad as it smells are b.s. It tastes exactly as bad as it smells.
I kinda like that, but it’s usually very expensive, so i can skip it.
That’s funny; just the other day my fiancee and I were doing some errands, and our last task was the grocery store. Before going into the store we decided to get dinner at a restaurant in the same shopping center. The place was crazy busy and our server took our order, then just flat-out forgot about us. We sat there for 40 minutes with nothing but water, had a word with the manager, and then left.
We went into the grocery store and after getting what we needed to pick up from there, we headed over to the frozen food section to pick out something for dinner. I was looking over the frozen lasagna and the “Meat Lovers” Stouffer’s lasagna was twice as much, but I bought it rather than the On-Cor because I figured something like that should cost more than $3.50.
But perhaps I’ll give it shot sometime; I have had and enjoyed the $3.50 salisbury steak described in the OP (yeah, I’ve got pretty low food standards).
Well, yup. I swear the sauce was not as candy-sweet when I was young, and it isn’t because I have ever had much of a sweet tooth.
ROFL.
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I do not want to know what you do for fun.
Dear ghod. This is like someone saying they like Circus Peanuts drizzled with melted candy corn.
My food standards for my slumming times are pretty low - I mean, there’s nothing justifiable about Swanson’s salisbury steaks. But those En-Cor, On-Core, Up-Chuck things were absolutely the nastiest food I’ve ever had out of a grocery story box.