# What an odd insult **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 22, 2016, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-an-odd-insult/772748 "2016-11-22T16:37:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [November 22, 2016, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-an-odd-insult/772748/1 "2016-11-22T16:37:10Z")
I am not entirely certain how to take it either … I was hanging out with a bunch of buddies on teamspeak while they were questioning me about what I planned to make for our American Thanksgiving … [doing Jas Townsend’s 17th Century Thanksgiving - they have several videos about it up on their youtube channel] and they heard me eating. WHen asked what I was eating, I said I was lazy and finishing off some of the canned stuff my brother had in the cupboard before it aged out. I am nothing if not che\\frugal. When pushed, I confessed that it was unheated spaghetti-os. A couple of them laughed and said something in Norwegian [or Danish, they are close enough that when they start babbling they will shift between both as it is my ‘viking’ EVE Online corp mates] and when I pushed, they told me they all agreed that I eat like a special forces guy … when pushed even further, they explained it is because when they are out in town they like to go for the more gourmet end of the food chain, when they are in the field they will eat pretty much anything that doesn’t eat them first … _sigh_ and in corp I am known for discussing eating stuff most of my countrymen would rather keep as pets or put in a zoo rather than on the dinner table … so I asked how they got their from spaghetti-os, and they told me how bad some of the MRE equivalents the guys have are [really, dehydrated fish patties, eeewwww even _I_ have standards] and one guy was known for bringing of all things, spaghetti os and ravioli os and eating them cold out of the can … ---
**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2016, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-an-odd-insult/772748/2 "2016-11-22T16:56:42Z")
I will eat refried beans out of the can. Salt helps, but isn’t really necessary. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2016, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-an-odd-insult/772748/3 "2016-11-22T19:12:55Z")
OMG, you eat puppies and kittens??!! ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2016, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-an-odd-insult/772748/4 "2016-11-22T19:17:37Z")
I don’t see their comments as a insult. However, eating that crap cold out the can would certainly justify an insult or two. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2016, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-an-odd-insult/772748/5 "2016-11-22T19:39:41Z")
You think that’s crazy, I had a coworker who poured orange juice instead of milk on her Raisin Bran! ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2016, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-an-odd-insult/772748/6 "2016-11-22T19:51:27Z")
Just one step away from the breakfast of champions (beer and …) I’m not sure I see the insult either, unless you don’t like being compared to a special forces guy. Or was it the part about eating pets? I’d need more detail there. ---
**Author:** ![Whiskey\_Dickens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9fc348/32.png) [@Whiskey\_Dickens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whiskey_Dickens)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2016, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-an-odd-insult/772748/7 "2016-11-22T19:53:08Z")
I’m not shocked that a lady eating cold spaghetti-o’s straight from the can, loudly enough to be noticed in the middle of a conference call, was odd to Northern Europeans. Questions that I would be wondering if I were them: Could you wait until the call was over? Is there no way to heat them up in a dish? Why would you eat canned spaghetti in the first place? Cooked spaghetti is about as difficult to prepare as making ice in a tray. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2016, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-an-odd-insult/772748/8 "2016-11-22T20:44:37Z")
I make my ice in a cube. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2016, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-an-odd-insult/772748/9 "2016-11-22T20:46:20Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > You think that’s crazy, I had a coworker who poured orange juice instead of milk on her Raisin Bran! I used to do that all the time, when camping. Orange juice keeps longer without refrigeration. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2016, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-an-odd-insult/772748/10 "2016-11-22T20:57:38Z")
They laughed because you, while at home, ate something nasty that, in their experience, only soldiers out in the field would eat. I would take it as a tip to not eat like desperate soldiers out in the field eat. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2016, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-an-odd-insult/772748/11 "2016-11-23T18:06:43Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > They laughed because you, while at home, ate something nasty that, in their experience, only soldiers out in the field would eat. > > I would take it as a tip to not eat like desperate soldiers out in the field eat. Or at least put your machine on Mute. ---
**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:** [November 23, 2016, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-an-odd-insult/772748/12 "2016-11-23T21:12:44Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > OMG, you eat puppies and kittens??!! Never eaten cat that I know of, but I have been served dog. Stringy, sort of pork like in flavor. As long as it was raised as a meat animal and not a pet, I got no problem eating them. I raise my own poultry frequently [one year we raised turkeys - named them Roast, Giblet, Divan, and had a baby sheep named Lambchop and not after the puppet =)] > [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > Just one step away from the breakfast of champions (beer and …) > > I’m not sure I see the insult either, unless you don’t like being compared to a special forces guy. Or was it the part about eating pets? I’d need more detail there. Like i said I wasn’t entirely certain if it was meant as an insult … > [@Whiskey\_Dickens](#): > > I’m not shocked that a lady eating cold spaghetti-o’s straight from the can, loudly enough to be noticed in the middle of a conference call, was odd to Northern Europeans. > Questions that I would be wondering if I were them: > > Could you wait until the call was over? > Is there no way to heat them up in a dish? > Why would you eat canned spaghetti in the first place? Cooked spaghetti is about as difficult to prepare as making ice in a tray. It wsa the last few scrapes to get the errant few noodles that made the noise. I was eating them cold because I was upstairs and don’t have a means of heating food upstairs and was having a really crunchy body day and didn’t feel like getting up and going downstairs, I was happy sitting in bed and chatting with my buddies. Besides, Tobix [one of the Germans] slurps his soup while chatting … And I was polishing off some canned goods my brother had in the cupboards before they aged out. ANd I really have nothing against canned pasta, it serves a purpose [when combined with a jar of 3 bean salad and a single serve apple sauce turns into a reasonable meal for a one meal sort of day - at least I managed to get close to 1800 calories to stay down.] > [@Slash1972](#): > > They laughed because you, while at home, ate something nasty that, in their experience, only soldiers out in the field would eat. > > I would take it as a tip to not eat like desperate soldiers out in the field eat. I suppose =) Though I could share my recipe for Ranger pudding if you have a case of MREs to pick and choose ingredient components from =) > [@gigi](#): > > Or at least put your machine on Mute. Like I said, it was going after the last few noodles that was making the noise =) ---
**Author:** ![si\_blakely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@si\_blakely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/si_blakely)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2016, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-an-odd-insult/772748/13 "2016-11-23T22:47:06Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > I raise my own poultry frequently [one year we raised turkeys - named them Roast, Giblet, Divan, and had a baby sheep named Lambchop and not after the puppet =) Yes, my wife was not impressed when I suggested to our small-holding friends that the lambs be called “Christmas”, “Easter”, and “Family Get-Together”. Our son helped raise the lambs and prepare them for showing, and we had to keep quiet about the source of the side of lamb in the freezer later that year. But he figured it out and munched down with the rest of us. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2016, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-an-odd-insult/772748/14 "2016-11-23T23:58:42Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > I suppose =) Though I could share my recipe for Ranger pudding if you have a case of MREs to pick and choose ingredient components from Been there, done that 🙂 You shouldn’t take it as an insult really, just some friends giving you shit. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2016, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-an-odd-insult/772748/15 "2016-11-24T00:52:32Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > They laughed because you, while at home, ate something nasty that, in their experience, only soldiers out in the field would eat. > > I would take it as a tip to not eat like desperate soldiers out in the field eat. > [@Slash1972](#): > > … > > You shouldn’t take it as an insult really, just some friends giving you shit. I didn’t see it as an insult. Actually it was kind of a backhanded compliment. My secret (no longer!) food indulgence is canned ravioli. I don’t eat it cold…but I could. ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2016, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-an-odd-insult/772748/16 "2016-11-24T02:02:39Z")
I keep a couple cans of soup in the desk drawer at work for times I don’t bring anything or feel like ordering delivery. I eat it straight from the can, I don’t see the point in bothering with dirtying a dish and going all the way to the kitchen to heat it up. By the time I get to the bottom of the bowl it’s room temperature again anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2016, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-an-odd-insult/772748/17 "2016-11-24T02:17:53Z")
Don’t sweat it. If every gamer-guy who bloviated on Teamspeak that said they were in the “Special Forces” ever actually was… or even had every medal they pretended… …the average weight of a “Special Forces” team member would be 450 lbs, they would need senior citizen scooters to get them back and forth from their OPs, and before they ever “bugged out” they’d need special permission from their Moms to stay out over-night from the basement. ---
**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:** [November 24, 2016, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-an-odd-insult/772748/18 "2016-11-24T08:28:01Z")
> [@si\_blakely](#): > > Yes, my wife was not impressed when I suggested to our small-holding friends that the lambs be called “Christmas”, “Easter”, and “Family Get-Together”. > > Our son helped raise the lambs and prepare them for showing, and we had to keep quiet about the source of the side of lamb in the freezer later that year. > But he figured it out and munched down with the rest of us. 😃 Mom was a farm girl and they ate what they raised, and she never sugar coated where food came from for us kids, so the idea of eating what I raise is not that odd to me but most people don’t get up close and personal with their food =) > [@Slash1972](#): > > Been there, done that 🙂 > > You shouldn’t take it as an insult really, just some friends giving you shit. We have been friends for some 8 or 9 years now, I give shit back just as much =) > [@ThelmaLou](#): > > I didn’t see it as an insult. Actually it was kind of a backhanded compliment. > > My secret (no longer!) food indulgence is canned ravioli. I don’t eat it cold…but I could. As long as whatever I am eating isn’t something I am actively allergic to I can eat pretty much anything and look like I am enjoying it - trained to be polite when invited over to some friends house by my mom [when you grow up during the depression, if someone was expending their resources to feed you, _be polite_!] It isn’t something I would seek out, but I don’t tend to waste edible food. > [@Count\_Blucher](#): > > Don’t sweat it. > If every gamer-guy who bloviated on Teamspeak that said they were in the “Special Forces” ever actually was… or even had every medal they pretended… > > …the average weight of a “Special Forces” team member would be 450 lbs, they would need senior citizen scooters to get them back and forth from their OPs, and before they ever “bugged out” they’d need special permission from their Moms to stay out over-night from the basement. LOL. Very true, though I have actually lived with special forces guys before and we do joke with each other about not having to worry about what to feed them because they will eat anything that doesn’t eat them first/get away fast enough. 😃 I know one of my viking corpies because he was introduced to me by one of my spec buddies who did some sort of joint training thing with them a few times back in the day. Save ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2016, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-an-odd-insult/772748/19 "2016-11-28T22:40:15Z")
I’ve eaten corned beef hash cold out of the can. The cheap stuff. The stuff you take one look at and say “Here, boy! Here, boy!” (I mean, it technically isn’t sold as dog food… ) I also used to eat ranch dressing on raisin bran. You decide which was weirder.