# What common food items have you never had? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 4, 2016, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-common-food-items-have-you-never-had/761749 "2016-08-04T16:37:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-common-food-items-have-you-never-had/761749/81 "2016-08-06T11:59:59Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Two more things I never had, in addition to Spam and Twinkies. > > When I was a kid, we always had a huge garden of veggies and picked fruit and berries in the wild. And my mother bought most of her meat and dairy from local farmers or butchers. And we also canned lots of fruit and veggies. So a lot of what we ate was home-grown or home-made. We really weren’t exposed to a lot of junk food or pre-digested crap. Except for a ton of candy, post-Halloween. During the Depression, Grandma grew lots of her own food. Raised pigs & chickens–so the family did its own slaughtering. Also did plenty of canning, etc. By the time we (mother & my siblings) moved back to Texas, Grandma & Mom (both widows) had full time jobs. There was not so much time for growing food–or so much poverty. We also enjoyed modern conveniences–like indoor plumbing; outhouses suck. Grandma did use lots of old recipes & we had plenty of “real” food. She managed the elementary school cafeteria & food was actually pretty good there. I know the food at Jr High was quite a shock. The Spam was only occasional–a hangover from Depression poverty & Wartime rationing. The La Choy & Chef BoyArDee were mentioned because they were initial steps in discovering “exotic” food. We soon learned there was better stuff to be had & even better possibilities opened up later. “Living off the land” is an interesting concept but can be limiting. ---
**Author:** ![Brodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cc9497/32.png) [@Brodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brodi)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-common-food-items-have-you-never-had/761749/82 "2016-08-06T14:31:58Z")
Lobster I’ve only had a few sips of beer and wine, so any alcohol that isn’t those two. Frogs Legs Dragon Fruit Organ Meats ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-common-food-items-have-you-never-had/761749/83 "2016-08-06T15:42:54Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > Other than tongue, I have never had organ meats alone. Granted I have had haggis. I’ve had hot dogs, so I assume I’ve eaten organ meats as well. I’ve never had fois gras (perhaps not common) and I’ve never had most French food. I don’t think I’ve ever eaten in a French restaurant. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-common-food-items-have-you-never-had/761749/84 "2016-08-06T15:51:26Z")
I don’t think I’ve ever had anything called a “nugget” of any sort. There are thousands of cereals that have never crossed my lips, like Trix, Capn Crunch, Alphabits, Froot Loops, Frosted Flakes, blahblahblah. I’ve never had a “Lunchable”. ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-common-food-items-have-you-never-had/761749/85 "2016-08-06T15:57:14Z")
Having been served cooked oysters (as in oyster stew) as a child and disliking it, I’ve also never tried raw oysters. Because I find the smell terribly offputting, I have never eaten blue cheese. There are numerous other things that I choose not to eat because I’ve tried them and not liked them, but I’m always game to taste anything once. ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-common-food-items-have-you-never-had/761749/86 "2016-08-06T17:34:50Z")
Another one I have never had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-common-food-items-have-you-never-had/761749/87 "2016-08-06T17:45:25Z")
I don’t recall ever drinking coffee. I absolutely refuse to eat soft crabs. You know, these posts would make great lyrics to a country and western song. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-common-food-items-have-you-never-had/761749/88 "2016-08-06T17:54:27Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Big Mac. They have that yellow goop they call cheese on them. > > The McRib is disgusting on the face of it. Re: McRib. You’re not missing anything Tried it once. Reminded of this scene from the Simpsons. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/xjachnwkRfA/maxresdefault.jpg "Homer Simpson tries a McRib (RibWich)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjachnwkRfA) ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-common-food-items-have-you-never-had/761749/89 "2016-08-06T18:03:50Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > I don’t think I’ve ever had anything called a “nugget” of any sort. > > There are thousands of cereals that have never crossed my lips, like Trix, Capn Crunch, Alphabits, Froot Loops, Frosted Flakes, blahblahblah. > > I’ve never had a “Lunchable”. Re: Lunchables. You’re not missing anything. Worst tasting meat I’ve ever eaten. How this company manages to stay in business is beyond me. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-common-food-items-have-you-never-had/761749/90 "2016-08-06T21:35:37Z")
> [@furryman](#): > > Re: Lunchables. You’re not missing anything. Worst tasting meat I’ve ever eaten. How this company manages to stay in business is beyond me. They’re also very expensive for the amount of food you get in them. However, they are fairly popular with parents of small children, for the convenience, if their kids will eat them. When the Lunchables Funpacks came out, the first packages had the word “Funpack” emblazoned across the package, and it was opened by tearing off a center strip. (You can probably guess where this is leading) Adults in the graphic arts and marketing departments totally missed this, but small children did not, and they got enough complaints from parents whose kids pointed out that their lunch had a bad word on it 😛 that they changed the graphics. (Small children and people who do not read English also see the arrow in the FedEx logo. It’s there, between the E and the X.) We ate Spam a lot when I was a kid, and I sometimes had it in my early adulthood, but I haven’t had it in ages, mainly because I can and do eat better cuts of meat now. It’s actually not bad when fried to the point where it has a bit of a crust on it. I think in our family’s case, it was more convenience than budget. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-common-food-items-have-you-never-had/761749/91 "2016-08-06T21:38:37Z")
[quote=“furryman, post:88, topic:761749”] Re: McRib. You’re not missing anything Tried it once. Reminded of this scene from the Simpsons. [/QUOTE] A while back, one of my Facebook friends posted that he had never had one, and decided to try it. It was worth it just to read the post; it was hilarious. Among other things, he said, “I’ve lived 53 years without eating one, and I can live another 53 the same way.” 😛 ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-common-food-items-have-you-never-had/761749/92 "2016-08-06T23:47:21Z")
If they ever need a list of the most isolated, least adventurous, naugahyde-pallated people on the planet, all they have to do is look on the Dope. It’s really rather embarrassing. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2016, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-common-food-items-have-you-never-had/761749/93 "2016-08-07T01:37:23Z")
YOU LIE! If you enjoy their taste, hence the: > [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > mmm then how can claim to have not eaten: > [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > Nutella > Pomegranate > Turnips > Liver > Hard cider :p:p:p > [@digs](#): > > My god, you people. Live a little! > > Unless it involves beets. Then lock yourself in your house with no computer and no phone and barricade the “Come onnnn, tryyyyy it…” hordes out. That. Which is probably why nobody at the Straight Dope messageboards eats them. so then: Big Mac spam fish taco liver eggplant crawfish Nutella corn dog frog’s legs caviar baba ganoush head cheese escargot Whopper maybe one or two sips of coffee in my life (FUCKING GROSS!!!) haggis pig’s feet turnips dog sweetbreads mutton bread ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2016, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-common-food-items-have-you-never-had/761749/94 "2016-08-07T01:38:56Z")
ok I might be joshin on that last one ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2016, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-common-food-items-have-you-never-had/761749/95 "2016-08-07T01:41:20Z")
I love beets. ---
**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2016, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-common-food-items-have-you-never-had/761749/96 "2016-08-07T17:42:30Z")
When I was a kid we fairly often had baked Spam. Mom would treat it like a real ham – cut lines into it, poke it with cloves, put something like maple syrup over it, then bake it. We liked it, but then, we didn’t know any better. Mom grew up during the depression and was good at stretching a dollar. I have never eaten head cheese. It looks and smells disgusting to me. My husband used to eat it until I told him what it was made of. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2016, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-common-food-items-have-you-never-had/761749/97 "2016-08-07T18:41:37Z")
> [@kayT](#): > > I love beets. Me, too. Just not pickled. I used to love pickled beets as a child but then one day a switch just flipped and I haven’t been able to stand them since. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2016, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-common-food-items-have-you-never-had/761749/98 "2016-08-07T19:14:14Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > If they ever need a list of the most isolated, least adventurous, naugahyde-pallated people on the planet, all they have to do is look on the Dope. It’s really rather embarrassing. There’s a great article in today’s NYTimes magazine about how the pretentious, over-monied, self-important assholes of the SF tech region have fucked up the idea of what “cuisine” means. You might wanna read it. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2016, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-common-food-items-have-you-never-had/761749/99 "2016-08-08T00:14:32Z")
I’ve never drank coffee. I’ve inadvertently tried coffee flavored ice cream and candy but I’ve never tried the real thing. It just smells gross to me and why would someone drink something that wasn’t cold and refreshing? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2016, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-common-food-items-have-you-never-had/761749/100 "2016-08-08T00:31:40Z")
> [@furryman](#): > > Re: Lunchables. You’re not missing anything. Worst tasting meat I’ve ever eaten. How this company manages to stay in business is beyond me. Kraft Foods? They are not going out of business over Lunchables. :rolleyes: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-common-food-items-have-you-never-had/761749.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-common-food-items-have-you-never-had/761749.md?page=6)