Actually I really like the smell of it brewing or especially if it’s being ground up in those machines that you don’t see in supermarkets anymore. (At least not in my neck of the woods). But the taste…where’s a hazmat container?
While perusing a related thread, it occurred to me that while I’ve had most of the other fine Chef Boy-ar-dee products, I’ve never eaten Spaghetti-Os in my whole entire life.
Tuna fish. The smell alone makes me gag.
Beef ribs. Just not done around here.
SpaghettiOs. I don’t care for Spaghetti so there’s no point. Give me raviolis anyday.
Indeed. Don’t blame your plebeian-assed diet on the midwest; I grew up in the midwest, too, and I’m not burdened by that particular handicap… Then again, I’m also twenty years younger than you, so maybe midwesterners had just stopped being scared of food by the eighties?
Also, I must have seen at least a half-dozen references to bugs on the first page: where the hell do you people live where bugs are a “common” food item? I mean, I did eat a worm on a dare, once, but I wouldn’t fix my mouth to call that “common”…
Biff and I would pop our monocles if the plebes ever got ahold of rice! Bosh! Flimshaw!
Why would he need to be TOLD what it’s made of? All he had to do was look at it and he’d have a pretty good shot at identifying the parts inside.
I’ve never been able to bring myself to try it. Bits of meat scraps suspended in a slice of meat-flavored Jell-O? Just no. Jell-O is supposed to be fruit-flavored. I don’t care for the idea of tomato aspic, either.
That said, neither of those counts as a common food item, so I’m still batting .000 on meeting the conditions of the thread title.
I was raised kosher, quit following those rules years ago, but to this day there’s just something about baked ham that skeeves me.
Bacon? - no problem
Prok Ribs? - delicious
Baked Ham - No way
First time I’ve heard of Lunchables, McRib burger and spaghetti-o .
Never had grits or hominy.
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I haven’t had a raw oyster either. Love fried and cooked ones, but haven’t ever really wanted to eat one. Plus, my Dad described them as being like a big cold loogie once, and that put me right off. My grandfather (Dad’s dad) used to pick them off the bottom while wade fishing and crack them open right there and slurp them down while (mostly) alive.
And for the record, I’m pretty sure **Vicsage **is pulling our legs and is full of shit, or he’s some kind of weirdo proto-Amish person. I refuse to believe that someone growing up in mainstream America, no matter how stereotypically Midwestern, won’t have had pizza, fish, rice, or macaroni and cheese.
I can sort of see not having had Mexican food; a small-town Iowan I know was totally apprehensive of Tex-Mex/Mexican food, as it wasn’t made with ingredients he recognized, and had different flavors, and wasn’t Taco Bell. We started him out on carne asada and fajitas- grilled beef and onions was something he could wrap his head around, and branch out from.
Actually Baptist. But the term weirdo proto-Amish seems kind of elitist and a touch micro-aggressive. And I am telling the truth. Just because your experiences don’t have people who don’t do what most everyone else does, doesn’t mean they don’t exist. And to further vex you, I’ve never had coffee either.
Not much that I can think of, but limiting it to common foods already mentioned (and a couple of others that they reminded me of):
Twinkie
*Taco Bell
Ramen noodles
Big Mac
Nutella
McRib
Pig’s feet
Head cheese
Souse meat
Scrapple
PB&J sandwich
*Although someone did once give my their Taco Bell order when they found out it wasn’t what they had ordered.
It’s hardly elitist to say someone’s full of shit for claiming not to have eaten some of the absolutely most common foods in the world.
It’s extraordinarily weird. Like living in a compound with your sister-aunts and brother-uncles weird.
I’m another one who has never tried coffee. I’m familiar with the flavor, as I’ve had coffee-flavored hard candy and Jamoca Almond Fudge ice cream. I don’t mind it. Wouldn’t seek it out, but it’s not like I find the flavor nasty or anything. But actual coffee itself? No.
For one thing, I’m not a fan of hot drinks. I also have perfectly satisfactory caffeine infusion mechanisms, in that I drink a shitload of Diet Coke and iced tea.
Plus, I’ve got enough vices. Why add one more?
McRib is not a burger, it’s chopped pork scraps molded into slightly rib shape. In my mind, it’s delicious, and the best thing McDonald’s offers.
Eat them dry out of the box, like I do.
It’s good three ways:
Chopped into a omelet or scrambled eggs, fried in bacon grease, or again, chopped and added to mac & cheese.
Just eaten out of the can it is nasty.
Yes, they are nasty.
Kids.
Having checked the foods listed here, I have eaten them all. Not liked all of them (I can skip tripe*, thankyouverymuch).
I have never tried Durian Fruit, but would- maybe. But I hardly consider it “common”.
- along with Pig’s feet
Head cheese
Souse meat
Scrapple
Deep fried twinkies
SpaghettiOs (for kids)
Speaking for myself, I am not denying your experiences at all. I believe one hundred percent that you’re telling the truth about your food experiences. I just think it’s bullshit that you’re putting it on “growing up in the midwest.”
Not vexed by the coffee thing at all. I’ve never had coffee either, simply because I find the smell to be repugnant. I also find the notion of all the additives that people put into coffee to be counterintuitive: if you have to put so much shit into your coffee to make the coffee enjoyable, then what’s the point? There are far less objectionable ways of getting caffeine… Shout out to those of you who drink it black, though. You’re hardcore.
Ever had a spam bento?