"Food" that should be extinct...

[wickerwoman]

I just had my first taste of red bean ice cream and all I can ask, people of Asian extraction, is WHY? Why would anyone walk past an entire freezer of Haagen Dazs and pick up frozen mashed beans indifferently mixed with pounds and pounds of sugar? I can understand if you're at Stalingrad and starving and all you have is a can of beans and some Extra and nothing to cook them with then maybe you would eat this, but given modern advances in culinary science, why does anybody still produce let alone consume bean ice cream? It's not like you're walking down the dessert aisle looking for the best nutritional bargain.

Which foods' continuing existence do you find mystifying?

[Odin2005]

1. Lutefisk.

Why anyone would like to eat cod soaked in drain cleaner (lye, sodium hydroxide) is beyond me.

[LostinVA]

39. Amen -- although you forgot jellied and half rotten

[Kajsa]

123. Born into it.

It's a weird, acquired taste.
You have to be introduced at a very early age.
Even that won't do it, many times.

It's a Swedish staple on Christmas Eve. ( Julafton)

[Benfea]

138. The why is easy to answer.

The Scandinavians did it because when you live in a climate that cold, you need every food preservation technique you can come up with.

Of course, that doesn't change the fact that lutefisk is nasty as hell.

[Random_Australian]

2. Mullulanhansfunk.

BBQéd Kangawallaroo meat, served with sand. Disgusting.


































It ought to be extinct cos' I just made it up.

[wickerwoman]

18. Whew...

More food names should end in -funk though.

Is that a real animal?

[tibbir]

3. Brussel Sprouts

[purr]

60. If prepared correctly these are actually quite good...

just boiling them like people usually do makes them nasty as hell.

[lakemonster11]

75. Yeah, I always disliked them because my mom would just

boil them or steam them. I could eat them with plenty of Cajun seasoning on top, so I wouldn't refuse to eat them, but I certainly was never happy to see them on my plate.

Last year, my mom got some fresh organic ones and cooked them up in this pasta en brodo dish. Mmmmm...heavenly. Now I can't wait for them to be in season!

[NV Whino]

122. Okay, I've just recently learn to appreciate

Brussels (capped and with an "ess" sprouts). Lightly steamed and then drizzle real lemon on them. A little salt and pepper id you wish. Of course, these are fresh from the garden.

[FormerDittoHead]

61. I happen to really like Brussel Spouts, but I know others HATE them.

I can never buy them / make them at home because my wife also HATES them (we're not talking indifference).

I do enjoy them when restaurants offer them, however.

I like them better than most other green vegetables.

[Jade Fox]

112. Home grown they are good....

because they lack the bitterness of the store bought ones.

[underpants]

151. Without a doubt

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=2773580&mesg_id=2773580

[quisp]

161. HEAR! HEAR!

Lord, how I hate Brussel Sprouts.

[Arugula Latte]

4. Velveeta.

Why? Why?

For god's sake, there's plenty of good cheddar available.

[Arugula Latte]

5. Oh, and ditto for "American" cheese slices.

Jesus that's bad! :puke:

[Nikia]

28. A few reasons

Cost, shelf life, almost no chance of dangerous bacteria (although cheddar made from pasteurized milk is pretty much that safe too), and melt. The existance of American cheese also lowers the price of cheddar because there is a market for cheese that quite didn't make the cut and trim cheese.

[Ilsa]

126. And it is the only cheese my youngest will eat... better

that than nothing, I suppose, since his diet is so limited anyway. He eats the American cheese and some cheddar if not too sharp.

[seaglass]

21. Because it melts good? n/t

[terrya]

26. Velveeta is "cheese product"

That's how it's labelled.

I'm with you. Why buy "cheese product" when you can get the real thing?

[Arugula Latte]

99. Amen, bro.

I'm straight and whitebread-appearing, but I like REAL cheese, ya know what I mean? ;)

[GinaMaria]

41. mmmm.... plastic you can eat

:puke:

[Puglover]

58. Because Velveeta is tasty in grilled cheese and melted for nacho dip,

that's why. Just cause I like it doesn't mean I can't enjoy Brie and Emmenthaler as well.

[sakabatou]

94. Especially with jalepenos in the cheese sauce

Yummy! :D

[noonwitch]

155. Velveeta melted with Rotel chili peppers

Quick and easy quesa dip. Half a big block of Velveeta melted with a can of the tomatoes and peppers, water included.

[SmileyBoy]

135. Velveeta's a guilty vice of mine.

Even I know I really shouldn't be eating it, but I love it in sandwiches.

You can't go wrong with fresh mild cheddar, tho.

[Robeson]

6. Onions....

...O.K., now I will duck and cover...

:hide:

[TK421]

36. I'm with you on that one...I have an absolute hatred for them

[Sequoia]

148. Oh now...ONIONS are so good for you!

Those sweet ones from Hawaii don't make you cry. I can't imagine a world withoug onions.

[Left Is Write]

153. I love sweet onions...

my dad makes a fabulous Vidalia onion soup.

[MadHound]

157. Heresy! Onions are natures gift to mankind!

They can be sweet, they can be sharp, and they're quite tasty. What would chili, and burgers, and salads, and oh so much more be without onions? Heretic!

[politicat]

7. Moldy cheeses and boiled "greens" (which are usually brown...)

Last time, folks.... Mold is a sign of spoilage. Throw the Stilton, the Gorgonzola and the Bleu out. They've gone bad.

And as far as greens are concerned... any food that you must cook for several hours in multiple changes of water to render it edible ... is not edible. It's poisonous, and the only thing left when you're done is a pile of boiled cellulose. If that's what floats your boat, then recycle. Boil up your newspaper. It will taste about the same and have more nutritional value. (Spinach is fine. I'm talking mustard, collard, kale, beet, etc.)

[Odin2005]

10. Hey, I like moldy cheeses!

Gorgonzola's awesome.

According to your logic all cheeses, alcholic beverages, and yogurt is spoiled. :rofl:

[UncleSepp]

65. You've had badly cooked greens

A quick dunk in boiling water, bringing the greens out when they are bright and colorful, will do fine. Collard greens can be sauteed lightly in olive oil and garlic, too. It's not at all necessary to boil any of those greens into submission, and when you don't, they're pretty and quite tasty.

[Lochloosa]

160. Collard greens lightly sauteed....

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Boil the Salted Pork for a half hour in enough water to cover it.
Put the Greens in the pork water and boil them all day.
Scoop them out, cover them with pepper vinegar and serve with hot corn bread.

Yummmmm

You would be shot serving "Sauteed" greens in the south.
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[YellowRubberDuckie]

69. Um, hate to be the bearer of education here but...

Cheese IS pretty much a mold itself. If a cheese is moldy, you cut off the mold and you're good.
http://www.cheese.com/facts1.asp
Duckie

[politicat]

108. It's the blue stuff mold.

It's psychological, I know it. (I've made cheese.) I just can't bring myself to eat anything with visible blue-green mold on it.

[GinaMaria]

8. Mortadella

Italian Bologna with big white fatty globs. I swear if I hadn't eaten it as a kid, there would be no way I could fathom anyone eating this stuff. It just looks wrong.

[seaglass]

23. My mom used to buy it all the time. When I was a kid I had no

idea what the white stuff was and I still wouldn't eat it. Disgusting.

[GinaMaria]

31. I wasn't as smart as a kid :-(

I ate mortadella, genoa salami, and chicken soup with 1 inch of fat on top of it :crazy: I never knew Chickens could be so fatty.

No wonder my grandfather died before age 50 of a heart attack.

[seaglass]

42. Genoa salami is good - at least the fat pieces are smaller ;-) n/t

[Pugee]

128. I haven't heard of that for years! No thanks for bringing the memory back

I lived in Italy for a couple of years in the early 80's and often saw mortadella. I never thought that it looked good enough to eat though.


For me, Headcheese should be extinct! It is one of those things that I ate as a child and now, get ill just thinking about it!

[eeyore]

9. Lunchables...

Overpriced. Overpackaged. Undernourishing. Just plain evil.

Why the hell do people feed these to their children?

[seaglass]

22. My son loves the burger ones - they are cold burgers and

disgusting.

I feel the same way about Kraft Mac and Cheese.

[Nikia]

30. I noticed the price the other day

And thought: why don't people just buy some ham, crackers, and cheese? The only time that I bought them was when I worked at a grocery store part time and only had 15 minutes to buy something and eat (I was scheduled for 5.75 hours over late morning and afternoon).

[AllegroRondo]

140. I only buy them on sale

local grocery store had them for $1 each a couple weeks ago. Anything above that is not worth it.

[mykpart]

11. Scrapple.

Even the dogs don't like it.

[FormerDittoHead]

62. BLASPHEMY!!

I guess it's something you have to grow up with.

For example, I just don't understand 'grits'...

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

85. Agreed, I'll take the dogs' portion of the scrapple.

[LostinVA]

110. Grits are yummers if made right

[tinfoilinfor2005]

120. I love scrapple with grits. Lots of butter on the grits, please.

My vote for food to vanquish is chitlins. Had a bite once and it honestly made me wretch. And I love to try all kinds of different foods. But this stuff did me in.

[LostinVA]

109. I loved it until I was 13 and read the ingredients.... never again

[hedgehog]

167. I love scrapple

However, it occurred to me the other day that it is an American version of Haggis! We replaced the oatmeal with corn meal!

By the way, the real Irish food is ham and cabbage. They only hate corned beef and cabbage in the US because they couldn't afford the ham.

[SofaKingLiberal]

12. gyros

:puke:

[liberaltrucker]

13. Spinach

:puke:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

14. Vegetables.

:scared:

[July]

37. Heresy!

I'm in shock!

No, to each his own, really. But I do love any and all vegetables (except fennel).

[Arugula Latte]

98. I'm with you. I loooooooves me some veggies.

I do love fennel (try it raw in a salad w/ a green such as arugula with tangerines or blood oranges in a vinaigrette :9 ) ... But the only vegetable I'm not a huge fan of is beets. They have to be cooked with other ingredients that are quite savory such as, for example, onions and feta. Otherwise the sweetness makes me kinda queasy. x(

[flamingyouth]

15. I actually like that red bean ice cream

I guess I just grew up eating a lot of Japanese food so I have an affinity for much of it.

However, lutefisk and head cheese would top my list. :puke:

[Canadian Socialist]

25. I see your head cheese...

and raise you .... HAGGIS!

[GinaMaria]

32. Can I add scottish meat pies to the list with Haggis?

Really frightening stuff.

[ChoralScholar]

51. you know..

"All Scottish food is based on a dare..."
-Mike Myers

[Fenris]

48. Freak.

:P

[long_green]

66. Amen. Red Bean Ice Cream is yummy

nm

[LostinVA]

111. I LOVE green tea ice cream

[Dangerously Amused]

16. JELLO.

Colors not found in nature.

Moves of its own free will.

Unnatural texture.

Made from horns and hooves and sugar.


:puke:

[baldguy]

79. Jell-O Trivia

"March 17, 1993, technicians at St. Jerome hospital in Batavia test a bowl of lime Jell-O with an EEG machine and confirm the earlier testing by Dr. Adrian Upton that a bowl of wiggly Jell-O has brain waves identical to those of adult men and women."

http://www.jellomuseum.com/

[Dangerously Amused]

117. LOL!

:rofl:

[sakabatou]

95. That's why I have the kosher version

Made from PLANT gellitin

[FunkyLeprechaun]

17. Twinkies, ho-hos, snack cake rolls

Any of those and Little Debbie's and Hostess foods... they contribute to the obesity epidemic (I remember at HS there was a snack cart full of snowballs and I would eat one, yum. I've since slimmed down!)

[GinaMaria]

43. It's the animal fat that makes it taste so good! n/t

[Kajsa]

125. Anyone know the true shelf life of a Twinkie?

I've heard 5 years.
That can't be right, can it?

[philosophie_en_rose]

19. High Fructose Corn Syrup, Hydrogenated Oils.

Artificial, disgusting chemicals.

[GOPisEvil]

24. Agreed!

:thumbsup:

Although...I will admit to using Crisco for making cornbread because I don't want to use lard. ;)

[Fleshdancer]

33. That was going to be my reply!

I agree with you 100%

[SmileyBoy]

134. I really wish we could just go back to sugar.

There was once a time...

[philosophie_en_rose]

144. Back in the good old days....

:P I love real sugar too. In reasonable amounts, of course.

But corn syrup has a nasty taste and isn't nearly as sweet as real sugar.

Splenda isn't as good as real sugar, but is far better than corn syrup.

[Guava Jelly]

20. the entire taco bell menu

allthough the menu is cheap and tasty.
it isnt easy on the waist line .

[begin_within]

49. Except that "Baja" sauce which they put on some of the items is tasty.

[Spider Jerusalem]

27. Surstromming...

fermented (that is to say, rotten) herring...considered a delicacy in Sweden, for some reason. It's canned, and the gases cause the can to bulge ominously (they've even been known to explode from the pressure). The stench is so indescribably foul that the cans have to be opened under water, and it's only eaten outdoors. In comparison, lutefisk is a tasty treat. (What is it with Scandinavians and disgusting food, anyway?)

[DBoon]

73. hakarl from Iceland

rotting shark meat

[Kajsa]

124. ROFL !

I'm impressed by how many of you know Swedish food.

Being raised by Swedes, ( I'm the only US born in the family)
I agree.

Man, surstromming is nasty! I would never touch it, much less get within 50 feet of it.
Lutefisk I've gotten used to. It still doesn't excuse the texture of the fish- Jelly!!

I think the weird food had a lot to do with how they preserved food way back
when.

Either that or they are closet masochists! LOL

Don't get me wrong- I'm Swedish American and love those Swedes!
( I better!) :7

[hedgehog]

168. But it's cold up in Sweden!

What's with all the rotten food? Doesn't it freeze up there?

[Kajsa]

173. Their climate is cold in the winter.

But thanks to the Gulf Stream, their Spring and
Summer temperatures are similar to ours.
Last time I was in Sweden, in 1997, they had
an August heat wave that into the 90's F.

[Frank Cannon]

29. Clamato juice

Now granted, I've never tried it, but CLAM and TOMATO juices mixed together? Ugh. :puke:

[AlCzervik]

53. oh yeah, nothing like a big glass of room temperature clamoto juice on

a hot day!! beyond disgusting. Another disgusting clam related thing--my hubsnad makes clam dip out of a can of minced clams and a block of cream cheese, it is truly one of the most revolting things i've ever seen.

[blondeatlast]

81. It makes a great Bloody Mary, though.

Even if it sounds awful. The best Bloody I ever had was made with Clamato. Shocked the hell out of me, but now that's what I use to make them.

[Katherine Brengle]

34. Ooh, something fun to do...

"Foods" that I think should be kicked off the list:

1) "Meat" (i.e., the flesh of a living creature, ew)
2) All dairy products (how weird is it to ingest the breast milk of another animal?)
3) I second the post on "snack cakes"--what utter garbage
4) Any sandwiches that are made and then DEEP FRIED
5) Ditto that for candy bars
6) Cranberry Juice COCKTAIL

[Odin2005]

40. ALL food comes from living organisms...

I don't get why meat has to be singles out.

Vegan logic = :crazy:

[Dangerously Amused]

45. Oh boy. Here we go...

:popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn:

[flvegan]

47. How specifically does "vegan logic = :crazy:" please?

I look forward to your enlightened response...

[Katherine Brengle]

91. You'll appreciate this -- Best. Shirt. Ever.

"Beef: It's What's Rotting in Your Colon"

:rofl:

And it's gonna be allllllll mine to wear to the supermarket!!!

[LeftyMom]

50. If you can't see the small distinction between collard greens and cow

I think that :crazy: smilie is misplaced.

[flvegan]

87. It would appear that someone has abandoned his/her post, here.

I was looking forward to a response.

[LeftyMom]

90. Me too.

Oh well. :shrug:

[Katherine Brengle]

54. LOL

You made me giggle :rofl:.

[DBoon]

74. No it doesn't

I've had fast food I'd swear was made entirely out of petroleum by-products.

[Dangerously Amused]

57. Milk: Seven drops of pus per glass.

By US federal law, Grade A milk is allowed to have over a drop of pus per glass of milk.<11>

<11.> Assuming a billion lymphocytes/ml as a reasonable defining concentration of pus, regulations per (Heeschen WH. Codex regulations and food safety. Bulletin of the International Dairy Federation 1997;319:24), a standard 20 drops/ml, and a "glass" as 500 cc, Grade A milk may have more than seven drops of pus per glass. (Emphasis mine.)

…

This is a particular problem in the United States, as we have the highest permitted upper limit of milk pus cell concentration in the world--almost twice the international standard of allowable pus cells (750,000/ml vs. 400,000/ml)<10>

<10.> Smith KL, Hogan JS. Milk quality -- a worldwide perspective. Annual Proceedings of the National Mastitis Council; 1998; St. Louis, Missouri.


Michael Greger, M.D., Live Paratuberculosis Bacteria Found in U.S. Milk

full text: www.all-creatures.org/health/livepara.htmlveganmd.org

[Katherine Brengle]

92. Yaay! Another reason not to drink it!

LOL, thanks :).

[Frank Cannon]

171. For me, the pus just makes it BETTER

Just adds a LITTLE bit of a salty quality to it. Lots of immune factors in it too.

I've been drinking at LEAST two glasses of milk every day for at least 30 years. Several years ago, I broke a bone in my hand and more than DOUBLED that amount. The physicians x-rayed my hand and couldn't believe how fast it had healed.

You know what? Opinions about diet are like a$$holes: Everyone has one and everyone else's stink. I, for one, like milk. If there are drops of pus in it, I like those too. Enjoy what you want to eat/drink and I will enjoy what I want. And it's a beautiful country we live in, because we all have that freedom of our own opinions.

[Dangerously Amused]

174. Chill out. I wasn't talking to you.

[flvegan]

175. Yeah, but that's the thing with knee-jerks...

You're more than smart enough to figure out what I'm saying.

[Frank Cannon]

180. flvegan, I honor your veganism

But please understand that is YOUR lifestyle, not the lifestyle of many others in the DU forum, regardless of how "smart" you think the rest of us non-vegans are. :)

You're more than smart enough to figure out what I'm saying.

[flvegan]

181. Hey, dude...YOU

went on the offensive. YOU brought diet into this. The poster that you so fucking rudely responded to simply posted facts.

You probably do this sort of passive aggressive posting with other "lifestyles" and suggest that maybe they should shut up, because it's not what "many others in the DU forum" practice, when simply, it sort of upsets you. Keep at it. May validity someday be yours.

Bye.

[Frank Cannon]

178. I'm sorry, Dangerously

But it's sorta assumed that when you post on these forums you ARE talking to all DUers. Otherwise, it should probably be in the realm of private messages, maybe? :shrug:

[YellowRubberDuckie]

70. If you're eating the flesh from LIVING creatures...

of course it's gross. It's not yummy until their dead and it's cooked. :rofl:
Duckie

[Katherine Brengle]

93. Aren't you clever!

On a serious note, though, it's just really disgusting--either way.

[Name removed]

133. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[flvegan]

137. No, SmileyBoy, it's not likely a joke.

Calling someone an idiot for being a vegetarian or vegan is not only against DU rules, but shows a very, very closed mind. If you take a better look at this "food pyramid" of which you speak (you are a college boy, right?) you'll see that it's not "shunning 70%" of it, as you've stated.

Calling a post idiotic, as you have, is, however one way to ensure that the poster does NOT invite you over for dinner.

[Bzzzz]

35. Fruitcake and

Mush.

[July]

38. TRIPE.

Which my husband and my mother love.

[jane_pippin]

172. There's another one my grandpa was into.

BLEH!

At his funeral they served tripe and blood soup.



I had a salad made of iceberg lettuce, some carrots, and a dinner roll. I know it's an ethnic delicacy and all, but I just can't eat tripe and blood. Nuh uh.

[malmapus]

44. Hrrmmm never had Red Bean in ice cream form

Use to have this kinda almost soup form of it as a dessert when I was with my ex and her family (chinese). Actually liked it. But yeah, in ice cream form I dunno about that heh.

[johnnie]

46. Spaghettios

I have said this on here before,it smells like you're cooking baby puke, Nasty!

[Xipe Totec]

114. Now we're getting somewhere

That was positively revolting.

Kudos!

[jakefrep]

119. Agreed...

What a waste of a beer mug.

[LeftyMom]

52. Fake cheese with dairy derivatives in it.

:wtf: is the point of that?

[Katherine Brengle]

100. Right? Technically, it's designed for people who are lactose...

intolerant, but they are missing a huge market of potential consumers by holding onto the casein.

Idiots, more or less.

At least most of it is disgusting anyway.

I am totally addicted to Tofutti Sour Supreme and fake cream cheese however--they are amazing.

[LeftyMom]

185. I saw the other day that somebody patented soy-derived casien.

I can't wait until somebody translates that into really melty soy cheese. I'll live on pizza when that comes to market.

[begin_within]

55. Limburger cheese

[begin_within]

56. "Double Zout" (very salty Dutch black licorice-like "candy") - eeeeyuck!!!

Don't ever put one of these in your mouth. The Dutch get a lot of things right, but this is one thing they got very, very wrong.

[Danmel]

59. Any of the "foods" in the article linked below

http://maona.net/archives/2005/03/the_eight_worst.php


I have a particular aversion to all of those "Hot POcket" type sandwiches- salty chewy fillings, pasty doughy shell- yuck!

[YellowRubberDuckie]

71. Hot pockets should be sold with a roll of toilet paper...

Because no one's ever said, "I'm so glad I ate that hot pocket!" --Jim Gaffigan

[jakefrep]

143. Clam Jerky? Reindeer Pate?

I had no idea such things existed. :puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke:

[FormerDittoHead]

63. Those cold cuts with the square bits of what-the-hell-is-that. n/t

[TK421]

67. That would be Souse...and yes, it's pretty disgusting

[jane_pippin]

170. Ugh. My grandpa used to eat that all of the time. Blech. At least

I think this is what you're talking about. I've never seen the word written out before but I'm pretty sure this is it:



This particular loaf features:
Pork tongues and snouts
Red peppers and sweet pickles
Fully cooked
All natural spices
Sweet sour flavor


http://www.klements.com/cgi-bin/Product.cgi?prod_type=ethnic&prod=6820

edit: exciting info needed!

[Rabrrrrrr]

64. OMG! That stuff is great!

YUM YUM!!!

It's green peppers that should go extinct.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

80. Mung bean ice cream tastes like plastic to me

They also grind up the same mung beans and make those transparent noodles that also taste like plastic. I work in an Asian law office and for many years they've been trying to get me to enjoy the taste of plastic. I'm just not quite there yet but maybe in a few more years.

[RumpusCat]

163. Sweet red beans are the best

I'm glad someone else is going to stand up for them! :hi: Red bean ice cream is one thing, but I like the syrupy red bean paste itself--inside little sweet buns--slathered on mochi ice creams... delish! I have no 'Oh, I lived in Japan for awhile' excuse either. I loved sweet red beans the moment I had 'em!

[no name no slogan]

68. Tie: Lutefisk or Haggis

I've had both, and I'd have to say the haggis was at least edible-- and I'm almost as much Scandanavian-American as I am Scottish-American. I wouldn't wish lutefisk on my worst enemy. Unless my worst enemy liked head cheese.

[auntAgonist]

76. haggis is SO good!

served with 'neeps and mashed taters! yummy!

:hi:

[no name no slogan]

88. I was well into the Scotch Ale when I had it last

I worked in a very good pub in the UK, and we had a bunch of different Scottish Ales on tap for Burns Night. I ended up eating the haggis, and it was alright. But I'm sure the several pints of Scotch Ale helped. :silly:

Now lutefisk, otoh.... YUK!

:D

[KayLaw]

72. All ice cream

It's sickeningly sweet and slimy, and it freezes your tongue. Yuck. I'll never understand why so many people like it.

[sakabatou]

96. Sounds like industrial grade ice-cream

And yeah, you may never understand why people like it, such as myself.

Of course, I'm prefer soft serve.

[Left Is Write]

154. I wonder if you'd say that...

if you tried my mother's homemade vanilla, strawberry or peach ice cream.

:)

[yellowdogintexas]

77. pork or beef brains, prepared in any form

brains and eggs was a "treat" in my family...absolutely disgusting.

In Evansville Indiana at the fall festival, the longest food line by far is the brain sandwich line.
People walk around with these incredibly light fluffy fritter looking things and you think, Man that looks good until you catch up with the source and realize it is actually the dreaded brain sandwich.

Apparantly the brains are chopped up and mixed in with this fritter batter and flash fried. No amount of money could convince me to eat one. I have wondered if the brain sandwich vendor is still around since the onset of mad cow disease fears.

I wholeheartedly agree with the anti head cheese/souse group. That stuff should be declared illegal. I have memories of it being made from my childhood on the farm. It is so disgusting looking.

Along with organ meat (except for veal or calves liver)

All foods which are testicular in origin.

Tripe

Lutefisk has to be just awful, and isn't there something similar in the kosher food family?

All those weird salami/bologna/conjured up lunch meat things. The only acceptable lunch meat is ham, sliced roast beef or sliced turkey.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

84. Eating the central nervous system of mammals, particularly cows, is

just not the thing to do, these days, if ya know what I mean...

I'm just sayin'. :shrug:

[baldguy]

78. Head cheese

hint: it's not really cheese.

[seemunkee]

82. Gefilte fish

Please make the nasty stuff disappear.

[sakabatou]

97. Other than chareset, its one of the only "traditional" foods I'll eat

during Passover.

[seemunkee]

102. WHAT??? Gefilte fish but no Matzoh ball soup?

I question your sanity

[sakabatou]

104. That's only on the first 2 days

After that, there's no matzoh meal anywhere, even in stores.

[CONN]

116. black (blood) pudding...

and white pudding.

[seemunkee]

118. Had some a week ago

Irish breakfast with black pudding Mmmmm. I've had the white before too.

[blondeatlast]

83. Menudo. No party night is worth ingesting menudo. nt

[Xipe Totec]

113. Aw, c'mon. You gotta do better than that...

Brain tacos are worse than menudo, and I love brain tacos.


:9

[JI7]

86. SPAM

[spinbaby]

89. Marshmallow peeps

Constructed entirely of artificial ingredients and they have that horrible crunchy surface.

[AllegroRondo]

141. Microwave them, they're much better that way.

[Phentex]

145. Why do you hate America?

:P

[kwassa]

101. Hot dogs

talk about mystery "meat"

[TheMightyFavog]

115. Kosher dogs are OK.

Not only are they only allowed to use beef, those factories have to be spotless in order to pass rabbinical muster.

[allalone]

103. cottage cheese and/or liver sausage

[BlueStorm]

105. Chitlins...

Eating the bowels of a dead pig is just so wrong...

Blue

[Xipe Totec]

106. Don't knock it till you've tried it

:9

They taste better when you slaughter the hog yourself...

[Xipe Totec]

107. Uni Sushi

Sea urchin roe, with rice, wrapped in seaweed.

Best flavor description: cold vomit.

Second best: uncured plastic resin.

[hedgehog]

169. Now why were you eating uncured plastic resin?

or cold vomit for that matter?

[Xipe Totec]

179. Ha, Ha!

On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answ...

:blush:

[jakefrep]

121. Bologna

and hot dogs.

[NV Whino]

127. This has to be the best thread ever

I have tried and loved ochra... except for the slime. Cook it right and it's great. And I'm not a great fan of cooked greens.

Grits? Lovely... but ya need LOTS of butter.

Haven't tried haggis, but I have tried blood sausage... great.

I think basically, any over processed food should be eliminated. Velveeta is a perfect example, and I grew up on Velveeta and grilled cheese sandwiches. Love grilled cheese sandwiches, but not with processed cheese. Gawd with a good cheddar or brie or jack or Swiss--yum.

I could never understand the allure of head cheese or mortadella. I had a friend who used to go to the deli and bring back all these so called delicacies, including head cheese. I avoided them like the plague that they are. On the other hand, I grew up eating bologna sandwiches. Won't eat bologna today, however.

Spam? It's great if you like salt and don't care what it comes on.

Fresh is the key. Processed... fugettaboutit.

[wickerwoman]

129. I forgot artichokes.

The spikes are a hint people. I've hated them ever since I worked as a check-out girl in a supermarket and I had to pick needles out of my hands five or six times a day.

Do we really need to be eating stumpy cacti?

[KitchenWitch]

130. But the insides are so wonderful!

[Left Is Write]

156. And without artichokes, there is no artichoke dip!

That would be a bad thing.

[LSK]

131. High Fructose Corn Syrup

If you can even call it food...

[twenty4blackbirds]

132. Haagen Dazs = diary product != lactose intolerant

I've read some where that there is higher percentage of lactose intolerant people in the Asian culture. Also, from memory, the translation of 'red bean ice cream' could more properly be translated to 'red bean popsicle'.

Crayfish is mystifying. It is so delicious I don't know how it manages to keep existing!

[6000eliot]

136. Anything with cilantro in it

The most hideous weed ever!

[myrna minx]

139. Heh. My sister HATES cilantro but I absolutely love it.

When we go grocery shopping together, I won't purchase any because even the smell makes her gag.

[Left Is Write]

150. I don't much like cilantro either.

I don't care if others want to eat it, though.

[Tracer]

142. Cool Whip.

This disgusting blob of chemicals ought to be banned outright. Sheesh. Whipping up some REAL cream isn't so hard.

---- a point in favor of American Cheese. My cat ADORES it. Begs for it. Meows for it. Whines for it.

I buy it just for her.

[hyphenate]

146. Sometimes I think the food choices of other cultures

is disgusting and I would never eat it, personally. But somehow, some things evidently have some followers or they would have been "extinct" a long time ago.

I do have issues with nations that eat dog or cat meat or do other horrendous things to some domesticated animals, but who is to say that I am right? Just because the U.S. and most Western cultures eschew the consumption of our companion animals doesn't mean our tradition is any better or worse than anothers. While I do try to live with that fact, nevertheless, eating Rex, Spot, Blackie or Kitkat is repulsive to me. And that also goes for the human consumption of eating horse meat. Rounding up such beautiful animals as the wild mustangs only to ship them overseas for some rich bastard to chop it up and serve it at a BBQ is purely disgusting.

As far as real foods that I personally think should go away permanently, there are way too many! But let's start (or rather stop) with jerky, pork rinds, tofu (I'm semi-vegetarian but I hate tofu), eel, octopus, chocolate covered insects or fried insects, live creatures (there was an episode of CSI: NY a few weeks ago that centered on "exotic" foods and several of the above were among the "delicacies" prepared), and other such items.

In addition, I would welcome the end to such "tasty" snacks such as Twinkies, Little Debbie's, and any other such products loaded with trans fatty acids and a chief cause of early heart disease. Processed foods in general--frozen, canned and ready-to-eat products contain more sodium than most people need in a day, are also filled with unnecessary fats and other fillers, and make sure that life expectancy is lowered in general.

I also wish that instead of some of the stupider topics taught in schools, they would at least consider teaching more about nutrition in general. If people learned at a younger age more about the foods they eat, I think we would see a revolution in eating habits and help change the choices some kids make as a result of not knowing or understanding what they are doing with their current diets. I mean, it took me a long time to see where my own weaknesses are, but after going shopping with my mom just a few years ago, I can understand why I am overweight and subject to health products. Her choices for meals includes hard slabs of margarine, the afore mentioned snack cakes, white pasta, lots of pork, etc. I shudder to think what my life would be like now if I were still eating many of these things.

[Akoto]

147. Mayonnaise.

I shall continue my war on mayonnaise in this thread! I just can't stand the stuff. The look, the taste, the smell! Having an open jar around really turns me off.

[KamaAina]

164. It and mustard should be considered weapons of mass destruction

which would mean that Iraq would finally have WMDs after all!

[Sequoia]

149. Liver. Worst meat on Earth.

[Initech]

152. Fast food. All of it.

I would personally rather starve than eat at McDonalds, Wendys, Carls, and so on... :puke:

[Taverner]

158. Tuna salad, Egg salad, potato salad (the mayo based kind)

IN fact, all mayo should be declared illegal.

[Iniquitous Bunny]

159. Flounder.

Bottom feeding vommitus.

That and Pez. :wtf:

[Lochloosa]

162. Actually flounder are ambush hunters. They eat their prey alive.

[Iniquitous Bunny]

166. OK, I admit my knowledge of marine life sucks.

I still think flounder is awful. Salmon (the way I cook it anyway)- Yummy :9 !!!

[KamaAina]

165. Balut: "the treat with feet".

This Filipino "delicacy", available within a couple of blocks of the cubicle (yummers!) consists of fertilized duck eggs. Late-term fertilized duck eggs.

Warning: EXTREMELY gross image below. Scroll at your own risk!

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[hedgehog]

176. OK - you win

Everyone else ran away

[arkie dem]

177. fruitcake....

and boudin du pay:thumbsdown:

[Blue Belle]

182. Veggiemite...

Unless you're absolutely dying to know what evil tastes like. Bleeach.
x(

[mikeiddy]

183. Pickeled pigs feet

Mrs Iddy loves em. I don't.

[mikeiddy]

184. Olive jello salad

My grandma used to make a salad every thanksgiving - unsweetened jello, olives and cottage cheese

Truly disgusting

(corrected ingredients)