Post a picture of the perfect discomfort food.

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For me, it has to be "Double Zout," a so-called "candy" that is popular in the Netherlands. They are little tablets of black licorice with tons of salt in them. It's like eating pieces of a tire. How on Earth anyone thinks they are "good" in any sense, I'll never understand.

Even worse, but I don't have a picture of it - my friend went to Mexico and came back with a bag of barbequed crickets. I refused to touch it or even get close to it. They had some orange powder all over them. He ate half the bag, then threw it all up an hour later.

[deucemagnet]

1. Circus peanuts.

I can't even look at 'em.

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2. How funny... I love those.

Though I rarely eat them because they are junk food and fattening. But I have always loved them.

[ncrainbowgrrl]

9. I had never met anyone who actually liked those things.

First for everything, I guess!

I need to hang out in the lounge more. :ebvilgrin:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

14. They might taste good, but they make your teeth hurt like hell.

That's pretty good discomfort food...

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16. They do? But they are soft.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

27. It's not the texture...

it's all the sugar that makes my teeth hurt when I eat them. Same thing with candy corn. :hi:

[zanne]

64. Me too!

I love the texture. I'm not even sure what they taste like; I think it's orange. Didn't they once make banana-flavored ones?

[Karenca]

56. I love them

they taste like banana turkish taffy.

[reyd reid reed]

57. I love 'em...and the chicks and bunnies

at Easter, too. They make my mouth hurt, though.

:(

[KitchenWitch]

3. Candy dots!

http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/oryans_1954_978149

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4. What are you supposed to do with them?

[KitchenWitch]

5. Don't know but they taste like hell, so you should not eat them.

[begin_within]

8. Thanks for the warning!

[Critters2]

53. No, they taste like sugar!

Which is what they are. I love 'em!!

[AlCzervik]

6. oh yeah, yummy paper!

[ncrainbowgrrl]

7. onions.

Major migraine trigger for me...

So, here it is

[fudge stripe cookays]

22. I'm with ya! They just make me horrifically sick...

if I eat them raw. So I avoid onions at all costs.

[AlCzervik]

10. those remind me of the icky black necco wafers-yuck.

i used to love these but they hate me, i taste them for days--not good.

[suzbaby]

11. Mushrooms!

Why anyone would voluntarily eat a fungus, I will never know.

[begin_within]

17. Ohhh.... they are so good.

Only certain kinds, though. The white ones you pictured are the best IMO.

[unpossibles]

74. what if I am a budding mycologist?

sorry. I'm not really, but I am a fun guy.

[Adsos Letter]

12. Just about anything out of any of these various containers...

with the exception of fruit, poundcake, or the mini-pack of smokes in the brown plastic utensils/condiments bag:





I ate more of this crap between the ages of 17-20 than I care to recall...

:puke: :hurts:

[Hand]

33. Mmm... Beans with Frankfurter Chunks...

[Adsos Letter]

44. ....LOL....

I ate so much of that crap that has almost become a "comfort food" in its own twisted way. Pork, sliced, with juices... :puke"

And it doesn't help that we ate them cold most of the time...

Those round "chocolate with nuts" wafers tasted pretty good if you scooped the canned peanut butter with 'em.

And the canned Pound Cake was good, especially if you had "peaches, sliced" to go with it.


:D

[jmowreader]

52. You want to talk about SERIOUS discomfort?

I deployed to Fort Stewart, Georgia, for an exercise in 1982. We left this guy named Dean Haupt in the 124th MI Battalion parking lot in a jeep with a KY-8 (it's a voice scrambler for your radio) and an unopened case of C-rations while we went inside to try to arrange for fuel supply through their motor pool. The people we were supporting down there decided they didn't have to provide any kind of logistical support for the MI assets attached to them. 'Course, they didn't decide this until we'd already gotten three states away from our own fuel point. Let's just say the 2nd Brigade commander found out why one of the things people called our boss was "Mad Jack."

An hour and a half later, we went back outside to find Dean had eaten the entire case of C-rations and was lookin' REAL hard at the KY-8.

[Hand]

55. Omigawd...

Classic Army story... old Dean must have been plenty hungry or just stark staring insane.

[jmowreader]

70. Stark staring insane is exactly what was wrong

There's actually a reason for that: Dean was a neglected child. When he was growing up his parents were out of town most of the time and they only gave him $100/month for food money, and when it was gone so was the food until the 1st of next month. Dean grew up in New York City--even in the 1970s one person couldn't buy food in NYC for a month on a hundred dollars. So if Dean and food were left alone for any length of time, Dean would eat.

We knew this before we went into that battalion headquarters, but even in our wildest dreams we never imagined 140-pound Dean could eat a whole case of C-rations in an hour. A case of C's contains twelve complete meals--enough for one feeding of a rifle squad, or to feed one troop breakfast, lunch and dinner for four days straight.

[Hand]

81. Wow

That is damn bizarre... poor guy must have had the mother of all flatulence after that episode!

Um... you say this was an intelligence unit he was in? :scared: :rofl:

[jmowreader]

90. Yeah, but not a Military Common Sense unit

This guy was kinda lacking in that.

Example: The road between Clarksville, TN, and Hopkinsville, KY, is called Fort Campbell Boulevard--the six major gates onto post all open onto it. The part between Fort Campbell's Gate Four (the main gate onto post) and the city limits of Clarksville is one of the ten busiest roads in the state of Tennessee. This fucking guy bought a...I guess you'd call it a scooter; it was shaped more like a moped than a motor scooter, but it didn't have pedals...and rode it down Fort Campbell Boulevard at all hours of the day and night. With a passenger aboard most of the time!

[Crabby Appleton]

54. Beans and motherf*ckers! yum

I've eaten my fair share of C-rats.

[dropkickpa]

13. Here ya go

My mom will sit there and eat a whole head raw, I can't even stand to smell it raw, let alone cooked.

[begin_within]

18. Issa goo-fo youuuuu.

As Margaret Cho would say in her routine about her dad trying to get her to eat certain things.

[FloridaJudy]

76. Puuleeeze, don't tempt me

I love broccoli. Unfortunately, my body doesn't. The last time I succumbed to temptation, I was up all night feeling like I'd been punched in the stomach.

From now on, you can have my share for me.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

15. Pizza. Anything with tomatoes. Shellfish. Peppers of any kind.

[bridgit]

19. only cause you asked...

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20. Is that haggis, which I've heard about for years?

[Xipe Totec]

85. No, it's a baby sand worm from Arrakis

[KG]

24. heh. anybody else find the garnish amusing?

[Adsos Letter]

28. ...uncircumcised, I notice...

:D

[EstimatedProphet]

34. Haggis is great!

[CatWoman]

36. that looks like Rasputin's penis

:rofl:



http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2004/06/12/13RASPUTIN_A,0.jpg

[ulysses]

42. I'm trying to imagine the google search

that landed you at a site featuring Rasputin's penis. :wow:

:D

[CatWoman]

47. lol

yesterday, on Discovery Times, I was watching a special about John Dillinger.

I did a web search, as I was interested in finding out the truth about his supposed plastic surgery.

There were references to Dillinger having a huge wang, and that J. Edgar Hoover kept it in a jar in his desk. The rumor started because of this pic of Dillinger lying on the slab in the morgue:



That story is a lie, BTW. However, that site led me to other sites about men with huge wangs.

And, viola!!! Here we have Rasputin's monstrous member.

:hi:

[Arugula Latte]

72. That reminds me ... of geoduck clams:

[FloridaJudy]

79. Fear of phallic seafood

That's pretty impressive, but nothing compared to the lowly barnacle.

http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/indexmag.html?http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artjan99/barnac.html

Living fixed on one spot has it's disadvantages. It is more difficult to find a partner to mate. The barnacle has overcome the problem in a really spectacular way...

[sakabatou]

41. It looks like a giant worm!

:puke:

[NewWaveChick1981]

21. Tomato aspic...

:puke: It's tomato jello with other assorted crap in it.

http://re3.mm-a7.yimg.com/image/368296913

[Lyric]

23. Habanero Peppers

Guaranteed to cause some SERIOUS discomfort. Oy vey.

[DS1]

40. Depends on the delivery

sure, slices of it in a chile, cheese, or sandwich will fuck your world up. But Habanero sauces don't do a think to my ass, but do make things really tasty

[Lyric]

43. I can't ever seem to *taste* anything but heat and pain.

I usually love spicy peppers, but habaneros are a whole 'nother ballgame for me. ;)

[DS1]

46. Try find a bottle of Tabasco's Habanero sauce

It can't be a good seller, it's all but non-existent in the North East, but it's sooo yummy. It's got the unique habanero flavor and I could coat my Stouffer's pizza with it.

Sooo nummy, and it's not outrageously hot like Dave's Insanity sauce.

[Lyric]

48. Dave's is the only habanero sauce I'd ever tried

I had mistakenly thought that all habanero sauces would be that hot. If there's one out there that actually has discernible flavor, I'm definitely going to give it a try. Thanks for the tip! :hi:

[DS1]

49. An into to hot sauce like Dave's is like an intro to boxing by getting hit by a truck

Post a thread asking for recommendations, you'll get dozens. Lots of hot sauce fans around these parts

[helderheid]

25. My husband loves those dropjes!

[crim son]

26. I've had that "liquorice" in Sweden. Ugh.

Mine: squid prepared in its own ink, sometimes w/squid ink pasta. :puke:

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[Gormy Cuss]

30. No one's mentioned these yet?

A food with a product designed specifically to deal with the "discomfort" level:

[Orrin_73]

31. It is called drop in Netherlands and its also my

favorite sweet. Altough dubbel zout is not my favorite but a dubbel zout once in a while is very tasty.
These are my favs:

[Burma Jones]

32. With a Nod to Lewis Black.........

[Left Is Write]

35. My friend bought a bag of salted prunes...

They weren't sweet, chewy prunes, they were shriveled, tiny prunes with the texture of stone, coated in so much salt as to make the tongue pucker. Even if one COULD chew these things, I'm not sure why one would want to.

[jobycom]

37. I've never experienced this

But I've heard.

[Fire Walk With Me]

63. Durian?

Peacemaker and Buddhist icon Thich Naht Hanh, in his book "The Path of Emancipation", amidst the teachings of the Buddha, goes off on the stench of the Durian and how he can't stand it. Such things can drive even monks into bouts of serious aversion.

And it doesn't taste much better than it smells.

[CottonBear]

65. That crazy ass weird food guy on TV almost retched after eating a bite of that.

That dude will eat almost anything but when he ate durian it totally grossed him out.
:puke: I watch his show with a sense of horror. I have no idea how he can eat all of that stuff.

[unpossibles]

77. I worked with a guy who brought some into the office one day

you could smell it even though it was in the other room, in two bags and in the fridge.

[Squatch]

82. I love durian.

I once made a milkshake out the entire fruit, but since my wife didn't like it, I drank the whole thing. I looked it up and saw that it came out to something like 5,000 calories.

[Bjornsdotter]

38. I love salt licorice

...so you probably wouldn't like salt licorice ice cream. :shrug:

Cheers




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[Bjornsdotter]

39. Mac and Cheese

...I do not know how people eat that stuff....:puke:

[momophile]

45. corned beef - the cheap kind

I'll spare you and not post a pic of the actual food, but instead the tincan - enough to send any South Pacific Returned Peace Corps Volunteer into fits. This is NOT your St. Patrick's Day corned beef. This is what's left when all the better parts of the cow are gone. And I've never seen the 'gold label' stuff before so I can't speak for it:

[rug]

50. Head cheese.

[Connonym]

51. Beans, anything with beans

and, unfortunately, any raw veg :(

[barb162]

58. Licorice is disgusting in any form n/t

[shanti]

59. dang

you all live dangerously, CTFU! your "candy" sounds disgusting, i won't even mention the crickets! :eyes: have you ever watched that guy on the travel channel? he ingests many dubious objects!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

60. Discomfort food for emergencies only ...

:rofl:

[Cannikin]

61. Prunes...ouch.

[ChoralScholar]

62. Even though I like it - I nominate Potted Meat

[SoxFan]

66. This certainly has been known to cause discomfort

[Fire Walk With Me]

68. Ha! That's something that you separate from your personal concept of edible

once you've tried it. And has anyone run a test to find out how drunk one must manditorily be, prior to having the idea that it might be neat to try out that much-discussed liquor?

How can a company survive with no repeat business?

[kwassa]

67. when I experience perfect discomfort

[montanto]

69. Barbequed crickets are GOOD!!! Chilli and lime they have on them.

Those salty licorice things are terrible though.

[texas1928]

71. Garlic

More than a clove sends me into back pains. I hurt and hurt, then blow the house down.

[AwakeAtLast]

73. Scrapple

Of course, my PA Dutch husband loves the stuff. I can't even be in the same room when it is being heated in a skillet! :puke:





Braunschweiger is a close second:

[IntravenousDemilo]

75. Natto.. I mean, just LOOK at it...

It looks like something the monster from Alien would barf up... or give birth to.

[GenDem]

78. Tripe -- or cow's stomach

Not my idea of a comfort food.

[FloridaJudy]

80. Here 'ya go

For sheer gut-roiling, you can't beat British cooking.
The Scots also invented the deep fried pizza:



Excuse me. I need to go take some Maalox now...

[KamaAina]

87. *1170* percent of the daily value of cholesterol?!

Hoo boy. Even if it weren't, you know, brains, :puke: that'd give me second thoughts.

Aside: That implies that brains (at least pork brains) are composed largely of cholesterol. Could there be a link between all the low-cholesterol diets out there and the general dumbing down of America, as witnessed by the rise of Bush**, the Paris Hilton obsession, etc., etc.? :tinfoilhat:

edit: caps. Time for some more cholesterol, I guess.

[FloridaJudy]

89. As if the brains weren't bad enough

The recipe suggests you cook them with eggs and butter.

Around these here parts we call that the "Triple Bypass"

[Squatch]

83. These wouldn't taste too good...and will definitely be uncomfortable

[Xipe Totec]

84. Hard Tack

[Callalily]

86. Popcorn

http://thumb1.shutterstock.com/photos/display_pic_with_logo/4884/4884,1115868326,1.jpg

[KamaAina]

88. Warning: The Filipino "delicacy" balut may cause you to hurl.

You've been warned...



This is readily available for sale within three blocks of my comfy cubicle. :puke:

[Hand]

91. Well, that explains why they're usually sold at night... nt