What is the most vile food you have ever eaten and why is it cilantro?
If you inexplicably happen to have a different answer, please share. Along with what the food is, please tell us why you found it objectionable.
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Poll: Disgusting Foodstuffs
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I've got an idea! How about we just stick to the Constitution as written and then the government can leave me the fuck alone.
Natto.
*mic drop*
Done. End thread here.
I haven’t had it, but some people say surströmming is pretty vile.
It isn’t.
The only thing vile about it is the stench of warm garbage, and death, but the taste is just salty and goes very well with sour cream and boils potatoes on tunnbröd.
It is a regional delicacy, so I have many memories of the whole neighborhood being completely empty every time my dad opened a can where we lived in the Stockholm region, instead of people coming over to asking to have a bite in the northern parts of Sweden.
Ika Shiokara
*picks up mic, throws it at Gustave*
“ Shiokara (塩辛) is a food in Japanese cuisine made from various marine animals that consists of small pieces of meat in a brown viscous paste of the animal’s heavily salted, fermented viscera. The raw viscera are mixed with about 10% salt, 30% malted rice, packed in a closed container, and fermented for up to a month. ”
So… garum with rice?
Nastier. Fermented squid in fermented squid guts.
Do you know how they make garum? That doesn’t actually make it any worse.
JFC I’m trying to eat dinner here. A perfectly sane spicy ramen.
I had trout.
I don’t have to do much to it, just cook with butter and lemon juice.
It was delicious.
Any salt? Or is that a bridge too far?
The butter was salted. I didn’t need to add supplemental salt.
I will probably salt the flatiron steak tomorrow.
It’s not spicy enough.
It’s that spicy Korean stuff, which is pretty damn spicy for a gringo like me.
*bows to Scruffy*
In the Iron Chef Natto Battle (the real Iron Chef, not the American abortion) Morimoto used Coke as a marinade for natto, which makes perfect chemical sense- ammonia neutralized by the phosphoric acid. The Iron Chef tasting panel all agreed that the best dishes were the ones where the flavor was suppressed.
I tried natto with a friend of mine after we watched that battle. We regretted it.
OFFS, what is wrong with you!?
This was about food!
People who hate cilantro are literally genetic defectives. I am sorry about your disability.
They must be sent to leper camps, all of them.
You misspelled “superior”.
I must be only partially defective then. It only tastes like soap to me sometimes.
Most vile? I’m not certain.
The bottle of White Merlot my dad picked up for me once was pretty vile.
Chicken liver, or probably any liver. It’s the one food I couldn’t stomach as a kid that I haven’t revisited as an adult, and I don’t intend to.
Fried chicken livers are great
Heaven save me from liver’n’onions.
And give you some leafy greens and veggies.
Nope. I have a texture thing/gag reflex about most fruits and veggies. That’s WHY I have a good vitamin regimen.
The Lions club used to have liver and onions every Wednesday. It was their money maker. (The lions club had a bar and grill, like a Legion or VFW.)
Liverwurst and pate are delicious.
Braunschweiger (liverwurst) was a staple of my childhood which I gave up decades ago because “cholesterol”.
Now that I’ve gotten caught up on current nutritional SCIENCE (not the quack advice about cholesterol and fat) I have brought Braunschweiger back to my menu. I generally eat it plain as a keto snack – a perfect keto balance!
I had sheep’s liver in Vienna once. It was OK.
My mom used to overcook the damn thing (calves liver that is). Marco Pierre White showed me the way.
It is gamey but pretty good actually. Cheap easy comfort food.
https://youtu.be/dUZXvbYhSJ4?t=339
My mother had always hated liver as a child, so she never cooked it. I don’t believe I’ve ever had calves liver.
Licorice. Disgusting.
*crosses DEG off the “alive to me” list*
I hear he is voting for Biden.
*faints*
That is slander and calumny.
I’m not dead yet.
Dude. I can’t even with this.
Don’t listen to them DEG. Licorice is, in fact, disgusting.
Especially the black ones.
rayciss!
#fakenews
I gave absinthe a try once.
Straight up, I didn’t notice the anise/licorice taste all that much.
Watered down and with a little sugar like you’re supposed to drink it? Barf.
I had some bitters one time and I swear I thought anise was an ingredient.
Oh, and cilantro is fine. You’re just racist against tex-mex.
Or Thai
Butternut squash. big thing at our house as a kid. My dad had two rules at dinner. You had to have some of everything and you had to clean your plate. The gag reflex is still there. Even the sight of it. Just writting this.
That’s chick food. Just say you made butternut squash soup and the chicks will line up around the block. It’s inedible for we men folk.
I tried to make this point last month, but a bunch of dudes stepped up to profess their love of the butternut soup.
I can eat butternut or acorn squash with a combination of maple syrup, sugar, honey, and cinnamon.
Only 3 sweeteners, and you forgot the butter. I could see heavy cream, maybe.
An incident like that with potato salad is why I still avoid mayonaise.
Overcooked Brussels sprouts and/or overcooked liver.
Cilantro is the bomb. Depending on the recipe.
I love overcooked brussels sprouts. I mean boiled in water, not burnt, burnt are disgusting.
I like how you are not ashamed of being wrong.
*barf* to overcooked vegetables.
Overbooked brussel sprouts is a dish only HM could love.
Overcooked*
Brussels sprouts are at the top of my list of foods that make me gag. Absolutely disgusting.
Now you’re just being difficult.
Couldn’t be more wrong. Roasted with olive oil and salt until lightly browned and slightly crunchy. Delicious
THere’s something about that whole family because cabbage and broccoli have a similar effect on me.
(Although I have learned to like broccoli over the years.)
Yes, the whole family is gross when steamed/boiled to hell.
But, also, I think there is a chemical thing going on in the brassicas, some sort of sulfuro- reaction, that maybe some people are more sensitive to than others. I think that’s the only flavor left once you boil off the good flavors.
True, they are better cooked right, at least broccoli. I’m too chicken-shit to try Brussels sprouts again.
You can probably guess that I grew up with seventies cooking.
I saw an article a while back that claimed that modern Brussels sprouts have had the bad flavors bred out of them and taste much better than they did a few decades ago, which is why they’ve suddenly become popular.
I have no idea if this is true, though, since my mom hates vegetables and I don’t think I had Brussels sprouts until about 10 years ago.
Not vile, but not going to eat it again.
Lightly sautéed hog brains
*barf*
I was just drunk enough to eat them and not drunk enough to get I’ll.
No not noble parts of animals, all of that shit is disgusting, brains, tongue, feet, tripe, that’s gross. People ate that shit because they were starving to death, not because it’s a delicacy, ewww!
^this
I hate when people pretend garbage is a “delicacy”.
I dunno. I seek out beef tongue tacos whenever I am in L.A.
And moose hunters claim that moose tongue is the best part of the moose.
I have eaten cows stomach in China. One was spicy (very good) the other 5-spice (only passable)
I’ve eaten raw pork and I’ll eat it again.
That one time my mom tried to make egg foo yung, my dad was forcing me to eat it, and then I vomited in my plate.
At least nobody could tell the difference.
Ha I had that same experience when my parents tried to force me to finish something I didn’t want to eat. I don’t even remember what it was but I never pulled that move on my own daughters.
Oh oh, I always hated canned Chow Mein.
Yuck. That stuff is also barf inducing.
Oof.
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I don’t think I’ve ever actually vomited from food. Even disgusting crap like Brussels sprouts.
I didn’t eat it but when I was in college I lived with a guy who cooked some brussel sprouts on the stove one night. He ate some of them and put the lid back on the pan. Being two young bachelors we ignored the pan on the stove for the next few days. Let me tell you when we pulled the lid back off that was a bike disgusting odor
Gotta love auto-correct.
Yup damn autocorrect. Bike was supposed to be vile. (Damnit autocorrect tried to change it to bike again but I caught it)
I turn off autocorrect on any device that has it.
My mistakes are my own.
LOL……You were just watching me trying to figure out how to use the evil that is wordpress and submit a post weren’t you? A submission that has the wonderfulness that is cilantro. Why the $*%&^)&_ hell can’t you just copy paste the whole $*&^(*&)(* thing from a word processing document? But thanks Tonio for the how to! I think I did it.
Worst food I have had is some forms of Kalamata olives. Kalamata is Greek for ass.
You need to try retsina, the Pine-Sol of wines.
“a Greek white or rosé wine flavored with resin”
?
I had old Riesling once.
It had a petroleum taste to it, which I understand some Riesling aficionados like.
“My go-to drink used to be diesel. Then my doc said it wasn’t good for me.”
I LOVE retsina, but yeah, it tastes like you’re drinking a pine tree.
I have no strong opinion on cilantro.
This is odd, I have a strong opinion about everything.
I dunno, why can’t you copy and paste it? That’s what I do.
Um, (yes, I know, most obnoxious way to start a comment -it’s on purpose). You can just copy paste from a word processing document.
Said with all the smugness of someone who only recently learned to do her own posts.
Seriously, you have my sympathy
Ya, you copy paste but in bits. You can’t copy paste the whole thing at once. Or at least I couldn’t. I had to add the images to the whatever the fuck library it is.
You can copy paste the text, then, yes, you have to add the pictures. Sympathy.
So, I suppose you want me to move your post from Projects to Posts, where it should be?
Cold Bundeswehr C-Ration Blutwurst. It was nasty on so many levels. Even eating goat eyeballs as the guest of honor with a Kuwaiti Army unit paled in comparison.
Also- Land Shark beer. It tasted like formaldehyde and old sneakers.
I haven’t had the German field rations but most MRE components were better unheated and eaten cold.
Sigh… I miss the old pork patty and beef patty. Make a wee incision in the pouch, pour in a splash of canteen water, wrap it up, stuff it in your pocket and walk around all day until it gets just right.
THE PORK PATTY IS PUT INTO THE APPLE SAUCE.
Or it gets the hose.
Also known as the hockey pork.
I remember how excited I was to buy MREs as a teenager and use them while hiking/camping.
That excitement lasted until I ate one.
Hot sauce. Lots of hot sauce. I used to like the ham omelette that everyone thought was nasty. Used to heat and mix in the scalloped potato package along with all the salt, pepper, and tobasco available.
I loved potatoes all rotten.
I looked at a current menu. Good lord. I’d rather eat the eggs than the garbage they’re issuing these days.
While it wouldn’t top any lists, land shark shouldn’t taste that bad. Must have skunked or you drank piss.
I will not touch acorn or butternut squash, or organ meats of any variety. Tomato ketchup is vile but has a place in some sauces. I disregard whale, porpoise, and octopus as they are far too smart to be preyed upon. I’ll eat the Hell out of anything else.
“ Tomato ketchup is vile ”
I can’t even…
I avoid organ meats on principle, I don’t know if I’ve ever any though…
It’s possible the aversion is due to a suppressed childhood experience. *shrug*
A great joy in hunting camp is to cook venison/elk/moose heart in a bed of coals. Halve it, clean out the valves, fill with some butter and garlic. Wrap in foil and place in the coals.
I discovered octopus in some Chinese buffet I dumped onto my plate once. I was like, “what is this extremely disagreeable flavor?”
Pulpo salad is great. Also makes excellent marinara sauce.
I’ve also eaten Goya octopus straight out of the can while standing naked over the sink, because I’m classy like that.
octopus is very sensitive to preparation. I’ve had amazing octopus, and I’ve had fishy rubber bands octopus.
I don’t think I’d eat octopus at a chinese buffet unless deep fried.
It was the weird sweet-ish flavor that bothered me the most. I strongly dislike most seafood so there’s that.
Wait, what is this? Did I just click on an article titled ‘disgusting foodstuffs’ with a picture of the delicious cilantro? This is an outrage!
Here’s you disgusting food stuffs:
Beets, blech!
Pears, blech!
Sweet Potatoes, blech!
Green Jell-O with carrots, Extra blech!
Rice pudding, *hurl!*
Okay, you formally have no taste.
Only the carrot jello gets a blech.
What?
LOL you and pears again.
Pears are wonderful. My second favorite fruit after pineapple.
Sand apples!
*cancels Xmas order of Royal Riviera pears for H.*
“Green Jell-O with carrots, Extra blech!”
That’s your one correct answer.
At least it didn’t have raisins too.
Thanks Hyp, saved me typing out the list
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du6wiLRgm8o
Love ’em all
The one I still cringe at: At work in Dongguan about 20 years ago, actually in the factory lunchroom. Meals with us are always family-style, so dishes of stuff on the table and everybody serves out of them. One bowl had what looked like stir-fried meat in it – obviously shiny, light-colored, slick, like some “pulled pork”. I got some and tried a few pieces and couldn’t tell what it was. Very chewy with no flavor. Each looked vaguely like a little squid, so I figured that’s what it was (since calamari’s often chewy and tasteless). But some of us asked our Chinese colleagues. It was kinda puzzling that they didn’t know. One of them went off to the lunchroom ladies to ask, and came back poking Chinese characters onto his PDA to figure out the English words. He worked at it awhile, which was also a bad sign. So eventually he says “it’s a chicken leg, except for the meat and the bones and the skin”. It was the collection of tendons and gristle from the top of drumsticks, collected en masse and stir fried. And I’d already eaten like 5 of them trying to figure it out. Just gross.
Hates: Anise seed and anything with it (like italian sausage), sour cream, mayonnaise, raw celery, olives.
Childhood: Butterbeans. Picking long rows of them in the Georgia sun, shelling them, and then being forced to gag them down at the table while retching.
Had plenty of other wierd things, chinese mushrooms, fish gills, “we don’t know just eat it”, etc. But that’s my list.
Ha!
I recall asking one of my Chinese coworkers what the main entree was in the tin they gave us in the cafeteria. He had no clue, they just ate it.
Had that experience even with the “normal” food. “What is this?” “Uh, it’s a vegetable.” “Yeah, but what kind? What does it look like?” “I don’t know. It’s just a vegetable.” Or “What kind of tree is that?” “I don’t know. It’s just a tree.”
Or hearing a northerner, from anywhere above Beijing, talk about the food in the South/Guangdong – “those people will eat anything that moves”.
Still doesn’t make up for the sound of the northerner accent.
Me and a Korean friend were talking one day at work about different foods around the world. He made a comment about how Chinese will eat anything, unlike Koreans who only eat noble normal stuff like dog and cat. I said I like Chinese. He asked me if I’ve ever been to a real authentic Chinese restaurant, and I said sure, I go to them all of the time, I’ve been to so many. He said ‘That’s Chinese American food’, not what you typically get in China. So he told me about this Chinese restaurant. I went there, along with the typical stuff, stir fry whatever, soups, rolls, pot stickers, whatever, they had a lot of foods in big pots at one table, different type of stuff, I don’t know what it was, but it was fucking scary looking, the fish heads floating around in one pot were probably the least bizarre thing I saw. Some of it looked like stewed guts of something. I ate some of the ‘Chinese American’ food they had and left.
I dated a Chinese guy for years – I gave him all kinds of shit over their tendency to eat absolutely anything. It was very helpful when we ate out – anything I didn’t like I just handed over to him.
Butterbeans are good.
You have a wire swapped or something if you like butterbeans and not sweet potatoes.
My stepmom used to chew the joint off the ends of the chicken bones and crunch them with her teeth. It was the most nightmarish sound.
When my kids were little they’d break open chicken bones to suck the marrow out. We didn’t teach them that. Don’t know where it came from.
Evolution. It literally is where a lot of the good stuff resides.
My wife does this. According to her its where all the good stuff is.
Mrs Fourscore like chicken feet, buys them at the market.
I’m not going to eat cilantro but we grow plenty for Mrs F.
Ate a giant palm worm (like a 3 inch white grub) in VN, my VN counterpart called it a VN French Fry, all the young VN soldiers must have been clued in ’cause they were all watching. Good thing we had beer on the table. The guy I was replacing was the guest of honor and got the chicken head.
A food I have not had within memory, but I already know is the most vile and disgusting thing: chicken.
Now, how do I come to this conclusion? Simple- any time someone eats something disgusting (iguana, rat, hamster…) and someone asks, “What did it taste like?” the answer is always the same: “Just like chicken!” So if disgusting shit all tastes like chicken, well… QED.
Frog legs DO NOT taste like chicken, go ahead and have some, they’re delicious.
Lol, no. Now you’re just yanking our chains.
No, frog legs are the best white meat there is. Some types of fish, like pan fish wild caught and Chilean Sea Bass, are close, but frog legs are the best white meat ever. If they are cooked right. If not, they may be like the rubber calamari some restaurants serve, but prepared correctly, the best.
Fishy flavor, edible but not preferable
Counterpoint, fried chicken.
I intensely dislike mayo.
I’m having a hard time thinking of the most vile thing I’ve eaten though.
Oh, and anyone criticizing acorn or butternut squash is a retard. Ravioli di zucca with brown butter and sage is the finest dish not involving white truffles I’ve ever made.
Kabocha is the superior squash. Full stop.
It’s excellent, not better, just its own thing. Spud and I used one to make a Afghan-inspired dish that kicked six degrees of ass.
Afghan restaurants around here do some truly amazing things with ‘pumpkin’ (meaning all winter squash). Absolutely delicious!
*looks around sorta patiently*
And what was that dish?
Basically, cut into wedges, marinated in oil and spices, roasted, then drizzled with a yogurt-garlic sauce and minced parsley. Super simple, but it’s all in getting the details right.
And put that diesel filled Riesling on the side.
That sounds delicious. I’ll be there in February.
Any winter squash, with or without condiments. Baked plain, healthy an local. Right on, OM
Summer squash is for the chickens
Zucchini fritters are delicious. Not chicken feed at all.
Only time you have to lock your car doors in Podunkville is when zucchini is in season. Otherwise you’ll have a back seat full. There should not be any world hunger as long as zucchini is growing, that stuff is prolific and fast.
Second worst culinary experience is when you are scarfing down some roasted peanuts, not really paying attention just shucking them and popping them in your gob hole, and you get one that is all dried out and just turns to nasty peanut dust instantly. Worst culinary experience is when you get a soft fuzzy one.
You can avoid both of those by looking at what you’re eating before shoving it in your face.
Meh, you ever drop a fry while drive-eating so you reach down and grab it only to discover it’s not the fry you just dropped and may in fact not even be a fry at all? Good times. If one insists on looking at everything one puts in ones pie hole one misses out on some grand adventures. Surprise, not variety, is the very spice of life.
My friend gave me her car when she went off to the Navy. I was finding French fries in that thing for a year.
I am a garbage disposal. I haven’t ran across anything I won’t eat, including natto and cilantro
Paging HM…
Christ, I’m stoned on Percocet.
?
Still belching?
Passing gas, thank god.
But I got a sharp pain in my left kidney this afternoon like a stone, but wasn’t. Thus the Percocet.
My favorite. The others give me headaches.
Almost everything like that makes me violently sick, cannot do opioids of any type.
Hydrocodone and codeine do not agree with me.
Those make me sick just like the rest of them. Oxycontin, even a low dose, will make me projective vomit and I’ll be sicker than hell the entire day.
#metoo
It surprises me that people take that stuff recreationally.
Yeah I know.
I’m thinking about trying Phenibut for occasional recreation to relax. I can’t do alcohol anymore, giving me gout, at least beer, which is the only one I really like. I like bourbon, but I get too drunk they way I drink it.
My wife is the same way.
Go you!
Suthen just yelled out “avocados” without knowing why. ?
IIRC, he can’t abide the soapweed either.
WTF? How can one live without both cilantro and avocado? What a nightmare.
No, the world is better without avocado.
*adds another to the “dead to me” list*
You clearly never read that list, since I’ve been on it for a while.
You can keep being wrong, just don’t ask me to eat it.
*uncrinkles old “dead to me” list*
well, I’ll be damned.
I was once like you. Then Whataburger fucked up my order and I didn’t realize it till I was far down the road. They gave me a Avacado Bacon burger. I was hungry and had just paid my last couple of bucks to eat. “Fuck it, I’m eating it, but I’m not going to like it.” I showed them, I loved it. Started eating guacamole after that as well.
Whataburger’s the best there is, but Whataburger with avocado and bacon? …and you didn’t pay for the extras?
I’ve had an avocado mistake too. I scraped that shit off. Yuck.
Well now you’re just being perverse.
You misspelled ‘sensible’
More for me
One of the few products of nature that’s as good as cilantro.
What is the most vile food you have ever eaten and why is it cilantro?
Cilantro, it’s cilantro. Actually I’ve found it’s mainly the stems I find objectionable. If I remove them and soak the leaves I can actually eat it.
I take a bunch of cilantro, a knife, and it straight across, only getting mostly leaves and throw the stems away.
For most disgusting I submit this. Canned Russian beef eaten room temp in the Sudd.
*hurk*
OMFG! What the fuck is that? It looks like something they found in an old soviet bunker from 1950.
That pic was taken on my first overseas job. South Sudan working for a Romanian oil company. I lived in the mud in the swamp with 300 Moldovan’s and a hand full of Canadians. That was the lunch they sent us to the field with. A can of meat and some bread. I lost a bunch of weight I did not have to lose back then and left the country with giardia. For the toilets they cut about a 100′ long trench with a giant trackhoe, put plywood over it and cut holes in the plywood for you to shit through. The whole camp was sick. It was an amazing display of probable dysentery. It was still better than where I was escaping which was Oklahoma.
It sounds like you’re describing a WW2 prisoner camp.
Whatever got into you to take that gig? Oklahoma? That’s all?
LOL one of my first meals as a foreign exchange student in Germany was actually “on the road” to Spain – Dosenfleisch. Or, “canned meat”. So yeah, ground up snouts and cheeks and shit in gelatin. To this day I still don’t know if they were fucking with me. I think so because other that that trip we never ate it again for the next year.
I liked Leberkäs, but Lebkuchen is vile.
A running joke in the family is that the first time my parents went to Germany, Dad ate his Weißwurst with white wine instead of beer. Oh how all the Germans laughed at him.
Mmmm love both of those.
I still have some Weißwurst from Stiglmeier in the freezer. I need to order from them again soon – some of more adventurous sausages. I like Weißwurst but it’s pretty plain.
” ground up snouts and cheeks and shit in gelatin”
Is that where they got the idea for Vienna sausages?
Just head cheese. I like head cheese but the local places have quit selling it, maybe for some liability problems but I can’t imagine why. Now I’m hongry for a headcheese sammich.
“Just head cheese.”
Yeah, I learned that term later. “Canned meat” is a friendlier euphemism.
Fried Locust. The eyeballs are this paste-like gunk that is truly terrible.
But if I could buy bags of fried scorpions, I’d stay fully stocked on those.
I’d get the fried scorpions just for the badass aspect.
Do you have to catch and fry them yourself?
No. They have them in a glass container in the stall, they pick three of them up, stab them with a skewer and toss them in the frying pan / oil.
*shudders*
The only reason it’s a food is because after the locusts ate all their grains, people needed to eat something, anything to avoid starving.
I ain’t eating no fucking bugs! That shit ain’t food, this is about food!
Trump wasn’t wrong. Not even a Burger King in miles, I bet.
I’ve had plenty of dishes that I don’t care for, but it’s hard to tell whether I dislike the ingredients or just the way it was prepped.
As far as ingredients that I dislike unless used in extreme moderation, Dijon mustard is the top of the list. No me gusto.
It’s just finely ground mustard with white wine vinegar.
I’ve eaten enough poorly prepared Dijon chicken that it’s a mental block.
Exsuse me sir
I Dont want any gray poop on my weiner
I really like Dijon mustard on sammiches.
Agreed, dijon is a terrible choice for hotdogs.
Spicy brown (e.g., Gulden’s) or GTFO.
(I’ll accept French’s for nostalgia purposes but, like ketchup on a hotdog, it’s something to grow out of).
My grandmother was the single most terrible cook I have ever encountered. She once made a thanksgiving dinner where literally everything was a shade of grey. Stuffing, potatoes, the entire turkey, even the homemade bread was somehow grey. Dad and his sister and brother all got very drunk and ate just enough to make it seem like it was decent. I was sober at that time and didn’t even try eating it. That one meal and anything else my grandmother made is my choice. She would make french toast and there would be huge chunks of mold in it. I see that and go check the package for the bread, the expiration date was 6 weeks prior. How do you make every inch of a turkey turn grey?
…
I’ll have to decline that invitation to thanksgiving.
You see xkcd today?
LOL!
We finally got a microwave oven when I was in about 9th grade. Mom made almost anything she could in it because it was “easier” for her. So we had a lot of overcooked steak and a lot of undercooked baked potatoes.
I hate baked potatoes to this day.
I once had real oven baked potatoes…. night and day difference.
Yeah… I’ve tried all the microwave “shortcuts” for baked potatoes and… no. Just, no.
Wow, she cooked steak in the microwave?! That is something else. I actually like doing baked potatoes for five minutes in the wave first and then baking them to get the crispy skin, it saves time and they come out nice.
They were these small thin steaks of some sort, sized for one person. Being that small and thin is why they ended up overcooked.
That’s just wrong. You can’t develop any flavor that way.
Baked potatoes are great, but they gotta spend about an hour in an oven at 350.
My wife made real mashed potatoes yesterday, omg, good!
One of my ex GFs from about 30 years ago, her mom was to my experience, the worst cook ever. Those poor kids, they must all have had rickets and scurvy and who knows what else. She invited me over to eat with her family one day. They were a strange bunch to start with. But her idea of dinner was cans of Campbell’s chicken noodle soup, a peanut butter sandwich on white bread, and a glass of tang or kool-aid. I’m not making that up.
And her mom was a hoarder also. They had this screened in back porch and she was telling me, my mom keeps everything, she never throws anything away. They kept their freeze out there, but there were just stacks of boxes everywhere and they were all full of these old plastic containers that lunch meat or whatever came in. She would even wash plastic baggies and reuse them. I looked at a couple of the containers, and there was one from 1954, date on it.
One day they were having a cookout and her sister made this salad stuff, it was called ‘seven layer salad’ or something like that. Anyway, it was pretty good. I cannot remember what was in it, lettuce and peas, mayo, some nuts, other stuff. So I was out there about a month later and plates and bowls are being passed around the table, and I get this bowl and I’m looking at it, and I don’t know what it is. So I looked at my GF and said ‘what is this?’. And she says ‘it’s the salad my sister made, the one you really liked’. And you know, this stuff had been in the fridge for at least a month in this container. And I said ‘umm, I think I’m going to pass’, and she just looks at me, and I said ‘it’s orange’. The problem being that it wasn’t supposed to be orange, it was green last time I saw it, lol.
Eww
Lol, you have no idea.
Whatever it was that the Guyanese defense force cooks fed me when I was visiting.
I will try just about anything. I’ve had llama (chewy), horse (pretty good as milenesa, I had a second helping), natto (not something I’d try again, but not horrific), all type and manner of organ meat (sometimes good, sometimes not so good), blood sausage (damn good), and various mystery meats of the third world. Aside from the chicken in a cheap restaurant in Peru that gave me salmonella, the only food that I tried to get into my mouth but could not manage was hakarl. My Icelandic buddy brought it over to our house and the first clue was his wife admonished him not to open up the tub in the house, she made him go on our porch. It smelled utterly like ammonia and death, I could not get it up to my mouth before the gag reflex took over. Icelander happily chomped on it on top of crackers.
Oh, and I am sorry about your genetic defect SP, but cilantro is one of the best toppings, I buy a bunch every week for soups and salsas.
Yeah, don’t think I could do the hakarl thing.
I had to look it up. It does not sound any more appetizing than KSuellington’s description.
Not even once. And I am someone who goes through anchovy paste tubes once a month and loves fish sauce dashed into things, and dig fermented stuff in general. Year long fermented shark bits is not a thing I will out in my body after getting an up close whiff.
My mother used to make me eat okra – that was bad.
Like raw?
Deep fried okra is good stuff. Pickled okra ain’t bad. Don’t know that I’d eat it too many other ways.
I love pickled okra.
Raw okra’s fine. Especially when it’s small. We oven-fry it (coat in meal and put it in a big frying pan with a little grease and high heat, stirring occasionally).
I’m not sure – steamed maybe?
Okra gets that weird sliminess sometimes when cooked. I’m not a fan, but I’ll eat it. I lived in Northeast Brazil for a while and it is really common there.
Okra must be fried, otherwise ick.
Best in gumbo.
Peas, peas are horrible. I love a good Chicken Pot Pie but I can’t get one at a restaurant because everyone insists on putting peas in them.
Check out Rockefeller over hear ordering chicken pot pie at a restaurant.
Hyperbole is a top-hatted swell?
No, he’s an Oyster dish.
I love peas.
Peas are awesome and versatile. I love making Mexican style rice with them in it. Heat oil and onions in a saucepan, add rice to toast, add tomato paste, salt, bay leaf and chicken stock. Cook it up and during the sitting stage where you take it off the burner add a bunch of frozen peas. Mmmmm good.
Peas don’t make the keto cut. ?
Right!?!? I miss split pea soup.
When my daughters were younger, they would sit on the floor in front of the open freezer drawer and eat frozen peas straight from the bag.
I like peas but dislike split pea soup.
I think it’s the texture.
OMG a good split-pea soup is heavenly. Yeah, it’s an interesting texture.
I love split pea soup. The ingredients are on my list this week since it is cooling off.
Me too.
I’ve got a ham I need to use in the fridge.
Metoo, with a little hambone cooked in.
Every time I have it, I think, “Y’know, with this much effort, I could have made a great dal.”
I was in Vegas several years ago and was on a winning streak, so took the wife to Smith & Wollensky’s. I had already ordered, but got to BS’ing with our waiter when we somehow got on the topic of split pea soup, all a sudden I had a bowl in front of me, it was amazing.
“I love peas.”
Yeah, a different flavor than any other pea or legume.
Spring peas are wonderful. As a kid, if I was asked to shell them it was amazing if any made it to dinner.
Heh. The crop was ready and we sent XY to pick some for dinner. Seems there was barely enough for three small servings. He finally fessed up and I told him next time don’t be so obvious.
Steak tartare.
I was on a hot date one time and I guess my brain wasn’t working because I momentarily forget what that actually is when I ordered it.
Luckily he was a good sport about my not eating that shit.
… that is delicious too, prepared properly.
Maybe. I just have a very strong aversion to raw meat.
*shudder*
Meat is not meant to be served raw.
We discovered fire for good reason.
Amen.
It separates us from the beasts.
I want to try it… not sure I’d finish it. The cannibal sandwich from Alas, Babylon sounded tasty when I was a teenager.
I haven’t had steak tartare, but I’m pretty sure I’d love it.
Carpaccio, or gtfo.
I’ll GTFO.
One of my favorite dishes of all time. Top 5. Maybe top 3.
Steak tartare, ceviche and a big Bloody Mary is the most effective hangover cure I’ve ever tried.
(Carpaccio is indeed awesome as well)
Kevin Sorbo for the win.
Meh, a “billionaire” is just as likely to grift as anyone, All public servant’s financial record should be open to the public. Let’s see them all.
Lutefisk. Cod, soaked in lye. I’m not even Scandinavian, but I’ve had Christmas dinner with them. Gross. Gefilte fish was a close second. My advisors in grad were Jewish and invited all grad students to Passover. Very similar to Easter, but gefilte fish, yuck.
In both cases, I ate it to be polite, but seriously considered making myself barf later. Would have improved the taste in my mouth. Advisor asked me what I thought, I said, “it’s similar to lutefisk. You know, the Sons of Norway always hold a lutefisk dinner in December to raise money.” Not said, almost as disgusting.
SiL is a Glatt Kosher caterer. The gefilte fish and the kugel (pasta is not meant to be a dessert) at her seders are scary enough to make us plan visits so as to arrive just after Pesach.
I’ve only ever seen gifilte fish in a jar when I was working at Tops supermarket (Buffalo’s version of Wegman’s) and yeah I kind of recoiled in horror.
I’ve had it. It’s not that bad. It isn’t good either.
I love a good kugel. Goyim don’t.
How could I forget gefilte fish in a jar?
https://www.amazon.com/Manischewitz-Gefilte-Fishlets-24-Ounce-Glass/dp/B004DND5MU#ace-g2545694624
Served them at a Halloween party one time for the ambiance factor.
Cilantro is wonderful. How the hell do you make pico without it??
Green beans, on the other hand, are awful. Ditto lima beans. And lutefisk.
I had braised short ribs and Brussels sprouts for dinner tonight. Fantastic.
I am growing lemon basil in my hydroponic set-up. Now, that is what I imagine You People taste in cilantro. And if so, then I can see why you like it.
There are all kinds of basil too. But I don’t think any of them taste like cilantro. Besides culantro, you could try epazote, which is similarly turpene. Although, it it isn’t used raw. It can make beans less gassy like sofrito with cilantro. So does bay leaf, which tastes nothing like either of them.
Right??
OTOH… I actually got a salad once at Pret a Manger where some idiot had substituted it for romaine. Yeah, I don’t get how that happens but it was gross.
Green beans, like many vegetables, depend on the preparation. Lightly roasted with a squeeze of lemon? Good. Southern style with diced country ham? Good. Steamed and plain? Awful.
I put this on the dead thread, and now that some time has passed, I’ll repost it here.
Mississippi ends mask mandate
Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves ended a statewide mask mandate on Wednesday as the number of COVID-19 cases have fallen in recent weeks to less than half of what they were at the peak of the pandemic in August.
The Magnolia State was one of 33 states in the union – not counting Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia, who also instituted the mandate – to require its citizens to wear facial coverings.
But the governor said he will still require people to wear face coverings in schools to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
‘We should not use the heavy hand of government more than it is justified,’ Reeves said at a news conference.
‘We have to tailor our actions to the current threat, and make sure that they do not go beyond what is reasonable.’
Here in Cali, they just instituted woke mandates. If the poor or racially desirable areas have too high of numbers, the other (white or affluent) areas have to remain on lockdown until the POC’s or whatever catch up. Oh, and they passed a retarded microstamping scheme where only microstamping firearms get added to the list of approved firearms for sale in the state. Every time a microstamper gets added, three non-microstamping firearms have to be removed. I have no idea which of either is decided. I only buy old and used firearms. This asshole Newsome is just going nuts right now.
Is the racial stuff your interpretation or was it explicitly stated?
Oh, it’s real. This is woke assed Cali. The power vested in Newsome by this pandemic has really gone to his head. Check here. Not even messing around. (Insert “it’s happening” gif here!}
Wowwwwww
Gobsmacked.
Here in NYC, instead, they’re just going after the Jews – who by and large are just ignoring this shit.
“We can’t allow transmission rates to be so disproportionately impacting those communities without significant effort to really reduce that disparity and reduce the burden on those communities,” Dr. Mark Ghaly, the state’s health secretary, said Thursday.”
I bet you if you put them all in Beverly Hills and let them work from home, the rates will come down.
Very true. We’re in Contra Costa County, which is mostly suburban bedroom communities, but also contains Richmond, a heavily minority dominated city. The rest of the county is practically Covid-19 free, but because Richmond isn’t doing so well, the entire rest of the County is about the most locked down in the state. Still no indoors for most businesses and dining, certainly no bars. Even San Francisco is ahead of us at this point.
“But the governor said he will still require people to wear face coverings in schools to curb the spread of the coronavirus.”
We’ll still make you wear them where the risk of spreading infection is less and the danger of being infected is less.
Anyone got an updated list of what illegal mandates are in effect where?
Chinese chicken feet – not the meat striped off the feet but the entire foot cooked which you chew the skin/softer parts off the bones. After eating them I pondered on what those had been marinating in for a few years before cooking.
Also – some bottled swill which was supposed to be beer which we bought off the street in St. Petersburg in 1993. Totally flat and tasted of unknown chemicals. No flavor even resembling beer. We each took a sip then poured the rest down the drain so our host’s mother could re-use the bottles.
I also went with a group of Taiwanese for lunch at a place (in Taiwan) which served something that had the texture and flavor of rubber bands. I ate a lot of rice trying to get past the flavor.
There is not much that I won’t eat: raisins, circus peanuts and sea cucumber.
I had an aversion to squash for a while – we ate so damn much of it growing up. But I had diced acorn squash with leftover taco meat and a couple of stir-fried eggs for supper tonight.
My garden was overrun with cilantro / coriander this summer.
I’m making fermented hot sauce. One variety is just habanero, garlic and an orange bell pepper. I over filled the jar and it bubbled over. I got brine on my fingers while using it and they were burning (like, day 3). Nods, yeah, this is going to be goood!
Using s/b fixing
I could eat the fuck out of that.
I do plan to use it for ….. Fried chicken.
But also other things. When it’s done, I plan to write it up for Glibs.
Woohoo! Tulip cooking post!
It’s hard to take pictures. It’s like, fill the jar then …. Let it sit on the counter.
So exciting.
Tomatos.
A subfood, and thus only useful to make real food. It isn’t pure trash like the non-foods or unfoods; eggplant, beets and the like.
But, on a positive note, I spent the evening drinking in a brewery, watching baseball. The girl behind the stick wasn’t wearing a gag, and it was nice to see a few people out getting a drink.
Even grape tomatoes?
grocery store tomatoes suck. I tried sneaking a bite of a store bought Roma tomato I was slicing for pizza…. bad mistake.
Because they’re picked green. You have to grow your own.
Yes.
This place is really going downhill.
When I was a kid like 5 years old, I would walk through my grandparents garden with a shaker of sale and eat sun ripened tomatoes right off the vine. Tomatoes are one of my favorite foods of all.
some of my favorite childhood memories are picking corn, green beans, and tomatoes from my great grandparents’ farm. Dinner was guaranteed to be awesome
I hear you man.
Me too. Must have salt, not like those weirdo Scandinavians that put sugar on tomatoes.
The two tomatoes I liked best from my grandparents garden were Marglobe and those little yellow pear tomatoes. I grow the pear tomatoes every year, right now, I have hundreds of green ones on, I hope they get ripe now that it’s cooler. If not, I could always fry a bunch of little green maters before it frosts.
We had jicama with lime and ground red chile powder.
Raw novels is great!
Are you sure the novels are raw? A lot of authors were historically baked.
WTF autocorrect. Raw jicama is great!
Is great for what? It’s worse than honeydew.
Not with lime juice and red ground chile powder. But, I actually like honeydew melons, so there’s that.
No, a little salt and it’s awesome
salt damnit
You’re clearly some sort escaped maniac.
No tomatoes means no caprese salad.
That stuff is great.
I have a couple heirloom tomatoes sitting out, waiting for the mozz coming in the grocery delivery tomorrow.
At the tail-end of caprese season, sadly. Heirlooms won’t be around much longer.
Cilantro is awful. So is okra.
OFFS! Okra is wonderful.
I’m another okra homie.
Other than soapweed, my main problem with any food is almost always mouthfeel.
But some of the replies here make me kind of glad I am doing total plant-based; I was always fussy about meat anyway. Thank you for helping me stick it out! (Day 60 for those keeping track.)
This has been fun. Thank you all for playing.
Whatever you’re doing with soapweed, the problem is always ‘needz moar soapweed!’.
The plant based diet you’re doing is probably the best diet you can do. That’s what I find from all the research I’ve personally done, and I did a lot because I was really sick and wanted to get well, Total no bias in opinion, I decided to do the plant based thing and I think it’s great for your health. I want to go back on it, I felt a lot better and I didn’t really miss anything except butter and the plant based is actually better IMHO.
When I went to China as part of a tour back in high school, they took us to one of those banquet places where there were about — I don’t know – 20 dishes? It was like a dim sum place but with full dishes. Anyway, I’m pretty sure part of the joke was to inflict the weirdest possible shit on the American kids and watch them squeal like fragile Westerners. I was a brave “I’ll try anything!” girl and so I ate the grasshoppers (crunchy, tasted of the soy they were cooked in but next time, pinch off the legs because they get stuck in your throat) and some other kind of bug (really bitter, though that could’ve been whatever it was cooked in).
And sea cucumbers. Which are not that weird, comparatively, I know lots of seashore cultures eat them. BUT OH MY GOD are they disgusting. The texture is gross and the flavor is worse. NEVER. AGAIN.
I also got super sick from China, so the following week in Korea is mostly a blur. Don’t know if it was the food, or some other Commie Flu, but I was sick for a month afterward.
No one brought up durian yet?
I think anybody here who might have tried Durian brought it up right after.
I ain’t eatin’ no damned durian or salmon patties. Had two bad episodes with salmon patties.
I love salmon patties. My uncle used to put salmon that he caught up in jars in Michigan and he’d always give us a some jars. My grandmother would fry up a bunch of salmon patties out of them. Yummy!
I w actually buy canned salmon just to make salmon patties. Serve with peas and rice.
Canned salmon? What kind of satanic sorcery is that? It’s bad enough that I have to buy it from the fish monger instead of right off the boat.
Stuffed salmon at Jake’s Famous Crawfish
https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/02/87/97/f7/filename-portland-037.jpg
Canned salmon makes very good fish cakes.
I had a durian shake one time. It was pretty good.
Hyp – the reputation is that it tastes good but the smell is horrific.
(insert joke here).
They have it in the Korean market here. Is it bad?
I’m not sure about the taste but the smell would put down a flock of chickens
There’s all sorts of weird exotic fruits in the street stands down in PE, Brazil where my wife has a house. I’d always be looking at those and say what is that? There would be many I have never seen before. I don’t remember that one (Durian), but I remember one my wife bought and when she cut it open, it was just bizarre. She was eating it and tried to give it to me and I’m staring at that thing, and I’m like no way, no. I can’t describe it, but it looked like some seeds encapsulated in some weird looking translucent slime, looked like snot. she said it was good, but I couldn’t get past the appearance.
Was it maracujá? It’s a type of passion fruit and really good. Also, I am sure you have seen jaca (jackfruit) in Brazil. It’s all over the place. It’s pretty good. Also, I loved acerola, especially with fresh oj. So damn good, just a touch of sugar please.
I’ve had both of those, they’re OK but not something I would eat all the time. it’s something else. Maracuja, my wife eats the seeds and all, she loves that one, especially eating all the seeds.
Is your wife from Pernambuco? I spent three months in Recife/Olinda in the beginning of the 2000’s. Had a ton of great times in that place. Loved the music there, so much good stuff. I used to go out to the favela to backyard forrós. Also a very crazy city. Mangue.
It’s legendary but yeah I’ve never seen or smelled it.
It smells like dirty gasoline soaked socks.
“dirty diaper” is also a common answer.
I got near the table with durian. A friend of mine managed to take a bite, then ran to the weeds to throw up.
This was an outdoor event, as no one rational would let one inside their house.
Watching “Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life” – started last night and spouse has been talking all day about collectivism.
Where did you see it?
Disgusting: canned fish like sardines or herring. Canned tuna is fine.
But sardines (especially fillets in oil) are amazing.
I like them in mustard best.
No, try https://YouTube.com/watch?y=8b-e0oOTn 8
SF’d the link. https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bbOkj3Bymco/X0WUOvxy5DI/AAAAAAACUuM/eRXMvrxgXCkgBIh7mwb9g8Tvbmk0IQNIQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/117735577_3344068758974599_7999568700538503405_o.jpg
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8b-e0oOTn_8
They have them here from Mexico with a tomato like sauce. I didn’t like those too much.
I never miss an opportunity to post this.
I like canned fish, as I have no expectation it will be like fresh fish.
There are a couple tinned-fish places here. I’ve been to one of them – really delicious but quite expensive; the good tinned fish is not cheap.
I think I have a tin of smoked oysters in the pantry – maybe I’ll break those out this weekend.
goes to you tube for sanity….
OMG! the host of The Floor is Lava” and “The American Barbecue Showdown” is the same guy! WTF!
Oh boy.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/02/hope-hicks-coronavirus.html
I personally would spend a lot of time with Hope Hicks, also. Even if she had the commie virus.
Always fighting yesterday’s battles
While it came up in earlier threads, I finally looked at the details of the irish court on the subway bread.
Now, 10% is on the high end for bread, but 2% is also absurdly low. They have excluded a whole lot of normal bread.
Yeah, their Honey Oat bread is delicious, but I’m sure it’s relatively high in sugar. That should be a matter left between me and my Sandwich Artist. And their tuna salad is my favorite. As far as I can tell, it’s just tuna & mayo – no “filler.” (Don’t need to add crunch if you’re putting other veggies on the sammich.)
I’ve been browsing bread recipies and doing the math for the flour:sugar ratios. They all seem to be in the 3-5% range for any yeast-leavened varieties.
Are the Irish requiring soda bread?
I ate picked pig liver in China. Tasted like a sour mushy bag of iron awful.
Canned peaches.
Huh? While not as awesome as good in season ones, they still rock.
Refrigerate them, and they’re even better.
Yes, in the can.
Only thing worse than canned peaches are fresh peaches.
There’s something wrong with you.
Or with Japanese peaches.
Peaches are too fuzzy. Pass.
Al Swearengen would kick your ass for that.
“Open the fuckin’ canned peaches!”
Not the most vile thing I’ve had (which I’m probably repressing,) but I could never stand canned beets. Would sit at the dinner table long after everyone else was done and gone, trying to choke down the required portion.
Beets are ?
When I was a stupid young man, I ate canned dog food once after reading Henry Rollins’ Black Flag memoir, where he said they used to eat Alpo sandwiches because they were so broke. I took one bite and immediate spewed it out as in a cartoon.
Any type of fishy tasting fish makes me want to vomit. Love tuna steaks and swordfish and fish and chips, but things like salmon or mackeral….no. My wife’s grandmother makes smelt as an appetizer at Christmas and just the sight of them makes me queasy.
Salmon’s funny, in that I like it _much_ better raw vs. cooked.
I’m with you on mackerel being a very “fishy” fish. Mackerel sushi is still a tough one for me.
Love some sashimi or tuna sushi, but anything else and I have to use a lot of soy sauce and wasabi to get it down.
Yellowtail usually works for non sushi eaters.
“Yellowtail” – Phrasing!
I also much prefer salmon raw to cooked. It’s as good as maguro tuna when really fresh. It’s also nice in ceviche, but a very short time marinating in the lime and spices. Five minutes is perfect with a spicy leche de tigre.
lol. That made me remember I tried the dog food when I was dog sitting for the neighbors when I was 7 or so. I didn’t have a dog, so I was curious. It wasn’t something I ate again, but I don’t remember finding it that bad, really. It was more the thrill of it, I guess.
Maybe it depends on the brand? Dunno.
I’m sure we’ll find out which are the good brands when the currency collapses!
::Opens thread::
Hey everyone–what’s g-
::sigh::
FDS–I gotta re-cert test I need to take.
::closes door::
I learned today that there’s a creature called an “oopa roopa”. Wonder if that’s where Ronald Dahl got the name from.
http://www.uparupaya.com/
Axolotl or “wooper looper”. Cute little buggers.
Axolotl poetry. I remember the first one from a Mad Magazine mass market paperback we had when I was a kid. It’s the only other time I’ve seen the word “axolotl” in print.
I saw a pic of one captioned Living Pokemon and it’s true. they don’t look quite real.
I’ve been trying to think of something to contribute but I’m coming up blank – maybe I’m just repressing, but I’m a pretty adventurous eater now (not so much when I was young).
There’s an enjoyable book by food critic Jeffrey Steingarten, The Man Who Ate Everything; in the beginning he talks about getting the job with no real background but he took a professional approach and “he systematically set out to overcome his distaste for such things as kimchi, lard, Greek cuisine, and blue food. ”
A big take-away for me was that research shows that people (kids, in particular) need to try things at least 3 times before they can really decide they “don’t like it”. I’ve kept that in mind over the years and try to revisit things I think I don’t like.
Swiss cheese and mushrooms would have been on that list when I was young, now I eat those multiple times a week.
That looks like an HM link.
He fits the description.
(the though of Jeffrey Steingarten being some sort of ass-eating conniseaur is hilarious).
My mother insisted we try three normal bites every time. I now will try anything once, and will eat to be polite almost anything
You were very polite while you were visiting us.
You had good food, wasn’t a problem
Mushrooms were a tough one for me. I eventually got tired of saying “no mushrooms” at restaurants and modifying recipes to be fungus-free… So one night, I bought a box of mushrooms, fried them in butter, and forced myself to eat every single one. It’s true – they weren’t as bad as I imagined them (the aversion originated from vomiting up mushroom soup when I was 6).
I’m still not a huge fan of white button mushrooms, but I can eat them. I actually really like other types of mushrooms like portobellas, enoki, and shiitake. Just not the plain white button ‘shrooms, which are unfortunately the most common kind.
If we’re including drinks, habushu (commonly called habu sake by Marines on Okinawa) tastes awful. It’s awamori aged with a habu snake in it, gradually absorbing the venom.
Any MRE from back in my day. Cold Hungarian Goulash pretty much sits at the top.
Other than that I still don’t get all the love for pineapple. Heck I once had some durian cakes and it was less awful.
Pineapple is meh.
I did have some white pineapple in Hawaii a couple years back, which was indeed delicious. Also, stupid expensive.
While I love pickled cauliflower I hate cooked cauliflower. On of the most disgusting dishes for me, and I think the reason may have been the smell as much as a taste, was a cauliflower and sour cream sort of casserole dish my mom made that my father loved.
There are probably more… I dislike in general zucchini or any type of squash. But not to the level of calling it disgusting. I don’t like brains which are popular to eat in Romania.
Drink wise the worst thing I probably drang was a sort of fermented mare’s milk a friend brought from Kazakhstan
Good morning glibbies.
Good morning Pie!
Looking just a bit above, pineapple is another thing I hate
MRE’ s are quite a bit better than the C-rations we used to eat. Not by a lot but they are an improvement.
They change the items every few years so the MREs now are mostly different than I had, but some of them weren’t bad at all. Chicken and salsa, chili mac, jambalaya were all pretty good. The meat loaf and mashed potatoes were decent if you heated them up. Worst ones I remember were the hot dogs, country captain chicken, bean burrito, and the infamous vegetable omelet, known far and wide as the vomlet.
I guess my experience is non-standard as I spent 4 years as a grunt in the 70’s eating C-rat’s all the time and then never had an MRE until around 2015. So I skipped over the first few generations of MREs.
Still, canned food-substance which you have to chop through the top layer of grease to get to if there’s no way to heat it… Bleah…
This was the best menu
https://www.mreinfo.com/mres/mre-menus/mre-menus-1993-1994/
It’s been downhill since, particularly when cheese tortellini and other vegetarian crap was added. Freeze dried strawberries were the best.
Looking at steve1989 it seems he likes a lot of MREs (usually not US ones but still)
He does. And he’s rather adventurous with what he takes in. Plus, he seems to have a well-developed palate. I mean, I suppose he does, considering how he’s (apparently) able to suss out various flavors/ingredients. In MREs, of all things.
Not bad for a guy who’s never been in the military
You people are weird. Most of the foods mentioned above are totally delicious. Like canned Russian beef: cook it, don’t it eat raw. Gefilte fish, butternut squash, canned fish, Brussel sprouts, Dijon mustard, tomatoes, organ meat — that are all great. Even whale was fine to try in different ways. Licorice candy is awesome. Mayo, OMG! And now I’m stuck with you with nowhere to go.
OTOH, beef jerky is gross.
I was following along with you, nodding my head in agreement when –
“beef jerky is gross”
Huh??!?
Hotaruika no shiokara.
”
Shiokara (塩辛) is a food in Japanese cuisine made from various marine animals that consists of small pieces of meat in a brown viscous paste of the animal’s heavily salted, fermented viscera. The raw viscera are mixed with about 10% salt, 30% malted rice, packed in a closed container, and fermented for up to a month. Shiokara is sold in glass or plastic containers.”
I almost vomited. Actually I think I did. Hard to tell the difference.
Most Japanese won’t push Shiokara on foreigners who either don’t know what it is or don’t want to try it. If they ask me if I want some I tell them I don’t eat “Getemono” (disgusting food).
It didn’t look terrible so I figured why not. I had paid for it as part of some vacation package. I found out what it was later.
Bitch–you won’t last the first day of said “revolution”.
It’s about time. 300+ on topic comments is quite enough.
And yeah, I’m pretty sure if the revolution he envisions actually arrives, then he will be on the receiving end.
Fuck his “social contract”.
You’d think that a former CEO of a major online platform would understand the concept of a contract. Repeat after me, DICK–Contracts DO NOT operate via tacit approval.
Natto is probably the worst thing I’ve had. Smells bad, tastes bad, and the mouthfeel is completely wrong.
I had some durian cream cookies once. Those were pretty bad. Haven’t had actual durian, though.
I like actual peaches, but I hate artificial peach flavor, so I can’t stand any candies or anything else that claim to be “peach flavored”
Alligator is not good. Tastes like fishy chicken.
I can’t get past what Natto looks like. When talking about it with Japanese I tell them “If I told you what it looks like to me you’ll never be able to eat it again.”
Rat turds in snot. No thanks, you can have mine.
Do you eat Natto?
Never, Never.
Natto me!
I feel like peach cobbler now.
I made a plum galette tonight. Didn’t suck.
“peach” cobbler, right?
With vanilla ice cream on top.
Oh, Fuuuuuuuuuuuck!
Literal trigger warning.
Wow. That’s another level of stupid.
Let’s go in a happier direction.
https://youtu.be/nUKOQLIciO0
Whoo! Much happier.
human lives are more important than property
Depends on the life and the property. My property doesn’t agress against others.
Amazing he hadn’t shot anyone prior to that incident. What a bunch of assholes.
Maybe even a gathering of such?
A Stink (Stench) of Assholes.
A squint of assholes.
I’ll allow it.
😉
There goes the debates
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1311892190680014849?s=20
This year keeps getting weirder. Hoping it stops.
Wow.
I think you’re right. I wonder how it will affect Trumo. He’s in his 70s and overweight.
well at least he doesn’t smoke or drink…
I think this is significantly in his favor.
What is the over/under on T Dog recovering or getting really sick? I’d bet him having a Bolsonaro reaction to this. Will this end up helping his campaign?
No matter how it affects him, he will claim victory.
There is no doubt of that. It really has to be the can’t not watch final season 1 episode of Trump-White House.
What is a “Bolsonaro reaction”?
I assume it means you get it but recover quickly. See, leader od Beazil.
Like Jair Bolsonaro, it will enstregthen him. He will have a mild or no reaction and talk about his strong immune system, the best.
Ah–thanks. Had no idea he’d contracted it. Good on him for kicking it, I guess.
For what it’s worth, Trump’s blood type is O and they generally aren’t severely affected by this virus
DJ mini just went -520 in a period of 5 minutes.
Dammit Trump!
My cable is out. What’s the Cal scorw?
Covid 19 Cal 0
I think we need to recognize that Donald may not have the corona, the corona may have the Donald. The best immune system, just tremendous.
Bigly!
I can’t wait until Chloroquine cures him
Dr Fauci will sprint down the corridors of the White House, then dramatically throw himself in front of the doctor who’s heading in to hand The Donald his chloroquine.
A technique he learned from Chuck?
“You know to some people this is not a good thing. Bad news, we need to protect our seniors. I’d hat to see if Joe Biden got this, can you imagine? It’d wreck him. I tell you though it wasn’t bad for me. Honestly, I could hardly tell I had anything. I kept asking Melania, is this it? That’s all there is? But I have a strong immune system, just the best really, the doctors haven’t seen anything like it they were amazed. They are asking me to donate plasma for their treatments. I said whatever I can possibly do. We will have the best treatments, you couldn’t believe.”
Is it wrong to like this, and, to kinda hope it happens as written?
Only if it includes everyone getting a lil shot of Trump.
Stormy Daniels….approves?
/she did at some point
That’s spot on.
Mornin’ straff
Mornin
They are asking me to donate plasma
Bornstein and Jackson ?
The twitter bot farms are going nuts.
There are a whole bunch of satanic pictures in the replies to Trump. Interesting.
People are weird.
Yeah, I don’t see that as organic.
What is the point of a twitter bot farm? I assume it costs money to operate them so how do they recoop that?
I dunno. Fake follower numbers for monetized posters? Amplification of messages for state/non state actors?
Went to see if crazy Gu had any choice comments. Surprisingly decent other than the delusion that he is Trump’s political enemy.
I want to make a meme, advertisement style, showing Trump in one side smiling and holding out a box of chloroquine, and Joe Biden on the other half folding I rusty straight razor and a length of chain. Then it’s up to the viewers to decide which covid defense is best.
Mix in footage of small, dark-skinned hands running up and down an older, white leg.
Oooh….just gave meself the shivers.
Legit LOL!
I saw some of the debate.
Someone gave Uncle Joe some bad advice. Up to now, Joe has been sold as the predictable, dignified, safe, antidote to Trump.
But in the debate , Biden was snippy and rude, calling trump a liar, a fool, a racist right to his face and with no corroboration.
I’ll bet someone told Joe to act tough and shout down Trump. All it did was make it easier to identify Biden with the she I eking leftie protestors.
It reminded me of three old ladies arguing over Canasta after a few too many Cordials.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h6dt5Fs2uxI
?
Studio version is better.
https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/western-newjersey/warren-county-fire-department-makes-history-as-all-female-interior-crew-responds-to-call/article_11d0cace-0439-11eb-8957-0b76400e4a48.html
Girl power.
What time is the pillow fight?
Alright, ladies! Now is the part of your training wherein you carry the unconscious 250 pound meat-bag to safety over your shoulder down a few fights of stairs! Begin!
Can I just drag
youhim by the legs instead?“Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head…”
No way Festus is anywhere close to 250lbs. If we’re guessing the weight of the cow to win the beef I’d wager 175lbs soaking wet.
Mornin’!
Limey has a secret camera in my home? Silly me, he’s British and their cameras are everywhere…
A lot of the old Huaaweeeii equipment is going cheap right now. I’m rigging it up everywhere.
Awww. You flatter me! I only go a svelte 175-180 but I still don’t think they are up to task without aforementioned bonky head.
Yes! I have a super power to know such things!
Wait… I don’t recall any Limey on any Zoom! (kidding)
I’ve never actually been on the zooms. Kinda late for me. If I’m up very early Saturday PM maybe I would poke my blocky, digital dropout-streaked face into the mix via the series of tubes (via Beijing, I suppose), but I’ve not yet been on, aside from a few seconds on my phone laying in bed, but the phone didn’t handle it too well.
https://www.pennlive.com/coronavirus/2020/10/pennsylvania-can-limit-crowd-sizes-during-pandemic-appeals-court-says.html
Wtf?
I wonder what the appeals court to the appeals court is going to say.
Are the people in the crowd BLM rioters or Christian worshippers?
Everything within the OMB, nothing outside the OMB, nothing against the OMB.
Meant as a reply to Sean.
Hope Hicks could give me woo flu any time she wants.
That’s probably the sound I would make upon completion as well. A raising of the arms Football ref style would be in the mix somewhere.
Pretty sure I’ve seen a picture of her alongside Trump somewhere accompanied by a caption/comment/twit exclaiming the “obvious Melania body double”. Self-awareness not apparent.
Hope is pretty fine but I’ve got a rager for Kayleigh these last few months even if she has bolt-ons. Damn she’s quick and relentless.
She aight, but I’d also consider SHS, purely for the “solid and dependable” vibe she gives off.
Pie? Oh yeah! Fat chicks work harder. (Sorry for the locker room talk to any of the MLW out there)
She checks all my boxes despite being kinda petite.
The Overton window of whom we find attractive must be like when someone is blowing soap bubbles and once in awhile two will join together for an instant and pop. Add some alcohol to the mix and the bubbles might become one.
So I kinda hurt myself on Wednesday doing some heavy yard stuff. I just have to say that front spasms are always more enjoyable than back spasms. #getting old
doing some heavy yard stuff – I thought you had progeny over to do that.
Take it easy and get well…
Kinda fell through. Was not planned well and as soon as I saw what they intended I had to pull the plug on the endeavor. We need to bring in a Bobcat to flatten the ground before anything else goes ahead. Friggen Girls scheming and planning without any idea of what the job entails. Just like High School and the “set-up” thing that they loved so well.
Or getting “volunteered” by one’s parents to do things for one’s grandparents, like sweeping the driveway of all the sand at the start of spring.
*looks back on time as young teen* Scraping the old paint off the farmhouse, snow removal, gutter cleaning, lawn care, sturdy back leant out to every family friend doing a house move… I demand reparations! Oh yeah, and all of that “free” babysitting. As the two oldest boys in the family we were slaves I tells ya!
Thanks for the well-wishes, Pie. I’ll live. Just need to be more careful going forward.
mornin’ overnighters!
/drinks breakfast TALL CANS
Short can held high!
Apologies if drugs fall out.
But I didn’t see it if it was posted here.
w0t?
Why does the lady masking with the mayor have her trousers tucked into her socks?
The masked old lesbo with candy look is rather an improvement.
Any other contributer level glibs having trouble accessing the dashboard? The last time I had this trouble, it was a database issue. I don’t think I’ve caught a banhammer or anything, but I want to know if it’s just me.
I can access dashboard but the Posts option is missing, also the site is loading very slow this morning so It’s probably a WP issue.
But if it’s harder to waste time on Glibs, I might actually do my day job!
We’re Glibertarians! We don’t think that your job should even exist.
Exactly, I’ve already put in multiple requests to further an ongoing project while waiting for glibs to load!
*tin can lids scraping together* “It’s always a Word-Press issue!” “Yes,m!”
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/oct/1/proud-boys-black-lives-matter-leaders-hold-joint-c/
Can we move on to the next #fakenews event now?
So, Trump and Melania tested positive for the Rona. I’ve already got multiple FB posts from people celebrating and mocking him for the whole ‘hoax’ BS fed to them hook line and sinker. I’m also stuck at work in a sort of purgatory day where all I can do is basically just read the news… It’s going to be a very long day.
Oh noes, they only have a 99.9% chance of surviving!
Biden supporters believe the darndest things.
1) Trump said the virus was a hoax even though he implemented travel restrictions from China while Pelosi was partying it up in Chinatown and Biden called him a xenophobe.
2) Trump said Nazis/white-supremacists were “very fine people” even though he explicitly condemned said people.
Today is the 1st day of in-person school for my kids. The NYCDOE rules seem very much designed to discourage in-person learning. I don’t know if my wee Hellions are gonna sit, masked, at desk for the entire day. The ENTIRE day; no recess (just stand and stretch) and lunch (cold, bagged meal provided which triggers me instantly with memories of chow hall bagged lunch for range days: bologna sammich, apple or orange, and a cookie) must be eaten at desk while studying art and music. A couple kids left to homeschool, quite a few went to the Catholic schools here on the peninsula. Several teachers have opted for early retirement, many have opted for online instruction only. I truly pine to see my city and state apparatchiks being thrown into tumbrel carts.
I get a weird nostalgia for those awful bagged lunch sandwiches that have been sitting out long enough that the cheese softened enough to glue the meat product to one of the slices of bread.
Then I remind myself I can afford better food and that even back then I didn’t think the sandwiches were very good.
I once did a test for Con-Agra foods at a facility where they made those square “institutional” pizzas. My memory of having them in school, they were not-so-great.
However, we got them nearly everyday for lunch at the plant. Fresh out of the oven before they they get flash-frozen, they’re damn tasty.
Well, it is cheese and bread. It’s not pizza, but it can be edible.
This reminds me of another vile food. Some friends of our family kept bees for several years when I was in elementary school, and we got a couple jars of honey along the way. When Mom made a sandwich for me, she’d slather the PB&J or baloney sandwich with honey, which would harden up by the time lunch hour came. Ghastly, and if I complained it would lead to another of Mom’s screaming fits.
Festus sends a little prayer for 10 year-old Teds. For us it was hot dog sandwiches that I either threw away or gave to the dog.
+1 for Ted.
One summer, we were sent to taxpayer day camp 2 or 3 days a week. We got to eat bologna and “cheese” sandwiches that were left on a hot bus all morning. The mayo really had a lovely chemical reaction with the “cheese”. I learned to eat my lunch before getting off the bus, even if I wasn’t hungry.
Never before in the United States, have kids been forced to COMPLY on such a mass scale. I wonder how profound the effects are going to be on future generations. Maybe similar to the nuke drills that Boomer’s so vividly remember?
very much designed to discourage
in-personlearning🙂
What can I have for breakfast this morning that will trigger everyone?
natto-durian guac.
*hurk*
He said trigger, not make everyone vomit.
Hew, at least I kept the suggestion vegitarian.
Ouzo and deep dish.
Hawaiian…
Hawaiian Ouzo? I didn’t know they made that.
+black olives