Why does this food even exist?
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SuzySunshine99 wrote: »Ambrosia salad.
What kind of drugs were the people on who invented that?
Had no idea what this was til I just googled it, literally looking at the recipe is making me nauseated.1 -
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Chocolate covered cherries - Disgusting!!!!3
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Entenmanns fruitcake is life.1 -
Tripe, head cheese, pimento loaf, liverwurst, Vienna sausage, and....
Spammity Spam, Spammity Spam!
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newheavensearth wrote: »Tripe, head cheese, pimento loaf, liverwurst, Vienna sausage, and....
Spammity Spam, Spammity Spam!
While I'll take a big pass on the rest, a crispy slice of fried Spam is a yummy childhood memory. I think it's also the official snack food of Hawaii. On a recent visit there, we saw Spam musubi (spammity sushi) in almost every store so someone's eating it!
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JeepHair77 wrote: »Why is carrot cake a thing? Why in the world did someone look at cake and say to themselves, "This needs a vegetable"?
Ban yourself. Carrot cake is the greatest invention ever. Rum is a close 2nd.12 -
MissDeeDee78 wrote: »Chocolate covered cherries - Disgusting!!!!
You can ban yourself, too. Or, just send them my way.4 -
BrianSharpe wrote: »
Home-made Christmas cake is the food of the gods. I made mine in October and have been feeding it with brandy every weekend since then. By next week it's going to be absolutely heavenly and I'm going to enjoy every single calorie-laden slice.11 -
3 musketeers - good!!
chocolate covered cherries - good
fruitcake - huh?!?!? nasty nasty
Spam - when fixed correctly, good
Carrot cake - ??????? who wants veggies in cake ffs??????5 -
JeepHair77 wrote: »Why is carrot cake a thing? Why in the world did someone look at cake and say to themselves, "This needs a vegetable"?
Ban yourself. Carrot cake is the greatest invention ever. Rum is a close 2nd.
I'll take the rum, and the rum cake too. You can keep that Carrot nastiness to yourself.
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The holidays are here and I'm getting my fair share of impersonal corporate gifts. I can't tell you how many liquor filled chocolates I've received. I can't imagine who actually likes these things and for the life of me have no idea how they've become such a standard holiday item.
I know we all have foods that we just don't like, but at least in most of those cases it's not too much of a stretch to see how/why others could like them.
That said, some foods are so bad that it's impossible to think of anything appealing about them. What are they for you? What food items baffle you by their mere existence?
Liquor filled chocolates and Danish salty licorice are mine...I can't figure out why anybody finds them appealing!
It's pretty clear that someone felt the flavors complimentary. However, there was some precedent: since the 18th century French had been making a confection called a "girotte" which involved soaking a sour cherry in kirsch and then covering it in cocoa and, later, chocolate. By the end of the 19th century, they'd more or less become what we today call a "cherry cordial" except that the syrup contained alcohol.
They just expanded upon it from there.
The more you know...2 -
dinadyna21 wrote: »
*raises hand* I'm keeping 3 Musketeers and Circus Peanuts on the shelves, single-handedly.
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RaeBeeBaby wrote: »newheavensearth wrote: »Tripe, head cheese, pimento loaf, liverwurst, Vienna sausage, and....
Spammity Spam, Spammity Spam!
While I'll take a big pass on the rest, a crispy slice of fried Spam is a yummy childhood memory. I think it's also the official snack food of Hawaii. On a recent visit there, we saw Spam musubi (spammity sushi) in almost every store so someone's eating it!
Spam musubi is truth. It's the first thing I grab at the airport or closest convenience store to the airport whenever we fly to Hawaii.3 -
dinadyna21 wrote: »
I make sure to get some 3 Muskaeteers at Halloween because I absolutely will not be tempted. Not even a little.
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Oh, and mystery chocolates. You know, those boxes of chocolate that you buy at Valentine's that come in a fancy lace box but contain no "map" to identify the candy.
You pick up a chocolate and it might be filled with caramel, it might be filled with coconut, it might be chocolate covered dog crap. Why on earth did someone decide that this risky little game would be considered "romantic"???10 -
JeepHair77 wrote: »Why is carrot cake a thing? Why in the world did someone look at cake and say to themselves, "This needs a vegetable"?
Lol, that is my favorite kind of cake, especially with lots of cream cheese frosting!8 -
JeepHair77 wrote: »Oh, and mystery chocolates. You know, those boxes of chocolate that you buy at Valentine's that come in a fancy lace box but contain no "map" to identify the candy.
You pick up a chocolate and it might be filled with caramel, it might be filled with coconut, it might be chocolate covered dog crap. Why on earth did someone decide that this risky little game would be considered "romantic"???
I always get the one filled with tooth paste... takes me 3 more pieces to wash the taste out.
@fitnessgirl0913 - ^^ might be my favorite line from that bit about holiday traditions...5 -
newheavensearth wrote: »Tripe, head cheese, pimento loaf, liverwurst, Vienna sausage, and....
Spammity Spam, Spammity Spam!
I think i threw up in my mouth. Although I do remember eating hog head cheese on crackers with hot sauce as a kid and i used to love it. Go figure.0 -
Growing up, fried Spam with Kraft Macaroni and Cheese was a not-infrequent dinner at our house.3
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Christmas pudding with brandy butter...my MIL makes it anytime she's over for Christmas or we're over there...you'd think after 17 years I would have acquired a taste for it...nope...that's some not very good *kitten* right there...0
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JeepHair77 wrote: »Growing up, fried Spam with Kraft Macaroni and Cheese was a not-infrequent dinner at our house.
We did Kraft Mac & Cheese and Oscar Meyer hot dogs, which is pretty darn close to the same thing My mom would slice the hotdogs into rounds and brown them in a fry pan.
To get on topic... I love alcohol, I live on chocolate, but I agree there is something oddly nasty about those liqour filled chocolates. Weird.
Also agree with Jordan Almonds. And what kind of horrible thoughts went into them being the popular wedding favor for like a decade? I gave you a nice check and you gave me five inedible Jordan Almonds in netting???1 -
ladyhusker39 wrote: »Anything made by Little Debbie. With so much amazing pastry in the world, how does this crap even stay on the market?
When I was a child, you couldn't say "Little Debbies" around our bassett hound. You'd have to spell it out, it he'd follow you around whining until he got one. I think Gino kept them in business.8 -
JeepHair77 wrote: »Why is carrot cake a thing? Why in the world did someone look at cake and say to themselves, "This needs a vegetable"?
So......zuchinni bread would be out of the question??2 -
JeepHair77 wrote: »Why is carrot cake a thing? Why in the world did someone look at cake and say to themselves, "This needs a vegetable"?
So......zuchinni bread would be out of the question??
Correct. Ew.1 -
JeepHair77 wrote: »Why is carrot cake a thing? Why in the world did someone look at cake and say to themselves, "This needs a vegetable"?
Ban yourself. Carrot cake is the greatest invention ever. Rum is a close 2nd.
You know, I'll bet a person could take some carrot cake, brush it with rum, layer it with cream cheese and/or mascarpone whipped with heavy cream, in a sort of tiramisu fashion, and really have something there.
< . . . wanders off toward kitchen, whistling innocently . . . .>
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JeepHair77 wrote: »Why is carrot cake a thing? Why in the world did someone look at cake and say to themselves, "This needs a vegetable"?
Ban yourself. Carrot cake is the greatest invention ever. Rum is a close 2nd.
You know, I'll bet a person could take some carrot cake, brush it with rum, layer it with cream cheese and/or mascarpone whipped with heavy cream, in a sort of tiramisu fashion, and really have something there.
< . . . wanders off toward kitchen, whistling innocently . . . .>
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Eggnog. BLEGH.3
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JeepHair77 wrote: »Why is carrot cake a thing? Why in the world did someone look at cake and say to themselves, "This needs a vegetable"?
Ban yourself. Carrot cake is the greatest invention ever. Rum is a close 2nd.
You know, I'll bet a person could take some carrot cake, brush it with rum, layer it with cream cheese and/or mascarpone whipped with heavy cream, in a sort of tiramisu fashion, and really have something there.
< . . . wanders off toward kitchen, whistling innocently . . . .>
This is pretty much how I do my carrot cake.... 5
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