Why does this food even exist?

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  • livingleanlivingclean
    livingleanlivingclean Posts: 11,751 Member
    edited December 2017
    dbanks80 wrote: »
    Vegamite. It is disgusting. I dont understand the purpose of it.

    Are you Australian? If so, shame on you. :p

    If not, perhaps understandable. You put it on toast/bread. It makes great sandwiches with cheese. It's also delicious on toast with avocado and a poached egg.
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,211 Member
    dbanks80 wrote: »
    Vegamite. It is disgusting. I dont understand the purpose of it.

    Are you Australian? If so, shame on you. :p

    If not, perhaps understandable. You put it on toast/bread. It makes great sandwiches with cheese. It's also delicious on toast with avocado and a poached egg.

    Also great in place of stock/bouillon cubes in stews and bolognaise
  • dbanks80
    dbanks80 Posts: 3,685 Member
    dbanks80 wrote: »
    Vegamite. It is disgusting. I dont understand the purpose of it.

    Are you Australian? If so, shame on you. :p

    If not, perhaps understandable. You put it on toast/bread. It makes great sandwiches with cheese. It's also delicious on toast with avocado and a poached egg.

    No I've visited on couple of occasions. I had it on toast and thought "My god who would eat this mess!!!!" LOL!!

    I also didn't like meat pies. I couldn't get passed that congealed jelly stuff!!!! :s My stomach is turning just thinking about it. LOL
  • astronaught
    astronaught Posts: 103 Member
    cmtigger wrote: »
    Nobody has mentioned buttered popcorn jelly bellies.

    Love those!! Only jelly bean I will eat.

    It is their #2 (sometimes #1) best selling flavor.
  • MaggieGirl135
    MaggieGirl135 Posts: 1,027 Member
    cmtigger wrote: »
    Nobody has mentioned buttered popcorn jelly bellies.

    Love those!! Only jelly bean I will eat.

    It is their #2 (sometimes #1) best selling flavor.

  • JenSD6
    JenSD6 Posts: 454 Member
    Carrot cake with raisins and heaps of cream cheese icing... heaven! Even my husband who claims "it's not desert if it's not chocolate" has seen the light and loves it as much or more than me.

    But keep the nasty walnuts out of it. Nuts in baked goods is... no.
  • quiksylver296
    quiksylver296 Posts: 28,439 Member
    JenSD6 wrote: »
    Carrot cake with raisins and heaps of cream cheese icing... heaven! Even my husband who claims "it's not desert if it's not chocolate" has seen the light and loves it as much or more than me.

    But keep the nasty walnuts out of it. Nuts in baked goods is... no.

    #twinning
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,168 Member
    I don't understand cheesecake or carrot cake. And who the heck made ketchup? :s:'(:'(

    Mmm, ketchup! I don't eat it very often anymore, but that's mostly because it benefits so much from a big heap of fried potatoes underneath, as a sort of condiment for the ketchup. Other sides for the ketchup are just not the same.

    When one of our previous US administrations wanted to count it a vegetable (in school lunches), I was against it on principle, but it would totally work for me.

    But I went to a school where gravy was literally a school lunch entree (hamburger gravy, pork gravy, turkey gravy, etc. - a few small crumbles or shreds of meat, atop a big heap of instant mashed potatoes . . .

    . . . y'know, speaking of foods that have no reason to exist (as an entrée, anyway)). Also, there was lettuce shreds with vinaigrette and pastel mini-marshmallows: Salad.

    But I digress.
  • TR0berts
    TR0berts Posts: 7,739 Member
    JenSD6 wrote: »
    Carrot cake with raisins and heaps of cream cheese icing... heaven! Even my husband who claims "it's not desert if it's not chocolate" has seen the light and loves it as much or more than me.

    But keep the nasty walnuts out of it. Nuts in baked goods is... no.

    Raisins in my carrot cake? No thanks.

    Nuts? I usually detest them in cakes/brownies - but in carrot cake is fine. Just not too many of them.
  • TR0berts
    TR0berts Posts: 7,739 Member
    No - what was wrong was that picture you posted in the ghr thread.
  • quiksylver296
    quiksylver296 Posts: 28,439 Member
    TR0berts wrote: »
    No - what was wrong was that picture you posted in the ghr thread.

    I'm blanking. GHR thread?
  • LilFoxtrot
    LilFoxtrot Posts: 91 Member
    Honestly mine would be mayo, mustard, and ketchup. They make me legit gag. I can't touch food with those condiments on it.
  • TR0berts
    TR0berts Posts: 7,739 Member
    TR0berts wrote: »
    No - what was wrong was that picture you posted in the ghr thread.

    I'm blanking. GHR thread?

    canadianlbs's thread about lack of ghr equipment
  • quiksylver296
    quiksylver296 Posts: 28,439 Member
    edited December 2017
    TR0berts wrote: »
    TR0berts wrote: »
    No - what was wrong was that picture you posted in the ghr thread.

    I'm blanking. GHR thread?

    canadianlbs's thread about lack of ghr equipment

    LOL. Gotcha. Too revealing for you?!?
  • KANGOOJUMPS
    KANGOOJUMPS Posts: 6,474 Member
    I will eat and drink anything. at holiday time.
  • canadianlbs
    canadianlbs Posts: 5,199 Member
    TR0berts wrote: »
    TR0berts wrote: »
    No - what was wrong was that picture you posted in the ghr thread.

    how could i even have missed that in my own thread? *confession*: still missing it. you mean the translucent hologram guy with no skivvies on? there isn't much point in making a guy translucent if you're just going to put clothes on him though.
  • livingleanlivingclean
    livingleanlivingclean Posts: 11,751 Member
    dbanks80 wrote: »
    dbanks80 wrote: »
    Vegamite. It is disgusting. I dont understand the purpose of it.

    Are you Australian? If so, shame on you. :p

    If not, perhaps understandable. You put it on toast/bread. It makes great sandwiches with cheese. It's also delicious on toast with avocado and a poached egg.

    No I've visited on couple of occasions. I had it on toast and thought "My god who would eat this mess!!!!" LOL!!

    I also didn't like meat pies. I couldn't get passed that congealed jelly stuff!!!! :s My stomach is turning just thinking about it. LOL

    Congealed jelly? Do you mean a pork pie? (something I'd consider British, generally eaten cold, with thick pastry, and a clear jelly around the meat middle)
  • Spiderpug
    Spiderpug Posts: 159 Member
    Candied peel, or earwax chunks as i call it!
  • RachelElser
    RachelElser Posts: 1,049 Member
    Eggnog- if it's not okay to eat raw cookie dough because of the raw eggs, why is okay to drink raw eggs????
  • DX2JX2
    DX2JX2 Posts: 1,921 Member
    edited December 2017
    Relser wrote: »
    Eggnog- if it's not okay to eat raw cookie dough because of the raw eggs, why is okay to drink raw eggs????

    Bourbon or rum kill anything from the raw eggs.

    I'm not sure if this is actually true, but it's what I tell myself. I'm not the biggest eggnog fan but do feel like I should have a glass or two around the holidays.
  • DX2JX2
    DX2JX2 Posts: 1,921 Member
    So, you take lime jello.
    You with me so far?
    Then you shred carrots and add it to the lime jello.
    THEN
    You spread mayonnaise on top of it.
    Because that's a thing people say "You know what this jello needs? Mayonnaise"
    My mother in law makes this on the regular.

    There is also "glorified rice"
    So...you start with whipped cream, like you take the cream and you whip it, so homemade fresh whipped cream, which is nearly the world's most perfect food...
    and then...you add marachino cherries to it, which are really just the sad memories of cherries.
    THEN
    you add pineapple to it
    And maybe you're like "Eh, this is still okay, I do not find this hateful"
    BUT THEN
    you add rice.
    Because, again, that's a thing people say "you know what this whipped cream needs? Rice"

    Anyway, my in-laws all eat it, like it's good.
    It's just a way to make whipped cream terrible.

    Good Lord. Where the heck are your in-laws from?
  • newheavensearth
    newheavensearth Posts: 870 Member
    So, you take lime jello.
    You with me so far?
    Then you shred carrots and add it to the lime jello.
    THEN
    You spread mayonnaise on top of it.
    Because that's a thing people say "You know what this jello needs? Mayonnaise"
    My mother in law makes this on the regular.

    There is also "glorified rice"
    So...you start with whipped cream, like you take the cream and you whip it, so homemade fresh whipped cream, which is nearly the world's most perfect food...
    and then...you add marachino cherries to it, which are really just the sad memories of cherries.
    THEN
    you add pineapple to it
    And maybe you're like "Eh, this is still okay, I do not find this hateful"
    BUT THEN
    you add rice.
    Because, again, that's a thing people say "you know what this whipped cream needs? Rice"

    Anyway, my in-laws all eat it, like it's good.
    It's just a way to make whipped cream terrible.

    And I thought "rice cereal" with condensed milk, sugar and raisin was bad. It's almost like uncooked rice pudding.
  • lkpducky
    lkpducky Posts: 17,618 Member
    So, you take lime jello.
    You with me so far?
    Then you shred carrots and add it to the lime jello.
    THEN
    You spread mayonnaise on top of it.
    Because that's a thing people say "You know what this jello needs? Mayonnaise"
    My mother in law makes this on the regular.

    There is also "glorified rice"
    So...you start with whipped cream, like you take the cream and you whip it, so homemade fresh whipped cream, which is nearly the world's most perfect food...
    and then...you add marachino cherries to it, which are really just the sad memories of cherries.
    THEN
    you add pineapple to it
    And maybe you're like "Eh, this is still okay, I do not find this hateful"
    BUT THEN
    you add rice.
    Because, again, that's a thing people say "you know what this whipped cream needs? Rice"

    Anyway, my in-laws all eat it, like it's good.
    It's just a way to make whipped cream terrible.

    Sounds like something from this http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/index.html
  • TenderBlender667
    TenderBlender667 Posts: 78 Member
    Pickled eggs :s
  • clicketykeys
    clicketykeys Posts: 6,575 Member
    JeepHair77 wrote: »
    dinadyna21 wrote: »
    Hamsibian wrote: »
    3 Musketeers. Why??

    +1 Still can't figure out who buys those nasty things.

    *raises hand* I'm keeping 3 Musketeers and Circus Peanuts on the shelves, single-handedly.

    Oh god, Circus Peanuts are probably the only sweet treat I cannot STAND.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,168 Member
    Relser wrote: »
    Eggnog- if it's not okay to eat raw cookie dough because of the raw eggs, why is okay to drink raw eggs????

    One can home pasteurize the eggs first, if desired. The eggnog isn't as good that way, though. Commercial is all pasteurized, one of many reasons homemade > commercial (big time).

    Seriously, raw eggs aren't all that dangerous to healthy people, statistically speaking - even if the alcohol doesn't help anything (IDK about the eggs, but it helps me.).

    http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2014/03/salmonella_and_raw_eggs_how_i_ve_eaten_tons_of_cookie_dough_and_never_gotten.html