Completely disgusting foods our parents ate

Continued from: mayo: the devil's condiment

hooray

http://www.flickr.com/photos/glenhsparky/3303458970/in/pool-789063@N20/

http://www.global-report.com/inline/eviathar/en/b78500e470599aab2a4a8cec477d5274.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1334/539843433_b270042115.jpg

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8296/8020401168_0f36a3365c.jpg

http://www.bangitout.com/uploads/7cholent.jpg

2 c hot 7-Up
1 c mayonnaise
1 c cottage cheese
green food coloring, if desired

Too bad nobody in my family took a picture of the creamed tuna on toast we used to have. (PS, it was good)

"Spread on top of Jello"

a more chilling string of words have never been written

bright green hot 7-up + mayonnaise
think about it

http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_hbic/3219680026/in/pool-789063@N20/

this seriously looks like an alien fish hatchling that someone plopped onto a plate

mordy what are the pics you posted? WE NEED CAPTIONS, PEOPLE

Mordy those are gross, but the game needs to be stepped up if you are competing alongside jello + hot 7 up ;)

I apologise to anyone who enjoyed this dish but Mum used to insist on making scotch eggs

the 70's was full of dishes that hid things inside meat, or buried hidden hated vegetables in quiches

scotch egss were my worst nightmare. I hated eggs so much

http://www.thebritishmenu.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/scotch-egg-second.jpg

SCOTCH EGGS ARE AMAZING

the only thing that could make a scotch egg more amazing is if you bit into it and inside was ANOTHER SCOTCH EGG

INFINITE SCOTCH EGG RECURSION

I've never had a scotch egg but I've wanted to try one for a while. BRB, going to VG's Mom's house.

I leave you with MAYO & PEA SURPRISE
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2544/3972751542_294ce1609c_z.jpg

speaking of peas

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hollywoodplace/3072001428/in/pool-789063@N20/

I love the obsession with ring-food
it's horrifying and fascinating

oh shit you guys

okay

guaranteed spit-take link HERE: http://www.flickr.com/photos/superminx/3047090157/in/pool-789063@N20/

xp loool VG. I can't figure out what's going on there. Cubist Shepherd's Pie?

this is called Deep Fried Prawns in Sesame Mayonaise but just looks like a tiny, skinned, boiled elephant to me D: I blame that one, trunk-like prawn(?)

http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1122/924500636_829ce3e25d_z.jpg

oh jesus fuck

http://www.bangitout.com/uploads/7cholent.jpg

this just looks like a really thick stew (carrots, kidney beans, potatoes, ground beaf, peas)...? I'd eat it.

my pics: first kishka (i love vegetarian style, but that's from internal organs), second is tongue, and third is cholent

omg @ smiling dolphin that is amazing

LILEKs has a gallery of these
http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/homecuring/5.jpg

I nominate VG's last pic as the new rickroll

FFM that shrimp thing is terrifying -- like there's valves in there? yeeeek

http://images.nitrosell.com/product_images/6/1339/pickled-herring-cream-onions.jpg

some of these are disgusting foods my parents ate, and still eat, and that i sometimes eat too :'(

smiling dolphin is killing me.

I keep going back to it

KIDS WILL LOVE "SEVERED PENIS MONSTER SERVED IN ITS OWN BLOOD"

Bless my mom's heart.

She always boiled zucchini.

I think I only started liking it maybe...seven years ago when I had some grilled zucchini for the first time.

"loosening the bung" ruined my day ;_;

can a smiling dolphin bring it back?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Fish_Head.jpg

this i never ate. my mom likes to stuff the head w/ gefilte fish

yikes

http://merkosoncampus.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/schmaltz.jpg

chicken schmaltz -mmmm heart attacks

"dolphin" looks like happy chestburster xp

SCOTCH EGGS ARE AMAZING

― cake-like Lady Gaga (DJP), Monday, September 24, 2012 6:57 PM (10 minutes ago)

^^^ homemade are great, store bought are mostly disgusting

enjoy delicious refreshing racism!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/superminx/3047090157/in/pool-789063@N20/

Boiled zucchini, Ned.. I am *so sorry.* That sounds like the best possible way to ruin zucchini!

severed penis monster ;_; tears of terrified joy at my desk right now

http://kosherkitchenshop.com/images//products/sm1kg.jpg

doesn't look disgusting but tastes like cardboard

What racism? xxxp

Boiled zucchini, Ned.. I am *so sorry.* That sounds like the best possible way to ruin zucchini!

Was it ever.

making food smile seems to be the surefire way to make an already questionable dish unspeakably hilarious

these veal rollups are cracking me up right now

it seriously looks like drooling mouths

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mandingojones/2912959405/in/pool-789063@N20/

I may have just answered my own question when I got to the Mandarinade.

i think i've run out but if i come up w/ anymore... oh wait, one more:

http://food-fun.wisconsinfood.com/.a/6a00e54f0ac1a68834010536c93a8b970c-320wi

my parents did not to the best of my knowledge eat these but there's no way they don't belong on this thread

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i43/DrPFunkenstein/Mr_Brains_Pork_Faggots.jpg

Mini Kievs - each one was slightly smaller than a ping pong ball, the chicken was like rubber, and in the oven the cheese filling used to squirt out of the syringe hole they were filled from, leaving a burnt cheesy mess everywhere.
http://www.bernardmatthewsfarms.com/includes/images/page_fa_mini_kievs.jpg

xp they couldn't have stuck a sausage in there to complete the amazing trolljob?

wash down your pork faggots with a refreshing smiling dolphin

Would totally eat those mini-chicken Kievs.

Findus Crispy Pancakes - neither crispy nor particularly pancake like, they came in flavours like minced beef, cheese, and chicken curry.
http://cached.imagescaler.hbpl.co.uk/resize/scaleToFit/427/285/?sURL=http://offlinehbpl.hbpl.co.uk/news/OKM/9AA1E2F1-CE75-EADE-6B9C1A7E9C64ECB7.jpg

Bacon veneer loaf! I want this finish on my kitchen cabinets

http://www.flickr.com/photos/glenhsparky/2930541485/in/pool-789063@N20/

re: Brain's Faggots
http://www.vh1.com/celebrity/2008-06-26/this-is-the-faggot-family/

the stealth lol on the Mr. Brain's package is the "classic PORK recipe" tag

Crispy Pancakes are obviously pretty horrible but i used to love them when i was a kid

snoball that whole thing has to be a joke, omg

Shakespearean stealth LOL: 'West Country Sauce'

"Doodys extol the virtues of faggots" I mean COME ON

from snoball's linked article:

"The great British faggot is full of flavour and a great belly warmer at this time of year.""

loool

You guys, James Lileks made like half a career out of this. Is that who you want to be like? James Lileks? Do you?

(xps) I used to eat Crispy Pancakes all the time as a kid as well. Also I ate loads of Campbell's Meatballs, particularly the ones that came in a tomato sauce with pasta. Actually I ate so many tins that I was able to send off for a limited edition Campbell's Meatballs digital watch, which kind of looked like a small snowglobe strapped on my wrist, with a little Campbell's Meatballs branded space rocket floating around inside, with the digital watch embedded in the base. So like I said, I ate a lot of them, at least until one day when I read the ingredients - which included as the first ingredient 'beef hearts'.
Actually it reminds me of a recipe that a relative proudly claimed that they invented:

snoball's relative's horrible Campbell's Meatballs casserole disaster

serves: as many people you can trick and/or blackmail into eating it

Take a casserole dish, fill with a tin of Campbell's Meatballs and a large tin of baked beans. Top with instant mashed potato. Cover the potato with a bag of crushed up cheese & onion crisps. Cover the crisps with grated cheddar cheese. Place in oven to cook.

snoball that whole thing has to be a joke, omg

It's all too real. From that respected news organ, the BBC...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2698507.stm

I've found that as I get older peas in anything is a guaranteed emetic.

Mushy peas. Now there's a truly disgusting substance

guys this is the worst thing in aspic I've ever seen

warning

you will vomit

http://www.flickr.com/photos/susymac/2706444264/in/pool-789063@N20/

holy wow

I eat faggots a lot, but they play up my gout a bit. I've never eaten Mr Brain's though because I only buy them from farm shops. They went bust a couple of years ago, I think?

Things mentioned/pictured in this thread which are in fact delicious and great:

1. Tongue
2. Pickled herring (both cream sauce and wine sauce)
3. Scotch egg

Mordy is right on about shmurah matzah but my parents were too secular to buy that stuff.

Imagine how this shit SMELLS.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/26390176@N02/2479135952/in/pool-789063@N20/

I could probably eat scotch egg now

and mum used to make it with pork sausage which in retrospect would be super tasty

rings of vegetables

I don't understand how you cut it up without having it collapse all over the table

was it pp who told the story about a wedding reception that had a ranch dressing fountain

oh it was here

PEOPLE WHO DIP PIZZA IN RANCH SAUCE =

DJP, this one's for you - file under 'phallic appetizers'

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lookforthewoman/1351204596/in/pool-789063@N20/

Not eaten by my parents, but jellied eels...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Eels_1385.JPG/640px-Eels_1385.JPG

no recipe should ever contain the sentence "Wrap a banana in each ham slice"

Jellied eels are great.

xxxp that reminds me of another relative - one time we went for dinner at their house, and the starter was a lump of cheese wrapped in a slice of ham.

Okay, you asked for it:

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/LimitedLiabilityGirl/Cover_zps321203d5.jpg

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/LimitedLiabilityGirl/Frisky_Sour_zps9d13214e.jpg

Sorry hueg.

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/LimitedLiabilityGirl/Sunbathers_Special_zpsf02a95ff.jpg

and I like my beans FLAMING

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/LimitedLiabilityGirl/White_Puff_Pea_zps4ce47b23.jpg

Roscoe's Chicken and Waffles are clearly missing an opportunity here

Chicken A La King & Waffles!!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lookforthewoman/578544613/in/pool-789063@N20/

I ate Scotch eggs ten days ago at Detroit's Rattlensnake Lounge and they were deliciousness.

omg Laurel that recipe book is amazing

Sunbather's Special: 1 can condensed beef broth + 1 soup can of apple juice + nutmeg to "taste." Mix and pour over ice cubes, or serve hot. Serve at all, really, absolutely any old way.

I know!!! I keep it at my office for laffs.

Magic Balls! Surgically remove and enjoy!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/charmandpoise/2653535641/in/pool-789063@N20/

TRY NEW SPORK AND SPEEF

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jbcurio/410913153/in/pool-789063@N20/

oh dear lord

Lion and Bear

THIS IS AMAZING

Velveeta sandwiches baked in velveeta for a velveetatastic coronary

http://www.flickr.com/photos/barbian7/262005439/in/pool-789063@N20/

chipped beef

http://thesouthinmymouth.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/creamed-chipped-beef.jpg

Delia Smith's Alpine Eggs
http://www.youtu.be/_kO3Ko2M9LU

xxp Mind you there are types of cheese I would be willing to try that with. It's just that none of them are Velveeta.

Chipped beef on toast (or creamed chipped beef on toast) is a culinary dish comprising a white sauce and rehydrated slivers of dried beef, served on toasted bread. Hormel recommends flavoring the dish with Worcestershire sauce and dried parsley. In military slang it is commonly referred to by the dysphemism "Shit On a Shingle" (SOS)—or, "Stew On a Shingle", "Same Old Stuff", "Something On a Shingle", or occasionally "Save Our Stomachs". Chipped beef is also often served on bagels, English muffins, biscuits, home fries, rice, and in casseroles.

"Satan eats Cheez Whiz Toast Toppers"
http://www.britstore.co.uk/photos/Heinz_Toast_Toppers.jpg

generally speaking i feel like people my age had parents who were into canned vegetables, which i think led to a lot of kids thinking vegetables were more disgusting than they actually are. not that kids would love veggies otherwise, but i ate some foul canned veggies growing up.

*warning this photo could put you off all food for life

http://www.flickr.com/photos/charmandpoise/2090132358/in/pool-789063@N20/

xpost I thought I hated asparagus bc mum only used canned -- imagine my surprise to eat my first fresh asparagus. 'Wow, this does NOT taste at all like boiled ass!'

asparag-ass

growing up, my parents grew most of our vegetables until I was around 7-8, at which point they started buying frozen; canned vegetables where for emergencies only

as a direct result, I grew up loving most vegetables cooked relatively plainly and did not understand sauce mania until confronted with canned vegetables as a college student

Wiener Canoes! Nippies! Ringers!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/charmandpoise/526914736/in/pool-789063@N20/

Meatbundt! Bundtloaf!

oy

http://www.flickr.com/photos/charmandpoise/494282686/in/pool-789063@N20/

This thread has me dying of laughter, James Lileks be damned.

squiener canoes! nippieworld!

"wiener canoe" just sounds like an insult

"Frank, settle down and stop being such a wiener canoe."

Okay this made me laugh out loud

Unholy ham + head of lettuce

http://www.flickr.com/photos/charmandpoise/412689017/in/pool-789063@N20/

what the hahahahahahaha

terrifying fish with a parsley ball-gag

http://www.flickr.com/photos/charmandpoise/397962207/in/pool-789063@N20/

I would never have thought to use a cauliflower this way

or meat as a hotdog crust

I feel like these good housekeeping ppl took WAY more acid than they ever let on

http://www.flickr.com/photos/charmandpoise/359492139/in/pool-789063@N20/

I will stand up for chipped beef on toast

http://www.alwaysfoodie.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/haggis-33_7.jpg

what the

sausage of some unholy form, I presume?

or uncle skeeter's colon

faggots are fucking delicious btw

Haggis, I presume.

so that's what it looks like

yipes

haggi
xp

Oh come on, there's nothing wrong with haggis.

old cookbooks are filled with this stuff (and I have MANY). it's kind of amazing what previous generations used to eat and how much you can tell about the culture/politics/economy from what recipes they had (ie in the 40s/50s EVERYTHING was canned)

I have a southern cookbook from the 30s that has recipes for squirrel and other wild game

haggis is surprisingly tasty when prepared well; there's a Scottish place in Boston called Haven that does fantastic (and this is important) small haggis that is super delicious

I keep thinking about the ppl at Good Housekeeping or wahtever that had to come up with exciting new recipes for SPEEF or EVAPORATED MILK

also lard

the excommunication of lard from the american culinary lexicon is pretty incredible

I'm kind of a baby about offal, it squicks me out a bit too much to be able to eat it. I can't eat liver pate for the same reason.
I'm sure it tastes good though

my old man used to go on about chitterlings or some Black Country variant of same. now i'll eat almost anything but here's where my line stops i think

http://www.seriouseats.com/images/20100111-nastybits-chitterlings.jpg

love liver and kidneys tho so

my dad ate scrapple happily throughout his childhood, until he felt overwhelming betrayal the day his parents explained to him what it was they'd been feeding him every morning

my grandmother was an offal fiend. served me brain sandwiches when I was kid once *without telling me what it was*

hmmm, now i'm kinda pissed off about how Ross Brawn dominates GIS

would still happily eat faggots and mini-Kievs on the days when I am left unattended in the kitchen and too tired to cook from scratch. perhaps this is why said days are quite infrequent.

I would never go to the effort of making it, but I love to see pictures of ridiculously elaborate cutesy bento boxes with things cut into the shape of cartoon characters, etc, and now I am wondering if my kids/grandkids will be looking at those pictures going "omg people did WHAT?" I suppose maybe cutesy bento is the shuts-the-kids-up Findus Crispy Pancake to molecular gastronomy as the new equivalent of boiled eggs in gelatinous mystery

when I was kid once *without telling me what it was*

Summer immersion school in Angers when I was 17, surrounded by a bunch of rich Catholic kids from all over but many from the US, inlcuding these two would-be Talulah Bankheads who learned about three words of French and were mostly useful for comic relief though I was genuinely fond of them and they of me. One evening we ate dinner in the refectory instead of going out and later that evening one them asked me what our inspid meal had been. Cervelles de veau in an uninspiring tomato sauce. "What the hell is that?" "Calves brains." They were drunk when I told them, turned grey and green and several other unapetizing colors and hurried off to the bathroom repeatedly. I recall being amused that they were categorically disgusted whereas I just found the whole thing lacking in flavor.

Then there's completely disgusting foods WE'RE eating:

http://gawker.com/5946006/pizza-huts-latest-caloric-monstrosity-is-a-pizza-with-a-crust-made-of-pizza-cones

That looks awesome.

I'd really rather eat calves' brains. Maybe I need to find a recipe from dome where likely to provide more 'oomph' than the Loire valley.

http://krsparks.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/5461_pzone-extn-too-13x19-ad-01.jpg

Chicken
Tikka
Pizza

I remember thinking the sheep's brains sandwich my grandma gave me kind of tasted like egg. Which I hated at the time.

and the innnocent 'how did you like your sandwich?' afterwards

I loved her but boy was she a cunning and cheeky old lady

WTF AT THAT PIZZA

FUCK YOU PIZZA HUT YOU ARE RETROACTIVELY RUINING MY CHILDHOOD

It's like a Cornish pasty, but it's a pizza, but it's filled with Chicken Tikka.

so it's none of those

Kofta pizza is kind of meta

the sheep's brains sandwich my grandma gave me kind of tasted like egg.

Very common additive along with flour as binding agents.

i wouldn't eat any of this, i'd rather just have an Ayds

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ktTVVsSC9S4/S-KNzi1eIYI/AAAAAAAAADk/eTjiV8hejGU/s1600/ayds+candy.jpg

Cream cheese filled pizza cones? Ha ha! My plan to sink the US Republic to its knees continues apace.

I remember Ayds. Worst possible timing.

Bless my mom's heart.

She always boiled zucchini.

I think I only started liking it maybe...seven years ago when I had some grilled zucchini for the first time.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, September 24, 2012 7:07 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Just been realising recently that steaming the stuff doesn't work well either, That is if it is the same stuff as aubergine.
Stir frying slices among other stuff works ok, as does roasting. I like the way it sogs if cut right in a stir fry certainly.
I think fritters might be cool too.

zucchini isn't aubergine but they have similar issues when attempting to cook them; they really only work fried or roasted

my mom boiled zucchini as well and to this day I cringe when I see it in a meal

I'm not alone!

After the grisly photos I've posted in the last 24 hours I might rethink my affection for hardboiled eggs.

zucchini is courgette.

I steam it sometimes because it's quicker and easier than roasting but it can go p. soggy and doesn't taste of much, it's true.

I only like courgettes and the like baked or sauted or bbq'd. Boiling them is probably why the English referred to them as vegetable marrows.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Eels_1385.JPG/640px-Eels_1385.JPG
I think the place down Wood St Walthamstow that used to do Jellied eels & Mash closed down a couple of years ago. I think I only went in there once.
Thought i'd check out the local ethnic food of the place where I grew up

Tbh, though, I'd rather have potatoes (which hardly ever eat) or skinless chicken breast in terms of a flavor vehicle. Zucchini barely tastes of anything though I do fondly remember making shallot/thyme/grueyere gratins with them back in the day.

Marrows are the giant zucchini that are too big to do anything with but hollow out and serve stuffed with meat/tomato/bechamel. Marrows are also the thing that my mom gives to people she hates from her garden, on the 'look! I was thinking of you!' pretext.

The most disgusting thing ever eaten in any branch of my family was definitely SMELT FRY as marshalled by my grandfather one year. My sister: 'Yeah, they fried 'em, and it smelt.'

fwiw the chicken tikka pizza hut is only in india, they're trying to cater to 'local tastes' or w/e

http://pizzahut.co.in/dinein/pizzas.php

Has tripe been mentioned? Cos that stuff is really gross.

I've always been kinda curious what it tastes like. It looks like rubber

KInd of like thick sliced bread that's been soaked in stock, but with the musty smell of offal. Completely an Italian classic though, I ate stacks of it in Tuscany.

I've never had a version I much cared for and I like rubbery things like octopus just fine. I have fried smelt that I rather liked too, fwiw.

Rubber? Yes. Not pleasant. Chinese style it could be okay but my old man had it with onions and a touch of salt and pepper from what I remember.. That and eels I could never touch.

Mum told me stories about preparing eels for my grandad, and how he'd catch them and she'd have to cook them and they'd be jumping aroudn in the pan even when they were chopped up O_O

I own that Campbell's Soup cookbook posted up thread.

I also have an appetizer cookbook with a recipe for Blue Balls.

dying

on opposite page is recipe for a hangover

chicken schmaltz -mmmm heart attacks

― Mordy, Monday, September 24, 2012 2:08 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh my dad eats schmaltz. SO GROSS.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RmQGnpyN34Y/SwNV5XSZIxI/AAAAAAAACAE/CWEonancM0M/s1600/Schweinshaxe.jpg

:(

marrow

http://i.thestreet.com/files/tsc/mainstreet-photos/photo-gallery/art-gallery/delicacies-marrow.jpg

We should have a thread of foods we eat that our children will find completely disgusting.

my parents regularly consumed:

braunschweiger
Ayds candy
Swanson TV dinners
all cuts of meat cooked to MAXIMUM DONENESS ALWAYS
pickled beets (still h8 these)
OCEANS of Tab, the petrochemical-waste-flavored diet soda

(not all at the same time)

& I first tasted garlic when I was 17 years old and out at a restaurant not with my folks.

I don't mind marrow. I like flaunting my skill with the marrow fork.

TAB is the nectar of the gods. <3 forever.

Because my dad's a chef they always ate pretty good foods but it was the most exotic and meaty stuff I found really gross (see above). Also all organ meat. GAH! I can't handle that kind of thing.

Weird, I loved TAB too as a teenage in the late 70s/early 80s, but I think it might make me hurl now.

r

I still buy it every time I see it which is pretty much only when I go to the one supermarket in town that I know stocks it.

The only way I would drink TAB again willingly would be as part of a nostalgia trip where I mixed it with vodka in a 2-liter bottle and took it along on an aimless drunken drive around Lake Forest and Lake Bluff, IL.

Just like 1982!

While listening to X and Talking Heads and Gang of Four on the car cassette player.

Ah, TAB memories.

Scrapple does not belong in this thread!

Sincerely,
carl agatha
President, Scrapple Defense League

TAB
Tab Cola
What a beautiful drink.
TAB
Tab Cola
For beautiful people.
TAB
You're beautiful to me!
Great cola taste, just one calorie!

My developing neural pathways managed to absorb the Tab jingle so that i could transcribe it from memory 33 years later, but I don't know all the state capitals. smdh

i had marrow for the first time at a fancy restaurant last year. it was yum but I felt very much like a reprehensible carnivore, lol

My dad used to sometimes have lambs brains on toast as a breakfast treat. Done in white sauce (bechamel). I tried em a few times, didnt mind it, but in hindsight I realise I liked the bechamel more than anything else lol. The brains? Tasted fine, but an odd, mealy floury texture.

We ate crumbed fried liver a lot too, tho it was called "lambs fry"; I hated it, horrid gamey metallic taste.

All artificial sweeteners are repulsive to me. I don't know how people can drink things like Tab.

Yeah I hate them too, theyre foul

There's not a carnivore on this board who would not be very happy to have a Schweinshax'n placed in front of them (although the one pictured is slightly overdone and has a touch too much sauce).

It's just a pork knuckle? Not really any different to any other meat served on the bone.
TV dinners were mentioned upthread, and I present Bird's Eye curry, the type that used to be boil-in-the bag but I think it comes in a standard plastic microwaveable container now. Anyway, the rice is like polystyrene packing beads, and the curry sauce is bright orange and will stain anything on contact, including counter tops and plates.

Curry (Bird's Eye or otherwise), or indeed any food more "exotic" than shitty Chinese takeout, was unknown in my home.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7IcDtaK0adU/TFg-R7CU2hI/AAAAAAAABew/m_dtH-g4beQ/s320/SwansonTVDinner.jpg

I really liked these as a child. I'd probably find it tasty now too, but would not eat it on principle.

OTOH my dad took me to a "fancy" restaurant in St. Louis, MO when I was 7 and ordered escargots for me. I liked those too.

Things on this thread which I can confirm aren't disgusting (done right of course):

Scotch Eggs
Jellied Eels
Lard
Schweinhshaxe/Eisbein
Marrow
Haggis

I feel sorry for people who think they are.

I wasn't in Japan long enough to get into Nattō for breakfast though:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/Natto_on_rice.jpg

Let's try that again

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/Natto_on_rice.jpg

I can agree that most of the frozen foods on this thread are indeed disgusting. They may have enough salt to make them palatable though.

I liked smoked eel so much that I cannot imagine not liking jellied eel.

But Eisbein (boiled pork knuckle) grosses me the hell out. Dunno way, I have no problem with boiled beef, but Eisbein makes me feel like a cannibal.

Is it the usually massive looking size of the portion which does that?

No, it's the skin, which is the best part of a grilled knuckle and the most horrifying part of an Eisbein. Real life gag, gotta stop thinking about it.

Gotta admit, I used to love Swenson's chicken pot pies. I must've eaten thousands because my mom found them to be ideal latchkey food.

I think boiled meats generally can sometimes be kinda groo. I mean, I love corned silverside and thats boiled, and poached chicken is fine, but theres something gelatinous and grey about boiling meat that... urgh.

1) Haggis is some beautiful peppery meaty taste explosion of goodness. Helps that I have lots of scots friends who can source the good shizzle.
2) Faggots are amazing! tho the trad. beef ones are hard to find these days cos of foot and mouth. There's a farm not far from me that sell proper ones, and they're a succulent meaty treat.
3) Lard is amazing you disgusting etc! Best fat in which to cook roast potatoes bar none, and terrific in pies. I also use it as the fat in flatbreads for extra nomm-ness.

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I have never had haggis but always wanted to try it.
I love creamed chipped beef on toast, natto, scotch eggs, and bone marrow. I have no compunction about cooking with lard, or eating things cooked with lard.

Jellied eels are a step too far, however.

Gross things my parents ate: squirrel (also file under "gross things my parents fed me when I was a child), pig brains scrambled with eggs, and, as mentioned above by others, vegetables boiled nearly unto paste. You can count me among those who hated most non-root vegetables until adulthood when I learned about sauteeing and grilling and roasting.

http://www.macandcheeseblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/6a00d8341ce11353ef00e54f1718df8833-800wi.jpg

diiiiiiiieeee

wd nom

But Eisbein (boiled pork knuckle) grosses me the hell out. Dunno way, I have no problem with boiled beef, but Eisbein makes me feel like a cannibal.

― Three Word Username, Tuesday, September 25, 2012 4:19 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Eisbein is actually what I was thinking of and not Schweinhshaxe though that's pretty gnarly looking too but I'm not a carnivore so maybe that's why. That pale gross dead looking skin. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. Awful.

OTOH my dad took me to a "fancy" restaurant in St. Louis, MO when I was 7 and ordered escargots for me. I liked those too.

― *rad hug eomticon* (Control Z), Tuesday, September 25, 2012 3:55 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Escargot and raclette cheese basically smells like the stinkiest socks you can imagine were my favorite foods when I was 7.

Gross things my parents ate: squirrel (also file under "gross things my parents fed me when I was a child)

Can you buy squirrel in the store or was this backyard squirrel?

Artisinal backyard squirrel shot and skinned by my pa himself.

:)

What did he use to take down the beast?

Best fat in which to cook roast potatoes bar none

Uh, duck fat kicks its ass.

And marrow is delicious

xp .22 I think?

lol @ "backyard squirrel"

You know what's really gross? Bear.

Best fat in which to cook roast potatoes bar none

Uh, duck fat kicks its ass.

Debatable, they both have their merits, I would say duck fat is overrated and lard is underrated. What kicks both their arses is beef tallow however.

Mind you, I like lard too.

What kicks all their arses is goose fat, I think you'll find.

what kicks anything's asses is a foot, by definition

Yeah - as far as I understand it goose fat is the business. My dad cooks a goose every Christmas and then saves the fat for him and his friends. They eat that stuff straight up on bread.

Goose is one fatty bird, too. I have a friend who messed up his oven making goose one Xmas.

my dad messed up Christmas one year making a roasted goose with prune stuffing; the thing was literally inedible and gave the impression you were eating a greasy, prune-suffused shit

ive always just assumed that all food from the 50s thru the 70s was horrifying

Thanks, DJP. I might have gone through life and never encountered the phrase, "greasy, prune-suffused shit."

I know you lot are talking about bone marrow, but it reminded me of the one disgusting food I remember from childhood : stuffed marrow - ie the oversize courgette thing. Just the texture, somehow both fibrous and watery at the same time, like chewing soggy knitwear.

Haggis is amazing though.

in fairness, this is maybe the fourth time I've told that story

but you're welcome anyway

My grandparents were from Oklahoma and cooked kind of Southern. There are many disadvanatges to this cuisine (like a lot of American cuisines it's way too reliant on sweet for my taste) but at least my grandmother made most of it from scratch. My dad and stepmother were kind of hippies so their food, while it tended towards a morally superior blandness, was big on fresh veg and fruits and whatnot. That said, I ate and saw eaten in the 70's, foods that still fill me with horror.

DJP, what did you end up having for Christmas dinner?

why are ppl talking about this sort of old rustic type food (some of which is not at all disgusting) rather than the sort of truly repulsive 'sophisticated' recipe food from 60s-80s cookbooks in that other thread

xp: lots of side dishes IIRC

if there was a replacement meat, it made no impression after the culinary Auschwitz that was that goose

http://www.riceandworship.com/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/potted-meat-meat2.jpg

lol

I have so many cookbooks from the 60s with regrettably colored foods in them. I really think half the problem was the technicolor REDNESS and VIVIDNESS of EVERYTHING in the photos.

What's grossest about post-war American food is the processing and labor saving that led to canned or frozen food being seen as preferable to actual produce. Gloopy, soft, bleached - H. Miller's 'Air Conditioned Nightmare' but for food, often garnished with 'fancy' items that make little sense palate-wise but allow you to tart up your slop with something exotic or expensive.

remember this?

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KdMw7IGsyR8/Tsbead5aIPI/AAAAAAAAA0U/jE_coo9uV9I/s400/christmasvacationT.jpg

I sure recognize the table settings.

Wtf is that?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Spmqbs8YCW8

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_J8GE9at0hw4/TH0DTk5iF6I/AAAAAAAAAX8/hPR8p0z5IsU/s1600/easy-cheese.jpg

"'Cause I'm too lazy to cut cheese on my own."

They want you to say grace.

Grace? Grace died 30 years ago.

The blessing. They want you to say the blessing.

I pledge allegiance, to the flag . . .

x-post

Here's the heart.

You used to be able to buy kitchen gadgets that cut those tomato cogs automatically.

I just love riding in cars.

lol yes! <3 Aunt Bethany.

is Rusty still in the Navy?

so good

I saw faggots in a great pub/restaurant in manhattan a few weeks ago (spotted pig?), surfing the wave of hipster shitty awesome meat products revival. Theres also some serious scotch egg alchemy going on here in London at the minute, chorizo and black pudding variants are getting pretty common. In fact this thread has a lot of parallels with the london restaurants thread

there's nothing wrong with something like faggots, as in conceptually there's nothing horrible about them whatsoever. same with scotch eggs.

well the name is horrible

i think the problem with faggots is that i always associate them with the 'mr brains' variety which as a concept turned my stomach when i was a kid.

It is. "Scotch" is such a weird word. xp to Dan

depends on the ingredients used, i suppose. i never had them as a kid.

the nastiest thing i can remember from my youth was spag bolognese, just the way my mum made it was really bad initially, though she is a good cook, this was the mid to late 80s, i guess a good recipe hadn't been passed around.

we used to have liver and bacon a lot and i hated it, but i love it now. my mum baked it though i think, which made it very dry and rubbery.

Having had corned beef and boiled vegetables a lot when I was a kid, and as a kid who HATED almost all vegetables but especially boiled ones, I was pretty much ruined for the whole American thing of 'omg it's St Patrick's Day, I'm so excited we get to eat boiled meat and boiled vegetables!'

I do love good corned beef. It's fucking delicious. But the whole boiled vegetable accompaniment almost always kills it for me. Just the smell. God the smell. And the mushy watery pieces of carrot and potato and boiled cabbage and uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugggggh yuk

my first year working here my company sent out an email 'Come on down for a St Patrick's day lunch!'...that moment as I'm walking down the hall to the lunchroom and that noxious gas wave of boiled cabbage stench hit me, I just about cried.

Boiled cabbage is vile.

Faggots are just a kind of meatball, right?

It's perfectly nice steamed or even sauteed, I will never understand why the fuck you would boil a perfectly good cabbage.

xpost - inadvertent lol, sorry

hated bacon and cabbage as a kid too... but it can be done well, i like it as an adult a bit more, it's a fairly hardy stodge that just doesn't appeal to a child.

yeah it always felt like a trick -- I'd eat the bacon and leave the cabbage, lol

Sauteed or wok-ed cabbage is just fine but boiling cabbage releases hydrogen sulfide.

xpost to Michael, yes, faggots are just a kind of meatball but a very offal heavy one and always wrapped in caul. Generally you bake them in a dish with gravy (not a US style floury one) about halfway up so you get a soft half and a crusty half. And they are yummy.

You guys seem to use offal across the board whereas I definitely distinguish between liver and kidneys and tripe and sweetbreads and brains. Do you just mean non-muscle flesh, the kind that sneaks into hot dogs and sausages in the US?

What's a flour-less gravy? Just drippings?

Oh yeah, we distinguish between them all as well when they're separate but in faggots it's pretty much just whatever offal you've got.

Most gravies in Britain are pretty clear and are usually let down then re-reduced stock. The mirepoix or soffritto can sometimes get blended and mixed in to produce body but not necessarily. Apart from onion gravy which has whole bits of onion in it. I think I speak for most Brits when I say we're baffled by things like Country Gravy.

In France, my ex's family would make roast chicken almost every Sunday and pour the drippings into a small saucière (minus some of the fat) plus deglazing the pan if they were so inclined. They made roux for stews but not for gravy since it would take too much time.

Yeah, that's pretty much it when you can be bothered. (Probably 90% of the gravy eaten in Britain comes from stock cubes or gravy granules)

Interestingly my gf and I rarely make gravies anymore mostly, I think, 'cause she actually uses the drippings to baste the chicken a few times while it's cooking and I often use some of the drippings to wok vegetables. On those rare occasions where we make a roast beef, however, I'll deglaze and make a quick gravy.

lol I was raised on powdered gravy out of a box, I always hated the taste of homemade gravy (but I don't think mum really made it quite right, she never really seasoned much of anything ever)

Chicken Kiev is brilliant. My mom used to make it from scratch. I was surprised to learn of its humble origins. Whoever invented it should get a Nobel Prize. Jeez I thought I ate some crap growing up, but mainly my idea of "crap" was meatloaf or beef stroganoff. My mom was Italian so everything we ate resembled food in some way.

Guys I know this isn't so exotic but there is truly nothing more disgusting than a hot dog. This is coming from someone who enjoyed them while selling them from a Sabrett cart for five years. Will never eat again.

Meat batter:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NzUm7UEEIY

When I was in grammar school, a teacher set a day aside to lecture about processed foods like hot dogs. She said that they had eyeballs in them! She also said some fast food places used horse meat or again, organ meats and even eyeballs. I never ate a hot dog or fast food burgers again!

I love hotdogs. Also potted meat and Vienna sausages (though I haven't had the latter two in more than a decade).

When I was a kid I used to like spam and canned hams of any kind, and the jelly. *cries*

I really don't see what's upsetting about that hot dog video. Or the concept of "meat batter".

Spam is delicious.

Want: Sabrett wieners FedExed to me now, please. The dean of students at my college was a Sabretti and arranged for a help-yourself cart w/free dogs every Saturday night there was a dance.

it's upsetting how meatloaf and hotdogs have turned into $10/serving items that's what's upsetting. feel like spam has resisted the upsell better.

cocktail saveloys (i guess tiny hot dogs? little red sausages) were my favorite food in the world when i was little

I'm thinking what a delightful thing it is to be fortunate enough to turn down food that I think is disgusting. After the coming apocalypse we'll all change our tune.

(walks away, hands in pockets, whistling)

I really don't see what's upsetting about that hot dog video. Or the concept of "meat batter".

― the physical impossibility of sb in the mind of someone fping (silby), Wednesday, September 26, 2012 2:46 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think it's possible to suspend revulsion for a taste developed in childhood. I miss hot dogs. But if you don't understand what's disgusting about the concept of assorted scraps from miscellaneous animals e.g. scrotum eyelid ear boiled into a slurry, rinsed in ammonia, sweetened w/ corn syrup and extruded as a paste...uh...different strokes

it's not as disgusting as most of the details of industrial-scale meat-raising (none of which stop me from eating industrially-raised meat, so far)

my friend is really into ptcha. so gross

http://www.2ndavedeli.com/wp-content/gallery/taam-gan-eyden/Ptcha.jpg

cocktail saveloys (i guess tiny hot dogs? little red sausages) were my favorite food in the world when i was little

I was luckily out of high school before I discovered that a not uncommon Australian expression for these is "little boys"

Mordy...what is...ptcha

Please tell me it's ornamental soap and not some kind of horrific headcheese suspended in fermented blubber

Its hooves suspended in a fine aspic! :D

so wiki informs me.

I was luckily out of high school before I discovered that a not uncommon Australian expression for these is "little boys"

You never knew that one as a kid? Heh.

'Little boys' is nothing compared to the paedo-flavoured horrors you can pick up from the supermarket shelves of Scotland:

http://sphotos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/31224_429552115637_5572724_n.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/aKYQv.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/sJsgK.jpg

"appetising red" >_<

...untilt he tongue can be very easily pierced with a skewer

*cries*

Yeah im not easily weirded out by food, but tounge is the one thing I cant get by, cos the idea of cutting into it makes me think of my own tongue and... aaaarghhhh noooo

my Nan used to eat all the weird parts of the cow, I never could stand it.

I don't think I've ever had tongue but it freaks me out the same way it freaks out Trayce.

i read somewhere tongue was the beefiest tasting part of beef but when i tried it in a taco, it was like no this is the tonguiest part of beef.

:p

LUTEFISK >:[

http://transplantedbaker.typepad.com/.a/6a011570a57b4b970b0147e0e7cad3970b-800wi

smells twenty times worse than it looks

Faux chipped beef in a cream sauce that was boiled in a bag and served over rice that had been boiled in a bag.

That spam looks good to me. Sorry, growing up I loved it. It was the only "meat" I would eat because it was so soft. Then at age 8 or so I was told what it really was and never touched it again. But that picture just beckons the me before the age of knowing. Same thing happens passing Little Debbie, Hostess deserts...

I was not fed well as a child. If it were not for my grandmother, I wouldn't have had a real home cooked meal from scratch but maybe once a month. Maybe.

Tongue, so far from being disgusting, is rather tender and flavorful, and is especially ace in a sandwich. If it didn't look like an enormous tongue that is.

maybe the tongue in that tongue taco i ate was marinated in tongue sauce.

ugh the gelatinous-ness of the lutefisk is making me queasy

I do love tongue...

Pretty much everything in here. It's the Bible of shitty 70s food trends.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41unsRwMMNL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

Findus Crispy Pancakes - neither crispy nor particularly pancake like, they came in flavours like minced beef, cheese, and chicken curry.

These were discussed on the badly named "those sadly defunct uk food products" thread. This was my contribution:

I hated crispy pancakes. One of the main reasons I left home tbh.

― a million anons (onimo), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 13:29 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i used to like crispy pancakes, but, even though i don't think i've had one since those days, i still look back on them with disgust. not sure they even occupy my category of 'food'.

DL my mum totally had that cookbook! The stuff on the cover looks ok though?

you guys, this slideshow is amazing: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/20/set-the-stage-then-the-table/

omg VENISON ROAST **WITH SHOTGUNS**

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21377601

Food retailers have been told to carry out tests on all processed beef products after some Findus lasagnes were found to contain 100% horsemeat.

What's worse is that they'll get round to testing the pasta and find out it's 100% cardboard...

It can only be a matter of time before they check vegetarian ready meals and find them not to be vegetarian ...

i was just trying to remember the name of this thread!

how about this

http://25.media.tumblr.com/1b0c42bdc6771176d9954ebe9160dd36/tumblr_mh9ls5xCOR1rlbyzno1_500.jpg

Celery, mixed vegetable, and now Italian Salad and Seasoned Tomato

what is that meat thing up the middle

horse spleen

A Findus crispy pancake? So yeah, probably a horse spleen.

Prawn and caper paste!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/27096349@N07/5053346213

Chew up the prawn and caper paste and put the resultant paste between two intact prawn and caper pastes...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/glenhsparky/3371580638/in/pool-789063@N20/

Call me strange, but that doesn't look too bad.

It's glistening. It has a sheen.

It has mayonnaise.

xp Yummy.

mayonnaise

double yummy

http://www.flickr.com/photos/charmandpoise/3237051296/in/pool-789063@N20/

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Who would think this is a good idea, let alone publish it?

needs lime pickle.

OK, that last one... I am 90% sure we had that cookbook or a very similar one. It being from a BH&G publication makes that pretty likely.

I feel like they must have manufactured like 5x the amount of mayonnaise in the 70's

People used to put it in coffee, iirc.

It's was a crazy time...key parties...mayonnaise in coffee...Watergate...

Mayonnaise and olive loafs.

"the new AMC Gremlin runs solely on mayonnaise!"

lol

my dad's go to snack was deviled ham or vienna sausages or potted meat with saltines and mustard

Upper midwest, so much to regret:

http://www.chow.com/uploads/6/0/9/373906_miracle_whip-1.jpg

don't you worry don't you worry child, see Hellmann's got a plan for you

you mean upper mayonnaise

Will, did you ever hear any of the old-timers say that vienna sausages were potted meat with a hard-on?

;_;

haha no!! and omg gross!

wmc i will never forgive you for putting that into words

That was the go-to kneeslapper at the Malone & Hyde break room in the 80s.

._.

xxp hahahaha

In some ways that was the most fun job I ever had.

Can't tell you the time series on mayo, but the average U.S. resident consumes 0.127 g/kg daily, and the top 1% of 40-69 year olds consume 1.527 g/kg daily. Thanks, EPA. For the median 85 kg 50 year old male, the 1% are consuming 10 tablespoons daily.

jeezus

I barely have a tablespoon in a week

Read on to learn what your favorite condiment sauce represented by The Association for Dressings and Sauces says about you:

Mayonnaise has more appeal for women, and they are directionally more likely to use it, and use it more frequently, than men. Half of the consumers who named mayonnaise as their favorite condiment are introverted and are less likely to be competitive, athletic or risk-takers, while the other half rated themselves as the most ambitious of all condiment devotees. As such, mayo buffs are equally split between being social butterflies and leisure-lovers.

lol

I love that there's an association for dressings and sauces

president's name better be Gladys

or Marjorie

For the median 85 kg 50 year old male, the 1% are consuming 10 tablespoons daily.

am really having trouble wrapping my head around this.

Oh no, the cole slaw I made yesterday! 3 dollops-worth!

xp CAD: I went too far with that analysis. Basically, the average is less than a tbsp daily, but those who love mayo more than 99% eat a lot (roughly 10 tbsp).

http://i34.tinypic.com/15nwy6e.gif

My grandfather was big into vienna sausages and potted meat on saltines, and since I spent a lot of time hanging out with him, I ate a ton of both of those things growing up as well (and loved them both). I haven't eaten either in a long time, but sometimes I look wistfully at the potted meat in the grocery store. I can't quite bring myself to buy it, though.

Mayonnaise is basically just oil, lemon juice and egg yolk. Not sure why it would cause cancer. I can see why some people would be disgusted by it's texture and appearance, but that's a very different matter.

well, homemade mayonnaise is all those things. Hellman's mayonnaise is bottled WMD.

thinking about 70's mayonnaise is not the same thing as thinking about homemade mayonnaise

I mean, shit was probably made out of powdered eggs, white lead paint and melamine powder

My father loves frozen chipped beef on toast. It's always looked like vomit to me.

Anybody here ever have salade russe?

"Potted Meat food product" isn't something seen locally.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/Potted_Meat_Food_Product.jpg
Armour Star: Mechanically separated chicken, beef tripe, water, salt, and less than 2%: mustard, natural flavor, garlic powder, vinegar, dextrose, sodium erythorbate, and sodium nitrite.
Hormel: Beef tripe, mechanically separated chicken, beef hearts, partially defatted cooked beef fatty tissue, meat broth, vinegar, salt, flavoring, sugar, and sodium nitrite.
Libby's: Mechanically separated chicken, pork skin, partially defatted cooked pork fatty tissue, partially defatted cooked beef fatty tissue, vinegar, less than 2% of: salt, spices, sugar, flavorings, sodium erythorbate and sodium nitrite.

Seems little worse than more normal fare:

B Prayson et al. Fast food hamburgers: what are we really eating? Annals of Diagnostic Pathology, 2008.
B Prayson et al. Applying morphologic techniques to evaluate hotdogs: what is in the hotdogs we eat? Annals of Diagnostic Pathology, 2008.

I had my first-ever Scotch egg the other night, and it was most excellent. (Caveat, this may have been a more upmarket version than the norm: chorizo sausage on the outside, some sort of wasabi mustard dipping sauce, and some spring greens on the side. With a few craft beers, it was amazing.)

partially defatted cooked beef fatty tissue

that is a v amusing tautology

man scotch eggs used to make me so mad when I was a kid - i hated eggs and it was like ruining a perfectly good burger by hiding something horrible inside

so much 70's food my mum made was about hiding something I hated inside something I liked - like quiche with hidden canned asparagus spears in it :P

But since quiche was mainly eggs, and you hated eggs, I am forced to conclude that it must have been the canned asparagus spears you liked. :P

Or, alternatively, I am forced to conclude that VG is a very complicated person.

I'm v complicated :D

I hated eggs but only in whole form; scrambled or quiche eggs were okay
Canned asparagus was evil and hated
I hated potatoes but only mashed or boiled; I liked them fried or shredded in hashbrowns

xp aimless: assuming the vegetable oil used has a high n-6:n-3 ratio (as in corn, cottonseed, safflower, sunflower, or soybean oils), its pro-inflamatory and could cause a lot of those pathologies (a review, if you're inclined. Intake via fried foods are more important mayo, though.

Canned asparagus just makes me want to cry, unless it's the white ones.

I spent the first 20 years of my life thinking I hated asparagus because canned was all I knew about

among canned vegetables, canned asparagus is said to be second only to canned mushrooms in the ratio of eggs/larvae to food product

there are very, very few vegetables that survive being in a metal can with any sort of edible nature remaining, imo

xpost wait whaaaaaaaaaaaat

i love canned mushrooms, I'm not gonna lie

champignons i would eat forever

like... tomatoes do ok, but mostly because I only ever use those in stuff that is cooked for a long period of time

Just thinking about canned asparagus makes me queasy and as noted above, I like potted meat. Same with canned spinach. Pretty much any canned green vegetable, actually.

I do actually like canned mushrooms, though. xp HIGH FIVE VG

xxp canned tomatoes are awesome because fresh tomatoes have such a short window of being any good.

you see there is this thing called flash freezing, resulting in good quality frozen vegetables

canning is kind of the downfall of early- to mid-century home cooking, when people thought the convenience of buying canned food and then adding tons of shit to it was preferable to dealing with fresh vegetables

Not that I'm slicing up whole canned tomatoes to put on bagels or anything. I mean for cooking.

carl we are canned mushroom wondertwins

I've spent 10 minutes of my life gawking at repulsive gelatin food combos on GIS. Don't do this.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Ttu-ZLisYmU/UVwmhEVwb4I/AAAAAAAABW8/1Ar6G8wcyM0/s320/gelatin-bone-slime+-+Top+10+Disgusting+Ingredients+You%E2%80%99ve+Probably+Eaten+Today.jpg

I sort of don't think of them as mushrooms. They are their own different kind of food.

Also they are great on pizza at home because fresh mushrooms don't cook completely, and underdone/raw mushrooms gross me out about as much as canned asparagus does.

very few vegetables can be canned with any success at all. corn does alright, same with beets.

Canned tomatoes are fine by me and canned white asparagus are fine, too. It's just that waiting for this time of year for the asparagus to be fresh and in season is kind of a tradition. But, yeah, mid-century convenient food is generally ghastly something smothered in cream of mushroom or whatever.

carl, do you ever get dried mushrooms?

agree that tomatoes can beautifully, but they're a fruit

I've spent 10 minutes of my life gawking at repulsive gelatin food combos on GIS.

Aspic can be quite good, actually

Sure, I've cooked with dried mushrooms lots.

I'm generally pro-mushroom! I just can't cope with underdone/raw white button mushrooms.

I generally like to eat as seasonally as California allows, which gives me pretty wide leeway, but I take your point about tomatoes being fruit. I guess most of the canned stuff I get and like are pickled in one way or another. (That reminds me I have some pickled radishes at home)

I just can't cope with underdone/raw white button mushrooms.

These were ubiquitous for me in the 70's. I like them but I agree, they taste a little cardboardy raw. The only mushroom I'm a little iffy about is truffle 'cause it gets mis- or overused so often.

Canned tomatoes are better than fresh 10 months of the year, because they're actually canned when ripe. Barry Estabrook's Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit is kinda required reading for Michael Pollan fans.

I've taken to mail-ordering big bags of Turkish dried tomatoes as a salad topping. So much better than the produce aisle.

Cover your eyes, folx: http://farm1.staticflickr.com/48/134205261_2e7f7eaebc_o.jpg

Eating seasonally in Chicago is tough. Depending on where you look, either nothing is in season until May or only very early vegetables are seasonal now (but farmers' markets don't start until mid-May so). So I definitely cheat, although some things are just so bad out of season that it's not worth it (tomatoes being first on that list).

One of these days I'm going to make one of those savory gelatin molds just to see what the hell that could possibly taste like.

alfred

whyyyyyyy

"ring around the tuna, a pocket full of olives, aspic! aspic! we all throw up!"

I have a couple of pretty good tomato connections and, if not, there's always $5.00 heirlooms if I'm desperate. I really like tomatoes, though, so I mostly only buy them in season 'cause pink tomatoes bred to be hard enough to travel for miles, etc... just leave me depressed. Some of the hothouse roma tomatoes from around here aren't inedible out of season but they lack that lush juiciness heirlooms have in July or August.

Eating seasonally in Chicago is tough.

Winter is good for citrus, winter greens from kales to chcories, cruciferous stuff like broccoli, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, squashes...

I know how seasonal produce works in Chicago! I live and eat here!

who the fuck thinks throwing celery and olives in jell-o is tasty?

who?

who?

who the fuck thinks surrounding horrible 70's tuna salad with jello is going to make anyone want to eat it more than they already don't

who?

who?

We are talking about humans here. The same species that created lutefisk, cotton candy and jellied eels. If it is vaguely edible, someone somewhere likes to eat it.

no way

70's abound with government conspiracies - who's to say that the recipe cards and terrible 50 Ways To Use Mayonnaise cookbooks weren't a conspiracy of their own to fool future generations into thinking that...

oh who am I kidding

of course people ate this. Sandra Lee is our generation's proof.

holy barf @ ring around the tuna. what were people thinking?

when my mom makes midcentury food, it's generally pretty okay, like creamed spinach, poached salmon or rum cream pie. not gelatinized shoreline.

I wonder if Icelanders talk about Hákarl this way.

this is the shit that always gets me:

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/hotdog_roast_zpsc54b1311.jpg

crown roast of finger

It's just badly photographed hot dogs and (a lot of) sour kraut. I'd rather eat that than canned asparagus.

yeah, it's true. less disgusting than odd. but i like to think it's slaw in the middle there.

badly photographed hot dogs lol

tell the truth, my parents didn't really eat any disgusting food. creamed tuna on toast w chopped egg was about the worst of it, and honestly, without the egg it'd have been fine.

xp CAD: I went too far with that analysis. Basically, the average is less than a tbsp daily, but those who love mayo more than 99% eat a lot (roughly 10 tbsp).

no no i got it, i just really am having a tough time with how someone could consume 10 tbsp of mayonnaise in even one day in their lives. and i don't have anything against mayonnaise (at least if i'm making it myself)

Slaw in the middle would be ever better. (search: North Carolina slaw dog) xp

List of foodstuffs apt to work as emetics on Lord Soto:

tuna
mayo
celery (diced)
cottage cheese

fuck canned tuna

I know people who are into the fondue at parties thing and all I can think of is all the cookbooks and food things when I was a kid that had pictures of fondue next to jello salads

Creamed tuna on toast was one of my favorite dinners when I was growing up.

that's the other thing: a place called The Melting Pot boasts a ghastly popularity with first dates 'round here. Who the fuck fills his belly with chocolate and cheese...for dinner?!

it's interactive, casual, and you don't have to worry about even the possibility of first-date making out/not making out, cause you're going to feel like shit

canned tuna is ayo k. oil is better than water, and the best if often misspelled for some reason (tonno wtf lol).

lol cad

okay, this was nasty. plus it seemed to have way more mayo than this recipe calls for. and coconut:

AMBROSIA

1 can crushed pineapple
1 can mandarin oranges
2 apples, cubed
3 bananas
1 c. seedless grapes
1 c. chopped pecans
1/2 c. raisins
1/4 c. salad cherries
1/2 c. mayonnaise
3 tbsp. milk
1 tbsp. sugar

Combine fruit and nuts in a large bowl. Mix mayonnaise, sugar and milk together. Beat until smooth. Pour over fruit mixture. Sprinkle with grated coconut, if desired.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_x8A7Iz4rjIo/TFv4lCeCrBI/AAAAAAAAAD8/qBwJu8f0j9M/s1600/vomit.jpg

what the hell are "salad cherries"

Come on, Alfred, it's just fruit salad with a creamy dressing.

xp -- maraschino cherries, I think

it is trail mix and mayo. it is nasty.

and fruit. nasty and fruit.

^ attorneys at law

gross

Why would ambrosia salad have MAYO in it? Jesus

there will be mayo in heaven

^ working title, iirc
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/36Yl6O6OR9Y/0.jpg

Oh man, I have had mayo fruit salad in a long time. Major craving now.

Haven't had.

I think I tried to make that for you once like 12 years ago. NEVER AGAIN.

Oh, that's not true. I'd make it again if you wanted it.

i don't think I could handle making or eating it tbh

it's weird how much midcentury food was inspired by french classical fine dining -- terrines, aspic molds, things covered in mayonnaise.

was thinking about just that the other day! smooth uniformity, creaminess, simple flavor profile, etc. except made gross.

ambrosia salad - the mormon picnic staple!

my mom (who is not Mormon) used to make ambrosia salad all the time. i like it!

ugh sauerbraten - you'd think it'd be alright but no and smelled horrible cooking

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/83/Sauerbraten_with_potato_DUMPLINGS!.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3iKFyqTg7LA/TNaxMIT1BpI/AAAAAAAAAIA/kAI4eKo0kPQ/s1600/DSCI0032.JPG

sauerbraten is amazing if made right

my mouth is watering

I love a good sauerbraten! Martha Stewart's mom's recipe is great. Doesn't come out looking anything like that picture, that's for sure!

Sauerbraten is very very good, but there are some bad recipes out there and you can mess it up the more complicated good ones too. Applesauce also needs to get the hell offa that plate.

Much better with sauteed apples imho

apfelkorn schapps

I just bought an awesome cookbook called DISHES MEN LIKE from the 1950s after I saw it at the food exhibit at the Natural History Museum in NYC a couple weeks ago.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/27/159734483_abd9a95f49.jpg

every recipe involves worchester sauce, as the book was published by Lea & Perrins.

Needs poll of dishes on the front cover.

we were thinking about LIVECOOKBLOGGING our way through the book but I think I am not man enough for these dishes

But... worchestire sauce!

At the very least, tell me what the hell London Loaf. Also please confirm that a Cheese Club Sandwich is a club sandwich with melted cheese sauce on top.

wth is 'London Loaf'? It looks like something in a ring of aspic.

Yes! Welsh Rabbit! No PC revisionism for these manly men.

I grew some extra chest hair just looking at the cover

I grew some extra hair on my tongue just looking at the cover

I will look at the book when I get home this afternoon & provide the crucial details

there is definitely aspic in the book, made with worchester sauce iirc

i.e. worchester sauce jello

I was looking to see about the rarebit/rabbit distinction, I came across this wonderfulness on Wikipedia:

Mrs Glasse, in her cookbook The Art of Cookery (first published in 1747 and last published in 1843), gives recipes for Scotch rarebit, Welch rarebit and two versions of English rarebit.[12]
*To make a Scotch rabbit, toast the bread very nicely on both sides, butter it, cut a slice of cheese about as big as the bread, toast it on both sides, and lay it on the bread.
*To make a Welch rabbit, toast the bread on both sides, then toast the cheese on one side, lay it on the toast, and with a hot iron brown the other side. You may rub it over with mustard.
*To make an English rabbit, toast the bread brown on both sides, lay it in a plate before the fire, pour a glass of red wine over it, and let it soak the wine up. Then cut some cheese very thin and lay it very thick over the bread, put it in a tin oven before the fire, and it will be toasted and browned presently. Serve it away hot.
*Or do it thus. Toast the bread and soak it in the wine, set it before the fire, rub butter over the bottom of a plate, lay the cheese on, pour in two or three spoonfuls of white wine, cover it with another plate, set it over a chafing-dish of hot coals for two or three minutes, then stir it till it is done and well mixed. You may stir in a little mustard; when it is enough lay it on the bread, just brown it with a hot shovel.

(note to self - look to see how to do bullet points next time. embarrassing!)

brb, making english rabbit.

not with a hot shovel though.

By Worchester you mean Worcestershire right?
I have nfi what London loaf is. And surely Welsh Rabbit is Welsh rarebit?

savory challops

MANFOOD! has certainly devolved from where it was when that cookbook upthread was published:

http://fbrest.edgecaching.net/tpr-wp-uploads/home_may_man_food.jpg

also, this ... http://www.man-food.com/

I love the heat squiggles on the cover of the Dishes that Men Like

if Hannah Glasse spells it Welch Rabbit so should we

Worcestershire sauce, yeah

the only thing we ever use it for is making (very manly) Chex mix

dishes that men like comes with a free pipe and a glass of scotch

worcestershire sauce = in almost every from-scratch barbecue sauce ever that Mr Veg has made

we go through bottles of the stuff. you should see my hairy chest

and autographed by Jon Hamm/Don Draper

Worcestershire sauce is a key element in my homemade barbecue sauce for pork. Also no need for extra apples on yer Sauerbraten plate if you did the Rotkohl correctly!

My beef barbecue sauce is mostly tomato + sour + hothotterhottest.

here is a very gay take on a ghastly classic: le pain à étages au fromage.
http://i.imgur.com/1NLoJ0S.jpg
you want to know what's in it? it varies but too late welcome to my nightmare: ham, creton (pork spread), eggs, tofu, beets, (just read a recipe from a 70's mom who wrote "peanut butter" but she may be nuts), tuna, mustard, (the zany fool who made that particular one used Velveta fondu mixed with the resulting paste of mashed cheez poops for the orange layer) and it's with cream cheese.

also, add a layer of chicken salad in there while you are at it. covered with cream cheese.

why is that?

oh

my

god

The background of that pic is almost as frightening as the foreground.

under what circumstances do people eat such a thing

yeah um whyyyyy does it look like there's more than one in that picture

why would you ever need more than one of these in your lifetime

What's the blue layer? What's the green layer? What's a cheese poop? Where am I? What's happening??!??

happy flag day!

i am speechless.

so glad i managed to remember how it is called + photo evidence.

yeah um whyyyyy does it look like there's more than one in that picture

it was a contest! i know! the website show there was a handful of participants; i do not know their true motivation (the rainbow flag hints towards some humour) but making a blob of nutrients in that general fashion is a multi-generational tradition in some families around here (also parts of ontario and i suspect NB too)

What's the blue layer?

hehe, tofu + egg white + bleu de méthylène

What's the green layer?

hee hee, olives+mustard with herbs

What's a cheese poop?

i google image it (results were not that bad in comparison) and oops it is how we call cheesy poofs round here.

Where am I? What's happening??!??

this thing opens up a door to a parallel (and hostile) culinary universe. from beyond

it looks like a variation of this:

http://www.kookychow.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Sandwich-Loaf-recipe-kooky-chow.com-kooky-cookery.com_1.jpg

JESUS CHRIST NO

Ok, maybe my French comprehension skills aren't that great, but her brother made one with filet mignon and Cheez Whiz?!??!

haha yes! it is a thing that is known. they also call it "pain sandwich".

oh, there's pain alright

pain in my eyes

laughing so hard right now. this is wrong but now i am in the mood for '70s cold buffet food. i think i will look it up and have a "Taste Buds and Molecules" twist on it. but combining 5 tastes like in chinses cuisine. i am the next generation of evil, my aunt will be proud.

The photo tokyo rosemary posted your cheese poop and blue egg loaf after it is exposed to toxic waste and turns into a zombie.

...posted IS your cheese poop...

Sorry. Struggling with verbs.

je sais, je sais, vous êtes entrain de dire YARK!

YARK

OMG OMG OMG she made a McDonald's inspired sandwich loaf.

YARK

omg there are so many

one of their rules is "en essayant que ce soit bon" . just had a vision of the judge panel smpling thick slices , alternating sips of beer and red wine and participating in a contest of their own when the show is over: making the most beautiful sunset-colored frothy fountain.

In a world with Caramel Cheetos, pain sandwich is culinary masterpiece.

no fair, you're shifting the goal posts.

Le pain végé-yogi looks pretty good, imo. Sandwich loaves: redeemed!

I'm thinking a sandwich loaf-off might be a nice activity for ILX World FAP.

*cries*

yesssss

I'll bring the egg salad and deviled ham.

Maybe I'd make le pain Chicago-style deep dish pizza.

I love that link, btw. This is the winning loaf poorly translated via Google:

-liver mousse ice cider with cranberry jam
Spread-oka
-Maple Ham
-Peanut butter and olive
-cheese mousse cream with lemon basil and fresh rosemary
topped with the cream cheese and grated oka

-Peanut butter and olive

the london loaf recipe is the same as their meat loaf recipe, with 1 1/2 cups less bread crumbs & 1 1/2 cups less milk. plus you *scald* the milk.

& you make a sauce! from cream of mushroom soup & worchestershire sauce naturally

if you're man enough, you might go for the cheese & pineapple salad

1 pkg lime flavored gelatin
1/2 c boiling water
1 3 ounce package pimiento cream cheese
1 3 ounce package cream cheese
1 c pineapple juice
1/4 teasp salt
1 teasp worchestershire sauce
3/4 c pineapple chunks
1/2 c walnut meats
1/2 c thin green pepper strips

you make the jello, then mix the cream cheeses & pineapple juice until smooth & mix it with the jello, salt, & worchestershire sauce. then add pineapple pieces, NUT MEATS, & green pepper, & mold it (hopefully in the shape of nuts for full man effect) & serve on lettuce when set.

you're all gonna make me hurl

London Loaf sounds okay, like something my cream of mushroom soup fanatic mother would make. Cheese and pineapple salad is not working for me, but I am a woman so it wouldn't.

this book helps me understand why there wasn't an "obesity epidemic" in the 50s, namely, the cooking was complete shite

to wit: "puree mongole"

1 can condensed tomato soup
1 can condensed pea soup
1 c light cream
1 c milk
1 teas worchestershire sauce
1 c buttered croutons

recipe: mix all this bullshit together & heat

I admit I posted that mostly for the name

what's in the bowl?
WHAT'S IN THE BOWL?

http://www.candyboots.com/wwcards/cardscans/creepyorangesalad.jpg

http://www.candyboots.com/wwcards/cardscans/rosysalad.jpg

red cabbage + jello = brain clot?

would eat the cabbage salad, I fuck with perfection

"ham loaf de luxe" recipe calls for rice krispies btw

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3RaT_8-tQ5c/ScrCQFnPXHI/AAAAAAAAJOk/VZGpwwyVZv0/s400/K_group-scp.jpg

Manly!

come on over, mom's making barfloaf for dinner!

http://www.jasonbuckley.com/blog/recipes/freezer_veal.jpg

I'll take 'Things I Don't Want To See In A Blender' for $500, Alex...

http://www.jasonbuckley.com/blog/recipes/pimento.jpg

world loaf

ASPARAGUS LIME SPEAR PEOPLE

Why would you even want to...I can't...

http://www.jasonbuckley.com/blog/recipes/jellied.jpg

this thread has turned into a mutated version of strongo's neuvo cuisine thread.

Can ILX create a sandwich loaf that strongo won't eat?

i'm starting to see some of these come up in a more modern context --
lots of people i don't remember much about from high school have started to post recipes on Facebook because, well i don't know why exactly but they are v often
1) repulsive looking (most of them, esp the ones that are in dip form)
2) involve using premade elements to create familiar-tasting things (pillsbury biscuits wrapped around a piece of pepperoni and a square of jack cheese = pizza balls!)
3) involve using junk foods to make casseroles, a la green bean casserole w/ those french onions ("cheesy chicken crunch" = a bag of doritos, shredded rotisserie chicken, some other gross stuff i don't remember)

Most of my friends from school are a lot better than that, but the occasional checking-in at Olive Garden person always makes me wince a little.

these are not my friends -- these are just random high school people who have friended me on facebook and are enjoyable to people watch because i don't interact with/have the opportunity to observe people like that irl

my friends do not post recipes like this, but they do occasionally enjoy the olive garden, i guess? i dunno.

http://themamareport.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/olive-garden.png

Ah. I'm pretty picky about the requests I accept from high school people, but I do see vaguely tacky/exurb ex-classmates popping up occasionally on my friends' walls. If only we could 'acquaintance' people on FB.

42 combinations!

Fuck me @ those sandwich loaves up above. Fucking hellfire.

43 when you hurl it back up again.

I don't think they're tacky so much as very very different from me and it has only been recently that I have noticed that their food preferences resemble those of their parents.

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/eating/l-gbwc0rdlzr338b.jpg

the wurst

i've been seeing the same repulsive looking recipe for crockpot broccoli cheese soup floating around facebook lately

oh god that makes me so nauseous i'm tearing up

My boss brought this to the company potluck today:

http://www.food.com/recipe/grape-jelly-meatballs-72826

I can't even

Little Bee's note the way I first read it: I don't know where I got this recipe... My family loves them and every... Christ! What is this, grape JELLY?!

My boss brought this to the company potluck today:

http://www.food.com/recipe/grape-jelly-meatballs-72826

I can't even

― polyphonic,

ahhhhhhhhh

Dunno... sweet and savory, I'd probably dig it.

I could sorta see that working with pork meatballs and cranberry jelly/sauce instead of grape. But bleugh.

Wait did you try them? Because this was indeed a staple of my parents' office parties when I was a kid, and you still often get it at Christmas parties now, and they are amazing. Seriously, grape jelly meatballs are an absolutely first-rate food.

I didn't have an adventurous spirit today

bless you

"cocktail meatballs"

meatballageddon

ffs just drown them in bbq sauce, no need to involve jelly of any kind jaaaysus christ

Directions:

1. Combine first three ingredients in a medium saucepan and heat until warm.

2. Dump meatballs in crockpot and pour sauce over. Cook on low 3-4 hours.

http://celestial.kuriakon00.com/images/chef.jpg

Kind of want some right now tbh

flagged u

"Cocktail meatballs" (never knew that's what they were called) are straight up delicious, ya savages.

I mix grape jelly and BBQ sauce. It's delish! It gets a good glaze from the jelly imo

I want swedish meatballs now dammit.

I remember being disgusted by stovies when I was a kid, I can't really remember what it tasted like though, I think it was more of an aesthetic thing

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Stovies.JPG/1024px-Stovies.JPG

http://www.scottish-recipes.com/tn_wullie-stovies.jpg

Is that just like "chuck leftovers onto apan on the stove"?

http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/236x/9f/3e/72/9f3e72ae2ad2df9883487e2358ee8efb.jpg

when others ruminate on why people in the past were so much skinnier than us, i want to show them pictures of this food, along with the ad copy for cigarettes and diet pills at the time.

food in the 20th century was disgusting and unhealthy and everybody was addicted to cigarettes, but at least people were skinny!

and they died younger

Anyone mentioned Devilled Kidneys?

deviled kidneys are delicious.

A contemporary take on keeping things disgusting:

http://makethebestofeverything.com/2012/07/cucumber-subs.html

Replace the cheese spread with hummus and I'd eat that in a heartbeat.

Cucumber is the opposite of crisp

The 'your grandparents' part reaaaaally sticks in my craw but I'll give the younguns a pass because this is pretty good

http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/7-gross-foods-your-grandparents-ate-that-we-taste-tested/

sidenote: my feeling is this person really sucks at gelatin, if their end result photos are anything to go by

I mixed mayonnaise and lemon juice into dissolved flavorless gelatin and placed it in the freezer for 15 minutes to make it thick. I then dropped in tuna, stuffed olives, celery, onion, and pimento and let it sit in the fridge.

Don 'n' Glenn in gelatinous form

I dare you guys to get to the "frosted lime-walnut salad"

double dog dare you

He got better at gelatin with practice.

Person who invented that cucumber beast really doesn't understand the concept of healthy eating.

That cow...its laughing AT you, not with you.

Yeah I was gonna say that chap - processed turkey breast and cream cheese,mmm *so* good for you.

(dont get me wrong that said, I luurv laughing cow cheeze)

i love cucumbers but that 'sandwich' made me kinda nauseous

I like cucumber, mustard, and will eat processed turkey, I could make something like that work in a pinch so ask not at whom the cow larfs, I guess.

lol

The 'your grandparents' part reaaaaally sticks in my craw but I'll give the younguns a pass because this is pretty good

my grandparents were the children of eastern european immigrants so they ate some pretty gross food (pickled herring, anyone? stuffed derma?) but they weren't the mayonnaise and jello type.

my gran never met a vegetable she couldn't boil to within an inch of its life

Someone made "Russian" food for me last night. It was two kinds of pickled vegetables out of a can; a slice of cold, incredibly oily fish FULL of bones; and some plain boiled potatoes. If that's what my countrymen ate I'd volunteer for some kind of takeover.

my gran never met a vegetable she couldn't boil to within an inch of its life

― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, August 27, 2014 2:16 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ha, yes. We bought her a steamer one year for Christmas to encourage her to be healthy and she proceeded to steam all of her vegetables within an inch of their lives.

in orbit, i will be in nyc in early september: let's go to veselka and get some pierogies and other eastern european comfort food to wash the taste of oily fish out of your mouth.

I can't eat wheat anymore, which kind of limits my pierogi and blintz consumption, but I'll have kielbasa and mash or something.

it's a deal.

absolutely fascinated by this whole concept:

http://i.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/quickfix/8/6/6/310866_v1.jpg

strung together with toothpicks, spit, and cobwebs.

i don't think i've ever eaten a meal suspended entirely in gelatin; weep for my generation etc

the Jello Council has a lot to answer for

Everything must be entombed in aspic.

What if these things are delicious.

What then.

Aspic revival in Bushwick?

pretty sure they are not delicious

pretty sure cat food is more delicious

is aspic a "eat like we're rationing for war" kinda thing?

Aspic revival in Bushwick?

do or dine guy likes to play around with aspic iirc

xp i suppose it is nowadays but hasn't always been. seem to remember ecstasies of aspic from proust.

don't honestly know where to put this but in the future some kid will be like "my mom made disgusting edible worms with gelatin and straws"
https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/998454_10200358401825394_1998097155_n.jpg?oh=0bfc1deb6841d5304aff58c16acee7c5&oe=566959DE

they ate some pretty gross food (pickled herring, anyone?

are you out of your gourd, pickled herring is ace of aces

xp that's really neat right up until you see the end result, then it's gross.

Gross. Why would anyone want to eat that?

The worms things can also be combined w a "mud pie" for a pretty accurate recreation of the dietary habits of pigs.

I fondly remember "worms and dirt" tbh

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/47/74/c8/4774c86712952b0474575a40538dd685.jpg

I definitely ate something like that at my grandparents' easter meals