Worst Food - Spam

What do you think is a waste of space in the supermarket? :D

Ooooooooooooooooooh, I love fried spam sandwiches! (probably heart attack central, but oh well... )

Worst food - ham salad sold in the deli section. I once heard what is in it and how it is made, so I make my own now.

Hah! Spam, its like even with DogFood!

The Fancy Feast minced beef cat food is pretty tasty.

You've Tried it, I like that adds :)

Well, I did lick a tiny bit off my finger once as I fed the cats...

I must try it!

It beats Spam! Maybe put some on a Ritz cracker?

Hmm Ham on a Ritz Cracker with cheese is great but CaFood

Just don't put grocery store ham salad on a Ritz cracker...

What do they put in it :S?

If you wouldn't be too scared, ask at the deli next time you go grocery shopping. First, kind of make friends with one of the clerks and order some other stuff like sliced meat or cheese, and then whisper over to her, "Will you tell me what goes into the ham salad that makes it so pink?"

Potatoes but I think I'm alone in this one. I also hate mince - bleugh!

Worst Food - Spam

What do you think is a waste of space in the supermarket? :D



OMG... I hope mag doesn't see this... or bad things may happen, LOL.

Now for my answer... hmmmmmmm... wait.. ugh.. no.. hmmmm... I can't think of a food I don't like, heeheehee

Oh wait... asparagus, that's one :)

Canned Rattlesnake has to be up there with Spam. Even if one would like that, why buy it when you go out and catch one (at least around here) for nothing.

LOL! Never tried Spam or Fancy Feast... actually, wondering a little about that one... :)

I lived in China for two years and let me tell you, wow...

Fried Scorpions and Starfish were absolutely, positively disgusting... but... I'm going to have to go with Silk Worm as the worst possible food ever!

(Yes, they are amazingly good for you - iron, etc. - but SO not worth it! ICK!)

LOL! Never tried Spam or Fancy Feast... actually, wondering a little about that one.... :)

I lived in China for two years and let me tell you, wow...

Fried Scorpions and Starfish were absolutely, positively disgusting... but... I'm going to have to go with Silk Worm as the worst possible food ever!

(Yes, they are amazingly good for you - iron, etc. - but SO not worth it!! ICK!)


LMAO, and I thought I have tried some weird stuff!

RAH... Chinese "weird stuff" puts disgusting food on a whole new level!

Haggis is the worst smelling and weird food. I have no idea what it tastes like though because I can never get it in my mouth!

Lol Haggis.. FRIED SCORPION??

Oh yea... fried scorpion...

It was mostly peer pressure that created the necessity to eat that nasty bug, but at least I can say I ate it! The thing felt all tingly going down... RAH...

Yuck.

I have to go wash my mouth out again... blah...

I lived in China for two years and let me tell you, wow...

Fried Scorpions and Starfish were absolutely, positively disgusting... but... I'm going to have to go with Silk Worm as the worst possible food ever!

(Yes, they are amazingly good for you - iron, etc. - but SO not worth it!! ICK!)

HC I have to add to your China experience. I was in Hong Kong a few years ago and was taken out to a restaurant where I was given what is described as a delicacy and was very expensive , it was an Egg which was basically buried and allowed to ROT over a certain amount of years , on the plate it was basically BLACK , I got to tell you I didn't want to be rude so had to eat it , took about half an hour :-) YUCK!!

Hubby and I stopped at a grocery store late one night (I think we wanted ice cream or something) and every BUT us was buying buckets of pickled pig's feet. Yuck!

So my vote goes to pickled pigs feet. Or tripe. Or ostrich.

There are other foods that are horribly disgusting and just shouldn't exist, but they aren't in my local grocery store. Watch Bizzare Foods with Andrew Zimmern for prime examples.

HC I have to add to your China experience. I was in Hong Kong a few years ago and was taken out to a restaurant where I was given what is described as a delicacy and was very expensive , it was an Egg which was basically buried and allowed to ROT over a certain amount of years , on the plate it was basically BLACK , I gotta tell you I didn't want to be rude so had to eat it , took about half an hour :-) YUCK!!!!!

Oh yeah... I've had that. Nasty, disgusting thing, isn't it! Blah.

A rotten Egg!

I shall pour out the wrath of SPAMAGEDDON upon your wicked soul and smite you with evil spirits worse than those in the SPAMITYVILLE horror!

For my meat dollar, it's SPAM! Cold or hot, Spam hits the spot! It's SPAMTASTIC!

Hahahahaha... I knew we would hear from you mags, lol. I will hold my nose.. pass the spam :)

Hahahah, Spam..

Sprouts are the worst thing ever as is spam got o agree on that one

Bleuach Sprouts..

SPAM

Err..

Cottage cheese... soft cheese spread!
Lordy, think I'm going to puke!

Wife was out of the states on biz and was served fried ants. Now, apparently guacamole was served as the condiment, and she hates guac... but in that dish, she thought it was a wonderful accompaniment.

I did not see anybody list one of the worst, chittlings

I have been lied to my whole life. :(. Mom tried to pawn this... this... this... ugh whatever it is as food. Lima something or other... oh just horrible... I dropped it on the floor for the dog... and he threw it back... don't blame him. Horrible and very tramatizing. Mom was the type, you could not leave the table to your plate was clean, yeah uh huh.

I really think she was getting me back for being 10' 1 at birth and all the hours of labor.
Horrid creatures these lima things.

6525

Ha ha funny AH , I used to be the same as a kid with Sprouts , YUCK , so I used to do the same as you and drop them on the floor for the dog , however my Father was too clever for that.
He'd say "Michael , seeing as you ate those sprouts so quick you must really like them , here's a double serve and from now on I will cook some extra's for you" DOH!!

Lentils are terrible, the smell alone makes me want to blow chunks.
Escargo is on the top of my list too, I tried them once, it took half an hour to get one of those slimy buggers down my throat. Never again.
My parents used to eat Pork Hocks. Did they have any idea were those things could have been?
Well, I guess I'll pass on dinner tonight, for some reason I've lost my appetite.

Ugh, the lima beans things just reminded me of brussels sprouts! Ick!

I also despise two foods my brother loves - canned sardines and vienna sausages... blecky blecky blecky!

Well, they sell canned pork brains in milk in the grocery store. I haven't tried it.. I also can't find a recipe to call for it.. Anyone want to test it?

Oh my gosh... pass all the country foods to me!
I am cooking lima's with pork hocks tonight, lolololol! And chitlins... just don't let me smell them cooking and I will tear them up all day, yummmmmm. I guess I am one of the weird ones... I like lentil soup to.

Now, the sprouts, I'll pass on. And, I am not so sure about the brains, ugh... maybe if I didn't know what they are, I would eat them. Same goes for the ants, heehee.

Ahh, very productive post :)

I'd eat ants over lentils any day, especially chocolate covered ants. Nothing tastes bad if you add chocolate.

Potatoes but I think I'm alone in this one. I also hate mince - bleugh!

So you don't like mashed potatoes, baked potatoes, fries, tator tots, hash browns...

All the yummyness!

A few food items that are hated on this thread but loved by me: cottage cheese w/seasoning salt (I could eat it everyday... I love it!), sardines on crackers & mustard, lima beans (w/lots of butter!), asparagus (favorite veggie), mashed potatoes & bean sprouts.

A few nasty food items I can't deal with: brussel sprouts (YUCK), pea & lentil soup (makes me gag), corned beef & cabbage (hate cooked cabbage alone but will eat it raw) and prunes & prune juice (sadly my mother made me drink it).

Has anyone ever tried scrapple before? TASTY STUFF!!

POTATOES!

ARR. How dare you.

There are some foods my wife dislikes only for texture, not taste.

For ex, she doesn't like raw tomatoes, but is fine with a tomato soup or pasta red sauce (shes italian after all)... same with cottage cheese... it isn't the taste, it's the texture that icks her out. She's not a fan of naked yogurt, but if I make a bunch of berries mixed with a little yogurt (needs to be yoplait custard style) its fine.

How about rice cakes? Basically edible cardboard, actually, the edible part is iffy.

How about rice cakes? Basically edible cardboard, actually, the edible part is iffy.


They have these new ones that are chocolate chip flavored cardboard, lol... they really aren't bad. I tried them at my sis-in-laws house... or maybe I was just to tired to notice what I was eating, lmao

Worst Food - Spam

What do you think is a waste of space in the supermarket? :D
Oh crikey that brings back memories of my childhood,lots of us around a table and yes you've guessed... SPAM AND BEANS

Not as bad as the smell of cabbage cooking on a Sunday morning... YUK

Turkey trying to be beef---hot dogs, burgers, bacon, etc...
Microwave bacon tastes like wax paper to me
Veggie burgers
Rice cakes
Spam

I cannot stand supermarkets I do my level best to nip in and out as soon as poss'
The floor stacks are not necessary nor are the secondary promotion bins as the item is already on display on the appropriate shelf and then of course there's all those promotion signs telling you about the stack you've just triped over whilst your reaching for the same item on the shelf.

The staff who quite obviously have lost their voice accept for the occasional grunt now and again when spoken to look at you like you just been beamed down from some long lost planet by captain Scott from the enterprize and to think they are actually paid real money for this, they could definitely go

The staff who quite obviously have lost their voice accept for the occasional grunt now and again when spoken to look at you like you just been beamed down from some long lost planet by captain Scott from the enterprize
I thought I was the only one with that problem. I remember in the 70's you could make small talk with the sales clerks and cashiers. In the 90's I did nothing but run into the 'grunt is too much more than you deserve idiot' look.

Wow. You guys need to shop in my grocery store. Or better yet, my mom's. If I happen to go in with her, someone recognizes her, then freaks out because they recognize me and they remember when I was this big! I've gone in without her before and the cashier said, "Doesn't your mom shop here?". I've even run into one of the cashiers from my store in public and exchanged a smile and wave.

Guess the staff in my area are the exception!

Well... there is one lady I don't like, I call her "perma-frown-angry-lady". But most everyone else smiles, says hello and is very friendly. The ones who aren't don't last long. Except for perma-frown-angry-lady, that is. :)

I vote for pickled pigs feet. I've tasted it and I really don't like it. Caviar is my second vote, too salty. When it comes to pigs, it seems the only thing that they don't sell is the squeel.

I was at a restaurant that had pickled pigs ear on the menu. That's probably might be a third vote.

I was going to try octopus at a restaurant, but I didn't quite know what or how to eat it. Anybody have any ideas?

Alligator soup is really, really tasty.

I vote for pickled pigs feet.

:D I didn't include cause I was trying to forget! :D NEVER tasted BUT just the memory of my grandfather eating them UGH!

I was watching "How it's Made" on the Discovery channel last night, and they showed a fish farmer squeezing the eggs out of a fish. He was using them to fertilize, but it made me wonder if the same (or a similar) process is used for caviar. It was really creepy - the guy just squeezed the hell out of this fish and eggs literally SHOT out! Anyone remember the cartoon "Ren and Stimpy"? There was a episode where they squeezed caviar out of a fish - eerily similar...

I've never had caviar, but after seeing that, I don't want any!

Dried oranges. Eeew.
Squeeze cheese stuff is pretty gross too.

Fr_chuck, what are chittlings? I've never eard of them before.

I work in a grocery store. I used to try and make conversation with customers but after having the majority either completely ignore my attempts or give me dirty looks and reply in pissed off tones I gave up. I figure if customers want me to say more than "hi, how are you? did you find everything ok?" they'll say something themselves. I'm always happy to carry on a conversation. But I have noticed that sometimes when I shop in other stores and try to strike up a conversation I don't get much more than a grunt either. Ha

I describe the yuk foods because of taste. The most tasteless food is tofu. It ranks up their with cardboard. Dog bisquits are tastier.

I was in a restaurant once with some co-workers and they had a dare going for what is the grossest thing that the darers would eat. Well, ketchup and cigarette ashes won. Yep, someone ate them.

I was going to try octopus at a restauraunt, but I didn't quite know what or how to eat it. Anybody have any ideas?

Do you mean how to eat what they have already made?

If they are well cooked,they go well with most rice dishes or maybe with a salad.
If not well cooked they can be a bit rubbery.

If you are planning to make an octopus dish at home I have a simple recipe:)

They were already made at an international restaurant. Are you supposed to eat the entire thing?

KISS,
Was the octopus whole?Was it alive?

I have never eaten octopus cooked with skin or eaten it live.

I always remove the skin,and the stomach and the hard part of the head.
Cut into pieces, the tentacles and the fleshy head part too and eat them cooked.

Garden Cookies!! OMG they SMELL Horrible and they taste even worse. I've even got a story about it

There's this kid in my 7th grade named James who brought in a package for our biology class and was like try them... I put it in and I was like AH!! #$Q@%#$&%^( it was literally that bad.. It stayed in my mouth that whole day and I had WRESTLing practice.. CAn u imagine the torture I went through?! Every time I Burped (I burp while running) I got that taste again.. Even Mouthwash didn't help... It eventaully went away but to this day Whenever I get sick I compare that to eating a garden cookie... never again

What is a garden cookie?? I've never even heard of them. Sounds weird though

I hate cake. It's dry, so are cookies. I don't want cake, cookies or wafers in my ice cream or chocolate bar either, YUK.

what is a garden cookie???? i've never even heard of them. sounds wierd tho

It's a cookie that's like infused with like vegatables and garlic and *shudders* digusting

I hate cake. It's dry, so are cookies. I don't want cake, cookies or wafers in my ice cream or chocolate bar either, YUK.

You need to try applesause cake... it's so moist it falls apart!

Cooks.com - Recipes - Applesauce Cake (http://www.cooks.com/rec/search/0,1-0,applesauce_cake,FF.html)

My great aunt used to make applesauce cake with applesauce frosting. You could leave that frosting in front of a roaring fire and it wouldn't dry out!

firmbeliever:

The Octopus was cooked and whole. As I said, I didn't have the foggiest idea how to eat it.

We have some garden grapes, If you bite them, they are SOUR. If you swallow them without the skins they are sweet.

No question, head cheese is a waste of space on the grocery shelf.

http://www.barbarakrakowgallery.com/stuff/contentmgr/files/9c5629614aa3292553d41ea6d70e9ff3/img_one/paine_headcheeses.jpg

Chitterlings (or chitlins where I am from) are some of the nastiest looking things on the planet.

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i72/emland/images.jpg

They can keep scrapple, pig's feet and anything made of tofu, too.

Thanks for the recipe site. I copied Applesauce Cake. I'm going to try it.

Simone

Oh, what an awful odor and taste memory! When I worked at this place, they prepared everything you can imagine. The meat slicer cut up every "loaf" there was. Head Cheese, Mortadella, Prochuito (not a loaf)... I tasted everything. Raw fish is good, fish eggs, eehw.

I personally think rissolles are absolutely disgusting. I like my vegetables on a separate part of the plate to my meat, not mixed in!
Though I guess I am just strange

Notrly?