Worst food product ever?

competitionscafe

This is quite an amusing blog - an American living in the UK and trying 'unfamiliar' foods: like "meat pie in a can" (tinned pie)
http://www.girlalive.com/food/032.html

And best of all - Marmite http://www.girlalive.com/food/028.html
Quite like it myself, but on toast not crackers.

On another blog, the 'Scotch Ostrich Egg' is quite amusing:
http://www.blogjam.com/2005/05/15/scotch-ostrich-egg/

(From the same guy who ate his way through the animal alphabet form A to Z): [From Ants to Zebra!]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/fraserlewry

elainey_2

PeachPickle wrote: »

If you want to be *really* repulsed, have a look at this....

http://thisiswhyyourefat.com/

LMAO!!! That is just gross!!!

Can I suggest frozen creamed spinach? Possibly the most disgusting foodstuff ever...:eek:

Love Elaine xxxx

DaisyNelson

Has no one mentioned that famous Scottish delicacy - the deep-fried Mars bar?

jackieb

Boiled fish rans (roes). My mum and dad used to love these. They used to boil them in a muslin, and put them in the fridge when it was cool. I used to hate the smell and the look of it. It was white and crumbly and reminded me of brains or white dog poop.

They also love hairy willy, which is dried herring (I think), mashed with potatoes. I couldn't eat it because of what it was called.

No, no, no, NO! I just looked up white (soft) roe, which is what my family (not me!) loved.

Milt is the seminal fluid of fish, mollusks, and certain other water-dwelling animals who reproduce by spraying this fluid, which contains the sperm, onto roe (fish eggs).

[edit] Milt as food

Milt or soft roe also refers to the male genitalia of fish when they contain sperm, used as food.

That HAS got to be the worst!

redmandarin

abaxas wrote: »

Asda sells:-

"Mozzarella style - cheese alternative"

What the hell is that!

I wonder if it might be cheese analogue?

"Cheese analogues are usually defined as products made by blending individual constituents, including non-dairy fats or proteins, to produce a cheese-like product to meet specific requirements. They are being used increasingly due to their cost-effectiveness, attributable to the simplicity of their manufacture and the replacement of selected milk ingredients by cheaper vegetable products. Sales of cheese analogues are closely linked to developments in the convenience food sector, where they extend the supply and lower the cost."
Extract taken from: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?

I once (unwittingly) bought a very cheap unboxed pizza from a freezer shop that had cheese analogue on it - it tasted like grated yellow, unmelted, plastic!

redmandarin

The foods that you are all mentioning are great! keep 'em coming!

I remember Vesta meals and canned burgers in gravy. Vesta was really exciting for kids, as the meals seemed very exotic! Especially the one with crispy noodles that you fried yourself! I think it was Chicken chow mien, but the meals were horrible! They tasted like packet soup made with a fraction of the water - salty and synthetic! And they still sell them!

My ex mother-in-law used to "cook" canned burgers. She'd put a large dollop of cold lard into a cold frying pan and then immediately tip in a can of burgers in gravy, then heat it up! Non of her family would eat any of her meals, they were so awful!

jackieb

redmandarin wrote: »

My ex mother-in-law used to "cook" canned burgers. She'd put a large dollop of cold lard into a cold frying pan and then immediately tip in a can of burgers in gravy, then heat it up! Non of her family would eat any of her meals, they were so awful!

We were at my MIL's for supper one night and she said we were having a salad. When it came, it was chopped pork, a whole tomato, a whole boiled egg, one lettuce leaf (whole), Heinz tinned vegetable salad, salad cream and chips.

flissh

jackieb we used to have that kind of salad when we were kids. No mixed stuff then, I thought that was how it was. And chips with everything.
After living in Shanghai for the last two years I wonder if I will ever see anything more amazing than the stuff we see for sale on the streets here. Big tubs of live bullfrogs and turtles waiting to be bought and taken home for dinner, yummy...
Just yesterday O/H and I took a stroll around a nearby bird and plant market and marvelled at an old guy happily sucking away on a tiny (?boiled) bird's head. He was literally suck suck sucking at the bottom.
We tend to steer clear of what our western taste buds think of as a bit too extreme but O/H goes to lunch often with Chinese colleagues and will send me a sneaky text describing the 'lovely chicken tendons' or the 'tasty pig snout'.:eek:

clutterydrawer

HariboJunkie wrote: »

I used to work with someone who loved these pies.

You remove the lid of the tin with a tin opener and bake the pie in the oven. The puff pastry lid rises just like an ordinary pie.

Link.

ahhh i see...I was imagining tipping them straight from the tin onto your plate in the manner of tinned peaches

still odd though

lynzpower

flissh wrote: »

jackieb we used to have that kind of salad when we were kids. No mixed stuff then, I thought that was how it was. And chips with everything.
After living in Shanghai for the last two years I wonder if I will ever see anything more amazing than the stuff we see for sale on the streets here. Big tubs of live bullfrogs and turtles waiting to be bought and taken home for dinner, yummy...
Just yesterday O/H and I took a stroll around a nearby bird and plant market and marvelled at an old guy happily sucking away on a tiny (?boiled) bird's head. He was literally suck suck sucking at the bottom.
We tend to steer clear of what our western taste buds think of as a bit too extreme but O/H goes to lunch often with Chinese colleagues and will send me a sneaky text describing the 'lovely chicken tendons' or the 'tasty pig snout'.:eek:

I went to a chinese resturant once with a freind and a chinese girl from her work. SHe ordered in chinese and a load of chicken heads with the beaks on were placed in front of us. I claimed to be vegetarian


I have a freind who is married to the most beautiful and truly lovely chinese lady and they live here. I have turned my nose up at all sorts of meats - ( there is nothing in the planyt kingdonm I wouldnt eat if starving). Freind tells me you cant shock a Chinese person about food, they literally will eat everything from an animal- beaks, teeth you name it. A whole country full of Old styling IIRC he siad it was driven by poverty and make do & mend as a cultural thing.

A mate told me he was on a bus through China and no other tourists onboard. thery stopped at this mountain outpost, and it was a low table where everyone sat and they all were served the same meal. A steamer full of rice to share, and a huge terracotta pot. The lid was brought off the pot and a vile stench filled the room whereas all the chinese people were practically dribbling. He as the tourist was offered it first and through the filmy stock he saw it was a whole cows head with the eyelashes still on :eek: