More contributions to the god-awful food question.
From Jeremy: weird food? what about gefilte fish? fish innards ground into a paste and then pickled in a gummy fishy gell. it was at every brunch at my grandmother's house until she died. no one under 40 ever touched the stuff.
Um, ew. That sounds truly foul. I'll pass on trying that, thank you.
And from Angie: What about Haggis as a gross thing. Isn't that like sheep intestines or something? British?
Ah, yes, haggis. It's Scottish, and I've actually had it. That, I think, falls under the "horrible if you think about it" rubric, but it doesn't really taste that bad. My one mistake was that I didn't realize the outside -- you know, the sheeps stomach bit -- was just for cooking, you don't actually eat it. Because let me tell you, you could chew for a long, long time before sheep's stomach is digestible. As for the stuff you're supposed to eat -- it's kind of like stuffing, but -- oh dear, I just looked at a recipe -- with nasty bits of liver and suet and such. Hmmm. It didn't seem bad at the time....
Angie continues:Ok -- from an American perspective, maybe any processed cheese product like Velvetta or Easy Cheez or whatever it's called. and how about the weird colors they make food for kids. I just saw a coupon for electric blue and shocking pink squeezable butter. uck.
These fall under "Foods that do not occur in nature, and would not occur if the world was not a twisted place and humanity was not a horrible species." "Cheese product" -- especially aerosol cheese product -- is pretty much a product of Satan. I mean, come on -- cheese is such a good thing, why would you bastardize it and put it in a shaving cream can? That's just wrong.
As for the electric blue/shocking pink squeezable butter (fourth item down), the bright-green ketchup, the individually wrapped slices -- yes, slices of peanut butter -- what are we thinking? Who needs this stuff? Who wants this stuff? Who really thinks that this is a good idea?
Of course, it occurs to me that I really have no authority to complain about unnatural foods, as I lived through college on a steady diet of bagels, Cap'n Crunch and Diet Pepsi. (But even I think sliced peanut butter is a tragic sign of the decline and fall of western civilization.)
From Jeremy: weird food? what about gefilte fish? fish innards ground into a paste and then pickled in a gummy fishy gell. it was at every brunch at my grandmother's house until she died. no one under 40 ever touched the stuff.
Um, ew. That sounds truly foul. I'll pass on trying that, thank you.
And from Angie: What about Haggis as a gross thing. Isn't that like sheep intestines or something? British?
Ah, yes, haggis. It's Scottish, and I've actually had it. That, I think, falls under the "horrible if you think about it" rubric, but it doesn't really taste that bad. My one mistake was that I didn't realize the outside -- you know, the sheeps stomach bit -- was just for cooking, you don't actually eat it. Because let me tell you, you could chew for a long, long time before sheep's stomach is digestible. As for the stuff you're supposed to eat -- it's kind of like stuffing, but -- oh dear, I just looked at a recipe -- with nasty bits of liver and suet and such. Hmmm. It didn't seem bad at the time....
Angie continues:Ok -- from an American perspective, maybe any processed cheese product like Velvetta or Easy Cheez or whatever it's called. and how about the weird colors they make food for kids. I just saw a coupon for electric blue and shocking pink squeezable butter. uck.
These fall under "Foods that do not occur in nature, and would not occur if the world was not a twisted place and humanity was not a horrible species." "Cheese product" -- especially aerosol cheese product -- is pretty much a product of Satan. I mean, come on -- cheese is such a good thing, why would you bastardize it and put it in a shaving cream can? That's just wrong.
As for the electric blue/shocking pink squeezable butter (fourth item down), the bright-green ketchup, the individually wrapped slices -- yes, slices of peanut butter -- what are we thinking? Who needs this stuff? Who wants this stuff? Who really thinks that this is a good idea?
Of course, it occurs to me that I really have no authority to complain about unnatural foods, as I lived through college on a steady diet of bagels, Cap'n Crunch and Diet Pepsi. (But even I think sliced peanut butter is a tragic sign of the decline and fall of western civilization.)
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