Bad Food

[Harold Jones]

I'm moderately ashamed to admit to liking Spam, I especially enjoy it cubed and fried with peppers onions and scrambled eggs for breakfast. I also like canned Hormel chili over minute rice, not sure why except that it is one of the things we ate darn near every week while I was growing up. I also developed a taste for black pudding while on vacation in Scotland a few years back, that one really surprised me cause I'm not generally a fan of organs and innards as food. So what are your secret food pleasures?

[Hittite Under The Bridge]

Squirrel

 

Vienna Sausages

 

Cornbread and buttermilk mixed in a glass.

[Corinthian]

Spam bad? What's bad about Spam?

 

Srsly, we have Spam almost every week for breakfast. I prefer eating it when it has cooled down considerably - almost cold - after cooking. BTW, why is it that the less salt version of Spam tastes too salty?

 

Best Spam I had was when I grilled it over dried burning grass for breakfast at a campsite after having a lousy supper the night before. Then again, when you're hungry, everything tastes delicious.

 

I reckon all the bad food for my health (i.e. fatty foods and the like) I like lots hehe

 

It may be bad food to most of you, but I looooooooove balut. Then again, I'm a Filipino.

[ShotMagnet]

Deviled ham, and rye crackers.

 

 

Shot

[bojan]

I actually like spinach and eggplant.

[Timo]

(Since I just finished eating 'em)

 

Fish fingers - the most questionable seafood industry product of all time. Fried in butter, served with fries and remoulade sauce. Oh my.

[Corinthian]

eggplant.

 

Mmmm... Grilled eggplant, accompanied with menudo and rice.

 

I also like brocoli.

 

Fish fingers - the most questionable seafood industry product of all time.

 

You haven't tried fish balls here, preferably the ones sold by the vendor in his pushcart along a busy road, especially during rainy season with the rain water (mixed with all the garbage on the streets) flow down the sewer. Fish balls are probably 1% fish, 5% filler, and 94% surprise-surprise hehehe The risk of getting typhoid when eating it from the usual fish ball vendor increases exponentially with every bite.

 

Damn good food that is, especially with sweet-and-spicy sauce. Mmmmm...! Cousins are: squid balls and chicken balls.

 

 

Oh! Another Filipino delicacy - mangga't bagoong. Imagine: a cheek of green mango with a barbecue stick running through it. And somewhat spicy and really smelly fish paste (the bagoong) smeared on top of it. Mmmmm....

 

Then there's dirty ice cream.... Street food is da best!

Edited September 11, 2009 by TomasCTT

[Corinthian]

the most questionable seafood industry product of all time

 

Because it's Fish Time

[Timo]

You haven't tried fish balls here, preferably the ones sold by the vendor in his pushcart along a busy road, especially during rainy season with the rain water (mixed with all the garbage on the streets) flow down the sewer. Fish balls are probably 1% fish, 5% filler, and 94% surprise-surprise hehehe The risk of getting typhoid when eating it from the usual fish ball vendor increases exponentially with every bite.

Okay, so there are questionable things and then there are south-east asian questionable things. You win!

[Typhoid Maxx]

Anything with too much garlic or onion...though practically impossible in my book.

 

No such thing as too much pepper, jalapenos or fat. Salt on the other hand...

 

Sauerkraut - I know 5 different recipes. Your average Serb does*. We do it better than the Germans**

 

Currywurst with a side of sauerkraut and spezi is among my top 3 foods combos of all time. I'll pick Lufthansa or Swiss Air and stopover in Berlin (instead of elsewhere) just because of currywurst.

 

Spam is Dwarf bread to a Serb.

 

Insides of everything.

 

Black pudding.

 

Vodka/gin/peppermint schnapps and Blood with Tabasco sauce.

 

Burek and whiskey (Serbian-Irish breakfast),

 

Lard.

 

Chaos salad. The only thing to go with a Serbian burger.

 

* FUCK oh shit just remembered its been more than 6 months and I still haven't given Venerable Dame that Podvarak recipe I promised.

 

**Insert own sausage joke.

[shep854]

I practically grew up on cornbread (real, buttery Southern cornbread, not that sweet Yankee stuff) and sweet. Cornbread and buttermilk is disgusting.

 

Deviled ham & crackers and fish sticks were also staples, until I understood the concept of "digging my grave with my teeth" (Nod to Patrick O'Brian).

 

I used to be into mayo sandwiches big time.

Edited September 12, 2009 by shep854

[ShotMagnet]

Okay, so there are questionable things and then there are south-east asian questionable things. You win!

Tomas is holding back, he hasn't mentioned baloot.

 

Did I spell that right?

 

 

Some other 'delicacies' to come from Asia:

 

Yakimandu, fried right there in front of you, in a vat of lipids that probably hasn't been changed since the Crusades. Served up in a paper container that's been re-maunfactured from discarded paperwork sourced fromt the base you happen to be stationed at. So good and so horribly-bad for you;

A 'Miss Kim's' burger. Two meat, two cheese, one egg. I probably died twice eating them, and was so blissed out that I never noticed.

 

Both are highly recommended if you're gassed out of your Miguk skull on soju.

 

Speaking of which, wound up in a soju tent more than once, and had snake. Really tasty, though I imagine that my right big toe would have found approval at that point.

 

If we're to expand the discussion to include stuff I've seen people eat that I would never put tongue or teeth to, let's talk about the raw, just-killed octopus that I saw someone chow down on. Octopi (and maybe cephalopods in general) do not simply lay down and lie still when they are killed, if you get my drift.

 

 

Shot

[TheSilentType]

I love cheap, greasy take out Chinese food. I'm generally not a fan of fast food that consists primarily of grease, sodium and grade C meat, but sometimes I just have to have some General Tso's chicken.

[Typhoid Maxx]

Not personally - Horse penis sashimi, as eaten by an old friend visiting Japan to train Jujitsu.

 

And again - NOT eat by me.

[Corinthian]

Tomas is holding back, he hasn't mentioned baloot.

 

I have, post number 3.

 

One thing I cannot get myself to eat are chicken entrails and chicken feet. My dad and two of my sisters love isaw (chicken intestines marinated, skewered, and bbq'd); dad loves chicken feet (served in chinese restaurants).

[Corinthian]

If we're to expand the discussion to include stuff I've seen people eat that I would never put tongue or teeth to, let's talk about the raw, just-killed octopus that I saw someone chow down on. Octopi (and maybe cephalopods in general) do not simply lay down and lie still when they are killed, if you get my drift.

Shot

 

One show on Discovery Travel & Living, Bizarre Foods I think by Andrew Zimmerman (?), once featured octopus. "Raw" and "just-killed" are not accurate. "Live" is accurate. They ate a living octopus, and apparently some people die trying to eat it since the octopus can bite back in your throat as well as choke you if you don't chew it well.

 

The most disgusting thing I saw on that show was this high-class Japanese restaurant where they got a live lobster fresh from the aquarium, chef opens up the shell, and they eat the body with chopsticks while the lobster is still alive. Sh1t. I'm not an animal rights activist, but that is just disgusting. Eating sashimi or even balut is tame by comparison.

[ShotMagnet]

'Raw' and/or 'just-killed' in this case refers to how it was brought to the table. It was a mass of still-squirming, chopped-up tentacles that appeared to fight back (I have pictures). I had a beer. Sorry, that's wrong. I had several.

 

 

Shot

[Typhoid Maxx]

Whats corbormite?

[ShotMagnet]

Derailing thread in 3...2...1...

 

'...Corbomite...is a material and a device which prevents attack on us. If any destructive energy touches our vessel, a reverse reaction of equal strength is created, destroying...the attacker...'

 

From an episode of Star Trek, where Captain Kirk attempts to bluff an alien who has threatened to destroy Enterprise.

 

 

 

Shot

[Corinthian]

I admit to sometimes enjoy eating McDonalds food. Specifically their cheeseburger and sausage mcmuffin sandwich.

 

You may now burn me at the steak - er - stake.

[Typhoid Maxx]

I admit to sometimes enjoy eating McDonalds food. Specifically their cheeseburger and sausage mcmuffin sandwich.

 

You may now burn me at the steak - er - stake.

 

And you were doing SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO well...

 

I make my own homemade McMuffin, and am pretty dab hand at a burger. I'll post recipes that will get you from Mcmuffin to homemade Big Mac if you promise to repent your sins against good taste.

[SALADIN]

I like crab cooked in chilli and fish head in curry.High cholestrol stuff both.

 

Curry Fish head pictures for those who have never heard of it before.

 

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3473/325456..._d1ecaac3a5.jpg

Edited September 14, 2009 by SALADIN

[shep854]

I admit to sometimes enjoy eating McDonalds food. Specifically their cheeseburger and sausage mcmuffin sandwich.

 

You may now burn me at the steak - er - stake.

 

 

McD's (or any fast food for that matter) is fine on an occasional basis. It's the idiots who make it a staple that cause (and are) problems.

[Mike Steele]

Derailing thread in 3...2...1...

 

'...Corbomite...is a material and a device which prevents attack on us. If any destructive energy touches our vessel, a reverse reaction of equal strength is created, destroying...the attacker...'

 

From an episode of Star Trek, where Captain Kirk attempts to bluff an alien who has threatened to destroy Enterprise.

 

 

 

Shot

Which Maxx would know if he was up to date on his geek-o-meter

Edited September 14, 2009 by Mike Steele

[Typhoid Maxx]

McD's (or any fast food for that matter) is fine on an occasional basis. It's the idiots who make it a staple that cause (and are) problems.

 

I just think the food is shit, period. Leaving aside the nutritional aspect (and Mickey D's is needlessly atrocious) there are good ways to make a burger...and then theirs the really really really bad way as practiced by McD's. Its an insult to your palate.

 

 

TomasCTT - Look up Eggs Benedict, and I'll drag out my own recipe for a homemade McBreakfast.