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Hirayuki
Mar 28, 2010


Sakurazuka posted:

I honestly thought his last name was 'Greasepan' for a second
Alan Greasepan?

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Hirayuki
Mar 28, 2010


I was given a bag of chocolate-covered shrimp chips (the same brand) and cannot for the life of me bring myself to try them.

Hirayuki
Mar 28, 2010


ACES CURE PLANES posted:



...Are those beets?
:australia:

Also New Zealand, but they don't have a smiley anymore.

Hirayuki
Mar 28, 2010


The Snoo posted:

Veganism is a 'great' way to disguise an eating disorder!! Makes it seem less weird when you refuse food. :smith:
Orthorexia. :smith:

Here, have a peanut-butter-bacon-pickle burger. Nothing ortho- about it!

Hirayuki
Mar 28, 2010


bringmyfishback posted:

I have never eaten koshari without puking. Ever. Even my mother's, even in Egypt, even when I made it myself once. Horrible stuff. It's not even that it tastes bad, it's just that it rockets out of my body through my nose and mouth at the speed of light without any reason or warning.
It sounds so good, though! :(

I like foul medames, which has a horrible name (pronounced fool, which is not much better) and can look horrible, but tastes really good:



Here it is with scrambled eggs mixed in, in a supposedly Biblical preparation:

Hirayuki
Mar 28, 2010


Skinny King Pimp posted:

You can also reconstitute it into peanut butter and have control over how much fat you add back, which is why it's a big diet thing.
And why that poor skeleton just mixes it with water to "eat" with her "donuts". :smithicide:

Hirayuki
Mar 28, 2010


I think I found it: Marinated pig uteri. (Slide 10, if the link doesn't take you right there.)

Though it does look like a plate of dried-ish persimmons to me, so maybe this Miguel fellow was taking the piss.

Hirayuki
Mar 28, 2010


What's this? I'm...salivating, in the anti-food porn thread? And it's the good kind, not the kind that comes before barfing?

Hirayuki
Mar 28, 2010


SpaceGoatFarts posted:

It was a small restaurant in France. Duck and foie gras burgers are becoming increasingly popular there up to the point a fast food chain offered one once.
The chain I think of as Spain's answer to Subway, but with way better bread (and, well, everything else) has a sandwich of roast beef and foie gras with caramelized onions and arugula. I'll be there in ten days, and I cannot wait.

Hirayuki
Mar 28, 2010


Brawnfire posted:

Oh, well in that case gimme the loving thing, because that's amazing.
Turns out it's just ginger ice cream put through a modified spout to look like udon, concocted by an ice-cream place in Kagawa Prefecture, famous for Sanuki udon.

Here's a trip report (in Japanese). Apparently the saltiness of the soy sauce goes well with the sweetness of the ice cream.

Do we have a buzz-kill smiley yet? :smith:

Hirayuki
Mar 28, 2010


It's ice cream. (Again.)



This might be more what you're looking for:



http://www.wowjpn.com/1439

Hirayuki
Mar 28, 2010


cash crab posted:

pounded yam

:getin:

Hirayuki
Mar 28, 2010


Samizdata posted:

That hospital food reminds me of one of the worst meals I ever had. Which was hospital food. Dry as gently caress turkey loaf slices with a scoop of "stuff" (and I do mean scoop, like ice cream scoop) which was nothing more than basically damp bread crumbs. All this without the smallest hint of seasoning. I mean, seriously, I'm already in the hospital. You want me in the suicide ward now?
Aw, but look how they lovingly molded the corn-type product and essence-of-fish paste into "appetizing" simulacrula! :allears:

Hirayuki
Mar 28, 2010


Puntification posted:

Same it looks really nice and I like all the things involved but calling it bread makes me quite irrationally angry.
If you look closely at the first graphic, they did at least put scare quotes around "bread". Could have used a few more sets.

Hirayuki
Mar 28, 2010


deadly_pudding posted:

Are there poutine rules?
No rules.

Hirayuki
Mar 28, 2010


The Snoo posted:

But 'my favourite spaghetti sauce is ketchup' sounds like a 5-year-old-child kind of thing :v:
The local (major metro area) newspaper just got a new food editor who made the unfortunate decision to begin his introductory article with a story about eating "ketchup noodles"--shells tossed with Heinz ketchup--with his two-year-old niece. He explained that for a big chunk of his life, that was "spaghetti". At least he has an excuse: he grew up in Soviet-occupied Lithuania (:myballs:) and didn't know any better until a neighbor had him over for actual spaghetti Bolognese. Luckily it sounds like he's on the right food track now.

Hirayuki
Mar 28, 2010


bringmyfishback posted:

THANK YOU I was about to get really mad. Love budae jigae, except when they add ramyeon (I do not like [cooked] packaged ramen noodles). xtra Spam and add some tomatoes, trust me.
A pinch of baking soda in the boiling water for ramen noodles improves them considerably; it acts a bit like the kansui mineral water in the fresh stuff. Just toss that water and use new if you intend to eat them in soup.

Hirayuki
Mar 28, 2010



The "tarte flambée" looks like the tarte d'Alsace you can get at Trader Joe's, which is fantastic. Yet even that isn't immune to the AFP treatment:

Hirayuki
Mar 28, 2010


Wait: is the Cheez Whiz ad the real one, and the Potato Fudge a modern 'shop? Or did all of these products exist and the Kraft people just recolor all the "serving suggestions"? :tinfoil:

Hirayuki
Mar 28, 2010


You say that, but we also hope that nobody ever put together whatever gross mismatching ingredients are in those horrific '60s "salads," and we know those exist(ed).

Potato fudge does exist, but as fudge that also has potatoes in it, not as a condiment for potatoes. Although...

Hirayuki
Mar 28, 2010


Tiberius Thyben posted:

Actually, the point of Americans is to avoid overwhelming the sensitive tastebuds of Americans with real coffee.
My dad, a serious-black-drip-coffee guy all his life, ordered an Americano once on our recent trip to Spain. Once. He got one for me, too; it tasted downright homeopathic. I enjoy iced Americanos at Starbucks in the States, so maybe this was just a funky blip.

He switched to the café con leche that was basically the local standard coffee drink, and those were far stronger and more flavorful than that nasty-rear end Americano.

BTW, I didn't see any AFP while I was there, but I did enjoy that the KFCs in Spain advertise (special-edition) Double Downs with posters reading "Bread is for cowards." :allears:

Hirayuki
Mar 28, 2010


KiteAuraan posted:

First one is South Korea and two of them are clearly from Japan so it's a global issue.
I think the second one from Japan might be hospital food. :(

Hirayuki
Mar 28, 2010


Lunchtime! I picked up this frozen Chili's At Home meal today:



It looked pretty good, and other things I've tried in that line have been tasty enough.

The AFP reality:



:(

There were three pieces of chicken in there. At least it didn't taste horrible.

Hirayuki
Mar 28, 2010


Iron Crowned posted:

The Sweet Bourbon Pork and Rice one is the only one actually worth eating.
I did look at that one, but I think it had more calories than I wanted to spend on lunch. I'll pick it up next time. The Nacho Potatoes and the Island Chicken & Rice were all right, as I recall.

Hirayuki
Mar 28, 2010


FFT posted:

i made this the other night


In the toilet after eating dinner, yes?

Hirayuki
Mar 28, 2010


I call crayons.

Hirayuki
Mar 28, 2010


I think an earlier iteration of this thread--possibly in the archives, which I can't seem to search--brought up Dry brand soda, in such flavors as cucumber, lavender, Fuji apple, ginger, and rhubarb. I'm a big fan of cucumber (and a few other flavors here, tbh) and also gin, so when I spotted these sodas for the first time yesterday at Target, I bought a four-pack of cucumber.

It isn't very good. :( It has a soapy undertaste, or maybe it's the hard edge of the soda itself coming through. It gins all right, I guess, but doesn't improve on a regular G&T. My family seems to like it straight, so that's something; I won't buy it again. Phooey.

Hirayuki
Mar 28, 2010


PCOS Bill posted:

Get yourself to Primanti Brothers.



Yeah, it's overrated and you can get way better sandwiches for the price, but you have to do it at least once or twice.
They're opening a couple of those out by me. I can't wait.

Hirayuki
Mar 28, 2010


aequorea posted:

Reading this thread, I think about food. Obviously. And then I look over at RareAcumen's avatar, and my food-tracked brain tells me she's got delicata squash on her chest.



Every goddam time.

Either that or pepino melons.



"Melons". :heysexy:

Hirayuki
Mar 28, 2010


cash crab posted:

I am going to make up another one, and you guys can tell me what you want/do not want on it. Here's a beta:


I'm still fond of "Self-aware," for all those frowning pizzas or gross cakes that are trying to get as far away from themselves as possible.

Hirayuki
Mar 28, 2010


Eldercain posted:

It's a fundraiser for a local elementary school.
They're raising funds to buy punctuation.

Hirayuki
Mar 28, 2010


cash crab posted:

Also, I think I will have some new content later as Campbell's came out with a cottage pie in a can and it looks like moldy sewage, but it is delicious. I didn't think to take a picture last night.
Holy poo poo, all of those "pub-inspired" varieties are things of beauty. :stare:



BRB, going to Canada

Hirayuki
Mar 28, 2010


13Pandora13 posted:

I'm just going to assume this is some Japanese thing but what the gently caress, a fruit sandwich?
Yes and yes. :( With whipped cream.

Hirayuki
Mar 28, 2010


Sakurazuka posted:

Guess there's worse yeasty places you could make beer from
You don't say.

Hirayuki
Mar 28, 2010


deadly_pudding posted:

I go grocery shopping on Saturdays at the flagship Wegmans in Pittsford.

:arghfist::(

I was in Rochester for a concert five years ago and stopped in at that Wegmans. It was so magical I went back the next day with the rest of my family. We're still talking about it, occasionally musing about adjusting travel plans to include a stop in Pittsford and/or just staying there for a weekend to soak up all that Wegmans goodness.

Hirayuki
Mar 28, 2010


Munchables posted:

I like my eggs basted with a runny yolk so I can eat the whole yolk in one bite and have the delicious goop explode in my mouth a la gushers.

Hirayuki
Mar 28, 2010


RNG posted:

Chili nut won! I know because I saw entire display boxes on deep discount at Wal-Mart and as much of a cheapskate as I am, wouldn't.
Strangely enough, Chili Nut was the only flavor that wasn't sold out in every store I went to looking for the other two flavors. :mad:

(I liked Chili Nut, though. I'm glad they'll be sticking around.)

Hirayuki
Mar 28, 2010


bringmyfishback posted:

Tomatoes are my favorite food on earth! But i hate stewed tomatoes. I used to deliberately barf them back up onto my plate in front of everyone at dinner so that my mom would stop making them; it worked.
Get over to the lifehack thread with that!

Tomatoes are my mom's favorite food, too, but she's always hated stewed tomatoes because she hates green pepper. Her mother would tell her, "Oh, you can't taste them--they're just in there for flavor." :downs:

My mom is in her early sixties and detests green pepper to this day.

Hirayuki
Mar 28, 2010


genetic_knockout posted:

Thanks for this post. I came across a recipe for this the other day and was intrigued, but ultimately decided that the ingredient combo was too weird to possibly be good. Now it's happening.
My mom made the off-the-cob version (esquites) for a summer holiday meal a year or so back and I've suggested it for every occasion since (even when that occasion is "Tuesday"). Easter's coming up? Ham--that's a given--and esquites. That's all we need, Mom, I swear. Maybe some wine.

Now I'm in charge of cooking it when I come over, which is dangerous. I spend a lot of time "taste-testing" it, and the serving bowl usually ends up noticeably underfilled. We're growing cilantro this year specifically for esquites.

Ugh, I really want some esquites now. :mad:

edit: This is the recipe.

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Hirayuki
Mar 28, 2010


Schubalts posted:

It's basically liquid garlic. It is incredibly common to get with takeout pizza in the US, to the point that a little cup of it is almost always tossed in the box for free, without needing to ask for it.
Note that this is highly regional within the U.S.

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