Food You're Not Really Sure Anyone Even Buys

[Drip Torch]

Im the guy who buys the weird shit no one else buys.

 

[Greggs]

Im the guy who buys the weird shit no one else buys.

Thank you for your service.

 

[Higgs Bonbon]

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Pickled eggs. They taste awful And have the worst texture. I got over my picky eating over a decade ago but this is the one food I cannot stand besides seafood.

I picked up some pickled eggs a while ago, and while convenient and filling they're so incredibly, intensely vinegary I begin having a GERD attack almost immediately after eating them.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Im the guy who buys the weird shit no one else buys.

You are keeping the pickled pig foot industry alive. Godspeed, you lunatic.

 

[Drip Torch]

You are keeping the pickled pig foot industry alive. Godspeed, you lunatic.

The sight of a big jar of red liquid and barely recognizable meat makes me happy every time. I fully believe the red food color is to make it look less horrifying. Along with pickled eggs and sausages, its great in the field food. It has electrolytes!
A local Asian market has balut for sale at $2 a piece. For 2 bucks I can try it, spew it back out, still have a food adventure and just be out some pocket change. Should I do it?

 

[Coffee Druid]

I’m curious who the fuck still goes to fast food places with how stupidly expensive they’ve gotten for the quality of food you get?

Mom was really craving a Whopper the other day so I drove her out to BK to grab lunch. Two medium size Whopper combo meals was $31. Both of us were gobsmacked, told them to fuck off with that shit and just took her to a local mom and pop burger place where it was $18 for the two of us to have lunch, and the quality was worlds better. Pipe dream I know but the day can’t come soon enough when the entire fast food industry crashes and burns.

I rarely eat fast food unless a friend/family member is buying. It's just unequivocally cheaper to buy items from the grocery store and do some basic cooking. If I spend money on outside food it will be a good restaurant. That said, I wonder if places like Burger King rely on their apps. A friend was getting us food the other day and BK's app had a deal with 2 whoppers, 2 small fries, 2 small nuggets, and 2 chicken sandwiches all for $30. Sounds better than your experience. The food still isn't any good though.

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Pickled eggs. They taste awful And have the worst texture. I got over my picky eating over a decade ago but this is the one food I cannot stand besides seafood.

See, what you want is pickled quail eggs. I've made pickled eggs at home and chicken eggs just have too much white. I've heard pricking the eggs with a fork helps the vinegar saturate it, but it's not much better. Pickled quail eggs are harder to find, I usually see them at rural gas stations. They have a better yolk to white ratio and absorb more flavor though. They're also nice one-bite snacks.

 

[AnOminous]

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Pickled eggs. They taste awful And have the worst texture. I got over my picky eating over a decade ago but this is the one food I cannot stand besides seafood.

I don't buy them often but I make them. Some Amish varieties are pretty good.

 

[Barry Williams]

OK I got one and I and probably will get some hate for, basic ass relish?

I always keep a jar of dill relish in my fridge. I eat it on sandwiches, or mixed in with tuna on crackers.

Thread tax: nobody likes plain Hershey bars and the fact this is what the entire world has to represent American chocolate is a travesty. It sucks

It's supposedly because of the burytic(?) acid that is used in processing it. I don't exactly know what it does or why it's added to the chocolate but it's probably some kind of bulking agent or some shit that lets Hershey's save a fraction of a penny per bar and they keep dumping it into the mixture to jew their money. It straight up makes the chocolate taste like vomit and I haven't bought any American chocolate in nearly two decades.

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Pickled eggs. They taste awful And have the worst texture. I got over my picky eating over a decade ago but this is the one food I cannot stand besides seafood.

I do not like pickled eggs from the store, or any that are just a mass market product. But I remember going to a pub with some friends while traveling for work a few years ago and one of the things they had on the menu was an assortment of homemade pickled things made right there at the bar. It was just the usual stuff like little cucumbers, carrots, and garlic but there was also one egg served with the order and it's the only time I've had a pickled egg that I actually liked.

 

[AnOminous]

It's supposedly because of the burytic(?) acid that is used in processing it.

Butyric. It's literally something that happens when butter goes rancid, hence its vile taste.

 

[Mordecai "3 Finger" Brown]

Bought this Orange Creamsicle Flavoured Popcorn at the discount store the other day because it was on clearance and my snack cupboard was bare.

I was really dreading the anticipated taste.

It actually worked surprisingly well. It actually tasted like Orange Creamsicle and was very tolerable.

 

[scrub]

Buddha's hand is great for infusing into vodka.

I actually like Spam, and certain other canned meat. The one I don't understand how people buy is Potted Meat Food Product.

First of all, the name is fucking awful. Second, here are the ingredients:

Beef tripe, mechanically separated chicken, beef hearts, partially defatted cooked beef fatty tissue, meat broth, vinegar, garlic powder, onion powder, salt, flavoring, sugar, and sodium nitrite.

Here's what it looks like opened up:

Seriously, who the fuck looks at the ingredients, then thinks, "Hmm... Chock full of animal byproducts. Yeah, sounds good!" and then gets it home, opens it up, sees what it looks like, and still decides to put it into their body?

Potted meat gets its name because it was stored in pots.

Video about potted meat

 

[Jason Wynn]

Convenience store near my home was selling these for $6.50 each. Looks like something you’d get from the Dollar Tree. I don’t care how hungry or stoned you might be, who would pay $6.50 for this?

 

[CapricornusRex]

Convenience store near my home was selling these for $6.50 each. Looks like something you’d get from the Dollar Tree. I don’t care how hungry or stoned you might be, who would pay $6.50 for this?

The price is absurd. I bought 2 McDoubles and a large Coke for $4.98. Reminded me of something Walmart is trying to sell; a tray of 3, foot long subs.. for $100. The fuck?

 

[Agamemnon Busmalis]

It's supposedly because of the burytic(?) acid that is used in processing it. I don't exactly know what it does or why it's added to the chocolate but it's probably some kind of bulking agent or some shit that lets Hershey's save a fraction of a penny per bar and they keep dumping it into the mixture to jew their money. It straight up makes the chocolate taste like vomit and I haven't bought any American chocolate in nearly two decades.

It's not an additive, it's a direct result of the company's chocolate-making process. Exactly why, I don't know, but it's always been made by Hershey that way.

It's probably similar to how people liked circus peanuts back in the 19th century but today people think they suck. Tastes change and when people are exposed to higher quality products the cheaper ones are less appealing. Same thing with milk chocolate, it was pretty rare and there weren't 115 artisanal varieties made by gay men in flannel shirts in each major city.

I think the taste is better in smaller quantities, too - it's the same kind of thing with Parmesan cheese which also has a lot of butyric acid.

 

[Jaded Optimist]

I've never seen anyone buy those whole fermented cabbage.

Until yesterday, when I did. I saw a Balkan recipe that was essentially cabbage rolls but with sour cabbage. It was delicious.

 

[Cherry Eyed Hamster]

I wonder if anyone under 45 still buys Jell-O.

 

[anliteralidiot]

I wonder if anyone under 45 still buys Jell-O.

I bought a packet last year. I haven't made it, but I bought it.

 

[Sundae]

Along with pickled eggs and sausages, its great in the field food. It has electrolytes!

Pickled sausages are delicious. I've never tried pickled pigs feet, I've wanted to ever since I was a kid and saw a large jar of them in a local small town grocery store. Might end up getting some soon.

 

[Drip Torch]

Pickled sausages are delicious. I've never tried pickled pigs feet, I've wanted to ever since I was a kid and saw a large jar of them in a local small town grocery store. Might end up getting some soon.

The texture reminds me of ribs, or more closely, pig tails. Some meat, fat and some gristle, not a meal exactly but a quick protein rich snack.

 

[beets4borshenko]

I wonder if anyone under 45 still buys Jell-O.

I'm a Zoomer and absolutely love it. Growing up, older ladies would bring various gelatin desserts to our church potlucks, and I'd always grab a big scoop/slice for myself. My personal favourite is Jell-O key lime pie. Looks something like this. (Not my picture.)