Food You're Not Really Sure Anyone Even Buys

[Bassomatic]

Mincemeat, never seen a single person even touch it once. Maybe it's a UK thing

I'm from the Philadelphia area and pa Dutch are a thing near us. Mince meat is delicious and best part of thanksgiving grandma will get a whole pie knowing I'm the only one to touch the stuff.

Also being disgusting and from the 1600 (or when ever mince meat was cool) I do prefer it with suet.

Funny enough tho, the only way to get suet aside going to like a real Amish place or asking a butcher is getting stuff to feed woodpeckers.

Now I'm really worried about what went in that pie. Like, Sweeny Todd worried.

 

[a terminal posture]

Liver. That shit is gross.

I have it once in a while, it's great.

 

[Pierre D'Olnique]

Not sure if this even counts as food, but my local market now has them edible bugs on a tiny cardboard stand. Crickets, some fucking worms, larvae, whatever. The stand is always full, and they cost anywhere between 8 and 12 times more than meat. I don't think a single unit has been sold since its introduction. I legitimately could buy highest class wagyu beef for less.

 

[De lay lo mo tao hai]

I tried fried egg flavour crisps in Spain. They tasted spookily like fried eggs which was freaky.

 

[WonderWino]

I'm from the Philadelphia area and pa Dutch are a thing near us. Mince meat is delicious and best part of thanksgiving grandma will get a whole pie knowing I'm the only one to touch the stuff.

Also being disgusting and from the 1600 (or when ever mince meat was cool) I do prefer it with suet.

Funny enough tho, the only way to get suet aside going to like a real Amish place or asking a butcher is getting stuff to feed woodpeckers.

Now I'm really worried about what went in that pie. Like, Sweeny Todd worried.

Suet is such an underrated ingredient in alot of things these days. Only place I know of that sells it other than a handful of butcher shops around here is superstore, in expensive chunks about the size of a mans fist. Most people don't even know what it is or what to use it for anymore

As for something I don't know if anyone actually buys.... i'd say this more than qualifies:

Sardines, that cost $44 per can, in a can designed to look like a gold bar and that has gold leaf mixed in with the oil. Thats the kind of thing welfare queens would buy and serve at christmas thinking it makes them look classy, or hoodrat rappers would eat with a bottle of cristal. Imagine the nasty hangover and puking from that the next morning. Cristal puke flavored with a few cans of sardines and full of gold leaf flakes. Some dumbshit influencer might actually bottle said puke and try to sell it on the internet cause of the gold and fact it came from someone famous. I mean they did it with bathwater so why not. Hell i'm a bit surprised taylor swift hasn't wrapped a few logs in 24k gold leaf and sold them to fans as limited editions on the internet. Swifties would kill each other to have that and probably build a shrine in their apartment for it

 

[Super Guido]

I tried fried egg flavour crisps in Spain. They tasted spookily like fried eggs which was freaky. Ver archivo adjunto 5551603

I've had that flavor, and I thought it was unbearable. Blegh.

 

[AnOminous]

Sardines, that cost $44 per can, in a can designed to look like a gold bar and that has gold leaf mixed in with the oil.

None of the actually well regarded canned sardines resort to such sad chicanery, although I think a couple actually cost more.

 

[Lizard Pope]

chicken hearts

These little niggers are motherfuckin' delicious. I could live off chicken hearts... and a fistfull of vitamins a day.

*quick edit: gib chicken heart stew recipes, I hath need of them.*

 

[AnOminous]

These little niggers are motherfuckin' delicious. I could live off chicken hearts... and a fistfull of vitamins a day.

*quick edit: gib chicken heart stew recipes, I hath need of them.*

I just noticed a butcher nearby actually has these, even though they're frozen (and more expensive than if you got them at a Mexican/South American butcher).

 

[Lizard Pope]

I just noticed a butcher nearby actually has these, even though they're frozen (and more expensive than if you got them at a Mexican/South American butcher).

Yeah I just walk to the spic grocery nearby, the only place close to me with goat.

 

[derpherp2]

None of the actually well regarded canned sardines resort to such sad chicanery, although I think a couple actually cost more.

Looked into it a bit, apparently they put gold flakes in the sardine to make it cost 44 bucks.
Also of course it's from fucking new york. Or Portugal. Like I said "a bit"

 

[Barry Williams]

Man I am reading through this thread and I feel so called out. So many things are products that either I buy myself or someone in my family does. For example, I can't get enough Spam or potted meat and vienna sausages, but then again I grew up dirt poor so maybe it's an acquired taste. My dad buys Clamato to mix with beer, which lots of posters were quick to note was a very common thing people use that juice for.

My contribution to the thread is probiotic sodas. The grocery store where I live has a little section for higher end and "craft" sodas where they have things like Stewarts, Vernon's, and Zevia. But they also sell probiotic sodas in individual 12 oz cans for literally close to $3 each. You can buy an entire two liter bottle of the store brand Coke knock off for a buck. I've never tried the soda because it just sounds vile and in the years I've lived where I am I've never seen a single person buy it. That area of the shelf looks untouched every time I'm there.

 

[Chub Rub]

The prebiotic sodas are just sugar free soda with apple cider vinegar. My area has Poppi and Olipop, and they ARE vile. My husband buys several every week, and I don't understand why.

 

[Sugriva]

The probiotic sodas are delicious and supposedly have live bacteria cultures in them, if the back of the can is to be believed. Way too expensive for me to buy regularly though.

 

[Martys_not_smarty]

Too lazy to loon through 37 pages but if I haven't posted it yet my contribution is hunts snackpaks it's pudding but it's out room temperature next to granola bars how does that work?

 

[toilet_rainbow]

I have seen these borscht flavored potato chips in the wild, but was too scared to buy and try them. I can only really stomach beet anything when I'm really craving them, and that is very rarely.

 

[Agoodpotroast]

The spicy Mountain Dew. Love me some Dew but with the past few new flavors, I'm starting to think they should have stopped at Baja Blast. And bacon flavored candy canes. Bacon doesn't need to be in everything. Please stop it.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

The spicy Mountain Dew. Love me some Dew but with the past few new flavors, I'm starting to think they should have stopped at Baja Blast. And bacon flavored candy canes. Bacon doesn't need to be in everything. Please stop it.

My dog disagrees. Continue putting bacon in everything. Don't worry. I don't feed my dog candy. That'd be dumb.

 

[Super Dilator Duel 3D]

Potted Meat Food Product

I’ll defend Spam, but this? This is goyslop. If this isn’t what comes to mind when you think of the term goyslop, than you’re not thinking of goyslop. Horrific.

Thread tax: speaking of goyslop, there’s a certain kind of disgusting high-sugar poison you can find every now and then in stores. When I refer to this “genre” of food I’m pointing at products like Sour Patch Kids popcorn/cereal, Flaming Hot Mountain Dew and Cheetos Macaroni and Cheese (bonus points if it’s the Flaming Hot version)

If you want to feel fat just from looking at an image, look up these products and go to the images tab. I know the average Amerimutt has zero concern for their health and will eat literally anything that has high fructose corn syrup and sugar, but I feel like there’s a point where it becomes just too much to ignore and that’s why I never see this shit sell. Even as a kid with lower standards and a much higher tolerance for unhealthy garbage, I’d get grossed out by stuff like this when I passed it at the store. Does anyone actually buy this shit aside from the Amberlynn Reids and Nikocado Avocados of the world?

 

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

73/27 ground beef. Went to my local grocery store and 80/20 was sold out again, with a massive amount of this left, with most it marked down for being almost out of date.

Something similar happens at my grocery store. When 80/20 ground beef supplies are low, 73/27 pops up in its place and the price difference is negligible at best and the shelf life is close to zero.

Does anyone still eat Jell-O for fun anymore?

At a family event earlier this year, my aunt made a jello dessert that was real good. Just a shame that people see it more as a medical process thing than a nice dessert as they get older.

When I refer to this “genre” of food I’m pointing at products like Sour Patch Kids popcorn/cereal, Flaming Hot Mountain Dew and Cheetos Macaroni and Cheese (bonus points if it’s the Flaming Hot version)

I don't get the point of this "designer food" (for lack of a better term), either. It sounds like stuff edgelords would buy, eat, and than brag about on social media as some sort of flex. I'm not surprised that this stuff is absolutely bad from a nutritional standpoint.

Speaking of my grocery store, they've had a lot of Campbell's cream of mushroom and cream of chicken soup on sale for 99 cents lately, but the stacks don't seem to be decreasing noticeably week after week. I can't believe it's selling so much they're keeping it well stocked, so I can only assume few if any are interested in the overstock.