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What is the worst food in terms of flavor or lack of

The English have chippy and sausage and I think it’s disgustingly bad

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[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)

In terms of just general nastiness, I present Snickers Salad

It's a heady blend of chopped up Snickers, granny Smith apples, marshmallows, and most importantly, lots of Cool Whip™️

I like most of those things separately, but together it's like chewing on a damp bowl of sugar

[–] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What the fuck why would you post this

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They asked for the worst food

[–] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Be glad I didn't post the picture of it they have in Wikipedia

[–] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

I got served so many things called salad back in the day

Pretzel salad is alright

[–] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What in the 1960s is that, it looks like one of those horrific "recipes" that's just an excuse to mash 3-5 processed food products together. It looks like it should be suspended in jello

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's a Midwestern salad in the vein of Ambrosia salad

Just mushing up everything sweet and serving it to friends and family

[–] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That looks disgusting, what the hell is wrong with people

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

shrug-outta-hecks Learning how to cook from the Cool Whip™️recipe book is a hell of drug

[–] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

Tangentially related but it just reminds me of a cookbook that my friend's brother had, called something like A Man's Can Plan, that consisted solely of recipes that involved opening 1-3 cans and following the directions. I can't remember if it was literally a branded cookbook or if someone figured men needed a recipe to tell them to read the side of a can.

[–] hypercracker@hexbear.net 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

most midwestern casseroles

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What, you don't like tater tots and ground beef mixed with cream of mushroom soup?

[–] roux@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] DoiDoi@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Those boomer jello salads with cottage cheese, mayo, and canned fruit / veg, and sometimes marshmallows and olives for some cursed reason.

[–] Beluga@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] DoiDoi@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I think it's a thing specifically among southern boomers and older, but it feels like midwesterners should have loved it too. I have a relative that makes it for every holiday season. It's so fucking disgusting. No one wants it, but she will force some of it onto your plate so that the serving platter doesn't sit there completely full at the end of the night. She doesn't even eat it herself! I have no idea why we all have to suffer for her bizarre idea of tradition.

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[–] coeliacmccarthy@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

nobody's eaten those in 55 years

[–] Chronicon@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

not true

midwesterners still make some of the slightly less hideous variations of those to this day

admittedly I don't know if I've had a savory one in a long time but jello, canned mandarin orange, other canned fruit, cottage cheese, marshmallow, etc have all featured

Sometimes tuna too...

[–] take_five_seconds@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

ketchup is gross esp in the states, basically flat tomato soda complete with HFCS

[–] roux@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

You can pry my tomato frosting out of my cold dead hands lol

[–] Beluga@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The only condom ent I like is BBQ ketchup is overrated disgusting

[–] LeylaLove@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

I feel this a lot, fuck most condiments but mostly fuck ketchup

[–] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

It's a cheap easy answer but fast food slop. Just a bunch of sugar, salt, and grease moulded together in a grotesque parody of food that tricks your brain into thinking you like it. It's one even slightly redeeming feature was it's low cost, and it doesn't even have that anymore

[–] wtypstanaccount04@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

I have never tried it but jellied eels look absolutely nasty

[–] egg1918@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

One time I ordered beef tartare without knowing what it was. Why the fuck people like that I have no idea, genuinely the worst thing I have ever tried

[–] DoiDoi@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It can be either extremely delicious or absolutely disgusting depending on the ingredient quality and preparation. I'd bet it's gross at like 9/10 restaurants that serve it.

[–] Beluga@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Please tell me what it tasted like

[–] ihaveibs@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

It's honestly pretty mild. I've only ever had good tartare though, so idk what it would be like with low quality ingredients. Hard to describe. My best description would be imagine eating sashimi but it's beef lol but it's a pretty light flavor.

[–] Chronicon@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

The wisconsin specialty: the cannibal sandwich

literally just a raw ground beef sandwich with onion salt and pepper. Nothing else

[–] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I like those, but there's worse cooked food.

[–] Chronicon@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

yeah honestly its just the pure carnism of it all, plus the fact that in the modern day with grocery store ground beef that's sat around for god knows how long its a great way to get food poisoning lol. I guess it's just redneck tartare on a sandwich but like... no. please no

I just have to spread the word of this barbarity when given the chance

[–] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

Most people that still carry on that tradition have the sense to get freshly ground or go to the higher-class butcher shops, but I can't speak for the conditions the cow was in before that.

[–] KobaCumTribute@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Cabbage that has been cooked even very slightly is one of the foulest things I've ever encountered. The stench spreads and lingers horribly if it's heated even briefly, and more than the lightest exposure to heat gives it a sickening aftertaste.

Raw cabbage is ok if not great, and pickled it's actually quite good especially if it's pickled with garlic, onions, and hot peppers, it's just heat that does something horrible to it.

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

If I recall, heating cabbage causes the formation of sulfur

This is especially true when it's boiled

[–] NoLeftLeftWhereILive@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Pickled fish, omg.

Back in my day in my country where the fashy values were never too far from the surface, the idea of education included the fun times of having to eat or at least taste everything on offer at school lunch.

My elementary school did pickled fucking herring, the kind where the fish is all red and slimy. And we all had to eat one fillet or throw up trying. They lined us up and watched that we all take one piece and eat it. It scarred me for life.

Some people apparently love that stuff, with new potatoes or whatever. I personally won't be in the same room with an open jar of that nastiness.

[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

I like having pickled herring on rye bread once in a while (and wash it down with beer and aquavit) but I can understand why people wouldn't like it. It is a very particular taste.

[–] Chronicon@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I love pickled herring lol, its literally just pickled fish, so idk why people hate it so much unless they don't like fish or pickles

the tough one is lutefisk, (or surstromming)

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[–] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The hate in here on cabbage and pickled herring. This feels like anti-Polish sentiment!

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

This feels like anti-Polish sentiment!

And it will continue until we get all the pierogi from you

[–] Guamer@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Raw cucumber, it's the "soap cilantro" gene but all the time.

Infinitely inferior to cooked or pickled.

[–] Ath3ro@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Have you had pico de gallo or ceviche? I’m don’t like plain raw cucumbers but i’ll throw some lime and salt on them and eat them that way

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[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm a bit of a garbage can, but pimento loaf and that cheap-grade deli meat that was sliced and packaged so long ago it has that kinda wet slickness to it makes me lose my appetite, no matter how much it's churches up with condiments and whatever.

[–] Chronicon@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

slimy deli meat does get me too. I'll eat processed slop, whatever, bologna doesn't bother me, but when its slimy it's just like "fuck this, this is rotten or on the verge of it"

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