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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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[–] orshelack@hexbear.net 1 points 6 hours ago

My dad once mixed a can of tuna, a can of no-bean chili, and sauerkraut. That's still pretty up there for me

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 27 points 1 day 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 day ago (1 children)

What the fuck why would you post this

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

They asked for the worst food

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

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

Pretzel salad is alright

[–] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 12 points 1 day 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 day 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 23 hours ago (1 children)

That looks disgusting, what the hell is wrong with people

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 11 points 23 hours 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 23 hours 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.

[–] Chronicon@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 23 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Chronicon@hexbear.net 7 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours 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 10 hours 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.

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

most midwestern casseroles

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 21 points 1 day 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 day ago (1 children)
[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] DoiDoi@hexbear.net 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

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

Sometimes tuna too...

[–] Beluga@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] DoiDoi@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.

[–] anarcho_blinkenist@hexbear.net 2 points 16 hours ago

is that some great depression shit

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[–] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 12 points 1 day 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

[–] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 6 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 3 points 14 hours ago

This feels like anti-Polish sentiment!

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

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

I have never tried it but jellied eels look absolutely nasty

[–] take_five_seconds@hexbear.net 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

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

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

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

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[–] NoLeftLeftWhereILive@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day 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 day 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 day 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)

[–] NoLeftLeftWhereILive@hexbear.net 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

The texture and smell is the issue for me. Love fish and love pickles, separately.:D

[–] egg1918@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago (3 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 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.

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[–] Guamer@hexbear.net 3 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

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

Infinitely inferior to cooked or pickled.

[–] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 10 hours ago

I hate pickles. Cucumbers are great

[–] Ath3ro@hexbear.net 4 points 22 hours 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

[–] Guamer@hexbear.net 2 points 21 hours ago

Not sure if I've had those with cucumbers in them, but I'd be willing to try if not!

[–] KobaCumTribute@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day 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 day ago

If I recall, heating cabbage causes the formation of sulfur

This is especially true when it's boiled

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