Food You're Not Really Sure Anyone Even Buys

[Hyperbolic Steroids]

I want to know who is buying pickled eggs in a jar, especially the ones that has a red/purple hue. It looks absolutely revolting and I’m pretty open minded about food in general.

The hue change comes from beet juice iirc. Pickled eggs are pretty good, we usually have way too many eggs from our chickens to eat before they start to go bad so they get boiled and pickled. Industrial pickled eggs are somehow shelf stable and also have added sugar I believe because why not I guess. Never had any from the store though so I can't speak on that particularly.

If you need to eat crappy minced Jerky you can buy Jack Link's Beef Jerky tubes which might cost more but is such a better shitty gas station food.

I highly recommend Amerimutts go to their local(ish) butcher/meat processor and see if they have in house jerky done. Some of the best jerky I've ever had was venison jerky links from a processor, the ones with pineapple and the like added was really good. I believe the style of jerky is called, "hunter's sausage" in most places.

Do people really buy canned vegetables or pasta? Like no cap that's disgusting

Canned veggies aren't bad. Fresh and frozen are better of course but it's easier to carry canned ingredients when away from civilization like when camping. As for pasta, I've never tried it as dried noodles are shelf stable.

Wholegrain mustard. Yeah, good one. Put mustard on the shelf that's inferior to every mustard around it. If I wanted to guzzle seed with my meals, I'd have bought orange fanta instead.

Well mustard is made from seeds...

 

[Kulee Baba]

I highly recommend Amerimutts go to their local(ish) butcher/meat processor and see if they have in house jerky done. Some of the best jerky I've ever had was venison jerky links from a processor, the ones with pineapple and the like added was really good. I believe the style of jerky is called, "hunter's sausage" in most places.

Thank you. You just reminded me I have a Polish Family run market in my city. They have like at least 6 different smoked sausages all delicious. My favorite being their “Hunter Sausage.”

I haven’t been there in a long time and will probably stop by this week.

 

[Return of the Freaker]

does anyone eat those dollar store canned foods? I tried prairie belt smoked sausages one time and it tasted like cat food, even cooked in butter.

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Damn, I know I want to try the sausage made of ground up retard children

 

[Bassomatic]

Thank you. You just reminded me I have a Polish Family run market in my city. They have like at least 6 different smoked sausages all delicious. My favorite being their “Hunter Sausage.”

I haven’t been there in a long time and will probably stop by this week.

Iirc my polish is rusty but, myslikwa kielbasa. I think it's traditionally all pork.

It's close to any other "hunter sausage" . Tasty stuff.

I'm going to go on a limb here and while they are fine enough every other kind mogs them so hard. Who buys basic ass m&M's?

 

[Kulee Baba]

Iirc my polish is rusty but, myslikwa kielbasa. I think it's traditionally all pork.

It's close to any other "hunter sausage" . Tasty stuff.

I'm going to go on a limb here and while they are fine enough every other kind mogs them so hard. Who buys basic ass m&M's?

Children. M&Ms marketed them as “Plain” for a reason and there’s no way they didn’t have analysts who knew that Plain as a descriptor makes something sound kinda crappy. Kids still love plain.

 

[Freshly Baked Socks]

Who buys basic ass m&M's?

Someone making M&M cookies.

 

[CHARizard]

Saw this priced down to $4.99 at the grocery store this morning


This shit gloats about having less fat then cow, you know what ingredients are in beef? Fucking BEEF! Not a thousand protein alternatives.

 

[Gangstalker #32194]

fig newtons

 

[IDF]

Fuck you I like them.

 

[Jason Wynn]

fig newtons

Blasphemy! Fig Newtons are delicious and I’d eat them by the sleevefull if I could get away with it.

Tax: who is stupid or lazy enough to buy that gross instant mashed potato garbage when actual potatoes are cheap, plentiful and easy to cook in a wide variety of ways.

 

[maguyver16]

fig newtons

I unironically used to eat fig newtons perpetually as a child. Haven't eaten them in years tho

 

[Chongqing]

who is stupid or lazy enough to buy that gross instant mashed potato garbage when actual potatoes are cheap, plentiful and easy to cook in a wide variety of ways.

It helps if you're making mashed potatoes and you mess up a big batch. You can add this at the end to salvage it.

Also, people without kitchens. Campers, travelers, homeless and so on.

Edit to add: it's money on long train rides.

 

[Ukraine is Big Gay]

Blasphemy! Fig Newtons are delicious and I’d eat them by the sleevefull if I could get away with it.

Tax: who is stupid or lazy enough to buy that gross instant mashed potato garbage when actual potatoes are cheap, plentiful and easy to cook in a wide variety of ways.

Instant mashed potatoes, the kind ideally without as much bullshit chemical trash or preservatives in them, IMO their true calling is making them into a lazy fuck potato soup mix with powdered whole milk, dried chive, salt pepper and thyme and onion powder parsley etc whatever you want. To slop together in a pot with milk and chicken broth whenever you're sick or exhausted and need something vaguely resembling food that's one notch above progresso.

The flakes make absolutely shitty thin "mashed" potatoes but their shitty thin nature works in their favor when over adding liquid on purpose to do this.

And for food I have no idea who buys did anyone mention dried chipped beef in a jar yet? It's not even good as a poor people or camping food as it has to be refrigerated when opened and needs soaking for a lot of dishes due to the salt content or to be cooked in a LOT of other food to draw the salt out. It costs a lot for the piffly little nothing coasters of dried and pressed ground beef that you do get... And it's really only "Popular" use is shit on a shingle.

I don't get why it's even still around besides maybe a few nostalgic old people when it was a cheap ration or army meal.

 

[Chongqing]

And for food I have no idea who buys did anyone mention dried chipped beef in a jar yet? It's not even good as a poor people or camping food as it has to be refrigerated when opened and needs soaking for a lot of dishes due to the salt content or to be cooked in a LOT of other food to draw the salt out. It costs a lot for the piffly little nothing coasters of dried and pressed ground beef that you do get... And it's really only "Popular" use is shit on a shingle.

I guess you kind of answered my question in the next paragraph, but is this an ethnic food?

 

[Ukraine is Big Gay]

I guess you kind of answered my question in the next paragraph, but is this an ethnic food?

I'm fairly sure it's entirely an American poverty/wartime creation.
I am not personally sure if it started as a pre-war food or a wartime ration either way but the notion is simple. You take this weird jarred and pressed ground beef product, slice it fine into ribbons (de-salting it in water beforehand is optional depending on your sodium tolerance) cook up some basic white roux gravy with it in a pan and pepper the hell out of it and serve the resulting mess on toast.


The classy term being "Creamed chipped beef" or just chipped beef on toast and the good 'ol slang term being as mentioned. Shit on a shingle/S.O.S. Though the term also applies to any "creamed" meat product on bread around the time.

I'm just curious why it's still around cause I can't imagine who's even buying it anymore. It's not even "Cheap" nor is it a food pantry or church charity regular item and it's not even that versatile.

 

[neverendingmidi]

I guess you kind of answered my question in the next paragraph, but is this an ethnic food?

Nah, boomer... or even "Greatest Generation" food. "Shit on a shingle" came from soldiers calling it that, and brought it back home after WW11, because at the time it was a cheap beef product, which was rare for those who grew up in the Depression. My grandad talked about having peanut butter sandwiches for breakfast, lunch, and dinner growing up, because it was cheap protein. No jelly because both the fruit and sugar cost too much. He talked about how they got some kind of meat with every meal in the military, which was amazing to a lot of the soldiers.

 

[Chongqing]

He talked about how they got some kind of meat with every meal in the military, which was amazing to a lot of the soldiers.

We're very fortunate.

Thanks for the info, guys.

 

[neverendingmidi]

We're very fortunate.

Thanks for the info, guys.

He also mentioned how the cooks for the soldiers weren't the best, he saw the cooks slapping pancakes with spatulas as they cooked so they were flat and tough, and swiss steak and liver looked alike, and you could only tell which was which by if they offered seconds. If they offered- it was liver.

 

[Chongqing]

Something that people do buy but I can't imagine why is frozen pizza.

Between cheap pizza from Domino's, 711, Costco and so on, it's weird to me that people are paying more to keep a pizza in their freezer.

swiss steak and liver looked alike, and you could only tell which was which by if they offered seconds. If they offered- it was liver.

That must have been cooked in a hell of a way. I feel like the taste and texture of liver is so unique, it would be difficult to mix it up with something else.

I had never heard of Swiss steak but I just looked it up.

 

[Seventh Star]

Something that people do buy but I can't imagine why is frozen pizza.

Between cheap pizza from Domino's, 711, Costco and so on, it's weird to me that people are paying more to keep a pizza in their freezer.

Because it's easy to make for idiots who like to pretend they're doing something for their guests, making them feel like they're gourmet chefs. I've been on the receiving end of multiple of these """people""" at gatherings. That or they feel like buying a bunch of food once a month and storing it is productive even though what they're actually doing is preserving thin slices of cardboard with shitty cheese on top.