Foods you deem weird or don’t understand

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand the fake meats and fake cheeses and fake sweeteners. There are plenty of great food options that are meat and dairy free and added sweeteners free, why eat something that will never live up to the original and is way more processed.

I don’t understand liverwurst. Super processed and probably worst of the worst but it’s so good. I only ever have it when visiting my parents and even then it’s rare, but we ate it all the time as a kid. But seriously, what is it? Does it even taste like liver???

I don't eat organ meats. I've tried some and have never found a preparation that doesn't taste foul (like how sewage smells).

Liverwurst or Braunschweiger taste like liver. I don't like them, but if I had to eat them, I could. Liver tastes like overcooked meat? Gritty and bland. Slightly metallic.

I love how there’s different snobby levels of the same product: pate > braunschweiger > liverwurst.
I make a very quick delicious version when I get the liver in my roasting chicken. Just sautee it with some butter and onions and garlic with some thyme, deglaze with some white white or sherry and then purée it in the miniprep. I adapted the recipe from the old NY Times cookbook, although I think that recipe also added cream. It’s good on baguette slices.

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Anonymous wrote:Speaking of peanuts. Peanut butter and fluff sandwiches served on white bread. I mean who comes up with American food like this as if it is a good idea? And worse yet, serves it to children for lunch? Here’s a heaping pile of diabetes kiddies. Delicious American food! Right?

Has anyone eaten that since 1974?

Yes, that’s why American kids are now fatter than ever.

I’m in my 40’s and I have literally never encountered this sandwich. The younger generations would almost certainly never have even heard of it.

You need to up your Americanism if you've never heard of fluffernutter sandwiches.

You’re old. No one eats these anymore. Maybe Boomers. My kids would have no idea what “fluff” is.

They still sell at least two brands of fluff in my local bethesda giant so someone must be eating it (other than just me). They even sell the big tubs.

I mean, yeah. There are a lot of old people out there. So y’all are eating it.

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Anonymous wrote:1) Boiled potatoes. If you’re going to fuss with potatoes at all, make them good: mashed, baked, or roasted. Boiled? GTFO.

2) Boiled or steamed Brussels sprouts. Roasted only. Ideally with pancetta and balsamic glaze.

3) “Bowls” for dinner. Just no.

Eggs on hamburgers

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Jello
Fruitcake
Raw oysters

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Anonymous wrote:Speaking of peanuts. Peanut butter and fluff sandwiches served on white bread. I mean who comes up with American food like this as if it is a good idea? And worse yet, serves it to children for lunch? Here’s a heaping pile of diabetes kiddies. Delicious American food! Right?

Has anyone eaten that since 1974?

Yes, that’s why American kids are now fatter than ever.

I’m in my 40’s and I have literally never encountered this sandwich. The younger generations would almost certainly never have even heard of it.

You need to up your Americanism if you've never heard of fluffernutter sandwiches.

You’re old. No one eats these anymore. Maybe Boomers. My kids would have no idea what “fluff” is.

They still sell at least two brands of fluff in my local bethesda giant so someone must be eating it (other than just me). They even sell the big tubs.

I think it’s used in dessert recipes with a s’mores flavor profile, cookies, brownies, as frosting on a cupcake and then browned with a torch etc.

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Anonymous wrote:Speaking of peanuts. Peanut butter and fluff sandwiches served on white bread. I mean who comes up with American food like this as if it is a good idea? And worse yet, serves it to children for lunch? Here’s a heaping pile of diabetes kiddies. Delicious American food! Right?

Has anyone eaten that since 1974?

Yes, that’s why American kids are now fatter than ever.

I’m in my 40’s and I have literally never encountered this sandwich. The younger generations would almost certainly never have even heard of it.

You need to up your Americanism if you've never heard of fluffernutter sandwiches.

I’ve heard of them on tv. I’ve never seen one, eaten one, or known anyone who serves them.

Same here. It is not a common sandwich by any stretch of the imagination.

I ate them routinely when I was in law school.

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Anonymous wrote:American food, period.

What don't you understand?
And do you mean specific items that were invented in America only, like the ice cream cone?

Why is it so gross in terms of fat, and dominance of highly fatty meats and ridiculously sugary desserts to the point of nausea? American style cheesecake is nasty. How can anyone possibly eat a slice of it and say they feel good after it? Take another example, peach cobbler, all of the cupcakes, various pies…..American desserts are always sooooooo ridiculously sugary, heavy, and just flat out gross. Go to countries with great food cultures like Japan, India, Italy, France, etc. and you’ll see their sweets are often no where near as heavy and sickeningly sweet. Something as grotesque like cheesecake factory or Cinnabon would not be invented in those countries. It’s just weird how Americans love bags of sugar for dessert.


Portion sizes alone make American food weird. Why are you getting enough food for 3.5 people as a dish at many American restaurants? Super weird. The coke sizes alone at a fast food place? Weird.

I also don’t understand the appeal of Thanksgiving dinner. Everything tastes like cardboard, it’s super fatty and almost all carbs and fat with very little balance of flavors. Bland junk. Other foods like potato and macaroni salads, tuna salads, chicken salads, deviled eggs….gross gross gross. Why are these staples at American parties ? Basically, throw a ton of mayo into stuff and call it a salad. So gross. Don’t even put a plate with green bean casserole in front of me. Yet another disgusting garbage dish.


American foods are weird, because there really aren’t too many dishes and many other ones are basically invented by major food corporations to use as many of their products as possible. Pumpkin pie? lol. What a garbage pie, because you know you’re all using highly processed factory crap like canned pumpkin, condensed milks etc. So many ‘American foods’ are simply dishes invented by corporations and are nothing more than highly processed junk.

Well aren’t you a peach. Why so many anti American anything threads lately?

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Most people don't like the items you list here either, but why make a blanket statement that they are "American" and "Americans" all eat them as staples? That doesn't help the discussion at all.

Yeah sure, judging by the obesity levels in the U.S., I’m sure no one eats those foods nor the obscene portion sizes.

Yeah right. Go to a bbq place. A typical obese American will order ribs, brisket, turkey or some combo thereof, Mac and cheese, cornbread, collard greens, maybe some baked beans, and some good ‘ol peach cobbler and a sweet tea or lemonade to wash it all that obesity down. Who in their sane mind would eat 400% DV for saturated fat intake and sodium, virtually zero nutrients out of salt/fat/carbs and call it a proper dinner? It’s so gross. How can anyone roll out of a joint like that and feel good about it? Even eating American made breads is like consuming a bag of sugar. It’s nasty.

Go to Italy and order a plate of pasta. It will be like 1/3rd the size of what you’d get in the U.S. and it is very rarely swimming in cheese. Or go to almost any kind of restaurant across Asia and order a plate of food…the sizes are just way smaller than the U.S. because they are appropriate serving sized plates of food. U.S. food is just weird in terms of balance of nutrients, flavors, and sizes. It’s allllllll fat fat fat fat carbs carbs carbs sugar sugar sugar more sugar and let me give you 3.5 servings of it. Very little balance of salty, sweet, spicy, umami and sour. Don’t entirely blame Americans though, because they were started by the British after all.

This must have been cathartic for you.

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Anonymous wrote:Speaking of peanuts. Peanut butter and fluff sandwiches served on white bread. I mean who comes up with American food like this as if it is a good idea? And worse yet, serves it to children for lunch? Here’s a heaping pile of diabetes kiddies. Delicious American food! Right?

Has anyone eaten that since 1974?

Yes, that’s why American kids are now fatter than ever.

I’m in my 40’s and I have literally never encountered this sandwich. The younger generations would almost certainly never have even heard of it.

You need to up your Americanism if you've never heard of fluffernutter sandwiches.

I’ve heard of them on tv. I’ve never seen one, eaten one, or known anyone who serves them.

Same here. It is not a common sandwich by any stretch of the imagination.

I ate them routinely when I was in law school.

This proves all lawyers eat fluffernutter sandwiches. I knew it.

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Beets. I know some people love these, and I respect that everyone's tastes are different, but beets are terrible.

Wings. Why bother? There is not enough meat on those to make it worth the time to gnaw around the bones.

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Anonymous wrote:On the dislike for boiled potatoes - that I don't understand! One of my favorite dishes is freshly dug new potatoes boiled and served with butter and mint, perfection!

NP. I’m from Eastern Europe. One of my favorite food memories growing up was “new” potatoes from the garden, served with butter, fresh dill (also from the garden) and garlic. Yum!

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Anonymous wrote:Beets. I know some people love these, and I respect that everyone's tastes are different, but beets are terrible.

Wings. Why bother? There is not enough meat on those to make it worth the time to gnaw around the bones.

Wings is a good one for this list. I think they were to make cheap and unwanted cuts of meat more attractive/profitable.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't understand avocado in a smoothie. They are expensive and so hard to get when they are just ripe, 90% of the time I'm eating them with just salt and pepper and balsamic. Maybe putting in a salad or quac. I would never "waste" them in a smoothie!

I agree. It’s like you’re taking something delicious and making it LESS good. The worst was when I tried that chocolate pudding made from mashed avocado that was popular for a while. I was so mad I ruined two delicious things by combining them! I don’t understand how anyone could have said that tasted “just like chocolate pudding.” I feel the same way about that black bean brownie recipe.

+1 to all this. Bean in a dessert-- just don't do it. Keep the chocolate unadulterated and eat small amounts.

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Anonymous wrote:1) Boiled potatoes. If you’re going to fuss with potatoes at all, make them good: mashed, baked, or roasted. Boiled? GTFO.

2) Boiled or steamed Brussels sprouts. Roasted only. Ideally with pancetta and balsamic glaze.

3) “Bowls” for dinner. Just no.

Eggs on hamburgers

Here here! Why do people do this?

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Anonymous wrote:I don't understand avocado in a smoothie. They are expensive and so hard to get when they are just ripe, 90% of the time I'm eating them with just salt and pepper and balsamic. Maybe putting in a salad or quac. I would never "waste" them in a smoothie!

I agree. It’s like you’re taking something delicious and making it LESS good. The worst was when I tried that chocolate pudding made from mashed avocado that was popular for a while. I was so mad I ruined two delicious things by combining them! I don’t understand how anyone could have said that tasted “just like chocolate pudding.” I feel the same way about that black bean brownie recipe.

+1 to all this. Bean in a dessert-- just don't do it. Keep the chocolate unadulterated and eat small amounts.

I just saw one that’s scrambled eggs, sugar and cocoa powder and apparently it tastes just like chocolate pudding.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't understand avocado in a smoothie. They are expensive and so hard to get when they are just ripe, 90% of the time I'm eating them with just salt and pepper and balsamic. Maybe putting in a salad or quac. I would never "waste" them in a smoothie!

I agree. It’s like you’re taking something delicious and making it LESS good. The worst was when I tried that chocolate pudding made from mashed avocado that was popular for a while. I was so mad I ruined two delicious things by combining them! I don’t understand how anyone could have said that tasted “just like chocolate pudding.” I feel the same way about that black bean brownie recipe.

+1 to all this. Bean in a dessert-- just don't do it. Keep the chocolate unadulterated and eat small amounts.

I just saw one that’s scrambled eggs, sugar and cocoa powder and apparently it tastes just like chocolate pudding.

Is it for stupid people? Did you see it on tik tok? Because you make chocolate pudding with eggs, sugar and cocoa powder anyway, and if you scramble them you effed up.