Foods you deem weird or don’t understand

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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.

DP. I am a lawyer (and 34 years old...) and just had one 2 days ago. Too funny. We had just returned from vacation and didn't have any leftovers to eat, and a PB and fluff sandwich sounded good! They're delicious...

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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.

DP. I am a lawyer (and 34 years old...) and just had one 2 days ago. Too funny. We had just returned from vacation and didn't have any leftovers to eat, and a PB and fluff sandwich sounded good! They're delicious...

I’m the PP who raved about fluffernutters and I am also a lawyer. We have so little joy in our life please don’t knock our fluffernutters. When I was studying for the bar I had PB and banana every day since that’s more like brain food.

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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.

Maybe the person just whisked the eggs and called that scrambled? I am beyond amused at the idea of a tik toker whisking eggs, adding cocoa powder and sugar and then thinking that they’ve invented a substitute for chocolate pudding.

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Anonymous wrote:Pickled herring. Herring in cream sauce. Yes I've lived in central Europe and never ever got used to this.

+100 I love all sorts of smoked fish, fish salads, seaweed, you name it. I shocked waiters at age 5 by eating raw shellfish and loving every bit.

But these herring preparations are just awful. I am even half Jewish. Yuk!!!

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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?

Australia.

They have a lot to answer for. Beginning with Vegemite. Eggs on burgers is nowhere near the worst of their crimes

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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!

With you there. Really good potatoes just out of the dirt. Perfectly boiled. With good butter, salt, dill or chives.

It's not terrible.

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Any boiled vegetable is a no for me dog.

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Anonymous wrote:Pickled herring. Herring in cream sauce. Yes I've lived in central Europe and never ever got used to this.

+100 I love all sorts of smoked fish, fish salads, seaweed, you name it. I shocked waiters at age 5 by eating raw shellfish and loving every bit.

But these herring preparations are just awful. I am even half Jewish. Yuk!!!

I seem to be one of the few that likes Dutch food. Think pickled herring in the summer is great. The real treasure is smoked eel. Could eat that every day.

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Anonymous wrote:i thought this was going to be about exotic foods, and instead OP’s talking about boiled potatoes?

And what would you define as “exotic,” PP? Hmm. I think we’ll have to think real hard about what you mean by that.

Different PP.

Huitlacoche for me. I understand it is not "exotic" in cultures that enjoy it, but fungal corn smut is exotic to my scope of experience. And durian -- anything that is banned from public transport because of the odor in a culture that eats in is probably too outside my wheelhouse.

I actually love durian 😄

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Anonymous wrote:Beets. Every year I’m tempted to buy them because they’re such a pretty color. And then I cook them and remember they taste like dirt.

Also natto. If it smells rotten, I cannot put it in my mouth, I’m sorry.

Ohhhh I love beets, *especially* pickled beets. Pickled purple beets in a slaw are so good.

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Anonymous wrote:Beets. Every year I’m tempted to buy them because they’re such a pretty color. And then I cook them and remember they taste like dirt.

Also natto. If it smells rotten, I cannot put it in my mouth, I’m sorry.

Agreed. I remember the first time I was served beets as a kid and I was so excited because of the pretty color. But nope, tastes like dirt.

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Anonymous wrote:Injera bread and most of the Ethiopian dishes that accompany it

YES! That bread is gross.

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Head cheese and haggis

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Anonymous wrote:Injera bread and most of the Ethiopian dishes that accompany it

YES! That bread is gross.

It’s not gross if you eat it with Ethiopian food.

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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.

All this is such a stereotype. My peach cobbler is delicious, and definitely not too sweet - don’t want to overpower that fresh peach flavor!