Foods you deem weird or don’t understand

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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.

You do realize that the U.S. is a huge country, right? What you’re describing as “typical” American food is very much southern American food. I can assure you that it’s not “typical” in other parts of the country.

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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.

NP. I've never had a fluffernutter, but am now tempted to try one . I love PB & banana.

Not a lawyer.

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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.

I saw it on Instagram because I’m too old for TikTok. 😂 But it was definitely hot, steaming, scrambled eggs. Thrown into a blender. One of those person sees something and doesn’t believe it so has to try it themselves. Reported back that it tastes just fine. 🤷‍♀️

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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.

I saw it on Instagram because I’m too old for TikTok. 😂 But it was definitely hot, steaming, scrambled eggs. Thrown into a blender. One of those person sees something and doesn’t believe it so has to try it themselves. Reported back that it tastes just fine. 🤷‍♀️

Found a Reddit thread about it. Now that I think about it, eggs are a mystery to me. They are used so many different ways in cooking and baking.

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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.

I saw it on Instagram because I’m too old for TikTok. 😂 But it was definitely hot, steaming, scrambled eggs. Thrown into a blender. One of those person sees something and doesn’t believe it so has to try it themselves. Reported back that it tastes just fine. 🤷‍♀️

Found a Reddit thread about it. Now that I think about it, eggs are a mystery to me. They are used so many different ways in cooking and baking.

Reddit thread that I forgot to include: https://www.reddit.com/r/FoodieSnark/comments/1drtrle/scrambled_egg_chocolate_pudding/

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The octopus in plastic at Costco.

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bread.
What's up with bread. It's just bread. So boarding. I am not kidding. Bread is only good when the pile of stuff on the bread is at least 4x the size of the bread. Same with pasta and all noodles.

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Anonymous wrote:bread.
What's up with bread. It's just bread. So boarding. I am not kidding. Bread is only good when the pile of stuff on the bread is at least 4x the size of the bread. Same with pasta and all noodles.

I feel sorry for you. You never had good bread. It's akin to sex, you don't know what you are missing if your never had it good.

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Anonymous wrote:bread.
What's up with bread. It's just bread. So boarding. I am not kidding. Bread is only good when the pile of stuff on the bread is at least 4x the size of the bread. Same with pasta and all noodles.

I feel sorry for you. You never had good bread. It's akin to sex, you don't know what you are missing if your never had it good.

I feel sorry for them because of “so boarding” 😬

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I've gotten to be really grossed out by dripping food. I haven't ordered a hamburger in years because all I can think of is how it will drip on my hands, mainly because it's too thick and high to bite (even after cutting in half). Same with some sandwiches, too drippy and too thick. I hate having to use 20 napkins and then having my hands smell like food.

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Steak. DH has bought $50 in two steaks at Wegmanns. I dont even like it. And definitely not at that price.

Chicken. I will get it in a restaurant, or eat it if served at someone's house. But I do not like the bacteria and tendons to cook it at home.

Any easy food that is overpriced. Pre-boiled and peeled eggs. Pre-cut fruit. I do this myself.

Pre-shredded cheese we buy. But I admit it is inferior. Due to the additives it doesn't melt well.

Purchased bread with tons of additives so that it sits a long time.

Most processed foods. With some exceptions as not perfect here. But those are definitelty weird.

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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.

I saw it on Instagram because I’m too old for TikTok. 😂 But it was definitely hot, steaming, scrambled eggs. Thrown into a blender. One of those person sees something and doesn’t believe it so has to try it themselves. Reported back that it tastes just fine. 🤷‍♀️

So you mess up by scrambling the eggs and throw it all in a blender. That is way too much work. Could just add tempered eggs slowly to your mixture and save yourself some steps. It dOEs seem like it was all just for the clicks. I agree.

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Canned whipped cream because it's really easy to make and the fake one tastes chemical. Papaya and passion fruit completely disgust me. The weird little salty crackers with yellow cheese paste inside of them taste awful yet are so popular.

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

+1
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.

You do realize that the U.S. is a huge country, right? What you’re describing as “typical” American food is very much southern American food. I can assure you that it’s not “typical” in other parts of the country.

Oh, sorry. We ignored all of that delicious food from New England or Minnesota or the Midwest. Whatever would the world do without Cincinnati Skyline Chili, Minnesota Hot Dish, or Chicago deep dish???

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American food is gross, obscene, unbalanced, extraordinarily unhealthy, and just downright awful. Cinnamon, spaghetti, ground beef, cheese, .......so yummy! 🤢

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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.

I didn’t eat them in law school, but I started making them when I worked in biglaw and was stuck at my desk for 48 hours. They keep well!