So I've been really busy here lately and I was giving an estimate on some HUD (Housing and Urban Development) houses repairs today. One house the people just left ... and they left all their food and other belonging which I'll give away free if you like zillions of fleas. So anyway I saw some cans of ...
Chef Boyardee Macaroni & Cheese IN A FREAKIN' CAN!!!
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How damn hard is it to fix a box of nasty macaroni and orange synthetic cheese-like-flavored powder? Is it so hard that it need to put in a can for quick and easy convenience? Because boiling water is just to hard to do.
I guess what annoyed me most was these people couldn't pay their rent or utilities as HUD housing is Section 8 which is mostly paid by the government (i.e. Joe Taxpayer) but they could pony up $1.30 (Wasn't food stamps as it was bought at 'Big Lots' and they don't take them.) for a 12 oz. can of nasty pre-made mac and cheese, whereas you can buy 3 16oz. boxes of it for a $1 which will make about a bucket of it.
So there they sat, something like 20 cans of mac and cheese and my first thought was "Mac and Cheese pre-made in a can ... that's just wrong, wrong I tell you, wrong."
I guess what got me most, got me thinking was that I go in a lot of houses and it seems like nearly everyone has 'ready to eat'/'heat and eat' foods and most of those people are xx-large. Is it that hard to fix food from scratch? Something actually nutritional? I like macaroni and cheese, but geez ... boil some water, cook the macaroni and melt some real cheese (or Velveeta) on it, really it's not that hard. Takes less than 30 minutes, start to eat.
Yes I know, sometimes we're all rushed, or tired and we just want something quick and easy, no muss, no fuss food, but if everything you eat is cooked in some huge factory ... well that's just lazy IMHO. Because even if your tired Mac and Cheese is just not that hard to make, if it was it'd be on the Iron Chef.
So have you seen any food products that just should not be pre-made, ready to eat, like little cups of Jello with some fruit cocktail in it ... another no brainer east to make food, if you can classify Jello as food ... but hey there's always room for Jello.
Yea, I avoid all the pre-made crap as much as I can. Nothing like paying extra for crap that isn't good for you. I see all kinds of crap like that, I've even seen canned OMELET. I mean, My kid knew how to cook eggs and throw a bunch of other junk in with it when he was around 5 years old. Out of morbid curiosity, I bought a canned omelet, , honestly, it tasted just like the omelets that are in MREs, probably a little worse. This frustrates the crap out of me because I can make a b***hin' omelet, and I can tell you, it's not rocket science.
Anyways, Same thing with things like pre-made hamburgers, , they use the crappiest beef they can find, and it goes downhill from there.
Quote from: CheezeFlixz on August 07, 2008, 11:23:47 PM
. One house the people just left ... and they left all their food and other belonging which I'll give away free if you like zillions of fleas.
:buggedout: :buggedout: :buggedout: but also :bouncegiggle: :teddyr:
Pre-made food drives me crazy, for the most part. Occasionally I'll by a can of baked beans or spaghetti in tomato sauce [or as they say, ketchup :wink: ] just for a quick meal to put inside a toasted sandwich for a snack.
The worst pre-packaged crap I've ever seen was pre made mashed potatoes... :hatred: Sounded like the worst thing ever. It's powdered type crap you add a bit of water too, chuck in the microwave and BAM, gooey gross stuff for you!
I do buy some pre made stuff but it's mainly for ease. The only stuff that I buy pre made is spaghetti sauce. I could easily make it myself but I only use a little bit and the recipe that I have is for a large amount (Like making pasta for a family of 4). Plus I don't make that much money so I don't want to buy all the stuff for it and end up wasting most of it.
Once again, I have to say things are simply too easy in our society. That and our society is getting way to lazy. People don't want to grow quality produce from seeds or take the small extra time to prepare them so they settle. Then again, I can't say I haven't done that. Hence why my cholesterol levels were through the roof at a young age.
One time my wife bought this frozen turkey thing, I guess she thought it was a turkey roast (which we like), but it was slightly different. On the box there was this picture of this beautiful turkey dinner. So she tosses this frozen block in the oven for an hour and a half. Know what it was? Twenty five slices of turkey sandwich meat in three cups of gravy.
Not exactly a pre made food but I once was working at a food drive and someone put in several packaged green beans. Have you ever seen these, disgusting. Who actually expects someone to eat that crap, I wouldn't feed it to my dog just by looking at it!
Quote from: Patient7 on August 08, 2008, 10:42:45 AM
Not exactly a pre made food but I once was working at a food drive and someone put in several packaged green beans. Have you ever seen these, disgusting. Who actually expects someone to eat that crap, I wouldn't feed it to my dog just by looking at it!
I don't like canned vegetables either. My dad used to get us canned corn during the winter and I would never eat it since I told him it tasted like metal. He never believed me until one day when he ate some and said that I was right and it did taste like metal. Now the only corn we use is frozen corn which we only use when we don't have any fresh corn or do not want to use our "special" fresh stock that we froze for special times. We also have fresh corn as well which we use most of the time. We do though freeze fresh corn every year so that we have a bunch of it when it comes time to use it for the holidays.
Quote from: asimpson2006 on August 08, 2008, 11:54:56 AM
Quote from: Patient7 on August 08, 2008, 10:42:45 AM
Not exactly a pre made food but I once was working at a food drive and someone put in several packaged green beans. Have you ever seen these, disgusting. Who actually expects someone to eat that crap, I wouldn't feed it to my dog just by looking at it!
I don't like canned vegetables either. My dad used to get us canned corn during the winter and I would never eat it since I told him it tasted like metal. He never believed me until one day when he ate some and said that I was right and it did taste like metal. Now the only corn we use is frozen corn which we only use when we don't have any fresh corn or do not want to use our "special" fresh stock that we froze for special times. We also have fresh corn as well which we use most of the time. We do though freeze fresh corn every year so that we have a bunch of it when it comes time to use it for the holidays.
Actually they weren't canned, they were in plastic cups like pre-made Jell-O. Even grosser.
Quote from: Patient7 on August 08, 2008, 12:46:25 PM
Actually they weren't canned, they were in plastic cups like pre-made Jell-O. Even grosser.
My mistake. That does sound awful I have never seen vegetables in plastic cups before. Now I almost don't want to see it.
Quote from: asimpson2006 on August 08, 2008, 12:54:13 PM
Quote from: Patient7 on August 08, 2008, 12:46:25 PM
Actually they weren't canned, they were in plastic cups like pre-made Jell-O. Even grosser.
My mistake. That does sound awful I have never seen vegetables in plastic cups before. Now I almost don't want to see it.
Trust me, you don't. (http://5g8.net/smileys/sign-eeeew.gif)
You should all try this crap, I don't even know what they make it from, it's not 100% pork?
(http://www.dazbert.co.uk/sites/rudefood/food/faggots.jpg)
Advertised as "faggot food"
We have stores over here like Lidl & Iceland, where everything is cheap, german, factory made food and it's all frozen.
a few years ago pepperidge farm had this stuff called "toasting bread" which was different from regular bread somehow. thicker or something. toasting bread?
Quote from: The DarkSider on August 08, 2008, 06:32:07 AM
Once again, I have to say things are simply too easy in our society. That and our society is getting way to lazy. People don't want to grow quality produce from seeds or take the small extra time to prepare them so they settle. Then again, I can't say I haven't done that. Hence why my cholesterol levels were through the roof at a young age.
That is why if something should happen in the world and people had to go out and actually provide for themselves, grow food, hurt food, preserve food etc ... the world will be a pretty specious place in a matter of months. People would starve off in droves.
Quote from: circus_circus on August 08, 2008, 01:11:36 PM
You should all try this crap, I don't even know what they make it from, it's not 100% pork?
(http://www.dazbert.co.uk/sites/rudefood/food/faggots.jpg)
Advertised as "faggot food"
We have stores over here like Lidl & Iceland, where everything is cheap, german, factory made food and it's all frozen.
I've seen that while in England, really don't know why they're not a popular food item in San Francisco.
I saw pre-cooked rice today, just heat and eat. Again is it that hard to boil water, use a streamer or even fix it in the microwave? It was a 4 oz bag for about a $1. 4 oz. that's a 1/2 cup. Or you can do it the old fashion way and cook it yourself and make around 20 cups for a $1.
Quote from: CheezeFlixz on August 07, 2008, 11:23:47 PMmac and cheese ...you can buy 3 16oz. boxes of it for a $1 which will make about a bucket of it.
True, but there was one summer when I was in school that I was so broke between paychecks (working painting houses we got paid by the job, not by the week, and we were on a big one) that I could not *afford* to make even this stuff. Why? Because to make it I had to have butter and milk. (No I was not hungry enough to eat it made with water alone. :tongueout: Close, but not quite.) When my rent and bus pass were paid for I was down to half a loaf of bread and a small bag of carrots. No cheese etc - they were too costly. So I could see buying the canned stuff...once. Not as a regular thing, and not now surely.
you wanna know what really scares me? fish sticks!! there is no way i'd feed them to my daughter; they seem to consist of a 'supposedly' crunchy coating with the insides being a mushy goo that tastes like melted styrofoam plates.
Pre-made pot roasts freak me out too. How hard is it to throw a piece of meat in the crock pot and leave it there till its ready to add vegetables to it?
Pre-cooked bacon? gross
I think the worst pre-made meal i ever had was one of those frozen ham, egg, and cheese croissants.
When i was at the grocery store the other day, i actually seen a can of the mac n cheese. I thought, gee it don't get much worse than that. And i thought that for awhile until two aisles over i passed a can of 'homemade' sausage gravy....
I use pre-cooked bacon once in a while, mainly to avoid the mess of cooking bacon. Basically, we put the bits on nachos or the slices on club sandwiches. If we actually want to eat, say, bacon and eggs, we cook our own bacon.
I'm amazed at the frozen slow-cooker meals that are just the right size and shape to plunk into your crock pot before you go to work. What's difficult about throwing in a chunk of meat, a few vegetables, some water, seasoning and a boullion cube? It's already about the simplest homemade dinner you can have.
The one that always grosses me out when I go to the store is the heat-and-eat mashed potatoes. I don't mind the flakes so much, since they have their uses, but I'm talking about a plastic bag full of mashed potatoes. That in itself is not what I find particularly gross, just unappetizing and silly. What gets me is that they come in two varieties - with or without lumps. Geez Louise.
I think those are the two kinds of instant foods that bug me the most. The ones that make 'convenience food' out of something that was already convenient, and the ones that tackle foods that just have to be made fresh. Mashed potatoes have to be fresh and hot, or they're just no good. They set up, and that's that. They don't reheat well, and they actually take a bit of a knack to make right in the first place. They can come out too wet, too dry, not fluffy enough, soupy, lumpy or just bland. If you really like mashed potatoes (and you can tell I do), I can't see the bagged stuff passing muster.
Quote from: AndyC on August 09, 2008, 08:09:47 AM...heat-and-eat mashed potatoes...come in two varieties - with or without lumps. Geez Louise.
ROFLMBO! Now, if THAT is not a tacit admission that what is in that bag does not really approach 'homemade', what is?
People
pay for this? Lumpy processed mashed? Real potatoes are so cheap too.
Quote from: SisterGrace on August 09, 2008, 07:24:05 AM
Pre-cooked bacon? gross
I think the worst pre-made meal i ever had was one of those frozen ham, egg, and cheese croissants.
Actually, I've had pre-cooked bacon at my grandmother's once and I must say it was quite good. As for those frozen mcgriddles, yummy. Kinda tired after a while, but yummy.
Quote from: Newt on August 09, 2008, 09:10:04 AM
ROFLMBO! Now, if THAT is not a tacit admission that what is in that bag does not really approach 'homemade', what is?
People pay for this? Lumpy processed mashed? Real potatoes are so cheap too.
The lumpy variety is sold as "homestyle." :bouncegiggle: Not my home, that's for sure.
Here's some advice from the Yoder's mashed potato FAQ:
QuoteWe recommend consuming our Mashed Potatoes within 7 days of opening the bag or by the date stamped on the bag; whichever comes first. We do not recommend freezing our Mashed Potatoes, however if they should become frozen, they are safe to consume but may take some extra stirring when heated. Allow the Mashed Potatoes to thaw in the refrigerator and then follow the heating instructions on the back of the container. Some people like to use a mixer to whip the potatoes back to their original consistency.
Use within seven days of opening the bag. Good lord. Almost as amusing is the lengths to which people will go to make their premade mashed potatoes palatable. If you're going to heat it in a pot, stir it and whip it with a mixer, you're already about halfway to making fresh potatoes.
In some ways, that last part reminds me of my dad, who can't actually cook, but if forced to will add some little bit of panache to a frozen delicacy and then brag about it. I used to do that when I was little, so it's kind of cute. For example, my dad cannot bake a frozen pie without telling you all about how he spreads a bit of butter on top before putting it in the oven. Well move over Wolfgang Puck! The pie must taste like crap without that half-teaspoon of butter. And that is the sad truth. People who rely on this stuff actually think they're cooking.
Quote from: SisterGrace on August 09, 2008, 07:24:05 AM
When i was at the grocery store the other day, i actually seen a can of the mac n cheese. I thought, gee it don't get much worse than that. And i thought that for awhile until two aisles over i passed a can of 'homemade' sausage gravy....
I use canned sausage gravy from time to time, mainly because I don't have the patience to make real gravy. It's really not that bad, , of course it's GRAVY, so it's not very good for you. Also, believe it or not, canned gravy seems to have less salt than the gravy I'VE made, , A can't eat anything with lots of salt.
As for fish sticks,, you have no idea. . Many of those are made right on the ships that catch them, and I've seen the inside of more than a few of those ships. It seems like the Russian ships are the worst, I've gone onto the factory deck of them and seen 1/2 of the paint on the ceiling and walls missing so it was rusting, like layers of laminated rust, and about 1/2 of the paint that was missing from the walls was in huge flakes all over everything, including the processing machinery.
Believe it or not though, some of the fish sticks you buy aren't nearly as bad as they look, it's just kinda a weird way of making food, but made on some really clean ships or land-based factories. They lay many layers of fillets of fish out in a big pan and freeze it solid. Then they cut that solid chunk into fish-stick sized chunks and bread, cook them while frozen. Sounds weird, but you end up with honest fish fillet meat inside. MUCH better than the was hot-dogs and bologna is made. Now, , that's for GOOD fish-sticks, , for crappy ones, , who knows. .
QuoteI think the worst pre-made meal i ever had was one of those frozen ham, egg, and cheese croissants.
I make them at home all the time. I BUY the croissants and cook up the eggs and ham or salami, put some cheese and salsa on it. I bring one to work every once in a while and I usually end up with all 30 of the inmates that work for me watching me eat through my office window, then later I get the rundown on how bad their breakfast sucked, which is OK with me, , nothing would p**s me off worse than knowing they were getting fed better than servicemen do (I have to say, prison food SUCKS, I wouldn't eat it if it wasn't free).
While we're talking about FOOD, I just don't understand the thing with KETCHUP these days. Salsa is SOO much better, I haven't bought ketchup in YEARS. Eggs, burgers, mac-n-cheese WHATEVER you put ketchup on you can put salsa on and it tastes better. It seems the weird things people put ketchup on like scrambled eggs or mac-n-cheese benefit the most. . Ketchup is boring. .
The rules are not quite as cut and dried when it comes to frozen food. As Ghouck said, a lot of fish sticks are processed right on the boat, and its the cleanliness of the process that matters. But frozen fish is often better than fresh, unless you live close to where it's caught. The bacteria that make fish smell 'fishy' do just fine at refrigerator temperatures. To inhibit the bacteria, you have to freeze them.
Frozen vegetables are likewise often better than what is in the produce department. Unless you're going to the farmers market and buying local food in season, chances are the fresh vegetables you're buying have been trucked or even carried by ship from who knows where. The've sat on loading docks, passed through warehouses, driven down miles of highway over days or weeks. They aren't particularly fresh when they arrive, and a lot of their vitamins are gone. Fruits like tomatoes were likely picked before they were ripe. Meanwhile, frozen vegetables get processed and flash frozen relatively close to the farm.
Canned veggies are, by far, the worst. Dull, mushy, tasteless, no vitamins. That's pretty much what I got fed as a kid, at times of year when our own garden wasn't producing. Nothing but fresh or frozen veg for me these days. Even been tempted to plant a vegetable garden of my own next year, as an educational thing for my daughter. That and the fresh produce sold around here is a crap shoot at best.
Quote from: ghouck on August 09, 2008, 11:42:14 AM
While we're talking about FOOD, I just don't understand the thing with KETCHUP these days. Salsa is SOO much better, I haven't bought ketchup in YEARS. Eggs, burgers, mac-n-cheese WHATEVER you put ketchup on you can put salsa on and it tastes better. It seems the weird things people put ketchup on like scrambled eggs or mac-n-cheese benefit the most. . Ketchup is boring. .
Ketchup is gross and i don't understand America's facination with it. Like you, I can eat salsa on anything. Nothing tops a baked potato better than salsa. I also love hot sauce and think its the perfect condiment. Most people look at me wierd when i order fries i always get them sprinkled with feta and with a side of mayo. (you don't get hips like these jogging every morning :smile: )
I see it often, at a party or a barbecue and someone takes a steak, or even a chunk of Halibut (which costs more that King Crab these days), or even Prime Rib, and pours ketchup all over it. They could have done the same with a chunk of black rockfish, which people GIVE away on the docks in quantity, and it would have tasted no different than halibut, since it's just going to taste like ketchup.
There was a steakhouse in Texas that used to bring the entire restaurant staff out and they surrounded you while singing some fairly insulting song whenever someone used ketchup on a steak. Kinda like the birthday treatment some restaurants give you, except insulting. I heard they used to take your steak away and replace it with a burnt hamburger patty, but I'd never seen THAT.
I've always thought these were the dumbest/laziest pre-made food item I've ever seen:
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I'm thinking it takes longer to defrost one of these beauties than it does to make an Honest-To-Goodness peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Even if you cut off the crusts.
I'll bet soon we'll see NEW! Uncrustables with Crusts!
These are a head scratcher/stomach-churner:
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If they only came with a maple-flavored high fructose corn syrup in little plastic packets to squeeze over them.
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no hot link
First off these are nasty fresh actually in a White Castle, I have no idea why any one would want to buy one frozen and heat it up at home. I never got the fascination with White Castle Burgers.
Quote from: CheezeFlixz on August 10, 2008, 07:44:04 AM
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First off these are nasty fresh actually in a White Castle, I have no idea why any one would want to buy one frozen and heat it up at home. I never got the fascination with White Castle Burgers.
Oh come on, White Castle is delicious! I don't know about the frozen kind but still.
Quote from: Patient7 on August 10, 2008, 11:22:20 AM
Oh come on, White Castle is delicious! I don't know about the frozen kind but still.
White Castle's, much like Krystal's is only good at 3AM after you've been drinking all night. (Which you're not old enough to yet, legally.)
Quote from: CheezeFlixz on August 10, 2008, 12:58:36 PM
Quote from: Patient7 on August 10, 2008, 11:22:20 AM
Oh come on, White Castle is delicious! I don't know about the frozen kind but still.
White Castle's, much like Krystal's is only good at 3AM after you've been drinking all night. (Which you're not old enough to yet, legally.)
Despite the fact that I disagree with you, that's kinda funny.
Quote from: Raffine on August 09, 2008, 03:07:23 PM
I've always thought these were the dumbest/laziest pre-made food item I've ever seen:
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My wife tried these on my son who gave it the big thumbs down. I don't blame him.
Quote from: ghouck on August 09, 2008, 02:11:18 PM
There was a steakhouse in Texas that used to bring the entire restaurant staff out and they surrounded you while singing some fairly insulting song whenever someone used ketchup on a steak. Kinda like the birthday treatment some restaurants give you, except insulting. I heard they used to take your steak away and replace it with a burnt hamburger patty, but I'd never seen THAT.
Gotta love the restaurants that have that kind of integrity. They take great care to prepare the food, and they don't put up with people messing it up. You wanna dump ketchup all over an expensive, dry aged and perfectly cooked cut of beef, they don't really need your business. Kudos to them.
I personally get annoyed with people who put barbecue sauce on steaks (fine on pork, chicken, beef roasts, burgers or sausage, but not steak), or shower it with premixed "steak spice" from a bottle. People love this stuff, and I just don't see why. When I cook a steak, I choose a good cut to begin with, drizzle a little olive oil on it, sprinkle it with salt and pepper, then slap it onto a really hot grill to get it nicely seared, flip it once and serve it medium rare. Tons of flavour there that would just be killed by heavy saucing and seasoning. The most I like to put on steak is a dab of homemade compound butter. It tastes like a steak, not ketchup.
Quote from: CheezeFlixz on August 10, 2008, 12:58:36 PM
White Castle's, much like Krystal's is only good at 3AM after you've been drinking all night. (Which you're not old enough to yet, legally.)
We don't have White Castle, but I know exactly what you mean. Years ago, there was a 24-hour coffee shop we used to meet at after a night of drinking. I absolutely loved the assorted subs there. Not fresh subs, mind you. I'm talking about the ones sealed in plastic wrap and put on display under the counter. Assorted cheap cold cuts, processed cheese, tomatoes, lettuce and sauces, put on a bun and wrapped up so it can get slightly soggy, then left in the store for who knows how long. You couldn't get me to sniff one of those while sober, but pour 14 or 15 drinks into me and deprive me of sleep for a few hours, and they really hit the spot.
Quote from: AndyC on August 10, 2008, 10:02:55 PM
We don't have White Castle, but I know exactly what you mean. Years ago, there was a 24-hour coffee shop we used to meet at after a night of drinking. I absolutely loved the assorted subs there. Not fresh subs, mind you. I'm talking about the ones sealed in plastic wrap and put on display under the counter. Assorted cheap cold cuts, processed cheese, tomatoes, lettuce and sauces, put on a bun and wrapped up so it can get slightly soggy, then left in the store for who knows how long. You couldn't get me to sniff one of those while sober, but pour 14 or 15 drinks into me and deprive me of sleep for a few hours, and they really hit the spot.
Around here that would be Ferrell Burger's at
Ferrell's Snappy Service, a little local drive where I lived in during some of my partying days that was open 24/7. I wouldn't eat one of the those burger sober if you you paid me. A few drinks and little sleep and we'd stop there and order 5 of them, they were a 98 cents each then.
(http://www.hopkinsvillenostalgia.com/Ferrell's%20folder/Ferrells.jpg)
Since hotdogs are certainly an inconvenient food:
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Quote from: ghouck on August 09, 2008, 11:42:14 AM
I use canned sausage gravy from time to time, mainly because I don't have the patience to make real gravy. It's really not that bad, , of course it's GRAVY, so it's not very good for you. Also, believe it or not, canned gravy seems to have less salt than the gravy I'VE made, , A can't eat anything with lots of salt.
We sometimes use canned gravy but it's rare that we do so. We usually have a can at the house as more or less of a backup if we can't make enough gravy or need to have extra gravy but that's about it. It really doesn't matter if we use extra gravy since it's only my mom and dad who eat it. I avoid it since I don't like it.
Quote from: ghouck on August 09, 2008, 11:42:14 AM
As for fish sticks,, you have no idea. . Many of those are made right on the ships that catch them, and I've seen the inside of more than a few of those ships. It seems like the Russian ships are the worst, I've gone onto the factory deck of them and seen 1/2 of the paint on the ceiling and walls missing so it was rusting, like layers of laminated rust, and about 1/2 of the paint that was missing from the walls was in huge flakes all over everything, including the processing machinery.
Believe it or not though, some of the fish sticks you buy aren't nearly as bad as they look, it's just kinda a weird way of making food, but made on some really clean ships or land-based factories. They lay many layers of fillets of fish out in a big pan and freeze it solid. Then they cut that solid chunk into fish-stick sized chunks and bread, cook them while frozen. Sounds weird, but you end up with honest fish fillet meat inside. MUCH better than the was hot-dogs and bologna is made. Now, , that's for GOOD fish-sticks, , for crappy ones, , who knows. .
I hate fish sticks. My dad used to make it a bunch and I would usually not eat it since I call it "Kids food". If I want fish I want real fish not fish sticks.
English breakfast in a can = gross
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Quote from: asimpson2006 on August 11, 2008, 12:31:33 PM
I hate fish sticks. My dad used to make it a bunch and I would usually not eat it since I call it "Kids food". If I want fish I want real fish not fish sticks.
The bad ones are HORRIBLE. I've seen them where they grind up a bunch of fish scraps for the meat, and mix it with, and get this, THE LIQUID THAT COMES OUT OF ALL THE HEADS, GUTS, CRAP AFTER BEING SQUEEZED. Nasty. . .
Quote from: asimpson2006 on August 11, 2008, 12:31:33 PM
Quote from: ghouck on August 09, 2008, 11:42:14 AM
I use canned sausage gravy from time to time, mainly because I don't have the patience to make real gravy. It's really not that bad, , of course it's GRAVY, so it's not very good for you. Also, believe it or not, canned gravy seems to have less salt than the gravy I'VE made, , A can't eat anything with lots of salt.
We sometimes use canned gravy but it's rare that we do so. We usually have a can at the house as more or less of a backup if we can't make enough gravy or need to have extra gravy but that's about it. It really doesn't matter if we use extra gravy since it's only my mom and dad who eat it. I avoid it since I don't like it.
We just get ours at KFC.
Quote from: ghouck on August 11, 2008, 01:15:45 PM
The bad ones are HORRIBLE. I've seen them where they grind up a bunch of fish scraps for the meat, and mix it with, and get this, THE LIQUID THAT COMES OUT OF ALL THE HEADS, GUTS, CRAP AFTER BEING SQUEEZED. Nasty. . .
Mmmmm, mechanically separated fish. :twirl:
"Mechanically separated" is a term that seems about as misleading as you can get. I see something like mechanically separated chicken on a label, and for me, the words suggest something along the lines of little metal fingers working away to separate good meat from the rest. What it really means is taking the chicken carcass, the stripped skeleton after any identifiable chicken parts have been removed, and putting it into what is basically an industrial-sized garlic press. Soft stuff squirts out through the holes, bones stay inside. Almost enough to put a person off hot dogs. Almost.
I was not aware that the same thing was done with fish, but I'm not at all surprised.
I'm a college kid. I'm poor. But I still refuse to eat some of the garbage I see my peers wolf down. I've never once touched ramen. I make Macaroni and Cheese from scratch. Most of my meals come from a sub shop just off campus that's pretty reasonably priced (I make $6 last me two meals). Roughly once a month a bunch of friends and I get together and each cook a dish, and have a huge potluck. I cook a real, decent meal at least once a week, usually for two people (my girlfriend and I). Meat, potatoes, veggies, dessert, the works.
Probably 60% of what I earn working in the dining hall goes in my belly, and I have no regrets about that.
And it's nice that I save a huge amount of money on entertainment by watching B-movies. Huzzah for the 50-movie DVD packs.
Quote from: Saucerman on August 11, 2008, 10:27:49 PM
I'm a college kid. I'm poor. But I still refuse to eat some of the garbage I see my peers wolf down. I've never once touched ramen. I make Macaroni and Cheese from scratch. Most of my meals come from a sub shop just off campus that's pretty reasonably priced (I make $6 last me two meals). Roughly once a month a bunch of friends and I get together and each cook a dish, and have a huge potluck. I cook a real, decent meal at least once a week, usually for two people (my girlfriend and I). Meat, potatoes, veggies, dessert, the works.
Probably 60% of what I earn working in the dining hall goes in my belly, and I have no regrets about that.
And it's nice that I save a huge amount of money on entertainment by watching B-movies. Huzzah for the 50-movie DVD packs.
What's wrong with Ramen? I used to eat it a bunch when I was in college and for a while in High School but I hardly eat it now since I can get some real food now and then.
The sodium level is horrific, and heart disease runs in my family.
And I don't like the taste.
Quote from: asimpson2006 on August 12, 2008, 06:31:22 AM
What's wrong with Ramen? I used to eat it a bunch when I was in college and for a while in High School but I hardly eat it now since I can get some real food now and then.
Ramen is only good with boiled chicken hearts. .
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Quote from: Hammock Rider on August 14, 2008, 03:37:21 PM
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I hate when that happens . . .
Penicillin will make it go away though. .