/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.4957603]

>ITT: Gross shit even your dumbass tasteless 10 year old self couldn't get into.

[Anonymous No.4957604]

that's fucked 'cause purple is supposed to taste like fruit. not tomatoes.

[Anonymous No.4957608]

>>4957604
I see what you done did thar.

[Anonymous No.4957617]

I remember watching other kids try it for the first time. They all hated it as much as me.

[Anonymous No.4957620]

>>4957617
>tfw I bought that once
>tfw I prefered to look at it than drink it

[Anonymous No.4957640]

>>4957620

I loved its looks.

It just tasted bitter and medicine-like. I wish they'd bring it back, but actually make it taste pleasant.

[Anonymous No.4957642]

I had the green ketchup, it was p good.

[Anonymous No.4957648]

>>4957617

i liked these :(

[Anonymous No.4957651]

>>4957648
So you were the one.

[Anonymous No.4957650]

>>4957640
It wasn't really the taste, just the fact it felt like it was watered down jello was a little off putting.

I only tried it once, it wasn't as bad, but it wasn't nearly anywhere near good enough for me to buy it a second time

[Anonymous No.4957656]

>>4957642
I thought it was gonna be fun, but it kept mentally fucking with my head everytime I looked down at the plate, seriously reminded me of the colors of sick.

[Anonymous No.4957710]

>>4957656
yeah, I think the color green has been shown to reduce people's appetite

[Anonymous No.4957716]

>>4957617
I remember talking my mom into buying me on. Had like a stale flat taste to it. Never got it again.

[Anonymous No.4957722]

Japanese super high end sushi made from raw chicken.

[Anonymous No.4957727]

>>4957722
>super high end sushi

at 10? really?

[Anonymous No.4957737]

>>4957722
I swear that can kill you.

[Anonymous No.4957743]

>>4957737

fuckin japs man.


to a certain extent a lot of what is eaten as fine cuisine in japan seems more to be an example of a cultural predisposition towards eating food for the sake of testing extremes of flavor than actually eating for the sake of innate pleasure.

I guess it comes from the culture that develops in resource limited islands.... there is a vein of that in the UK as well.


but when I saw that episode of Iron Chef where they cooked the fucking bird-saliva-nests and did shit like dissolve the bird saliva nests to make soup.....

I kind of threw up in my mouth a little.

[Anonymous No.4957759]

>>4957743
Like... They bowled nests to get the bird saliva out? Jesus

[Anonymous No.4957769]

>>4957743
Swallow's nests are Chinese cuisine... and what do you mean by there being a vein of that in the UK as well? I can't really think of any extreme flavours in British cuisine.

[Anonymous No.4957783]

>>4957769
Not that guy, but isn't it a stereotype Brits got bitter food?

[Anonymous No.4957789]

>>4957759

I cant remember what type of bird it is. they spin their nests by literally spitting out saliva that then hardens into a sort of calcium-carbonate rich almost rock like structure.

they are used in ridiculously high end asian cuisine (as the nests themselves are worth like $10,000 a pop or something like that; almost like white truffles).

however, you are still eating dried bird spit.

like I said, there was an episode of the legit Japanese Iron Chef, which is totally different from the american remake, in the sense that there literally is a Japanese culinary institute and the chairman or whatever really is some super rich guy who really does go out and purchase a shitload of expensive ingredients for the purposes of a TV show.

on that episode the secret ingredient was these fucking spit-nests.

the defining disgusting feature of the episode was dissolving the spit nests in stock to make spit-nest soup.

literally bowls full of flavored bird spit, because they are reconstituting them with water.

[Anonymous No.4957791]

>>4957783
I didn't know that. I thought the stereotype was that the British had bad or boring food.

[Anonymous No.4957799]

>>4957743

>swallows nest
>extremes of flavor

Lol, swallows nest has very little flavor, if any. It's about the mildest tasting food there is. The point of it is the texture, not the taste. The flavor comes from the stock the soup is made with.

>>4957783
Two things, really:

1) The French term for boiling food is "la Anglaise", or "in the English manner", so according to the French, the English boil everything.

2) The rationing during WWII is responsible for a lot of very bad English cooking, and even worse stereotypes.

[Anonymous No.4957800]

>>4957642
When I was little we had berry bushes in our garden that for a few months would have dark green berries on them, birds would eat these green berries and shit bright green slimy crap everywhere, the green ketchup looked exactly like that green bird poop.

[Anonymous No.4957816]

[Anonymous No.4957829]

>>4957783
No, unless you mean the beer

[Anonymous No.4957836]

>>4957829
I just figured with the vinegar, the worcestershire sauce, and blood pudding and all that jazz was where the stereotype came from

[Anonymous No.4957843]

>>4957836
Oh, those are certainly quite strong flavours, excluding the blood pudding, but I wouldn't say bitter.

That brief list of items has gotten me hungry, though...

[Anonymous No.4957864]

>>4957843
Yeah me too.

I want a full english breakfast now, with a side of bacon.

[Anonymous No.4957866]

>>4957710
You're thinking of blue you moronic dolt.

[Anonymous No.4957867]

>>4957617
A few years ago my friends and I found a case of these inside this abandoned flea market. All the things had sunk to the bottom, and they tasted poisonous.

[Anonymous No.4957871]

>>4957866
>"How dare you get such obscure facts wrong!"

[Anonymous No.4957875]

>>4957603
I made the packaging for that.

They sent a lot of it for free when it was first released.

It was weird to eat stuff with bright green ketchup all the time. And I'm glad it didn't catch on.

[Anonymous No.4957906]

>>4957875
Well you did a fine job sir, it's quite attractive, and it made my 10 year old self want it.

Shame their skill wasn't quite up to par when it came to the actual ketchup part

[Anonymous No.4957930]

>>4957799


u jok rite?

>2005
>go to england
>go to super upscale pub in Norfolk
>they have a super fancy restaurant in addition to the pub
>cousin of my friend whose family we stay with orders an item called "bait"
>he explains its "fish"
>food comes
>his food is a fucking gigantic pile of tiny fish
>so small that their bones are basically cartilage
>bait is ingested by taking big forkfulls of entire fish, and chomping down on them whole.


dis
gus
ting

also they serve baked beans in chinese buffets in the UK.

[Anonymous No.4957973]

>>4957737
Not if it's really fresh. Like, 'point-at-the-chicken-you-want-to-eat-in-20-minutes-and-we-will-kill-it-for-you'-fresh. Had yakitori done this way in Osaka once, they were pretty okay. If I butcher my own chickens, I usually eat the breasts immediately, and a bit undercooked. I kinda appreciate the texture.

[Anonymous No.4957982]

>>4957737
you could eat raw chicken if you gamma irradiate it

[Anonymous No.4957983]

>>4957871
>plants, literally 80% of the natural diet, are unappetizing

[Anonymous No.4957989]

>>4957983
not me, but you were just being an autist

[Anonymous No.4957995]

>>4957973

literally raw dude. at most they pound the meat.

they don't treat it with acid (eg with citrus), nor do they heat it.

fucking
raw

cold.


That will be $150 please.

[Anonymous No.4957998]

>>4957930
Whitebait, basically baby fish, is a common dish in England. It's also done by the Portuguese, who do it, quite unsurprisingly, very well.

My personal experience with common English food is that it's food for factory workers; simple, nutrient-dense, and cheap. If you look at some of the more modern British chefs, like Marco Pierre White, Paul Rankin or Fergus Henderson, you'll find that they are able to make great dishes with produce available from the British Isles; lobster, clams, lamb, prawns, sea urchin, salmon, pheasant, venison, and the likes. So while British food used to be quite boring, British high-end cuisine is on a rise.

[Anonymous No.4958002]

>>4957989
>not me, but you were just being an autist
Jokes on you, that was my first post ITT

[Anonymous No.4958005]

>>4957930
>Norfolk
>super fancy restaurant
I think we've found the problem here

[Anonymous No.4958007]

>>4958002
DOUBLE JOKES. THAT WAS ALSO MINE AHA

[Anonymous No.4958008]

>>4957995
Hmm, I could imagine that not necessarily being unhealthy, although I don't see the appeal in raw chicken without as much as marinade or spices.

[Anonymous No.4958011]

>>4957982

>gamma irradiate it

>implicating bacteria doesnt survive on the hulls of spacecraft in the year/multi month long voyage to mars while relativistic protons and gamma from extra solar and extra galactic sources are bombarding it from every direction


no.

radiosterilization is never 100% effective.

if it was, canned food would literally last forever, since that is the way that 99.9999% of the canned food is treated.

[Anonymous No.4958016]

>>4957983

>plants
>80% of the natural diet

lol lern2paleoanthropology

95% of the natural diet was meat for about 2.1185 million years buddy.

[Anonymous No.4958021]

>>4958011
Bacteria that have adapted to withstand gamma radiation, are quite unlikely to also have perfectly adapted to survive in the human body. Normally, canned food would not spoil because of microbial activity, but it would slowly start to dissolve the can, lose some taste, and look unappealing. Still perfectly edible, apart from maybe the traces of dissolved metal from the can.

[Anonymous No.4958030]

>>4958011
>99% of canned food is irradiated

wat

[Anonymous No.4958437]

>>4957998
Since when is whitebait a common dish in the UK? Granted I'm quite far inland but I can't remember seeing it on a menu anywhere in the country

[Anonymous No.4958451]

>>4958437
It was a old cockney dish like jellied eels and pie and mash that went out of fashion. I haven't seen it served anywhere though.

[Anonymous No.4958483]

>>4958437
It seems pretty common over here in London. It's pretty much like a tiny version of fish and chip fish, with bones. I don't like it very much.

[Anonymous No.4958495]

>>4957930
I'm British and I've literally never seen this in my life.

[Anonymous No.4958533]

>>4958030

they basically pass the cans by a Cobalt-60 or Cesium-137 source that blasts gamma rays at the can.


in theory you could kill all of the bacteria and other pathogens still present.

the downside is that any irradiation will also destroy some of the actual nutrients in the food.

so there is tradeoff.... at what exposure does the food start to taste and smell weird and lose its nutritional value compared with the exposure required to kill enough of the microorganisms to keep the food safe for an acceptable amount of time.


They do make food that is murdered to death, so that it would literally last as long as the packaging (potentially "forever"), but its specialty.

they use it in the military, in space (mostly because you simply cannot risk getting sick in space), and sell it to "survivalists"

[Anonymous No.4958566]

>>4958483
>Oh! Battered and fried whitefish bait!
>All I can taste is the batter

FFS, man.

[Anonymous No.4958594]

>>4957789

>He thinks Chairman Kaga was a real person.

You got worked.

[Anonymous No.4958628]

>>4957759
>>4957789

"Edible bird's nest soup" is Chinese, dumb fuck.

[Anonymous No.4958638]

>>4958628
Yet they made it on Japan Iron Chef, it's almost as if... More than one country makes it.... Dumb fuck.

[Anonymous No.4958640]

soda, pop, soft drink, whatever. disgusting.

[Anonymous No.4958644]

>>4958638
The claim that it's a Japanese food when it's actually Chinese is false though

[Anonymous No.4958680]

>>4958644
only its not chinese because the fucking indonesians harvest it
The Chinese will eat ANYTHING, and so they import all the weird shit or impale a bunch of sharks

[Anonymous No.4958708]

Well my tasteless 10 year old self didn't like ketchup, so yeah that would be some pretty gross shit even today.

[Smith the CIA Agent No.4958715]

>>4958680
It's Chinese cuisine, saying that Indonesians harvest it doesn't make it Chinese is like saying the tandoori chicken isn't Indian cuisine because the chicken wasn't raised in India.

Also, you're supposed to cut the fins off the sharks, not impale them.

[Anonymous No.4958740]

>>4958715
Dude who fucking cares.

[Anonymous No.4958769]

>>4958740
Sometimes some people prefer to be corrected so they don't continue to distribute false information.

[Anonymous No.4958774]

>implying the shit on this thread isn't gross regardless of age

[Anonymous No.4958777]

>>4958740
>who cares abut bein wrung xdddddddd
Anyone that tries not to be a fucking moron should, in fact, care about not spouting shit he doesn't have a clue about. Go back to facebook where your brain dead ilk dwell and reign supreme, inter exchanging likes for spouting garbage as vitriolic and inane as yours.

[Anonymous No.4958807]

>>4958715

impaling them would be kinder, they'd die quicker

[Anonymous No.4958826]

Those gelatinous fruit drinks. Squeezers was it? They always tasted so bitter.

[Anonymous No.4958842]

>>4958016
MA hominid paleobiologist chiming in.

Hunter gatherer societies rarely eat meat and neither did hominids. They tended to only when herds migrated and they were able to drive them off cliffs. Meat was plentiful then but rare at other times.

[Smith the CIA Agent No.4958850]

>>4958826
The one with aloe vera in them? Yah, aloe vera is quite bitter.

Suprisingly, the bitter taste seems to be pretty well neutralized by pineapple juice and/or honey.

[Anonymous No.4958865]

>>4958850

No, these were from... like 1988 or so I would have guessed. They came in blue and red. Flavors, who the fuck knows because it was horrible. So bitter.

[Smith the CIA Agent No.4958880]

>>4958865
Never heard of them. Got a pic?

[Anonymous No.4958892]

>>4958533

they put the food in the can, then heat it to 165~ F.

what the fuck are you talking about.

[Anonymous No.4958894]

>>4958826
I think you mean Squeezits

[Anonymous No.4958902]

>>4958894

>>4958880

Those things. They weren't thick like Jello or outright liquid. Like a.. heated gravy that congealed. Really kind of gross. My brother drank them/ate them all the time.

Oh, and the McRib. I've always thought those were disgusting.

[Smith the CIA Agent No.4958905]

>>4958892
There's sterilization by heat, irradiation or by using Ethylene oxide.

[Smith the CIA Agent No.4958907]

>>4958902
Nope, never heard of them. Guess they didn't have them where I grew up.

[Anonymous No.4959255]

Back on thread topic, I always hated these sad excuses for hot dogs.

I think I just had a bad experience when I was really young. I was staying at some person's house and there were three other kids there. Their mom gave them all cold, raw, slimy oscar meyer wieners just to eat as a snack. She gave me one and as I was watching the other kids enjoy their shitsticks I just reticently nibbled on mine and struggled to hold back vomit.
I can still remember the rubbery feel and the crappy smell.

[Anonymous No.4959271]

>>4959255

I have NEVER understood how people eat those straight out of the package cold, it's fucking disgusting to me. Same with certain sausages. blargh

Back on topic, I physically cannot eat Chocolate Cupcakes to this day. At my elementary school party for going to middle school we were swimming and eating snacks. I ate 3 chocolate cupcakes and sat in the hot tub feeling horrible. From then on for like 6 years if I even SAW a chocolate cupcake I would almost vomit.

[Anonymous No.4959289]

>>4957603
I convinced my mom to buy the green colour when i was a kid.. I remember thinking "green ketchup this is so cool" put it on a hotdog,took one bite and couldn't finish the rest
that shit was horrifying and the op pic makes me cringe.

[Anonymous No.4959296]

>>4957603
>>4959289

i never did understand the squeamishness around green or purple ketchup. my mom freaked the hell out and only bought the green once, i kept asking her how green dye was any worse than red dye but she never had an answer.

[Anonymous No.4960312]

>>4958011
t 99.9999% of the canned food is treated.


WHAT

[Anonymous No.4960330]

>>4959255
Why did other kid's moms suck so bad? I went to one kid's house and we were only allowed to drink water. Another mom got mad at me for dropping vanilla ice cream on her kitchen floor. When I asked for a paper towel to clean it up, she came storming in seriously fucking mad and her daughter (my friend) was like "Nice going. She's really mad at you." She acted like I just smeared shit all over her house. One glob of ice cream on her tile floor. Then we couldn't come back in the house for the rest of the day. Fuck, what a whore.

[Anonymous No.4960345]

>>4960330
It's probably because they're sick of dealing with their own kid(s) and the last thing they need is them dragging home more like they would a diseased, flea-ridden puppy.

[Anonymous No.4960355]

>>4957930
>also they serve baked beans in chinese buffets in the UK.

>Going to a Chinese Buffet anywhere
> and expecting anything resembling food let alone chinese food

[Anonymous No.4960368]

>>4959255
Cold?! What the fucking hell? I think you hung out with some particularly retarded rednecks as a kid. Yes, hot dogs are fully cooked sausages, but who in their right mind eats them cold?

[Smith the CIA Agent No.4960378]

>>4957930
You have never heard of whitebait? My god, what third world cess pool do you come from?

Or did you expect someone to fillet each fish for you?

[Anonymous No.4961737]

>>4958894
You weren't part of the cool lunch box crew in 2st grade, without a Squeeze it.

Betty Crocker and Keebers use to make delicious nutritionally absent snacks.

[Smith the CIA Agent No.4961765]

>>4961737
We had lunchables with them pizza things.

[Anonymous No.4961799]

>>4957789
>>4957743
>>4957759
>>4957759
Tbf, doesn't Kopi Luwak go through some wild cats digestive tract before its ground down and sold off? cos that shit is mad expensive and very popular to hig bend, indulgent people in the west

[Anonymous No.4961819]

>>4957930
Have you ever had canned sardines? Because you eat those bones too.
yo bitch nigga ass need to gtfo

[Anonymous No.4961824]

I used to drink cups and cups of sunny d as a kid

[Anonymous No.4961829]

>>4961824
That shit tastes good. I'd love to drink it now but if I'm gonna have sugar I want straight up dessert.

[Anonymous No.4961841]

>>4961824
>Sunny Dick

Growing up in Florida with access to REAL Orange juice has always made me hate that crap.

[Anonymous No.4961843]

>>4957759
It's more delicious than it sounds

[Anonymous No.4961855]

>>4957617
What do they taste like? Is it like soda pop? Or some kind of jelly liquid with little tapioca balls in it? I always wanted to try these but they never sold them in my area.

[Anonymous No.4961856]

>>4961737
>yfw those kids hunted down the Squeeze-its gang and sucked them to death.

>yfw that got you hard.

[Anonymous No.4961866]

>>4957603
A classmate of mine did a science project on this colored ketchup stuff, he blindfolded people and then fed them squares of bread with the different ketchup on them. Then had us described what each tasted like and if there were differences. I can't remember exactly what the conclusion was, but it was like the colored ketchups were described as more sour than the regular ketchup.

[Anonymous No.4961872]

>>4958030
>>4958533
>>4958905
The vast majority of canned food is usually only heat and/or pressure treated. Irradiation is usually much more expensive so not the first option. I does preserve the texture/structure much better though.

Food's not the only use though; coming back into Aus after living in Fiji had to get any raw wood furniture irradiated.

[Anonymous No.4962014]

>>4957603
What the fuck is that?

[Anonymous No.4962016]

>>4961855
it's fruit juice with bits of flavorless lime floating in it for no reason.
gellan gum i think.

[Anonymous No.4962018]

>>4962016
flavorless slime, rather.

[Anonymous No.4962095]

>>4962014
Ketchup