If you've eaten already, go take a look at what legendary food writer Elizabeth David considered "just about the most revolting dish ever devised." It does seem pretty damn nasty.
If you've eaten already, go take a look at what legendary food writer Elizabeth David considered "just about the most revolting dish ever devised." It does seem pretty damn nasty.
Yeah? Order the huevos rancheros at a Waffle House.
I'll try it this weekend!
Revolting indeed. Not as revolting as my Aunt's "Chinese Hamburg"(intentional misspelling), a concoction of hamburger, cabbage and various CANNED vegetables seasoned with La Choy Soy Sauce. My Aunt says it must be La Choy or it doesn't come out right.
La Choy is infamous for being the only soy sauce that contains no soy. It is caramel colored salt water.
Recipe Thread!
I've never eaten this (for obvious reasons), but a big favorite with a family I know of is a casserole of canned tuna with crushed potato chips on top and a bottle of ketchup poured over the whole mess.
It doesn't sound good, but come on. That's revolting?
Well, Go-Gurt hadn't been invented yet.
A guest once brought individual ramekins of caviar-topped lobster in aspic to Thanksgiving. Which sounds lovely until you realize that you've been served lobster jello.
And that, my friends, is truly the most revolting dish ever devised.
FTW WTF
TWF even!
I attended a dinner party at which was served Gazpacho Aspic. Everyone else loved - or feigned to love - it, but I was hardly able to swallow it. Spicy tomato jello. Goodness, no.
Oh Lord. They do that shit in Poland. Fish chunks (bones included), peas, carrots, all frozen in time in a gelatinous nightmare.
God, don't forget the solid chicken soup with the skin still left on. Dammit! Why does the cuisine of my people have to be so 1950's Family Circle?
No no no, sweetness! How quickly you forget!
Fermented fish. 'Nuff said.
Why did she have to diss John Minton like that?
RECIPE: Grape Salad
Posted by southernrn (My Page) on Thu, Jul 20, 06 at 17:05
Hey guys! Just got this recipe from a friend of mine, and it is really a light and delicious treat, especially in the summer. Just wanted to share...
Grape salad
4# of seedless grapes (green or purple)
1 8oz package of cream cheese
1 8 oz container sour cream
1/2 cup white sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
4 ounces chopped pecans
2 tbsp brown sugar
Wash and dry grapes. In a large bowl, combine cream cheese, sour cream, vanilla, and white sugar. Add grapes and mix until evenly incorporated. Sprinkle with brown sugar and pecans, mix again and refrigerate until serving.
**In the batch I made today I used fat free cream cheese and low fat sour cream, and used 1/2 cup splenda instead of white sugar, and it tastes just as good!!!
OK fine. It tastes delicious (OBVS NOT LOWFAT) but what a dumb idea!
My aunt brought that dish to a holiday meal! That does count as a light dish in Pittsburgh...
Looks (almost) like (pecan pie) - (dough) - (Karo) - (bourbon) + (grapes).
Use the cream cheese and/or sour cream as topping, naturally!
Anything served by any of those Chinese-run "Mexican" food joints in NYC (Fresco Taco) is worse than anything anyone else has ever eaten, cooked, or thought about cooking or eating. This includes my father's toast and mayonnaise toast.
Serve my dad pea soup and he'll put ketchup in it. He will gladly serve you Gravy Bread by broiling steaks and then sopping up the fat and juice with Home Pride. Et voila!
I'm afraid Fresco Tortilla, which we refer to as "Cheap Mexican," is an embarrassingly frequent delivery choice Chez Mantooth. I even have it programmed into my phone as "Cheap Mexican"!
Now here's a question for Emily: should I be retroactively mortified that I once said to a friend over the phone, right in front of the Fresco delivery guy, "Hold on, I have to pay for the Cheap Mexican"? 'Cause my friend was pretty mortified on my behalf.
No point in being retroactively mortified about anything ever, imho. Not a productive emotion.
Oh, yeah. And it probably tells you a sufficient amount about me that I would likely eat the hell out of that mayonnaise toast.
Sometimes garnished with tunafish and canned beans?
My difficulty remembering whether it is "Taco" or "Tortilla" has accounted for at least 2/3 of all the business they have ever gotten out of me.
In Atlanta there is a run-down restaurant next to a pawn shop that regularly leaves me menus called "Chico and Chang's" which offers you one-stop-shopping for burritos and Moo Goo Gai Pan. The Italian salad looks delicious in comparison.
Hershey's syrup would liven it up.
I would not like it here or there.
I would not like it anywhere.
I do not like Italian Salad
I do not like it, Sam-I-am.
You do not like it, so you say.
Try it! Try it! And you may.
Try it and you may, I say.
Sam! If you will let me be,
I will try , you will see.
Say! I like Italian Salad!
I do! I like it, Sam-I-am!
I will eat it here and there.
Say! I will eat it ANYWHERE!
Hagis.
Seconded!
Elizabeth David, being from the U.K., would in all likelihood single out something French or Italian (while being correct about how disgusting that is!).
But Haggis? Unbeatably foul. Not only foul inherently -- even worse because the Scottish nationalists, and their American descendants, actually Revere it?!
Oh -- honorable mention to the "Fermented Fish" (i.e. gefilte) entry above --
Sounds like another recipe for the Gallery of Regrettable Foods. http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/index.html
My stepsis has a hilarious book of 70s Weight Watchers recipes, the contents of which can be found here: http://www.candyboots.com/wwcards.html
Pure gold, from the names ("Amazing Mackerel Pudding!") to the food styling (so much Blue Mountain pottery! And jellied tomato cubes served in GOBLETS!)... please, enjoy.