Foods you may have been told are popular, but that you hate (or love!)

[0388631]

They have spam sushi in Hawaii...

The only reason I ever liked Hawaii was the mild weather year round. That, though, is disgusting. Yikes.
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Then you will probably like Mortadella - a sort of posh, Italian spam, an Italian picnic ham which is lovely for breakfast and in sandwiches.

I love it. Order a small slab whenever I'm in Italy (tastes better than the imported stuff!) and bite into it and then bite into a piece of bread. Love it with the garlic cloves, pistachios, chunks of lardo and black peppercorns. Heaven!

 

[dk001]

I've used spam in chum. No sane human would voluntarily eat it. Though Hawaiians love it in something called locomoco?

I thought loco moco was egg, burger, and gravy on rice?

But yeah, last time over there I saw a lot of spam entries in local eateries.

Update:

The dish was reportedly created at the Lincoln Grill restaurants in Hilo, Hawaii, in 1949 by its proprietors, Richard Inouye and his wife Nancy, at the request of teenagers from the Lincoln Wreckers Sports club seeking something that differed from a sandwich, was inexpensive yet quickly prepared and served. They asked Nancy to put some rice in a bowl, a hamburger patty over the rice and then topped with brown gravy. The egg came later. The teenagers named the dish Loco Moco after one of their members, George Okimoto, whose nickname was "Crazy". George Takahashi, who was studying Spanish at Hilo High School, suggested using Loco, which is Spanish for crazy. They tacked on "moco" which "rhymed with loco and sounded good". However, to Spanish-speakers, this may sound odd, considering that moco means "booger" in Spanish.

 

[0388631]

I thought loco moco was egg, burger, and gravy on rice?

But yeah, last time over there I saw a lot of spam entries in local eateries.

Yeah I think you're right. Musabo might be what I'm thinking of. And I likely got that name wrong, too. It's heart attack in a container unless you're very active.

 

[RootBeerMan]

They have spam sushi in Hawaii...

It's called spam musubi and it's great! I love spam. My favourite use is to use it as a breakfast meat, Fry it up and serve it with some fried eggs and grits. Yum!

 

[dk001]

Yeah I think you're right. Musabo might be what I'm thinking of. And I likely got that name wrong, too. It's heart attack in a container unless you're very active.

You called it!

Spam musubi is a popular snack and lunch food in Hawaii composed of a slice of grilled Spam on top of a block of rice, wrapped together with nori in the tradition of Japanese omusubi. Inexpensive and portable, Spam musubi are commonly found near cash registers in convenience stores all over Hawaii.

 

[LizKat]

I've used spam in chum. No sane human would voluntarily eat it. Though Hawaiians love it in something called locomoco?

If you're out in thin blue lines of the map of Wyoming on a 2 week fishing vacation and it's 8pm and you're hungry and didn't catch any fish all day and there's Spam in the cabin, then it looks pretty darn good.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

If you're out in thin blue lines of the map of Wyoming on a 2 week fishing vacation and it's 8pm and you're hungry and didn't catch any fish all day and there's Spam in the cabin, then it looks pretty darn good.

Context is everything, isn't it?

Or, put another way, it is a version of the old "hunger is the best sauce".

 

[0388631]

I'll noodle a fish if I'm that desperate. It's worked most times.

 

[LizKat]

I'll noodle a fish if I'm that desperate. It's worked most times.

If a Wyoming trout ain't biting, it's full of salmon flies or dobson flies or black flies or some such, and nothing works. You can offer it pasta after it's just had a preferred dinner, but...

I do like fresh fish but not supermarket style oven-ready "fish sticks" nor commercial tartar sauce.

 

[Matz]

A high school buddy of mine once explained his enjoyment of fishing: “Fishing is basically about deception. And I like that.”
An interesting take on fishing, I thought.

 

[0388631]

If a Wyoming trout ain't biting, it's full of salmon flies or dobson flies or black flies or some such, and nothing works. You can offer it pasta after it's just had a preferred dinner, but...

I do like fresh fish but not supermarket style oven-ready "fish sticks" nor commercial tartar sauce.

Best trout I've had was probably fishing up in and around Mammoth. Think it has to do with general climate, what food is available and the quality of runoff in the spring. With catfish, the smaller they are the better it is. I've had the giant catfish fryups in the south with a tangy sauce or two. It's alright and doesn't have the stale taste due to the prep, but I like the mild flavor and sweetness a smaller catfish brings to the table.

 

[mobilehaathi]

I'll noodle a fish if I'm that desperate. It's worked most times.

I’m not sure this means what I’m reading it as....

 

[0388631]

I’m not sure this means what I’m reading it as....

I mean that's your mind.

It's a term to fish with your hands. Usually you shove your hand or a few fingers into their mouth as fast as you can and pull them out. Most people do it bare handed but it does pose risk if they puncture your skin. I used to have a chain male glove that I'd take fishing in case I wanted to try my hand at it, pun not intended. The glove was originally meant for butchering meat and I think you can buy them now online or in certain kitchen stores.

 

[mobilehaathi]

I mean that's your mind.

It's a term to fish with your hands. Usually you shove your hand or a few fingers into their mouth as fast as you can and pull them out. Most people do it bare handed but it does pose risk if they puncture your skin. I used to have a chain male glove that I'd take fishing in case I wanted to try my hand at it, pun not intended. The glove was originally meant for butchering meat and I think you can buy them now online or in certain kitchen stores.

Ahhh, I didn’t realize that was a term for fishing with your bare hands.

 

[LizKat]

We called it thumb lipping. Heh nipping mighta been closer.

 

[Huntn]

What foods do you dislike that you realize lots of people really go for?

I have never cared much for doughnuts... not the heavy ones, not the lighter ones, not the scooped out middles called "donut holes". Doesn’t matter what they’re covered with or rolled in or filled with either. If I lived downwind of a doughnut shop, I’d sue over an air pollution issue. On the other hand if it were a bagel shop or an eclair bakery i’d have long since croaked due to a gluttony issue.

Source of the inspiration for this thread: finally making good on my threat to spend the spare parts of a whole summer in a hammock reading the rest of the Easy Rawlins mysteries. In the current one, ol’ Ease is temporarily sittin’ in a car with his sometime partner who’s on a stakeout and so of course washin’ down doughnuts with lukewarm coffee...

Maybe it’s just bad coffee always turned me off the doughnuts that sometimes showed up in the break lounge at work, who knows.

In my early adulthood, I used to gorge on giant chocolate eclairs, the first was at the Hershey bakery, in Hershey Pennsylvania, the ultimate in sweet tooth wonder. Visiting my home town, Washington DC we used to make excursions to Walls Bakery in Waldorf, Md for thier version of giant eclair sinfulness. In Minneapolis, I scaled down with Bismarcks, the round donut version of an eclair. Now on rare occasion, I’ll have a Shipley Bavarian cream, no chocolate topping, but admit that I miss the added chocolate flavor in the mix.
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French Toast.

Just typing it makes my stomach churn!

My body has some sort of dislike for breakfast foods (pancakes, waffles, etc) and I do not like these foods well enough to endure throwing it up afterwards.

I can eat about 2 pancakes before getting sick. French Toast…no friggin' way!

That’s very interesting. I grew up on French Toast and pancakes.

 

[0388631]

In my early adulthood, I used to gorge on giant chocolate eclairs, the first was at the Hershey bakery, in Hershey Pennsylvania, the ultimate in sweet tooth wonder. Visiting my home town, Washington DC we used to make excursions to Walls Bakery in Waldorf, Md for thier version of giant eclair sinfulness. In Minneapolis, I scaled down with Bismarcks, the round donut version of an eclair. Now on rare occasion, I’ll have a Shipley Bavarian cream, no chocolate topping, but admit that I miss the added chocolate flavor in the mix.
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That’s very interesting. I grew up on French Toast and pancakes.

I'm over eclairs having eaten probably a thousand in my life. Prefer pastry cream over whatever others put. Though a nice mocha mousse cut with whipped cream is nice, too.

I like baked French toast. Though adult French toast, IMO, is a thick slice of really good bread and a thick slicer of cheddar or your favorite cheese and placed in the broiler until the bread browns, the cheese melts and caramelizes. Put a slice of tomato atop it for the health factor and you're good to go.

Jarlsberg and sliced sourdough, for example, go together like an old married couple. Throw on some grilled peppers for the health factor, too. I can eat 5-6 of these in a row.

 

[eyoungren]

That’s very interesting. I grew up on French Toast and pancakes.

My dad was born in the midwest and my mother is no stranger to breakfast foods.

Growing up it was hell after church on Sundays, because we often went to early service and most of the places open then were only serving breakfast. So, my parents and my sister ate while I had toast or nothing.

But I just cant. I get only so far and then the feeling of wanting to throw up kicks in. If I ignore that, it will happen.

Fortunately, restaurants adapted as I got older and it was possible to order a hamburger and fries while everybody else ate pancakes or waffles.

Breakfast at home was never really a thing though. Generally, we were all running out the door in the morning for work or school. Since breakfast was never my thing I set my alarm clock to allow enough time to get up, get ready and then leave.

To this day (I'm 47) the first meal of the day for me is lunch. I ignore breakfast entirely. I could have lunch when everyone is having breakfast but the effort at home isn't worth it and the effort in finding a place at 6 or 7 am that serves hamburgers and doesn't charge a lot isn't worth it either.

McDonalds serves breakfast items all day now, but you still cannot get a hamburger and fries before 10:30am there.

If I feel hunger pains, I just have another cup of coffee.

 

[vkd]

animal products - meat, fish, eggs, dairy, anything with a face

 

[adrianlondon]

I like baked French toast. Though adult French toast, IMO, is a thick slice of really good bread and a thick slicer of cheddar or your favorite cheese and placed in the broiler until the bread browns, the cheese melts and caramelizes. Put a slice of tomato atop it for the health factor and you're good to go.

I don't know what a broiler is, or why you'd bake cheese on toast. I assume this is a language issue and this is, in British English, a grill, with grilled cheese on toast.

I usually use thick slices of the local bread (the Swiss have got that right), a strong cheddar or red leicester, tomatoes and onions. Ground pepper and a splash of sriracha once the cheese has caramelised. Yes, I "import" British cheese to Switzerland.

 

[0388631]

Broiler is a portion of an oven where you can place food under a direct flame at full blast. Baking cheese on bread, no. You place the cheese on thick cut bread. Bread toasts up, cheese melts and then goes under a maillard reaction caramelizing the cheese. Very simple stuff.

Skip the sriracha. It's garbage.

 

[decafjava]

I don't know what a broiler is, or why you'd bake cheese on toast. I assume this is a language issue and this is, in British English, a grill, with grilled cheese on toast.

I usually use thick slices of the local bread (the Swiss have got that right), a strong cheddar or red leicester, tomatoes and onions. Ground pepper and a splash of sriracha once the cheese has caramelised. Yes, I "import" British cheese to Switzerland.

Nothing wrong with British cheese but the local stuff is pretty darn good. I am spoiled as a cheese lover as I can easily get real cheddar, stilton etc., many Swiss cheeses, French, Italian ...

 

[adrianlondon]

Skip the sriracha. It's garbage.

Depends on the sriracha I find, but at least we're getting back on topic.

Nothing wrong with British cheese but the local stuff is pretty darn good.

It sure is, I just don't melt it on toast. I do, though, use the Swiss stuff for everything else, even when melted (raclette, fondue).

 

[0388631]

I don't like the flavor profile.

I actually love red Leicester when stores can bother to import it here. That Norwegian (I think) caramelized/browned cheese is nice stuff, too. Definitely an acquired flavor, though.

 

[adrianlondon]

That Norwegian (I think) caramelized/browned cheese is nice stuff, too. Definitely an acquired flavor, though.

This thread is now, to me anyway, the "Food you like that other people might like" thread. *goes off to search Norwegian cheese*