I’ll be honest, I don’t eat much of the stuff on that list but I’ll agree with red vines, twizzlers, pop tarts, and corn dogs. Anybody who knocks mac and cheese doesn’t deserve to eat anymore. It’s amazing, and I’m not talking about Kraft dinner here. I think there is a restaurant here devoted entirely to mac and cheese. Try good biscuits and with sausage gravy somewhere in the south and this person ought to change their mind.
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Went skiing with an Asian colleague and for breakfast each day he would get two corndogs from the gas station. The smell of those things in the car in the morning has torture.
The only foods that are edible from that list are bacon, meatloaf, and GOOD jerky. Not Slim Jim, but the all natural kinds.
Velveeta is not cheese. It is pasteurized process cheese product. It has an oil base rather than a dairy base. Women that are on WIC cannot get it as their cheese (ex cashier here). U mad?
I’m American and most of these foods look disgusting to me too. Can’t even imagine what the foreigners would make of them. Bacon and root beer floats are all right but the rest of the lot looks pretty gnarly.
I like meatloaf.
I like everything except the redvines and the rootbeer floats.
That does look pretty rough.
Also, I eat: Hershey’s, Root Beer Floats, Sno-Cones, Corn-Dogs and Bacon.
And I don’t care if foreigners don’t like them.
How can you not like a root beer float or a sno-cone on a hot day?
I always thought Marmite was just the british branding of aussie Vegemite. Mind you, I can’t really stand to have either in my mouth, so I’m perhaps not fully versed on the subtle distinction between “horrid” and “God-awful.” 
On the subject of questionable foreign foods, I once again present to you the Korean “penis fish”.
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According to various news sources, “A myriad of videos on YouTube featuring the creature show it being served raw and still squirming”. I did not look up these videos…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/18/penis-fish_n_1683900.html
Numi is clearly antipatriotic and possibly a communist.
My mom used to make a casserole with rice, broccoli, Velveeta and cream of mushroom soup. I loved it as a kid, but I can’t even imagine eating it now.
Some of you Canadians of a certain vintage will remember the old Kraft commercials:
Marmite is the New Zealand version of Vegemite. Marmite is good too.
I shouldn’t have looked at this thread while eating lunch…
The other “Asian people eat weird stuff” (among many – awesome penis fish video, thanks for that) is Bird’s Nest.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edible_bird’s_nest
Yes, people actually pay a lot of money to eat dried bird vomit. I also tried this, it does not have an amazing taste.
I wonder if it started as “cause there is nothing else to eat!” kind of thing…
I might have had bird’s nest at my wedding. I actually forgot; it was a set menu and had all kinds of weird crap. Anyway… bird’s nest is actually saliva, not vomit. Because I guess that makes a big difference… Many exotic foreign foods, particularly those that involve organs or rotting animal parts, probably came to be eaten because there were few alternatives. Over time, these foods evolved into “delicacies”. Bird’s nest, however, is extremely difficult to obtain. In order to harvest birds’ nests, workers must climb treacherous cliffs or steep cave walls, as the swifts that produce the nests live in these difficult to reach places. Unlike some other foods, bird’s nest likely became a delicacy not due to necessity, but because of the food’s perceived medicinal benefits, similar to those of say, rhino horn or tiger penis.
Not the living schlongs again. Just fry them hard dammit!
Problem is not taste of common American food, but the amounts of saturated fat, sodium and metapolyhidrobeta-sh!t you find in most processed foods that nobody knows what they do to your health. You can easily have a cheeseburger with say 700 calories, 900mg of sodium, 40g of fat. If you’re fit, the 700 calories might not be a problem, but there’s no way those amounts of sodium for instance won’t affect your kidneys and blood pressure in the long run no matter what. This is obviously not a problem exclusive of American food, but there’s an important distinction: unlike other countries, in the US eating pizza, McD, or processed food is cheaper and obviously easier than cooking healthy meals. It’s hard to beat that cheaper / tastier / easier combo, therefore making them the prevalent type of food for many people.
Bacon, your typical breakfast serving may easily have 2000mg of sodium. Bacon however is so good that is exempt from any further judgment. Best 2g of sodium ever. A good philly cheesesteak? A thing of beauty.
That’s what I’ve said for a long time. Fast food is cheap, fast, and tastes good. That’s why you have a lot of obese poor people in the US.
And IMHO, there are only 2 things that make food taste good–fat and sugar (which turns into fat). This adds to the problem of eating healthy.
I’m pretty sure I’ve eaten this before at a costal restaurant in S. Korea along with live/squirmy octopus.
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Octopus is a little tricky to eat because the suction cups will attach to your tongue sometimes and it hurts. I remember smothering it in gochujang (red chili paste) to get it to calm down.
But this is from the same bird’s mouth that was used to regurgitate worm bits into the mouth of its young… so, yeah, it may be *mostly* saliva, but how can you be so sure?