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That looks like an MRE omelette with chives, just slightly brighter yellow.
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Plinkey posted:So I'm having some people over for football tomorrow and mentioned to a friend that I'm thinking about making chili and asked what else I should make with it instead of the usual corn bread, pasta, rice, hot dogs and her response was cinnamon rolls. I'm utterly confused at that suggestion and somewhat disgusted, but apparently it's a big thing where she's from in Nebraska. I don't know if I could bring myself to try it. It's just two things I can't put together in my head and thinking they would taste good, like toothpaste and OJ. I know American food is often criticized for being too sweet, but...
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Oct 16, 2015 18:35
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For the record, lightly pickled vegetables like cabbage and carrots are awesome. I went to a Turkish restaurant nearby that had pickled vegetables like that as a side dish and they were great.
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Oct 16, 2015 21:55
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I will admit to being surprised that apples and pork go together so well.
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Oct 17, 2015 06:45
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Humphreys posted:I checked before I ordered. Was kinda tentative about eating anything SPAM related. I hated it as a kid and it was a forced staple for my family during WW2 in UK from what they told me. Our tour driver 'garfield' talked it up so I gave it a go. Try Spam Lite. It's got less calories and sodium (only 660 calories per can instead of over 1000!), so it has a much less salty flavor and you don't start to feel full after a few slices. I usually add Tabasco to it.
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Oct 17, 2015 17:21
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Samizdata posted:Thus undoing the lower salt? The sodium content itself won't be excessive unless you have a medical condition or are eating a very salty diet normally. It just gives regular Spam a distinctive salty taste that easily drives away a lot of people.
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Oct 18, 2015 04:04
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Fo3 posted:This. Add ketchup and you had my childhood. Did you also have spaghetti and butter?
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Oct 19, 2015 03:30
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Fo3 posted:You mean spaghetti and margarine? Because that's what it would have been. I remember that spaghetti and butter (or some variant thereof) has long been one of the common "crappy cooking" meals for kids growing up in the US. Nothing more complex than that, just spaghetti mixed with butter or margarine.
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Oct 19, 2015 07:38
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Helios Grime posted:So a few weeks ago I was visiting Japan and when I passed a Burger King there I couldn't pass it up to sacrifice myself for the AFP thread. I remember when the "controversy" over the green poop first appeared. I'm pretty sure the black color was just achieved by pouring on green food coloring until it was oversaturated to black.
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Oct 19, 2015 17:11
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PCOS Bill posted:You don't have to eat the word Gonna market a beef stew called Literal Diarrhea.
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Oct 19, 2015 21:26
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I've actually pretty rarely gone to Subway. I may have eaten there less than a dozen times in my lifetime, mostly because if I'm getting fast food it's almost always a drive-thru or an online order to a place like Panera or Chipotle. Usually if I had time to actually walk into a sandwich shop and eat, I had time to go somewhere better. The one exception was the Orlando Science Center, which had no food options except a Subway.
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Oct 21, 2015 01:05
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cash crab posted:There's something about the meat that is so glistening and moist, it makes me really uncomfortable, like I am being watched but can't see anyone I made the mistake of eating some Ukrainian military rations for research purposes. I'll see if I can dig out the pictures later, but they included a can of some kind of ground meat that was unusually pink (after being cooked) and seemed to be 25% grease. I could only stomach two bites before tossing it out.
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Oct 22, 2015 01:37
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I'm kinda worried about those dark hunks of something in the pudding.
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Oct 22, 2015 06:30
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diabeetz posted:a bloo blooo my opinions about pasta preparation are interesting ones Is that Olive Garden? I swear when I ordered a seafood pasta dish from them that's exactly how it looked. There was virtually no actual seafood in it.
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Oct 22, 2015 22:53
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I'm glad that what started as freaking out over a candy burger led to people donating to charity.
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Picnic Princess posted:Maybe it's my phone, but I can't tell if that's a small potato or a really fat sausage. I think it's a hot dog with too much topping in an overly large bun.
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Oct 26, 2015 19:23
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ACES CURE PLANES posted:The same kind of madman who has been doing reviews on top of the same sofa for almost a decade now. Ashen's sofa has seen some poo poo.
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Oct 26, 2015 21:21
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SymmetryrtemmyS posted:I'm not a picky eater, I just don't like certain foods. Not really the same thing. Everyone has foods that they don't really like. That's a normal human thing.
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Oct 27, 2015 22:37
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Humphreys posted:Yeah, I thought I would contribute and get some, but the effort required to get them and my lack of bush skills prevent me from getting them (actually I think I have to evacuate in a few hours BUSHFIRES! ) How much food needs to be added before you're unable to feel them popping between your teeth?
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Oct 28, 2015 08:36
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Tiggum posted:I bought a pack of salted insects to serve as a novelty thing at a party. They were pretty disappointing, mostly just bland, and not nearly enough salt. Quite liked the grasshoppers though. At Cedar Point's Halloweekend event, they introduced the Skeleton Key last year. It was a thing where if you paid extra for a badge, you would enter a special room in each of the haunted houses where you had to perform some kind of task before moving on. Like in one house your party was locked in a completely pitch black room and had to find an actor with the key to the room (who was wearing night vision goggles and could see with infrared lights). In Zombie High School, the three of us were placed in front of a bank of lockers. We had to eat or drink whatever was in the locker we opened. Somehow, all three of us managed to choose lockers with a roasted and flavored whole cricket. I found it fairly bland (it had a dusting of powder with some kind of barbecue flavoring), but also very dusty and powdery after biting into it.
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Oct 29, 2015 04:20
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Horns posted:uh ralph that's not a can "Canning" just refers to the process. Most home canners just use mason jars.
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Oct 29, 2015 14:07
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Still not as hideous as the 50s. If it wasn't plain roasted or baked meat, it was packed in gelatin and probably had some kind of cream somewhere.
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Oct 29, 2015 16:44
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It looks like some very sad-tasting MRE granola I had the misfortune of trying to eat once.
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http://dimlylitmealsforone.tumblr.com Don't forget to tune in for the latest updates of anti-food porn Tumblr!
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I stopped eating cafeteria food altogether in high school. Even microwaved Hot Pockets wrapped in foil 5 hours before lunch were better than the crap you could get from public school.
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Nov 3, 2015 17:06
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Eponine posted:Crushing debt, your entire family, your lifestyle and home. The latter is probably it for the older generation. From what I understand of Inuit culture and how it's changed over the years, European-style foods and modern processed foods have been steadily pushing out the old standards of subsistence hunting and mild foraging. Modern hunting methods with snowmobiles and firearms is also more costly than traditional methods, but the old methods are much slower and less appealing to people who aren't hardcore traditionalists. So as the price of pre-packaged foods gets lower, Nunavut will likely get dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century with the subsistence hunting going the way of the dodo.
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VendaGoat posted:Motherfucking grow a pair. "Why don't poor people just like, not be poor?"
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Nov 4, 2015 04:29
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Nov 4, 2015 04:58
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Nine of Eight posted:Botulism, is that you? The packaging was all sealed. In fact, it was kinda difficult to open! I've eaten two Ukrainian rations before and this is very similar in content, just with more amenities like different beverages and a tiny little fuel tablet stove with matches. It's bland and extremely greasy, but the rations in use 10 years ago were apparently 50% fat so I think I got the long end of the stick historically. It's also very clearly the lowest quality beef they could get. It's stringy and tough where it isn't soft, and not all of the fat melted during cooking. The discoloration is actually fat and black pepper embedded in it.
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Nov 4, 2015 05:33
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I've got a record this year of eating international military rations. So far I've eaten every American ration available (including the freeze dried MCW and LRP rations that you never see anywhere), British, Lithuanian, Ukrainian, and currently Russian. Just about all of them turn out looking like anti-food porn, but they vary widely in taste and amenities. As much as soldiers make fun of American MREs, they're easily some of the best in terms of taste and texture. Lithuanian MRE clones are likewise pretty nice and even have some quality Lithuanian chocolate. Ukrainian is the worst. One meal usually gets you nothing but a can of meat or kasha similar in appearance to that monstrosity, a pack full of crackers (which have inevitably gone stale in the cellophane), and a packet of crystallized tea and brown sugar to pour in your mug of hot water. I'll see what I can pull up for this thread.
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Nov 4, 2015 05:39
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cyberia posted:Are you keeping a blog or somehow documenting this bizarre endeavor? Not a proper blog, but I've been studiously taking pictures of what I eat. A lot of the weird stuff I do is for reference material for writing and such.
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Nov 4, 2015 07:29
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Tasteful Dickpic posted:Perhaps a thread is in order? Maybe, if there was enough interest to keep it active while I'm not in the middle of chomping on army food.
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Nov 4, 2015 07:57
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Just thinking about the Chili Con Carne LRPR (Long Range Patrol Ration) gives me cold sweats (and memories of acute gastric distress). The rest of the LRPRs are really really good though. I lived on those things for weeks at a time when on MTTs. The MCW and LRP ration entrees are basically Mountain House stuff as far as I can see, just like how the normal MRE rations are basically normal American canned food in a flexible pouch instead of a can.
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Nov 4, 2015 17:20
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Cooking difficulty also varies depending on exactly what you're doing. It's really easy to brown hamburger or some inexpensive steaks in a frying pan (many a day in high school I just browned some beef, chopped it up, and put it over rice with soy sauce). Then I tried to cook mako and it cooks through totally differently and requires much more care.
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Nov 4, 2015 20:11
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:MRE's are not normal US canned food. The MRE is actually dietetically balanced a lot differently in terms of protein and fat than your typical canned spaghetti for example. A LRPR runs between 2500 and 3000 calories. The way you were supposed to eat them (or at least the way we ate them) was boil the water in the morning, rehydrate the main course, eat a third of it, seal the rest in the polybag with a bungie, and tuck it in your cargo pocket. During the rest of the day you'd chow on it as you marched or did whatever. Which seems like way, way more science behind it than a lot of the other military food I know about. In fact, MREs are unique among the selection I've eaten by using fairly minimal commercial items (even the stuff that's identical to commercial products generally has unique MRE packaging and is made on contract for the military). Ukrainian and Russian rations appear to almost exclusively use commercial canned food, and Ukrainian rations in particular don't really have "menus"; they just hurl whatever's in stock and matches the requirements into the bag. Other people who have bought and eaten them have found totally different components in virtually identical packaging with no numbered menus or anything like that.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Russian rations are some of the foulest stuff I've ever eaten. I'm currently on a Russian one (very hard to get for a reasonable price due to shipping) and I've eaten both variations of the Ukrainian. Ukrainian rations are basically identical to the Russian in terms of food quality, but with even fewer items and amenities in them. The plastic spoons packaged with them are so flimsy that they're liable to break trying to dig into your can of kasha.
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Nov 4, 2015 21:01
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MariusLecter posted:Interesting. I think I actually will make a military ration tasting thread in GWS to try and consolidate all of the information I've acquired over my time buying them.
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MariusLecter posted:PM a link to it if you do, plz I'll probably post the link in this thread so everyone can check it out. Military rations vary in taste, but all of them look like anti-food porn.
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Okay, I've pulled the trigger on the military food thread! http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3750036
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Transferring from the military food thread, the breakfast included in a British 24-hour ration I ate:
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