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Thread title is pretty self explanatory I think. I’ll go first. Tonight I was eating pot stickers, which I love very very much. Fries or steamed. Whichever. It occurred to me as I was driving home that I probably never had them as a child because my idiot parents liked crab Rangoon and egg rolls better? Which is idiotic because pot stickers are objectively better. I also never really gave them any thought as a child, they were not some forbidden fruit to me. I just assumed they were probably gross based off their stupid name. Child me was a moron. My review of Pot Stickers, untainted by nostalgia: 8.75 / 10 They are just the right size to not be an ordeal to eat compared to, say, an egg roll. If your egg roll is lovely then you are either wasting a pretty sizable item by not eating it, OR you’re choking down a huge piece of poo poo. If your pot sticker is bad, you’ve probably already eaten a large portion of it after one bite. One more bite isn’t a big deal even if it’s a bad one. I’ll come back to add more of these and maybe even make a running list in the OP. If there are items you would like to discuss please do so…now
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fuckin' stuffed-crust pizza
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Dec 2, 2023 04:22
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My dad ordered that for us once and we all hated it lol. It was not warm or melty at all and was like only twenty seconds past just being string cheese. Good answer though
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Dec 2, 2023 04:44
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I never had cheese whiz until I went to philadelphia as an adult and got a real cheese steak
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Dec 2, 2023 05:00
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Bismack Billabongo posted:Thread title is pretty self explanatory I think. I’ll go first. I didn't know how delicious Lomo Saltado was until someone introduced it to me.
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Dec 2, 2023 05:22
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The only tacos, or Mexican food of any kind for that matter, I had as a kid were the hamburger meat Old El Paso kind. We didn’t even go to Taco Bell.
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Dec 2, 2023 13:23
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Same. And my mother grew up in San Diego and knew what good Mexican food was.
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Dec 3, 2023 07:09
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Bismack Billabongo posted:My dad ordered that for us once and we all hated it lol. It was not warm or melty at all and was like only twenty seconds past just being string cheese. Good answer though The funny thing is that when I tried stuffed crust pizza, it was TOO warm (seriously, I'm pretty sure I burned my tongue on it) and melty. You know how cheese on top of a pizza (normally anyway) is melty but not in a runny sort of way? The cheese in the stuffed crust wasn't as runny as Cheez Whiz or cheese dip or anything, but it still felt unnaturally structure-less.
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Dec 6, 2023 02:21
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Szyznyk posted:The only tacos, or Mexican food of any kind for that matter, I had as a kid were the hamburger meat Old El Paso kind. We didn’t even go to Taco Bell. same, I think it was those lovely school cafeteria burritos that put me off mexican food for my entire childhood, I didnt eat tb until I was already a man
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Dec 6, 2023 04:01
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halokiller posted:same, I think it was those lovely school cafeteria burritos that put me off mexican food for my entire childhood, I didnt eat tb until I was already a man So maybe sometime in the possible future? (dammit I'm sorry it was right there, easy layup, I don't really mean it, lol)
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Dec 6, 2023 06:02
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Twenty Four posted:So maybe sometime in the possible future? You’re not a real man until the astonished Taco Bell employee sees you alone in your car and asks “Is this all for you?”
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Dec 6, 2023 11:50
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Cookie Crisp: loving terrible cereal. Shout outs mom and pop for never buying this, it’s the worst. 1/10 because it is technically edible. Fruity/Cocoa Pebbles: also horrible, gets soggy too fast with milk and you have to slam it too fast. Maybe if there was a spray on mist milk that you could apply to individual bites, these would be good. 3/10 because the actual cereal flavor is fine. Cocoa Puffs: these are pretty good tbh. 7.5/10, flavor gets old fast Reeses Puffs: 🔥 🔥 🔥 10/10, zero notes. Top three sugar nightmare cereal.
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Dec 6, 2023 17:45
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Those little soap orbs from Bath and Body Works.
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Dec 6, 2023 19:49
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Anonymous Robot posted:Those little soap orbs from Bath and Body Works. I think it's probably good that your parents never fed you "soap orbs" as the thread title says "food you never got to try as a child" lol. Is this a new joke I'm not "in on", am I missing something?
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Dec 6, 2023 21:30
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... forbidden boba ...
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Dec 6, 2023 22:22
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My mom would never get me Sunny D as a kid and instead I had to have regular boring orange juice To this day I don't actually know if Sunny D is actually even that much sweeter lol
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Dec 7, 2023 03:47
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it's disgusting. i'm glad i was never allowed to have it
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Dec 7, 2023 05:44
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Sunny D tastes like fake orange juice in the worst possible way. Yeah it's sweeter but not enjoyably so imo. I can see some kids liking it since that was what it was marketed at (if your kids won't drink their juice, give them this swill, it has vitamin C and D in it or whatever), but yeah I was certainly never a fan. It almost had a watered-down orange cough syrup taste, except I've probably had better tasting cough syrup. Maybe I'm just thinking that because it did this hard to describe "makes the back of your throat tickly and itchy" thing to me and had a weird filmy coating residue. Luckily it was only one of those things I only had to rarely endure at friends houses or whatever.
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Dec 7, 2023 06:20
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Bismack Billabongo posted:Cookie Crisp: loving terrible cereal. Shout outs mom and pop for never buying this, it’s the worst. 1/10 because it is technically edible. Agree 100% with this. The commercials were so enticing when I was a kid, and it was such a letdown when I finally did try it. Vienetta. Looked so good on TV. Almost any of my favorite foods as an adult, like sushi, Thai food, Vietnamese food, Indian food. I would say O'Boisies and Pizzarias, but I did get to try them as a kid, and I just wanted to be sad for a minute about not getting to enjoy them as an adult. Although if I'm being honest, I'd probably be disappointed at how much they'd have been cheaped out on if they'd made it to still being produced today. Twenty Four posted:Sunny D Sunny D was up there with Crossfire for how much the commercials hyped it up vs. how disappointing it was when I finally tried it/got to play it. AvesPKS fucked around with this message at 06:28 on Dec 7, 2023 |
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Dec 7, 2023 06:26
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Sunny D is orange flavored slug mucus.
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Dec 7, 2023 06:28
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all that is true but man sometimes i just gotta have some. a random craving that hits me like wanting to eat fruity pebbles.
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Dec 9, 2023 18:28
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AvesPKS posted:Vienetta. Looked so good on TV. This got brought back recently. I keep meaning to grab one, but every time I go to the store and wander through the ice cream aisle I forget to look for it.
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Dec 9, 2023 20:13
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I read the Narnia books when I was really little and I think like most kids who did was semi obsessed with the idea of Turkish delight and how incredible it must be. Tried some years and years later and god drat what a mid treat. Maybe it slapped when you were eating unsalted potatoes in 1900s England or whatever but I guess the kid betraying the entire world to the literal devil for some busted rear end jelly candy was kind of The Point. Citrus ones are okay, I guess. Maybe a 4/10. Rosewater gets a -1 out of ten. Truly awful.
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Dec 12, 2023 01:32
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Pentecoastal Elites posted:I read the Narnia books when I was really little and I think like most kids who did was semi obsessed with the idea of Turkish delight and how incredible it must be. Tried some years and years later and god drat what a mid treat. Maybe it slapped when you were eating unsalted potatoes in 1900s England or whatever but I guess the kid betraying the entire world to the literal devil for some busted rear end jelly candy was kind of The Point. depends on the kind you get. when i was in istanbul there were cheap kinds that were like a gummy bear dusted in powdered sugar and they were gross. the nicer kinds had the powdered sugar folded in to make kind of a puffy marshmallow thing with nuts in it. good turkish delight rules rosewater sux tho ----------------
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Dec 12, 2023 02:54
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Yes, id like a pack of candy.. the ones that taste like grandmas dresser drawer please. Barf.
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Dec 12, 2023 04:38
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Never had Indian food as a child. Unclear on if my parents don’t like it or just didn’t think we’d like it. Indian food is a 10/10, the first time I had it I wanted to start crying.
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Dec 13, 2023 22:03
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I don't think I tasted mayo until I was an adult - my mom was a Miracle Whip disciple, I don't think my dad liked mayo either, in fact I'll guess he was the main reason we never had it. I'm sure I never tasted garlic in any form except powdered until adulthood, same for a lot of things I guess. Growing up poor in rural Wisconsin with German-American parents who grew up on self-sustaining farms will do that I guess. Pork chops fried to hell and back in a cast iron pan, big bowl of mashed potatoes, and one can of peas warmed up for a family of 8, that kind of thing.
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Dec 14, 2023 04:51
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probably those fruit rollups every other kid had in their lunchbags
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Dec 14, 2023 07:19
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Bismack Billabongo posted:Good answer though asking people about their experience and then saying "Good answer though" like there's a right answer laughing my loving rear end off
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GateOfD posted:probably those fruit rollups every other kid had in their lunchbags iunno how my mom was on crusade against Red 40 in 1988 but she was ----------------
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Dec 14, 2023 19:56
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uber_stoat posted:Sunny D is orange flavored slug mucus. I feel like Sunny D's thickness & over-sweetness would make it a good mixer, but I'm not curious enough to try it
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It worked out really well for us as a substitute for OJ in cranberries this Thanksgiving.
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Bismack Billabongo posted:Never had Indian food as a child. Unclear on if my parents don’t like it or just didn’t think we’d like it. Indian food is a 10/10, the first time I had it I wanted to start crying. Same, I was in my mid/late 20s before I had it, along with Thai and actual good Chinese food. Still haven't had the chance to eat common favorite cuisines like Vietnamese, Ethiopian, or Korean beyond my flying-blind attempts at cooking it myself from internet recipes. Some parts of the country are ... very white. ----------------
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Arch Deluxe.AvesPKS posted:Sunny D was up there with Crossfire for how much the commercials hyped it up vs. how disappointing it was when I finally tried it/got to play it. Free Kyoon
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Bismack Billabongo posted:Never had Indian food as a child. Unclear on if my parents don’t like it or just didn’t think we’d like it. Indian food is a 10/10, the first time I had it I wanted to start crying. Same with my family and it doesn't make sense, like the white people eat like white people, but the non-white members of my family have no excuse with some of the things that they were eating. A friend told me to wait until hanging out with them to try it ten years ago, but in truth we'll probably never manage to hang out again so I should just do it.
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Oel ngati kameie Los Ingobernables de Onsite BYOB 
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Whole grilled/fried fish. All my Asian friends tweak when I tell them I didn't eat a whole fish until I was in my 20s. Wasn't on the coast, wasn't great, and was expensive.
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As a kid, unless you live next to a body of water, fish often just means fish sticks or canned tuna (or worse, canned salmon  ) which will put you off the idea of trying any other preparation later on. Only after eating lake fish like walleye did I gain a real appreciation for it. Real salmon is delicious compared to the canned crap.
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