Scary Foods

Just thought it would be fun to start a thread of "scary foods". What food scares you, and why?

For me, it's the EasyMac Casserole with Hamburger. How can hamburger be shelf-stable and how is it safe (not to mention healthy) to be stored for months in little plastic bags then be reconsituted and heated in a microwave????

Vienna Weiners.

LMAO....but I don't know why.  Maybe the smell.?

The stuff I walk by at the asian grocery that I can't identify except as "pickled something."

"potted meat"

those sticks of jerky.  How do they get it so red?

Pig's feet - occasionally the store has them in clear jars near the other pork, and it kind of freaks me out.  Like it's a mad scientists lab or something...

And....sausage and pancake on a stick.  A cardiologist might as well stick their card in the box for a free initial appointment.

 

i guess y'all will think i'm crazy for this, but i have always found something a bit unsettling about JELLO

LMAO, thanks guys, this has been a great thread!

jalapeno jelly

Bologna - do I really need to explain? In the same vein: hot dogs.

Processed cheese. What terrible crime did cheese commit that entitled it to be deserving of that? Whatever it is...

On the same note, Trxr, "Imitation cheese product" -- Explain that one to me!!!

**shudders**

this was on a bottle of caprisun: "naturally fruit flavored juice drink blend" LOL

Something I stumbled across in the lunchmeat section called a "souse loaf"... google it.  Has to be one of the grossest "foods" I've ever seen.  For months afterward, my stomach would turn if I thought about it.

EDIT: Here.  Here's what I found when I googled it:

SOUSE Head cheese, also called souse and brawn, is a jellied loaf or sausage. Originally it was made entirely from the meaty parts of the head of a pig or calf, but now can include edible parts of the feet, tongue, and heart. The head is cleaned and simmered until the meat falls from the bones, and the liquid is a concentrated gelatinous broth. Strained, the meat is removed from the head, chopped, seasoned and returned to the broth and the whole placed in a mold and chilled until set, so it can be sliced.

I was getting ready to copy that in, Ratinhat!!!! How hilarious is that!!!

Processed cheese.   It isn't even cheese.   Ewww...

Oh yeah....head cheese.  I was all up for eating bugs in my Cultural Anthropology class, but when the head cheese came around, I just couldn't do it.

This requires no further explanation.  Yes, people actually eat them.

Oh Lys, you might have just cost me my job!!! That's not work safe!!! But I saw the URL and laughed.... I think i know what it was!

Rocky Mountain Oysters?

scrapple : Scrapple is typically made of hog offal, such as the head, heart, liver, and other scraps, which are boiled with any bones attached (often the entire head), to make a broth. Once cooked, bones and fat are discarded, the meat is reserved, and (dry) cornmeal is boiled in the broth to make a mush. The meat, finely minced, is returned, and seasonings, typically sage, thyme, savory, and others are added. The mush is cast into loaves, and allowed to cool thoroughly until gelled. The proportions and seasoning are very much a matter of the region and the cook's taste. (from Wikipedia)

Apparently there's now a vegetarian version made with soy!

pre-sliced cheese, it looks so much like plastic... maybe bit is.

(I like my cheese off a cheese -block extra sharp!)

SPAM!  Now, if someone sneaks it into a recipe it tastes good...but wouldn't eat it on purpose!