CONFESS!!! Your greatest, deepest, darkest culinary sin?

[flvegan]

Something you've made/eaten that was so vile, Satan himself would have vomited (though he'd likely vomit fire, or something really cool!)?

Something you enjoyed so greatly, yet if others knew, they'd turn from your very sight?

*For the sake of the mods (both new AND returning), please refrain from the "sexual acts in the kitchen/on the dining room table" posts, mmkay?*

Mine, later.

[philosophie_en_rose]

1. I butter the toast in peanut butter sandwiches.

That's about it.

I also like mashed potatoes with rice.

[qnr]

103. I like(d) peanut butter & butter sandwiches (and cheese & butter)

don't eat them any more though.

[qnr]

104. self-delete, replied to wrong post n/t

[Fuzz]

2. I once tried to make a meatloaf

with a mexican kind of thing, years ago, that my wife, to this day, still brings up, that was so freakin' bad the dog wanted nothing to do with it.

As far as a weird thing, hmmm, not sure if this qualifies, but I once ate rattlesnake chili in the mountains near Tuscon that was, um, interesting.

[evirus]

28. My mom made some odd

raveeoli thing that had the same reaction to our dog

[ZombieNixon]

3. Once when I was five...

I mixed all the spices and food colorings in the cabinet with flour, baking soda and water. It looked like Satan's poo. Probably would have tasted like it too. x(

[Left Is Write]

27. Oddly enough, you've remind me of something.

In junior high, my best friend and I decided to make cookies in Kicks (the then-Minnesota NASL soccer team) colors - light blue and orange.

I'm still not sure what she did to the dough with the food coloring, but it was quite a disaster. The end result would be forever referred to as "the puky Froot Loop cookies," meaning, as my friend put it, they looked like someone had eaten Froot Loops and then thrown up. This would definitely have to be my ultimate answer to the question in the OP.

[wickerwoman]

49. The first time I tried to make cake...

I used the white powder in the canister marked "flour" not realizing that that was where my dad kept the cremora for his coffee. Blech...

[begin_within]

94. My first cake-baking experience...

I was about 15 or 16 and I had never baked a cake before. I used a box mix and canned frosting. It was a 2-layer round cake. It came out of the oven perfectly. I spread the frosting on the first layer, then set the second layer on top, and frosted the top, then around the sides. It was really beautiful, especially considering it was my first try ever. The only thing was - I didn't know you had to let the cake cool completely before frosting it. I did it while the cake was still warm. I left the kitchen, and came back about 15 minutes later, and the top half was on the floor.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

4. I really like the cheap Top Ramen Oriental flavor (vegan)

with a bunch of "Caribbean" hot sauce added to it.

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. Sloe Gin and Diet Mountain Dew is the worst thing I can think of.

I actually liked it, too - and made it more than once over the course of a few years.

I don't think i could do it now, since I stopped drinking soda regularly years ago, and now find Mountain Dew so fucking disgusting I don't even want to smell it.

[Left Is Write]

25. Er...

I don't know if that would make Satan vomit, but I'm pretty sure I'd be seeing my lunch again.

[johnnie]

6. Ok

When I lived at home, I was often the one to cook for all 6 of us. Sometimes breakfast, sometimes lunches and sometimes dinners. I enjoyed cooking and my family dug what I cooked.

One Sunday morning I was to cook breakfast for all of us that was to be scrambled eggs, sausage, toast, and homefries.

I got everything going and when I went to mix the eggs (a dozen) I started by breaking them in the bowl. We all liked "fresh" brown eggs and I remember that is what they were when I was preparing them. I had gotten about 7 or 8 eggs into the bowl when I broke the next one and as I dumped it in I noticed it was bloody. I looked around, no one was looking, I mixed it in real quick and continued on.

I never have said a thing, but I didn't eat eggs that morning. :)

[Fuzz]

8. Then you aren't Filipino

Look up Balut.

:puke:

[johnnie]

9. Ok

That's gross. I don't feel bad now. :)

[philosophie_en_rose]

107. I'm Filipina and I can't even think about Balut.

:puke:

[AutumnMist]

7. Well When I Was In High school..

I used to microwave chocolate chips and peanut butter and eat it with a spoon. It was wonderful and to this day I will not allow myself to do it again. I am not the svelte 120 pounds I used to be. LOL.

[LeftyMom]

10. Fried bologna sandwich on white bread?

I can think of some vile-in-the-SAD-sense stuff, but nothing that'd be generally stomach turning.

I did make a cake with a full dozen eggs in it once a few months after I'd went vegan. I'd already promised long before to make it for somebody's handfasting and didn't really trust my then nascent recipe veganizing skills on an enourmous and very expensive wedding cake and an unfamiliar recipe. I did make an extra layer of cake that was vegan and frost it with marzipan though.

[unsavedtrash]

17. with yellow mustard.

Also ketchup sandwiches were staples when I was a kid.
:blush:

[LeftyMom]

20. Ooh, I can't stand mustard or ketchup

:puke:

[evirus]

30. although now that makes me gag

i remember eating something similar to that as a kid, katchup or mustard with baloni

[YankeyMCC]

65. Hey that brings back fond memories

:)

I used to have them pretty often as a kid.

[libnnc]

11. Spam. I like Spam.

Spam and cheese sandwich.
Spam and fried potatoes.
Spam and cheese omlette.
Spam, pinto beans and corn bread.

Spam.

[LeftyMom]

13. Ooh! Geeky earworm:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn4CZw3oGOQ

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

14. In Hawaii, they sell spam maki.

That's right. Spam Sushi rolls.

:puke:

[belladonna]

12. I eat Lunchables a lot

What can I say? I'm busy and they're quick and easy :blush:

[cobalt1999]

15. French Epoisse cheese that oozes and smells like dead man's feet

Actually it smells worse.

One time my wife and bought some, put it in the trunk of the car on a cold January night and STILL had to roll the windows down on the way home. You can only open the double wrapping outside unless you want to spend the next few hours airing out the house.

Tastes great though!

[acmavm]

82. The stinkier the cheese, the better it is.

[smtpgirl]

16. after drinking, I need a carb fix

mashed potatoes rolled up with warm flour tortillas or

oatmeal, hershey's syrup & peanut butter kind of melted

[evirus]

18. I have three

1) when i was rather young, after the good ol american friday/pizza night. the next day for lunch i started my nukeing some "crazy bread" i asked my sister(older then me) how long i should put it in for, she just said 30, so i put it on for 30 minutes not secounds.... smelly and smokey

2) one night my parents went out and left me with a tv dinner(i didn't mind that much, i was in my early teens) so i make the tv dinner in the microwave, the apple pie and brownie in it exploded severly contaminating the proper taste of everything elese

3) some how i managed to make beeferoni wrong on the stove, turned out all soft and mushy... revolting to say the least

[catzies]

19. I, a born Southerner, put syrup on my grits

And I LIKE it. :evilgrin:

[unsavedtrash]

22. is there another way?

:shrug:

Have you ever tried grits on pancakes? So good.

[cobalt1999]

24. yes, but a true southerner uses cane syrup.

None of that yankee maple stuff.

[DarkmoonIkonoklast]

54. CANE SYRUP??????? HELL NO!!!

   Ya GOTTA use Blackstrap molasses!!!!
   {DAMNYANKEES!!!}

[Chan790]

63. Oh boy, you're going to hate this then

I use the hazelnut and amaretto syrup from work, sometimes the vanilla or raspberry instead.

[cobalt1999]

68. wow, haven't had that since I was a kid.

I wouldn't even know where to buy it, but I'm going to find out. :) No one calls me a yankee!

[catzies]

97. Now THAT sounds good & now I'm craving it!!!!!

:9

[Dangerously Amused]

21. When we were freshmen

...my best friend came over one night and was kind of frantic because he forgot that he had to make a native dish from some country neither of us ever heard of before, for a social studies project, due the next morning. Fortunately, my parents were away on vacation.

We took my Mom's biggest mixing bowl and put a little bit of everything - and I do mean everything - we could find into it. Cream of Mushroom soup, V-8 juice, graham cracker crumbs, dried minced onion, chocolate syrup, ice cream, cayenne pepper, beer, miniature marshmallows, pickle relish, maraschino cherry juice, Worcester sauce, salad dressing, peanut butter, soda pop... you get the idea. The goal was to use ingredients that would blend so as to keep any one ingredient from being individually identifiable. We were laughing so hard we nearly fell over.

It turned into a brown gloppy mess. He took it to school the next morning, knowing he had to keep a totally straight face to pull it off. He told his teacher that he found the recipe in some cookbook, but he couldn't pronounce the name of the dish. He also said that he had to substitute a few of the more exotic ingredients because they were not available locally. He served it to the class on slices of white bread, saying that in its native country it was served as a dip or a spread with pieces of flat-bread, but that he didn't make the flat-bread, just the dish itself.

Some of his classmates had some, but the smart ones some wouldn't touch it. His teacher had some and he really had to as well. He said it was pretty gross. But goddam if he didn't get an "A" on it.


:rofl:

[Left Is Write]

23. I can't think of anything.

Though some people think cheese and jam sandwiches are weird, or a bowl of beans and pasta (come on! it's a complete protein that way!)

Wait - I did have a strange "thing" for cheese and pickle sandwiches on hot dog buns when I was pregnant with my son.

[petronius]

26. I used to slice up a whole can of spam, fry it, and cover it with ketchup

It was unutterably delicious. (Does that count? I haven't read the thread to see how I compare.)

[flvegan]

29. "Jellyfish salad" is mine

When I went vegetarian (not vegan) my friend tried so hard to find stuff to bring to me at work that I could eat. She was really into Hawaiian cuisine 'n stuff. She had found this "salad" at a restaurant and liked it, and asked what was in it. I guess some of the translation was lost. I ate it, like, 7 times. She comes to me one day with this look of horror and tells me that she made a mistake. The "seaweed salad" she'd been getting me was actually not seaweed...it was some form of jellyfish.

I just shuddered again, and it's been YEARS!!

I also ate at Cracker Barrel once.
*snort*

[LeftyMom]

32. I had a completely vegan meal at Cracker Barrel once

Really. LD's paternal uncle used to work there and wanted to take us all to visit (he was really proud of the job- he's a bit slow as the result of a car accident and this was the first job he'd done really well at) and he went in the back and made it for me himself to make sure it'd be right. He wants to be a chef someplace nice someday. I think he can, he's a really good cook.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

33. I didn't know any of the jellyfish were edible.

It actually tasted good?

As weird as this sounds, I now want to try jellyfish.

[Chan790]

78. I had jellyfish.

I don't know which ones would be edible but I had a cousin who was a Marine (in Vietnam) who told us that a local fisherman taught him how to cook jellyfish.

My cousin used to catch them (small generic white ones the size of my palm) every time he went to the beach (in North Carolina) and bring them home in a cooler, "clean them"(like a fish, removing the internal structures, stingers and tenticles) and cook them. They taste like really-salty egg whites, but he loved them for some reason.

I didn't. :puke:

[Broken_Hero]

31. The first time I tried making white gravy...

it was like...the paste you use with paper mache...I totally destroyed the recipe....

[unsavedtrash]

34. drinking whole milk while having pizza that is dipped into ranch dressing

damn good stuff.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

35. Microwaved pizza with ranch dressing on it.

:puke:

Yes, I was high at the time... I think. ;)

[evirus]

36. is there ever any good stories that begin or end with:

"I was high at the time"?

[Starbucks Anarchist]

37. Actually, yes.

Pretty much the rest of them. :smoke:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

39. Many actually. nt

[Chan790]

83. Yes, but

so very few that start with "So I was tripping on acid when..."

those you have to appreciate as the rare and special gems that they are.

[Chan790]

38. Several bad ones from when I was barista at the CUA Rathskeller

The Ratt was an on-campus mish-mash of hanging-out pub/teahouse/coffeehouse/music-venue at Catholic University where I went for my B.A. We served beer, wine, coffee, espresso-drinks, tea, tea-drinks, fine-dining and nasty fried pub-fare with punk, hardcore, jazz, blues, jam-band/hippie and sundry other genres of live music in a grungy basement great-room with an outdoor patio.

I was notorious for some awful, sinful poor-taste and worse behavior. Some of the food-stuff was not just vile, but could have gotten me fired if my managers at the time knew.

*One of the things on the menus was an "Italian soda", seltzer water mixed with your choice of the syrups used in caffe-prep (3-pump usually). I had this professor who came in one day and after I told her at 4 different times that our seltzer was down I finally just made her an almond-italian with 16-pumps (her request) of amaretto-syrup and fizzed with Sprite. As soon as it hit the back of her throat...I knew that it wasn't going to stay down for long.

*I tamped and pulled Earl Grey shots (from full-leaf) in the espresso machine, little super-concentrated 2-oz. explosions of tea and citrus, and handed them out to prospective freshman on visitor's weekend. Those were jammy, sweet, rich works of art but people still give me strange looks when I tell that story.

*I put salt in the sugar bowl behind the bar (the one for my use at the bar only) because this girl would not stop licking her finger, reaching over the counter and sticking it in the bowl then sucking the sugar off her finger.

*We had this kid, a singer in one of the bands, that kept making lewd comments to one of my best friends every time they played the Ratt so I made him a matcha-tea misto laced with wasabi-drizzle from one of the appetizers between sets and by the time he got back on stage he had milky-neon-green snot running down his face, was tearing-up uncontrollably, and could barely talk.

*The secret ingredient in my cinnamon-swirl macchiatto (a customer favorite) was Tabasco.

*My best friend and I cut the queso by mixing in fluff because it was running short the night before a week-long break and we weren't going to open a new jar of cheez-whiz. We got a lot of complements that it was smoother and creamier than usual with a nice sweetness.

[Nevernose]

43. Do you speak English? Is English your native tongue?

barista
the CUA Rathskeller
The Ratt
The Ratt was an on-campus mish-mash of hanging-out pub/teahouse/coffeehouse/music-venue at Catholic University where I went for my B.A. We served beer, wine, coffee, espresso-drinks, tea, tea-drinks, fine-dining and nasty fried pub-fare with punk, hardcore, jazz, blues, jam-band/hippie and sundry other genres of live music in a grungy basement great-room with an outdoor patio.
I understood that. Barely.
Italian soda
caffe-prep
3-pump usually
an almond-italian
16-pumps (her request)
maretto-syrup
and fizzed with Sprite. I think I may have figured this one out w/o help.
Earl Grey shots (from full-leaf)
a matcha-tea
misto laced
wasabi-drizzle
cinnamon-swirl macchiatto
Tabasco At last, an ingredient I understand. You worked at a Cajun place, right?

Huh?

[Chan790]

44. Shockingly...yes.

In fact, I'm in graduate school working on my Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, my Masters of Public Administration in Fundraising and Development and typing this after 5 hours of classes and 3 hours of sleep sandwiched between two 6-hour shifts at Starbucks. Yes, I speak English. I also speak Farsi, Arabic, Aramaic, Spanish, German, Latin, Hebrew, Classical Greek, and Japanese at widely-varying degrees of fluency. However, my brain is not quite up-to-snuff at the moment.

Much of what you have singled-out is barista-speak or coffee-terms (either Italian or French-language origin), so I'll explain as best as I can.

Barista - A person who makes coffee-drinks. A barista is similar to a bartender, except with coffee instead of alcohol. Baristas are highly-trained artists of their field. I am a barista.

CUA Rathskeller - This is where I used to work. They went out of business because the manager was stealing from the employees, the university, and the owner.

The Ratt - Nickname of the Rathskeller. Earned because the Rathskeller was dingy, dark and smelled faintly like urine.

Italian soda - Soda-beverage made from seltzer water and flavored syrup to order. I have no idea why it is called Italian soda. All soda (or pop, depending where in the USA you live.) used to be made this way. There is nothing even-remotely Italian about it.

Caffe-prep - generic term for food-stuff, other than coffee, used in preparation of coffee-beverages. Typical caffe-prep of a coffeehouse includes milk, soy milk, whipped cream, cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla bean powder, cocoa powder, chai(a type of spiced tea), and flavored-syrups.

3-pump - The flavored-syrups used by baristas come in pump-top bottles. Something which is 3-pump gets 3 pumps of syrup.

Almond-Italian - "Italian" soda made with amaretto syrup. Amaretto syrup is almond-flavored. Hence, an almond-italian is almond-flavored soda. A Peppermint-Italian would be peppermint-flavored soda. A Chocolate-Italian would be cocoa and seltzer. A Coffee-Italian would be chilled espresso and seltzer. A Mocha-Italian is espresso, chocolate syrup and seltzer.

16-pump (her request) - Sixteen pumps of syrup, which is what she asked for. 1-pump is approximately equal to 2 teaspoons...thus 16-pump is 32 teaspoons. Frankly, that is just gross which is why I pointed out that she asked for it.

Amaretto syrup - Almond-flavored beverage syrup.

Earl Grey shots (from full-leaf) - Earl Grey is a type of black tea which is flavored with bergamot, a circus fruit from Asia. A shot (also called a dose) is a small, highly-concentrated serving (usually of espresso) brewed under very-high pressure by an espresso machine. Full-leaf means that the tea was brewed from dried tea leaves and not from a teabag.

Matcha - Matcha is a green-tea powder made by brewing green-tea then evaporating-out all the water. Mixing matcha with milk or water makes matcha-tea. Matcha-tea is the ceremonial and national drink of Japan.

Misto (or Tea Misto) - Tea with milk added.

Wasabi-drizzle - Liquified wasabi in a squirt bottle. We would drizzle it over food to make sauces or to decorate plates. Wasabi is also known as Japanese horseradish and is bright-green in color.

Cinnamon-swirl macchiatto - Macchiatto is a type of coffee beverage made by adding espresso to steamed and foamed milk immediately before serving. This reverse of the normal beverage-creation process (usually espresso is added first, then milk...as in the making of a Latte) creates a stained pattern within the milk foam. Cinnamon-swirl means that cinnamon has been added and swirled into the foam as well.

You worked at a Cajun place, right? - No. I worked in a coffeehouse.

[Dangerously Amused]

55. Dude, I think you are an outstanding writer.

I understood everything you said, even all the barista-speak. Although many of the words were unfamiliar to me, just by looking at them I could get a pretty good idea of their meaning, and then you gave them enough context to fill out the rest of it. Beyond that your post is well-written and fun to read.

I am impressed with your command of languages, and am happy to know that you are developing your great talent even further. Good luck in school and let us know when you publish your first bestseller.


:hi:

[Nevernose]

112. I was just kidding about the "speaking English" thing.

I certainly appreciate the thoughtful response on your part.

My original response, however, was flippant; it was a joke. If you'd been in the room with me, you'd have laughed, and I guess that's what smilies are for?

It's the same thing I say to people with Cockney slang or heavy Scottish accents. Remember the story of how they had to put subtitles in Trainspotting so that the people in LONDON could understand it? That's how I felt when I read your post. :) <-- See the smilie?

It's interesting, too, to think about the aspect of dialect. Regionalism, class, subculture, and multiculturalism all come up. Could there be a "coffee-dialect" springing up?

[La Lioness Priyanka]

73. all of that makes perfect sense

have you ever stepped into a starbucks?

[Starbucks Anarchist]

110. I have!

:D

[Karenca]

90. English must be your second language then.

The words you picked out that you have trouble understanding are quite mainstream.


Or, maybe you've never had any drinks except for Sanka and Mountain Dew.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

92. ...

:spray:

:thumbsup:

[Karenca]

96. ...

Hey there!

:spray: :hi:

[Rowdyboy]

40. When I'm sick, my baby makes me fried peanut butter/banana sandwiches....

I love him SOOOOOO much....

[Rosco T.]

41. Chilli...

I was famous around school for my chili.. I could make is smooth and calm as a shelterd cove...or hot and searing as the tenth level of hell (which most people wanted). One dick would show up on saturday night (he was dating a friend) and proceed to eat and bitch at the same time... "too watery.. too greasey... too thick... too many beans.. not enough beans... not hot enought... too chunky..."

one week, I had enough.

I was making up the saturday crock (6 gallons) and made a SPECIAL crock (2 quarts) just for him...

well, Saturday came... and he was WOLFING down the stuff... not a single complaint... nothing but praise... he ate it ALL...

I finally asked if he could tell the difference, since I had made it with a special ingredient JUST FOR HIM...

He was begging, PLEASE.. what did you use!!!

after about 30 minutes, I told him....

"ALPO" I smiled... "since you were such a dirty dog about it every week..."

.. made the most beautiful arc right arcoss the room from the couch to the opposite wall... unfortunately the friend he was dating was right in the target zone...

All worked out well... she dumped him right after that :D

[RetroLounge]

42. Not so bad I would call them a sin

1) 100 proof Southern Comfort and Mountain Dew. "Ah, my Sweet Liquid Candy of Death."

2) Peanut butter and strawberry preserves on wonder bread, with Buddigs processed Chicken loaf and a slice of kraft american cheese. great sandwich, make severyone else go WTF?

3) After the meal is over, 2 pieces of wonder bread to soak up the meat juice, with beef gravy poured over them...

RL

[Withywindle]

45. Pickled eggs!

Haven't had one in years, but my mouth waters at the very thought.

Also, I like those terrifying vinegary red "hot sausages" that come wrapped in plastic.


Why yes, I was raised in a truck stop. :blush:

[Richard Steele]

46. You can pickle eggs in the hot-sausage brine, and they're damn tasty!

Of course, that means you have to buy an entire Jug
of the pickled sausages...but since when is THAT a bad thing?

[Guava Jelly]

47. I once made lasagna with shredded velveta cheese (by mistake)

It was gawd awful
Oh i also made biscuits and gravey with vanilla soy milk (by mistake)...also disgusting

[Random_Australian]

48. More about volume.

Try one and a half large pizzas in six minutes.

:)

[Dangerously Amused]

58. No way.

:wow:



And here I've been eating all the wrong kinds of brain fuel, like spinach and stuff. No wonder I are so dum.

[Random_Australian]

60. This was a one-off.

I don't eat like that regularly. I am not, after all, an American. :)

And I am moderately built.

[wickerwoman]

50. In college, I used to make something I called "Bad Mojo"

I'd usually resolve to go on a diet over the weekend. I'd make a meal plan, write up a huge shopping list, get everything home and then proceed to eat out every day of the week because I was too lazy to cook. Then by around Tuesday everything would be starting to go off so I would throw it all in a wok stir-fry it, freeze the leftovers and start over again. It looked terrible but usually tasted pretty good.

Also, when I was a kid, I loved eating raw tater-tots. But my aunt used to suck on the ice from the walls of the freezer even though my grandmother used all kinds of chemicals to clean it so we're making progress over the generations.

[NMMNG]

51. I used to make a "casserole"

with mac&cheese, sliced hot dogs or ham chunks, and peas. Now that I'm vegetarian I substitute veggie dogs for the hot dogs.



When I was a kid my friend and I used to mix orange and grape soda together. We pretended they were cocktails and called them "Chablanques".

[MissHoneychurch]

52. Mac and cheese with ketchup

:hide:

[DarkmoonIkonoklast]

53. Eggs cooked in brandy are considered a gourmet treat...

   Eggs cooked in Southern Comfort, however...
   I was cooking a "morning after" breakfast -- a couple dozen scrambled eggs -- for about a dozen friends who had stayed over after a party at my place {ok, I'd hijacked all their keys for safety -- NOBODY leaves my home drunk!}; Lacking any good brandy, I used the remaining Southern Comfort instead... which produced a concoction so vile, I ended up pouring the entire horrible mess down the disposal!!!
   Cost me a bundle to buy breakfast croissants for everyone!
   NEVER AGAIN!!!!

[MrScorpio]

56. I can make French Toast using Egg Nog

Not bad

[MissHoneychurch]

57. That is a waste of Egg Nogg

:P

[MrScorpio]

59. Well you liquor up the rest and drink it

Not a total waste

[DarkmoonIkonoklast]

111. French Toast made with Egg Nog?

   Miss Honey, darlin', I'll make you some when I see you... you'll be pleasantly surprised!

[mainegreen]

61. Mashed potatos w/ cream and brandy.

The brandy was bad news. Seemed like a good idea. Tasted like a bad idea.

[seemunkee]

62. My first attempt at cooking okra

turned into this bowl of green gooey snot that didn't even make it to the table. I just stick to using it in gumbo or batter fried now.

[El Fuego]

64. An Asian concoction that called for rare ingredients from the Asian store

It was a kind of pumpkin and shrimp soup that looked really appetizing in the picture. I had to buy weird ingredients I'd never heard of from the Oriental market. One key ingredient was this fishy paste from Thailand that came in a jar. Things were going well until I added it to the soup... it made my whole house smell like a toxic waste dump. The stench was like poisonous chemicals that literally made you GAG! It smelled like the kind of fumes you get when you get when bleach and ammonia are mixed. (I had poured bleach on cat urine stains once, when caused a horrific steaming chemical meltdown, and the stench was exactly like that.)

It took days to air out the house! I don't remember what the stuff in the jar was, since I threw it and the recipe book OUT.

:puke:

[hotforteacher]

100. I'll bet it was shrimp paste.

That shit is VILE.

[Puglover]

66. This will probably get me banned or at the very least deleted.

I love Velveeta. And yes I goddamn know it's not cheese!

[malta blue]

67. I was served a bologna salad sandwich once

at my friend's parent's house. I had no idea what it was, but have hated bologna my entire life. I took a bite, gagged, and then slipped it under the table for the dog. The dog made off with it, only to leave it on the living room carpet - letting everyone know that I had donated the sandwich.
:puke:

[BigMcLargehuge]

69. One teenage day, when there was little to eat in the house

I assembled the following ingredients -

long grain rice (which I cooked then stir fried)
one can of cream style corn
leftover roast chicken of questionable safety
half a bottle of ranch dressing
parmesean cheese

Good god was that inedible. For a month after I threw the whole kit and kaboodle into the trash I lay awake at night wondering if the EPA was tryng to track me down.

The concoction smelled like month old garbage and tasted worse. Amazingly, I was a cook at the time and should have known better, much better, but I was really hungry and these seemed like good ingredients at the time.

[NewWaveChick1981]

70. I fried an entire package of bacon once when I was in college and

ate all of it myself. As a meal. With nothing else except a Coke. :yoiks: Fortunately, that was the first and only time I ever did that. I didn't feel too good later on. :puke: That was 25 or so years ago, but I still remember it like it was yesterday. :(

I won't eat bacon any more now for a lot of reasons.

[El Fuego]

72. That's why I can't buy bacon.

It's my weakness...I tend to eat it as I'm cooking it. I could easily eat the whole package.

If I buy sweets, they just go stale because I have no interest and they don't even tempt me. But I won't let myself buy bacon because I have no willpower! :(

[NewWaveChick1981]

75. Well, I have that problem with sweets.

In my "I can do anything I want" days in college, I did anything I wanted. Some worked out, some didn't. I love the smell of bacon frying, but my unintentional aversion therapy worked. :rofl: I haven't had bacon in a very long time.

[Chan790]

84. My first roommate post-college did that...

a lot...like once a week. He's 6'4" and weighs 325lbs. Not that I'm skinny, but at least my blood-cholesterol is lower than the cholesterol-content of brown gravy.

[NewWaveChick1981]

85. Geez... I only did that once and felt like crap

afterward, thereby learning a very valuable lesson. :yoiks: Once a week? His blood was pure brown gravy.... :puke:

[BarenakedLady]

71. I like

Ranch dressing on my cold pizza....*hangs head in shame*

I dip potato chips in bbq sauce

[lildreamer316]

76. Been doing that for years (the first one)

Cold pizza, warm pizza, fries, you name it I'll eat it with ranch. Almost.
(our fave joke: how do you get a southern girl/man to ..how shall I say w/o getting deleted..."service" you?
Put ranch on it.)

[lildreamer316]

74. I dip my sharp cheddar cheese in mayo and eat it.

My arteries clog just thinking about it.

In High School, friends of mine used to mix up ketsup, mayo and mustard and then dip their fries in it. Eeeewwww.

[miss_american_pie]

77. I dip pretzel rods in mayo.

:hi:

[Tyrone Slothrop]

79. Once, while stoned out of mind...

(Actually, I've done this more than once. :blush:)

I was thinking about the whole salty/sweet awesomeness, and I decided to add some Planter's Cheese Balls and some cubes of proscuitto to the vanilla ice cream I had in the freezer.

Disgusting on several levels...but very good on some other levels.

I should really add the number for Ben & Jerry's testing kitchens to my speed dial!
:rofl:

[begin_within]

93. When I was in college, my Hawaiian roommate always had the best pot

which was mailed to him from his friends in Hawaii. The best I ever have had. Once he smoked some with me and he fell asleep. I had a couple of bags of oranges in the refrigerator which I was going to make orange juice out of. When I was stoned I cut all the oranges into 4 pieces, and one by one, I sucked the juice out of each quarter. It must have been at least 20 oranges. I just could not stop doing it. Each suck gave me a blast of sweet, cold, flavorful orange - it was fantastic. I had never tasted oranges like that before. They were good oranges too, tree-ripened that a neighbor had given us. It must have taken me about 20 mintes to do, but it seemed like 3 or 4 hours because I was stoned. I probably would have done more oranges if there were more oranges. I just left the remains of the oranges in the wastebasket. Later my roomate saw it and asked me about it, and I told him I sucked the juice out of all of them. He laughed out loud.

[w8liftinglady]

106. lol..I did bar-b-q chips and vanilla ice cream

those were the days...

[noonwitch]

80. I thought a clove of garlic = a bulb the first time I used fresh garlic

My brother told me to use 5-6 cloves of garlic when making pesto sauce. So I used 5 bulbs of garlic. It was inedible.

[begin_within]

91. My sister did the same thing in the 1950s. They had to

move the clothes out of the house for a couple of days. I wasn't born yet so they tell me the story of it. She used a couple of whole bulbs of garlic instead of a couple of cloves. They said the whole house smelled like garlic for 2 days. They actually took most of the clothes (especially the ones that would have required dry cleaning) out of the house to the garage for those 2 days.

[fizzgig]

81. when i'm high

i love peanut butter and chocolate syrup sandwiches dipped in maple syrup. hell, when i'm not high i throw strawberries on the sandwich and leave the maple syrup out.

i dip my fries in mayo.

i love to eat cheese and salami on saltines with ranch on it.

i put tuna and salsa in my mac and cheese.

damn, now my arteries hurt

[kwassa]

86. A beer float. Seemed like a good idea at the time.

Mug of beer, two scoops of vanilla.

Don't try this at home. Please.

[Ekirh]

87. I don't have one . .

But I think Cool Whip and/or apple sauce on Lasanga by my Grandpa deserves a mention regardless.

[KFC]

88. Cat food dip

When hosting parties in college, I would sometimes make cat food dip for the guests. Just get a can of tuna cat food, add sour cream, spices, and garnish. Then laugh your ass off.

[Quantess]

89. Tuna with salsa. Low budget ceviche.

[Xithras]

95. Tuna/Grape Jelly sandwiches.

:9

Has to be dark tuna in water, with nothing else mixed in. The bare tuna goes on one slice of bread, and the jelly on the other. I have no clue when I started making these, but I love them.

My wife also jumps on my case when I make regular tuna sandwiches. My sandwich tuna recipe calls for generous portions of mayonnaise, spicy mustard, sweet pickle relish, and capers.

Another one that gags my wife, but that I have successfully passed on to my children (woohoo!) is an abiding love for peanut butter/marshmallow sandwiches. I LOVE those things.

[YDogg]

98. Butter sandwiches. The more the merrier. Butter, that is.

When I was about 7. Years old, that is.

[Deja Q]

99. So eating 'boob shaped pasta' is off the list, then?

:hide:

[Benfea]

101. Rice + raw eggs + soy sauce = yummeh!

You stir it reeally good with chopsticks until it turns into a gooey, slimey, vomit-brown mess.

PS -- don't try it unless you grew up eating Japanese food.

[w8liftinglady]

102. peanut butter/marshmallow fluff sandwiches...yummy!

[qnr]

105. When I was young and exceedingly poor, I'd eat catsup/ketchup

sandwiches. I'd put gobs of tabasco sauce on them to make the 'meal' last longer.

[SoyCat]

108. Toasted jalapeno-whole wheat bagels with butter and pickled jalapeno--

slices

[Zavulon]

109. When I was a kid...

...my mom gave me some Hostess Twinkies, but I hated the sweet taste. I started dipping them in mustard and eating them that way, which sent my mother into waves of shock and did the same to my parents' friends. My father, consistent with his nature of dark humor, thought it was hilarious.