Strange, unusual, weird and gross food collection for display! SOLD!

[bobobb.livejournal.com]

This might be the weirdest post yet on the live journal....but here goes.

Over the past ten years I've been collecting weird, unusual, gross, disgusting and interesting food items. They are all expired, but the packaging itself is a great conversation piece. The collection includes:

Armour Potted Meat Product, Cured Lamb Tongues, Honey Boy Brand Chum Salmon, a Pic-Pack of pork hocks and knuckles, Kelly's Pork Brains (in milk!), dried squid, chicken spread, Jelly Belly Blueberry Pudding Snacks, Spam Spread, Spicy Spam and more!!!!

Also included is a box of Powerpuff Girl Cereal (Fizzes in your mouth!) and Indiana Jones Cereal.

I'm moving across the country and just can't justify moving all that expired food, even for its aesthetic value. I'm selling it all for $5 or best offer.

See craigslist posting for complete collection: http://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/clt/2094788499.html

Interested? Too bad, it already got sold :)

Just a reminder:

THIS FOOD IS FOR DISPLAY ONLY!!! IT HAS ALL EXPIRED!! DO NOT EAT!!

Comments

[ruthling.livejournal.com]

this post is kind of awesome. Please repost if someone takes it!

(you could always photograph everything and then throw it out)

[vonelftinhaus.livejournal.com]

I have a similar collection-but my prize of the collection got thrown out by my dad a few years back. A big glass jar of mayonnaise that was slightly turning a off-shade of whatever color it should be. I do not recall what the label said but it was very appropriate for how old it was :)

[koshmom.livejournal.com]

Send it to Jon Stewart of the Daily Show?

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

Maybe the Museum of Bad Art could host an exhibition of Bad Food?

[ron_newman]

Or, you could burn it and give the results to Deborah Henson-Conant's Burnt Food Museum.

[sparkgrrl658.livejournal.com]

fwiw, chicken spread isn't really weird or gross. you can buy it at any grocery store, and my mom sent it with me for lunch almost every day in grade school at my request (i didn't like pb&j).

[spacehawk.livejournal.com]

+1

And dried squid, well, that's a cultural judgment...

[bobobb.livejournal.com]

Well given that all of these things were bought in a grocery store, d'uh, of course its a cultural judgment. But my judgment was...your going to spread chicken? Really? When I lived in Arkansas you could get pig knuckles from a bucket at the gas station. People ate it, but I wasn't too interested.

And the squid was a two pack originally, I ate the first one (well in truth, I started it, but then my cat sort of went crazy on it).

Culture Magazine is going to be putting out an article about this next month re: some cultures find cheese gross, others find preserved black eggs gross (ie century egg). Of course all is edible :)

[sparkgrrl658.livejournal.com]

it's chicken salad dude. of course you can spread it.

[jenskot.livejournal.com]

Isn't it, like, just pureed chicken, as opposed to chunks of chicken in mayo like chicken salad?

[sparkgrrl658.livejournal.com]

yeah, sort of? but it's not like...peanut butter or mayo or something, i could see how chicken flavored spread that was meant to be used as a condiment would be gross, lol.

if you've ever had willow tree chicken salad, or any chicken salad where the chicken is more shredded, it's like that. it has texture and definite chicken in there, just no mayo :)

[jenskot.livejournal.com]

Technically, cheese *is* gross - moldy milk! I remember walking by a hidden cheesemonger on my way to work when I first moved to Edinburgh, and almost retching at the stench... but then I wandered in and delighted in tastiness.

[spacehawk.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I had chicken spread (in a can) all the time when I was a kid -- from the can or on bread.

I guess I was just trying to point out that what's "strange, unusual weird and gross" is very subjective and not all the readers of this comm are necessarily going to have the same judgments on "what foods are normal and what foods are weird". I'm American, but I know it can hurt to be a foreigner and have your traditional foods called weird and gross by Americans all the time.

Food for thought. ^_^

[jenskot.livejournal.com]

I think we're all innately cosmopolitan, culturally-sensitive people at heart, but this is b0st0n - EVERYONE gets excoriated here. Chicken spread is getting off relatively easily, I think... Plus, I would hope people are evaluative enough to see when a food is gross, even if they love it. I love Fluffernutters, and even I find it crazy that it's considered a main course!

(Also, candlepin bowling is mocked regularly by foreigners from New York and Minnesota, in the very place where it was the only bowling for generations of Bostonians. How sensitive is that?)

[spacehawk.livejournal.com]

this is b0st0n - EVERYONE gets excoriated here.

??? We do? I've lived in Boston all my life, and I've never seen "getting excoriated" as an aspect of what it means to be from this area.

Anyway, as I said, my point wasn't about me because I'm American born of Americans, but if the OP had mentioned some of my family's cultural foods, maybe it would have been about me. It could have been. I don't really see it being "about me" or "about somebody else" to be the point. My point is just that folks should be thoughtful of how they image others' foods in a public forum.

I KNOW that if we were all to take a poll, everyone here would have a different view of what's gross and what's weird and what's "weird but I like it anyway" and what's normal.

(In case there was confusion, this comm is davis_square, not b0st0n. Maybe you were trying to say that everyone gets excoriated at that other comm, which I'm not on.)

[jenskot.livejournal.com]

Oh no, this is davis_square?! I'm so sorry, the main topic and subsequent conversation got so weird I truly mistook it for b0st0n! :( Yes, then you are totally right to be kind and sensitive as to what may upset others.

[sparkgrrl658.livejournal.com]

ahahahaha, this comment is so, so, true.

[jenskot.livejournal.com]

Well, my mom sent a grape jelly and cream cheese sandwich with me for lunch all the time, and that WAS weird and gross, so... yeah.

[sparkgrrl658.livejournal.com]

LOL.

i like cream cheese & jelly on things but...not cold bread probably. at least she didn't send you oliveloaf? :p

[jenskot.livejournal.com]

Oh god, why do I vaguely remember olives involved with the cream cheese too...?! My New York Jew Mom had such a thing for cream cheese, it was insane... except for when she went careening in the other direction with boloney and yellow mustard on white bread. Yeah, I was a happy hot lunch kid.*

*Except peanut butter and banana sandwiches, those were splendid - not as sweet as PB&J, not as gross as CC&J. I probably should have been more assertive about my elementary school tastes.

P.S. I do remember she rocked the deviled eggs, and I gobbled those in fourth grade. Despite the weirdness, I somehow avoided taunts - until one fateful windy day when they blew all over the schoolyard. :`(

[sparkgrrl658.livejournal.com]

omggggggg i choked on my cereal reading that last part, hilarious mental image of secret eggs. hoooooo.

dude, i love deviled eggs. i was also the kid that ate the sausage that came with the french toast, and the baked beans that came with the hot dogs for hot lunch and somehow no one made fun of me either. i also ate most of my sandwiches on a tortilla, like, rolled up, cold. i'm still weird, i guess, heh.

i've never tried pb & bananas, maybe i would like that. fluffernutters (pb & fluff on shitty white bread) were suuuuper popular and they totally grossed me out. so sweet, ew.

cream cheese is like, the glue of 60s/70s recipes i think, maybe that's why? olives though man, ew. also i used to have baloney and ketchup. actually...i still do.

[jenskot.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I love how Americans think lunch is "Candied spread on white paper - with peanut butter! Peanuts have protein, so it must be healthy!", and then when we stop making kids walk everywhere they get fat and have lap-band surgery.

Have you seen http://www.candyboots.com/wwcards.html?

[sparkgrrl658.livejournal.com]

yesssssss i love those fucking things. i also belong to retrocookbooks (sorry if this turns out to be the wrong tag, it's something like that - amazeballs weirdness from years past!)

[sparkgrrl658.livejournal.com]

haha failllll

retry: retro_cookbooks

[jenskot.livejournal.com]

LOL, did you ever eat the hot lunches in the Boston area in the 80s? The menu consisted of: pizza, roast chicken (with so much fat under the skin that as a lil kid I thought it was mashed potatoes), salisbury steak, American chop suey, and WAFFLES. Yes, a square waffle that somehow burned the tongue despite being cold, with two shriveled sausages. But when it rained, we got grilled cheese and tomato soup! I think that's why I'm conditioned to enjoy dreary weather...

[sparkgrrl658.livejournal.com]

haha! nah, i was in RI then, we always had three choices every day. choice one was the "good" hot lunch, hot dogs and baked beans, chicken nuggets, french toast sticks (we had sausage discs that probably shouldn't have been the color they were, but...), pizza on fridays, etc.. choice two was usually some kind of cold sandwich grinder thing maybe? i don't know, no one ever got this. choice three was basically if you were really poor or you forgot lunch, and was always pb&j.

we probably had some really gross stuff too, but they'd send home the menu and i'd pick the days i wanted hot lunch so i only remember that and my mom would make mine the other days, i was lucky compared to some!

[jenskot.livejournal.com]

I kinda want to eat the Powderpuff Girls and Indiana Jones cereals... I'm sure they haven't reeeallly expired...

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

They will probably never expire. The monster cockroaches will be gobbling them long after The Big One drops.

[jenskot.livejournal.com]

Oh Noes - super-powered cockroaches powered by sugar, spice, Chemical X, and propyl p-hydroxybenozoate!!! Hide yo kids, hide yo wife!

[teko.livejournal.com]

Man, half of that stuff is the food I grew up on!

[jenskot.livejournal.com]

Wow, how cramped was it being raised in a fallout shelter?

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[bobobb.livejournal.com]

See what I mean about it being a good conversation piece?!?!?