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

[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.