Foods that should be called something else.

[Crackle]

This thread was brought to you by Dairylea cheese slices.

I'd bought some while casting around for something son2 could take with him on his DofE practise. It says they have to be refrigerated but quite honestly they'll still be digging them out with the nappies in a thousand years time, the only things which have survived the nuclear holocaust.

Son2 rejected them with the words "they taste really chemical, dad". "You've only tried a tiny corner", I replied and stuck a whole one in my mouth and chewed. Just one chew, the taste hit me then and not being near a bin, I swallowed in wide eyed surprise. "OK, maybe not, just lob the rest in the bin, in case someone else mistakenly eats one", I said. "Emergency rations stroke puncture repair kits, they've missed a marketing trick there".

On the same basis he rejected everything else I'd bought in the same vein but without trying them. Shippams spreads and Primula. Weirdly, I quite like Primula but I'm not sure I want to know how they make it or add it to my regular foods list.

What else should not be called food?

 

[Fnaar]

I'll eat anything, send them to me!

 

[Crackle]

I'll eat anything, send them to me!

Too late, the binmen took them away. I do believe the binwagon was glowing a bit too.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Beetroot should be renamed dungroot.

I shaln't even mention mayonnaise,

 

[jefmcg]

ugh. I have to confess I'd never heard of primula, nor noticed it on the shelves. Found their website and read a bit. Two words that should never be together "durable cheese"

 

[HLaB]

There's a few on this page that should be renamed

 

[Wafer]

Those snack a jack healthy crisp things, like eating polystyrene.....

 

[Crackle]

ugh. I have to confess I'd never heard of primula, nor noticed it on the shelves. Found their website and read a bit. Two words that should never be together "durable cheese"

You made me look now. Contains 51% cheese......

I should add he took his usual stuff of oatcakes and fruit and nut mix and similar and rejected all attempts to plasticise his intestines.

 

[KEEF]

McDonald's.......... yuk

 

[Crackle]

Those snack a jack healthy crisp things, like eating polystyrene.....

Oh dear, I like them too. Again not on my regular list but.....

 

[Beebo]

You made me look now. Contains 51% cheese......

if fake cheese is your thing, then you need spray cheese in an aerosol can. I've never found it in the UK, but quite common in the USA.

 

[EltonFrog]

Marzipan should be renamed "Devils Toe Jam"

 

[marknotgeorge]

On the other hand, Brussels sprouts are rightly named, because they smell and taste like something out of the Belgian capital's sewers. Possibly.

 

[Beebo]

Honey, it tastes funny.
It should be renamed "regurgitated bee vomit", because that's what it is.
Anyone want some regurgitated bee vomit on their porridge?

 

[LCpl Boiled Egg]

Floral Gums sweets - they look like midget gems but they taste of washing powder. Bleurgh.