Most disgusting thing in a can...

[HopeHoops]

Okay, I'll restrict it to so-called "food"...

[vard28]

1. What's actually labeled as Potted Meat

It doesn't resemble stew, trust me. It's got almost a whipped texture. Apparently my redneck relatives were raised on it. I joke and call it poor man's pate.

[SwampG8r]

78. it is vienna sausage without

being sausage shaped
not that its good cause it is vomit inducing (real treat...read the label)thats what it is spreadable vienna sausage

[hobbit709]

2. You've never seen a giant can of Government Commodity Peanut Butter, I take it.

Looks and smells like shit in a can.

[dawg]

22. But the Government Cheese was great.

My grandmother got government cheese back in the 1980's. It was really, really good.

[retread]

84. Yes they were!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2R6idE6n-M&feature=related

[SwampG8r]

77. yes but

when you dug out a crater in it oil would seep out of it overnight so you could at least fry something
the meat was luncheon loaf on the #10 can label a huge chunk of spam was what it was
the cheese did not melt and would in fact catch fire before doing anything approximating "melting"
my mom would scoop out a chunk of peanut butter and then harvest oil for a week and when the peanut butter gave out on oil she would take that giant can of peanut butter and that bag of flour and sugar and make peanut butter cookies
we share an experience with poverty that is rare today
did you have to meet the train to pick up your commodities?in our area the train came by once a month and we would get what would be our ration for the month
when i explain why food stamps/ebt are important to people i always remember standing by the tracks on US1,and loading our cans and bags off of the railroad car while the cars whizzed by
this too shall pass

[geardaddy]

3. Spaghetti-Os

[HopeHoops]

5. Fuck - I forgot about those. The plain ones aren't bad, but the meatball/weiner ones are gross.

[geardaddy]

9. Even the plain ones are bad - to me anyway.

That sauce is waaaaay too sweet.

[HopeHoops]

12. Trix are for kids, silly rabbit.

[geardaddy]

14. lol

I always hated Spaghetti-Ohs in all their forms.

[SCantiGOP]

28. worse than spaghetti-Os

One of my roommates in college used to heat those up in a popcorn popper. I thought that was bad until I woke up one morning and found him eating cold Vienna sausages off a tin pie plate with a plastic spoon.

[geardaddy]

32. You just made me hungry.

:sarcasm:

[Odin2005]

86. Just thinking about that makes me nauseated.

[Brother Buzz]

4. Creamed Corn

That, and from my Army days, Ham and Motherfuckers

[Odin2005]

87. Cream corn is awesome on baked potatoes.

[ohiosmith]

6. My brother-in-law.

And it's even more disgusting when he comes out.

[rug]

7. An argument.

[woo me with science]

8. Whole chicken in a can.

[Zephie]

13. Beat me to it!

[one_voice]

23. UUUGGGGHHHH!!!!....

That looks beyond gross...made me gag just looking at it. :puke: :puke: :puke:

[Hassin Bin Sober]

44. Is that for real? If so, you win. I was gonna say Tamales.

[Maine-ah]

46. I thought I had seen everything

in a can, when I worked for a food service...I have never fucking even heard of whole chicken in a can.... :puke:

[AtomicKitten]

58. A "chicken in the can" bit from Tosh 2.0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP74xUyYaoo

[BlueIris]

62. Yeah, that was my first thought.

How horrifying.

[ccharles000]

71. eww

[Odin2005]

88. That is FUCKING NASTY!!!

:puke:

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

10. It's even more disgusting in a six-pack

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51%2BtrKQqqZL._SL500_AA300_PIbundle-6,TopRight,0,0_AA300_SH20_.jpg

[Odin2005]

89. When my (now ex) GF and I saw that in a grocery store...

...we started giggling like tweens.

[Zephie]

11. Whole chicken in a can (image and video link)

The most disgusting thing I've ever seen is a whole (cooked) chicken in a can.



and if you're really brave, heres a guy eating MULTIPLE chicken-in-a-cans. Video starts at 47 seconds, before that it's just the guy thanking you for watching. NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART. NSFW language.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP74xUyYaoo

[Throd]

15. Warm Miller Genuine Draft

Pretty nasty cold too.

[geardaddy]

17. You sir, are a man of excellent taste.

:salute:

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

33. How about Warm Miller Genuine Draft LITE?

yes, it's nasty, but if someone offers a cold one, ...

:hi:

[MicaelS]

16. Cheeseburger in a can

I kid you not.....

http://www.avclub.com/articles/taste-test-cheeseburger-in-a-can,2183/

[Rowdyboy]

18. Creamed possum with sweet potatoes and....

garnished with coon fat gravy. Mmmm mmmm good!

[Amerigo Vespucci]

25. "Coon Fat Gravy"...STILL the best Ted Nugent song EVER.

:-)

[ornotna]

19. Take your pick

This is a bunch of nasty stuff in cans.

http://greathostels.blogspot.com/2009/06/backpackers-delicatessen-everything.html

[marzipanni]

20. Huitlacoche... corn smut... hibernating excrement...

raven's excrement or corn excrement. But, supposedly it has a great flavor. I had heard of huitlacoche, never imagined one could find it in a can!

In Mexico, corn smut is known as huitlacoche (, sometimes spelled cuitlacoche).
Some sources give the etymology as coming from the Nahuatl words cuitla ("excrement" or "rear-end") and cochtli ("sleeping", from cochi="to sleep"), thus giving a combined meaning of "sleeping/hibernating excrement."<1><2>
A second group of sources deem the word to mean "raven's excrement".<3><4> These sources appear to be combining the word cuitlacoche for "thrasher"<5> with cuitla, meaning "excrement". However, the avian meaning of cuitlacoche derives from the Nahuatl word cuicatl ("song"), itself from the verb cuica ("to sing").<1> This root then clashes with this reconstruction's second claim that the segment cuitla- comes from cuitla ("excrement").
One source derives the meaning as "corn excrement", using "cuitla" again and tlaole ("maize").<6> This requires the linguistically unlikely evolution of tlaole into tlacoche.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_smut

[hifiguy]

21. I think someone used that on Iron Chef

Come to think of it, IIRC, it was Rick Bayless.

But the chicken/cheeseburger in a can has to top the grossness list unless that possum is real.

[geardaddy]

30. Of course it was Bayless.

I can't stand to watch the guy.

[pink-o]

54. Sounds totally disgusting....till one remembers how much one loves truffles

and other mushrooms. Fungi is fungi, People. And a corn and mushroom quesadilla doesn't sound so bad.

Not canned, but as a caffeine-based Lifeform, the truly gross idea of Kapi Coffee is what turns my stomach most. I'll stick with Triple Lattes, thank you very much!

[Chan790]

73. Kopi Luwak tastes like shit...

and I, for one, do not wonder why even a little bit. It doesn't come in cans though.

[pink-o]

80. You are a brave person, if you know that much is true!

Where did you pick up that knowledge, if I may ask...?

[Chan790]

83. Not brave.

Certified Coffeemaster and former professional competition barista. If I wanted to spend the rest of my life standing behind an espresso machine for 8-10 hour shifts, I could be making twice what I make now. But, I don't; at the end, by the end of my shift my every joint ached and my feet were swollen and I was cranked to high-heaven. I don't know how people barista, bartend or wait tables into their 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s. It's clearly a young person's industry.

Also, I had an unfortunate childhood.

[geardaddy]

27. I've had this:

It's really good. It tastes like super sweet mint jello.

[woo me with science]

37. Mmmm. Pork brain in milk gravy.

Who doesn't love pork and milk? :rofl:

[smirkymonkey]

56. Thank you. I think I am skipping lunch today, so maybe I will

lose a little weight. That is some of the most foul looking "food" I have ever seen. Honestly, I would eat tree bark before I would even consider ingesting any of that stuff.

Although it doesn't usally come in a can, Gefilte Fish is also one of the most disgusting things I have ever seen. Wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole (It usually comes in a glass jar and it's jellied :puke: )

[Call Me Wesley]

24. Prince Albert.

I mean, please let him out of it!

Please?

[Amerigo Vespucci]

26. Pork Brains in Milk Gravy

I wonder of the milk is pig milk...if so, they got him at BOTH ends.

:rofl:

[geardaddy]

29. Him?

lol - that would be even nastier, boar milk (nudge nudge).

[Amerigo Vespucci]

34. EWWW...THAT'S NOT MILK!

:rofl:

I seem to be in error on my previous post.

:rofl:

[geardaddy]

35. lol

:rofl:

[woo me with science]

38. delete - wrong place nt

[pink-o]

55. So now men wanna take credit for LACTATION???

Actually, nothing new. I remember in the 60s there was a commercial for some kid cereal, and it featured a talking, cartoon cow ***with a male voice****. Probably written by Don Draper and Co, inbetween shots.

[geardaddy]

31. canned haggis, anyone?

[digonswine]

36. When I was in college-

my grandmother always sent me bags of food with me when I went back. One product was called "Potted Meat Food Product"-one of the ingredients was "partially de-fatted pork fatty tissue"-Yeah-I ate it. I got to the middle-and-I kid you not-there was a clump of pig hair in the "food". In the same care package was a box of Kraft mac and cheese-with a sell-by date from 1984---this was 1996. I still love the gesture, though.

[HopeHoops]

60. "Potted Meat Food Product" is a very exact specification - down to the number of peas.

It doesn't require that the so-called meat actually be anything you would want to eat and I doubt it has any specifications on the number of pig hairs.

[woo me with science]

39. Dave Barry's wonderful column about when his family and dogs taste-tested

canned "food" products (The Institute of Scary Foods):

http://books.google.com/books?id=Ofom7Z6ag4MC&pg=PT111&lpg=PT113&ots=7XiJ89zWoL&dq=Dave+Barry+columns+earnest+zippy+taste+panel

:rofl:

[Xithras]

40. Sursttromming

I was introduced to the stuff as a joke by a Swedish guy I used to know, but it's an actual canned food that people eat.

It's fermented fish in a can. And it literally smells like a cross between old shit and rotten eggs.

No, I didn't try it. Smelling it from 10 feet off was bad enough. Apparently they put the fish on bread and use it as a sandwich base over there.


EDIT:

I just Googled the stuff and found a wiki page for it. Apparently some Japanese survey determined that it's the foulest smelling food in the world. Based on my brief encounter with it, I'd have to agree.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surstr%C3%B6mming

[marzipanni]

67. I saw a young woman on a PBS travel program try to eat it

The man introducing it to her opened the can outside, next to the sea breezes, but the odor was still too overwhelming.

<snip>
The fermentation procedure is the following: the herring is caught in late spring, then placed in a salt mixture in wooden barrels for several days. It is then moved into the sun, which shines almost around the clock in the north in summer, for a few months to ferment. After that it is shipped to stores in small tins.

It's only sold in shops as of the third Thursday in August, in order to allow for the proper fermentation period. Apartment dwellers are advised to open the tins outdoors to avoid a lasting stench in their building

"The Local- Sweden's News in English"
http://www.thelocal.se/13888/20080823/

[Xithras]

68. Well, he wouldn't eat it either, and he was Swedish

He came to the Silicon Valley to work as a programmer in the 90's, which is when I met him. He got a bit homesick, so a bunch of his friends back in Sweden shipped him a "care package" full of various Swedish things. They put the surstromming in the box as a joke. Apparently, even in Sweden, it's a bit of an acquired taste.

He cracked the can open at work to be funny...and it was hilarious to see how a room full of Americans reacted to it. :puke:

[jpak]

82. We ate at a party once - you need to wash it down with lots of ice-cold Absolute

We opened the can outside under the faucet - the cat puffed up her tail and ran up a tree when she got a whiff of it.

Oh yeah - you cannot carry that stuff on commerial aircraft.

If the can breaks, they cannot get them smell out of the plane.

You buy the plane

series

yup

[hunter]

41. Spam, corn smut, and sardines in oil...

... fried with a can of chopped green chilies and eggs would be awesome.

Just don't serve it with a can of "light" USA piss beer.

:shrug:

[eppur_se_muova]

43. see following post for appropriate drink. nt

[hunter]

45. Well, maybe, if you added some vodka to it.

:P

[eppur_se_muova]

42. Jelly fungus and bird's nest fungus drink

reviewed here: http://softdrinkreviews.blogspot.com/2009/05/wonderfarms-nuoc-yen-ngan-nhi.html

Imagine a baby vomiting up curdled milk, to which an enterprising entrepenuer adds vanilla and more vomit. That's Wonderfarm's Nuoc Yen Ngan Nhi. Let me add that the baby might have vomited because it had taken a sip out of someone's mint flavored chewing tobacco cup. Just a sip, but enough to add a certain tang of despair and loathsomeness.

Like a glass full of jellyfish cleverly disguised as semen.

[jmowreader]

47. Pork brains in milk gravy

Nothing else comes close.

[trackfan]

48. Let's see. Vienna Sausages, Spam, all Sardines, and all Underwood deviled shit, are all good.

Don't remember having Dinty Moore. Canned Corned Beef Hash is okay, but nothing to write home about. Never had chopped asparagus or processed chicken spread. I cast no vote. Food is better than no food.

[SwampG8r]

49. canned jelly fungus

[geardaddy]

66. Do you like the fresh?

[SwampG8r]

76. iam not a big fungus fan

i dont really care for mushrooms all that much or any of its icky cousins
i heard about this from letterman he brought a can out because he saw it in the store and he opened the can on tv
it looked like lemon curd but clottier and thicker
very nasty looking but i think it is dissolved into sauces

[DainBramaged]

50. Spotted Dick................I don't care if it's just a name, if it has spots, yuk

[MilesColtrane]

51. Other:

Whole goddamned chicken in a can

[Submariner]

52. Fish assholes and Porcupine peckers

[geardaddy]

64. Oh, what those UPers won't eat, hey?

[Z_I_Peevey]

53. Larry Craig,

hands down. Or should that be pants down?

[Brother Buzz]

81. You win!

:thumbsup:

[smirkymonkey]

57. All of the above - actually pretty much everything in a can

grosses me out, except for maybe canned beans or chickpeas and canned tomatoes/paste (use a sauce base).

[HopeHoops]

59. Artichoke hearts aren't bad. Small whole beets are okay too.

[Rambis]

61. Bud or Miller

:hide:

[GoCubsGo]

63. And, Coors.

Y.U.K.

[geardaddy]

65. You said it.

[oneshooter]

69. C rats, Lime beans and ham, aka Ham and motherf%#*&@s n/t

[givemebackmycountry]

70. Other.

THIS STUFF!



I'm not going to tell you what this is.
Lets see if anyone can come up with it.

The can tells you a little bit, but the rest is on you.

[ccharles000]

72. pepsi

[Xipe Totec]

74. Van Camp's Hork & Beans

Like eating canned puke.

I should be a criminal offense to put molasses in beans.

[HopeHoops]

79. Bush's vegetarian baked beans are pretty damn good - not overly sweet.

[kentauros]

75. Pabst Blue Ribbon

:P

[Odin2005]

85. Swedish fermented herring.

the can actually BULGES because of the fermentation! :puke:

[Capn Sunshine]

90. Whatever this is, it wins