A tin of crushed pineapple, a packet of marshmallows and a hefty dose of pistachio dust and this delicious Georgia salad could be yours for lunch. 🤮
Optional extra: an entire tub of "whipped topping", whateverthefuck that is.
Americans: shut up about beans on toast forever.
@kelvin0mql@fkamiah17 The lime jello with mandarin orange slices with coleslaw were bad too.
At potlucks people would bring some vile "food" like this.
@Henrysbridge@fkamiah17 It's called Cool Whip in the US. Made of hydrogenated fat, high fructose corn syrup, and a bunch of milk by products and preservatives. 🤮
@researchbuzz Yeah, like a month too long 😂
Apparently you're supposed to add the "topping" then leave it in the fridge for 24 hours to make it "delicious" 🤢
@lexicaleigh I can't bear marshmallows in any context. I've seen so many American "salad recipes" that include jelly as well. Anyone would think they have free healthcare 😂
@lexicaleigh Who the fuck knows? I'd only approach it wearing a hazmat suit 😂
I've always liked the fact that Italians call trifle "zuppa Inglese" (English soup).
@researchbuzz@lexicaleigh Oh, that generational shit is definitely not limited to the US. Some of the hideous garbage my grandparents were prepared to label as "foodstuffs" still gives me nightmares 🤣
@researchbuzz@lexicaleigh Funny story about tripe: it was eaten fairly regularly in one of the places I lived in southern France. When I "expressed my displeasure" (dry heaved) at the prospect of eating it, the locals would tease me every time they saw me eating something "Watch out! There's tripe in that!"
Hilarity ensued. 🙄
@lexicaleigh@researchbuzz The one that haunts me the most, becuase it was the most regularly on offer, is fishpaste sandwiches.
The great aunts were very fond of tongue and trotters though.
@researchbuzz@lexicaleigh My god the noise of disgust when I read that 🤣
How about childhood Saturday mornings being destroyed by the smell of my nan smoking kippers 🤢
@paulc@lexicaleigh@researchbuzz Thanks, you've just reminded me of one of the most disgusting things I ever saw someone eat at a restaurant - tête de veau 🤮
@fkamiah17@paulc@lexicaleigh While I was there I put it into Gossip Machine and got an article. It says of t de v that:
"It was the French ex-President Jacques Chirac's favourite dish, so whenever he went near a restaurant, people would usher him in and sit him down for a plate of it."
Just keep a calf's head in the freezer in case the ex-President of France swings by
I spent two years working at UMich 25 years ago. Mt partner did not have (another) job at the time with a young daughter.
But people were very welcoming. She had an invitation to a ‘spices’ event run by the ‘University Dames’. First event, coffee with a cookery demonstration. This involved opening and mixing different soups and then a jello salad. She came back in fits of laughter.
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