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(Some Bookworm)   Top Ten Disppointing Foods from Kids' Books. Yup, they got #1 correct   (afuse8production.slj.com) divider line
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TwowheelinTim [TotalFark]
2023-01-14 1:07:26 AM  
Conspicuously missing from the list...

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Jesus McSordid [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-14 2:57:37 AM  
I want to say that liverwurst is delicious. But possibly not so much from a kid's perspective.

Well, I say that, but as a kid I used to love anchovy paste on toast. Mmmm. I'm off to the supermarket now.
 
I Ate Shergar [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-14 2:58:20 AM  
Fun fact: Turkish Delight is flavoured with rose petals. That's why it tastes like floral perfume.
 
Nogale
2023-01-14 3:54:28 AM  

I Ate Shergar: Fun fact: Turkish Delight is flavoured with rose petals. That's why it tastes like floral perfume.


It comes in lots of different flavors,
 
optikeye [TotalFark]
2023-01-14 4:00:20 AM  
I got your Turkish Delight right here.

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aerojockey [TotalFark]
2023-01-14 4:42:38 AM  
I knew what it would be, but I kind of like Turkish delight.  However, it doesn't seem like the thing you would ask for if you could wish for any food you wanted.

(Fair warning: I also like Necco Wafers and Moxie, so.)
 
Ragin' Asian [recently expired TotalFark]
2023-01-14 4:50:14 AM  
Anne Shirley didn't have the raspberry cordial in the book. She accidentally served currant wine that got Diana underage day drunk.
 
aerojockey [TotalFark]
2023-01-14 4:54:15 AM  
My Ratings

#10 Raspberry Cordial - Never had it.
#9 Honey - WTF? Delicious.
#8 Marmalade - Delicious. The orange peels make it.
#7 Liverwurst Sandwiches - Delicious.
#6 Chocolate Babies - Never had em.
#5 DIY Dairy - Don't think I've ever done it, but I don't expect to like it.
#4 Tomato Sandwiches - Gah.Disgusting.
#3 Marzipan - I like it enough that I wouldn't call it disappointing; the main disappointment is that it's usually not enough.
#2 Egg Cream - Never had it.
#1 Turkish Delight - Again, wouldn't call it disappointing per se, I liked it, but would not be what I wished for.

So, basically, the most disappointing thing to me is the list.
 
olorin604
2023-01-14 4:54:30 AM  
Tomato sandwichs are delicious. When the garden is producing it's a daily thing for a couple months.
 
433 [TotalFark]
2023-01-14 5:19:46 AM  
I never heard of someone too good for marmalade until now.  "It has bitter orange peels in it."  Yeah, that's marmalade.

Being negative is too appealing and easy - what are some of the best foods from fiction?  Turkish delight should be more widely available.
 
TRUMPYOUDOLT [BareFark]
2023-01-14 5:26:25 AM  

olorin604: Tomato sandwichs are delicious. When the garden is producing it's a daily thing for a couple months.


Yes. I think toasting or grilling with mayo and black pepper does the trick, but Grandma knew the technique so it'd take some trial and error to reproduce.
 
Bonzo_1116
2023-01-14 5:40:38 AM  
Make green eggs and ham with a little bit of food coloring and you'll have to eat it with your eyes closed.
 
RoyFokker'sGhost
2023-01-14 6:12:11 AM  
The only food from a childhood book I've ever wanted to try are Otik's Spiced Potatoes from the Dragonlance novels. Someday I'll pull the 'official' recipe out and try it.

Others that I've tried when the opportunity presented itself...
-Turkish Delight: not a fan of the perfumed variety
-Clotted Cream (The Hobbit): Tasty, sweet, goes nicely with scones for tea service. I always ask for extra when the wife is in an English Tea Service mood while on vacation.
 
anuran
2023-01-14 7:22:15 AM  
No philboid studge?
 
RedPhoenix122 [TotalFark]
2023-01-14 7:25:19 AM  
Scones conspicuously absent.
 
anuran
2023-01-14 7:25:58 AM  
Picky eaters discover that things taste different than what they are used to. Film at eleven
 
middleoftheday [OhFark]
2023-01-14 7:49:38 AM  
I clicked that half-wondering if it mentioned ladyfingers from the Raggedy Ann and Andy books.  I still have yet to try those.

Tomato sandwiches and honey are delicious though dangit.
 
Rene ala Carte [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-14 7:50:18 AM  
I remember Turkish Delight candy when I was a kid. It was shaped like a tiny brick and each piece was wrapped in cellophane. It was awful.

Then I had the real thing in Istanbul. It was delightful.
 
eyeq360 [TotalFark]
2023-01-14 8:28:57 AM  

Nogale: I Ate Shergar: Fun fact: Turkish Delight is flavoured with rose petals. That's why it tastes like floral perfume.

It comes in lots of different flavors,


The rose ones are too perfume-like, but the nut ones or the fruit ones are much better.
 
Laobaojun
2023-01-14 8:34:04 AM  
In the honorable mentions: poi.
Poi at the tourist events tastes like raw potato. Gloppy raw potato slime.

Poi when the locals do it is a delightful sour.
The difference; the locals leave it out for 12 hrs to a day.  Which the board of health would lose their minds over.

Also, the locals use it more as an ingredient and a thickener than as a thing by itself.

Sort of makes up for the opihi that shows up at Hawai'ian family events.
 
Laobaojun
2023-01-14 8:53:18 AM  
I think a lot of these are "love'em or hate'em" foods.
Marzipan is a perfect example. I love marzipan, but if you don't like almonds you'll loathe it.
Liverwurst likewise; either it's awesome for you, or it's for the dog.  Not much in the middle.
 
bobug [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-14 8:54:55 AM  

Bonzo_1116: Make green eggs and ham with a little bit of food coloring and you'll have to eat it with your eyes closed.


You clearly haven't been a dinner guest in the Bobug home. Food is usually a non-standard color. Green lamb, pink potatoes, purple cauliflower...

It is the way.
 
milizard
2023-01-14 9:00:08 AM  
You've got to combine the liver wurst and tomato sandwiches.  *chef's kiss
 
middleoftheday [OhFark]
2023-01-14 9:19:55 AM  
It's been a little over an hour since I found this thread and I am still upset that someone was talking sh*t about honey.  Hating honey is like hating your mama.
 
natazha [BareFark]
2023-01-14 9:34:47 AM  
My wife has a Disney cookbook from her childhood and she occasionally makes the tuna noodle casserole recipe.
She doubles the tuna, because a can of tuna is what it was 50 years ago.

But, sliced liverwurst? Never seen it and I like liverwurst.
 
Denjiro
2023-01-14 9:47:28 AM  
Never tried liverwurst, but I do like braunschweiger with crackers occasionally. The cats were also quite fond of it.
 
Ragin' Asian [recently expired TotalFark]
2023-01-14 9:49:19 AM  

RoyFokker'sGhost: The only food from a childhood book I've ever wanted to try are Otik's Spiced Potatoes from the Dragonlance novels. Someday I'll pull the 'official' recipe out and try it.

Others that I've tried when the opportunity presented itself...
-Turkish Delight: not a fan of the perfumed variety
-Clotted Cream (The Hobbit): Tasty, sweet, goes nicely with scones for tea service. I always ask for extra when the wife is in an English Tea Service mood while on vacation.


I'm not sure if it's still in print, but the published, "Leaves from the Inn of the Last Home", which is a sort of addendum to the Dragonlance books. It included a bunch of recipes such as Otis's spiced potatoes. It's not bad as is, but it's a good base with which you can do a lot of things.

I just remembered. Brian Jacques was pretty masterful at describing feast dishes in the Redwall books.
 
yakmans_dad
2023-01-14 9:55:07 AM  
Honey, raspberry juice, goat cheese, and egg creams are fantastic. Sorry the author didn't like them. I notice U-Bet in the pic and that is not just an affectation. The other syrups I've tried are blander.

As for liverwurst, Louisville is a real German town and 60 years ago, we had liverwurst and braunschweiger all the time. Modern palates don't like innards, so any kind of offal will seem like poison.  The picture shows a sandwich of around a pound of liverwurst which is nothing that anyone would have eaten back in the day.

Chocolate babies are kids candies. Kids love them. Who imagined an adult would like them?

Marmalade is an English condiment. I guess it shows up in some kid lit, but nothing I ever read. Bitter isn't a taste the modern palate cares for. People are spoiled, but back when you ate everything, marmalade was a way to make the bitter better.

I don't recall ever eating Turkish Delights or marzipan.

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One taste that wasn't in the article was that of roast chestnuts. Rather earthy and muted. I was expecting something more along the lines of hazelnuts. I guess un-roasted chestnuts are just tasteless.
 
cookiedough
2023-01-14 9:59:41 AM  

olorin604: Tomato sandwichs are delicious. When the garden is producing it's a daily thing for a couple months.


Sure, if you add bacon and lettuce
 
NINEv2
2023-01-14 10:04:22 AM  
Liverwurst is something I grew into but a tasted onion bagel with a liver sassage smear is breakfast any day. Turkish delight I can take or leave, but rosewater is excellent in other stuff.

Moxie otoh...  If Dr Pepper had a pet that was hiat by a car and they didn't have the poor thing pit down.
 
waxbeans [TotalFark]
2023-01-14 10:06:01 AM  
Picky eaters can starve 🤷‍♂ pass the 🍅 🥪
 
Broktun
2023-01-14 10:16:46 AM  

TRUMPYOUDOLT: olorin604: Tomato sandwichs are delicious. When the garden is producing it's a daily thing for a couple months.

Yes. I think toasting or grilling with mayo and black pepper does the trick, but Grandma knew the technique so it'd take some trial and error to reproduce.


Eat so many my mouth hurts.
 
interstellar_tedium
2023-01-14 10:17:37 AM  
I disgust my family by eating liverwurst sandwiches.  It is a testament to my wife's love for me that she buys me liverwurst and even used to make my sandwiches
 
NINEv2
2023-01-14 10:26:18 AM  

interstellar_tedium: I disgust my family by eating liverwurst sandwiches.  It is a testament to my wife's love for me that she buys me liverwurst and even used to make my sandwiches


I called liverwurst a meat flavored poop fillet once and got my Aunt to gag.
 
ReapTheChaos
2023-01-14 10:35:44 AM  
Tomato sandwiches are great, I guess it helps to have grown up with a garden and trying to figure out what to do with all those tomatoes when they came in.
 
Kitty2.0 [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-14 11:30:46 AM  

Denjiro: Never tried liverwurst, but I do like braunschweiger with crackers occasionally. The cats were also quite fond of it.


They're the same thing, just like mozzarella and provolone are the same thing but provolone is smoked mozzarella.

Liverwurst isn't typically smoked but most of that word I can never spell correctly is.
 
zenki36830
2023-01-14 11:32:47 AM  

RoyFokker'sGhost: The only food from a childhood book I've ever wanted to try are Otik's Spiced Potatoes from the Dragonlance novels. Someday I'll pull the 'official' recipe out and try it.

Others that I've tried when the opportunity presented itself...
-Turkish Delight: not a fan of the perfumed variety
-Clotted Cream (The Hobbit): Tasty, sweet, goes nicely with scones for tea service. I always ask for extra when the wife is in an English Tea Service mood while on vacation.


the potatoes are ok, they aren't really as spicy as I would have liked.
 
johnny_vegas [TotalFark]
2023-01-14 11:40:54 AM  
What, no cow pies?  Was Louis L'Amour wrong??
 
blondambition [OhFark]
2023-01-14 11:48:09 AM  
Some well meaning relatives got me this when I was a kid. Awful stuff. Would not recommend.


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talkyournonsense
2023-01-14 11:59:56 AM  
The author is an ass trying to create outrage.
No one hates on honey.
Everything on that list is delicious.
 
OrionXVI
2023-01-14 2:01:37 PM  
I'll say this about the tomato sandwich.

They can be good, but the tomatoes need to be ripened in a garden.  Supermarket tomatoes are picked green and hit with gas to get them to turn red, but in terms of flavor, they're still green.  Garden ripened tomatoes tend to be more sweet, and less savory.

Also, liverwurst can be delicious, but remember that it's not a single product along the same vein as beef sausage is not a single product.  Beef sausage might manifest itself as a hotdog, or a summer sausage, or a kielbasa, or something else.  Liverwurst can go from hard sausage to a soft pâté, and mixed with all kinds of spices, meats, etc.
 
luna1580 [TotalFark]
2023-01-14 2:04:37 PM  

talkyournonsense: The author is an ass trying to create outrage.
No one hates on honey.
Everything on that list is delicious.


or maybe you're trying to create outrage over the outrage?

seriously i've eaten everything on the list except raspberry cordial, but i have had raspberry wine which is more to the point of the story.....

and i've never even heard of anyone not liking honey, but turkish delight is gross. i don't like lavender in food either. to each their own!
 
Gentlequiet
2023-01-14 4:42:44 PM  
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cyberspacedout
2023-01-14 5:39:32 PM  

Bonzo_1116: Make green eggs and ham with a little bit of food coloring and you'll have to eat it with your eyes closed.


When I was a child, the local library once did that for the kids at three morning reading hour.

I did not eat them.
 
jclaggett
2023-01-14 7:40:42 PM  
Marzipan is great.

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NINEv2
2023-01-14 7:51:11 PM  

jclaggett: Marzipan is great.

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Depends. We ordered some this year from the "European Deli" catalog. The candies shaped like fruits? Whatever dyes they used tasted like spray paint fumes.
 
NINEv2
2023-01-14 7:53:16 PM  

luna1580: talkyournonsense: The author is an ass trying to create outrage.
No one hates on honey.
Everything on that list is delicious.

or maybe you're trying to create outrage over the outrage?

seriously i've eaten everything on the list except raspberry cordial, but i have had raspberry wine which is more to the point of the story.....

and i've never even heard of anyone not liking honey, but turkish delight is gross. i don't like lavender in food either. to each their own!


I'm a little weird about lavender too. But the missus made me a dessert once with black walnut ice cream, lavender, honey, cinnamon, and those little chocolate filled straw cookies and it was tits.

I know, it sounds gross.
 
luna1580 [TotalFark]
2023-01-14 8:12:54 PM  

NINEv2: luna1580: talkyournonsense: The author is an ass trying to create outrage.
No one hates on honey.
Everything on that list is delicious.

or maybe you're trying to create outrage over the outrage?

seriously i've eaten everything on the list except raspberry cordial, but i have had raspberry wine which is more to the point of the story.....

and i've never even heard of anyone not liking honey, but turkish delight is gross. i don't like lavender in food either. to each their own!

I'm a little weird about lavender too. But the missus made me a dessert once with black walnut ice cream, lavender, honey, cinnamon, and those little chocolate filled straw cookies and it was tits.

I know, it sounds gross.


i have black walnut ice cream in my freezer now, bought it on a whim. but i don't want lavender on mine, i don't think
 
cyberspacedout
2023-01-14 8:32:38 PM  

cyberspacedout: Bonzo_1116: Make green eggs and ham with a little bit of food coloring and you'll have to eat it with your eyes closed.

When I was a child, the local library once did that for the kids at three morning reading hour.

I did not eat them.


*the

/stupid phone
 
jclaggett
2023-01-14 8:59:00 PM  

NINEv2: jclaggett: Marzipan is great.

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Depends. We ordered some this year from the "European Deli" catalog. The candies shaped like fruits? Whatever dyes they used tasted like spray paint fumes.


So, the dye. Not the Marzipan you're saying?
 
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