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- DataMonkey, on 11/03/2008, -0/+175Every Grape flavored candy or soda. Let's face it, they don't taste like grapes, they just taste like purple.
- gravylookout, on 11/03/2008, -6/+87It seems slow so here is a no link mirror:
Ten foods we love even though they taste wrong
Fri Oct 31, 2008 at 03:57:46 PM
In the great Venn diagram of foods, there’s a circle of foods we love, and a circle of foods that just don’t taste right—and then there’s the wonderful, sometimes surprising, always guilt-inducing delicious area where the two cross over. Yes, some foods just don’t taste like they’re supposed to. Let the choir sing “Hallelujah.”
10.Chef Boyardee Spaghettios
Syrupy tomato sauce plus low-grade meat multiplied by good marketing and the slightest flavor overtones of aluminum can? Childhood lunchtime bliss.
9. Banana Popsicles
These frozen confections are long and thin and clearly yellow. Beyond that, the resemblance to bananas is pretty weak. Science is able to replicate and thereby fake a huge number of culinary flavors, but apparently they hadn’t gotten around to banana when these were invented. Somehow, banana popsicles taste more like the color yellow than like banana. Yet somehow you mow down an entire box in the span of one Facts of Life rerun.
8. BBQ Potato Chips
BBQ can mean a range of things, from charred meats to hot sugary sauces. But the dusky vermillion powder on BBQ potato chips suggests neither of these, or anything close. As replications go, it's a total failure. Ah, but how majestically it fails, re-inventing itself as this standby flavor option for pretty much any chip product on the market.
7.Tang
Tang doesn’t taste like oranges, even though it’s obviously supposed to, according to the astronauts who for so long touted it as a space-age drink. But all this drink has taught us is a sincere mistrust of astronauts. It doesn’t taste like anything but itself. Drinking Tang is like dividing something by one.
6. Kraft Macaroni and Cheese
Little known fact: that orange cheese powder and Tang? Same thing.
5. Watermelon Jolly Ranchers
This might be some sort of local sin, given the long-time (and sorely missed) presence of the Jolly Rancher factory on the northwest side of town. But I know watermelon. Watermelon is a friend of mine. And this, sir, is not watermelon. Yummy, though. And not only does it taste good, but the way that dissolving sliver of candy goodness curls slightly on your tongue? Sublime.
4. Hot Dogs
Hot dogs are one of those things that started off as a cheap rip-off of something else, and sort of became its own thing. Sort of like bologna being a mild salami, or Bazi Kanani being a less smug Adele Arakawa. These are supposed to taste like sausage, but they don’t. Maybe they never have. Thank God they’re awesome with mustard and onions.
3. Hormel Canned Tamales
A tamale is a bit of spiced cheese or beef wrapped in corn masa and held in a corn husk. I’m not sure what these little tubes of grease are supposed to be, but they’re not tamales. Still, they’re pretty gut-bombingly good, especially if you’re on the eastern plains and “tacos” are just plain ground beef in a shell. Revolutionary!
2. Baby Aspirin
We don’t use the little orange tablets of baby aspirin anymore, for several important reasons. But one of them was that we all liked the taste too much. The decline of the availability of baby aspirin has a direct correlation to the rapid rise over the last two decades in sales of Orange Cream Soda.
1. Nacho Cheese
Nacho cheese is sort of the bastard cousin of Cheeze Whiz, which is the red-headed stepchild of American cheese, which is like the white-trash member of the cheese family. So that makes nacho cheese the red-haired bastard inbred cousin/stepchild of a white trash cheese…and we still love the crap spooned over salty corn chips. Ain’t that America.
--Teague Bohlen - hugolp, on 11/03/2008, -7/+71Pussy? :-P
- gforce051, on 11/03/2008, -3/+55Fact:
Bananas are delicious.
Banana flavored candy tastes like AIDS. - tito13kfm, on 11/03/2008, -0/+47I agree, none of the cheap cat foods even remotely taste like cats.
- barryiggins, on 11/03/2008, -3/+46dog food.... it tastes just like it smells: delicious
- Snoosy, on 11/03/2008, -6/+47Every one of those foods are amazing.
Especially Kraft Dinner and nacho cheese. - Jektal, on 11/03/2008, -1/+37Where does Velveeta sit in the Cheese Family Tree? The self-made wealthy son of the American Cheese who now thinks he's better than everyone else?
- inactive, on 11/03/2008, -0/+30then i don't wanna be right
- llamarama7, on 11/03/2008, -3/+32Any Hormel product totally qualifies.
- nightsweat, on 11/03/2008, -0/+26It was on there, but the filters took it out.
- Ewfah, on 11/03/2008, -0/+25Chef Boyardee doesn't make spaghetti-o's.
- Narcism, on 11/03/2008, -1/+25What was that stuff we used to eat all the time?
- theGerhard, on 11/03/2008, -3/+24How in the hell did McDonald's hamburgers miss this list? Am I the only one that thinks they are delicious but taste nothing like other hamburgers...anywhere?
- oaktreee, on 11/03/2008, -0/+20necrophiliac? were they from dead bodies?
- CanarsieBK, on 11/03/2008, -2/+21wow. i forgot about those banana pops. they were the !sht
- flashingcurser, on 11/03/2008, -4/+22Admit it, this is digg, we're only pretending to get the joke.
- Akairenn, on 11/03/2008, -0/+18Spam can't possibly be included in this list, because it tastes exactly like it's supposed to: Pure awesome.
Spam helped win World War II. If you knock on Spam, you're a Nazi. - dthomp17, on 11/03/2008, -1/+19no apple jacks?
- flashingcurser, on 11/03/2008, -1/+19Same goes for green apple Jolly Ranchers.
- gizmo12688, on 11/03/2008, -0/+17I want the purple stuff.....
- Coffeedemon, on 11/03/2008, -1/+18Spagetti-os are fine and all but Beef-a-roni is where its at. The Tang and memories of baby Aspirin really take me back.
- dezweber, on 11/03/2008, -6/+23Ewww, hate anything artificially banana flavored.
- GoodbyeHorses87, on 11/03/2008, -0/+17wait, how do you know wh... nevermind.
- flashingcurser, on 11/03/2008, -0/+17That's right, don't let your pet eat anything you wouldn't!
Good man +1 for you. - InJectaH, on 11/03/2008, -2/+17"I want chicken I want liver, meow mix meow mix please deliver."
- mrsteveman1, on 11/03/2008, -0/+15In which flavor?
I've heard of 2, "Orange" and "Poon" - derek20cali, on 11/03/2008, -0/+14Liver failure?
- santaliqueur, on 11/03/2008, -0/+14Stop pretending you are tough. Nobody believes you.
- mortigon, on 11/03/2008, -0/+14Purple drink
- inactive, on 11/03/2008, -1/+14watery ramen is disgusting and delicious
- inactive, on 11/03/2008, -1/+14I would like to add an item to the list: Sixlets. This "candy" bears no resemblance to any food known to man, and, in fact, is a truly dreadful item. Yet, I have eaten them by the fistful, cursing my own name the whole time.
- kiwininja, on 11/03/2008, -1/+14What, no Spam?
- ryan899, on 11/03/2008, -3/+16Cheez-Its are both disgusting and delicious!
- krets, on 11/03/2008, -0/+13Uh oh!
- PGPirate, on 11/03/2008, -1/+13How you make kool-aid?
water, surgar and purple - ksw870, on 11/03/2008, -0/+12same with watermelon
- 8bitflu, on 11/03/2008, -3/+15I bet you give great fellatio.
- skeetmuffin, on 11/03/2008, -1/+13all the munchies stuff.
hot pocket?
i complain about it yet i buy them
so convenient for munchies - krets, on 11/03/2008, -0/+12Baby aspirins do not taste like babies.
- mortigon, on 11/03/2008, -0/+12I think it really goes for all Jolly Ranchers
- SkippyDoorknob, on 11/03/2008, -0/+11You win
- noncn4mst, on 04/15/2009, -0/+11oh, the orange ones? They're still around - I love them!
- subliminalurge, on 11/03/2008, -0/+11Baby aspirin was good *****. I'll never forget the trouble I got into for eating a whole bottle....
- AndrewDB, on 11/03/2008, -0/+11Here here DataMonkey.
I'm addicted like hell to Sonic's Grape slushies. - plumcider, on 11/03/2008, -0/+10Chef Boyardee never made Spaghettios. They were made by Franco-American, and are now manufactured by Campbell's.
And yes, Beefaroni FTW. - kubedawg, on 11/03/2008, -2/+12OMFG Canned tamales are THE *****! Everything else is damn good too besides banana pops. Oh and Beefaroni > Spaghettios....
- CyberStriker, on 11/03/2008, -0/+10+1 good sir. It made me laugh!
- FredFredrickson, on 11/03/2008, -1/+11You can say "*****" here.
- OneLess, on 11/03/2008, -0/+10Kraft Spirals are the best boxed mac and cheese on the planet. They're even better if you add a little bit of shredded cheddar and hot sauce...Yum.
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