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The young lady with the can of Vienna Sausages and saltines! Some of the "food" the kids bring in kills me...

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Wasn't Span made for WWII war pack rations for soldiers?

My son used to love watching Man -vs- Food with Adam Richmond and that's where I also got my info about Hawaiian's loving Spam, and frying it all different ways. My stomach foils just thinking about it. I think I'd hoik out a kidney like a cat with a giant hairball if I had to eat it. :wtf:

When my son was really young he loved mayo! In fact he'd remove all the innards of a sandwich and eat it it plain - he called it "white peanut butter sandwiches" (which consisted of bread and mayo). After a while my husband just started giving it to him like that to save the loss of lunch meat and cheese, which my son used to offer to the dog or cat (he was a very popular kid amongst the family pets in fact) …

One day when he was in 5th or 6th grade he was eating a regular PB&J, and he asks me and my husband, "Do you remember that white peanut butter we used to get when I was little? Man, it was so smooth!". Me and my husband laughed so long we couldn't stop - finally when we could calm down we broke the news to our confused son who thought we went off the deep end. My husband digs around in the fridge and pulls out a jar of mayo, "This," he says, "is white peanut butter".

It took a while to convince him. He never brought it up again, poor guy.

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I saw that episode. They made SPAM sushi in Hawaii.

Yet...I can eat tuna.

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Specializes in ICU; Telephone Triage Nurse.
I saw that episode. They made SPAM sushi in Hawaii.

Yet...I can eat tuna.

I remember eating tuna as a kid, but later learned "tuna fish" really was fish - not tuna chicken!

The cats all come running though when my husband opens a can!

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Ok, 3ring, your post had me spitting out my lunch right here at my desk. Smooth white pb and hoiking up a kidney.:roflmao: I'm dying.

I like tuna, as well. Tuna salad, yummy, but only with mayo (aka white peanut butter) and dill pickles. Or Bumblebee Lemon Pepper Tuna.

The first time I had Spam was when I met my ex's Crazy (yes, capital "C") parents. It really should have been a sign. His mom fried slices of it in a cast-iron pan then put it on homemade biscuits. I should've gotten in my car and sped away then. But, NOOO. I stuck around to see what other craziness was in store for the next 23+ years. And, oh yes, there was SO much more.

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Ok, 3ring, your post had me spitting out my lunch right here at my desk. Smooth white pb and hoiking up a kidney.:roflmao: I'm dying.

I like tuna, as well. Tuna salad, yummy, but only with mayo (aka white peanut butter) and dill pickles. Or Bumblebee Lemon Pepper Tuna.

The first time I had Spam was when I met my ex's Crazy (yes, capital "C") parents. It really should have been a sign. His mom fried slices of it in a cast-iron pan then put it on homemade biscuits. I should've gotten in my car and sped away then. But, NOOO. I stuck around to see what other craziness was in store for the next 23+ years. And, oh yes, there was SO much more.

Maybe I could market a brand of white peanut butter for preschooler's called, "Marc's Smooth White Peanut Butter" (as a nod to my son, now 23 y.o. who can now see the humor in it)? The catchphrase could be, "It's Sooooooo Smooth!". :laugh:

He gets plenty of chances to laugh at me, so don't feel too sorry for my son. He likes creepy pasta (scary stories) and one day I called it "scary noodles". He still hasn't let me live that one down …

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Ketchup is a vegetable.

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Farawyn said:
Ketchup is a vegetable.

And chocolate is the 5th food group!

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Speaking of disgusting food, does anyone remember {heave} fried pork rinds? [taking a moment to get my stomach under control while it roils …].

Okay, so my brother's first job was working in one of those mini mart gas stations in 1980, so I went to go hang out with him while he worked because he pretty much let me eat anything I wanted to for free. To a 12 year old tween this was heaven on earth, so I set about to make the loss of Saturday morning cartoons worth it eating like a starving termite in a lumber mill.

After annihilating the chocolate section I decided something salty would hit the spot - it was on my 3rd bag of fried pork rinds that I flipped the bag around and read the ingredients: Fried pork SKIN. Skin … you mean like skin-skin? For real? :nailbiting:

I pulled one out an examined it closely - HAIRS! There were actual hairs in the rinds! :wtf:

I booked it to the bathroom just in time to unload all my free mini mart bootie I had inhaled! I purged so hard and long all that eventually all that came out was squeaks. :stinkyfeet:

After an hour my brother locked up the store to come looking for me - I was in bad shape slumped on the dirty tile floor. :dead:

My mom had to come pick me up, and she was not amused. From that day forward I learned an important lesson: read the ingredients of any processed foods before they pass my lips. :speechless:

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3ringnursing said:
Speaking of disgusting food, does anyone remember {heave} fried pork rinds? [taking a moment to get my stomach under control while it roils …].

Okay, so my brother's first job was working in one of those mini mart gas stations in 1980, so I went to go hang out with him while he worked because he pretty much let me eat anything I wanted to for free. To a 12 year old tween this was heaven on earth, so I set about to make the loss of Saturday morning cartoons worth it eating like a starving termite in a lumber mill.

After annihilating the chocolate section I decided something salty would hit the spot - it was on my 3rd bag of fried pork rinds that I flipped the bag around and read the ingredients: Fried pork SKIN. Skin … you mean like skin-skin? For real? :nailbiting:

I pulled one out an examined it closely - HAIRS! There were actual hairs in the rinds! :wtf:

I booked it to the bathroom just in time to unload all my free mini mart bootie I had inhaled! I purged so hard and long all that eventually all that came out was squeaks. :stinkyfeet:

After an hour my brother locked up the store to come looking for me - I was in bad shape slumped on the dirty tile floor. :dead:

My mom had to come pick me up, and she was not amused. From that day forward I learned an important lesson: read the ingredients of any processed foods before they pass my lips. :speechless:

We call them Pork Scratchins in England. I ate them until I discovered exactly what it was I was eating!

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MHDNURSE said:
The young lady with the can of Vienna Sausages and saltines! Some of the "food" the kids bring in kills me...

I worked with a guy once who popped one of those little cans of Vienna Sausages and drank (OMG! I'm gagging just writing it!) the salt water that they are in. I literally......literally......threw up in the trashcan after seeing that. He, of course, thought it was hysterical! :yuck:

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On 4/18/2017 at 8:38 AM, 3ringnursing said:

Wasn't Span made for WWII war pack rations for soldiers?

Yes. My father, a WW II veteran, would not allow Spam to be served in our home. I never tried it until years after I moved out. He was the same way about dried beans. Creamed chipped beef on toast (sh*t on a shingle, in military parlance) was served once or twice.

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