68 points

Spaghetti-Os are disgusting.

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33 points

I had them again for the first time in probably 15 years and man that shit is nasty. Overly sweetened mildly acidic sludge in a can. The “meat” might be the worst part.

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4 points

I tried them last year and I have to say they brought back childhood. So many memories!

But when I tried again, they didn’t have the original style without meat. That stuff was vile even when I was a kid. You know it’s bad when chopping up cheap hot dogs to put in it are far above the “hot dogs” style

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19 points

I… I love them. I don’t know what it is but the more processed the food the more I want it. And these things taste like they’ve been assembled from compounds never actually found in nature.

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5 points

Did you grow up eating them? My wife did, and she loves this trash, too.

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5 points
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I am disgusted by this and similar canned pastrocities. But I didn’t eat it when I was a kid. What I did eat was Vienna sausages. Some people call them viennie weenies where I’m from. They are objectively garbage, but I like them still.

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4 points

Yep. That whole plate looks like my childhood.

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4 points

Agreed, the tiny questionably meat meatballs are my favorite.

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3 points

Yesss

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1 point

It was very disappointing recently to open a can of them only to find out it was noodles, sauce, and literally nothing else.

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2 points

I grew up in a house where bolognaise was a near-sacred endeavour that took all day for a batch lot that gave us freezables and lasagnas for months. Stepmum tried to feed me spaghetti in a can once. It…did not go well

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1 point

Depends highly on the variant. Plain noodle ones are great, but the meat ones are nasty

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1 point

No, one’s just nastier than the other.

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30 points

Poverty charqutery.

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10 points

as if i wouldn’t continue eating this no matter how rich i was, only difference is that they’d be more ethically sourced and where possible vegan.

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2 points

Probably same, but, for now I have an excuse lol

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7 points

Charcuterie ?

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4 points

Sharcootree

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3 points

Zharqueueteræ

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1 point

Lol yeah, I even googled it, and just assumed it corrected correctly

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29 points

Can confirm, my autistic brain wants this Platter badly

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6 points

Why is it that autistic people prefer bland processed food sometimes? I’m pretty sure my brother, who is not diagnosed, is autistic and he went like eight years only eating microwaved pizzas and microwaved pizza-adjacent products.

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4 points

Autism affects how senses are processed, and taste is a sense - some autistic people don’t want things that are strong or that vary a lot, preferring consistency instead.

With that being said, it’s not a universal thing, different people are affected differently.

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3 points

for me autism contains a form of neophobia, the aversion to new things. this food is the edible pendant to a comfy couch, that formed its cushions around you, because you sit in it all day the same.

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28 points

The scale of this picture is very consufing.

  • The dino nuggies are huge
  • the bowl with rings in em seems very smol
  • idk how large the face ones are

What is up with this one?

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21 points

Everything seems normal to me, the mini-pizza might be throwing you off

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8 points

That’s a family sized pizza. Everything else is enormous

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5 points

If this is a mini pizza, then that bowl must be super smol

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3 points

looks like a custard bowl to me, which are indeed super smol

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1 point

I have a bunch of bowls that size and they’re quite small. It’s the pizza, it’s really small and has tiny pepperoni that make it look like a bigger pizza.

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5 points

Are you by any chance not from the UK?

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2 points

Yes I don’t know any of these.

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26 points
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Is it a sign that you’re not young when you see that and go ugh. How bout some veggies and stuff.

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Maybe you haven’t aged enough. There’s an awkward period in your 30’s ~ 40’s where your brain is confused and forgets what delicious looks like. Don’t worry: you get it back in your 50’s.

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3 points

You’re eating this shit in your 50s? I mean I love fried foods but if I’m gonna eat them I’m gonna get good stuff.

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Oh, yeah. Ima take up smoking again when I turn 60. Statistically, something else will kill me long before I develop cancer if I start at that age.

I’m not opposed to better quality fried food, but there’s something comforting about being able to dig into the freezer and pull out something to shove in the oven, without having to make a trip out, wait for for, and/or eat in public.

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7 points

I’m being all smug over hear just finishing one of my most healthy meals ever. I made tuna steak, roast potatoes, and spinach salad. Lots of bright colors!

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4 points

Speak for yourself, this platter just gave me a second wind!:))

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9 points

It’s giving me wind, all right …

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1 point

That’s half the fun!;)

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2 points

one part of my brain sees this and drools, another part of my brain knows how miserable it will be to poo after a day of eating only carbs and protein.

And this is why i feel you could make a tidy profit from selling chicken nuggets with ground up vegetables in them, like vitamin gummies except with food instead of candy. Meatballs are already basically this since they generally contain onion (at least in sweden).

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4 points

Veggie “chicken” nuggets are already delicious! They’re just expensive. I’d rather have morningstar nuggets than anything in this picture on taste alone, and I’m not vegetarian.

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2 points

yeah vegan nuggets are basically the best vegan meat replacement, and it fucking baffles me that they are at all expensive since it’s basically just pea/bean protein.

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