Comments on: In the Can: 6 Canned Foods We’re Reluctant to Try

By: wuggis

wuggis — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:49:49 +0000

to Southern Buddhist

Goblin meat pudding is suet pastry surrounding pieces of beef in gravy you open the top of the can and place it in ban marie (an inch of water in a pan will do)and it cooks as the water boils.
It’s a real treat and has nothing to do with potted meat. make some mashed potatoes and mushy pea’s and it’s a belly filler fit for a king. If it’s still in date get it down your neck.

By: wuggis

wuggis — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:38:42 +0000

I live in the U.K and potted meat was routinely given to us kids as a sandwich filling or on toast back in the 70′s. Another thing my parents generation used to eat was “dripping” which is basically beef fat collected whist roasting a joint chilled and then spread on bread.It separates into a thick white fat layer and a dark brown jelly underneath both parts are used!
Spotted dick is a sweet suet pudding with raisins or currants in it. Its delicious with vanilla custard but I imagine that it’s pretty rough from a can.

By: BamaLady

BamaLady — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 03:57:38 +0000

As a teenager, my mother who is now 58, slept over at her best friend’s house one night. The next morning the friend’s mother served the girls scrambled eggs mixed with what Mama believed was ham. She said it didn’t taste right so she picked around it. Later, she asked her friend what was in the eggs. The girl told her it was “pig brains”. EEWW!

By: ward

ward — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:36:53 +0000

just so you know, okra is good tossed in olive oil, sea salt and pepper and grilled till brown, also, although I don’t like it boiled.n People do eat grits on purpose, they are good with butter and maple syrup, and although some of these things don’t look like anything I would want to try, normal is what you grow up with, so who am I to judge?

By: Bella

Bella — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:04:00 +0000

I had a english teacher a few years back that collected bizzare canned foods. He had a jar of pig eyes that stared atme. I sat in front of that jar all year and i always felt that someone was watching me. Then on a really hot day when the schools air conditioning blew, his canned haggis exploded all over my back. My friend still calls me haggis hair…

By: Sandie

Sandie — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 02:41:00 +0000

I can’t believe fiddleheads are on this list, or dandelions, perhaps it’s just the canned part that is unusual. Fresh of either are really delish’….no different that many other salad ingredients really, and quite nutritious, as you point out with the dandelions. I must say though that canned anything is really nasty in my opinion….I don’t like canned veg, fruit or much else….fresh, or frozen, in some cases is the best!!

By: moofastcow

moofastcow — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:49:00 +0000

Ostrich fern is not the only fern people can eat there are at least three in north america: ostrich fern Matteucia struthiopteris, lady fern Athyrium
filix-femina, and bracken fern Pteridium aquilinum

By: CK

CK — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:48:00 +0000

I agree that fried dace is yummy. My mom used to serve that to us when she didn’t feel like cooking too. In fact, I’m pretty sure I have a can of it in my pantry at home that she gave us. It just tastes like salty fish.

Fiddleheads actually sounds yummy too.

Why did the USDA have to intervene to allow farmers to intentionally infect their corn? Who was stopping them?

By: Southern Buddhist

Southern Buddhist — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:41:00 +0000

My husband bought a can of Pork Brains in Milk Gravy for the amusement value. He put it on the top shelf of the cupboard and forgot about it. It wasn’t so amusing when a couple of years later the freaking can swelled up and ruptured — oh, the smell was unreal. It just floored you.

I’ve taken wee tiny nibbles of canned _vegetarian_ haggis (salty but okay) and Vegemite (bad — very bad). A friend of ours brought dried squid in an Asian market. It smelled so bad when he opened it back home in New Mexico that he threw it in an arroyo behind his house. He swore the coyotes wouldn’t even eat it.

Same friend, from England, sent us a canned meat product we still have. It’s probably a potted meat type of thing, but the brand name is Goblin, and the way the can is printed makes it read “Goblin Meat Pudding.” Will never try it, but STILL find it funny every time I look at it — mmm, goblin meat pudding and poltergeist pie, what a meal!

By: jodie

jodie — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:49:00 +0000

dandelion greens are great! The oddest thing i’ve seen in a can was when i was in scotland and they sold canned haggis