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

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

By: Leah

Leah — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:07:00 +0000

What, no Heroes fans on here? I can’t believe no one mentioned this after all the posts…

Sylar doesn’t eat brains. His power is the ability to figure out how anything works – he studies his victim’s brains to learn how to use their powers.

Claire: “Are you gonna eat my brain?” Sylar: “Eat your brain? Claire, that’s disgusting!”

By: mallory

mallory — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:38:00 +0000

To be a picky Heroes fan, Sylar doesn’t actually eat the brains he removes.

By: Scott-O

Scott-O — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:27:00 +0000

Why eat canned brains when fresh brains are so much better?

By: nikki

nikki — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:29:00 +0000

Being that I have fresh dandelion greens in my fridge and ate fiddleheads as kid, I don’t find them to be odd. Or the dace. It’s just canned fish. Generally I’m just not big on anything in a can. Except for canned boiled peanuts. It’s the only way to find them out of season.

I’ve eaten brain tacos before but it was in the early 90’s before the BSE issues arose. They’re pretty good when prepared well. I loooove fish sauce. It smells like feet, but is so good in sauces and soups. I use it to season my stuffing for my fried spring rolls. When I was in Oaxaca I got to eat chili lime grasshoppers and fell in love with them. However, I had consumed quite a bit of tequila.

And I’m going to be another one to stand up and defend grits. I will agree that mass produced grits at places like Waffle House are no good. But when you cook them yourself and they’re NOT INSTANT grits, they’re delicious with salt, pepper and cheese. Fried eggs, cheese grits and toast is a comfort meal, for sure. One of my favorite restaurants in West Texas, The Riata, serves jalapeno cheddar grits as a side and they’re phenomenal.

And how can people be from the south and not have had boiled okra. The snot texture analogy is spot on, but I used to beg my mamaw and popaw to make boiled okra at every meal. Everything we ate was fresh from the garden as a kid and our chicken was fresh from the coop. To this day I love fried chicken livers and gizzards.

Yowsah. Sorry about the novel.