Lowbrow foods you like

Slim Jims.

Corn dogs w/ yellow mustard.

Port wine cheese spread on supermarket French bread.

Velveeta

Microwave mini Red Baron pizzas

Stouffer's Mac and Cheese, French bread pizzas and Beef Stroganoff.

Oh and Little Debbie snack cakes.

I like potato chips on my sandwich. I don't eat chips on their own, I just need 5-10 of them on my sandwich.

Instant ramen noodles.

I can sometimes eat crappy food, but there's no way I will ever eat white bread again.

Frito Pie

Bowl of Fritos, covered with chili (I use Amy's vegetarian but meat obviously works, too.)

Diced onions and shredded cheese on top. Hot sauce optional.

Rice with frozen peas mixed in after heat is off. Butter and salt. Heaven.

MacDonalds

I draw the line for KFC though. Vomit inducing.

Vienna sausage

Pringles

Diet Dr. Pepper

Sloppy Joes

Sweet Chili Doritos.

Ketchup on my scrambled eggs.

Fried Bologna in scrambled eggs with ketchup or mayo

Kraft macaroni and cheese. Even though I make a good one now, I still get a craving.

Twinkies

Corned beef hash with some over easy eggs n’ toast!

Hotdogs with mustard and onions.

Beans on toast, plenty of butter, on good sourdough

Toast & jam or Toast , butter, & Vegemite

Chili dogs (preferably all-beef)

Mince & tatties

tinned sardines, or mackerel

goosed up ramen

Kosher or veal bologna, cold or fried

cheese & pickle sandwich (Branston or similar)

Shake N' Bake Chicken or pork chops

Beef Jerky and Salami

Eggs Benedict.

forgot to add doughnuts of all kinds...

POP TARTS! POP TARTS! POP TARTS! And eaten raw, not cooked.

Crunchy Cheetos. They’re so disgusting, but so good.

Trader Joe’s makes a baked dupe that’s alright… but they’re NOT the same. At all!

R27 I must admit,I once had a love affair with Pop-Tarts.. but since they no longer use the trademarked Smucker's fruit preserves, they aren't quite the same to me.

I did not grow up eating them, but in my late twenties- early thirties, I absolutely adored them. Never for breakfast, as I'm not hungry in the morning, but as a snack, as camping/skiing food, or a quick dessert with my tea, I really did thoroughly enjoy them.

Strawberry, blueberry, and cherry were my favourites! They all seem much too mealy and dried out now, regardless of the different varieties. I reckon i began putting on excess weight about this time in my life, and vowed to eschew the sweets... but I have tried them again, and I was madly disappointed. 😩

Sorry, above meant for R22!

Top Ramen with Swiss cheese melted on top.

So gross, but tastes soooo good!

Costco out of season European Christmas cookies.

I've been keeping the tins they come in for storage so even the packaging they come in is a deal.

I've gotten eight tins so far since they deliver in a four pack at a time for free and I'm no longer a member.

I can say more lowbrow things attached to this one item of food, but I think I've painted quite a picture already.

Kraft Mac n Cheese. Sometimes I mix in some extra shredded cheddar cheese. Or some other cheeses I may have on hand.

Biscuits and gravy.

Pepsi

Vienna wieners, totinos pizza, sardines, sandwiches with chips and lots of mustard. Fried onion sandwiches. Spaghettio's with meatballs but only the meatballs.

Wendy’s fries in a Wendy’s Frosty

R27 I like your post, and tins. I save the tins from Macy's holiday candy, and store bars of soap in them.

A friend showed me a "prison recipe" with ramen, chicken (or beef, or whatever you have), ranch dressing, hot sauce, and Parmesan cheese. I get a craving for it once in a while.

I was going to say Jiffy cornbread, but, given some of the other contributions, that may not be lowbrow enough. So, in addition, I'll mention ketchup-flavored potato chips. They only recently became widely available in the US, and I'm so glad they did.

Also, sour cream and onion chips with California dip. I keep Lipton onion soup mix in the pantry just for the occasional craving. You can make ranch dip very easily, too: 16 oz. of sour cream and one packet of Hidden Valley Ranch Dressing mix. Mix thoroughly and chill briefly. You don't have to eat this with potato chips. It's good with crudités as well.

Chips and dip in general are great, whatever the flavor.

Hash Brown Potato Patties.

R32 I'm right there with you on a Wendy's fix. I loved their Chili & Baked potato combo ages ago. They should have never discontinued that "chili oil" packet though... that really elevated their chili, IMHO.

Tater Tots Corn nuts

Always have a weakness for Doritos.

R39 Doritos are like crack.

Greg must be laughing his ass off.

Potato chips with sour cream-based ranch dip. It is a glorious abomination.

Pork rinds

Spray cheese

Almost anything Entenmann's (sort of low brow)

I love port wine cheese spread

Sardines aren't lowbrow, especially in the last 5 years or so. They've become a staple in keto diets and detox.

My Dad always loved the ones with the little key thingamajig, so Mama always kept some in the pantry. I refused to eat them because when we were kids my middle sister would eat them with saltines and grape jelly. Urp 🤢🤮.

5 years ago I bought some for my ancient cat whose sense of smell (and thus, taste) had blunted. She could definitely smell those sardines, and started eating again.

I thought, why not try one? So I did....and fell in love. King Oscar makes a "Mediterranean" style with black olives. They are like crack. For breakfast with boiled eggs and dry toast, plus grits if I'm in the mood. For anytime with roasted asparagus.

Divine.

Shhh…don’t tell *Greg* about these meals….

Nabisco Pinwheel Cookies

Another Entenmann's fan here , too.

I could be marooned and dessert isle with a never-ending supply of their boxed, processed donuts with chocolate icing and those crumble cake ones and die happily of whatever.

R47 was "dessert isle" an intentional pun? Dessert (desert) aisle?

OP = Greg

No, it wasn't r48.

Just plain old misspelling. You're "sweet" to credit it me with that.

Seriously, how does one eat sardines? The knives to cut them must be awfully small.

I love the name BeBop for a cat, r45.

I guess this is like a lazy take on Chicken Tinga, but I will toss some chicken breast into my mini crock pot, with a can(s) of El Pato sauce and chicken bouillon, then let it cook for 10-12 hours on low.

I'll shred it and make mini tacos for several days.

Underwood 👿 ed Ham

Sardines are not low brow

they’re middle brow.

The Filet O Fish 🐠 at McDonalds is LOW brow.

Once, I was feeling a bit lazy, and I actually prepared my cucumber sandwiches for high tea without peeling the cucumbers or removing the bread's crust!

I actually enjoyed them, but I felt so trashy the next day!

Oh, what my dear friends at the palace would have thought of me!

Oh wow. I am the trash food king.

Kraft "Cheetos" Flavored Macaroni and Cheese. I don't even use any mile. I throw a table spoon of butter in it and its trashtastic! And neon orange.

Ellios Pizza- I cook them until they are nearly burnt.

And I can eat a Sara Lee poundcake in ONE SITTING!

^^ Oh fuck me. ANY MILK.

Raspberry Zingers- I USED to love them before the company went bankrupt and reemerged- the current products of the current owners of Hostess are not edible.

Scrapple.

Pan fried Scrapple and scrambled eggs. Heaven.

Spicy ramen on white bread and butter

Kraft Mac & Cheese

Chef Boyardee Ravioli

Big Macs

Fried Bologna Sandwiches

Fish Sticks

Colt 45

Has anyone mentioned Spam? Or do we have to go with Treet to qualify for lowbrow?

Burger King whopper

I prefer “pancake syrup” to real maple syrup. I like to dip Jones sausage links in it.

Ruffles and onion dip which I haven’t had in YEARS but this thread reminded me how amazing they are and I will get some to have while watching the Superbowl.

Belegte Brötli - open faced sandwiches on white bread covered in aspic. Very low brow in Switzerland and I love them.

The unhealthy cereals - Cocoa Puffs, Trix, Lucky Charms, Sugar Smacks

But not Fruit Loops

In Egypt, it's Koshary, peasant food nobody can resist. Doesn't need to be at the famous places.

English muffin pizzas

Kaftheji in Tunis. Currywurst in Vienna.

My favorite potato chip is the store-brand version of Ruffles at Pittsburgh's Giant Eagle. For a dip, I mix dill weed into sour cream. You can eat it right away, but it's better if the dip sits for a couple of hours.

meatball grinder (sub)

Miller High Life 32oz glass bottle. Shared with a blue collar trick during a summer tryst. (Smoking his cigs after smoking his xl pole.)

SPAM fried crispy

Spaghettios - no sausages.

Pepper Belly - called Frito Pie earlier.

Stouffer's french bread pizza dipped in jar sauce like Ragu.

Top Ramen - with diced green onions, a bit of grated ginger, cabbage, meat (depends on the flavor of ramen), 2-4 gyoza, poached egg, crumbled nori (seaweed), and a small squirt of Huy Fong sriracha sauce on top (making sure to hit the poached egg).

frosting... (good for eating disorders of all sorts, from your typical fat fucks to skinny bitches trying to ward off cravings. )

if ramen is considered lowbrow, I'll second r74

plucking flowers off the vine and sucking out nature's semen

fresh honey, eggs, vegetables, herbs, etc that I swear I'm not going to waste my energy and time on but always succumb to my greater exhaustion of people and places.

R74 your Top Ramen is not lowbrow after you fancily it so, Miss Thing.

fancify

r76 for most Americans, it wouldn't seem he choices are basic... but it is rather lowbrow for others.

There's many of us that are likely struggling with this for similar reasons... what's common and pedestrian to us may be more inaccessible to others, and chances are others even modify their options more than what they've stated.

^ ugh, butchered that first line. "For most Americans, it would seem his choices are basic.. .but for others, particularly in other parts of the world... it is rather basic. street food level.

^ are not. ah, fuck it. I'm just forget english. esperanto is still what the cool kids are into, right?

Cak

Graxy

Turkey meatballs

Non-event Toast

Red Dragon cheese

Fixded cheeseburgers

Lady ham

Beef curtains

My Dad's favorite comfort food was fried chicken gizzards and beer.

Polska Belish = peasant food

Ramen itself is not lowbrow.

Top Ramen - the instant kind you buy for 5 for $1 is considered lowbrow. Just because I slap some lipstick on the pig, it doesn't make it less so.

Baked stuffed jumbo shrimp

How is baked, stuffed jumbo shrimp lowbrow?

[quote] fresh honey, eggs, vegetables, herbs, etc that I swear I'm not going to waste my energy and time on but always succumb to my greater exhaustion of people and places.

What? MARY.

[quote] Beans on toast, plenty of butter, on good sourdough

Thanks, Ina.

Lowbrow?

R85 it's where you are getting it from. If you're getting it at Red Lobster - it's definitely lowbrow, and their trailer trash clientele is loving every bite.

Cheesecake Factory

Last thing.

I can put Sweet Baby Ray's Barbecue Sauce on anything-

And if I am feeling all fancy, I will use Lillie's.

I also like Mallowmars and Reeses Peanut Butter cups. (Not with barbecue sauce)

Ketchup. I like a ton of it (Heinz) on French fries, hash browns, and McNuggets and Filet O Fish.

Nachos made with a mix of Cheeze Wiz and real chedder.

CheddAr. Why do you need to add real cheddar?

[quote]I love the name BeBop for a cat, [R45].

Awwww, thanks, R52. She was born in 2004; died in 2017.

First time I saw her (father was a tuxedo my sis named Babs bcz he had eyes like La Streisand), I saw that "soul patch," plus the black head like a beret, how could I NOT have named her BeBop? Her first vet visit, Doc R., a huge jazz fan, cackled his ass off, straightaway knowing exactly why I'd named her that.

What a great cat she was.

I really rarely indulge in “junk” or overly processed food, but when I do, my favorites are:

Pringles

Chex Mix

Fritos

Kraft Mac n Cheese

Brown Sugar Cinammon Pop Tarts

For as many food snobs as we have on this this site, I'm surprised how many are fig newton fans.

[quote]Pepper Belly - called Frito Pie earlier.

Interesting, R74--do you mind telling us where you're from? I have never heard "pepper belly" for Frito pie!

Reminds me of some old Western TV shows, where some of the bigoted characters referred to Latinos as "pepper guts."

Mayonnaise bread.

Spam

Beverley sausage. With scrambled eggs and grits.

Many decades ago it wasn't available where we lived, so my Mom's family in SC would send her care packages with a dozen or more cans of Beverly sausage, along with Yuban coffee, dried mullein, and black walnuts.

We loved it because it reminded us of rural South Carolina. But when we were older and actually read the ingredients? Nope. Just...nope.

A month or two ago I found a can in my late parents's kitchen, far back in the pantry.😥😢😭 Keeping it because nostalgia.

R59 Totally agree about Hostess being inedible now. I say the same thing about Entenmann's ever since Bimbo Bakeries (Grupo Bimbo) acquired them. Horrible.

Aldi's brand of Kraft's Mac @ cheese. It tastes like the original, not the horrible stuff sold under the Kraft name today. 40 cents a box.

instant potato salad made with diced or sliced canned potatoes.

BLT.s on toasted white bread

"Cornish" meat pie made with store bought phyllo dough and canned stew.

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Hostess cupcakes taste pretty much the same to me. They are smaller, though.

Hormel Corned Beef Hash

Spam

Little Debbie Everything

[quote]How is baked, stuffed jumbo shrimp lowbrow?

Maybe he stuffs it with Cap'n Crunch and Spam.

Fried dough—my parents made it a ‘Sunday treat’when we we low on $ (which was often). Only when I read the Grapes of Wrath did I learn it was a Depression-era staple.

Marshmallow Fluff. A fluffernutter on lightly toasted white bread and a mug of instant hot chocolate with a dollop of Fluff.

All Pillsbury rolls, including cinnamon rolls, in the wack-on-the-edge-of-the-counter can.

[quote] My parents were Depression kids of the NEW ENG. type not OKIES

Sure, they were.

Brown & Serve Sausages

Lol, R108, I make fried bread for my 95 year old Dad at least once a week. I'm finally getting pretty good at it, but cannot get it to taste like Mama's did.

I like La Croix.

💞 Bread Pudding

Fried Plantains with Butter and Cinnamon Sugar

Beverly Sausage --I had to look it up and read the ingredients.

My stars!

Elephant Ears

Tiger Milk

[quote] Pepsi

Just a step too low, R30.

FlufferNutters on toasted cinnamon raisin bread.

burnt bubbly

R111. Honest. We’d get a dirty look for saying ant instead of aunt. And I only put Jimmie’s on an ice cream cone.

^jimmies

Ham and pickle salad on toasted rye or white bread or oh heck on a grinder out back of the package store.

R108. My parents bought same name brand frozen dough….they would make it a game for us to watch it rise and become ready for the fryer. The fryer matters 🤷🏻‍♂️

Annie's boxed mac and cheese or President's Choice 'deluxe' white cheddar mac and cheese, some Samyang fire noodle sauce mixed in, with a cut-up hot dog. I tried Kraft Dinner (What Kraft mac and cheese is called in Canada) recently and I was shocked by how bad it was. It didn't even taste like cheese.

Cracker Jack, Whoppers, Snow Caps, Necco Wafers

I like to put two spoons of sweet pickle relish into my mackerel salad sandwich. I don't consider canned mackerel lowbrow, but somehow I consider the sweet relish lowbrow.

Navy bean soup.

Sweet relish is definitely lowbrow. I put it in tuna for maximum effect. Mackerel is middlebrow!

I snack on Mary Jane's candies when no one is looking.

Yummy.

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[quote]I snack on Mary Jane's candies when no one is looking.

If I catch you stealing my candy, I'll slap you silly.

[quote]Interesting, [R74]--do you mind telling us where you're from? I have never heard "pepper belly" for Frito pie!

I grew up in Southern California which is where I had my first pepper belly. It was common at concession stands at places like youth baseball games and school events.

Cream of tuna on rice

R132/R133

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Great thread for this weekend. I always call Super Bowl Sunday crappy food day.

R73 you must of been dickmatized because Miller High Life is freaking horrible!

Kraft or Velveeta American singles are the bomb for making delicious, at-home breakfast sandwiches or the occasional, super-melty grilled cheese sandwich. I go through phases where I like to keep a stack in my deli drawer for when I have a hankering.

SpaghettiOs

Spam

Pop tarts

Jell-O pudding

Oh yeah, tapioca pudding on rare occasions. i just bought some yesterday for a dessert-y treat later tonight. i also make lime jello when I'm sick to help me get more hydration.

R135 they served it in my high school cafeteria (blue collar L.A. suburb). We called it Chili Fritos.

I love taking a Hostess chocolate cupcake, putting a peanut butter cup inside, rubbing the whole works with softened butter and sea salt, then microwaving it just for a minute. Heaven.

What in God's name?? ^^

That yellow cheese that comes out of a spray can. On a cracker. A Ritz cracker.

That’s not even food!

Cinnamon toast

Egg McMuffins!

My childhood diet, and still a set of go-to delights! (Some recipes in Part II, too!)

Honest!

God bless the late Ernest Mickler.

I don't think cinnamon toast is low-brow at all. It's delicious.

But I shy away from making it after I sustained a SEVERE burn to my palm at 11 years old when I was pulling a perfectly melty, brown sugar/cinnamon-bubbling piece out from under the broiler and it upended and landed face down on my hand. Hot, molten sugar burns like a motherfucker, let me tell you. My hand was red, throbbing and burning for at least 2 days afterwards, then eventually blistered over.

I *have* made it over the 40 years since then, but maybe only twice. It really scarred me mentally lol.

My White Castle Eat Wave: Five hamburgers, five cheeseburgers, two jalapeño burgers, order of chicken rings, two fries, chocolate shake.

King Ranch Breakfast Casserole (having it tomorrow). Even trashier when it's called "King Ranch Breakfast Strata, because the pretentiousness is extra trashy.

Mississippi Beef from a slow cooker (and I hate slow cooker cooking).

Lately I've been vibing with Oops All Berries Red

Far superior to the multi-colored original

Jesus Christ R144, and I thought my Neon Orange Cheetos Mac and Cheese was sick as fuck.

You need help, buddy!

Hanky Panky, something we made in my Midwestern home-ec class. Brown sausage, drain, and mix with Velveeta until the "cheese" is melted. Spoon onto those tiny pumpernickel bread slices and broil until brown and bubbly. It's every bit as disgusting and delicious as it sounds. I eat a pretty strict Mediterranean diet but make this every few years and eat it all to myself as I'd be too ashamed to admit I ate such a concoction outside an anonymous internet board, let alone offer it to another person.

I bet that Hanky Panky would be even better with some Beverly Sausage!

Fried bologna and cheese sandwich with crinkle cut fries and a Coke.

Little Debbie Christmas Trees

Mini Donuts

Ruffles with Dean's French Onion Dip

Fried pork chops, mashed potatoes, homemade biscuits and cream gravy

Damn, I am making myself hungry

White Wonder bread with a lot of mayo and iceberg/romaine lettuce. That is what I chose to eat at home in the ‘60s. Iceberg lettuce was fancy.

For our brown-bag school lunches my Mon would put in a slice of Oscar Mayer bologna . Our free little wax carton of whole milk made it a fine lunch.

I’m 67 and still eat the white bread/mayo/lettuce sandwiches. I’ve elevated my taste and sometimes add cucumber.

Miracle Whip - can’t stand ‘real’ mayonnaise! Heard it was being discontinued by Kraft so I bought 3 jars (it lasts forever). But I still see in in stores. Go figure.

When I was on the Atkins diet back in the '80s, I used to spread butter between two pieces of American cheese and then slide in some bacon. I also put butter on beef jerky.

[quote] King Ranch Breakfast Casserole (having it tomorrow). Even trashier when it's called "King Ranch Breakfast Strata, because the pretentiousness is extra trashy.

I agree that "strata" sounds pretentious. I also hate "frittata," even though I know it's a real term. Somehow, "quiche" and "omelet" don't bother me. In fact, quiche is preferable b/c the egg to meat / veg ratio is better, IMO. Frittata just always looks overcooked.

R151 Go buy a toaster, enjoy life and cinnamon toast again.

Wow R150 I will order that book just for the history and storytelling! There are southern cabbage recipes which I want to see as my German Grandma would always have white and red sauerkrauts going along with cabbage/sausage stews. No wonder we were all so skinny - we had cabbage in everything!

Hostess Ho Hos and Ding Dongs

Lucky Charms

Kraft singles

Velveeta cheese

Little Smokies cocktail sausages

Those little toxic marshmallows give me LIFE R164

R151, that's why I've always said if I'm ever in an Al Green's girlfriend situation, I'd mix up some stovetop pecan praline candy and dump it out over my man while he's in the bathtub. No fucking way you can wash that stuff off without the dermis coming off in your hands.

No hot Cream of Wheat for me.

Goddamn right, r166. That or peanut brittle!

New Orleans pralines (like Richard Simmons used to sell on New Orleans street corners)

and Pecan Pie. The two sweetest foods you can possibly find, and I can't eat them any more but my god, what fabulous foods.

Also "Divinity" fudge -- and Krispy Kreme glazed donuts when they're just out of the oven. They used to give you a free one if you walked in when they were just made - I guess to lure you into buying a dozen. Or - this is the south and people like to be overly friendly, most of the time.

r168 they did that everywhere to introduce how crack-like and addicting they were.

Cheddar cheese w/ bacon in the squirt can.

gummy worms

Captain Crunch

Combos

R168- I will never forget when they brought Krispy Kremes to New England- THEY TRIED TWICE!!!!!! In 2005 or so and then later- 2017?

Those damn donuts were absolutely amazing. Especially the glazed donuts with Vanilla Creme inside. DAMN.

These fucking Dunkin Donuts eating motherfuckers up here do not know their ass from their elbows.

We shall never see them again up in this motherfucker. And I miss them...

We even had one in Saco Maine!

Red Baron "deep dish" pepperoni pizzas "singles" (but I eat two), as mentioned above. I put it in a regular oven, though, not microwave. They're delicious, IMO. Also, salty. I put crushed red pepper flakes & Tabasco to spice it up.

I'll still eat a Mama Celeste frozen Pizza for one a couple times a year .. usually the "Deluxe" version.

Due to inflation, it's gone up from $0.99 to $1.33 .. lol!

Beef Rice A Roni with sliced roast beef luncheon meat and canned mushrooms added to may it more " gourmet "

Pepperidge Farm Square Frozen Cakes

Tuna Helper made with canned Salmon to make it more gourmet

Pillsbury Refrigerated Orange Cinnamon Rolls with slivered almonds pressed into the dough prior to baking to make it more "continental "

Walmart Cream Soda

Circus Peanut Candy out of the bag for 24 hours so they are hard

Baked Chicken Thighs with the skin and bone with a store brand cream of mushroom soup and french style green beans

I like scrambled eggs with cut up hot dogs. Lol. I thought I was the only one.

OP, do you mean all those mixed together in a blender? It sounds delicious!

I'll use it as filling for my next pie. My nutritionist says I need to eat more pies.

Toasted and Buttered Brown Sugar Cinnamon Pop Tarts

Crisp bacon between soft white bread

Boyer Mallo Cups

The smell of a hot guy’s filthy socks

Hershey’s Chocolate Syrup over anything

Port Cheddar Cheese Spread

The fragrance of a lacrosse player’s sweaty ass

Saltines with ricotta cheese and fleur de sel

Jelly donuts

You win

Macaroni cheese. Delicious once a year!

Saltines with butter

Jack's frozen pizza. Pepperoni and sausage combo.

Fried potato sandwiches on downmarket white bread with LOTS of butter, salt and pepper.

Oatmeal raisin cookies from Panera

Tater tot casserole with extra Worcestershire sauce. Sausage gravy, egg, and hash brown casserole Bisquick sausage balls (recipe on the side of the box)

So many have mentioned Kraft Macaroni and Cheese. I still indulge now and again. I've started adding leftover taco meat, a can of Rotel and a can of Ranch-Style Beans to it, with a dash of garlic powder and some pizza pepper.

More trash indulgences:

There's chunk light tuna packed in water, drained, heated with Cream of Mushroom soup and served over egg noodles.

A can of Spam, thinly sliced (one should be able to get twelve slices out of a single can), fried until super-crispy, eaten on sourdough bread with pepperjack cheese and spicy brown mustard.

A roll of Jimmy Dean hot breakfast sausage, fried into crispy crumbles, with onion and chopped green chilis added. Mix with oven-toasted cheap-ass Walmart shredded hash browns on a large flour tortilla, with some salsa and shredded Mexican cheese. Roll into a burrito and nuke it for 30 to 45 seconds, to melt the cheese.

[quote] No wonder we were all so skinny - we had cabbage in everything!

Did they have Beano back then, R163?

Fried eggs with fried liver sausage, or fried bologna.

R187 I like the recipe you have with the Jimmy Dean sausage. I might have to give that a try! Jimmy Dean hot sausage is freaking delicious!

[quote]I will never forget when they brought Krispy Kremes to New England- THEY TRIED TWICE!!!!!! In 2005 or so and then later- 2017?

I watch a news show on France 24 (out of Paris) called The World This Week, and just this past Friday after they covered the Ukraine War and the earthquakes (and I think the State of the Union), the next topic was Krispy Kreme planning to bring their shop to France!

Pretty funny - with how dare they in the world epicenter of pastries and how the French are gonna hate it - yet then they talked about how the French had expected the same thing but Starbucks did great (and French coffee shops even introduced paper to-go cups to stay competitive - and they even fussed about how crowded McDonalds is there (but one panelist said it was mostly tourists - and I remembered going to a McDonalds in Paris in 1983 as an American (don't judge - I was just a kid traveling on a shoe string)

I need to go study how to use parentheses.

But I'll take this opportunity to link the the French show I mentioned - the host Francois Picard is HOTTTTTT - and the discussion about Krispy Kreme is almost at the end, at minute 39. (it's in English - he grew up in New York)

R187 The mac & cheese with taco meat recipe sounds delicious!

Fuck your fuckers, I got two boxes of Pop Tarts from the CVS today.

Here's something in addition to eggs benedict that I hate and associate with trashiness - those big, "hungry-man" style breakfasts that you get in a greasy truck-stop type diner (eggs, bacon, hash-browns, toast etc....)

So low class, so trashy.

What a shock that most Americans over the age of 50 are obese.

Of all the LDS abominations, buttermilk syrup is #1.

Butter, sugar, buttermilk, vanilla, salt, baking soda, and sometimes brown sugar—what fat whore wouldn't rejoice?

R57 do you eat that Sara Lee poundcake plain or do you put some lovely canned cherry pie filling all over it?

[quote] do you put some lovely canned cherry pie filling all over it?

sounds delicious

Toastem pop-ups are a ZILLION times better than Pop Tarts. Always were, from way back in the 60s when I was a kid. At Dollar Tree.

Do boiled peanuts count?

I am a freak for them in late summer every year when the new crop is harvested.

The Paris McDonalds serves tarter sauce with the French fries. It’s wrong and yet so right.

tartar

Thanks for the correction R203

R96 what a doll! Thanks for sharing her.

Wild Mikes frozen pizza...the best

Eggs Benedict is not lowbrow.

Cream of Wheat

Nobody for Totino’s Party Pizza?

Eggs Benedict with canned lemon pie filling as a quick and easy substitute for hollandaise sauce. Yummy!

[quote]Bisquick sausage balls (recipe on the side of the box)

I just made those, but I used Italian sausage instead of breakfast sausage. There's not a huge difference in the final product--good either way.

Not trying to snark, but are most of you posters suffering from congestive heart failure? HBP? Diabetes?

My late father, though never overweight, ate a lot of the crap listed here, he died of congestive heart disease. His particular junk food faves were the original Entenmann’s cakes, Devil Dogs, ice cream, chocolate pudding with whipped cream and Coffee Cake Jrs. He also loved cheese danish with loads of icing. He drank Sprite soda exclusively.

My mom, though a working mom, always cooked fresh meals and was a great cook, still is, but my dad would rather have coffee and half an Entemann’s for most dinners! My mom never bought any of the junk food, my father did. He’d stop at the local supermarket on the way home from work and stockpile all this artery clogging chemical filled garbage.

This man was definitely addicted to junk food. Corn syrup is extremely addicting, it's added to so many food exactly for that reason. Plus, it's super cheap to produce.

Not sure how and why my dad's junk food addiction started, my late grandmother never kept junk food at home. Doubt much junk food existed when he was a child and a teen. My grandmother was another mom who always cooked fresh food daily. When my dad was growing up, there were butcher shops all over his neighborhood and tons of fruit & vegetable stores. It was extremely easy to purchase fresh food, there were also stand alone bread shops.

Guess my father eating this garbage was some sort of rebellion against good food?!

Five heart procedures and he still couldn’t control this junk food addiction. RIP funny man.

Popeye’s Chicken. When I need a food fix and don’t feel like cooking anything myself.

Supermarket sushi, imitation crab and all.

Supermarket frosted cupcakes. (1:1 cake to frosting ratio.)

[quote]Popeye’s Chicken. When I need a food fix and don’t feel like cooking anything myself.

You know, after all the hype about Popeye's spicy chicken sandwich, I finally got one a few months ago.

It wasn't all the fabulous. It was fine, but nothing I'd trudge through rain, sleet, and snow to get.

Not every day, R212.

[quote]Not every day, [R212].

Huh? What are you talking about?

I think r216 was commenting on not eating all this junk that everyone is listing, and that r212 's father apparently ate as part of his normal diet, on an every day basis.

Yes, I only eat like a fat whore once a week.

[quote] It was fine, but nothing I'd trudge through rain, sleet, and snow to get

Would you tread the gloom of night?

R201 do you ever slip the peanuts into a Coke in a glass bottle? That’s a pretty tasty snack!

I thought Dr Pepper was the canonical drink for peanut addition?

Peanut butter M&Ms- not peanut, which can be stale and flavorless

Tube of Pillsbury Orange cinnamon rolls

Ghirardelli double chocolate brownies with a scoop of Breyers vanilla and drizzle of Torani caramel

Lays plain chips with clam dip

Ruffles with ranch sour cream dip

R212: Interesting post. How old was your Dad when he became addicted to corn sugar?

I’m an elder who grew up in LA and later Wisconsin. We never had sweets unless we road our bikes to the Woolworth’s to buy 3 packs of Beeman’s sugar gum for 10 cents.

I truly believe this HFCS crap is addictive.

And our US government subsidies it. Not just with our food but in our gasoline.

I don’t know how to untie this Midwestern corn-knot we are stick with. But we must.

When I'm in Iowa, it's Loose Meat Sandwiches for me.

R225 leave now! On DL the meat is always firm. It’s the hole that’s loose…

I think I would stay away from anything called a "loose meat" sandwich. I have to look it up now...

Oh, hm. It's like a sloppy joe without the "sloppy" juice part. I guess.

R227 you've never had a loose-meat sandwich at the Lunch Box in Lanford, Illinois?

R90- For the seafood lover in you!

I'm not sure if this qualifies as Lowbrow it might just be middlebrow.

This

This

What about store-brand generic Stovetop stuffing?

R232- That stuff is lower middle to lowbrow.

R228- I grew up in the Northeast and in the 1970's we called those Sloppy Joes.

Generic Stovetop stuffing is definitely lowbrow. Stovetop stuffing is already lowbrow, IMO.

r234 the difference between "Loose Meat" sandwiches and Sloppy Joes is Loose Meat has no tomato sauce holding it together and Sloppy Joes does.

These- I don't actually like these but I decided to post it anyway.

When I lived in Japan, I used to make "pizza" in my fish cooker / broiler. A thick slice of soft, white bread, pizza sauce in a squeeze bottle, and pre-shredded mozzarella cheese. Very delicious.

They don’t have New York style in Japan?

[quote]Ruffles with ranch sour cream dip

Onion dip made from Lipton onion soup and sour cream - get with the lowbrow program.

Peanut butter.

I suppose booze counts as one of the food groups.

Denaka vodka. This is dirt cheap, usually placed amongst the rot gut cheap ass vodkas in your local liquor stores.

This is actually astonishingly good and smooth. A friend of mine hipped me to this a while back. Apparently Denmark is known for their vodkas. Before inflation started kicking in, I could get a 750ml bottle of it for only $4.99. Now it's currently $5.99, but still a great deal.

This is lowbrow and quite a bit tacky.

[quote] Onion dip made from Lipton onion soup and sour cream - get with the lowbrow program.

The Lipton onion soup dip can be made with either cream cheese or sour cream. Cream cheese is classier. Sour cream is lowbrow, but easier to combine the ingredients.

[quote]Onion dip made from Lipton onion soup and sour cream - get with the lowbrow program.

[quote]The Lipton onion soup dip can be made with either cream cheese or sour cream. Cream cheese is classier. Sour cream is lowbrow, but easier to combine the ingredients.

I stand by my statement - Lipton onion with sour cream.

R245- When I was a kid in the 1970's Campbell's Soup was the most basic. I considered Lipton Soup a notch above Campbell's soup- perhaps in the category of middlebrow. One cold winter day I came home from school and there was nothing to eat in the house- meaning no cookies, or snacks- so I made a packet of Lipton Vegetable soup- it was surprisingly tasty to my 9 year old self- tastier than Campbell's soup in general but what I did not like was that it required more effort to make than a CAN of soup.

Pizza

Hmm ... Campbell's seemed better than Lipton, to me.

I recently bought packets of the Lipton chicken noodle soup, just to try them again. Not something I'd keep in my pantry.

Trash can chicken wings

It seems to me that Lipton packets and Campbell's soups have both been mostly relegated to "ingredient" status in other things, like casseroles, sauces, and dips.

Trader Joe's boxed low sodium tomato soup is better than anything Campbell's makes. But, nothing beats Campbell's cream of mushroom soup in casseroles - according to the various redneck cooking youtube channels.

Obsessed. The pink ones, OMG!

Government cheese.

I absolutely agree about cranberry sauce. Same as the Stovetop. Any out-of-season processed Thanksgiving product is good lowbrow food. Also those crispy fried onions things.

My mother used to bake pork chops in Campbells cream of mushroom. I haven’t had it in probably 25 years, but it was one of my favorites growing up.

Tuna Casserole featuring Campbell's Cream of Mushroom soup, fresh carrots & celery, peas, minced onions, egg noodles, tuna and sprinkled with homemade bread crumbs and parmesan cheese on top, baked until bubbling and crumbs/cheese are crispy on top. It's delicious and has been requested by people so it's not just me who loves it. Even better the next day or frozen for future meals.

There, I finally said it.

When I was a kid in the 1970's I enjoyed Swanson Frozen Chicken Pot Pie once in a while.

R256 We ate Banquet Pot Piess - a couple peas & carrots and a small piece of chicken swimming in gravy. Loved the crust. They were cheap and great! I still buy them, less than a dollar.

R257- Yes- the crust was THE best part.

In the early 1970's I absolutely LOVED this-

Hamburger Helper. Not too long ago, I was sick and my Mom offered to come over and cook for me.

I requested Cheddar Cheese Hamburger Helper. She thought I was crazy, but she made it.

I love it.

R260 - I remember my mother making that in the 1970's when it first came out. We all liked it except for my father who couldn't stand it because it reminded him of the SLOP they served when he was in the Navy.

Strawberry frosted pop tarts. French bread pizza. Saltines with peanut butter and jam.

R184 Wow, I've never even HEARD of that.

Well before HH hit the market, my mother made ‘American chop suey’: ground beef, tomatoes, peppers and elbow macaroni. More of that Depression-era food made for poor kids’ “fun.”

r284 sounds like a UK/British food?

That’s an old New England dish for popes…don’t tell that mouthy Boston “chef.”

^ poors not popes

Sorry, post at r264 was meant for r184.

Deviled ham with crackers.

[quote][R96] what a doll! Thanks for sharing her.

Happy you liked little BeBop's story, R205! I'll make sure I tell my Texas sister about the sweet responses y'all have posted.

Because the bitch refused to call BeBop by her name because she didn't see a black soul patch; she said it looked like a special needs mouthbreather with a slack jaw.

So she called her "Kanye."

A Fray Bentos Steak and Kidney Pie with Idahoan instant mash and lots of gravy. I don’t even bother with vegetables.

I’m not sure it gets much more low brow than that. Except maybe a Pot Noodle.

Men will eat anything

Pinto Beans and Cornbread. Every white trash family grew up with them.

As a kid, we'd make Redneck pizza- White bread with ketchup for sauce, sliced bologna for meat and American cheese sprinkled with Italian Seasoning. Broil until the cheese starts to burn. Yum.

Old lady across street was from WV would grind bologna with American cheese and sweet relish and serve on white bread with mayonnaise.

[quote]Sexy young lady across the river from WV would grind bologna with American cheese and sweet relish and serve on white bread with mayonnaise.

Fixted!

I like French's yellow mustard - a ton of it - on sandwiches (except on Vietnamese sandwiches, which get tons of sriracha).

I like Subway veggie patty (Veggie Max) sandwiches with tons of French's mustard.

Love A-1 sauce on steak.

Food for Peasants in Canada

POUTINE

Tuna in a can?

Unnecessary!

Food for Peasants in Alabama.

POON TANG

R275- I like French's Mustard too.

I love high end mustard like Braswells

There Vidalia Onion Mustard and their Chipotle mustard are FABULOUS

Does Progresso Chicken Noodle soup count as lowbrow? Even if I grate Parmigiano-Reggiano into the bowl first?

[quote] That’s an old New England dish for popes…don’t tell that mouthy Boston “chef.”

Don’t tell me what, R266? Having a bad day?

R150 Cherish my copy of White Trash Cooking. His recipe for fried catfish fillet warns, “ If you serve it with anything else but hush puppies, grits and cole slaw, it'll get up and walk off the plate.”

[quote][R212]: Interesting post. How old was your Dad when he became addicted to corn sugar?

Not sure. Probably during the 1970s, that seemed to be around the time when processed foods become more prevalent.

Also, more married women entered the work force, it was easier to throw a Swanson TV dinner into the oven, than spend time preparing a fresh meal. However, that wasn't the reason my father became addicted to HFCS, as I mentioned, my mom worked and always prepared dinner every night. My siblings and I helped.

Just a reminder for those of you mooning over Swanson TV dinners, it's the family company behind Tucker Carlson.

r217, you dumb cluck, he was responding to your rant at r212 where you assumed everyone listing their favorite lowbrow foods ate them every day like your father did.

It should be noted, though, that the Swanson family sold their frozen dinner business and some other food lines to Campbell's way back in 1955.

And since then, Campbell's sold the frozen food portion to Pinnacle Foods. They retained Swanson broths. Then, Pinnacle went on to sell the frozen dinner business (now Hungry Man) to Conagra, while retaining the Swanson pot business (Canada).

R252 Guvmint cheeze is tha bomb!

Chicken maruchan ramen, digiorno pizza, bagel bites, mac n cheese, hot dogs, cheese puffs

Buffalo wings

Jello

Deviled eggs

Deviled eggs are just old-fashioned…not lowbrow. Eat away, proudly.

Not if they’re stuffed with devils food cake!

Cheez Whiz. I have been known to put a dollop in my Velvetta Cheeseburger dinner.

I love putting Junior Mints in my bowl of Special K.

Just finished my delicious Spaghetti & Meatballs lunch, with "made from SCRATCH MARINARA SAUCE"

or so says Banquet. Anybody jelly?

I'm comfortably full after having a "homemade" burrito consisting of Rosarita refried beans + spanish rice (Near East box mix), Velveeta cheese singles, sour cream, La Victoria salsa, cucumbers and tomatoes.

Nice

r271, what is a Fray Bentos Meaty Pud? Sounds like something I would quite like,

Jimmy Dean's sausage cheese balls. I could easily hoover up one hundred.

Greasy, salty, cheesy, crispy on the outside - what's not to like?

I would live on them but I'd never fit through the doorway.

The kind of thing your parents never allowed.

R297, your burrito sounds good except for the cucumbers. Rosarita beans and La Victoria salsa are not lowbrow, though.

When I was a little kid my mother would make cook frankfurters then chop them into small pieces and mix it with warmed up Heinz baked beans- I liked it then.

I love whipped cheese in aerosol cans.

R302 aka beans and franks

[quote]R108 Fried dough—Only when I read the Grapes of Wrath did I learn it was a Depression-era staple.

That was my mother’s favorite treat that her grandmother would make her when she was baking. She would set a little dough aside, fry it, and serve it with maple syrup.

My mom still talks about it!

R304- The proper phrase is Frank And Beans.

Boiled white brats on a slice of wheat bread with spicy mustard and mesquite BBQ sauce. Three of those plus some potato salad from the grocery store deli. A heavenly meal, as far as I'm concerned.

That’s picnic fare. Picnic food is more rustic than lowbrow. Any mustard other than yellow is middlebrow.

Dirt.

Served best in the late evening, when you’re drunk or stoned.

Pork Rinds

When I was a kid I preferred Lipton chicken noodle soup to Campbell’s because it didn’t have those gamy little red stringy yet tough chunks of gristle. Gag!

[quote]When I was a kid I preferred Lipton chicken noodle soup to Campbell’s because it didn’t have those gamy little red stringy yet tough chunks of gristle. Gag!

You've gagged on worse things in your mouth.

Sardines, best eaten right out of the can with a fork, with a few Ritz or Townhouse crackers on the side.

There’s always Puttanesca, the original lowbrow dish.

R314, my old roommate used to eat that. He was a college professor. He added sliced, raw onion, though. I forgot what kind of crackers he used. Nothing fancy, though.

R314, I originally read it as "Sadness" instead of Sardines.

R311 Golden Flake Louisiana Hot Sauce flavored Pork Rinds.

R315 Interesting choice.

My fave comes on a shingle!

[quote] scrambled eggs with cut up hot dogs

WTF?

^ Doesn't sound too different from scrambled eggs and SPAM.

I’ve been to top dog a few times late night but it’s quite disappointing. Mission bacon wrapped dogs are better!

Cap'n Crunch, the original.

Peanut Butter Capt. Crunch is so much better! If you eat it dry it scraps off the roof of your mouth.

R244, nuke the cream cheese until it’s soft enough to stir, then add the soup mix and chill. However, the result will be much too stiff to dip chips in. You’ll have to spread it on crackers, which is somewhat less lowbrow. To make a dip, you’d have to add some milk (or, better, buttermilk) to the mixture before you chill it. Or just use sour cream …

Speaking of cream cheese: Cream cheese and olive spread. Nuke cream cheese, add chopped green olives with pimentos. Add a little pepper if you want. Chill. Delicious.

If you enjoy pretending to be a 1960s housewife – and who doesn’t? – you can serve it on celery stalks, which you will call “celery boats”. Be sure to press the mix right down into the “boat” and smooth the top.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned canned baked beans. I like Bush's Country Style, to which I add plenty of ketchup. I'll eat them cold if the mood strikes me. (But not straight out of the can. That would be trashy. *wink*)

Has anyone mentioned that Southern sacrament called Pimento Cheese?

What the fuck is it?

Cheese and mayonnaise! And pimento bits.

I USED to like those Sabrett's hot dogs from the cart in NYC ca. 1980 when I was a kid with those onions they served and mustard of course.

Fried chicken gizzards.

Slow cooked turkey necks with French onion soup mix on top of rice. Turkey necks are so dirt cheap at the farmers market and any Asian market.

Crumbled potato chips in a bowl mixed with ranch dip or dressing eaten with a spoon.

No muss no fuss.

R333, what's wrong with keeping your chips intact and dipping?

They often don't stay intact - they break in the bowl when I dip them, then I have to fish them out.

To avoid to unavoidable double-dipping!

r324 and r325 we used to call it Cap'n Razor Blades because if it didn't get soggy enough it would tear up your mouth.

R335, sounds like you're using some weak chips and hard dips. I use Ruffles.

low brow horse duvers.

The fancy whore's ovaries are the best part of a party!!

A bowl of crushed graham crackers covered in milk.

I'll have what r340 is having!

My students rave about Dino Buddies (which they call "dino nuggies")d. I don't like chicken really, but if I did, or if I were a kid, I think I'd also be obsessed with them.

Beanee Weenees in the little cans.

One of the few things I can think of to take to the hospital (yeah my mother's 93 so that's my lot in life) when I don't know how long I'll be stuck there. Anyway, just pop the lid, take small spoon, and enjoy. And if you don't need them, they keep till next time.

Moon Pies.

Pepperidge Farm Coconut Cake. I like it cold, not totally thawed.

Coffee Mate Italian Sweet Creme coffee creamer. It's garbage, just a bunch of oils and chemicals but I love it.

R344 Reminds me of the time when I worked in an office where a couple times each year there'd be a department potluck.

My boss was a really nice woman, one of the best managers I ever had, BUT really REALLY lowbrow.

My assistant and I would always joke about what we thought "Wanda" would bring this time.

One time, she actually made her potluck dish at work. She opened six large cans of Van Camp Pork & Beans, put them in a crock pot, then sliced up a 10-pack of Oscar Mayer wieners and stirred them in. A couple hours later she brought out her crock pot of beanie weenies that had been heating in her office.

At the next pollock, she really went all out and brought in three large bags of those pre-cut "petite carrots" and poured them in a bowl.

Shouldn't this thread be about "low rent" or "tacky" foods. Or "low class" or "trashy"?

"Lowbrow" doesn't seem to be a good adjective to describe food.

Everyone has understood the point, but just saying.

It’s a little late for that, isn’t it?

Yeah I know.

Giant cans of flavored popcorn.

I lurv the white trash sandwich from the White Trash Cookbook..White bread with a big ripe fresh sliced tomato from the garden, smothered in mayo …dripping, eaten over the kitchen sink…

Oh my god there's nothing better than that R351 - though I've switched to sourdough bread because I think its glycemic index is lower.

A friend of mine had a very gross stepfather - he would smear lard on white bread, add thick slices of onion, and eat his lard-and-onion sandwiches. (I don't think he heated the lard - but you know, if he did, I think it would taste rather good.)

Beans on toast - protein, fiber, and tasty too!.

I also like the Hormel Compleats line of shelf-stable (no need to refridgerate) meals, especially the Pot Roast and the Spaghetti, but they have a lot of sodium, and I don't eat them too often.

What is the average weight of the posters in this thread, 300 pounds?

Oh I love the Hormel Compleats too! My favorite is meatloaf and mashed potatoes. Chef's kiss!

I love a black bean burrito with cheese.

In fact, I enjoy black beans served many ways.

Sometimes for parties, I drain black beans, mix them with Rotel diced tomatoes, and a cover with a generous portion of Feta cheese - and serve it as a dip with pita bread or crackers.

Delicious poutine makes me think of another Quebecois favorite dish - Croque Monsieur

I like the kitzchy goodness of Montreal's Swiss Chalet restaurants.

For those who like french bread pizza, I've made this and it's delicious.

Montreal Stripper uncut cock

R271 I remember eating those Fray Bentos pies & Puds at my uncle's. He couldn't cook, and we'd bring them camping every so often. They're no longer the same quality really.

As per the legend, they were once made with horse, and Elk at times, whichever was cheaper, and after crackdowns in food labelling, the meat seemed to disappear over time. They never had much to begin with, and some were certainly better than others, but they're all gravy now. The crust was the best part of those pies really. It was a Phyllo type pastry, and the underside was a certain soggy deliciousness!

Steak & Kidney, or Steak & Ale were my favourites. There was a chicken pie that seemed harder to come by, but that was good as well if you could find them.

R351, that's not trashy, that's just good eatin'!

A perfectly ripe homegrown tomato, sliced thick and salted, between two slices of sandwich bread with plenty of mayo ... mmm mmm good. A real late-summer treat.

Any bread will do for me except sourdough (which I don't like the taste of), but Pepperidge Farm sandwich white is really the best for this one.

Armour’s corned beef hash.

Fried bologna sandwich

R364- What about fried bologna with eggs.

Oooo yeah baby - with a friend egg on top, over easy, with a side of biscuits (made from canned of course)

* Oh I meant on top of the canned corned beef hash.

[a Cartman's dammit about screwing up my post, as usual....]

^In your defense, bologna would also be a good choice

I wish Oscar Mayer hadn’t started adding chicken to their bologna. It’s disgusting.

When I was a kid I ❤️‘d

Jello Brand Pistachio Pudding.

[QUOTE] I wish Oscar Mayer hadn’t started adding chicken to their bologna. It’s disgusting.

Ewww.

I haven’t eaten bologna in years but if I did I’d buy Hebrew National.

American cheese. Not the kind with individual slices wrapped in plastic kind but the kind they slice for you at the deli. Mostly for grilled cheese, or a bacon, egg & cheese.

R362. It is good eating, but I actually did get the recipe from the White Trash Cookbook mentioned earlier in the thread. I took that book out of my local library in the 90s, and that was the only recipe I tried.

We ate those all summer long in New Jersey, r372 r362. I didn't always bother with the bread. And sometimes, no mayo. But this is one of the best reasons for the existence of mayo.

[quote]But this is one of the best reasons for the existence of mayo.

Indeed, R373. I always say, if you have tomatoes and mayo, then you have a salad, even if you have nothing else to put in the salad. Homegrown tomatoes are best, but for most of the year I like Campari "cocktail tomatoes". I find them richer and more full of flavor than anything else in the supermarket out of season.

R372, I get it, but I think the book is wrong. Perhaps, because they eat these sandwiches in trailer parks and the like, they imagine it's trashy food, but actually people of all classes eat simple but perfect tomato sandwiches when tomatoes are in season.

The White Trash Cookbook is not about trashy people, it’s an art book. It is not exploitative.

Sorry, I meant White Trash Cooking.

One of my favorite cookbooks is The You've Had Worse Things In Your Mouth Cookbook (1985).

[quote]One of my favorite cookbooks is The You've Had Worse Things In Your Mouth Cookbook (1985).

Yes, one of my favorite cookbook titles.

The other is "First, You Take a Leek."

I like to eat spoonfuls of Chiffon Margarine.

My mother’s entire food repertoire could be called “poor food.” A soup made with diced onion and potatoes with egg dumplings. The broth was water. Meatballs with a tomato sauce made from ketchup served over mashed potatoes. Chopped hot dogs served with canned beans, beanie weenie.

I'm not sure this fully qualifies, but although I prepare lots of "good" vegetables - asparagus, greens of all types, peppers, broccoli, zucchini, tomatoes, and on and on. .....I have a soft spot for those bags of frozen mixed vegetables, (peas, carrots, corn, and green beans) and they are my go to vegetables for homemade fried rice, to put in soups, like the pot roast soup I made tonight out of my leftover pot roast, and if I'm in the mood, if have some leftover, I'll just eat them cold from the storage container. When I was a child, the mix was corn, peas, carrots, LIMA BEANS, and green beans, but I notice that they just don't even seem to sell mixes with lima beans anymore. Too many found stuffed into crevices in kitchen tables and planters over the years, I suppose. I don't imagine there's very much nutritional value in those mixes, but I find the taste and texture of them appealing, However, I don't ever serve them to guests at a dinner party. Too lowbrow, which is how they ended up in this thread.

Mary Kitchen Corned Beef Hash with a fried egg.

[quote] She opened six large cans of Van Camp Pork & Beans, put them in a crock pot, then sliced up a 10-pack of Oscar Mayer wieners and stirred them in. A couple hours later she brought out her crock pot of beanie weenies that had been heating in her office.

Jesus this sounds delicious.

R382 I use the frozen mixed veg as you do, sometimes I add to quick curries as well. If you're missing the Lima beans, the 365 brand has them included.

R382, have you tried your local farmers' market? The ones that feature a refrigerated section? Usually if I can't find mixed veg with lima beans in the regular supermarkets, I can get them at fresh produce stands.

I don't know where you live, R282, but I'm in the Gulf Coast region where every Black or White person of a certain age either knows how to cook this dish or knows 5-10 people who do: Smothered okra with (sometimes sausage), shrimp, corn, tomatoes, and lima beans. It's so popular here (it's considered "soul food" or "Creole cooking,"), many markets actually add lima beans to their "gumbo vegetables." And if I can't find the blend, I just buy the individual bags of limas, okra, corn and bell peppers.

Off top of my head Pictsweet makes a very nice mixed veg with limas. Kept in the frozen veg aisle.

^^Sorry, meant R381.^^

Generic brand spaghettios are a staple at our local food pantry. It’s something the single white guys put in their carts. The clients who are foreign born women don’t bother with it. They buy for their families.

r379=Gloria Petrillo

Cool Whip.

Minge

Hostess snacks you remember as a kid are long gone. The company has been sold and resold and changing the recipes to cut costs.

Suzy-Q's taste like chemicals now.

The closest thing to the Twinkie flavor of your youth is the white-cream filled glazed donut at Krispy Kreme with the white squiggle

OP, I love this thread - thank you.

Frozen vegetables are very nutritious. Just use them soon - don't leave them in your freezer for months. This info comes straight from my Nutrition Science professor at a major university. Often vegetables are frozen soon after harvest. And sometimes the "fresh" vegetables are weirdly everlasting - such as I have recently noticed with cherry tomatoes. They are frankenfood.

Sometimes I drive my Rolls Royce to McDonalds and get a Super-sized combo meal that I eat...

while I force my rebellious daughter Princess Stéphanie to eat the leftover scrapple!

Since we're talking about frozen vegetables: Easy succotash. Frozen corn. Frozen limas. Chopped up microwave bacon. Plenty of S&P. Plenty of butter, just enough water. Wonderful. The cooking liquid ends up being as good as the vegetables.

Chef Boy R Dee beef ravioli…I love it

Backyard snow.

Bacon in succotash? Hogs/pigs are native to America.

R391- I miss the aluminum foil they were wrapped in.

Yodels and Ring Dings also had that foil wrapping.

R22- You can’t eat them raw.

They are fully baked when you buy them in the supermarket or the CVS.

I can eat a whole can of French’s fried onion rings. The large size.

Just half a handful is 10x too much

I like the mini ravioli (Chef Boyardee). There is or used to be a cheese ravioli that I’d rather have, but it’s hard to find.

Fried Spam and cubed potatoes with lots of Cheddar melted in the mix.

Boiled peanuts. Mmmmm

Virginia Slims

Hamburger helper tuna helper

Shit and salad sandwich.

I don’t know if it’s low brow or not, but nothing makes me happier then an ice cold glass of Fresca!

Do you guys think ordering a thirty-pack of King Sized Nut Rolls on amazon is lowbrow?

Whatever happened to those logs from Stuckies? I guess all gas station food no matter how specialized is lowbrow.

R411 I miss those! They featured quite prominently in my childhood. We'd take these long road trips, and it was always a treat to pull over at a Stuckey's and load up on those logs.

R410- Lowbrow or not- those look good.

I buy microwave cups of Minute Rice.

[quote] Not too long ago, I was sick and my Mom offered to come over and cook for me.

What a sweet mom!

Meatloaf.

My secret is I use fresh tomatoes, never canned, and to give it that extra zip, I mix in a little Spam with the ground beef.

I loved Charleston Chews but haven't seen them in years.

You can get them in three flavors R417 at Mr. Ed’s Elephant Museum and Candy Emporium, probably also at Dylan’s Candy Bar in NYC at Calvin’s daughter’s store.

r418 Or, like normal people, at Amazon.

^^^ Only 6 left in stock - order soon!

But Mr. Ed’s really needs the business! Especially during winter when the Gettysburg tourists aren’t traveling through as much! Support small businesses!

Fish Sticks and Tater Tots

Spam and Egg Salad

Corn Dogs

R410- Aren't those basically the same thing as Paydays.

Paydays are similar but are flattened and have more of a caramel center with less fluffy nougat R423

Mozzarella sticks with Ranch dressing. But, in my defense, they are both homemade..

Stouffers Mac and cheese with cranberry sauce…I’ll mix it right in the Mac

Sweet , tart and salty

^ What color does that become?

R425, I don't know if this is comforting or disappointing, but pretty much any dish you make from scratch is exempt from being lowbrow. Homemade mozz sticks sound amazing, by the way. Do you take string cheese sticks and bread them as you would a cutlet? Do you have to deep fry them, or can you pan fry in plenty of oil?

Are you really making ranch dressing from scratch, or by "homemade" do you mean that you mix up Hidden Valley Ranch mix according to package directions, with your very own own milk and mayo? I think that kind of "homemade" ranch dressing is much tastier than the bottled kind, although not as good as when it was made with buttermilk, as the instructions used to say.

283 when u and ur siblings helped was it Shake and Bake chicken ?

r283

Cheesy Gordita Crunch Lucky Charms Kool Aid Frito Chili Pie Tombstone Frozen Pizzas

R428. I’m a fat, lazy whore, so I get my mozzarella sticks from s local restaurant. I do know they cut their cheese sticks from big blocks of mozzarella, so they are nice and thick. And, of course, they are deep fried.

I know they use buttermilk in all their dressings, so the Ranch is savory and not too runny.

R279, calling Braswell's Mustard "high end" is like calling White Castles the blue ribbon of hamburgers.

Even if they do sell it at World Market.

Fried Bologna sandwich with Duke's mayo on lightly-toasted Mrs Baird's white bread and shredded iceberg lettuce.

Mac & cheese with catsup.

[quote]Cheesy Gordita Crunch Lucky Charms Kool Aid Frito Chili Pie Tombstone Frozen Pizzas

Please tell me that's not one dish.

r436 It's barely even a light snack.

So, where can I buy Archway cookies? My three local supermarkets no longer carry this brand. Costco doesn't carry these cookies either.

Amazon has them, R438.

I always see a small selection of Archway cookies around Christmas.

Fishsticks and spaghetti..the sauce HAS to be Ragu with that combo

Starry soda

This beer calls itself lowbrow!

Löwenbräu

Gays make the best dinner party guests.

They'll show up on time, tell cute stories, clean up after themselves, and you don't have to worry about what you cook - Gay men will put ANYTHING in their mouths!

[quote]Fishsticks and spaghetti..the sauce HAS to be Ragu with that combo

R441 At first, I thought this was a wierd combination but fishsticks, spaghetti, and Alfredo sauce doesn't sound bad. I might try it.

My local store had xmas Archway cookies. The pkgs were much smaller than they used to be and the price was much higher.

Speaking of cookies, I have a memory of a packaged cookie (80s) that was glazed with some kind of hard, opaque white glaze and had a vaguely spiced/Christmassy flavour (the cookie not the glaze, and they were not a holiday item). They were round and had some sort of swirl pattern baked into the top. Wtf were these? They can't have been anything high end because my parents wouldn't have bought them.

I’m putting in an emergency Greg light, for Greg to show up with recipes for butter cookies/spritzen.

and Shortbread.

R447, those sound like Archway cookies. They had a lot of different cookies of that type. Oatmeal, molasses, etc. And in those days, Archway cookies were among the cheapest and you got a lot of them for the money.

I love the Archway Cashew Nougat cookies, but you can only find them around the holidays.

All this cookie talk brought back a childhood memory of being a poor; my dad would buy broken cookies for us from the Johnson Cookie Company.

[quote]Speaking of cookies, I have a memory of a packaged cookie (80s) that was glazed with some kind of hard, opaque white glaze and had a vaguely spiced/Christmassy flavour

Found it

Or at least found something "like" it. I think the one's you're talking about might be a different brand but same idea.

Sounds more like Pfeffernusse to me.

It's scary how many foods listed already are my guilty pleasures too. Luckily, I really like fruits and vegetables.

If spam didn't have its down sides, I would be eating it several times a week. I keep a couple of cans on hand for the apocalypse but invariably I go through and they have to be replaced. I tell myself it's so as to not go past by sell by date.

[quote]Speaking of cookies, I have a memory of a packaged cookie (80s) that was glazed with some kind of hard, opaque white glaze and had a vaguely spiced/Christmassy flavour

Pfeffernusse. They have them at Aldi at Christmas. Cost Plus World Market, too.

Oh my fuck R53. Those are the cookies. I knew as soon as I saw the French and English on the box (should have mentioned I am in Canada, my description was a bit crap and I apologize for that).

The Amazon.ca reviews are full of Canadians talking about eating these as kids during the 80s/90s so yep, these are the cookies. What a strange feeling, the memory was so vague, I could barely picture them in my mind, definitely would have been entirely forgotten if not for this thread. And now here they are again. Thank you so much for posting!

For such a cheap ass cookie brand Dare sure did make a few classics. These 'danish' cookies were better than they had any right to be, and the maple creams are a weakness to this day.

Again, THANK YOU. (and thank you to others who posted for trying! I've never tried the other kinds posted here, maybe I should?)

Sorry, R453, not R53. I'm R447.

I was going to say you could try making your own, r458, but then I got as far as photo(s) #5.

After seeing the one on the right, of the fully rolled-up dough, I think every cookie-sniffer on DL will try a batch.

I'm not saying I wouldn't destroy a few of those, R460 but the Dare cookies are not something I imagine being re-creatable at home. They were super store-bought in texture and glaze. Very hard/crunchy.

I do love baking, though, so am adding that recipe at the link to my list. Thanks. :)

I love this broccoli casserole made with frozen broccoli, chicken stock, minute rice, & Velveeta.

I kind of want to upgrade R462’s casserole with cheddar. Would that be middlebrow of me?

Back in college I used to make a casserole with three kinds of frozen green vegetables, Velveeta, and bread crumbs.

Honey Baked Ham.

[quote] I kind of want to upgrade [R462]’s casserole with cheddar. Would that be middlebrow of me?

That would be better than Velveeta, but I'm afraid it would still be Neanderthal-brow of you.

You can't escape the minute rice and frozen broccoli, R463.

Honey baked ham is not cheap.

They are called Zimstern.

I really liked this as a kid. It was discontinued many years ago.

Back when you could get a meal in economy class, I enjoyed airline meals. Not the salad, but the beef or whatever hot entree they'd serve. The roll and butter. It was a novelty, to me.

MREs!

R468, right. Honey-Baked Ham is expensive. I think it's more middlebrow, not just because of the cost but because it's actual ham rather than a processed food product.

R463, I think you would find that cheddar, by itself, would not melt smoothly enough for the casserole to work. You'd have to make cheese sauce rather than using the cheddar alone. That's still lowbrow, though, because of the Minute Rice, as R467 said.

Grilled cheese is best made with American cheese.

I like grilled cheese best with extra sharp cheddar because of th zing -- but when I make a cold sandwich with cheese, I only want American cheese because of the texture and 'mouth feel'. It's so creamy and just melt into the ham or bologna or whatever, which is delicious imo, and with other cheeses I have to heat the sandwich to make it taste good.

R475 Swiss cheese is best with ham. It's nice and creamy.

This is not a Lowbrow food, but my favorite melting cheese is Fontina.

[quote] Gay men will put ANYTHING in their mouths!

Perhaps, but we won't necessarily swallow it.

Nilla wafers

Haven’t had it in years but I have fond memories of Dinty Moore Beef Stew over biscuits on a cold day.

Sun chips.

Mmmm Sun chips

Ass.

Instant banana pudding and Nilla Wagers.

Funyuns.

Chili cheese Fritos. I never buy them, because I can eat the whole bag.

Ice cream sandwiches

What's lowbrow about ice cream sandwiches? Too rich for me when I was a poor.

Store brand ice cream sandwiches are pretty cheap.

Fat Boy makes a good ice cream sandwich. The Whole Foods store brand ice cream sandwiches are good, also.

Peanut butter and butter sandwich. I loved that as a kid. I loved real butter or margarine. Peanut butter and sliced dill/sour pickles sandwich. The pickles have to be Claussen and the peanut butter, Smuckers creamy. I'll have pizza once a month and ice cream or milkshakes once in a while in warmer weather. I love Reese's peanut butter cups, candy corn and Cadbury eggs during the holidays. A good egg nog around Christmas...have to get my fix.

R491 I sometimes put peanut butter and butter on saltines. Usually I have peanut butter, butter, jam and/or honey, and alternate between various combinations of these on saltines.

Crystal Light peach iced tea. I can't drink it anymore, though.

I put PB and jam on saltines too, R492. A real hit of childhood nostalgia. Also love PB and banana sandwiches.

[quote] Ass.

Beg to differ about the lowbrow part.

Why can’t you, R493 ?

Schickhouse bologna with Swiss cheese on white with mayo

Water

R490 Fat Boy is tha bomb! They are the best sammies on the market.

Oreo brand ice-cream sandwiches: highbrow. You gotta be a billionaire to afford those things. Also, they are fucking delicious.

Store brand rectangular ice-cream sandwiches: looooow brow.

If Oreo is highbrow, what's Coolhaus?

Coolhaus Hand Luke would be prison food I guess.

"Sammies" is frauspeak, R499. We never use it on DL, not even "ironically."

The Ladies of Michfest love Stuckey's Nut Logs.

It's the secret ingredient in their Nutloaf.

[bold] COOL HAUS FRAUS

I've never heard "sammies" used in the US before.

I tried to Google it to see if it was used in some region I'm unfamiliar with and found this on quora:

"Sammie, the shortened form of sandwich, is common in Australia and a bit less so in New Zealand. Aussies like to shorten everything with this -ie suffix. I haven’t heard it in America, personally."

In the UK, I've hard "sarnie"

Has anyone heard it used commonly in the US?

Carmela Soprano once asked Meadow if she wanted a “tuna san.” That is the only abbreviation for sandwich I have ever heard.

I hear "sammy" for sandwich a lot. Or sammich.

California here, also lived in NY for awhile.

[quote]I hear "sammy" for sandwich a lot. Or sammich.

I always thought it was supposed to be a cutesy-poo approximation of the way a small child might say "sandwich" (as "sammich" or "sammie"), something that makes me despise it even more than other examples of frauspeak, such as the now-ubiquitous "veggies."

Crystal Pepsi

I've only ever heard Americans use, "sammie." Aussies/Kiwis I've known called them "sandos." I don't really give a fuck what people call them as long as I can eat them all.

I was being sarcastic, R501. The Oreo ice-cream sandwiches are obviously NOT highbrow, but they're the kind of hellishly expensive name-branded item I would have considered way out of reach as a kid. They are child-highbrow.

I don't even like Oreo cookies or cookies n cream flavoured things...except those fucking Oreo ice-cream sandwiches. There's something about the texture of them, so soft and inhale-able.

The cuntiest (okay, most irrational) thing I ever did was cross out the last letter of "sando" on a bunch of signs and write "wich."

Worse, it was during the craziest part of the pandemic and the sandwiches had been donated by a local restaurant.

Worst of all, each sign had a very nice handwritten thank-you note from one of the restaurant's employees, and some even had little drawings by their kids.

When I went back hours later, an even bigger cunt had drawn a heart around each "wich" and had written "marry me?" on the last one.

Sando is even more twee than sammie.

R491...Peanut butter mixed with some honey is a good combo.

"Sammies" sounds too much like Rachael Ray, who also says EVOO and "delish"...."yummo!"...

Rachael Ray definitely has been using "sammies" for years. She also likes "stoup" (thicker than soup; thinner than stew), "choup" (chowder/soup), "yumm-o," and "spoonula."

RRisms....yuck-O...^^

Egg toast, where you cut a hole in a slice of bread and cook an egg in it.

Underwood Deviled Ham on Wonder bread, with a side of Lay's potato chips.

^^Underwood Deviled Ham is not cheap.

Cowboy caviar

Baked beans on toast.

In the late 80s in NYC, I had a coworker who was the late 80s version of a hipster. She called sandwiches sammies.

Deviled ham may not be cheap but it’s canned meat, which is lowbrow, no two ways about it.

[quote]Deviled ham may not be cheap but it’s canned meat, which is lowbrow, no two ways about it.

But we love our Spam!

Peanut M&Ms added to salty, buttery popcorn

[quote] Egg toast, where you cut a hole in a slice of bread and cook an egg in it.

I loved this as a kid. We called it an egg in a nest.

^^sometimes called Toad in a Hole, but that also refers to eggs/sausage in the middle of yorkshire pudding. I've never tried to make yorkshire pudding. Maybe i'll put that on a future menu to try.

Chipped beef on toast

Short ribs, pasta fagioli, peanut butter.

Thanks to this thread I’ve been researching how to make biscuits and sausage gravy. I’ve only ate it once and it was not that memorable. Maybe it wasn’t made well. I decided to make it tomorrow night for dinner. I’m going to use Jimmy Dean hot sausage and Pillsbury buttermilk southern biscuits. I will serve it with eggs and maybe bacon. Wish me luck!!

Holy shit sausage and biscuits AND eggs and bacon....can I have your stuff R532?

R531 last time I checked, short ribs are 1) delicious and 2) expensive to buy (in the market or in restaurants). Every time I've looked at them over in the grocery store the past 4 years they've been fucking outrageous to buy.

I'm the poster above who mentioned yorkshire pudding and my mom, ONCE IN A VERY GREAT WHILE, would make us short ribs and yorkshire pudding. They were soooo melt-in-your-mouth delicious. Good memories, Mom.

Creamed tuna on toast. (White sauce, canned tuna, toasted soft white bread.)

I don't consider toad-in-the-hole lowbrow.

R530=Rose Nylund

r529 Yorkshire Pudding, known on this side of the Pond as popovers, couldn't be simpler. All you have to do is remember 1-1-2-1/2( 1 cup of milk-1 cup of flour-2 eggs-1/2 tsp. salt)

r532 For great sausage gravy use evaporated milk instead of whole. Fry, smash and crumble the sausage, blot up or drain off all excess fat(there'll be enough left clinging to the sausage so you can make a roux)

Sprinkle in 1 Tbsp. of flour per lb of sausage, cook for one minute, stirring to coat the meat with the flour.

Pour in one can of evaporated milk, plus a little water to wash out the can(I think they're down to 14 fl.oz. now) for each pound of sausage used, bring to a boil and then simmer for a few minutes to thicken(you can add a little water if desired should it get too thick)

Season with sage, black pepper, Tabasco and Worcestershire sauces( I sometimes add bay leaves, paprika and nutmeg) I've never used Jimmy Dean bulk sausage, Bob Evans is pretty good though. Great over biscuits, rye toast, English muffins, popovers, croissants, I enjoy it on mashed potatoes. Makes a unique filling for an omelet too.

Leftovers, as if ....., cold, make a tasty sandwich on potato rolls.

R537 thanks for the tips! The recipes that I have seen on the YouTubes add 1/3 cup of flour for 1 pound of sausage. Also they do not blot away any grease. What does the evaporated milk do?

Also, if I’m planning this for dinner, should I serve this with anything else besides the biscuits and sausage gravy? Thank you.

Is this the recipe to make the doggie treats Snausages?

I am not American and was skeptical, to say the least, about sausage gravy. It looks like cat barf. Within seconds of putting it in my mouth during a trip to the US, though, I knew and accepted in my heart that I was very wrong. One of the most delicious things I've ever eaten, so bad for you but so, sooooo good.

I like the suggestion of evaporated milk (you need a dairy element to make it creamy, I assume evap milk just makes it creamier) and also assume that the higher quality sausage you use the better it will be.

r538 If you use that much flour you'll have to add so much milk and/or water in order to thin out the roux. You'll also wind up with a LOT of gravy in proportion to the amount of meat in the skillet. One tablespoon works well for me, the gravy is easily ladled out yet dense enough as to be meat-ily satisfying.

Scrambled eggs are a great go-with. If you want a vegetable on the side I'd suggest stewed tomatoes(canned are just fine, reduce the liquid from the can in a skillet until it's a thick paste, then add butter, S&P and the tomatoes you had drained THOROUGHLY) Heat through. Tomatoes done this way are unctuous and tasty. I'd also say creamed spinach, but that would be painting the lily. Sautéed maybe? Coffee as a beverage, or tomato juice(my #1 choice, spiced up if your gravy is on the mild side)

Evaporated milk DOES make it creamy since so much of the water(approx. 60%) has been removed.

r540 Recently saw a video of British schoolboys trying American foods for the first time. When served the sausage gravy they were very hesitant initially, but after tasting it they thoroughly enjoyed it. Never judge a book by its cover, or a food at first glance.

Popovers and Yorkshire Pudding aren't really the same thing.

In your sausage gravy, don't forget: cracked black pepper.

Salmon cakes, pickled asparagus, chicken thighs.

Pretzels dipped in ice cream.

Butter with preserves on toasted whole what bread seemed like an odd combo, not sure if that combo was lowbrow.

Ironically, I'd never had that combo until, as a teen, I stayed at a rich friends family's Summer house for a week. I had whole wheat bread before, my mom was a health freak, but butter with preserves?!

R541 thanks for your input! I appreciate it! I’m probably going to make a half recipe tomorrow just to test it. And I found some evaporated milk, so I will try that as well.

Jam on buttered toast is weird, R546? Do you live on Pluto?

Maybe they *watch* PlutoTV and only get their food from GoPuffIt!

[quote] Do you live on Pluto?

No, Uranus.

The Quiznos in the Aruba airport has a sammies section. Is that chain wide?

As a kid I loved the egg rolls in the vending machines in the Canadian maritimes.

R541 I made the biscuits and sausage gravy for dinner tonight. It was really good! I unfortunately did not use the evaporated milk because mine had expired three years ago. So I used 3 tablespoons of flour and 1 1/2 cups of milk for 8 ounces of sausage. Definitely making this again!

R552 Your 3 year old expired milk reminded me of my 18 month old eggs I found in the back of the refrigerator. We both need to clean out our refrigerators more often.

Are sammies the same as sarnies? How about butties?

R554 = Sammie Davis Jr.

R552 — I’ve used expired evaporated milk before to make fudge. I think mine was two years. It was fine. No difference at all.

r552 Glad you enjoyed them. Do we have another convert for B&G?

Now on to SOS, which can be made with chipped, air-dried beef or fresh ground beef.

I prefer Navy SOS, aka Minced Beef on Toast. Made with diced tomatoes instead of evaporated milk.

[quote]Oh and Little Debbie snack cakes.

I used to love LDs - Nutty Buddies were my favorite, but I tasted on recently & it was like it was made of wax. Ugh!

Another vote for old school Kraft Macaroni & Cheese. When I'm sick, it makes me feel better even though it's actually pretty terrible.

R552 here…

R553 I clean out my refrigerator every week the night before trash pickup. It’s my pantry that’s always a struggle!

R556 from my research two years was about the cut off date. I still opened it up and tasted it. It tasted fine but it looked lumpy. Like the evaporated milk started congealing on the sides of the can. I didn’t wanna risk it so I chucked it.

Yes R557 I am converted! So is my partner who wasn’t going to have any of my B&SG and ended up eating half of it!

R559 I too was a Nutty Buddy fan. I purchased some a year ago and they were just OK. Maybe they tasted better to me when I was a kid. Now when I get the craving I buy Reese’s Sticks! Dem are pretty tasty!

I wouldn't want to chance it with an expired dairy product that changed consistency. Aside from the health risks, you're using other good ingredients (sausage) and you don't want to ruin your entire dish.

I don't know how anybody eats those Little Debbie's cakes. I grew up with none of that shit - snackcakes, cookies, etc. Ok, occasionally we were allowed a Lorna Doone or two and Honey Maid graham crackers from time to time, but we were poor and didn't get processed food, except on a rare occasion when my parents had a little extra money.

My first live in relationship was with a guy who was raised on very white-bread type food (bologna sandwich with mayo, snack cake and apple for lunch) and he liked those, so we began keeping those in the house. It didn't matter what kind they were, they all tasted the same to me: fake and like shit. Even the consistency was weirdly fake as well.

However, Ding Dongs did taste good to me way back when. All of those Hostess things have changed from what I have heard though. Mod Pizza has a "No-name" cake though that is like a ding dong, and on the very rare occasion I eat there, I do get one of those to enjoy. I usually eat it in halves though (not all at once).

R560, yes, the pantry is the problem. I clean out the refrigerator weekly as I make my shopping list. That's how I know to buy eggs, milk, sour cream, etc., because I don't use these things up in the course of a week. The pantry, on the other hand ...

BTW, you have convinced me to try B&SG. I actually have (non-expired) evaporated milk on hand, but I think I'll go with regular milk for the cream gravy because I think the sausage will add enough fat and heaviness by itself.

Regarding the need for pepper, do you only use black pepper? I think white pepper would be really nice in this dish.

Confession....I stocked my pantry full at the start of covid and now I have tons of expired food. I don't think I can donate expired food to a food bank and I'm super uptight with expired food.

r563 I am a big black pepper fan, I purchase them by the pound, but also like white pepper. I have several mills in my kitchen, filled with black, white and green peppercorns. In my shoulder bag that is always with me when I am out and about doing errands I keep a small mill with all 3 peppercorns, just in case I wind up going out for lunch(some places do have pepper mills, but most don't)

Be aware of those things called 'pink peppercorns.' They are not true pepper but the fruit/berry of various shrubs and are usually included in peppercorn mixtures, I think just for color sake, although they do provide some flavor. Turns out some people(usually those who are sensitive to tree nuts) are allergic to them, so a word to the wise is sufficient

If I had to limit myself to just one spice, it would be pepper. It's perfect all round for savory as well as for some sweet dishes and also for baking. Wherever you need a little zing to tantalize your tastebuds, pepper does the job.

Pigs in Blankets

Dry onion soup mix in hamburgers

Coke Zero

I am here for your SOS recipe, Bronzie! I have made sausage gravy many times at home now, but SOS has always sort of mystified me. I've seen photos and it looks delicious (in the same cat barfy way the sausage gravy does) but I don't understand what that, well, chipped-looking beef is or how to achieve it.

That reminds me of another lowbrow treat - creamed chipped beef, or shit on a shingle as it's also known

Frozen pot pies.

Love Little Debbie Donut Sticks. Great with coffee. I buy them, eat a couple and then bring the rest to work.

R544, I hardly would consider chicken thighs lowbrow.

I bought some Little Debbie donut sticks last year and was happy to find them since I loved them many years ago but they just didn’t seem the same. They looked the same but had a weird chemical taste. Ended up pitching them.

R572 I wolf them down when I drink my coffee, so they taste good to me that way.

r540/r567 The chipped(meaning sliced so thinly as to be ALMOST shredded) beef you buy is actually cuts of meat, seasoned and preserved( with the usual suspects, plenty of salt and some sort of nitrites and nitrates, in order to retain color and keep nasty bacteria from getting a foothold) then air dried(similar to how prosciutto is made) meaning this stuff is not cooked until YOU cook it. It always has a sort of liver-ish red/dark pink color.

BITD you could buy the air-dried beef at deli counters in my area(Philly and environs always had a taste for chipped beef, what with the Amish influence and all the guys who "fondly" remembered it from being in the military), it was THAT much of a popular item(hasn't been available that way in a long time though) I haven't looked lately but a few companies used to sell it, packaged in small glass jars, usually about 3 or 4 oz. you don't need much at a time because the white sauce you make is the bulk of what you're cooking. If you're running a diner, luncheonette or any place that serves breakfast in my area you have to have SOS on there menu. Many people expect it, even if they don't always order it. I'm guessing SOS is known country-wide since it is in Stouffer's frozen line-up.

The chipped meat you buy today is invariably in plastic pouches, and not as salty as it used to be. The stuff in the old glass jars had so much salt in it that you had to rinse it under hot running water just to get the salt content down to edible levels.

If you're going to make SOS the traditional way was to sauté(or frizzle, as it used to be termed. IIRC Horn & Hardart listed what amounted to SOS as "Frizzled Beef" on their menu) the shredded beef(it was sometimes cut into strips) in butter before making the white sauce right in the same skillet. You'd cook it for a few minutes, getting it just a tad curled at the edges, you really didn't want to brown it. Next you sprinkled on flour, cooked it for a minute or so, because you were going to make a roux. Then you added the milk, stirred thoroughly, brought it to a boil and simmered it until it was at your desired density. Traditionally it was served over white toast(this was the shingle part) usually heavily black-peppered(no other spices were used)

I'm not sure why this stuff was called SHIT on a shingle, maybe the GI's just got tired of it? My best guess is it was named when the dish used to be made with ground FRESH beef, which is definitely a thing, although I've never seen it on a breakfast menu. I remember it fondly from when I was in the service, it is far more unctuous, tasty and GREASY than the chipped beef kind.

Serve it over anything you like: toast, biscuits, hash browns or home fries with onions(Mmmm....) even mashed potatoes.

My mom used to make SOS as part of a big Sunday breakfast once we all got home from church. She was a Philly gal, and my dad had been in the Navy, so she was quite aware of this Lucullan breakfast fare.

R558, my uncle was ex-navy and he made this on Sundays like clockwork. Always on toast with a poached egg on top. I preferred scrambled eggs though. The secret is to mix the flour thoroughly and add nutmeg liberally. At least that’s how he did it.

Sorry if I missed this upthread, but what does "SOS" stand for?

Tater Tot casserole

r576 Save Our Ships 😉

Uncrustables sandwiches. Yes, I know they are childish. But, I love them.

R576 – I am not sure, but I would guess it means "Shit on a Shingle"—that retro wartime staple also known as creamed chipped beef on toast. This classic American army dish originated around World War II.

It is said to sometimes also mean: "Save Our Stomachs" or "Same Ole Stuff."

I think you can use Hormel dried beef in a jar to make chipped beef / SOS / Shit on a Shingle.

It's actually expensive, IIRC.

Thank for that history of Shit on a Shingle; I didn't know that's where it originated. I always figured it was like sausage gravy - poor food to make a little bit of meat (whatever kind) go a little farther and make otherwise unappetizing meat at least edible.

r581 Thanks for that post, good to know the chipped beef in a jar is still available. What with the vacuum packaging and all that salt, it should last through to the next century.😵‍💫

That jar is 5 oz., which should make a nice BIG skilletful of comfort food goodness.

r582 That is mostly the reason for preparing the white sauce, a little bit of meat, a lot of dairy and the bread it was served with helped to fill up your belly. Way BITD if you were dirt poor, you just ate the white sauce and the bread. Even farmers who kept cows didn't slaughter them indiscriminately, but they could always get a pailful of milk out of 'em, in order to help feed all the people they were responsible for. It's analogous to breading various foods and frying them, it helped bulk out and stretch further what little you may have had.

Thank you, Bronzie. I had no idea it required a specific kind of beef (which we don't have in Canada, explaining why I've never seen shit on a shingle here, so I am off to Amazon to try to grab some). I really want to try this!

When she was pregnant, my godson’s mother and I would scarf down Doritos Nacho cheese chips with cream cheese.

Today I can’t believe I ate that shit.

r584 I've got my thinking cap on but I really can't come up with a substitute for the meat. Amazon™ does sell it, at 11 bucks a pop for the 5 oz. jar. It may seem a bit pricey, but you'll get a lot of servings out of it. You could use half the jar and freeze the other half for another time. Once you make it I'd like to know how you enjoyed it, since up until now you've been an 'SOS virgin.'

SOS is my go-to order when I breakfast out with friends on Saturday mornings at a local diner. My favorite waitress always remembers how I like it: Hash browns, with onions, then a ladleful of the chipped beef, and then 2 easy over eggs on top of it all. I HEAVILY pepper everything(I'm talking' 30-40 grinds out of a mill) cut it all up with a fork and knife but I eat it with a spoon(the mouthfeel is great) I always get my toast on the side so I have something to dunk into my coffee. And I only have to wait TWO days to get it. 👏

Cream cheese and grape jelly sandwich on white bread. The block of Philly cream cheese, none of that fancy whipped stuff. Bonus points if the sandwich sits in the fridge for a few hours long enough so that the jelly starts to infuse the bread. This was my favorite lunch in grade school.

R587, my grandmother used to make us cream cheese and strawberry preserves sandwiches (on white bread), which we would eat while we watched the soaps. This was in the 1950s, so each show was, I think, 15 minutes, and we sat very close to the tv. My brother came along later, and he would eat the typical peanut butter and grape jelly, neither of which appealed to me as much.

If I were to eat this today, you'd better believe I'd use "the fancy whipped stuff."

[quote]This was in the 1950s, so each show was, I think, 15 minutes, and we sat very close to the tv

Soaps were all 15 minutes long until "As the World Turns" and "The Edge of Night" premiered (on the same day) in 1956 as the first 30-minute soaps.

My mother used to make that creamed chipped beef stuff with refrigerated packaged shaved beef of some kind from the lunchmeat section of the supermarket (this was in the '50s and '60s.) I don't remember the brand or what it was called, but I haven't seen it for years. This recipe uses Buddig brand -- which I know did not exist in our markets at that time.

I don't see anything lowbrow about jelly or jam w/cream cheese. Grape jelly is per se lowbrow, though. So, you've got to avoid grape jelly.

If you want to be classy, try mango chutney w/cream cheese on crackers. E.g., Wheat Thins. Surprisingly delicious. As kids, we hated chutney and I was surprised how good it was w/cream cheese.

r590 The chipped beef has been available in plastic pouches for a long time but I didn't realize it went back quite that far, I thought it was still either deli-sliced or packed in glass jars back then.

The brand you cannot think of might've been KNAUSS, they have/had just the packaged beef for some time now, but also have other packages with the white sauce combined with the beef, all ready to be heated up for your breakfast delectation.

No one's mentioned scrapple so far, unless I've missed it? It's another Amish-influenced food quite popular here in SE PA. Love the stuff.

r592 No -- it wasn't Knauss -- I think it was some local deli brand (I grew up in the SF Bay Area.) Maybe Bob Ostrow?

Fruit Loops.

r594 No, dear.

Shit On a Shingle R576.

Sorry, my phone wasn’t caught up with the thread. 🥴

Buddig ham

repacked scat

You are disgusting, r599.

Fucking disgusting.