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1. Okra
2. Miracle Whip
3. Whole milk
4. Spam
5. Olive loaf
6. any ketchup but Heinz
7. Plain yellow mustard
8. mango
9. hot cereal (oatmeal, cream of wheat)
10. kale

It would make a great performance-art piece to watch as rooms full of people attacked and ate the sculptures.

The big question would be how many people would swallow their gum and how many would spit it out and where. :)

Not that I'm against bubble-gum as art for the ages.

The sculptures are awesome. On my to-do list for life is to build a french fry sculpture.

As a Korean-American I can never say anything bad about Spam. If you're a fan of Korean food and you don't appreciate the magic that a can of Spam can bring to a Kimchi Jjigae, you don't know Korean food.

First time on Serious Eats and this was so good I had to join so I could post - so here goes:

Spam. No explanation necessary.
Marmite. I ahve no idea what this is but it sounds like insect paste.
Tofu
Organ meats
ditto on the cold cuts that end in 'loaf'
Scrapple
Converted rice. Even my kids called it 'fake.'
Livermush - Hey "Sbelle" I'm from NC too!
Bologna, and I probably should put in hotdogs. I took a graduate nutrition class and as a part we toured a meat processing factory. Ewww.
Bait. Sorry but as a kid it was often in the fridge, not as food of course. It's that NC upbringing again.

There are lots of convenience foods that have saved the day for me or pacified my granddaughter, so I won't list them, but I agree that it's just not that hard to do something quick from scratch.

1. hamburger helper- definitely including any sauce mix from a powder.
2. off brand cereal. give me frosted flakes or give me death.
3. jars of glop labelled alfredo. they fool no one.
4. processed deli meats such as homogenized bologna and "weiners."
5. popsicles in a sleeve
6. lowfat dairy products are for quitters
7. precooked shrimp. just say no.
8. marshmallow fluff because itss not food.
9. country ham because i don't live in the country and no one believes that is ham.
10. Fat free cooking oil, or whatever that is supposed to be.

Yeah I was surprised about jello having such properties, but my husband swears by it. Then again, maybe he's making it up so that I don't throw it out in disgust...

Mmmm Banana Twinkies.

Here are some things that I don't want in my kitchen but unfortunately can be found in this space since I share it with my husband:

Jarred garlic (for real? How hard is it to chop fresh garlic?)
American cheese slices (they taste like wax. Actually, wax might taste better.)
Jello (I can't believe I actually used to like that stuff! My husband keeps it around for nosebleeds)
Refried beans (no taste, no point)
Hunt's Spaghetti Sauce (too sweet, no tomato flavor)
Entenmann's Chocolate Iced Donuts, Twinkies, SnoBalls, HoHos, and anything else that's dyed sugar in plastic (isn't your palate supposed to get more refined as you age?)
That stupid pre-cooked "grilled" chicken with those caramel grill lines pressed on (if you can't grill chicken yourself, why bother?)

canned anything, except pumpkin
bottled salad dressing, bottled sauces
mixes of any kind, or instant anything, or prepared anything, like pureed garlic or precut vegetables
margarine
low fat or fat free anything, except for 2% goat milk
miracle whip
okra
jell-o
prepared frozen foods
frozen orange juice
wonder bread
peanut butter
supermarket chicken or meat {i've actually been behaving like a vegetarian lately and not eating any meat at all, although i don't quite understand why}

i could go on and on, but i won't...

hehe this is a fun one :-) First of all in France we have no such thing as Miracle Whip or Cool Whip...and even if we did I would blacklist both items!

1. Any tube-y stuff: cheese, mayonnaise, fish paste etc.
2. Ready made pasta sauce
3. Ready cake, cookie, whatever mix.
4. Bottled salad dressing
5. Margarine
6. Frozen meals
7. Minute rice/pasta preparations, you know the ones that come in a plastic kind of pouch
8. SPAM! (ok this one should had been way up there)
9. Patés & Rillettes (French speciality thing)
10. "Diet" cookies and chocolate. Biggest joke in the world, it's like eating cardboard for not all that much less calories at the end of the day. Just buy real full fat & sugar pastries but eat less of it!

Ten things I would not have in my kitchen:
1. Miracle Whip
2. Jar pasta sauce
3. Any form of parmesan or romano cheese in a shaker jar or can
4. margarine
5. Cool Whip
6. FAKE CHOCOLATE
7. processed garlic in a jar
8. left over sushi
9. tomatoes in the refrigerator
10. people who think "all good things" come out of a box and only require an egg, some oil and 35 minutes in the oven.

Is anyone else finding this difficult--I am, for example, a Cool Whip loather, but I feel funny listing it because I have bought it once (Fat Free of course) and thinking, 'ooh, so low in calories,' eating a bit and then retching. So lots of stuff I've tried--once. Also some things I don't eat I have for pets/parents/visitors, and so forth, so I can't say an honest 'total never.' I guess mine would be:

1. Weird pig products like pig's feet or Spam.
2. Gravy. Of any kind.
3. Animal fats like chicken fat or lard.
4. Reduced fat peanut butter--it's the same calories as 'regular' peanut butter, what's the point.
5.cocaonut--unless you count some chocolates with the stuff that come in a box. Not the raw stuff or milk, ever.
6. Sweet and sour sauce.
7. Ranch dressing.
8. Soda. Diet, regular, of any kind.
9. Juices, especially orange juice.
10. Jell-O.

I'm a vegetarian but as a kid when I ate meat I liked liverwurst. And I lived for Hostess, on the few occasions I was permitted to get them.