to wonder who actually eats this stuff?

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I was searching for asparugus in Sainsbury's today and couldn't find it so ended up spending a considerable time perusing the tinned section.I spotted a very unpleasant looking tin of Goblins "beef casserole with dumplings". The main ingredient was water followed by dried carrots, dried swede, a load of unpronounceable chemicals and, way down the list, dehydrated beef (7%). I was just left wondering why anybody would actually choose to eat this kind of product. It wasn't even cheap - probably the same price as a kebab. Also, does anyone know who eats tinned potatoes?

OMG, that is sooooo gross! I might have to hunt one of those down so I can play a trick on my friend, she always manages to drop round when I say I'm 'just taking a chicken out of the oven'.......

As for the brains....... !!!!

(Milk gravy? shudders.....)

I feel sick and lightheaded after seeing that chicken in a can.

My parents made up a hamper of lots of quick and easy food for me after DD was born. Included some M&S tinned stews and curries that were actually quite nice.

Lol and we thought beef casserole with dumplings was bad

We eat stuff like that sometimes as 'emergency' stand by food when we go sailing.

Relatively similar to Army ration packs!

I can't work out how big the can is,is a normal sized can with a tiny chicken? or is big can with a small chicken?

Here's a gallery of the weirdest canned foods from around the world including what looks like teeth in a can but which is apparently some form of herring.

I remember how truly abominable are those chickens in a tin. Six of us were on a narrowboat holiday (this being a year or so before I had the dcs) and one of the party had been given a tinned chicked by her mother who thought it'd "come in useful".

We were doubtful but, while moored up in Skipton, decided to use it as the basis for a risotto. As the horrid bird released itself from incarceration with a hideous "glurrrrp", we just knew our first impressions were sound. Sure enough, the risotto was so vile that we ended up at the chip shop but even the various versions of wildlife on the canal refused to eat the leftovers.

Of other items I cannot understand being eaten, Sandwich Spread and Toast Toppers come high on the list.

Reminds me of faggots. Boak.

Tinned pork brains with milk gravy. Good God.

I think that Mr Brain's pork faggots have to be the most unappetising sounding food product known to man.

Well the second most unappetising food product after pork brains in milk gravy.

Bloody hell. Canned possum? Now I've seen it all. My fave is the added garnish of 'Coon Fat Gravy'. WTF?

Oh....I love Mr Brains' Faggots.

I bought some 'gourmet' sandwich spread the other day in the hope it had changed and was now edible.It isn't.

Everything is wrong about pork brains. The same goes for milk gravy. The idea that you could combine them is almost beyond belief - other than in a competition for the nastiest possible combinations of food.

I've never tried them. They may be delicious but the name is enough to prevent me from doing so.

I cannot stop looking at the thing with the teeth. Why do they leave the teeth in there?

Faggots are also called savoury ducks, which doesnt make them sound any more appetising.

I keep some tinned potatoes in the cupboard for making cottage pie. I don't have much storage space for fresh ones and on a pie the tinned ones taste fine.

We always use fresh ones for normal mash / roasts etc.

I tried a tinned veggie curry the other week and it was gross. Next time I'm going back to the 'fresh' ready meal ones.

and, if you ever see lunch tongue, straight from a big tin before its sliced, its just loads of whole pig tongues, crammed in a tin and surrounded in jelly, bleurgh.

We eat corned beef in this house-can't beat corned beef hash or corned beef sandwiches with salad cream (childhood thing).

Faggots are purchased via the butchers.

Tinned strawberries are pretty vile. My Gran always used to have a tin of them in her larder for some bizarre reason.

They are just slimy, squishy and taste foul.

DP reckons you can buy tinned onions

Tinned strawberries aren't too bad,edible but nowhere near as nice as the real thing.

And you can buy tins of fried onions.

Pic of the tinned onions

They're good for curry bases apparently.

Ooh yes, tinned strawberries. I remember them in thin red jelly on top of a sponge base with carnation milk. They're sort of mushy and anaemic.