"Gary" > wrote in message ...
> I've mentioned several times that I feel blessed that I'm not a picky food
> eater. I like everything from canned things, frozen things, fast food
> restaurants, chain restaurants. It *IS* convenient to be so easy to
> please.
>
> That said, I finally met my match last night. I cooked the 2 can combo of
> La
> Choy Beef Chow Mein that I bought a couple of weeks ago. Rather than put
> it
> on rice, I also bought a can of their crunchy noodles. this is the
> "Chinese
> food" that I grew up with and I thought it would be a nice "comfort food"
> meal after about 45 years or so.
>
> Oh so NOT SO! It was the most disgusting thing I ever remember eating.
> Very tinny and bitter tasting. I suspect that might have come from the
> vegetable can which was mostly bean sprouts.
>
> I tried 3 bites, then took it back into the kitchen to see if I could
> doctor
> it up a bit. I added some soy sauce, a nip of sesame oil, and a load of
> crushed red peppers (the things you might add ot a pizza). It helped and
> I
> ate it but I was not happy.
>
> I still have the other half left and I might just toss it. It's that bad.
> I've eaten "not so good food" in the past, and won't make it again, but
> I've
> never ever been tempted to toss the leftovers of anything.
>
> La Choy bi-paks - don't try this at home, boys and girls. ;-|

My mom bought those things all the time. I don't remember liking them so
well but I ate them. She always bought the chicken. They served similar at
school. At school there was always a scoop of sticky rice and just a few of
the crunchy noodles on top. At home we had a pile of noodles with the
meat/veg on top.

I bought some a while back. I served it like the school did but my rice was
not sticky. Oh yuck! The bits of chicken were chewy. And it was loaded
with soy protein. Plus the noodles tasted stale. We had to throw it out
and I fixed something else.