Don't know how ick-worthy it is, but we here on Cape Cod are known for our Clam 'Chowdah' which is based on a bivalve called a quahog, finely chopped and cooked with potatos and onions in a very rich cream sauce. And no, clam chowder isn't supposed to have a tomato base, that's only for heathens and New Yorkers.
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Well there is one dish that's eaten by most older people in Iceland on the 23rd of December (wherein we celebrate the mass of St. Thorlakur). It's putrefied skate that's boiled and served with potatoes and swede. An absolutely horrible dish that the younger generation (myself included) can't quite fathom why people eat.
Especially since any place that you cook this in smells of it throughout Christmas (the smell gets stuck in your clothes, sofas -- any upholstery in general -- and carpets)
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Patrick, I'll happily try your finely chopped bivalve, but I think that I will draw the line at Júlíus' rotting fish.
My contribution: Black Pudding - Sausage made from the blood and fat of pigs. Yum!
My contribution: Black Pudding - Sausage made from the blood and fat of pigs. Yum!
Served warm for breakfast in Scottish Bed and Breakfasts... *shudder*
But, for that, in northern Germany there is a kind of sausage that used to contain pig or cow brains in earlier times (not today anymore, for fear of BSE) called Bregenwurst - Bregen being a low German word for head or brain, probably related to the english word brain. It is a typical food for fall and winter, combined with potatoes and kale. I love it!
Stefan
Patrick, I'll happily try your finely chopped bivalve, but I think that I will draw the line at Júlíus' rotting fish.
My contribution: Black Pudding - Sausage made from the blood and fat of pigs. Yum!
We call it Blood Sausage here in Denmark. I actually quite like it, just drizzle it with some nice syrup.
My contribution is more of a family oddity. When we've had strawberry compote for dinner we've served it with our famous Danish open sandwiches, made with just salami and rye bread. The two very different tastes go great together (in my family's opinion, of course).
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My contribution: Black Pudding - Sausage made from the blood and fat of pigs. Yum!
We call it Blood Sausage here in Denmark. I actually quite like it, just drizzle it with some nice syrup.
Interesting: what kind of syrup? Golden syrup, or Maple syrup, something like that? I'd normally use Brown Sauce.
My contribution is more of a family oddity. When we've had strawberry compote for dinner we've served it with our famous Danish open sandwiches, made with just salami and rye bread. The two very different tastes go great together (in my family's opinion, of course).
That also sounds good - I can kind of see how that would taste in my mind. Similar to drinking a fruity red wine with salami.
Interesting: what kind of syrup? Golden syrup, or Maple syrup, something like that? I'd normally use Brown Sauce.
My contribution: Black Pudding - Sausage made from the blood and fat of pigs. Yum!
We call it Blood Sausage here in Denmark. I actually quite like it, just drizzle it with some nice syrup.
Slice it and warm it on a skillet, then serve with golden syrup or just sugar on the side.
Maple syrup is for pancakes or a lemon fast/diet/cleanse. ;-)
My contribution is more of a family oddity. When we've had strawberry compote for dinner we've served it with our famous Danish open sandwiches, made with just salami and rye bread. The two very different tastes go great together (in my family's opinion, of course).That also sounds good - I can kind of see how that would taste in my mind. Similar to drinking a fruity red wine with salami.
Yeah, I think that's a good comparison.
Cornwall is famed for Star Gazey Pie which is disgusting. I have yet to meet anyone who has eaten it in Cornwall.
Well, I live in Thailand, so..where to start...how about Gaeng Kiew Gai Wan with Luart Gai, which is a green curry with chicken feet and big cubes of congealed chicken blood. Or maybe a nice Som Tam Bla Rah, the Blah Rah being fish that has been stuffed in a ceramic container and fermented into a goo. Barbecued chicken hearts and anus (ani?) on a stick, anyone? No one can pass up the deep-fried beetles, either.
Zo
Barbecued chicken anus (ani?) on a stick, anyone?
Zo
I´d say you won this thread with that...
*bleh**shudder*
Lucky me, I had lunch already...
Stefan
I hear that most countries think that peanut butter is foul. Freaks. :P
I hear that most countries think that peanut butter is foul. Freaks. :P
Peanut butter, strawbery jam and cheese sandwiches....MMmmmmm...
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When I was in Korea, I developed a taste for cheonggukjang, a fermented bean paste dish that smells like old gym socks (or, as wikipedia writes, has "very strong odor [that] is not universally enjoyed"). hehehe
How on earth do you get an anus to stay on a stick anyhow?
Ask Vlad.
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Well there is one dish that's eaten by most older people in Iceland on the 23rd of December (wherein we celebrate the mass of St. Thorlakur). It's putrefied skate that's boiled and served with potatoes and swede. An absolutely horrible dish that the younger generation (myself included) can't quite fathom why people eat.
I saw a No Reservations food show with Anthony Bourdain where he complained all episode about the Hákarl and Lutefisk dishes he ate.
Taiwan here.
There is a snack called chou dofu. Stinky tofu. It smells like a rancid sewer, and you can smell it from half a block away. I routinely smell a chou dofu stand from inside a sealed car driving past on the other side of the street.
It has almost no taste. It tastes like any other tofu. What the hell is the point?
Other putrid foods: sea cucumber in brine.
Monkey brains. (Sadly not illegal. The monkeys are kept alive)
Dog (illegal now, finally)
Live fish sushi.
Fermented pig fat rice balls in duck blood soup.
Shark fin soup.
Bird vomit/nest. Very pricy, and tastes like weetabix in baby drool.
Taiwanese are notorious for eating any animal or fish, without exception.
My wife will happily eat pickled chicken feet, but she said that bovril is the most vile thing she has ever encountered.
As close to that as you find in Canada is poutine- French fries with cheese curds and gravy. It's delicious, but you can hear your arteries hardening as you eat it.
For disgusting though, balut is up there on my list as is that italian cheese that's full of maggots and I think someone else mentioned Hakarl already.
Don't know how ick-worthy it is, but we here on Cape Cod are known for our Clam 'Chowdah' which is based on a bivalve called a quahog, finely chopped and cooked with potatos and onions in a very rich cream sauce. And no, clam chowder isn't supposed to have a tomato base, that's only for heathens and New Yorkers.
Hey, don't include me in that crowd. I am Brooklyn born and bred, and I know where to go to get GOOD clam chowder. That manhattan stuff is an abomination in the eyes of the Lord.
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Black Pudding is awesome. Fry it up with some Bacon, Sausages, Eggs, Mushrooms, toast some bread and add some tomato and beans and you've got the ultimate breakfast meal, the Full English. Vegemite, or as it's known over here, Marmite, is also yummy on toast.
We've got black pudding here in Iceland which is disgusting. However, I was in Ireland a year ago visiting a friend and tried some fried black pudding with the works (Full Irish as it were) and it was delicious.
Also, there is one local food here that is really very good: sun-dried fish (usually haddock or cod). Though you really have to serve it with a good slab of butter to enjoy it.
I was born in Brooklyn, but I've lived in Carribean neighborhoods most of my life, so here's what I was raised on(most of which freaks my wife out to this day).
Porridge. Not oatmeal, but either corn meal or wheat meal porridge. Can't get enough of it, and my wife thinks I'm insane for eating it. She swears no children of hers will eat that stuff. Meantime, I think she's insane for thinking salt pork the 6th food group.
Pone. Usually served as a pie that you slice up, sometimes with fish on the side(or so I've heard).
Yuca. What usually goes into pone, but my family slices it up like french fries, fries it, and eats it with a sprinkling of salt. Yum yum. My wife still struggles to make this, when she does it often comes out like home fries, which actually isn't that bad, just unusual to my palate.
Organ meats. Lots of 'em. Mostly liver(both calf and chicken) and beef tongue, and the heart of some animal or another. You'd have to go a ways to find someone who ate something else. Also, my mom used to go ga-ga for fish eyes- her favorite part of the fish.
Strange soups. Fish head soup, cow foot soup, chicken foot soup, pig foot soup...you name it, we'll kill it, and throw it into a pot of hot water with some ground provisions. Ah, the long pork.
I'm a Yankee born and raised, but when I lived in the south I fell in love with several Southern delicacies.
*Small list*
- Grits: Absolutely the best breakfast food. A corn-based oatmeal-consistency bowl of yummy hot goodness.
- Chicken fried steak: Take thin-pounded steak and bread it like fried chicken ....mmmm yummy!
- Chicken and dumplings: A delicious stew-like meal
- Biscuits and gravy: Oh man, with little sausage bits in the cream gravy slathered over homemade open-face biscuits...<drool>
I'm a Yankee born and raised, but when I lived in the south I fell in love with several Southern delicacies.
*Small list*
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Grits: Absolutely the best breakfast food. A corn-based oatmeal-consistency bowl of yummy hot goodness.
Oh man. You didn't want to be there for the grits/porridge argument we had. It was hilarious.
Californian here...I can't think of anything as disgusting as you guys said, the closest thing is some of the Mexican dishes at the less Americanized restaurants, like Menudo.
Not for me thanks. I'd rather eat some bugs...(with their disgestive tracks removed...)
Californian here...I can't think of anything as disgusting as you guys said, the closest thing is some of the Mexican dishes at the less Americanized restaurants, like Menudo.
Not for me thanks. I'd rather eat some bugs...(with their disgestive tracks removed...)
I love Mexican- what are some of these dishes you speak of? I just want to make sure they aren't trying to scare off the white guy with bizzare names for things we all eat.
Crawfish: Awesome, especially blackened with pasta.
Grits: Also good, especially with a couple scallops or shrimp wrapped in bacon.
Key Lime Pie: Sinfully delicious when it is the real thing.
Conch: Also very yummy.
Mmm...food thread...
What one person finds disgusting another finds delicious - not too long ago, people turned their noses up at sushi, after all. The disgusting/delicious line is often dictated by the cultures we grew up with (or didn't).
Grits: Absolutely the best breakfast food. A corn-based oatmeal-consistency bowl of yummy hot goodness.
Oh man, my mom makes the best bowl of grits. With bacon and a dab of butter.
Chicken and dumplings: A delicious stew-like meal
I make mine with homemade chicken stock and add cheese and rosemary to the dumplings. :)
Biscuits and gravy: Oh man, with little sausage bits in the cream gravy slathered over homemade open-face biscuits...<drool>
I converted a die-hard gravy-hater with mine...I make the gravy the way my grandfather did - lots of pepper and no less that three heavy dashes of Tabasco. (I like the chipotle Tabasco sauce for it.)
I don't know of any local food oddities around here, unless you count The Tavern Burger, which has "grilled ham, bacon, swiss, cheddar, grilled onions, and to raise your cholesterol, a fried egg, sauce, mayo, lettuce, tomato and pickles." Or the Waitress Workout, as my friends call it, aka the Chicken Fried Steak breakfast at Jake's Diner. Eleven ounces of the aforementioned steak, with gravy, and three pancakes or hash browns & toast. It comes out on three oval platters, as does the Jake's Long Hauler - "Bacon or Sausage, 4 Lg Eggs, & Hashbrowns with choice of: 2 Xtra Lg Pancakes or French Toast or Biscuits & Gravy or a Waffle." So we're mostly known for the size of the plates around here...:D
I love Mexican- what are some of these dishes you speak of? I just want to make sure they aren't trying to scare off the white guy with bizzare names for things we all eat.Californian here...I can't think of anything as disgusting as you guys said, the closest thing is some of the Mexican dishes at the less Americanized restaurants, like Menudo.
Not for me thanks. I'd rather eat some bugs...(with their disgestive tracks removed...)
Menudo is a tripe soup. From Wiki:Menudo usually has tripe, honeycomb and "librillo" stomach beef meat along with the beef feet and tendons.
Anthony Bourdain did a show on all the Mexican offal dishes, brain tacos, cheek, nose, all the parts that we basically feed our cows...(not legally of course...the main reason I don't eat Beef anymore...)
Forgot one: Piccalilli. It tastes much better than it sounds.
Mmm...food thread...
What one person finds disgusting another finds delicious - not too long ago, people turned their noses up at sushi, after all. The disgusting/delicious line is often dictated by the cultures we grew up with (or didn't).
Grits: Absolutely the best breakfast food. A corn-based oatmeal-consistency bowl of yummy hot goodness.
Oh man, my mom makes the best bowl of grits. With bacon and a dab of butter.
Chicken and dumplings: A delicious stew-like mealI make mine with homemade chicken stock and add cheese and rosemary to the dumplings. :)
Biscuits and gravy: Oh man, with little sausage bits in the cream gravy slathered over homemade open-face biscuits...<drool>I converted a die-hard gravy-hater with mine...I make the gravy the way my grandfather did - lots of pepper and no less that three heavy dashes of Tabasco. (I like the chipotle Tabasco sauce for it.)
I don't know of any local food oddities around here, unless you count The Tavern Burger, which has "grilled ham, bacon, swiss, cheddar, grilled onions, and to raise your cholesterol, a fried egg, sauce, mayo, lettuce, tomato and pickles." Or the Waitress Workout, as my friends call it, aka the Chicken Fried Steak breakfast at Jake's Diner. Eleven ounces of the aforementioned steak, with gravy, and three pancakes or hash browns & toast. It comes out on three oval platters, as does the Jake's Long Hauler - "Bacon or Sausage, 4 Lg Eggs, & Hashbrowns with choice of: 2 Xtra Lg Pancakes or French Toast or Biscuits & Gravy or a Waffle." So we're mostly known for the size of the plates around here...:D
*turns his nose up at sushi*
Organ meats. Lots of 'em. Mostly liver(both calf and chicken) and beef tongue, and the heart of some animal or another. You'd have to go a ways to find someone who ate something else. Also, my mom used to go ga-ga for fish eyes- her favorite part of the fish.
Pig hearts in cream sauce... yummy! Or even a hearts stew. Deeeeelicious.
I quite enjoy liver too, which most people nowadays wrinkle their noses at.I think organ meats are the staple of the older generation, where everything on the animal was put to use (see blood sausage above). I can't get myself to eat pigs toes, though.
I love Mexican- what are some of these dishes you speak of? I just want to make sure they aren't trying to scare off the white guy with bizzare names for things we all eat.Californian here...I can't think of anything as disgusting as you guys said, the closest thing is some of the Mexican dishes at the less Americanized restaurants, like Menudo.
Not for me thanks. I'd rather eat some bugs...(with their disgestive tracks removed...)
Menudo is a tripe soup. From Wiki:Menudo usually has tripe, honeycomb and "librillo" stomach beef meat along with the beef feet and tendons.
Anthony Bourdain did a show on all the Mexican offal dishes, brain tacos, cheek, nose, all the parts that we basically feed our cows...(not legally of course...the main reason I don't eat Beef anymore...)
You see, where I come from, we just call it tripe. I ate it a few times myself as a kid, and it was okay...I think a soup made from it would be better though.
Forgot one: Piccalilli. It tastes much better than it sounds.Ineede, that sounds good. How spicy would it be if the directions were followed? (I am a wimp about spicy food)
Not very, but you can swap out the cayenne pepper for regular pepper if you're concerned with the heat.
I was born in Brooklyn, but I've lived in Carribean neighborhoods most of my life, so here's what I was raised on(most of which freaks my wife out to this day).
Porridge. Not oatmeal, but either corn meal or wheat meal porridge. Can't get enough of it, and my wife thinks I'm insane for eating it.
My wife is Carribean and eats porridge. I regard it as deformed oatmeal. I only dream of having Carribean restaurants nearby.
Is yuca similar to casava?
Yuca.
Deformed oatmeal..I'm telling my wife that one, she'll love it.
Apparently, Yuca = cassava. Never knew that.
Not very, but you can swap out the cayenne pepper for regular pepper if you're concerned with the heat.Forgot one: Piccalilli. It tastes much better than it sounds.Ineede, that sounds good. How spicy would it be if the directions were followed? (I am a wimp about spicy food)
I have a home made jar of piccalilli in the fidge right now...Time for some ham and piccalilli me-thinks.
And someone mentioned liver...Meat Harmonica