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Adrian II
06-01-2005, 10:58
Now that I've got your attention, Fragony, how do you like our 'new herring'?
I know, I know -- these days it's all commercial bluff, smoke and mirrors just like the Beaujolais Primeur. Still, it's the thought of the first catch of the new herring season that counts.
I had mine this morning, elevenish, and I ate it raw and in one piece at the stall like you should (bloody foreigners: see picture) with some chopped onions. I have to say it wasn't as full and fatty as I've come to expect over the past decade, but the taste is wonderfully soft, the texture firm yet brittle, making for a good 'bite'.
1 Delicious Herring
http://www.horeca.org/pics/persinfo/images/huisaanhuis/200406/klein/haring%20in%20de%20hand%20(vrouw).jpg
Sssooo, that made me wonder what disgusting food stuffs are swallowed, honoured, and celebrated in other parts of the world.
Please state your delicacy, and tell us what makes it great in your eyes, and disgusting in the eyes of the entire rest of mankind.
well for some reason, i pop double salted dutch licorices down all day and everyone else hates them.
i don't know any bad aussie food, most of our food is just fleshy meat cooked.
thanks,
dizzy
Haven't tried it yet, will do later. These bloody foreigners have no idea, a good salty fat herring is the mana of the gods! I read in the newspaper that different towns like different herring, you guys from rotjeknor like them small and mildly salty! Foreigners just don't understand that raw rotten fish that gets cleaned before your very eyes is a good thing :furious3:
Al Khalifah
06-01-2005, 11:17
Hagis and black-pudding. Weird and wonderful at the same time.
i don't eat herring, they are too small and its better to use them as bait for bigger fish, like a nice big flathead, yummy a big flathead, of if your lucky a nice sized tailor.
thanks,
dizzy
snails!
http://www.alquimista.net/images/jpbrigand_j9_3.jpg
a football game...a bunch of drinks with your friends and a plate of snails to snack on.....is there a better way to spend an afternoon?....i think not!! ~D
i don't eat herring, they are too small and its better to use them as bait for bigger fish, like a nice big flathead, yummy a big flathead, of if your lucky a nice sized tailor.
thanks,
dizzy
I don't believe the herring as we know it here is eaten in australia, raw and rotten and delicious. The 'sour' variety is also lovely, but nothing beats the real thing.
Disgusting food: I have eaten bulls testicles in Spain, and it was pretty good. I am not a difficult eater, I will try just about anything.
snails!
http://www.alquimista.net/images/jpbrigand_j9_3.jpg
a football game...a bunch of drinks with your friends and a plate of snails to snack on.....is there a better way to spend an afternoon?....i think not!! ~D
Snails! With olive oil and lots of garlic, that is not disgusting that is a godsend! The meat is so tender!
Pizza. Except when loaded with vegetables and thin crust. ~:)
King Henry V
06-01-2005, 12:07
Snails! With olive oil and lots of garlic, that is not disgusting that is a godsend! The meat is so tender!
Garlic butter's better though. I love snails but I think I went off them when I heard how they are prepared:
First they are are bathed in salt which is like acid to them so that they get rid of all the slime. Then are dropped alive on to a smoking hot pan. Enjoy!
English assassin
06-01-2005, 12:27
I had hakarl http://www.pilotguides.com/destination_guide/europe/iceland_and_greenland/shark_meat.php once. I think a greenland shark which has rotted in an icelandic hillside for six months makes those herring look, well, a bit girly really.
(NB for those reading the link, hakarl does not taste "cheesy", IMHO it tastes of piss.)
Edit: Oops, finally read the instructions. Why do I think this is good, well, because it is so hardcore.
Why does everyone else think its disgusting, well, because its so hardcore.
Louis de la Ferte Ste Colombe
06-01-2005, 12:35
Anyone had any experience with nato?
Louis,
Ser Clegane
06-01-2005, 12:48
Anyone had any experience with nato?
Louis,
Fortunately not - but I had some other weird stuff in Japan of which I do not know the name...
SwordsMaster
06-01-2005, 12:54
The Serbians did.
Oh, come on Beirut, that is below your jokes' standard ~;)
Fortunately not - but I had some other weird stuff in Japan of which I do not know the name...
Oh, yeah, I love those japanese desserts made with fish.... They taste ok, but the smell gives them away... ~D
English assassin
06-01-2005, 13:00
That reminds me, I had a sort of herring cheesecake in a Russian bar once.
It didn't seem to taste fishy at all but to be honest I wouldn't have trusted myself to sit the right way up on a toilet at the time never mind doing anything more complicated due to all the WODKA that had gone on.
I DO remember the cheesecake gave me a 24 hour hangover though so is not recommended.
you can eat the herrings you catch, but as i said its better to stick a hook through them and let them swim away, a flathead will pick him up quicker then you can yumm.
flathead are such a nice eating fish.
thanks,
dizzy
Ser Clegane
06-01-2005, 13:05
Oh, yeah, I love those japanese desserts made with fish.... They taste ok, but the smell gives them away... ~D
hehe - I remember when my wife and I spent a couple of nights at a Ryokan, one evening they proudly served us each (among other strange things) half a head of a fish on a beautiful plate
Fortunately we were alone in our room for diner, so we did not embarrass other people while trying to figure out which parts we were supposed to eat of the highlight of that evening :inquisitive:
SwordsMaster
06-01-2005, 13:12
hehe - I remember when my wife and I spent a couple of nights at a Ryokan, one evening they proudly served us each (among other strange things) half a head of a fish on a beautiful plate
Fortunately we were alone in our room for diner, so we did not embarrass other people while trying to figure out which parts we were supposed to eat of the highlight of that evening :inquisitive:
Thats right, japanese have a thing with fish... I read somewhere they've designed a method of cooking jellyfish..... now that would actually require a will effort to swallow... ~:eek:
Steppe Merc
06-01-2005, 13:26
When I went to Colarado, everyone except me had "Rocky Mountain Oysters": Bull testicles.
doc_bean
06-01-2005, 14:47
We eat horse, apparently some people find that pretty strange.
Well that is strange to some... just like we find it strange that the chinese eat dogs. Remember horses are pets to some just liek the dogs.
Anyway, go to the Faroe Islands, there you will find a massive amount of disgudting food. Sheepbrains, stinky sheep meat (rotten) disgusting fish... The list is endless.
But the trophy has to go to Sweden for their Surströmming. It is a herring, packed in cans when it is beginning to rot, in a salty fluid. Then it has to sit for at least half a year until it had bulged enough for it to look about to explode.
When you do open it you have to make certain that there are nobody in the neighbourhood outside grilling or something. Basically only hermits can eat it at their leasure. You also HAVE to drink lots of tough Snaps to get it down.
I have never had the pleasure but I have been unlucky enough to smell the house after it had been eaten. YUK!!!!
Mikeus Caesar
06-01-2005, 15:52
I have yummy, seemingly normal food that most people i know say is utterly disgusting.
Pancake and ketchup!
It is a great delicacy to me, and tastes like the food of the gods!! And once i have finished it, wash it down with chocolate milkshake! Yum!
SwordsMaster
06-01-2005, 17:57
I have yummy, seemingly normal food that most people i know say is utterly disgusting.
Pancake and ketchup!
It is a great delicacy to me, and tastes like the food of the gods!! And once i have finished it, wash it down with chocolate milkshake! Yum!
Same here, but I eat the pancakes with Curry sauce. Yummy!
Mikeus Caesar
06-01-2005, 18:32
Heheh, last time i ate my pancake delicacy, i smothered the sauce all over it, then rolled it up, picked it up, and started eating. My dad look at me in disgust, before picking up his plate and leaving the room. Another delicacy of mine which i enjoy smothered in Tomato Sauce is Potato and Corned Beef, mashed up together, and then with half a bottle of sauce put in it. Yummy!!
Craterus
06-01-2005, 20:24
I hate tomato ketchup when there is loads of it. I prefer small quantities.
DemonArchangel
06-01-2005, 20:43
Dog is good.
As is jellyfish
Sea Cucumber
Deep fried scorpions. Those are GOOD.
Somebody Else
06-01-2005, 21:11
Guinea pig. The texture, and taste, of rubber. Not worth the effort.
Laridus Konivaich
06-04-2005, 00:40
Mushrooms, onions, garlic, fish, mustard, horseradish, for a start. Also tofu.
Al Khalifah
06-04-2005, 01:10
Pickled Pigs Feet.
Why? Why would anyone find that tasty. I'll eat most things but that just goes too far - and I eat squid.
Laridus Konivaich
06-04-2005, 01:11
I had pigs feet once, it was interesting... but slightly platable.
Al Khalifah
06-04-2005, 01:13
But were they pickled?
Laridus Konivaich
06-04-2005, 01:14
Yes, they were pickled.
Al Khalifah
06-04-2005, 01:16
*shudder*... what were they like?
Laridus Konivaich
06-04-2005, 01:46
Very sour and salty. Think salted pickles crossed with a slimy texture, and layers peeling off in your mouth as you chew (similar to the lines in a fish's flesh, for the layers).
Togakure
06-04-2005, 03:48
Anyone had any experience with nato?
Louis,
NATTO!!!!! GAHHHHHHH!!!!!!
Fermented soybean curd. Looks like flesh-colored beans soaking in egg white. Texture is about the same, ooey-gooey. Tastes like what I imagine baby poop would taste like, after the baby swallowed cooked beans whole. Funny, as it immediately came to mind when I saw the title of this thread. My brother loves the stuff. I HATE it (we are half Japanese).
Also uni--sea urchin insides. I love most sushi, but this stuff makes me gag. Imagine sand, eggwhite, and diarrhea mixed together and you have uni. Totally gross!!
Liver ... my dad use to force us to eat it. He finally stopped when I puked it all over the kitchen table. It was worth the beating. Now I gag at the mere smell of it, and get raging visions of hacking my dad to death with a Fork of Horipilation while stuffing raw liver down his throat.
Me likes what are known here as sourballs--dried, salted and slightly sugared plums, with a tad of licorice flavoring. Not the Mexican saltidos mind you (which are purely salty), but Hawaiian/Chinese/Japanese ones (which are sweet, sour, and salty all at once). Most of my friends who try them spit them out immediately and make the funniest faces.
I crack a raw egg in a bowl, add a little soy sauce and mix thoroughly, and pour it over steamed white rice. Yummy!
I love dried squid, a popular Japanese snack.
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