Nasty food in your country

[Kretcher]

Hi,

Just thought that Sweden can´t be the only country with some nasty food that is used for specific occasions. Therefore please add what you believe is specifically nasty food that is served/cooked in your home country.

I will give on example in Sweden that I just can´t stand and living in a house with more than one family you can´t really avoid the stench that this food produces. I am talking about surströming mostly eaten during August and autumn I believe a specifically nasty idea. You take some fish and put it in a can with some stuff, you then let the fish (Herring) become fermented....ich and then you open the can of "perfumed" fish and eat it with some bread and potatoes. To be able to eat it you use large amount of Snaps (vodka with herbs).


Jaime Oliver thinks it is delicious, well he can´t always be perfect... http://www.kanal5play.se/klipp/play/jamieupptacker-s01e03-surstromming (first part has advertising)

The next part with Jaime, funny stuff http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph-1IwNhu8A

This is some English people testing it.... http://www.miloop.com/film_view.aspx?movie=6852

So now you know what too test next time you are in Sweden a treat for the whole family.

/Kretcher

 

[AndyG]

My least favourite uk food has got to be haggis a big bag of intestine stuffed with boiled heart lung and other of cuts of offal boiled up until it bounces yeurch!

http://www.toptenz.net/top-ten-grossest-foods.php

Have a look on this site it's there!

 

[Kretcher]

Andy, that list have some really nasty stuff well atleast I thnk so.

 

[lono]

They sell a regional specialty called KFC in the UK. What they do is they take a chicken that could, under the right circumstances, taste great, then they keep it in the worst possible conditions imaginable to ensure it is emaciated, stressed, utterly flavourless, piss scalded and covered in blisters and ulcerated lumps, then it's put in batter and flavouring to disguise this fact and sold alongside the limpest fries you could ever imagine. It's pretty grim.

I've never tried surströming but my Swedish friends all think it's pretty good stuff. Haggis is utterly delicious though. I'm a great fan of offal anyway. Lots of it is totally full of flavour and offers up different textures. The combination with the onion, oatmeal and spices in haggis makes for a really tasty warming meal.

 

[10 ball]

My Grandparents always praised Tripe as a great food! (cows stomach wall and other bits!)

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[AndyG]

Oh ooh yeah another one iS brawn or gets this for a cool icky highly descriptive name head cheese, take one pig head boil until all the bone gelatine eye balls cheek tongue and brain sinus fluid ear wax etc have come off into a gluey stinky broth and then let it set into a cold congealed lump a voila brawn
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_cheese

 

[freakinacage]

That fish does sound pretty grim.

Tbh, as long as the haggis is made properly, it's not too bad - same with black pudding

Although I have never tried it, and it's not from around here, balut looks pretty gross

 

[AndyG]

Here's an urban myth about black pudding may actually be true I don't know.

At the end of world war one there was a huge food shortage especially of meat and there was a massive surplus of blood donations for the war effort no longer needed thank goodness and then there was an actual government meeting were they suggested the idea of making black pudding from the human blood. We are told it was obviously not done but hey a good conspiracy theory here!

 

[lono]

Most of the things being mentioned here I like.

Black pudding is utterly delicious, tripe can be very nice if it is cooked right, brawn is so flavoursome and lovely (also, your description is not correct. It's simply a terrine of meat bits of the animal that come from the head and are set in a jelly.) I had a pig's head carpachio at a really fine restaurant last year and it was one of the most divine things I've ever tasted.

Just because things don't come from the 'standard' parts of an animal doesn't make them disgusting to me. Offal is not just something that tastes very nice, but is something I feel meat eaters should be having. To kill an animal and not make use of it all is not right. Nose to tail eating is the way to go. If you can get over squeamishness and a lot of fallacies that get associated with offal you will discover so much more flavour and interest than just having the 'best' cuts.

I recommend liver, heart, cockscomb and sweetbreads (thyroid glands) for sure. Pig's trotter is rather spectacular when done right.

 

[Kretcher]

Most of the things being mentioned here I like.

Black pudding is utterly delicious, tripe can be very nice if it is cooked right, brawn is so flavoursome and lovely (also, your description is not correct. It's simply a terrine of meat bits of the animal that come from the head and are set in a jelly.) I had a pig's head carpachio at a really fine restaurant last year and it was one of the most divine things I've ever tasted.

Just because things don't come from the 'standard' parts of an animal doesn't make them disgusting to me. Offal is not just something that tastes very nice, but is something I feel meat eaters should be having. To kill an animal and not make use of it all is not right. Nose to tail eating is the way to go. If you can get over squeamishness and a lot of fallacies that get associated with offal you will discover so much more flavour and interest than just having the 'best' cuts.

I recommend liver, heart, cockscomb and sweetbreads (thyroid glands) for sure. Pig's trotter is rather spectacular when done right.

I understand you and also yes we shouldn´t wast parts of an animal. Just that I can´t eat it. But Iono isn´t there anything that you don´t like to eat?

 

[me_in_japan]

coming from scotland, I have to say that haggis is aces deep fried in batter, served with chips at 4am after kicking out time for nightclubs. fit for a king, like

living in japan, some interesting local delicacies spring to mind.

e.g. natto - fermented beans (much like yon swedish thing, but beans.) Taste-wise it's actually fairly inoffensive, but the smell!?!? ye gads. That, and the fact I swear those beans are covered in pus. Vile, I know, but that's exactly what it looks and feels like - Pus beans.

live baby squid. Like eating lots of li'l baby chthulu. Those suckers keep sucking all the way down, btw...

raw sea urchin ovaries. I'll not describe these. Y'all can use your imaginations...

 

[ischa]

funny noone mentioned marmite, most disgusting crap there is. i love haggis, never had surströmming, but like the smell. really like blood pudding aswell=)

 

[Dragonsreach]

My least favourite uk food has got to be haggis !

Rubbish, cooked properly its wonderful stuff!

They sell a regional specialty called KFC in the UK.

Add in McDonalds, Burger K***, Greggs, Sayers and locally Greenhaulghs..........Greasy, Fat & Salt laden detrius fit only for chav's

My Grandparents always praised Tripe as a great food! (cows stomach wall and other bits!)

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Black pudding is utterly delicious.

I had the unfortunate experience of seeing it being made on a Farm once. Can't touch it now.

 

[AndyG]

Rubbish, cooked properly its wonderful stuff!.

My dad is Scottish we used to have the damn stuff all the time I can't even stand the smell of it now ......shudder retch. Different tastes I suppose.

Heres another one tapioca pudding hurl city looks just like frog spawn I used to have to eat it at primary school like little jellyied fish eggs and it was always cold

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'Garum was probably the Roman’s favourite condiment. Made from rotted, fermented fish guts, it was a type of fish sauce produced across the empire to meet wide demand.'


The romans used to make this stuff on a truly vast scale and slap it on everything the equivalent of tomato sauce. As we were part of the Roman empire I suppose we can include this one as well.

 

[lono]

I understand you and also yes we shouldn´t wast parts of an animal. Just that I can´t eat it. But Iono isn´t there anything that you don´t like to eat?

I enjoy most things and have quite an open approach to food I think. We have a few Chinese friends who like eating out with my gf and I because we 'eat like the Chinese eat' which I think pretty much means we don't judge by appearance or expectations but taste. Things I struggle with... Mushrooms are a dodgy one as unless they are cooked just to my liking the texture really puts me off and gives me difficulty swallowing them down. The taste is lovely though. I am not dead keen on big whelks for the same texture reason. Um... I'd choose to not eat olives, but if they are there in a dish they don't disgust me. I wouldn't like to eat rat, as I own 3 and would never be able to disassociate from how much I love mine as pets.

Oooh, I'm a coffee snob, which is silly considering I can no longer drink it (caffeine does very bad things to me) so if you are talking really nasty, I'd throw pretty instant coffee out there along with the chain stuff from Starbucks, Costa, Nero etc, which is still very poor. When you have to add flavoured syrups to a coffee you're onto a loser! I'm a bit militant in my coffee scorn actually.

I've since moved onto dark chocolate to replace the coffee gap in my life so we'd best not start on that subject. I'll begin a rant of titanic proportions about the lack of quality there!

I really like Marmite. Not so keen on the mixture of chocolate and Marmite!

 

[ischa]

Heres one for you I particularly like



'Garum was probably the Roman’s favourite condiment. Made from rotted, fermented fish guts, it was a type of fish sauce produced across the empire to meet wide demand.'


The romans used to make this stuff on a truly vast scale and slap it on everything the equivalent of tomato sauce. As we were part of the Roman empire I suppose we can include this one as well.

is that there a quote from hestons roman feast? speaking of which, his snail porridge may be the wierdest awesometasting thing i´ve ever had.

 

[Kretcher]

[/QUOTE]I've since moved onto dark chocolate to replace the coffee gap in my life so we'd best not start on that subject. I'll begin a rant of titanic proportions about the lack of quality there!

[/QUOTE]
Well below is moving away from nasty to wonderfull
Ingredienser

300 g mjölk 3% (Milk 3% fat or more )
50 g vispgrädde (whipped cream)
20 g mörkt råsocker eller farinsocker (light Brown sugar for exampel moscavdo...)
0.5 kanelstång (Cinammon stick)
50 g mörk choklad (Dark choclate, Expensive kind I usually use around 70% kakao)

Koka upp mjölk, vispgrädde, socker och kanelstång och låt dra under lock i 5 minuter. Hacka chokladen och lägg den i en bunke. Koka upp mjölkblandningen igen och sila den över chokladen. Mixa drycken skummig med stavmixer! (Om man vill kan man även smaksätta med vanilj.)

Google translate below: (short of time) Boil the milk, whipped cream, sugar and cinnamon stick and let it steep covered for 5 minutes. Chop chocolate and place it in a bowl. Bring the milk mixture up (Boil) again and strain it over the chocolate. Mix the drink frothy with a hand blender! (If you want you can also flavor with vanilla.)

 

[uglybug]

I love tapioca pudding.
In the USA a lot of the animal byproducts don't make it to most supermarkets, but there are a couple of odd things you can find in some regions especially the south.
Rocky mountain oysters: are deep fried bull balls, testicals.
I heard on tv recently a place selling pigs ear sandwiches, I think it was deep fried too.

Every culture has some gross fermented dish too I think. When I was in Japan I had a fermented bean curd it looked like raw brain and had the same texture. I gagged on that one.
There was also some dish called century eggs were they bury eggs in the ground for a year in big clay jars.
Another egg dish I have seen they eat they uncooked egg but there is a baby chick halfway through it's incubation period. And they drink the whole thing whole.

 

[moonmin82]

McDonalds, Burger K***, Greggs, Sayers and locally Greenhaulghs..........Greasy, Fat & Salt laden detrius fit only for chav's

How about the more recently established 'Pound Bakery' chain?!

 

[Tercha]

Come to China
In one meal:
chicken feet (they eat the feet and necks and throw the rest away!!!)
fish heads (the eyes are "Nice")
duck heads (sliced in 2)
braised cow blood
sea cucumber (strange animal - it breaths through its anus! tastes of nothing but is a delicacy)
Tripe
squid (with sea horse garnish)
they also eat mice and cicadas (a type of cockroach - not sure of the genus - but that is what they look like) - well actually anything

A meal generally looks like they have tried to do something with the contents of a butcher's bin and what they have weeded from the side of the road

The Chinese also eat like 2 year olds - slurping, smacking their lips, mouth open, constantly shovelling "food" in, spitting on the floor and smoking during meals - to be told you eat like the Chinese is not a compliment - more an indication that you eat disgustingly and should learn some table manners.