Just found out about pickled hotdogs. Sounds disgusting.
Fairy Bread from Australia. Sprinkles on bread.
Very common as kids party food.
This is completely normal in the Netherlands. Behold: hagelslag, it comes in both chocolate and fruity variants.
Na, Fairy Bread is way better then hs. Don’t tell my Dutch wife though…
For your crimes against Dutchness, I sentence you to having all the stroop in your stroopwafels replaced with Vegemite.
Jesus mate, for the country having the ICC you sure know how to kick off a war crime like thatm
A true Australian would still eat that. Probably with tears of patriotic joy.
I don’t know why this is different, but it is.
This isn’t hagelslag.
Also the Australian variant is more akin to disco dip.
And butter, don’t forget that
Every country has some sort of “out there” food that others are repulsed by.
I’ve had natto (fermented soybeans) from Japan which weren’t terrible but had a texture I couldn’t get behind, and I’ve had surstromming (fermented fish) from Sweden that is probably the most horrific substance known to mankind.
Is surstromming really that bad? I thought it was just shit tier YouTubers making click bait by eating it wrong.
Like marmite, it is going to taste bad if you eat it from a table spoon on it’s own. But that is a skill issue.
I thought that surströmming was okay, it just depends on how you use it. The way it was explained to me is that you’re actually supposed to use it more like a spice. So, rather than eating it alone, you add a little bit to a sandwich.
It smells terrible, so much that it’s best if you submerge the can in water before opening it (plus it sprays everywhere if you don’). But adding it as a spice to something like a sandwich and it’s actually not that bad.
Yeah that was the impression I had, you add small amounts to something else and don’t open it in a confined area.
On google images, it looks like when kids have to cook for the first time in a sitcom with the “mom and dad leave them to run the house by themselves” episode. On wikipedia it looks nicer and more sensible.
Alarming to anyone who doesn’t know about plantains, though i believe sweet bananas are also used. I think it would be a textural nightmare going from the banana to the rice.
Just found out about pickled hotdogs. Sounds disgusting.
Speaking of pickles, a lot of things that are pickled are really surprising. Pickled grapes for instance. I knew i’d love them but it takes some convincing to get people to try them.
Looks like eating Che Guevara.
Russian immigrant to the U.S. here. When I was a teenager and heard about peanut butter, I thought it was the weirdest and grossest thing.
When I first tried it I did think it was a bit gross, just… too much.
Now I eat it with enjoyment.
I had a couple friends who liked peanut butter and cheddar cheese sandwiches. I tried one - meh.
Provolone is better here than cheddar
Cheese and Vegemite though, that shit is delicious.
Sushi was rrrreal weird when we heard of it for the first time as kids. Now, I love it - the actual rice that’s technically sushi and almost anything you can put on, in, over or around it
Also seaweed. One of the best savoury foods I know, but after growing up smelling the huge piles of different seaweeds on Australian beaches, I had trouble believing you could eat that stuff.
Don’t know where it comes from - probably England, but: cottage cheese mixed with applesauce.
I was a child when I learnt of toast + sour cream and honey. From Germany. Before that I thought it only works with salt. Honey was not even on my radar I didn’t even know of a radar existing.
Ohh being pre-teen was the time to learn new stuff!TIL this is a thing in germany, I have been puttign honey, jelly and all types of sweeteners on cream cheese and bagels for decades.
Not a recipe, but durian. I tried it for the first time a few weeks ago fresh in Malaysia, and though the smell was enticing, the taste was not.
Haggis. Really wasn’t keen on it when I first heard about it. Went to Scotland and tried it, and enjoyed it. Would not eat more than one portion, it is incredibly rich.
Balut. Haven’t not gone to the Philippines yet, but this is something I’m not sure I’m game to try.
Sauerkraut. I never liked anything pickled when I was younger, and when I tried it, I didn’t like it. I think it was probably because it was from a jar. I really like it now.
Edit: How could I forget this one. So I worked in the West Wimmera region for a while, and then I was told about this: The florrie. It is uniquely Horsham, Victoria. My colleague is not good as describing things so it sounded worse than it is.
Florrie sounds surprisingly good. Like Steak-umms in the US.
Steak-umms are absolutely shit tier food but so damn good for some reason.
Had to look that up. It actually just looks like kebab meat.
Which triggers another food item memory: the HSP. It’s called this in Victoria, but other things in other states. I’ve not had one of these yet either.
That looks and sounds really good.
I have asked my partner to share one with me in case I don’t like it, but he doesn’t want one unless he’s been drinking. Apparently it is a late night sort of food, which might be the equivalent to KFC and Macca’s at 3AM.
Yea basically all traditional french “food”
Boeuf Bourguignon, coq au vin and steak au poivre aren’t too bad.
I mean it’s cherry picking a bit. Like swedish cuisine is a bit more than only surstromming
Not that I’ve had this, but going through an old cookbook of my mom’s, I came across a recipe for Mock Turtle soup, which called for calf brains.
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Main dish as breakfast.
Blood pudding
I know many recipes from MY country that would sound disgusting…
Brains. Anything to do with brains. Never had them but I once saw Graham Kerr, TV chef of the 70s and 80s, make sheep’s brains on his show. I remember him saying they were very high in cholesterol. Of course we all know monkey’s brains, though popular in Cantonese cuisine, are not often to be found in Washington DC, for what that’s worth.
