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Weird ethnic foods that make you question life as terrifying, meaningless and void of soul?

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InfraBlue
 
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Reply Thu 10 May, 2018 06:06 pm
@maxdancona,
https://images.heb.com/is/image/HEBGrocery/rcp-homepage/menudo-sabroso-recipe-1.jpg
Menudo, the breakfast of champions.
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ehBeth
 
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Reply Thu 10 May, 2018 06:32 pm
@coluber2001,
My mother was a great lover of all the stinky cheeses. I can manage some fairly pungent ones but limburger's past my tolerance.

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Just got off the phone with my dad where we talked about the wonders of salmiakki and other strong licorices. We also discusses how weird it was to have milk that tasted like gouda when we travelled in the Netherlands. Not to either of our liking. Tea with cheese-tasting milk just didn't do it for us.
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ehBeth
 
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Reply Thu 10 May, 2018 06:37 pm
My parents always kept this combo in the car glove box. We'd put one of the curiously strong mints and a couple of the salmiakki diamonds in our mouth before we headed out on a hike. I still recall Set's expression the first time my mother offered them to him. More horror than happy.


https://static.openfoodfacts.org/images/products/00011501/front_en.21.400.jpg

http://lakritshandel.jetshopmini.se/pub_images/large/lakrits_059_60.jpg
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cicerone imposter
 
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Reply Thu 10 May, 2018 07:36 pm
Fugu fish in Japan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugu
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Thu 10 May, 2018 07:52 pm
The food I consider truly terrifying, meaningless and devoid of soul is ordinary okra. Of all legitimate foods, it is the one Godzilla should walk over and then a twenty five year old elephant **** on. Then an earthquake split open the ground and swallow it up. Said split then filled with concrete and a mountain form over it.
Kolyo
 
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Reply Thu 10 May, 2018 07:58 pm
I don't like the look of them taco things.
What the hell is wrong with American food, like a burger?
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maxdancona
 
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Reply Thu 10 May, 2018 08:40 pm
@edgarblythe,
Okra was made to be put into gumbo. Surely you don't have a problem with gumbo.

https://www.thedailymeal.com/sites/default/files/2014/11/30/7d075404725b040e1e7af68046cffa20.jpg
edgarblythe
 
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Reply Thu 10 May, 2018 09:03 pm
@maxdancona,
It's different with the gumbo I am familiar with. There is no okra taste, as I know it in gumbo.
izzythepush
 
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Reply Fri 11 May, 2018 12:49 am
@coluber2001,
Up north they sell it in chipshops.

https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/0e/f5/c8/8a/photo0jpg.jpg

To be honest it's not a lot different from sausage and chips.
Ragman
 
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Reply Fri 11 May, 2018 08:05 am
@izzythepush,
Lutefisk - A totally revolting Nordic (Finnish/Norwegian) gelatinous abomination whose literal translation is "lye fish". Air-dried whitefish (or similar) treated with lye.
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cicerone imposter
 
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Reply Fri 11 May, 2018 05:19 pm
@edgarblythe,
My wife and I tried the Memphis gumbo on our visit there last year.
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ehBeth
 
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Reply Fri 11 May, 2018 06:06 pm
@izzythepush,
that all looks a bit dry
are the chips/fries there as dry as they look? (those actually look frozen to me)

I could totally do a haggis sausage if there were some nice crisp shoestring fries alongside - and maybe some sauteed onions

ooh just found some pix of black pudding with chips that look really good
izzythepush
 
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Reply Sat 12 May, 2018 01:25 am
@ehBeth,
That's a stock photo. I've not been to that particular chip shop. Chip shops vary, some are terrible some are really good. I don't know what you mean by dry. Do you mean left out way too long after they've been cooked or covered in sauce?

If it's the latter you can always put sauce on, if it'sthe former that's a chip shop to avoid.
Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Sat 12 May, 2018 06:23 am
@izzythepush,
Decades ago I had a full Scottish breakfast in Aviemore, Including a tattie scone, banger and of course haggis.
The b&b owner played his bagpipe when it was served.

Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Sat 12 May, 2018 06:29 am
@Walter Hinteler,
I really like Labskaus

https://i.imgur.com/ngiUth5.jpg

Corned beef, potatoes, onions, beetroot, with pickled gherkin and rollmops [pickled rooled herring fillets with a gherkin filling]
In the navy, it was served with a bottle of beer - thus, even for those who didn't like it, a favourite.
izzythepush
 
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Reply Sat 12 May, 2018 08:11 am
@Walter Hinteler,
At least you didn't get neeps and tatties.
Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Sat 12 May, 2018 08:28 am
@izzythepush,
Might be I got them (it's decades ago), but I did get a dram with it.
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ehBeth
 
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Reply Sat 12 May, 2018 10:36 am
@izzythepush,
They look completely uncooked to me, but photos of chips in the UK tend to look underdone to me. It may be the type of potato used or just regional customs/preferences but I"m used to seeing fries/chips that have more colour.
ehBeth
 
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Reply Sat 12 May, 2018 10:37 am
@Walter Hinteler,
yum! now that's our kind of food

I recall being so excited on a KLM flight in the 1970's because they were serving rollmops as an appetizer. So delicious.
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ehBeth
 
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Reply Sat 12 May, 2018 10:40 am
@Walter Hinteler,


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