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#278682 - 03/04/2006 08:20 Re: Weird food [Re: lectric]
pgrzelak
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Fascinating article! Thanks!
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#278683 - 03/04/2006 11:48 Re: Weird food [Re: julf]
lectric
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Loc: New Orleans, LA
A restaurant, well... a bar... around here serves something called appropriately the Heart Stopper. Large cut french fries with sour cream, cheddar cheese, and roast beef gravy. MMMmmmmm. So bad for you though.

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#278684 - 03/04/2006 11:48 Re: Weird food [Re: Schido]
lectric
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As to the friet speciaal - That's just nasty.

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#278685 - 03/04/2006 13:18 Re: Weird food [Re: lectric]
DWallach
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Reminds me of poutine -- that great Canadian sensation that's often been described as a heart attack on a plate. I've also had a variety of mayonaise and fries combinations in Belgium.

Meanwhile, huitlachoche is actually quite tasty. If you have no trouble eating mushrooms, you'd have no trouble with huitlachoche.

I agree with earlier sentiments that mayonaise and ketchup tend to be disgusting. About the only sandwich that I'll allow anywhere near mayo is something that has tuna fish or chicken salad. Otherwise, it's mustard all the way. I put mustard on my fries as well. I've developed quite a distaste for ketchup, regardless of what you put it on. Instead, most anywhere you might put ketchup, I'll put hot sauce instead. About the only times I violate my hatred of mayo on fries is when I've visited Belgium. You won't get too far there if you try to avoid the mayo.

I think we can't properly discuss disgusting food without mentioning the wide world of canned meat products, ranging from the familiar spam to far uglier things like head cheese. I'm similar unexcited about things made from pork skin, whether it's chicharrones or pork rinds. Yuck.

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#278686 - 03/04/2006 13:26 Re: Weird food [Re: DWallach]
cushman
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Reminds me of poutine -- that great Canadian sensation that's often been described as a heart attack on a plate.

Poutine and Moxie, something I try to get when I visit home every once in a while.
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#278687 - 03/04/2006 15:51 Re: Weird food [Re: DWallach]
bonzi
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... and poutine (cheese curds part) reminds me of a traditional local cheese "škripavac" ("squeaky") I loved as a kid, virtually nonexistent nowadays. These are small cheeses prepared from cow milk sometimes mixed with sheep's, curdled with rennet, pure white and spongy, with delicate milky smell and mild, almost bland taste. If eaten within, say, a day of the moment of manufacture (they are kept in brine for the time), škripavac squeaks against one's teeth not unlike wet styrofoam on glass (or baloons, as Wikipedia article on poutine puts it). After this window passes, it is best eaten with strong olive oil, tomatoas and black pepper (like mozzarella), or left to ripen and acquire some actual taste.

Mmmm, hungry!
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#278688 - 03/04/2006 15:53 Re: Weird food [Re: bonzi]
tahir
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What's the fermented shark(?) thing they eat in Iceland?

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#278689 - 03/04/2006 16:00 Re: Weird food [Re: DWallach]
bonzi
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...from the familiar spam to far uglier things like head cheese

I actually like Spam and spam-like products (to horror of most people I know); my father loved head cheese (known here as "tlacenica", "svargla" or "prezvurst" - the last name obviously beig corrupted Germanism).

(No luck with Latin2 - back to ASCII...)
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#278690 - 03/04/2006 16:07 Re: Weird food [Re: tahir]
boxer
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What's the fermented shark(?) thing they eat in Iceland?

Hakarl
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#278691 - 03/04/2006 16:11 Re: Weird food [Re: boxer]
tahir
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Hakarl


That's the one, cool site Boxer.

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#278692 - 03/04/2006 16:56 Re: Weird food [Re: boxer]
lectric
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I think we have a winner. That is downright gutwrenching. -=shudder=-

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#278693 - 03/04/2006 16:59 Re: Weird food [Re: tahir]
JBjorgen
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Hakarl


hot-carl?


Edited by JBjorgen (03/04/2006 17:05)
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#278694 - 03/04/2006 17:10 Re: Weird food [Re: lectric]
lectric
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After a little research, I may have to stop eating andouille.

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#278695 - 03/04/2006 17:44 Re: Weird food [Re: bonzi]
lastdan
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Registered: 31/05/2002
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Loc: santa cruz,ca
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... and poutine (cheese curds part) reminds me of a traditional local cheese "škripavac" ("squeaky") I loved as a kid, virtually nonexistent nowadays.


you can find this at our local farmer's market here in Santa Cruz, CA.

I had no idea it was really called that, thought my girlfriend made up the name.

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#278696 - 03/04/2006 18:03 Re: Weird food [Re: lectric]
Mach
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Registered: 15/07/2002
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Loc: Texas, USA
In LA, its good stuff. In France? I recommend staying away from it. Can only be described it as sewage flavored meat. It ranks #2 on my list of ass-nasty foods. #1 being Uni or sea urchin. Not entirely unlike pond scum scraped from the bottom of water logged board.

From my New Orleans days, we had a guy that would bring in a loaf of Bunny bread and a couple cans of sweetened condensed milk when it was his turn to bring donuts. I guess it was the equivalent of sugar sandwiches.

I first saw deep fried twinkies and candy bars at the Calgary Stampede but then saw them later at the Houston Rodeo but never had the misfortune of trying one.

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#278697 - 03/04/2006 18:26 Re: Weird food [Re: lectric]
wfaulk
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After a little research, I may have to stop eating andouille.

It's a sausage. What did you think was going to be in it? There are far nastier sausages than andouille. Haggis and black pudding come to mind.
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#278698 - 03/04/2006 19:03 Re: Weird food [Re: wfaulk]
boxer
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Loc: Yorkshire UK
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Haggis and black pudding

Two of my favourite things! - although I do prefer white pudding.


In my annual ten days in Scotland, I aim to have haggis every day, if I can - then I leave it for the rest of the year.
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#278699 - 03/04/2006 19:15 Re: Weird food [Re: lectric]
visuvius
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Afghans have some crazy combinations. One of the oddest seems to be a middle-eastern wide thing...combining yogurt with damn near everything. As long as I can remember, we've always had yogurt at the table..simple, plain yogurt. My dad has always made it at home. We have it with rice, curries, eggplant, all sors of stuff.

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#278700 - 03/04/2006 20:45 Re: Weird food [Re: wfaulk]
lectric
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I know, it's a sausage, but I DIDN'T know it had tripe in it. Don't get me wrong, I know I'm being silly, but I tend to prefer NOT eating any type of offal.

That being said, I have no intent of stopping eating andouille. It's far too good in chicken andouille gumbo. Oh, and I DO buy it in LaPlace, the andouille capital of the world.


Edited by lectric (03/04/2006 20:49)

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#278701 - 03/04/2006 20:53 Re: Weird food [Re: lectric]
robricc
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...I know I'm being silly, but I tend to prefer NOT eating any type of offal.

But the intestines the sausage is cased in is ok?
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#278702 - 03/04/2006 23:53 Re: Weird food [Re: Mach]
petteri
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Loc: Helsinki, Finland
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#1 being Uni or sea urchin. Not entirely unlike pond scum scraped from the bottom of water logged board.


Hah! Uni is one of my favorite thisngs to order at a sushi place!

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#278703 - 04/04/2006 00:16 Re: Weird food [Re: petteri]
webroach
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Registered: 23/07/2003
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Loc: Colorado
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Hah! Uni is one of my favorite thisngs to order at a sushi place!


Agreed! And I can't believe that nobody has mentioned natto, which I'm actually quite fond of.

Strangely, I can eat rotting soybeans, but the decomposed shark almost made me hurl.
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#278704 - 04/04/2006 00:50 Re: Weird food [Re: robricc]
lectric
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But the intestines the sausage is cased in is ok?

I choose to ignore that bit of my hypocracy.

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#278705 - 04/04/2006 00:52 Re: Weird food [Re: webroach]
robricc
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Natto is rotting soy beans? I've had it before and neither liked it nor disliked it. I didn't know it was rotting.

I have no problem with Uni, but it's another one of those things I almost never order. Over here, it's one of the more expensive pieces of sushi. I'd rather fill up on the cheap stuff which I like better. Masago and fatty tuna are my passions.
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#278706 - 04/04/2006 01:55 Re: Weird food [Re: robricc]
webroach
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Most people use the term "fermented" in lieu of "rotting", but I think the latter sums it up better.

I agree with you on the fatty tuna. The connoisseur's fave, to be sure. But I have to ask, what do you mean by "masago"? "Masago" means "sand". Is it a local variety / roll?
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#278707 - 04/04/2006 02:13 Re: Weird food [Re: robricc]
lectric
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Hmm.... I miss my smoked salmon box... Tomorrow's dinner is decided.

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#278708 - 04/04/2006 02:15 Re: Weird food [Re: webroach]
lectric
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Loc: New Orleans, LA
To me, fermented and rotting have distinctly different connotations. Fermented means it is being broken down by yeast. Rotting means it's being broken down by other more nasty means.

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#278709 - 04/04/2006 05:41 Re: Weird food [Re: lectric]
frog51
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The best heart attack foods have to be Scottish. The Aberdeen Rowie or Butterie sounds nice on that page, till you realise it is basically butter, fried in lard, and served with butter and salt!

The deep fried mars bar is also pretty bad, but reasonably popular!

Me, I just like marmite or jam on cheddar as a wee snack in front of the telly
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#278710 - 04/04/2006 08:00 Re: Weird food [Re: lectric]
pgrzelak
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Fermenting vs. rotting is almost the same as "sushi" and "bait"... You can quite quickly tell is someome likes sushi by the way they describe it...
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#278711 - 04/04/2006 12:11 Re: Weird food [Re: webroach]
robricc
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Loc: New Jersey, USA
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I agree with you on the fatty tuna. The connoisseur's fave, to be sure. But I have to ask, what do you mean by "masago"? "Masago" means "sand". Is it a local variety / roll?

Pic of masgo sushi attached. It's usually translated to english here as either smelt roe, or flying fish roe. I don't know if those two fish are the same thing with just a different name.


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