My mom was Hungarian. Cooking things like soup or stew with chicken feet and necks is apparently quite common for Hungarians. It wasn't until I became a teenager that I realized that no one in Canada (where I grew up) eats chicken feet...
It is not so common any more. It's origin is from traditional peasant/rural/folk way of life, where everything was utilized. You can't find most of this food in restaurants, only prepared at home (with exeptions).
The taste and flavor for chicken soup are given by bones and not by flesh so if you want to make a good soup you have to use a lot of bones and the chicken feet and necks are mainly bones.
Chicken liver; They do not sell it in Australia, while they do have chickens.
It is a healthy food and tasty when fried with onion rings.
It is a healthy food and tasty when fried with onion rings.
They say, in China they eat everything that flies or swims, except planes and submarines.
One of my favorite dishes. Unfortunately it takes a long time to prepare. I also like Vietnamese noodle soup with tripe and pieces of beef and pork. Wonderful!
Where are you from? I heard it is served also in Italy. Although I like it, my wife could be scared away with it from home.
150 years ago all europe (and I would say the whole world) was used to eat dishes that nowadays are considered disgusting by most people:
different animals' brain (fried, boiled, roasted) or entrails (heart, liver, stomach, lungs, kidneys, tongue, spinal cord, etc...), or exterior parts (ears, snout, nose, skin, feet, crests), pig's blood cake, etc...
In sea areas it was used the garum sauce ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garum ), a very strong experience.
In Turkey I've had a black carrot juice with fermented garlic and salt. Another strong experience.
Alot of famous old cheese recipes implies and contains small living larvae of worms that digest the cheese and give back the "new" cheese.
Like spores do with Camambert-like cheeses.
Iran has a nice and very liquid yougurt called Doogh that is used as a drink when eating. Something similar as Turkey's Ayran or Serbian... I forgot its name!
I tried it at home and most of our friends didn't like it.
Tripe stew (all thre kinds of stomach) is very used in Italy with or without tomato sauce, but it is also used in Cambodia as a side dish.
In Italy we eat frogs, eels, in some areas they eat coypus and other strange anymals.
In other countries I've eaten insects (in Cambodia a very special dish are ants and deep fried spiders), in Slovenia you can eat bears...
I've traveled alot for work, and I like to try real local food everywhere I go. Very often people around me told me: "Roberto, this is the first time that I see a stranger eating this food without preconcepts on its taste, and asking more." I simply think that if it is a very common food it means that is good, even if I'm not used to eat it.
...I'm sure I'm forgetting some strange food.
different animals' brain (fried, boiled, roasted) or entrails (heart, liver, stomach, lungs, kidneys, tongue, spinal cord, etc...), or exterior parts (ears, snout, nose, skin, feet, crests), pig's blood cake, etc...
In sea areas it was used the garum sauce ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garum ), a very strong experience.
In Turkey I've had a black carrot juice with fermented garlic and salt. Another strong experience.
Alot of famous old cheese recipes implies and contains small living larvae of worms that digest the cheese and give back the "new" cheese.
Like spores do with Camambert-like cheeses.
Iran has a nice and very liquid yougurt called Doogh that is used as a drink when eating. Something similar as Turkey's Ayran or Serbian... I forgot its name!
I tried it at home and most of our friends didn't like it.
Tripe stew (all thre kinds of stomach) is very used in Italy with or without tomato sauce, but it is also used in Cambodia as a side dish.
In Italy we eat frogs, eels, in some areas they eat coypus and other strange anymals.
In other countries I've eaten insects (in Cambodia a very special dish are ants and deep fried spiders), in Slovenia you can eat bears...
I've traveled alot for work, and I like to try real local food everywhere I go. Very often people around me told me: "Roberto, this is the first time that I see a stranger eating this food without preconcepts on its taste, and asking more." I simply think that if it is a very common food it means that is good, even if I'm not used to eat it.
...I'm sure I'm forgetting some strange food.
One of the best soups I experienced was a Vietnamese fish soup that stared back at me. Tripe was a home Italian staple I never liked but battered deep fried whole minnows and blackbird stew were delicious alternatives.
Chicken hearts and livers, whole sheep heads, gonads and more are regularly sold in Ontario at the Marché Adonis supermarket. Western grocers are the global odd ball.
Black pudding, fried in lard.
I believe " chitling " or something similar was popular - fried cows udders, I was enjoying some soft meat until I was told it was tongue.
I believe " chitling " or something similar was popular - fried cows udders, I was enjoying some soft meat until I was told it was tongue.
I am from the Vancouver area.
All of the foods mentioned so far, with the exception of insects, poypus, sheep heads and cow udders are readily available and consumed in this household.
Hot dogs are rather disgusting to many other cultures and were to ours, at one time.
Pig heads are the cranial choice around here.
Often chitlins is actually pork uterus rather than intestine as you can see by the ovaries still attached.
All of the foods mentioned so far, with the exception of insects, poypus, sheep heads and cow udders are readily available and consumed in this household.
Hot dogs are rather disgusting to many other cultures and were to ours, at one time.
Pig heads are the cranial choice around here.
Often chitlins is actually pork uterus rather than intestine as you can see by the ovaries still attached.
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Raw nettle salad. I have eaten something like this several times and it is really tasty.
Some links:
https://www.google.com/search?q=Raw...NAewKHcXuD6wQ9QF6BAgNEAE#imgrc=MNwXInVqpXj27M
Some links:
https://www.google.com/search?q=Raw...NAewKHcXuD6wQ9QF6BAgNEAE#imgrc=MNwXInVqpXj27M
Scrapple.
Prairie oysters.
Moose is popular here (we have to shoot the excess because we killed all the wolves) but it can't be sold, only given.
Prairie oysters.
I'm sure bears get eaten in Maine. I've heard they have fans in California and the game laws allow it.
Moose is popular here (we have to shoot the excess because we killed all the wolves) but it can't be sold, only given.
I don't find it disgusting. There is a tea made of this plant, allegedly good for the health. Nettle does not sting when harvested.
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When I was young, (pork) brains-and-kidney was a common dish at home and in restaurants. Not any more.
Pork is not eaten by Jews, Muslims, Yazidis, Seventh Day Adventists also Antiochian, Eritrean and Ethiopian Orthodox Christians. Even some folks who have visited a pork producer's farm! Idea is that it is a bottom feeder and what is a feeder who feeds on a bottom feeder?