It's a good topic. The Durian fruit is for sure better to eat than to smell, as some french cheese.
About strange things, have you heard about Ortolan bird ?
Or bats (which is mammal) in Madagascar ? On the same island they also eated nearly all the lemurians...
While I had pain to eat surstroming while staying to smile to the sweet sweedish woman who wanted to share her country culture, there are certainly some good food I could not eat by curiosity ! Brain is an important thing with food ! I certainly could not eat a cat or a dog, nore a monkey or a panda for instance. Like some could not eat some animals due to their religion. Brain is very strong as habits are with foods.
i will prefer to support surstromig than eating a shark chineese soap which has no taste or dolphin from Japan, or rhinoceros horn with my tea or tiger parts ! But I eat vegetable with pesticide on it ! And eated sheep brain with lemon !
Are we not strange... Anyway I defintly like the idea od Milesim with surstroming cans.. cool!
About strange things, have you heard about Ortolan bird ?
Or bats (which is mammal) in Madagascar ? On the same island they also eated nearly all the lemurians...While I had pain to eat surstroming while staying to smile to the sweet sweedish woman who wanted to share her country culture, there are certainly some good food I could not eat by curiosity ! Brain is an important thing with food ! I certainly could not eat a cat or a dog, nore a monkey or a panda for instance. Like some could not eat some animals due to their religion. Brain is very strong as habits are with foods.
i will prefer to support surstromig than eating a shark chineese soap which has no taste or dolphin from Japan, or rhinoceros horn with my tea or tiger parts ! But I eat vegetable with pesticide on it !
And eated sheep brain with lemon !Are we not strange... Anyway I defintly like the idea od Milesim with surstroming cans.. cool
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Sheep's pluck and oatmeal, nothing stinky or fermented there, seems like the old fear of liver and kidneys. Can't even come close to the most challenging fermented fish delights from around the world.
No fuss here. The smellier the cheese, the better IMV. I’ve eaten stinky Tofu - nice.
Iceland on tne bucket list and that when I’ll try the hakari.
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The folks in the Tokyo office were always surprised at what didn't bother me at all, but the totally smell/tasteless grated mountain yam "snot" I could never get past.
I could never handle natto and it turns out, neither do a lot of Japanese (like Scotch whisky - lot of folks up there can’t stand their national drink. Sacrilege and traitorous IMV).
One of the worst things on my pallet though is raw egg. I stopped eating Haagen Daz ice cream years ago because the raw egg comes through (especially on vanilla) and it seems I’m particularly sensitive to it. I’ll eat fried and boiled eggs that are cooked through, but nothing runny. My team members took me out to dinner shortly after landing in Japan for sukiyaki - I had to pass. The Japanese will break a raw egg over almost anything given half a chance including a Caesar salad believe it or not.
One of the worst things on my pallet though is raw egg. I stopped eating Haagen Daz ice cream years ago because the raw egg comes through (especially on vanilla) and it seems I’m particularly sensitive to it. I’ll eat fried and boiled eggs that are cooked through, but nothing runny. My team members took me out to dinner shortly after landing in Japan for sukiyaki - I had to pass. The Japanese will break a raw egg over almost anything given half a chance including a Caesar salad believe it or not.
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I had forgotten the natto at morning breakfast... really not easy for me to eat... Really strange japonese can like it as often their food is made of many subtle variation in a short window most of the time. This natto is a big gap and was a surprise (but not a good one).
Is there something more tasty to eat than hakari ?
Is there something more tasty to eat than hakari ?
Caesar salad was IIRC from a restaurant in Mexico and there is a controversy around the eggs being coddled or raw, but yes often raw. There is virtually no chance that a commercial ice cream contains truly raw eggs pasteurization is a certainty. I have heard of a new process for destroying pathogens with ultra-high pressure, no idea what that is all about.
HD vanilla is the only thing these days that I consider even close to traditional post WW2 American style ice cream. Ice cream has at most 4 ingredients, milk plus heavy cream for a certain fat content, real vanilla, egg yolks, and cane sugar. A French chef friend made something she called frozen velvet which had 32 egg yolks to quart of heavy cream.
I should add I virtually never eat ice cream anymore, my comment is dated by many years but a read recently of labels showed that a some commercial ice creams are weasel wording their use of "not quite" real vanilla and continue to use guar gum and/or carrageenan as a texture element, while by label HD stays simple.
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You need to experience it yourself, like many things that make no sense in Japan the Scotch thing is one. You might typically be served it watered down 10:1 due to the generally low tolerance for alcohol.
I took a bottle of Strathisla as a gift to my cousin (a permanent resident with Japanese family) and it was viewed with awe.
When out with the guys from the office beer was in order and rarely sake, I saw little or no evidence of a large interest in other hard spirits though every high end bar had their bottle of Louis the 13th for $100 a shot.
I think most of this stuff is much ado about nothing. In Finland the traditional easter dessert is Mämmi, which looks fairly questionable.
Looks are deceiving. It's basically just rye malt which doesn't taste like much and smells slightly sweet, which it is. It's not great but as we say over here I'd rather eat it than take a beating. Often served with cream like in the picture. There are stories of foreign envoys being offered this stuff and being offended to the extent they would leave the country, but I doubt any of them are true.
Looks are deceiving. It's basically just rye malt which doesn't taste like much and smells slightly sweet, which it is. It's not great but as we say over here I'd rather eat it than take a beating. Often served with cream like in the picture. There are stories of foreign envoys being offered this stuff and being offended to the extent they would leave the country, but I doubt any of them are true.
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If you ever come across the Czech Republic, you definitely need to try these: Home - Tvarůžky
Best with a bit of onion, local bread and of course, beer. If made properly, they smell like hell. Extremists leave them marinate in oil with lots of onion and some spices, then it is gas mask time But taste is even better.
Best with a bit of onion, local bread and of course, beer. If made properly, they smell like hell. Extremists leave them marinate in oil with lots of onion and some spices, then it is gas mask time
But taste is even better.
Here is something scary for those not born in Australia or New Zealand.
All About the Australian Food Icon Known As Vegemite
All About the Australian Food Icon Known As Vegemite
Did you ever try »Handkäse mit Musik« (literally translated to hand cheese with music)? It's that cheese with a vinaigrette of vinegar, oil, onions, pepper, salt and, if it hasn't yet been added during manufacturing, caraway. This is a delicacy in some southern German regions, served with apple wine or dry white wine, and also works well with other extremely aromatic kinds of cheese, such as Harzer, Limburger, Remoudou, and Munster, for instance (i.e. cheese that has been treated with Brevibacterium linens).
OTOH, Surströmming never was, and never will be be available in Germany, due to food poisoning reasons.
Best regards!
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Not for nuffin is something that polarises opinion tagged 'marmite'. They even make a thing of it in the advertising. Personally love it, but I specialise in wartime foodstuffs (except spam, that is bait for catching crayfish).
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Yes, Schweinshaxe mit kraut and boiled potatoes and a liter of Weissbier for 6 marks. The "dead man's fingers" as my friends called it was an extra treat.
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