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.
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.
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.
I do this Jamaican-style peanut butter stew, which sounds mad but is delicious.
It must be weird to grow up without being used to peanut butter in cooking. Chicken satay is a very normal thing to eat here in Australia. Fifty years ago, maybe not, but nowadays, it’s as normal as sushi or peanut butter and jam sammies.
Yeah, I still think of it as a spread, mainly, but it has loads of applications.
Yes! I have made an African peanut chicken stew and it sounded crazy but is so good! A Jamaican version is probably just as amazing.
You are going to have to explain yourself a bit better (i need the recipe)
I don’t have it on me right now, I’m afraid, but it’s in Melissa Thompson’s book Motherland, and possibly online somewhere!
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.
Richard Nixon loved ketchup on his cottage cheese
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!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.
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.
I learned about Korean kimchi in my teens. It was one of those things that white American people would talk about while eating mashed potatoes.
Apparently Korean people would bury cabbage in their backyard and then leave it there for a month and then dig it up and eat it!
Now I have kimchi 2-3 times a week. My favorite weekend breakfast is over-easy eggs with jasmine rice and kimchi, with a little soy sauce, sesame oil, and sriracha.
Apparently Korean people would bury cabbage in their backyard and then leave it there for a month and then dig it up and eat it!
Korean here, and the tradition is basically dead, partly because no one has a backyard anymore and partly we all have kimchi fridges.
The idea is pretty much the same. It keeps a lower temperature than normal fridges, just like how buried kimchi would be kept in.
Man I’d love to have an entire drawer of different kimchis in my fridge.
Do young people make their own kimchi and store it in the drawer, or do most go buy it premade and stock the drawer?
We have some really good stores now in my part of the southeastern US where I can get pretty much any kimchi imaginable, which means I have stacks of round plastic containers in my fridge.
Do young people make their own kimchi and store it in the drawer, or do most go buy it premade and stock the drawer?
Complicated! Kimchi that goes into the drawer is gimjang kimchi. Anything else doesn’t necessarily go into the drawer.
Gimjang kimchi making is very much a communal thing; often we make a year’s worth of kimchi around November, with all the family members gathered round. It’s almost ceremonial.
A lot of people still do it, including my family, but it’s dying out as well.
Sour cherry soup from Hungary, served with sour cream. It’s delicious!
I know many recipes from MY country that would sound disgusting…
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I would not have considered pork and tofu to have an affinity. Tofu here was mostly for vegetarian food. But kimchi jigae and ma po tofu are from different places and both combine pork and tofu, so delicious that now if I get ramen I also get pork belly and tofu. I’m completely converted. Pork and tofu are delicious together.
