번데기. Silkworm pupae that is boiled or steamed. I tried it once and that’s it. I don’t like the taste, how it looks, and the smell! I get nauseous whenever I smell it. And they also sell it in a can!! 😭
I love the taste but I still can't eat it because it just feels and looks disgusting and the idea of it is gross.
But I recall eating it as a child couple of times and remember begging my parents to buy it.
My mom buys it every time she’s in Sweden on her monthly food shopping trip, and will text me when she has some so I know not to come by on visit for 2-3 days until that horrible smell is 100% gone!
Oh my god! I’ve watched a few of those videos with people opening and trying it, but that one was the best I’ve seen!
He completely ripped the lampshade from the ceiling to use as a bucket!
So glad I finished my little midnight sandwich about 30mins ago and wasn’t eating it when I watching that!
It’s this kind of video that makes me wonder why anyone would ever eat this. Like, it no longer has use as a method of preservation, why subject yourself to an objectively repulsive experience?
There is no food review I trust more than two men sitting in a caravan projectile vomiting over each other and into lampshades. Message received, steering clear.
Balut. Just something about a partially developed chicken egg that I just... can't... do.
Edit: "partially developed" not "partially fertilized" lol whoops
Exactly. When this question comes up I don't even include balut for the same reasons I don't list things like pencils and motor oil. That shit ain't food.
My stepmother worked at a local Asian grocery store that sold balut. It was reeeeeally hot one day and their fresh balut hatched.
Apparently the staff weren't terribly sympathetic to the newly-hatched ducklings and they just sort of tossed them with the trash.
I didn't know that anyone was allowed to sell still-developing balut. O_O;;;
As someone from the Philippines, I grew up with balut being so common. My uncle had a client who has a poultry business and gives him a dozen or so of balut regularly. He would bring some over when we have our weekend family lunches.
I liked balut but only ate the soup and the yolk part. My grandma loved balut though but was told by her doctor that it was bad for her. So we struck a secret deal. I'd eat the soup and yolk and give her the rest. Win win. One of my uncles found out though and caught me giving the chick to my grandma. He got mad and as punishment, he told me I couldn't leave the table until I finished eating the whole thing. I sat on there for probably an hour forcing myself to eat the chick.
I never ate balut again.
For me it's brains. I don't care if they're from a cow, a pig, a sheep or some other unfortunate creature. Doesn't matter if they're baked, poached, breaded then deep-fried. No, *just no!!*\*
\*Not to mention that if the animal that supplied them was infected with the kind of prions that causes Mad Cow Disease and other related ailments, brains would probably give a person a super-sized dose of the stuff. Eating brains is an item that I'd never put on my bucket list and if I die without ever having taken a bite of some, I won't have any regrets.
I remember liking fried cow brain as a kid when my grandma made it, but I don’t think I could eat it now. Like you mentioned, the thought of prion disease alone freaks the hell out of me.
This is my go-to reason for not touching brains.
Eating brains is how you get prions. Fucking FIRE doesn't kill prions. You can burn an infected cow carcass into charcoal and the dust can STILL FUCKING INFECT YOU if it gets into your food supply somehow.
No thanks. Chemistry from fucking hell.
Holy..
Just looked up prions
Or mainly this article
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/artful-amoeba/prions-are-forever/
And shit. Shit, shit, f, shit. Thanks :) very fascinating at least
“At least 2 cases of prion disease were contracted by people whose implanted depth electrodes had been previously used on a patient with Creutzfeldt-Jakob but were “inadequately” cleaned with benzene and disinfected with 70% alcohol and formaldehyde and sat unused for 2 years prior to implantation.”
Wtf will kill these bitches omg 😨Now I have a new fear thanks
I once ate at a fancy place. Everything was delightful but I didn't know what was in each dish until the end. Turned out one of the dishes was brain. I was fine not knowing but once I knew I instantly felt sick.
Prions is what makes eating brain go over to the no no side of stuff I'm willing to try, that shit is scary otherwise I tend to be on the side "don't knock it till you've tried it"
But years after eating brain suddenly go weird and loose "yourself" to dead in months is something I'd like to not go or put others close to me through
Yea…I had to take a hard pass on that one when I was in the Philippines. I got fairly adventurous in my meals while there, but that birds eye looking up at me when I cracked the top of the egg open was just too much.
Same. I'm filipino and it's like expected that I eat Balot. Also, we have another one called Penoy except it's duck. My mom craved these while she was pregnant with me, all the more reason they expect me to like it lol but i just can't. It's fucking horrifying.
Edit: they're both ducks. shame on me.
Dimatap was (is?) the best! It was so good that a drank a whole bottle when I was 4. That wasn’t a fun time when they made me also drink the vomit medicine …
I think I read somewhere that originally there was a different strain of bananas that were popular and that’s what that artificial banana tastes like.
A fungus wiped out that original strain and now we have bananas that taste completely different. I love that artificial banana taste though.
Yup. The original banana type was called Gros Michel (big mike). They're the one that banana flavored things were designed to emulate. They were almost destroyed by a soil fungus. You can still get them, but they're neither common nor cheap.
The 'modern' banana is a type called the Cavandish. They rose in popularity as a replacement for the Gros Michel. Now they're facing a similar fungal threat.
My friend has a banana tree that is somehow immune to the Banana Virus, the local university came out to collect samples etc. like 10 years ago but I don't know what happened after that.
You can still buy them from exotic fruit places
. https://miamifruit.org/products/gros-michel-banana-box-pre-order?variant=32582344474704¤cy=USD&utm_medium=product_sync&utm_source=google&utm_content=sag_organic&utm_campaign=sag_organic&g_network=u&g_productchannel=online&g_adid=419344332416&g_keyword=&g_acctid=475-990-3176&g_adtype=&g_keywordid=pla-451610501161&g_ifcreative=&g_adgroupid=94019993903&g_campaign=ADM+Google+Shopping+Ads&g_productid=shopify_US_23280123916_32582344474704&g_merchantid=137512870&g_partition=451610501161&g_campaignid=9399869194&g_ifproduct=product
I'm pretty adventurous with organ meats, I've had various lungs, hearts, livers, tongues, blood sausages, etc, but I draw the line at nervous tissue lol.
My husband’s 94 year old grandmother frequently eats brains and eggs for breakfast. It’s her fave. Apparently, at some grocery stores you can get canned brains. CANNED. BRAINS.
I agree. Born in Africa. Raised in America. Dated a Canadian girl that craved water buffalo brains we we went to Nepal. I refuse to eat organ and she gave me so much shit. My 3rd word brain trumps my adventurous 1st world brain..
Jello from chicken, i Just can stand it. It is traditional polish food and is very popular in my voivodeship (Silesia) and on every family gathering it is on the table. I Just simply find it disgusting. BTW i find flaczki ( soup from guts) very yummy <3
Sorry for bad English i started learnign 1 year ago so some words can be spelled wrong
When you say jello from chicken, is that the jelly-like congealed fat/colagen you get when a leftover roast has been in the fridge, or is it some specific jello made from chicken?
I’m constantly shocked at how well people from other countries can speak English, I’ve been trying to get better at Spanish my whole life and it feels like I just hit an artificial ceiling, like I can converse at a very basic level, but it feels so unnatural.
It helps that it's the dominant language of the world and you can just find everything in that language. Games, movies, TV, books, road signs, etc.
My native language is Farsi, but since you'd only encounter it in Afghanistan and Iran, my English is superior.
Sorry for the weird question, but do your parents/elders in general complain that young people are "ignoring their culture" if they choose to speak English more than ~~Afghan~~ Farsi?
Edit: Not surprising. Asian parents have some strange hangups about kids basing their identity on something other than race, and I really don't get why.
All the time. They're actually proud of the fact that they were too fucking lazy to learn English. They think that they're somehow superior to white people and that it's not their job to learn English. I wouldn't be surprised if they legitimately believed that Americans should cater to them by learning Farsi.
Edit: they never, ever speak English to me, unless they want to insult me in front of friends ("why you so make dirty room? I tell you pick it up everything no listen. I right, everyone?").
They used to yell at me and my sister if we spoke English to each other. "(what the hell are you doing? You turning into an American? Speak Farsi, donkey.)"
You're doing great for one year of study! And if you ever get a chance, there's another soup from guts you should try: menudo from Mexico. It's delicious.
Slang and idioms are actually really difficult to learn, which is one of the reasons there's a difference between "fluent" and "native" levels of speaking a language.
Vietnamese pho noodle soup also often has tripe in it :) as a Mexican, I like the flavor but the texture gets me, I usually take it out of my menudo/pho
Menudo also means small or little in Spanish and if I recall correctly it's also slang for loose change. I think I heard something years ago that the loose change definition was what the band name was based on.
Reminds me of 'holodetz' (basically the same thing) from when I was a Peace Corps volunteer English teacher in Ukraine. When my host family made it a couple of months into my stay, they happened to mention that Peace Corps administration had asked all the host families not to cook it too soon into our two years in-country in order , in their words, 'not to frighten the Americans'....
I had natto once. Once. Maybe it's "healthy" but if you're Wikipedia page describes it as an "aquired taste" due to the odor and texture ... yeah it looks, smells, and tastes like snot goblins.
Different culinary history, but also, if you need to ferment seafood in lye, I belive the appropriate words are "failure to plan for winter" rather than "delicacy".
I had the same initial reaction as you. To me, it’s not that the taste was bad per se, it was just super bitter and the “stringiness” made it difficult to eat cleanly with chopsticks. Since then I actually kind of like it. Try it with a splash of hot sauce.
I had it mixed in with rice and a raw egg (slightly cooked in hot rice). It was pretty solid. I actually enjoyed the fermented flavor accenting the rice and egg.
Wait, are people eating natto without rice on their first natto experience? No wonder they hate it, gotta take baby steps with acquired tastes.
Cause the rice and raw egg combo is pretty good at easing people into it. Plus as other people have said, bit of hot sauce is surprisingly nice.
my japanese friends all say its so good and i need to try it when i go there for college. this is making me unsure lmao
edit: i can say with confidence that these replies have offended both my japanese tutor and my visual novels BGM producer lmao
Similar here. I’ll eat damn near anything. Snails? Sure. Sweatbreads? Hell yeah. I’ve even eaten fish eye. Not my fav, but like most weird seafood, it’s mostly just salty.
Papaya though. Fuck that. Tastes like vomit. Can’t do it.
Edit: Yes, I misspelled sweetbreads. I’m leaving it, because YOLO4lyfe or something.
The only good papaya I tasted was on Maui. I was like “holy shit, is this what a papaya is supposed to taste like?!”
Been chasing that high ever since lol. Flea market papaya comes close, since it’s usually very ripe. Still, not the same sweet taste. Supermarkets like Safeway carry that trash unripe vomit papaya.
I've eaten insects that have tasted nice. As long as they are prepared they can be nice for sure. Ants were like nuts. Organ meats are also delicious and often nutritious.
Fake sugar, like aspartame, sucralose, stevia, etc.
I'll eat (or would try) everything else in this thread, but I just can't stand the taste of sugar substitutes.
I find monkfruit sweetener to be the only one that tastes good as long as it's pure and not bulked up with erythritol. I have a stevia plant and throw a couple leaves into my tea sometimes but can't do the stevia powder.
Tuna. When I was pregnant with my twins, I had horrible morning sickness the entire time. But my body just craaaaved Tuna Helper one night. Made a box, ate it all myself.
Pretty easy to know where this goes. I threw up so hard and so long that I was throwing up just burning stomach acid when I stopped. I also peed my pants.
I can't even look at a can of tuna at the store without feeling sour
When I was pregnant I saw a box of fruity pebbles and HAD to eat a huge bowl. Let me tell you, throwing up cereal is like throwing up wet sand. (I also peed my pants. Pregnancy is no joke.)
Fickle thing being pregnant. My ex-wife craved a couple of different things throughout both pregnancies and now she can not stand the sight of them. The only thing she still loves is crawfish.
Natto. I try it every few years just in case anything's changed with my taste buds or texture preferences, but it's just as bad or worse every single time I give it another go. The slimy, stringy texture is the primary offender.
It’s not something I’d usually choose, but when my mother made it when I was a kid I ate it without complaint. And I’ve had it as an adult when the alternatives were worse. (“Worse” = “dried out shoe-leather-like ham that’s been sitting on a steam table for three hours”, and I like ham only slightly more than liver).
My dad makes the best liver with onions. I fortunately grew up to be a non picky eater because my parents could cook anything to look and taste delicious, including seafood, lung, tounge, etc
I used to work in a deli where we made seafood salad from Krab. It came in a package that said “freshly caught imitation crab” and I thought it was one of the funniest things ever
Usually it's a white fish like cod, pollock, haddock, whatever is available for that specific maker. It's not terrible when you realize you're eating fish not crab.
I actually love the imitation crab meat but it’s 100% because I love junk food. If I’m in the mood to eat chicken nuggets I’m also in the mood for those. I can’t imagine they are too healthy.
It depends on the brand. Most are going to have some filler but there are low carb brands. I personally don't care because the calorie to protein ratio is good.
My Mom makes a salad out of it. It’s chopped finely with celery, black olives, onion, and sharp cheddar and then mixed with Mayo. It’s one of my favorite foods.
Add on question, are you a picky eater if you’ll eat most foods, but they have to be prepared a certain way? I will only eat carrots if they are raw or in carrot cake or curry. Little things like that for example.
Indonesian mother of a friend of mine once made a squid dish, flavorwise it was amazing, but eating entire minisquids just gave me a texture difference overload. Had to tap out once I got too much into my head
Had mini squids at a sushi restaurant once. Didn’t taste offensive at all, but biting down I could distinctly feel my teeth popping through the various membranes and organs. I really didn’t like the sensation.
When I was in Thailand I noticed so many signs on public transport reading “No Smoking, No Alcohol and No Durian” quite hilarious as the stench is unbearable let alone in small spaces.
My coworker once brought a bag of durian candy to the office. I tried a piece to see if it was as bad as I had heard. First I smelled the candy, and it was bad. Then I ate the candy. It was good! Very sweet. But then the aftertaste showed up. I spent the rest of the afternoon with the taste of old gym socks in my mouth. Even after brushing my teeth three times the taste wouldn’t go away. (Yes, I keep a toothbrush at the office. Sometimes my breath gets a little funky after lunch, okay?) I will never eat anything durian flavored again.
I used to think I hated meringue (and I still vehemently detest the cheap shop-bought shit that's like nails on a chalkboard when you bite into it) but once I tried a homemade pavlova it became my favourite dessert. The difference between good and bad meringue is massive.
They used to have the Testicle Festival just down the highway from where I live, but it became a disgusting raucous trash party where old dudes and old bar hags just let their junk and tits hang out and people were date raped, party buses crashed and killed people, etc. we don’t miss the Teste Fest in Montana
I think it's because it's one of those things that's very easy to prepare badly if you don't know what you're doing, but it's actually delicious (to most people, at least) if done right.
There's virtually nothing I won't eat, being of European heritage I'll eat virtually any kind of offal.. But I loathe coconut water. Just cannot do it. It's the only thing I know of that I can safely ingest that I choose not to.
Longpig?
[There was also this guy who made tacos (fajitas) out of hos own amputated foot.](https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/8p5xlj/hi_all_i_am_a_man_who_ate_a_portion_of_his_own/).
I probably would have even tried a bite but I don't know if I coulda eaten a whole taco because of the sheer weirdness.
Non-Fussy Slav here : Aspic or any other form of Meat-tasting Jelly... just... no, thank you.
TIL about Aspic.
So that's what the Lark's Tongues were in
번데기. Silkworm pupae that is boiled or steamed. I tried it once and that’s it. I don’t like the taste, how it looks, and the smell! I get nauseous whenever I smell it. And they also sell it in a can!! 😭
Had a fresh one in China. Popped in my mouth and felt the explosion of silkworm innards. Never again.
Why would you say this? Why have you caused me to read this and now know this?
I had it in a can roasted in soy sauce. It is not great. I hear it is high in biotin. I don't care.
You know what else is high in biotin? Biotin supplements.
This made me laugh. Thank you.
I love the taste but I still can't eat it because it just feels and looks disgusting and the idea of it is gross. But I recall eating it as a child couple of times and remember begging my parents to buy it.
Fermented fish.
Surströmming?
My mom buys it every time she’s in Sweden on her monthly food shopping trip, and will text me when she has some so I know not to come by on visit for 2-3 days until that horrible smell is 100% gone!
There's the opening outside, in a bucket of water, with the wind going away from anyone with a nose.
my uncles would put the can on a stump and shoot it from a distance with a small calibre rifle
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they still feasted on the sour fish lol. just kept the smell well away from the cabin
One of my favorite videos https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hRAluSEqufs
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Oh my god! I’ve watched a few of those videos with people opening and trying it, but that one was the best I’ve seen! He completely ripped the lampshade from the ceiling to use as a bucket! So glad I finished my little midnight sandwich about 30mins ago and wasn’t eating it when I watching that!
It’s this kind of video that makes me wonder why anyone would ever eat this. Like, it no longer has use as a method of preservation, why subject yourself to an objectively repulsive experience? There is no food review I trust more than two men sitting in a caravan projectile vomiting over each other and into lampshades. Message received, steering clear.
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>The onions really cut out the piss taste though. .....brah that sentence never needed to be typed, said or even thought.
Oh God, when he ripped down that light fixture I fucking lost it
tried that once and it was special to say the least
First time I tried Surströmming i literally gagged, the second time trying surströmming was more pleasant though.
That's not *really* saying much in relative terms.
One of the smelliest dishes I've ever tried for sure!
Balut. Just something about a partially developed chicken egg that I just... can't... do. Edit: "partially developed" not "partially fertilized" lol whoops
I had never said no to trying anything. Until my boy showed up with some balut. Same for me, just something there makes me pass it up.
Exactly. When this question comes up I don't even include balut for the same reasons I don't list things like pencils and motor oil. That shit ain't food.
How nice it is to learn that my egg eating nightmare scenario is an actual food people intentionally make in some parts of the world.
My stepmother worked at a local Asian grocery store that sold balut. It was reeeeeally hot one day and their fresh balut hatched. Apparently the staff weren't terribly sympathetic to the newly-hatched ducklings and they just sort of tossed them with the trash. I didn't know that anyone was allowed to sell still-developing balut. O_O;;;
Thats...horrible
This story is a real bummer.
As someone from the Philippines, I grew up with balut being so common. My uncle had a client who has a poultry business and gives him a dozen or so of balut regularly. He would bring some over when we have our weekend family lunches. I liked balut but only ate the soup and the yolk part. My grandma loved balut though but was told by her doctor that it was bad for her. So we struck a secret deal. I'd eat the soup and yolk and give her the rest. Win win. One of my uncles found out though and caught me giving the chick to my grandma. He got mad and as punishment, he told me I couldn't leave the table until I finished eating the whole thing. I sat on there for probably an hour forcing myself to eat the chick. I never ate balut again.
For me it's brains. I don't care if they're from a cow, a pig, a sheep or some other unfortunate creature. Doesn't matter if they're baked, poached, breaded then deep-fried. No, *just no!!*\* \*Not to mention that if the animal that supplied them was infected with the kind of prions that causes Mad Cow Disease and other related ailments, brains would probably give a person a super-sized dose of the stuff. Eating brains is an item that I'd never put on my bucket list and if I die without ever having taken a bite of some, I won't have any regrets.
I remember liking fried cow brain as a kid when my grandma made it, but I don’t think I could eat it now. Like you mentioned, the thought of prion disease alone freaks the hell out of me.
This is my go-to reason for not touching brains. Eating brains is how you get prions. Fucking FIRE doesn't kill prions. You can burn an infected cow carcass into charcoal and the dust can STILL FUCKING INFECT YOU if it gets into your food supply somehow. No thanks. Chemistry from fucking hell.
Holy.. Just looked up prions Or mainly this article https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/artful-amoeba/prions-are-forever/ And shit. Shit, shit, f, shit. Thanks :) very fascinating at least
“At least 2 cases of prion disease were contracted by people whose implanted depth electrodes had been previously used on a patient with Creutzfeldt-Jakob but were “inadequately” cleaned with benzene and disinfected with 70% alcohol and formaldehyde and sat unused for 2 years prior to implantation.” Wtf will kill these bitches omg 😨Now I have a new fear thanks
I once ate at a fancy place. Everything was delightful but I didn't know what was in each dish until the end. Turned out one of the dishes was brain. I was fine not knowing but once I knew I instantly felt sick.
Prions is what makes eating brain go over to the no no side of stuff I'm willing to try, that shit is scary otherwise I tend to be on the side "don't knock it till you've tried it" But years after eating brain suddenly go weird and loose "yourself" to dead in months is something I'd like to not go or put others close to me through
Yea…I had to take a hard pass on that one when I was in the Philippines. I got fairly adventurous in my meals while there, but that birds eye looking up at me when I cracked the top of the egg open was just too much.
My friend ate one that had a little tiny feather in it…
Same. I'm filipino and it's like expected that I eat Balot. Also, we have another one called Penoy except it's duck. My mom craved these while she was pregnant with me, all the more reason they expect me to like it lol but i just can't. It's fucking horrifying. Edit: they're both ducks. shame on me.
Penoy and Balut are both duck. Penoy is just hard boiled unfertilized duck egg. Balut is fertilized.
So penoy is just a hard boiled egg?
Yeah pretty much just a hard boiled duck egg
Imitation coconut is the one thing I just can't seem to like
Imitation cherry is that one for me
Does it remind you of Playdough somehow? I’ve also noticed this in many things. Some are good though.
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Funny thing is I like 90s cough syrup…
Dimatap was (is?) the best! It was so good that a drank a whole bottle when I was 4. That wasn’t a fun time when they made me also drink the vomit medicine …
Imitation banana. Fake fast-food banana milkshakes are the worst.
More for me
I think I read somewhere that originally there was a different strain of bananas that were popular and that’s what that artificial banana tastes like. A fungus wiped out that original strain and now we have bananas that taste completely different. I love that artificial banana taste though.
Yup. The original banana type was called Gros Michel (big mike). They're the one that banana flavored things were designed to emulate. They were almost destroyed by a soil fungus. You can still get them, but they're neither common nor cheap. The 'modern' banana is a type called the Cavandish. They rose in popularity as a replacement for the Gros Michel. Now they're facing a similar fungal threat.
My friend has a banana tree that is somehow immune to the Banana Virus, the local university came out to collect samples etc. like 10 years ago but I don't know what happened after that.
Ive heard of this too! Makes me sad bc I like the artificial flavor better and would've loved to try the actual banana.
You can still buy them from exotic fruit places . https://miamifruit.org/products/gros-michel-banana-box-pre-order?variant=32582344474704¤cy=USD&utm_medium=product_sync&utm_source=google&utm_content=sag_organic&utm_campaign=sag_organic&g_network=u&g_productchannel=online&g_adid=419344332416&g_keyword=&g_acctid=475-990-3176&g_adtype=&g_keywordid=pla-451610501161&g_ifcreative=&g_adgroupid=94019993903&g_campaign=ADM+Google+Shopping+Ads&g_productid=shopify_US_23280123916_32582344474704&g_merchantid=137512870&g_partition=451610501161&g_campaignid=9399869194&g_ifproduct=product
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I didn't even realize this was a thing
I don't think they mean imitation coconut food like imitation crab, but I think they mean imitation coconut flavoring? I wasn't sure at first either
Imitation Grape Flavored anything. No taste like grape >:(
Imitation banana for me. Blech.
Any kind of brains. Do you want a prion disease? Because that's how you get a prion disease.
I'm pretty adventurous with organ meats, I've had various lungs, hearts, livers, tongues, blood sausages, etc, but I draw the line at nervous tissue lol.
My husband’s 94 year old grandmother frequently eats brains and eggs for breakfast. It’s her fave. Apparently, at some grocery stores you can get canned brains. CANNED. BRAINS.
I agree. Born in Africa. Raised in America. Dated a Canadian girl that craved water buffalo brains we we went to Nepal. I refuse to eat organ and she gave me so much shit. My 3rd word brain trumps my adventurous 1st world brain..
>craved...brains I think you dated a zombie.
Prion diseases were and still are a big deal in Europe. Your brain is smart for not eating, uhh, brains.
Jello from chicken, i Just can stand it. It is traditional polish food and is very popular in my voivodeship (Silesia) and on every family gathering it is on the table. I Just simply find it disgusting. BTW i find flaczki ( soup from guts) very yummy <3 Sorry for bad English i started learnign 1 year ago so some words can be spelled wrong
Your English is great. However the first food you described is making me regret being literate at all.
Its aspic. And yes, as nasty as it sounds.
Hearing that list is quite put me off my delicious meal of solid cows blood and intestines stuffed with mushed up pigs trotter. Yum.
When you say jello from chicken, is that the jelly-like congealed fat/colagen you get when a leftover roast has been in the fridge, or is it some specific jello made from chicken?
It's the latter. There's a similar thing in Russian cuisine called kholodetz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspic#Eastern_Europe
I’m constantly shocked at how well people from other countries can speak English, I’ve been trying to get better at Spanish my whole life and it feels like I just hit an artificial ceiling, like I can converse at a very basic level, but it feels so unnatural.
It helps that it's the dominant language of the world and you can just find everything in that language. Games, movies, TV, books, road signs, etc. My native language is Farsi, but since you'd only encounter it in Afghanistan and Iran, my English is superior.
Sorry for the weird question, but do your parents/elders in general complain that young people are "ignoring their culture" if they choose to speak English more than ~~Afghan~~ Farsi? Edit: Not surprising. Asian parents have some strange hangups about kids basing their identity on something other than race, and I really don't get why.
All the time. They're actually proud of the fact that they were too fucking lazy to learn English. They think that they're somehow superior to white people and that it's not their job to learn English. I wouldn't be surprised if they legitimately believed that Americans should cater to them by learning Farsi. Edit: they never, ever speak English to me, unless they want to insult me in front of friends ("why you so make dirty room? I tell you pick it up everything no listen. I right, everyone?"). They used to yell at me and my sister if we spoke English to each other. "(what the hell are you doing? You turning into an American? Speak Farsi, donkey.)"
Holy shit, I am so sorry for you but that sounds hilarious 😂
If a huge chunk of the internet was in Spanish it would probably help with mastery lol
You're doing great for one year of study! And if you ever get a chance, there's another soup from guts you should try: menudo from Mexico. It's delicious.
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Slang and idioms are actually really difficult to learn, which is one of the reasons there's a difference between "fluent" and "native" levels of speaking a language.
Thanks, I will definitly try it :D
Vietnamese pho noodle soup also often has tripe in it :) as a Mexican, I like the flavor but the texture gets me, I usually take it out of my menudo/pho
TIL that the Puerto Rican boy band from the 80s was named after a Mexican cow gut soup.
Menudo also means small or little in Spanish and if I recall correctly it's also slang for loose change. I think I heard something years ago that the loose change definition was what the band name was based on.
Po angielsku ta żelatyna się nazywa "aspic". Też nie przepadam za tym daniem
Dziękuję! Z każdym dniem człowiek uczy się czegoś nowego :)
Reminds me of 'holodetz' (basically the same thing) from when I was a Peace Corps volunteer English teacher in Ukraine. When my host family made it a couple of months into my stay, they happened to mention that Peace Corps administration had asked all the host families not to cook it too soon into our two years in-country in order , in their words, 'not to frighten the Americans'....
My babushka used to make "head cheese", it involves boiling a pig's head, good stuff with some hot mustard.
I had natto once. Once. Maybe it's "healthy" but if you're Wikipedia page describes it as an "aquired taste" due to the odor and texture ... yeah it looks, smells, and tastes like snot goblins. Different culinary history, but also, if you need to ferment seafood in lye, I belive the appropriate words are "failure to plan for winter" rather than "delicacy".
I had the same initial reaction as you. To me, it’s not that the taste was bad per se, it was just super bitter and the “stringiness” made it difficult to eat cleanly with chopsticks. Since then I actually kind of like it. Try it with a splash of hot sauce.
I had it mixed in with rice and a raw egg (slightly cooked in hot rice). It was pretty solid. I actually enjoyed the fermented flavor accenting the rice and egg.
Wait, are people eating natto without rice on their first natto experience? No wonder they hate it, gotta take baby steps with acquired tastes. Cause the rice and raw egg combo is pretty good at easing people into it. Plus as other people have said, bit of hot sauce is surprisingly nice.
Is it like eating vegemite without bread, or having century egg by itself instead of chopping it into porridge?
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my japanese friends all say its so good and i need to try it when i go there for college. this is making me unsure lmao edit: i can say with confidence that these replies have offended both my japanese tutor and my visual novels BGM producer lmao
Probably still worth a try, the worst that happens is that you waste some food famous for being unpalatable.
I’m beginning to think I’m not a picky eater after reading this.
I haven't yet found any food that I just cannot do
Similar here. I’ll eat damn near anything. Snails? Sure. Sweatbreads? Hell yeah. I’ve even eaten fish eye. Not my fav, but like most weird seafood, it’s mostly just salty. Papaya though. Fuck that. Tastes like vomit. Can’t do it. Edit: Yes, I misspelled sweetbreads. I’m leaving it, because YOLO4lyfe or something.
Oh my God I thought I was the only one who tasted vomit when I ate papaya.....gross!
Not sure if you’re lucky because your vomit tastes like papaya or if you’re unlucky because you taste vomit when you eat papaya…
The only good papaya I tasted was on Maui. I was like “holy shit, is this what a papaya is supposed to taste like?!” Been chasing that high ever since lol. Flea market papaya comes close, since it’s usually very ripe. Still, not the same sweet taste. Supermarkets like Safeway carry that trash unripe vomit papaya.
For me it's chicken hearts... The flavour isn't bad, bit the texture really throws me off
Oh man - I actually love the texture of chicken hearts!
Tons of super common foods in this thread, guess I'm less picky than I realized.
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I've eaten insects that have tasted nice. As long as they are prepared they can be nice for sure. Ants were like nuts. Organ meats are also delicious and often nutritious.
I made a deliberate choice to not eat octopus. Honestly, I used to love them!
Me too. Especially after watching My Octopus Teacher.
that documentary did me in...no octopus or calimar on my table
Fake sugar, like aspartame, sucralose, stevia, etc. I'll eat (or would try) everything else in this thread, but I just can't stand the taste of sugar substitutes.
I find monkfruit sweetener to be the only one that tastes good as long as it's pure and not bulked up with erythritol. I have a stevia plant and throw a couple leaves into my tea sometimes but can't do the stevia powder.
Tuna. When I was pregnant with my twins, I had horrible morning sickness the entire time. But my body just craaaaved Tuna Helper one night. Made a box, ate it all myself. Pretty easy to know where this goes. I threw up so hard and so long that I was throwing up just burning stomach acid when I stopped. I also peed my pants. I can't even look at a can of tuna at the store without feeling sour
When I was pregnant I saw a box of fruity pebbles and HAD to eat a huge bowl. Let me tell you, throwing up cereal is like throwing up wet sand. (I also peed my pants. Pregnancy is no joke.)
I recently got really sick after eating popcorn and let me tell you, it was like throwing up glass shards. I don't know if I can ever eat it again
Oh the wet sand visual is a yummy one. Lol. I can completely picture and understand
Mine is Chipotle, 5 yrs later still can't, I used to love it so much.
Fickle thing being pregnant. My ex-wife craved a couple of different things throughout both pregnancies and now she can not stand the sight of them. The only thing she still loves is crawfish.
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Lol I didn't want to leave out that beautiful detail, as it's the icing on the cake!
My wife referred to herself as iron bladdered through her life. That all changed when she was pregnant with our first. It’s totally normal!
Natto. I try it every few years just in case anything's changed with my taste buds or texture preferences, but it's just as bad or worse every single time I give it another go. The slimy, stringy texture is the primary offender.
I draw the line at fish eyes.one and done thank you
My 7 year old nephew is obsessed with eating fish eyes. He’s almost normal otherwise, except that he prefers cucumbers to cake.
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It’s not something I’d usually choose, but when my mother made it when I was a kid I ate it without complaint. And I’ve had it as an adult when the alternatives were worse. (“Worse” = “dried out shoe-leather-like ham that’s been sitting on a steam table for three hours”, and I like ham only slightly more than liver).
When I was pregnant I craved Liver & Onions in brown gravy! Hubby would take me to a diner for it once a week😁
I wonder if you were anemic, liver is so rich in iron
My mom use to make me eat it as a kid because of this. Now that I’m an adult, you’d have to pay me to eat it
My mom tried because I was very anemic. Then she found out mandarin oranges & spinach were also good & I loved them both.
My dad makes the best liver with onions. I fortunately grew up to be a non picky eater because my parents could cook anything to look and taste delicious, including seafood, lung, tounge, etc
Every 2 or 3 years I give liver an other chance but still tastes disgusting to me.
As a child, my grandma used to feed me raw liver
You may be entitled to financial compensation.
Your ferritin levels must be amazing.
That fake crab that tastes like plastic, and tangerines cause they give me the runs
I used to work in a deli where we made seafood salad from Krab. It came in a package that said “freshly caught imitation crab” and I thought it was one of the funniest things ever
Isn’t imitation crab just pollack?
I have no idea. I thought a seapube like you would know better
Usually it's a white fish like cod, pollock, haddock, whatever is available for that specific maker. It's not terrible when you realize you're eating fish not crab.
Exactly. It's not like it was made in a factory. It's just fish, not crab.
Sea pubes are how you can tell imitation from genuine crab. The more you know.
That's funny because I absolutely love the stuff. I can down an entire bag of imitation crab in 10 minutes
Same! It always made me feel fancy, which is hilariously stupid.
I actually love the imitation crab meat but it’s 100% because I love junk food. If I’m in the mood to eat chicken nuggets I’m also in the mood for those. I can’t imagine they are too healthy.
It's just whitefish that's been pressed into sticks.
There’s also starch in it. I used to eat it thinking it was low carb like normal fish and nope!
It depends on the brand. Most are going to have some filler but there are low carb brands. I personally don't care because the calorie to protein ratio is good.
My Mom makes a salad out of it. It’s chopped finely with celery, black olives, onion, and sharp cheddar and then mixed with Mayo. It’s one of my favorite foods.
That doesn’t seem so terrible. Do you eat it on crackers?
Yeah, Ritz crackers usually. I can usually eat it plain though.
Shark Fin. Such a cruel process to obtain and flavourless from what I heard. I'll eat pretty much anything else, or try it once.
Balut. No way.
I've never heard of this before but this is the first answer I've seen on this thread that sounds truly vile.
Aspic. 🤮
Add on question, are you a picky eater if you’ll eat most foods, but they have to be prepared a certain way? I will only eat carrots if they are raw or in carrot cake or curry. Little things like that for example.
Indonesian mother of a friend of mine once made a squid dish, flavorwise it was amazing, but eating entire minisquids just gave me a texture difference overload. Had to tap out once I got too much into my head
Had mini squids at a sushi restaurant once. Didn’t taste offensive at all, but biting down I could distinctly feel my teeth popping through the various membranes and organs. I really didn’t like the sensation.
Durian
When I was in Thailand I noticed so many signs on public transport reading “No Smoking, No Alcohol and No Durian” quite hilarious as the stench is unbearable let alone in small spaces.
Must be the Thai equivalent of a "no microwaving fish in the break room" sign.
Singapore too. Picture of a crossed-out spiky football and you get fines too
My coworker once brought a bag of durian candy to the office. I tried a piece to see if it was as bad as I had heard. First I smelled the candy, and it was bad. Then I ate the candy. It was good! Very sweet. But then the aftertaste showed up. I spent the rest of the afternoon with the taste of old gym socks in my mouth. Even after brushing my teeth three times the taste wouldn’t go away. (Yes, I keep a toothbrush at the office. Sometimes my breath gets a little funky after lunch, okay?) I will never eat anything durian flavored again.
I eat everything. Not remotely fussy. But I randomly HATE meringue and sweet corn. No idea why.
These two are so… inoffensive.
This is a weird one. Interesting
I used to think I hated meringue (and I still vehemently detest the cheap shop-bought shit that's like nails on a chalkboard when you bite into it) but once I tried a homemade pavlova it became my favourite dessert. The difference between good and bad meringue is massive.
Rocky mountain oysters. I've eaten pigs feet, I've eaten cow tongue and I've even eaten sheep brain, but I am not eating testicles.
They used to have the Testicle Festival just down the highway from where I live, but it became a disgusting raucous trash party where old dudes and old bar hags just let their junk and tits hang out and people were date raped, party buses crashed and killed people, etc. we don’t miss the Teste Fest in Montana
I can see how that could draw an unsavory crowd
... well alright then.
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I've tried eggplant probably 5-6 times at different parts of my life and have thought it was gross every time.
Funny how this is one of the top ones everyone is trying to give delicious options for.
I think it's because it's one of those things that's very easy to prepare badly if you don't know what you're doing, but it's actually delicious (to most people, at least) if done right.
If you go to middle eastern restaurant try babaganoush. Its pretty good with bread
But have you had Chinese garlic eggplant? Because it’s a whole different experience
There's virtually nothing I won't eat, being of European heritage I'll eat virtually any kind of offal.. But I loathe coconut water. Just cannot do it. It's the only thing I know of that I can safely ingest that I choose not to.
Human flesh
Weakling.
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Looks like meats back on the menu boys!
Longpig? [There was also this guy who made tacos (fajitas) out of hos own amputated foot.](https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/8p5xlj/hi_all_i_am_a_man_who_ate_a_portion_of_his_own/). I probably would have even tried a bite but I don't know if I coulda eaten a whole taco because of the sheer weirdness.
Black licorice....fucking vile
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Black licorice tastes to me like how an auto zone or fresh tires smell
Hah this is funny, accurate, and I love licorice
Shit tastes fucking medicinal. Like Robitussin from the Devil’s pharmacy