Weird or Humorous (or just plain good ) Foreign Foods

[Acriku]

Well, we all live around the world and we all love to eat. So! Let each other know what are some weird but good-tasting dishes from your country or homeland! I'll start mine off:

Peanut butter and Strawberry Fluff (marshmellow) sandwich. So delish!

Egg omelette with syrup poured over it. Man I'm gettin' hungry now.

[Tezcatlipoca]

Well, I never understood why, but people always look at me as if I have two heads when I mention these delicious commodities:

Liverwurst/Braunschweiger sandwiches

Pig Hocks + sauerkraut <= They become even more disgusted when they find out what it is.

All I have to say is that we need more Germanic restaurants in the states. Or at least where I live.

[Mihail]

Egg omelette? And syrup? What?  :D

Back on topic, we in Latvia have these delicious tiny, well, pies I guess, about as long as your thumb and twice as wide, stuffed with meat and other delicious stuff. Yum! Then we have ābolmaizītes, which literally translates as "apple bread", which I think describes them quite well. They have apples baked into them, as well as a bit of sugar and cinnamon sprinkled on. These kind are native to Latvia and Latvia only. :P

[alchemi2]

Black Pudding  ;)

[Cyborg]

We use to soak cod in lye(sodium hydroxide) for quite some time. Then we air dry it and store it. Later in the year, we put it in a bowl with water to rehydrate the flesh, and then steak it. One of my absolute favourites!

[nemafakei]

Fish and Chips. i.e. Cod, haddock or, more recently, pollock deep fried, battered, with fried chipped old potatoes. Preferably with lots of salt and vinegar

HP sauce. Put it on sausages, bacon, beefburgers, boiled potatoes, mashed potatoes, or chipped potatoes.

I don't know if cheese on toast is particularly British (I know rarebit, which is basically the same thing, is Welsh). But it's bread toasted on one side, then turned over, strips of (preferably mild cheddar) cheese added, and toasted on the cheese side.

Tea. Tea. Tea.

British culture has also assimilated Spaghetti Bolognese (under the delightful title of 'Spag Bog'), turning it into a much more meaty-gravyish meal than a 'spaghetti with a bolognese sauce' meal. We have our own ways of making curry - I'm pretty sure most of my regular concoctions wouldn't pass as 'native' in any part of asia.

Scottish food is quite good, too. Except haggis; offal is just vile.

[Acriku]

Egg omelette? And syrup? What?  :D

Back on topic, we in Latvia have these delicious tiny, well, pies I guess, about as long as your thumb and twice as wide, stuffed with meat and other delicious stuff. Yum! Then we have ābolmaizītes, which literally translates as "apple bread", which I think describes them quite well. They have apples baked into them, as well as a bit of sugar and cinnamon sprinkled on. These kind are native to Latvia and Latvia only. :P

Yeah man, syrup goes surprisingly well with an omelette. Are the pies made out of potato and meat? There's a nice spanish treat that has baked potato balls with beef inside of them. Hurray for Spain!

Apple bread sounds good, any luck buying that in US?

Hey tez, where do you live? There's a german "market" in Orlando that's decent, although to tell you the truth I'm not sure if it's still around. Not many people like german cuisines or meat.

We use to soak cod in lye(sodium hydroxide) for quite some time. Then we air dry it and store it. Later in the year, we put it in a bowl with water to rehydrate the flesh, and then steak it. One of my absolute favourites!

Geez, that'll take a while. Any cod to-go options?

Hey nema, cheese on toast = grilled cheese! :D Tea is actually picking up in Florida, but not in the same sense as you might drink it (from tea bags). It's much more commercialized with already-made tea (like Arizona, Snapple tea, etc)

alchemi, do tell what 'black' pudding is?

[Egeides]

Fish and Chips. i.e. Cod, haddock or, more recently, pollock deep fried, battered, with fried chipped old potatoes. Preferably with lots of salt and vinegar

HP sauce. Put it on sausages, bacon, beefburgers, boiled potatoes, mashed potatoes, or chipped potatoes.

I don't know if cheese on toast is particularly British (I know rarebit, which is basically the same thing, is Welsh). But it's bread toasted on one side, then turned over, strips of (preferably mild cheddar) cheese added, and toasted on the cheese side.

Tea. Tea. Tea.

British culture has also assimilated Spaghetti Bolognese (under the delightful title of 'Spag Bog'), turning it into a much more meaty-gravyish meal than a 'spaghetti with a bolognese sauce' meal. We have our own ways of making curry - I'm pretty sure most of my regular concoctions wouldn't pass as 'native' in any part of asia.

Scottish food is quite good, too. Except haggis; offal is just vile.

How did you manage to forget "Marmite"?! :O

Oooohhh... such a *ahem* sweet taste. I love it.

[nemafakei]

"already-made tea"

Ice tea, the soft drink, is quite good, though difficult to find inside the UK. Machine-dispensed tea is awful.

"Marmite"

Never tried the stuff.

Black pudding is somewhere between a very large sausage and dried pig's blood.

[chatfsh]

French Fries (preferably McDonald's) dipped in vanilla milkshake  -- Yummy

Banana slices dipped in peanut butter

Potato chips (crisps) between the slices of bread on a ham or bologna sandwich.

That

[Tezcatlipoca]

Commercialized Ice tea, not a fan. Hot tea awesome (need to buy the "good" stuff though; this Lipton crap gets on my nerves), and occasionally real iced tea is ok.

I'm pretty sure I've seen apple bread around. Either way it sounds like a fairly simple recepie.

Check the map for my location :). But it's upstate NY, and while there was a fairly significant German population here it's mostly faded away and diluted in the last 100 years, as it is want to do here. Especially after people forgot how to cook and started buying their meals at fast food restaurants. I'm lucky that I can still get braunschweiger and sauerkraut at the grocery store straight off the shelf, but I usually have to go to a butcher specifically for the pig hocks, or special order it.

French Fries.. hrm... only if they're the good kind (actual slices of potato and not the processed kind). Take those, and put either lemmon juice on it (great with fish fries if you don't put the lemon on the fish), or tabasco sauce (which of course one should always have if when you're eating a burger and have fries as a default anyway). Just plain great.

[Mihail]

Potato chips (crisps) between the slices of bread on a ham or bologna sandwich.

That

[chatfsh]

I absolutely adore that, although I haven't had it for some time. Thanks for reminding me! :D

Yes, do have one today!

Another delicious snack...tortilla chips smothered in chili, cheddar cheese, and sour cream. Mmmmm 

Had that last night...and subsequently worked out for an hour today. ;)

[gunner154]

Char Kway Teow (some fried noodles), Fried Hokkien (more friend noodles), roti prata (Indian/Malay (whichever) deep-fried bread with curry sauce)... Joy!

Oh, and wanton noodles too! :D

[nemafakei]

"Char Kway Teow (some fried noodles)"

Kway Teow are brilliant! Difficult to get hold of over here, though.

"Fried Hokkien (more friend noodles)"

Was that a typo, or do you really eat Fujian people?

[gunner154]

Um... sorry. A typo :P I'm not modifying it due to the "brilliance" of the mistake though :P

Heh, come to Singapore or Malaysia then. Kway Teow is virtually everywhere here :D

[alchemi2]

Blood sausage or black pudding or blood pudding is a sausage made by cooking down the blood of an animal with meat, fat or filler until it is thick enough to congeal when cooled. In the West, pig or cattle blood is most often used, sheep and goat blood are used to a lesser extent, and blood from poultry is very seldom used.

There you go.  ::) ;) :D ;D

[Andrew]

I just had a cheese slice sandwhich on white bread, and chef boyardee ravioli. Yum Yum! I havn't gotten groceries lately so I'm eating whatever possible.

[Dante]

I'm proud to say that I enjoy the meal generally associated with Scotland... Haggis!

What is haggis, you ask? Well, for those of you that do not already know, I shall describe it.

Take a sheep. Take all of the mutton, meaty bits, and all that, and eat it seperately. Now, take the lungs, liver, kidneys, heart, other assorted organs, just about anything else that's left, all the offal (except the stomach and brain), and mash it with oatmeal. Once it's well mashed, stuff it inside the stomach. Tie both ends tight closed, and boil it. Throw the brain away, we tend not to eat it. Once the haggis is cooked, take it out and eat it! With mashed potatoes and turnips. And gravy. Don't eat the stomach.

Modern haggis is sometimes boiled in plastic. It doesn't taste quite so good.

And that, my friends, is haggis! And let me tell you, it is absolutely delicious.

Some people eat 'vegetarian' haggis. I've never tried it, but the idea seems absolutely ridiculous.

Lets see, what else is around... Well I'm also rather fond of Chinese food. And I love seafood, and chicken soup, though not at the same time. Most kinds of cake, chocolate biscuits dipped in hot tea (Earl Grey), and I'm rather fond of the taste of blood. No, I'm not just saying that.

Also, I have a habit of chewing things, so sometimes I eat things like pens, bits of toothbrush, pieces of plastic bottles, etc. Pages of paper... Yeah, I'll eat most things. Mmm, haggis. An ugly word for a lovely dish.

[Cyborg]

I want haggis!

[Acriku]

I'm gonna have to try haggis, something that sounds so nasty and has so many fans.

[nemafakei]

I can't stand the thought of eating offal. Veggie haggis I have tried a little of, but it just tastes like stuffing with seedy lumps.

Note also to avoid the spine of the sheep, as eating that (or the brain, as Dust mentions) may give you scrapie.

[gunner154]

Chinese have a tendency to favour offal of any sort possible... but I detest offal. Gah!