Strange Food

Secteur

Last night, for dessert, the missus brought me fresh pineapple with cold custard. Not sure if she is inspired or a bit crazy.

Cleat Eastwood

you can get these in pots from morrisons.

Secteur

Really?

It didnt taste too bad, actually, but it did leave an odd aftertaste!

cooldad

Fruit and custard. How bizarre.

byke68

Tried squid last week, yuk!

pinno

Try Kaviar. No, not Caviar. Its this cheesy stuff that comes in a metal tube like tomato puree that the Scandewegians buy and squeeze it onto Knakebrod (like Ryvita but hullavalot tastier and more varied).
It looks like a bad night out after getting pissed on Egg Nog and having the munchies for Rice Pudding when it comes out of the tube.
Absolutley and inexorably disgusting. The most foul concoction ever invented.

Wheelspinner

pinarello001 wrote:

Try Kaviar. No, not Caviar. Its this cheesy stuff that comes in a metal tube like tomato puree that the Scandewegians buy and squeeze it onto Knakebrod (like Ryvita but hullavalot tastier and more varied).
It looks like a bad night out after getting pissed on Egg Nog and having the munchies for Rice Pudding when it comes out of the tube.
Absolutley and inexorably disgusting. The most foul concoction ever invented.

Try going to Korea for some local delicacies.. Marinated Sea Slug, (vaguely jellyfish-ish), or perhaps worse, a breakfast specialty: abalone porridge. Has the colour and consistency of wet concrete, with the fragrance of shellfish left in the sun for, oh, a week too long.

nicklouse

pinarello001 wrote:

Try Kaviar. No, not Caviar. Its this cheesy stuff that comes in a metal tube like tomato puree that the Scandewegians buy and squeeze it onto Knakebrod (like Ryvita but hullavalot tastier and more varied).
It looks like a bad night out after getting pissed on Egg Nog and having the munchies for Rice Pudding when it comes out of the tube.
Absolutley and inexorably disgusting. The most foul concoction ever invented.

it is not Cheesy. there is no cheese in it.

Unless it is Kalles Randiga which does contain cheese.

After 11 years in Seden I do miss it a bit. But as Ikea stocks it it can be had.

http://www.kalles.se/

But yes it is a bit like Marmite.



if you want bad then this is it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcnfEVqNdoA

Secteur

I remember seeing on QI about a Scandanavian delicacy of rotten herring which comes in tins and is meant to be one of the most nasally offensive foods in the world, so much so that the cans need to be opened underwater!

Cant remember what this food was called though, but sounds awful!

nicklouse

Secteur wrote:

I remember seeing on QI about a Scandanavian delicacy of rotten herring which comes in tins and is meant to be one of the most nasally offensive foods in the world, so much so that the cans need to be opened underwater!

Cant remember what this food was called though, but sounds awful!

see the youtube link above.

capt_slog

cooldad wrote:

Fruit and custard. How bizarre.

I went to a market in Morocco where the stalls only sold fruit, custard, jelly and sponge fingers.

I thought it was a trifle bazaar.

mamba80

hahahahahahaha...i thought that was really funny

Headhuunter

Anyone tried natto? It's slightly decomposed soy beans, a real delicacy in Japan... You mix it with a bit of soy sauce and some karashi (like mustard)...

pinno

nicklouse wrote:

Unless it is Kalles Randiga which does contain cheese.

After 11 years in Sweden I do miss it a bit. But as Ikea stocks it it can be had.

if you want bad then this is it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcnfEVqNdoA

Yep, I have had Gravlax. Swollen fermented rotting fish in a tin. Lovely.
Made the misstake or should I say misdag of serving myself some at Jultid and had to drown it with buckets of Bechamel sauce to wash it down. Next time, 'Gravlax pa dej', Nej tack, jag ar sjuk, hungrig inte jag inte. (Missing letters on the keyboard).

MattC59

pinarello001 wrote:

nicklouse wrote:

Unless it is Kalles Randiga which does contain cheese.

After 11 years in Sweden I do miss it a bit. But as Ikea stocks it it can be had.

if you want bad then this is it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcnfEVqNdoA

Yep, I have had Gravlax. Swollen fermented rotting fish in a tin. Lovely.
Made the misstake or should I say misdag of serving myself some at Jultid and had to drown it with buckets of Bechamel sauce to wash it down. Next time, 'Gravlax pa dej', Nej tack, jag ar sjuk, hungrig inte jag inte. (Missing letters on the keyboard).

That's not Gravlax, Gravlax is Salmon, cold cured with salt, sugar, lemon and dill. Nom nom nom

DorsetKnob

Durian - A fruit which is considered a delicasy in Indonesia and other parts of the Far East. You suck the slime off the nuts inside the fruit, its like sucking snot off a brussel sprout - The trouble is the smell, can only be described like the bottom of a council wheely bin during summer - absolutely disgusting. The smell is sooo bad that the fruit is banned from hotels and aeroplanes (even in the hold!). I remember being delayed for 2 hours in Sumatra once while they unloaded all the bagage out of the hold as some idjit had one in their bag and the whole plane stank.
Disgusting things.

pinno

MattC59 wrote:

pinarello001 wrote:

nicklouse wrote:

Unless it is Kalles Randiga which does contain cheese.

After 11 years in Sweden I do miss it a bit. But as Ikea stocks it it can be had.

if you want bad then this is it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcnfEVqNdoA

Yep, I have had Gravlax. Swollen fermented rotting fish in a tin. Lovely.
Made the misstake or should I say misdag of serving myself some at Jultid and had to drown it with buckets of Bechamel sauce to wash it down. Next time, 'Gravlax pa dej', Nej tack, jag ar sjuk, hungrig inte jag inte. (Missing letters on the keyboard).

That's not Gravlax, Gravlax is Salmon, cold cured with salt, sugar, lemon and dill. Nom nom nom

Yep, you're right. Its Lutfisk (long week, no jetlag to blame it on!). Got Gravlax from a smoke house once in Hjo. Was very good.

capt_slog

Considered strange by a lot of people I know is herring roe. These are the soft roes, they look like little white livers and are soft and squidgy, but after being lightly fried in a little butter, they take on a pate-like texture and are delicious with some lemon juice and brown bread.

I was given them as a kid and they were my favourite food then. I still love them but they are not easy to find. you can get them frozen/defrosting in Tesco's sometimes, and they are worth buying if only to see the look on the face of the person that has to weigh them out ("you eat "these?" )