Seven foods which really make you marvel at man's mind:1] Cало: A top entry in the competition would have to be Russian Sala, where fatty pork, replete with blood and jellied, wobbly, oozing gristle is lovingly served with delicious sauteed vegetables.
2] Tripe: It's a type of edible offal made from the stomach of various domestic animals. Beef tripe is typically made from the first three of a cow's four stomach chambers, the rumen (blanket/flat/smooth tripe), the reticulum (honeycomb and pocket tripe), and the omasum (book/bible/leaf tripe). Abomasum (reed) tripe is also seen, but with much less frequency, owing to its glandular tissue content.
3] Black Pudding: It's a sausage made by cooking blood with a filler until it is thick enough to congeal when cooled. Black pudding can be eaten uncooked but is often grilled or boiled in its skin.
4] Frog's legs: Only the upper joint of the hind leg is served, which has a single bone similar to the upper joint of a chicken or turkey wing. They are commonly prepared by frying or deep-frying, sometimes breaded and sometimes unbreaded.
5] Sheep's brains … I can't go on any longer.
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Frogs legs aren't bad. They taste like chicken however since reading the rest of them I wont be eating frogs legs, or anything else, for a couple hours until I recover. I have been told in China they serve chicken soup with the whole chicken tossed in, bones cartilidge and all. I dont know if its true but if I was served that I would never eat chicken again.
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ReplyDeleteI just ate, too.
Ugh... ugh.
In Scotland, we have black pudding, white pudding, red pudding and deep fried pizza and mars bars for your culinary delight. All delicious in their own way.
ReplyDeleteI cannot recommend Chickens Feet, although they were very popular when I was in Singapore in my trips to China. They invariably ended up in the karaoke room. I had to be very careful.
From Vietnam, dried squid and fish doesn't do the trick for me.
From the Philippines, I can recommend Balut, pre hatched chickens in the egg, warm and crunchy.
My mother used to cook tripe, revolting stuff, which stunk up the house and had a revolting taste and texture.
My dad for his part, he liked all the strong tasting stuff, herring, anchovies, cod roe and liver and and kidneys, all yuch in my department.
Of course my six year old thinks most things I make are yuch.
I've just had some black pudding tonight fresh from sunny Glasgow for my tea/Dinner.
ReplyDeleteI usually have white pudding if I'm in Scotland but have never brought it home because I just can't process it the same.
James, I was surprised to see the title then when it petered out I laughted. You must be worn out. You've done a good job on the DefendingTheBlog site. Time for a pint. I hear they serve nothing but vodka over there now there is a surplus of the stuff since Boris popped off so a pint of that will have to do.
yuk, yuk, yuk you are a sick man. don't forget chitlins and haggis.
ReplyDeleteI can't believe a man with Yorkshire heritage is disowning tripe and black pudding; in the same vein, my brother claims the brain curry at the Sheesh Mahal in Bradford is a true delicacy.
ReplyDeleteI once spent a night drinking vodka, accompanied with сало cut straight from the block, and raw onion as a garnish. Good night, rough morning.
And the only time I ever had tripe, it made me cry.
I remember tripe from my youth. Ghastly stuff but cheap I guess.
ReplyDeleteI can't eat anything that looks like it could be part of me, like liver or kidneys or brains.
Lots of things that have become traditional food like blood sausage or head cheese (yuck) come from times when food was so scarce you had to use everything for food. So now, in most places there is enough food so don't force me to eat that stuff.
Yep, tripe constitutes the only time in my childhood I rebelled agaisnt my parents. At the time I said words to the juvenile efect that it was one of the few aptly named foods in the world.
ReplyDeleteHaggis is wonderful stuff. If you can eat a sausage, you can eat haggis - same entrails etc inside.
ReplyDeleteStac Polly, a restuarant in Edinburgh, does a lovely haggis in filo pastry with a plum sauce.
I think the most disgusting things I've come across were in Okinawa. Goya, a sort of rugged cucumber, was so bitter I had to spit it out and Nato, a wierd gooey bean curdy thing, was quite repulsive. They also served up ferns (responsible for bowel cancer if used continuously) and raw kidneys. Quite disgusting.
I've never had the misfortune to try tripe - it sounds appalling, but black pudding (which, as congealed blood, is little more than a scab) is quite wonderful.
Don't the Icelandic folk eat decomposing shark or some such?
RS
The Irony is James, these are some of the tastiest dishes around.
ReplyDeleteI frequently brunch off a Sausage, Egg and Black Pudding baguette.
Frogs legs are soft, supple and HIGHLY to be reccommended.
Brains- Again, eat it, and you see why people do.
Thjere is a sect in India which every year on a certain day eats baked Cow pat as their holy meal.
Wouldn't go that far.
I can't stand black pudding or tripe. The latter is quite popular here and chicken wings are sold with the neck still attached as folk think they are "chewy".
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