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Vegemite
(strange I know)
Not strange. Lots of countries have regional dishes that the locals love and nearly everyone else thinks is disgusting.
Vegemite
(strange I know)
Vegemite
(strange I know)
Not strange. Lots of countries have regional dishes that the locals love and nearly everyone else thinks is disgusting.
Vegemite
(strange I know)
Not strange. Lots of countries have regional dishes that the locals love and nearly everyone else thinks is disgusting.
In the Netherlands, at least in 2001, I got tricked into eating cold cut horse meat, despite that family member knowing it was one thing at the time I would not try. I don't know if they still sell it, but they had at the time specific farms for old/retired draft, coal and pet horses that they used to slaughter, and then they'd ship the carcass to a butcher to be dressed and cut up.
It wasn't strange to them if they could still recall times when they starved as they had a penchant for large families 30 years ago, and quite a few are still around that recall slaughtering dogs during the war for food.
We like thinking that culturally we're "better" than those that would eat dog, horse or still subsistence hunt and fish in old ways, but there are people both in Europe here in the U.S. who scavenge road-kill and will get od cuts from a butcher to save money, like sheep's head they'd boil and eat.
In the Netherlands, at least in 2001, I got tricked into eating cold cut horse meat, despite that family member knowing it was one thing at the time I would not try. I don't know if they still sell it, but they had at the time specific farms for old/retired draft, coal and pet horses that they used to slaughter, and then they'd ship the carcass to a butcher to be dressed and cut up.
It wasn't strange to them if they could still recall times when they starved as they had a penchant for large families 30 years ago, and quite a few are still around that recall slaughtering dogs during the war for food.
We like thinking that culturally we're "better" than those that would eat dog, horse or still subsistence hunt and fish in old ways, but there are people both in Europe here in the U.S. who scavenge road-kill and will get od cuts from a butcher to save money, like sheep's head they'd boil and eat.
I'm half Japanese. Like a lot of people of Japanese descent, I grew up putting a raw egg and soy sauce on my rice, then stirring it all up until the whole thing becomes slimy and stringy. Trust me, if you didn't grow up eating it, you're almost certainly going to hate it, and one of these days I'm going to give myself salmonella doing this. I try to be careful when I do it. I buy the freshest eggs I can, then do the raw egg on rice with soy sauce thing only on that first day after buying the groceries. I'm still probably risking salmonella.
But it's got so much nostalgia. It's comfort food for me, dammit!
Also, most of the time I hate nattō, but every once in a blue moon, I actually get a hankering for it. It's supposed to be very healthy, but if you didn't grow up Japanese, I strongly recommend staying away from that stuff. It smells disgusting. From what I remember, most Japanese don't particularly care for it.
I'm also half Scandinavian. Theoretically, I should snack on pickled herring, but I can't stand the stuff. Bleah.
And yeah, the cultural biases for or against this or that meat are silly.
For example, Vietnamese will eat tendons and cartilage with their meat. To them it just adds variety to the texture. I tried it. I wanted to like it. I really did. I understood the concept behind it. It's not as if there is anything inherently disgusting about tendons and cartilage. It's just a stupid cultural bias and I couldn't overcome it. From what I understand, Japanese people also find it weird, so maybe my bias against cartilage and tendons comes as much from my Japanese side as my American side.
Your German and Dutch friends hate what?
I lived 3 years in Germany around the late 70s/early 80s, and from what I remember, once Europeans kill an animal, they use every part of the animal. I never tried brains, I'm squeamish about organs in general, but German blood sausage is quite tasty.
Hot chips and gravy. Add a meat pie to that and I am in heaven.
Or a good lasagna.
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rat-tat-bumpf ...... twangAh crap...you'll have to provide the plane ticket...
For the most recent Super Bowl I made a Alfredo Lasagna, which to the best of my knowledge, is illegal in 14 states. It is a lasagna with Alfredo sauce and lots of cheese. It was incredible!Hot chips and gravy. Add a meat pie to that and I am in heaven.
Or a good lasagna.
For the most recent Super Bowl I made a Alfredo Lasagna, which to the best of my knowledge, is illegal in 14 states. It is a lasagna with Alfredo sauce and lots of cheese. It was incredible!Hot chips and gravy. Add a meat pie to that and I am in heaven.
Or a good lasagna.
I am back to being (arguably) the most beautiful and also pathetic face ever put on canvas, Beatrice Cenci, by Guido Reni. Please note this portrait was taken while the poor girl was awaiting execution [by having her head chopped off] for taking part in the murder of her monster of a father, who raped her over and over as a very young girl, along with many other crimes.
This portrait is world-famous. It inspired Shelley to write a play, The Cenci, Nathaniel Hawthorne, which mentions the painting in his amazing novel, The Marble Faun, Keats, all the Romantics, plus a long list of other geniuses in the plastic arts, music, and literature.
I am back to being (arguably) the most beautiful and also pathetic face ever put on canvas, Beatrice Cenci, by Guido Reni. Please note this portrait was taken while the poor girl was awaiting execution [by having her head chopped off] for taking part in the murder of her monster of a father, who raped her over and over as a very young girl, along with many other crimes.
This portrait is world-famous. It inspired Shelley to write a play, The Cenci, Nathaniel Hawthorne, which mentions the painting in his amazing novel, The Marble Faun, Keats, all the Romantics, plus a long list of other geniuses in the plastic arts, music, and literature.
So, what? Did they eat her after they executed her?
Vegemite
(strange I know)