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I saw that quote by Mike Myers at the top of my Gmail today and it cracked me the hell up. I would like to know, what do you think is one of the most disgusting dishes that is common in your country or part of the country? Provide links if possible.

I think creamed chipped beef (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipped_beef_on_toast) is probably at the top of my personal list. We see signs for it all the time at Ocean City.

For some reason, people cannot stand scrapple. It's delicious, I tells ya! With a little ketchup, cooked just right. . .

Its almost lunch. *drools*

For some reason, people cannot stand scrapple. It's delicious, I tells ya! With a little ketchup, cooked just right. . .

Its almost lunch. *drools*

Almost, but not quite. (blech)

Almost, but not quite. (blech)

Actually, I was looking at the clock. Scrapple is always breakfast.

*runs off to lunch*

Everything.

Creamed chipped beef looks good. Scrapple too.

You guys are going to have to try harder than that.

Haggis! Yum!

Scotch Eggs always struck as a product of a misunderstanding.

Creamed chipped beef looks good. Scrapple too.

You guys are going to have to try harder than that.


Did you read how scrapple's made and what from?

That's why.

Creamed chipped beef looks good. Scrapple too.

You guys are going to have to try harder than that.

Fine, why don't YOU come up with something?

Scotch Eggs always struck as a product of a misunderstanding.

Can you provide a link? I don't know what that is.

There isn't really anything in my country's "cuisine" that I don't really like.

Haggis! Yum!

What is haggis?

Can you provide a link? I don't know what that is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotch_egg

though it is more UK than Scottish

"I'll eat anything you got."
"I bet you won't eat a sheep's stomach stuffed with other sheep organs and oatmeal."
"I will so."
"I dare you."
"Ok, bring it on."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotch_egg

though it is more UK than Scottish

You know, they almost sounded good until I read this: "Scotch eggs are commonly eaten cold, typically with salad and pickles."

Wtf??

Did you read how scrapple's made and what from?

That's why.

Yeah, but it still looks like it tastes delicious. I don't care how it's made, it's just gotta taste good in the end.

Fine, why don't YOU come up with something?

Ok.
Refried beans.
Seriously, I can eat any kind of meat you can think of. But once you put a plate of that stuff in front of me, http://forums.ircspy.com/images/smilies/puke.gif.

What is haggis?

I think a more appropriate question would be. What isn't haggis?

What is haggis?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haggis

Can you provide a link? I don't know what that is.

Really? Wow, Scotch egg is whole shelled egg(hard boiled), wrapped in sausage meat, coated in breadcrumbs and deep fat fried. Yummy!

Really? Wow, Scotch egg is whole shelled egg(hard boiled), wrapped in sausage meat, coated in breadcrumbs and deep fat fried. Yummy!
If that hadn't been invented already, the US South would invent it.

You know, they almost sounded good until I read this: "Scotch eggs are commonly eaten cold, typically with salad and pickles."

Wtf??

I repeat , yummy!

Can you provide a link? I don't know what that is.

Tasty.

*Nods*

Personally, though, I have them with chips and baked beans.

"I dare you to put blood in that cheese."
"No way."
"I double-dog-dare you."
"Ah man, you have to do that double-dog-dare huh" *dumps in blood*

WARNING: You asked for it :P

- tripe soup
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripe
- kaszanka, sausage made of groats and blood stuffed into pig colon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaszanka
- salceson, type of head cheese
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salceson

They are on everyday menu.

http://209.85.12.231/html/emoticons/unsure.gif In my country they spread the sludge left-over from making beer on toast.

WARNING: You asked for it :P

- tripe soup
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripe
- kaszanka, sausage made of groats and blood stuffed into pig colon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaszanka
- salceson, type of head cheese
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salceson

They are on everyday menu.

Sounds delicious!

http://209.85.12.231/html/emoticons/unsure.gif In my country they spread the sludge left-over from making beer on toast.

Awww come all Terry Pratchet fans know that is just Marmite!

http://209.85.12.231/html/emoticons/unsure.gif In my country they spread the sludge left-over from making beer on toast.
We fry anything we can fit in a friar - chicken, okra, squash, fried chicken, pieces of coke syrup, twinkies, ice cream...

Of course okra and squash are pretty shitty by themselves...

We fry anything we can fit in a friar - chicken, okra, squash, fried chicken, pieces of coke syrup, twinkies, ice cream...

Of course okra and squash are pretty shitty by themselves...

You fry fried chicken?

We fry anything we can fit in a friar - chicken, okra, squash, fried chicken, pieces of coke syrup, twinkies, ice cream...

Of course okra and squash are pretty shitty by themselves...

That other Scottish classic the deep fried pizza

We fry anything we can fit in a friar - chicken, okra, squash, fried chicken, pieces of coke syrup, twinkies, ice cream...

Of course okra and squash are pretty shitty by themselves...

Surely you mean a fryer? Last time I check you can't cook things inside a friar but I might be wrong.

You fry fried chicken?

Would that be refreid chicken?

Surely you mean a fryer? Last time I check you can't cook things inside a friar but I might be wrong.

You'd be amazed what you can use to cook.

I mean you do know how to cook toast in the jungle?


Put your bread under the gorila!


Bwhahahahahah

You'd be amazed what you can use to cook.

I mean you do know how to cook toast in the jungle?


Put your bread under the gorila!


Bwhahahahahah

Hmmm... wouldn't it be on the gorilla?

Surely you mean a fryer? Last time I check you can't cook things inside a friar but I might be wrong.
I bet you can cook haggis in a friar...

Good point, wasn't paying attention.

I bet you can cook haggis in a friar...

Good point, wasn't paying attention.

In a friar's stomach, you probably could...

Hmmm... wouldn't it be on the gorilla?

Yeah wotever you jus' sed!

Isn't haggis illegal in the US as sheeps lungs are not considered fit for human consumption - or am I imagining that (along with so much else)?

Isn't haggis illegal in the US as sheeps lungs are not considered fit for human consumption - or am I imagining that (along with so much else)?

Because food safety laws in some countries outlaw some of the ingredients in haggis (for example, United States law forbids the sale of any animal's lungs for human consumption), expatriate Scots and Scots descendants overseas have been known to engage in 'haggis smuggling' to obtain true Scottish haggis. At least one American company produces haggis for the U.S. market. The Caledonian Kitchen, a Dallas, Texas,-based gourmet business, began producing both a Highland beef and vegetarian haggis commercially in 1999. In 2006, the company added a USDA lamb version of the product as well. Its haggis is in wide distribution throughout the U.S.
In 2007, the Scottish Haggis championship was won by a 22 year old Northern Irishman who had only been making the dish for three years

Apparently so

Mushy peas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mushy_peas).

I think that's the only food I've actually came across that I won't eat. If I ever came across that cheese with the live maggots in it I'm not sure it would stay that way, though...

Scotch Eggs are brilliant. With salt and pepper.

As for the people berating Haggis: Have you ever tried it?
It's brilliant. Especially with brown sauce.
Black and white puddings are also brilliant.

I'd like to try scrapple, it sounds tasty.

Pasteles are definitely an odd dish.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasteles

People's reaction to them is usually pretty strong one way or the other and is usually based either on look or taste. They are quite delicious, but closely resemble something you flush. *nod*
http://www.whats4eats.com/graphics/recipefoto/ph_st_pasteles_end.jpg

That is probably the best looking pastele I've ever seen. My grandmother's were considerably darker and more turd-like.

Mushy peas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mushy_peas).

I think that's the only food I've actually came across that I won't eat. If I ever came across that cheese with the live maggots in it I'm not sure it would stay that way, though...

I leave them on the plate. They taste like shit.

Mushy peas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mushy_peas).

I think that's the only food I've actually came across that I won't eat. If I ever came across that cheese with the live maggots in it I'm not sure it would stay that way, though...

Scotch Eggs are brilliant. With salt and pepper.

As for the people berating Haggis: Have you ever tried it?
It's brilliant. Especially with brown sauce.
Black and white puddings are also brilliant.

I'd like to try scrapple, it sounds tasty.


Mushy peas are much better than garden peas, haggis is wonderful nice and peppery, black and white pudding yummy! Scrapple dunno wot that is?

I want to try the eggs. How could you go wrong wrapping hard boiled eggs in sausage and deep frying it? I have no idea why we don't have that around here. We like wrapping stuff in sausage (or at least bacon); we like hardboiled eggs; and we like deep frying things.

I bet if I started making them, I could make a killing.

I want to try the eggs. How could you go wrong wrapping hard boiled eggs in sausage and deep frying it? I have no idea why we don't have that around here. We like wrapping stuff in sausage (or at least bacon); we like hardboiled eggs; and we like deep frying things.

I bet if I started making them, I could make a killing.

Yeah make em yourself, they aint hard to do.

Mushy peas are much better than garden peas, haggis is wonderful nice and peppery, black and white pudding yummy! Scrapple dunno wot that is?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrapple

Deliciousness is what it is.

Pasteles are definitely an odd dish.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasteles

People's reaction to them is usually pretty strong one way or the other and is usually based either on look or taste. They are quite delicious, but closely resemble something you flush. *nod*
They sound very hard work to make?

I leave them on the plate. They taste like shit.
Yeah, they're foul... Why do that to a perfectly decent pea?

Scrapple dunno wot that is?
It was mentioned at the start of the thread; American offal meat-loaf type stuff, I think.

Yeah make em yourself, they aint hard to do.
If I can get my friend to give me the time of day today, I'm going to bring the subject up with her - she lived in Britain for a few years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrapple

Deliciousness is what it is.

That looks great.

It was mentioned at the start of the thread; American offal meat-loaf type stuff, I think.

Yeah, then you cut it into slices and pan fry them.

They sound very hard work to make?

They are. *nod*

As a vegetarian Scot, my options in Scottish cuisine is a bit limited.

But there is NO WAY I will ever try deep-fried chocolate bars.

As a vegetarian Scot, my options in Scottish cuisine is a bit limited.

But there is NO WAY I will ever try deep-fried chocolate bars.
I also recommend swearing off fried ice cream.

Lutefisk. Rotting fish soaked in lye and left out for two weeks... that wreaks like shit... and is gelatinous...

Yek. Nasty shit. I have no idea what those damn Scandis were thinking. My great grandparents made it every Christmas, and I refuse to go near it anymore.

Everything gelatinous just seems nasty, and usually is.

I also recommend swearing off fried ice cream.
Fried ice cream is actually pretty good though... it's just a thin layer of batter/fried sugar on the outside, the rest is just normal ice cream.

Ok.
Refried beans.
Seriously, I can eat any kind of meat you can think of. But once you put a plate of that stuff in front of me...
Refried beans are yummy!

Brussel Sprouts are pretty gross... as is about anything involving liver. I can't think of anything specific to Canada that's gross off the top of my head though...

I dislike tripe or any kind of jelly. Disgusting stuff.

Haggis is lovely though.

As a vegetarian Scot, my options in Scottish cuisine is a bit limited.

But there is NO WAY I will ever try deep-fried chocolate bars.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep-fried_Mars_Bar

Never had one, hopefully never will. I think we've just got to admit that Scottish cuisine aint that great. And I'm as patriotic as they come, but deep fried mars bars? BLEH!

Refried beans are yummy!

Brussel Sprouts are pretty gross... as is about anything involving liver. I can't think of anything specific to Canada that's gross off the top of my head though...
I think the only thing we do with liver around is fish for catfish..

Ok.
Refried beans.
Seriously, I can eat any kind of meat you can think of. But once you put a plate of that stuff in front of me, http://forums.ircspy.com/images/smilies/puke.gif.

Hey, I can agree with that. I was friends with a cuban girl, and that family would eat leftover refried beans for breakfast. We always joked that they were re-refried beans.

I saw canned haggis at the Ren Faire last year. And vegetarian haggis, also in cans. Yech.

I saw canned haggis at the Ren Faire last year. And vegetarian haggis, also in cans. Yech.

Vegetarian Haggis?

But how?

Vegetarian Haggis?

But how?

That was my question. But then I decided I was better off not knowing.

I saw that quote by Mike Myers at the top of my Gmail today and it cracked me the hell up. I would like to know, what do you think is one of the most disgusting dishes that is common in your country or part of the country? Provide links if possible.

I think creamed chipped beef (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipped_beef_on_toast) is probably at the top of my personal list. We see signs for it all the time at Ocean City.
Please, I live in the South. We make some of the best dishes in the country, but we also have a rural heritage that has created some of the most disgusting. Talking about okra, boiled peanuts, and green tomatoes just warms one up for the main events like chitterlins or tripe. Try to be polite and taste a little at a family dinner when one of those is presented and you'll wish you had a barrel of creamed chipped beef.

Refried beans are yummy!

Brussel Sprouts are pretty gross... as is about anything involving liver. I can't think of anything specific to Canada that's gross off the top of my head though...
Put some balsamic vinegarette dressing and a little Parmesan cheese on the Brussel sprouts and they actually start to taste like something ... balsamic vinegarette dressing and Parmesan cheese.

Please, I live in the South. We make some of the best dishes in the country, but we also have a rural heritage that has created some of the most disgusting. Talking about okra, boiled peanuts, and green tomatoes just warms one up for the main events like chitterlins or tripe. Try to be be polite and taste a little at a family dinner when one of those is presented and you'll wish you had a barrel of creamed chipped beef.

I'm so, so, SO glad that i was born in Michigan. Even if it makes me a damnyankee. There are things that I can't even think about touching. Yech.

I'm so, so, SO glad that i was born in Michigan. Even if it makes me a damnyankee. There are things that I can't even think about touching. Yech.

The worst thing I remember about food up North was mush. How it's sliced off of a cake of more mush and fried up. At least we make our corn products a little looser, and at our house, we always add a heap of cheese to the grits.

Calf fries. They are really quite yummy, but they just sound gross.

(they are breaded deep fried bull testicles, in case you don't know) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Mountain_oysters)

The worst thing I remember about food up North was mush. How it's sliced off of a cake of more mush and fried up. At least we make our corn products a little looser, and at our house, we always add a heap of cheese to the grits.

Cornmeal mush? We never had that. but my family is mostly English ans Dutch, with a whole hell of a lot of Chinese and japanese dishes and techniques mixed in. i might not be the best berson to comment on northern cuisine...

There's always balut.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balut

As a vegetarian Scot, my options in Scottish cuisine is a bit limited.

But there is NO WAY I will ever try deep-fried chocolate bars.

Tried one once. Never again.
Deep fried Snickers bar.
Couldn't finish it.

There's nothing gross in Indian cuisine.

There's always balut.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balut

Oh dear lord....I feel a bit sick now.

Oh dear lord....I feel a bit sick now.

How can people eat duck heads and be able to live with themselves?

There's nothing gross in Indian cuisine.

Not until you've eaten yellow dahl and chick peas every night for a month...I'm sure there's something gross, even if it's just the names of some food. I always stay away from anything that starts out murgh...

How can people eat duck heads and be able to live with themselves?

In my second-hand experience, the consumers need to be very, very drunk before they'll consider eating a fermented duck egg. They have invariably regretted it the next morning. Something about the feathers in their mouth...

There's always balut.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balut


Wow.

I have a bit of a thing about eggs; even normal soft-boiled eggs make me feel a bit queasy, so that's probably just topped the maggoty cheese as "foods I've never eaten but really don't want to".

Well done.

isnt vegetarian haggis otherwise known as oatmeal?

Casu Marzu. I win.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casu_marzu

Casu Marzu. I win.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casu_marzu

When I was in Kenya working in/on an orphanage we dug out a termite (I think) nest. Many of the kids were perfectly happy catching and eating them alive.

You haven't lived until you've tried the Hormigas Culonas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atta_laevigata) (Fat-Ass Ants) of central Colombia.

They're huge, fried, usually dipped in chocolate, and have all sorts of reputed therapeutic benefits.

Oh dear lord....I feel a bit sick now.

100-year Egg(Some call them 100-year-old-eggs):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_egg

Not sure which are worse. :D

100-year Egg(Some call them 100-year-old-eggs):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_egg

Not sure which are worse. :D

And this is different from pickled anything...how?

When I was in Kenya working in/on an orphanage we dug out a termite (I think) nest. Many of the kids were perfectly happy catching and eating them alive.

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Were you in the Peace Corps?

What is haggis?

More appropriately, what is haggis not?

I always found it funny how those Northern boys would make fun of us for our chitlins and grits, and then go off and get themselves a nice, juicy hotdog and oatmeal.

Please, I live in the South. We make some of the best dishes in the country, but we also have a rural heritage that has created some of the most disgusting. Talking about okra, boiled peanuts, and green tomatoes just warms one up for the main events like chitterlins or tripe. Try to be polite and taste a little at a family dinner when one of those is presented and you'll wish you had a barrel of creamed chipped beef.

Wow, what a great contribution! I must say, I can't compete with that. :p

Anyone here been to Mongolia? It's not local cuisine for me at all, don't get me wrong, but something about fermented yak's milk just turned my stomach.

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Were you in the Peace Corps?

Nothing so grand I'm afraid, just a summer project I went on.

Africamp (http://www.adventurealternative.com/Africamp.asp#Adventures)

Between the duck fetuses and the jumping cheese worms I think I've learned that liver isn't all that bad.

I think we have the makings here of a menu from hell - the worst dishes in the world in one big inedible feast. All we need are a few cameras and some z-list celebrities who will do anything for publicity and we have a tv programme.

I think we have the makings here of a menu from hell - the worst dishes in the world in one big inedible feast. All we need are a few cameras and some z-list celebrities who will do anything for publicity and we have a tv programme.

All stffued in a blender and liquefied, before being allowed to congeal...

All stffued in a blender and liquefied, before being allowed to congeal...

Please, the Z-grade celebrities don't deserve that respect.

On another note... scotch eggs are possibly my favourite food of all time, but I've only ever (thankfully) had them hot.

Also, I absolutely love deep fried mars bars, well at least i love sharing one with my girlfriend... its so fattening and bad for you, but soo damm tasty...

Not really anything round here that's disgusting. It's all British food really. Although I recently went up north and had grilled crocodile... not so great :(

That was my question. But then I decided I was better off not knowing.

Its an artificle skin, and the like a normal haggis without the sheeps pluck.

Not until you've eaten yellow dahl and chick peas every night for a month...I'm sure there's something gross, even if it's just the names of some food. I always stay away from anything that starts out murgh...

Ummmm yummy, I had some friends round for dinner the other week and made a lamb curry with yellow daal, and chick peas and sag aloo! Ohhh sag aloo just the sound of it makes my mouth water!

I think we have the makings here of a menu from hell - the worst dishes in the world in one big inedible feast. All we need are a few cameras and some z-list celebrities who will do anything for publicity and we have a tv programme.

Heh hasn't that already been done? 'I'm a celebratiy get me outa here'

On another note... scotch eggs are possibly my favourite food of all time, but I've only ever (thankfully) had them hot.

Also, I absolutely love deep fried mars bars, well at least i love sharing one with my girlfriend... its so fattening and bad for you, but soo damm tasty...

Not really anything round here that's disgusting. It's all British food really. Although I recently went up north and had grilled crocodile... not so great :(

Hot scotch egg? Thats just ..... perverted!

Hot scotch egg? Thats just ..... perverted!

I thought that too ¬_¬

Nothing so grand I'm afraid, just a summer project I went on.

Africamp (http://www.adventurealternative.com/Africamp.asp#Adventures)
Nice program. I was just about to sign up for the Peace Corps in college -- they seemed to like people with scientific and mathematical degrees ( as did the CIA ), but the Marine recruiter dangled a pretty airplane in front of me and closed the deal. I always look at the Peace Corps as a missed opportunity.

Hot scotch egg? Thats just ..... perverted!

No no, its deliciousness wrapped in warming goodness... like consensual incest :p [j/k]

No no, its deliciousness wrapped in warming goodness... like consensual incest :p [j/k]

I bet you like Morris Dancing too...

Not until you've eaten yellow dahl and chick peas every night for a month...I'm sure there's something gross, even if it's just the names of some food. I always stay away from anything that starts out murgh...

I eat yellow dahl a lot, but yeah, I hate chickpeas.

In my second-hand experience, the consumers need to be very, very drunk before they'll consider eating a fermented duck egg. They have invariably regretted it the next morning. Something about the feathers in their mouth...

I'd buy that for a dollar.