Food in Europe others find disgusting

Fromage de pipi.

I know for a fact Americans don't like most Norwegian food. Too much fish and lamb. Not enough beef.

^ no idea how that ended up here. Sorry.

Cibreo qualifies, it is the wattle of the rooster.

Berberechos...barnacles!

Snails & frog legs

Haggis

Lutefisk

I love barnacles and snails and frogs legs but I live in the EU

However the only place I have tried Lutefisk was in the US in Minnesota. Vomit.

A very “ripe” Sardinian cheese with live (!!!) worms. (Sardinia’s in Europe, isn’t it?)

Dutch raw herring & licorice & 'frikadellen'

black and white pudding

Saw it on a travel show awhile back...

Some Icelandic dish involving a dead shark that gets buried for like a week, dug up & then eaten.

I nearly hurled.

Other than Italian and French, I don’t think most Americans like any European foods. German and Scandinavian are particularly unappealing. Same with Eastern European. Spanish maybe ok. English/Irish maybe ok - but they are really not a cuisine - more like basic food products.

I love Irish breakfast, R11.

Tripe.

[quote]In its simplest form, tripe is the lining from the stomach (or stomachs) of a domesticated animal. Most often the first three stomachs of a cow or an ox are used. When the first of the bovine’s stomach is used, it is called blanket tripe (due to its appearance); when the second—and usually most coveted—is prepared, it is known as honeycomb tripe; and when it is the third stomach, it is called bible or book tripe. The last stomach of a cow or ox is rarely used because of its glandular texture. Tripe dishes are also sometimes made with a pig, sheep, goat, or even deer stomach.

Americans dislike German food? Try my schnitzel, if you can afford the $65.

Mets. Andouillettes I just can't. I need HUGE quantities of wine. Boudin, ca depends. Rognons - yes please. Organ meats. Listen my German American grandmother had a taste for several of these dishes and it's really a grown up taste, isn't it? Most younger Americans are quite divorced from this gutteral taste palate. I don't like straight up liver but in a paté, yes. Often my true pleasure is dependent of a good wine to counterbalance how base the whole affaire becomes.

Irish breakfast = doubling your risk of cancer and heart attack.

Lutefisk is luxury compared with surströmming. I don't think the guy in the video liked it much and he didn't even try any

[quote] 'frikadellen'

WTF? They are grinded beef (or grinded beef mixed with grinded pork). No different than burger patties or meatballs.

Clip in R17 starts at 11:00mins in. DL cut the timestamp off.

Currywurst is a hot dog sausage cut into pieces covered in curry flavored tomato ketchup. Delicious with French fries on the side. It's a very common street vendor food you get at town fairs and sports events. This is the firsttime I read that it's highly unpopular outside Germany (and America).

I'm not Deutsch but I fucking love currywurst and look forward to it everytime I visit Germany. It's cheap and delicious - perfect combo. But yeah, most people outside of Germany don't care for it. My friend's mom owns a pub and since she grew up in Germany she added currywurst, her childhood fave, to the menu. People didn't care for it so she soon removed it from the menu again.

"grinded beef (or grinded beef mixed with grinded pork)"

Oh, dear! x3!

Most Europeans find German and Scandinavian food disgusting.

Fermented fish

Haggis. Blech.

i'm italian and i like currywurst. it's not worse than a street cart hotdog.

R12 - where's the blood sausage?

Fagottini

R28 those are a favorite of mine

When I was in Iceland I ate some kind of native bird that is a delicacy of some sort. It was disgusting. I think I made the owner and the chef feel bad when I ate only a small amount of it.

my sister went to Iceland and bought me two very popular local snacks: fermented shark, and some kind of fritters deep fried in reindeer's fat. those people are crazy up there.

Let's bump this shit!

I am German btw.

snails

I am going to get roasted by the Italians for this, but I cannot stand Vin Santo. It’s like drinking raisins.

Orangevagina soda.

Welcome to Italy, home of bizarre cuisine!

Lampredotta, similar to tripe.

Crudo, which is salted raw ham.

Cheese is always served to be eaten with marmalade.

Gorgonzola gelato, tasted like sweet frozen vomit.

Typical bread in Tuscany, which contains no salt, tastes like cotton.

Merengue, which has the texture of styrofoam and is tasteless.

R36 Yeah, the bread in Tuscany sucks. Locals told me it’s flavorless because it’s intended to soak up sauces and drippings, but that didn’t improve it much in my experience.

tuscan bread (called locally "sciocco", dumb) is saltless because it's meant to be eaten with the wonderful tuscan cold cuts, salame e prosciutto, that are of course salty and often spicy. I agree that by itself salt less bread is terrible. Oh, r36: cheese with preserves and jams is not just an italian thing, they do it in France and Spain too. Also with honey. And the combination is wonderful, you're missing out if you don't like it. Prosciutto crudo is not "raw", it's seasoned for a long time and sometimes smoked, and it's wonderful.

Only a dumb American could poo poo Prosciutto.

When I was in Paris, I tried a sausage, andouillette (sp), that was disgusting. I really didn't know what it was.. but, it smelled like poop, tasted worse..terrible. I couldn't get past two bites, and didn't finish it.

Eton mess.

Weird Styrofoam and cream and strawberries. Dry cake - at least the one I had.

Do go on, R38. Tell us how wonderful lampredotto is...

I like all the weird foods - organ meats, pickled fish, low tide stuff, but I cannot stand canned beans for breakfast - I like the rest of a full English breakfast.

[quote]Only a dumb American could poo poo Prosciutto.

Oh, dear.

R10 - Icelandic shark, which is actually cured in sheds not buried the ground, isn't that disgusting, just unpleasant, lots of hype.

Andouillette - French tripe sausage - on the other hand was the nastiest thing I've ever put in my mouth. First bite was "What's so bad?" Second was "Something isn't quite right here." Third bite spat out screaming "I never want this stuff anywhere near me again!"

Currywurst I can take or leave. I tried duck blood soup in Sweden, but didn't get past the first spoonful.

I think I'm weird, because as a Norwegian I don't like Norwegian food. Most of it is gross. Like my parents grew up with whale meat. They eat food that makes me want to puke.

R38 Crudo is never smoked. It is raw as it is cured, not cooked.

Andouillette..

Crudo is Parma Ham or prosciutto. Although with some prosciutto they use some chemicals like nitrate to preserve the ham. With Parma Ham it's just sea salt and fresh air to dry out the ham.

Pamesano Reggiano is produced in the same region. The pigs they use for the Parma Ham are fed with the leftover 'water' from the cheese production.

I was in Oviedo Spain for a fiesta day one year and everyplace was closed and the only food you could buy at the fiesta was Blood Sausage baked in bread, with the oozy juices coming out each end. I don't eat meat so I basically fasted the whole day.

Vegemite/marmite are both gross. Beans on toast is just nasty. I sat in a beer garten in Vienna and watched the happy families order roasted swein and potatoes and bread to chow down, ugh, looked like a heart attack on a platter. Carpaccio is repulsive as well.

R50

I know you don’t eat meat - but roast pork, potatoes and bread is hardly unusual or limited to Vienna.

lampredotto is very good, but i like tripes. In rome they stew it with tomato sauce, it's fantastic in winter.

I was in Denmark for 3 weeks and the food was amazing.

Vegemite is Australian not European.

[quote]Pamesano Reggiano

Oh, dear!

R54

I get that, but as an American Vegemite and Marmite are more or less the same thing. I actually like them, so am puzzled when video show natives insisting on a tiny thin layer only.

[quote]Pamesano Reggiano

Oh caro.

Hazelnuts are what's wrong with Europe.

Foods that are on the verge of rotting are delicacies the world over. I think the French have a saying for that. They always do.

just back from lisbon: food is super tasty but so absurdly rich i fear for the middle americans tourists. I'm italian and i was almost killed by the tons of garlic, oil and deep fried stuff. Stay safe, people from Ohio! Bring your own food!

Swedish food is gross.