Right folks, one Icelander made a joke about Hákarl so we’re not allowed to ferment or salt stuff anymore. Only frozen meat and vegetables in plastic bags from now on.
the “traditional” food i personally have no respect for is that little songbird the elite tier french aristocrats eat with the napkin over their heads to hide their shame from god.
the ortolan bunting.
major content warning if you look up the “culinary” use. i think many of the most aggressive carnists would not want to partake.
everything about it is “im not just an asshole, i am the king of all the assholes and i revel in it.”
The idiotic napkin thing and other rituals like soaking always get me.
Your God is omnipotent and omniscient (that shit goes hard BTW), you can defeat his judgement with a napkin and a technicality? Are you sure?
I read the Wikipedia article, and that is certainly horrific. And you can see from the map how their range through much of France is now non existent
But don’t forget how america raises and butchers it’s chickens. Something most consumers don’t think about for a second when they buy their $4.99 whole cooked birds from costco
Do the French think God has a toddler-level object permanence?
Also, why the fuck do you have to eat it like a cartoon cat eating a fish? Just be normal ffs
i don’t think ortolan is particularly grosser or crueler than most meat dishes
Redditors seeing hot dogs and burgers literally made from the parts of animals ppl refuse to eat if they know what it is
Redditors seeing asian food
I cant believe I am reading glizzy slander rn
Someone has to eat the garbage that isn’t good enough to be dog food
Nah i like hot dogs but they are just as if not more disgusting than any “foreign” food redditors yuck about
the source video is a monkey that doesn’t want to eat the egg
my dog turns her nose up at watermelon that doesn’t make it gross
Icelanders get to shit on their own cultural particulars because it’s their culture. Self-deprecation is a distinctly different beast than depreciating others.
They’ve also got a specific feast day, Þorrablót, to celebrate those old foods. Nobody eats them anymore because they have refrigeration now and all that entails for freshness, but for centuries they were the food of survival in a harsh climate.
Icelanders fool tourists into eating the putrefied shark because it’s funny, but they still have a degree of reverence or respect for the cultural background of that food.
you gotta respect people who could survive in rotto-fermented fish and never once thought they should move to balmy scotland or whatever…
It’s an interesting history but it kind of boils down to:
- Pagans flee Norway from religious persecution, settle Iceland
- Pagans establish democratic society
- Leaving means falling under jurisdiction of a Christian kingdom
- And life is just as shitty elsewhere
Eventually Iceland converted to Christianity and became a formal territory of Norway and then Denmark later, but at that point the inhabitants had been there for centuries and it was their land and home. Many were too poor to leave regardless, and many owned substantial immovable resources like herds of sheep or horses, or swathes of land.
And then later an Icelandic nationalism movement led to national pride in their identity as Icelanders, not as danish subjects, and that led to an independence movement which eventually led to an independent Iceland.
Funnily, there’s an account that when Norwegian settlers got to Iceland there were Scottish missionaries already living there
Which proves my point, Icelanders understand the full cultural implications and the nuances of both venerating the food and making light of it. Whereas the
Redditor only knows “funny fish food bad.”
Every slave food becomes a delicacy at five star restaurants.
I have nothing to backup my assertation.
But I maintain, throughout history and culture, slave/peasant food, is often the best. Anyone can make really good fresh baked bread, but it tastes the ingenuity of the proletarian class to turn stale bread into French toast. Anyone can Make fresh delicious rice dishes, but it tastes the ingenuity of the proletarian class to turn old stale cooked rice into Delicious fried rice. For a carist, the only way to screw up a filet mignon is to overcook it, but it takes the kind of ingenuity only poverty can incubate, to turn beef brisket into a succulent, fall off the fork, cut of meat.
Some aristocratic fancy lads might enjoy torturing and eating a songbird or force feeding a goose liquor until you can harvest its enlarged liver. But if you want to fill your belly with really delicious food you don’t go to the castle, you go to the courtyard.
The best taco meats are lingua and cabeza
Back when my grandfather was alive there was a mexican place near my grandparents that had beef tongue and that was always his go-to. Because there was such a high hispanic population near there the grocery stores started carrying it too which he liked. I could never stand it myself though, at least not the way he’d cook it.
He also had a story about when he was in the army being shipped over seas, the ship’s mess was serving that and as he’d tell the story he’d laugh about how many of the other soldiers would turn their noses up at it and he’d happily take it off their hands or trade something for it so he’d end up being the only one of them getting a proper meal.
Probably a cooking issue, because I have never found it to have any weird texture or flavor when I get it from a taquero
Probably. Both my grandparents were just awful cooks, to the point that their cooking traumatized my mother who’s got some degree of neurodivergence causing a particular sensitivity to food textures, I don’t know what exactly causes that. I’m the only good cook in my family, although I suppose my aunt also learned how to cook decently well eventually.
Lengua was the go to before we stopped eating meat. I think the local taquerias caught onto all the gringos ordering it and started charging more for it. I remember it used to be the cheapest meat on the menu
Meat
I saw a thing recently about how foie gras was originally because migratory birds overfeed themselves in preparation for winter migration (like animals that hibernate), leading to the fattened liver that the bird’s body uses as an energy store during long flights. Aristocrats demanded it year round, so the goose torture started.
mention of meat
And most of what now is “fancy food” is ripped from the poors, starting from pizza but going all the way to the whole “slow food”-thing which is just how peasants and poor folks have always cooked. Cheaper cuts of meat, utilizing the whole product, preservation in various ways etc.
Crab and lobster used to be really cheap near the costs where they live before they started being sold to rich people
Yankee pig-dog inhaling hotdogs like a fish breathes water: “preserved foods are disgusting.”
Zizek_hotdogs.mov
Cheese is literally the dried out crusty lactations of baser animals.
I agree with this take. Wine is gross peasant food. This is why I only eat hydrogen-5 which decays within 86 yoctoseconds (86 x 10^-24)
Child’s play, y’all should try eating losseme particles that dissapear in 8 cadoseconds (8^U)
I only eat free quarks fuck off with this baryon shit
Huh and here I thought femto (10^-15) was an incredibly small unit
You got downvoted for using the R word at a lib:
“Racist”
Struggle food is such a wierd term. Half the people who use it seem to think “struggle food” is the stuff university students eat. People are calling potatoes stuggle food while Im thinking of the stuff you eat when the potatoes are gone. Under the Hawthorne Tree drinking straight cows blood and tree bark stuff.
I hate the stigmatization of simple home cooked meals so much. And that’s like half of the the struggle food.
Then there is monstrosities that seem kind of distasteful but not exactly cheap to make.
yeah i dont think anyone who considers potatoes struggle food has ever struggled
i think of dandelions, wild carrots, walnuts, poisonous plants you have to boil thrice to get nutrition from
Eating a wierd fish is literally the same as alleged culturally enforced misogyny
i need everybody to stop using analogies.
Liberals can only view the world through abstractions even if they’re talking about the simplest, least demanding scenario ever, because then they can substitute a contrived scenario for whatever dumb shit they want to believe
yeah but you can just be like “the acute risks of fugu aren’t worth the calories and japanese culture and cuisine aren’t hanging by the thread of fugu” if that’s your take instead of whatever the fuck that redditism was.
Just imagine the analogy is like a shoe, and we’re like Shinola
i can’t believe you would make that comparison
”Arabians”
was the reddit post made by some kind of g*rman, by chance?
if Middle Eastern states raised their standards of treating women
Western countries should improve their treatment of Middle Eastern women first:
People complaining about pufferfish probably could not identify safe mushrooms to eat without someone else doing it for them.
If part of a destroying angel was safe to eat if very carefully prepared by an extremely trained specialist chef and so was a prestigious “delicacy” specifically because it was inaccessible without the services of such an expensive expert, that would also not be a good thing. Elite prestige dishes that get their draw from being elite, inaccessible, expensive, and prestigious are bad.
Elite prestige dishes that get their draw from being elite, inaccessible, expensive, and prestigious are bad.
I can make an exception for the dishes that have like a 1 in 50 chance of killing the rich bozo who eats it though.
To be fair most of them probably wouldn’t eat any of the safe mushrooms either
Too much fibre for their burger only diet, it would explode their guts
Yeah, I’m a hardcore culturialist.
“Multiculturalism” meets its inevitable fate in the linguistic woodchipper and becomes a denigrating term for anyone who believes in the concept of having any culture.
Century eggs taste vaguely like soy sauce or something. They are good
I’ve never had it without congee or tofu. I don’t feel like it’s a food that you can just full send on its own, but it’s an amazing flavor enhancer.
I full sent one at work once, would never do that again it tasted so bad. But that was also my first exposure to them and I imagine they’re more of an acquired taste.
Hang on, “full send/sent”? This is a new one to me. You mean you ate it, right?
Full send means something like “fully committed” “just do it” “fuck it we ball”
so when he “full sent” it, it means he just ate the thing on its own
“Fuck it we ball”? I don’t know that one either. Are we doing something to a ball or becoming a ball? Oh, or maybe we are going to a ball, like Cinderella?
Oh yeah I just ate it with nothing else, it was truly an awful experience and not the way to eat a century egg especially not for your first experience to them.
Yeah it’s pretty on par with like drinking a bit of soy sauce, not quite as salty but similar vibe. It’s really such a topping
Yeah I always just mix it into rice or noodles etc. Can’t put too much in at once.
Do you eat pickles?
Century eggs literally just taste like very eggy eggs. I’m not sure why they are so widely disliked. I do realise that most westerners have absolute baby level tastes though
I must confess the term “distinctive urine-like odor” in the Wikipedia article does not appeal to me
That article has been written by some Reddit lib. It has no such odor. I’ve eaten hundreds of the things.
Well now I don’t want them
yeah where the piss eggs at?
Everything I can find online says the things smell strongly of ammonia, which can apparently be compared to old human urine or cat urine
It doesn’t smell like cat piss or the piss of any kind of animal lol.
Well, take it from me, a person who has eaten them many, many, many times, in China, they do not smell of piss
Edit: this is one of those insane moments where I come across Western brain worms and despite my 100% lived experience that confirms the brain worms are brain worms, I find myself arguing against people who have absolutely zero experience of the topic beyond a Wikipedia article
It’s just funny considering that Budweiser sells like hotcakes and it both looks and smells like pee
The taste, of course, is somehow worse
Urine smell is just fermentation. A century egg is only slightly different from a pickled egg in terms of “grossness”, and those can be found by the bucket full in like every US gas station.
liking shitty beer is a group self-delusion or alcoholism.
I still remember them putting out that shit-eating ad making fun of pumpkin beer
Heaven forbid people actually enjoy their libations instead of treating it like an act of rebellion to drop $18 on a rack of swill
It has a slight alkaline taste thats a little strong if you eat it on its own, nothjng like piss tho
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If it’s not slathered in bbq sauce or ketchup I don’t want it! 👴🏻
I think people just have never tasted them and believe what they’ve seen on TV or social media.
