The Scots have haggis, us Norwegians have brown cheese... The natives love it, everyone else either thinks it's nasty as hell or just nothing special. What are the things that people eat/drink and enjoy in your country, but go unappreciated when non-natives try them?
2006-06-29 00:40:46 · 29 answers · asked by _jellybaby 2 in Food & Drink ➔ Ethnic Cuisine
Here in the Philippines, Balut is a delicacy. It is a fertilized duck egg with a nearly-developed embryo inside that is boiled and eaten in the shell. Duck eggs that are not properly developed after nine to twelve days are sold as Penoy, which look, smell and taste similar to a regular hard-boiled egg. Most filipinos love it, but some can't stand the sight or texture of the duckling.
This delicacy is certainly not accepted or unappreciated in other countries specially in the US.
2006-07-12 12:14:12 · answer #1 · answered by REGINA 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ciorba de burta
Is a Romanian soup (some in the Arad area say it must be eaten cold) based on quite a lot of yoghurt and/or cream and having inside stripes of cut stomach of cattle (at least I taste it so)
2006-07-08 22:26:39 · answer #2 · answered by consultant_rom 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I live in the SE US and we are rather fond of our grits. Chances are not only does the rest of the world not appreciate it, the rest of our own country doesn't appreciate it. I am from Mississippi and my husband is from Texas, he won't even try them.
And for anyone who doesn't know what grits are:
A ground, usually white meal of dried and hulled corn kernels that is boiled and served as a breakfast food or side dish.
You usually eat them with fried eggs or my daughter prefers them with cheese.
2006-06-29 01:11:14 · answer #3 · answered by Erin S 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Black-eyed peas and cornbread. What can I say, both of my parents are from Alabama. As for the person who posted that most people don't like grits.... you're just around the wrong people, because I love grits, honey. Old fashioned, though, not instant.
2006-07-11 18:24:46 · answer #4 · answered by kaysacutie2 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maryland blue crabs. That is a Baltimore past time in the spring and summer. Most people think that we are nuts! I almost forgot our potato chips with Old Bay seasoning! LOL!
2006-07-09 11:44:02 · answer #5 · answered by zoerayne023 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Puerto Rico - Taino
Well I would have to say it's a toss up between pig's feet and cuchifrito (misc. pig parts). Most people (non Puerto Ricans - latinos) turn green just by the description, but to those of us who love our Boricua food...it is delicious.
2006-07-09 03:05:42 · answer #6 · answered by basilteach 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chicken's feet. Steamed in a black-bean and soy sauce. It's very tasty, actually, but needless to say, the non-native Chinese are not very fond of it.
2006-06-29 03:49:44 · answer #7 · answered by FaithinJude 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would have to say pickled bologna. It is popular in Kentucky but not in the rest of US. Personally, it is good.
I know you said internationally. What do you think is gross that Americans eat?
2006-07-11 09:22:04 · answer #8 · answered by redchili68 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rice with rasam and sambar(Rice and sambar are concoctions of spices, chillies and water in traditional South Indian cuisine). One has to mix them with the rice and then eat the rice with your palm. Foreigners and North Indians find it very strange.
2006-06-29 08:20:24 · answer #9 · answered by wordsurworth 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
El Salvador... I love popusas.... but most other peeps I know don't care for them much. . . They're so good though, especially when my ol' granny makes 'em with cheese, and cream and avocado smothered on top...
2006-07-12 01:16:21 · answer #10 · answered by sgt. pepper 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋