What are some common sour foods?

Answer 1

In the Pennsylvania Dutch tradition, you are supposed to have 7 sweets and 7 sours on the table at every meal except breakfast. The sours are usually several types of pickles. Could be a two or three of types of pickled cucumbers, chow-chow, bean salads, pickled watermelon rinds, etc. as well as cucumber salad, cole slaw or that kind of thing.

Answer 2

Will answer according to my ethnic-preference here, hope this helps, cheers ! :)

1) Sour plum - preserved & dried.
2) Plum powder - use to make a cool drink in the summer.
3) Apple cider vinegar/ vinegar of some sorts.
4) Preserved sour mustard vegetables - use in many chinese cuisine, ie. the infamous Szechuan fish fillet sour mustard soup, OR with stir fry meats.
5) Preserved dikon - with carrot shreds, a salad commonly served as an appetizer in any Cantonese cuisine restaurants.
5) Unripe mangoes/papayas/other unripe fruits - used in many Asian salads/stir frys.
6) Tamarind concentrate/paste - use for cooking in many Asian cooking. ie. Tomyum soup in the Thai cuisine, spicy stir fry for other S.E.Asian cuisines.
7) Others : Sauerkraut relish, pickles

Answer 3

Since this is under Ethnic foods heading, I will list some of my
favorite ehtnic foods that have sour taste or use dashes of lemon juice or vinegar.

Vietnamese Pho Noodles
Philippine Sisig
Mexican Menudo
Chinese sweet and sour (your favorite meat here)
Korean Seaweed and sliced cucumber cold soup

Answer 4

Lemonade.

Pickled cucumber. Pickled cabbage.
Sweet and sour pork.
Hot and sour soup.
Pickled pork hock in balsamic vinegar.

Answer 5

sour pork
sour rinds
sour kraut
sour rice

Answer 6

Black eyed pees, chit lings,ham hocks, grits,barbecue ribs,collard greens

Answer 7

vinegar, tamarind, most citrus

Answer 8

warheads...those hard candy things...the label has this guy's head exploding...

Answer 9

lemon

Answer 10

tamarind