I don’t understand people not liking lentils. I think they do not know how to cook it 🤔
Dobradinha: Brazilian caipira stewed beef intestines with beans. Really goes all the way with emphasizing the jelly texture
Chicken hearts: we eat them by the dozen but IME gringos don’t like them much
Chicken feet: love them plain caipira style but dim sum style is even better, especially the more spicy onesI had a friend turn me on to chicken hearts when I was heavy into grilling and love introducing people to them. Super easy to grill too. Season, skewer, throw them on, done. Chicken feet though??? Idk, hard for me to get behind knowing they’ve been treading through dirt their whole lives, or worse.
Marinating the hearts with limes and herbs is super good, too.
Yeah, feet turn a lot of people off because of the dirtiness and how messy they are to eat. Here’s more info: they are basically pure gelatinous skin with some juicy tendons, you eat them with your hands (at least in my family) to really get in there, and they taste however the broth as a whole tastes (I can’t imagine having them roasted)
Meat, cheese and dairy
Black licorice
Anchovies
Cantaloupe
I love each of them, but all have such unique flavors it’s easy to imagine not liking them.
Fried Blood Sausage.
It looks like actual, coagulated blood.
But it’s really tasty (to me).Beer. My partner doesn’t care for it but I love it. I know tons of people love beer but I totally get the people that don’t. It’s kinda very different from most drinks!
I mean, even within beer there’s a huge variation in flavors.
Fair! I guess I mean traditional old school “beer” when I say it, but even that has some variation too
Grilled liver and onions and jarred Gefilte Fish. Both I grew up eating as an Ashkenazi jew with a working mom who didn’t have time to make her own Gefilte Fish haha. I do understand that both are an acquired taste though.
Never ate liver and onions until I was married. My own mother was grossed out when I told her I ate liver. But it is so flavorful! I’m sad I missed out as a kid because my parents thought it was gross. I promised myself I will not do the same to my kids.
Sprouts, THEY ARE AMAZING
people are bitches, so I understand 😒
Boiled sprouts is the worst food on the planet. Roasted sprouts is the best food on the planet.
Most of my lazy dishes are pretty terrible on paper but are really tasty imo.
For example I sometimes make a fried noodles and tofu that as a sauce has a fuckton of sriracha and nutritional yeast. It’s basically a super spicy ans super umami dish, but you kind of need to let it grow on you.
Ive made nooch, Sriracha and tofu with toast and with rice, I’ll try it with noodles next, thanks for the idea!
Lamb brain sandwich
Never heard of this but now I’m intrigued? What is the flavor / texture like??
Kind of bone marrow mushroomy.
Button Mushrooms / Cherry Tomatoes - my friend once commented that it felt like chewing eyeballs.
Parsnip.
Sea Oysters! Back when I lived by the coast, I would tag along for a ride with my fishermen uncle; we would cut some oysters with a knife from the side of the port and snack on them through the day; Just opening them up with a knife, add chopped purple onions, avocado, tomatoes, lemon and hot sauce and slurp em’ off the shell!
That sounds like the best ceviche imaginable
皮蛋 a.k.a. “century egg” or, more boringly, “preserved egg”.
I get it. I really do. Everything about these from the colour to the texture to the aroma to the flavour is highly alien to most people’s tastebuds. (It took me ten years to warm up to them myself!) But now that I pushed through it, they’re one of my favourite things.
I got in a huge argument with someone who actually thought they were preserved for 100 years…
So with someone who doesn’t understand how reality works. Got it. 🤣
Could you imagine? You’d need to fund a company for 100 years with potentially 0 profit
Sometimes I wonder what people are thinking.
Then I remember most people don’t think.
I mean there’s tea that you can buy that’s aged about 30 years. That stuff is horrifically expensive because the capital outlay with ZERO return on it is massive. (I drank a tea that was actually 99 years old once, back in about 2003. It cost roughly twenty bucks in 2003 money for a thimble-sized teacup’s worth. Yes, it was worth it.)
You can also get liquors that are aged 25+ years here. Again, it’s hugely expensive because of the outlay vs. return ratio.
And both of these only work by also selling younger versions: for the liquors 3 years and for teas anywhere from a year on up.
A hundred years? And yet you sell them for a price of about $1.5 for ten? (First search page on Taobao, randomly selected shop: https://detail.tmall.com/item.htm?id=683692822495)
about $1.5 for ten
I may have a business idea for the US market
Selling pre-rotted eggs? 🤣
You can also get liquors that are aged 25+ years here. Again, it’s hugely expensive because of the outlay vs. return ratio.
It’s not just that, it’s also that alcohol evaporates. I mostly know single malts - where the evaporation is called ‘the angel’s share’. It’s a couple of percent per year of storage (in Scotland). That might not sound like much but after 30 years at 2% you’ll have lost about 45% of your initial volume.
Cauliflower soup. It tastes amazing to me, but it really does smell like farts
