Odd Foods

[Mary Terry]

I like to make chopped liver (chicken liver and egg salad) but 1 lb of livers are too much so some always goes bad. I can't get them in smaller amounts.

I'm the only one in my family who likes liver pate so I sometimes buy it in small quantities for myself from a Kosher deli. I also buy pickled herring in cream sauce there and eat it with dark rye bread or on Wasa rye crackers. People think I'm nuts and I don't care!

 

[AdamG]

I'm the only one in my family who likes liver pate so I sometimes buy it in small quantities for myself from a Kosher deli. I also buy pickled herring in cream sauce there and eat it with dark rye bread or on Wasa rye crackers. People think I'm nuts and I don't care!

I love pickled herring in cream too

 

[Outdated]

I always remembered beer called Kangabrew, way back to probably the late 90s.

Strange, I've lived here since the 60s and that's the first time I've ever heard of Kangabrew. When I first started reading I thought you were going to mention Roo Tail Stew. But then a lot of foreigners thing we all drink Fosters beer too, as far as I know only tourists ever drink it because it's terrible.

"Kangabrew, made with real hops."

I suspect someone used this pun once and others mistook it as being real.

And thank you for reminding me of Wee Willie Winkie, I hadn't heard of him since I was about 6 years old, him and Jack Frost.

 

[Outdated]

Lutefisk (lye fish) is always a little weird. It's white fish that goes through a time consuming process where it is saturated with lye. Also known as caustic soda, which is usually used for paint stripping and unclogging drains. Mmmmm, caustic soda, yum.

This is exactly the sort of foods I was hoping people would mention, weird and unique. You're too scared to come here in case you get attacked by a vicious bilby, but I think if I went to Norway I'd be seriously concerned about dying of food poisoning now.

 

[Outdated]

... the muffuletta sandwich....

That looks fantastic and sounds great too.

 

[Forest Cat]

I'm the only one in my family who likes liver pate so I sometimes buy it in small quantities for myself from a Kosher deli. I also buy pickled herring in cream sauce there and eat it with dark rye bread or on Wasa rye crackers. People think I'm nuts and I don't care!

Liver patè with butter and cucumber slices on Wasa rye crackers is delicious, I was raised on that. And goat cheese.

 

[Mary Terry]

Liver patè with butter and cucumber slices on Wasa rye crackers is delicious, I was raised on that. And goat cheese.

That sounds delicious. One of these days I'm going to visit and eat my way through Norway. My Scandinavian genes crave it.

 

[MC1Rcat]

I like chicken livers. The best ones are fried and sold at gas stations in the South!

I grew up occasionally eating cow tongue which makes delicious sandwiches (lots of mustard!) and have eaten taco lengua in Mexico. I love sardines, especially the ones packed in Norway or Portugal.

We're adventurous eaters.

Chicken livers, dredged in flour and fried in butter.... over grits and topped w/ brown gravy. HOT DAMN it's good! It's probably the only "weird" thing I like. I won't touch things made w/ tongue, feet, ears, blood, chitlins, etc. It's a texture thing for me. Anything too mineraly/ metallic tasting, cartilage/ chewy, gelatinous or with hair sticking out of it on the plate.... sets me on sensory overload.

 

[MC1Rcat]

I love muffalettas. Italians know how to make a great sandwich. Sadly, Central Grocery permanently closed during the Covid pandemic but continues to sell the sandwiches online.

They are renovating after hurricaine Ida and are now selling things at other stores nearby and online. They will be back soon! YAY!

 

[Outdated]

OK, here's another one - the Kransky.

A type of Sovenian sausage that became popular here in the 90s, especially a version that also has cheese in it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carniolan_sausage
I hate hotdogs. Always have. Lots of people have told me "Try these, they're nice." but they lied. I swear I can taste the lips and arseholes. In fact I have never seen an Australian adult eating a hotdog, only children.

But a Cheese Kransky hotdog, that's something very different.

 

[Mary Terry]

Chicken livers, dredged in flour and fried in butter.... over grits and topped w/ brown gravy. HOT DAMN it's good! It's probably the only "weird" thing I like. I won't touch things made w/ tongue, feet, ears, blood, chitlins, etc. It's a texture thing for me. Anything too mineraly/ metallic tasting, cartilage/ chewy, gelatinous or with hair sticking out of it on the plate.... sets me on sensory overload.

I like livers served over rice, too. Agree that weird cartilage, gelatinous and other off-putting textures and those little hairy feathers the sometimes appear on chicken pieces are gross.

 

[Mary Terry]

They are renovating after hurricaine Ida and are now selling things at other stores nearby and online. They will be back soon! YAY!

If they reopen, that's worth a drive to NOLA for us.

 

[Mary Terry]

OK, here's another one - the Kransky.

A type of Sovenian sausage that became popular here in the 90s, especially a version that also has cheese in it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carniolan_sausage
I hate hotdogs. Always have. Lots of people have told me "Try these, they're nice." but they lied. I swear I can taste the lips and arseholes. In fact I have never seen an Australian adult eating a hotdog, only children.

But a Cheese Kransky hotdog, that's something very different.

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I'm a purist. I don't want cheese or green onions or anything else in my sausage! I can always add toppings to a hot dog, preferably just mustard and sauerkraut. I never put ketchup on a hotdog. Ugh.