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Dec 21, 2013 16:10
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barcoded posted:Firstly, biltong: Nobody knows why its called that. Biltong means butt tongue in Dutch  So I don't know what you South-africans do with your cows, but it might give a clue about the name 
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Dec 21, 2013 16:52
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bringmyfishback posted:What the gently caress is American cuisine? I think the food that is the most uniquely American is Cajun/Creole cuisine and soul food.
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Dec 21, 2013 19:00
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bringmyfishback posted:What the gently caress is American cuisine? Johnny Rockets.
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Dec 21, 2013 19:19
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central dogma posted:I think the food that is the most uniquely American is Cajun/Creole cuisine and soul food. Spicy fried everything, then?
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Dec 21, 2013 19:32
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PiratePing posted:
Chicken cordon code-blue
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Dec 21, 2013 20:14
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PiratePing posted:From what I've seen from hanging out in GWS either Americans are taught to be extremely panicky about food safety or your food is just less safe than ours. Not american. Also, originally coming from southeast asia means we don't really have any cultural dishes that are not cooked. That being said, I enjoy all kinds of sushi these days. Sashimi, too.
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Dec 21, 2013 20:59
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PiratePing posted:
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Dec 21, 2013 23:15
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kinmik posted:The second I saw this, all moisture in my mouth disappeared; my tongue shriveled like a scared slug. This thing looks drier than the Gobi. And I'm pretty certain that's the pasta from the 99 cent blue easy mac boxes.
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Dec 22, 2013 02:50
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I found this thread when I'd caught up on my bookmarks and was browsing PYF for something new and interesting. Two days and 61 pages later, I'm ready to contribute a dish of my own: Looks like noodles! Tastes a lot like noodles, too, tossed in olive oil and garlic. I quite liked it. It's baby eels. On my first trip to Japan, we were eating at a Korean BBQ place when I picked up this one piece of meat from the brazier. My host sister started gesturing to her mouth. I told her, "But it's too hot to eat," so she suggested I dip it in raw egg first (something else that took getting used to) while she flipped through her pocket dictionary. I did, and popped the slice in my mouth. Meanwhile, she had found the word she'd been looking for: "Tongue," she informed me. "That was tongue." I swallowed very carefully and said, "Oh. Was it? Interesting."  I've since tried other kinds of offal at yakiniku places and elsewhere, including intestines, that make me happy to have tongue as an alternative. It was a nice piece of meat, as these things go. I had whale bacon once, because I liked bacon (this was before the whole bacon thing blew up). It was gross.
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Dec 22, 2013 03:00
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Hirayuki posted:I found this thread when I'd caught up on my bookmarks and was browsing PYF for something new and interesting. Two days and 61 pages later, I'm ready to contribute a dish of my own: People make pancakes out of white bait, too. It looks so innocent. 
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Dec 22, 2013 04:55
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I feel so bad for them, they're so tiny, and there are so many!(they must be delicious) Though tongue really isn't all that exotic. In rural America, it is still semi-common. I thought of something that may be American- cornbread! Do other cultures eat that? Where I'm from, we pair it with pinto beans a bunch.
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Dec 22, 2013 05:20
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pentyne posted:Applebee's and Red Robin. That's as traditional American as it gets, and its all borderline garbage. What are you talking about? American style-restaurants are popular all over the world, they're called McDonald's and KFC. In all seriousness though, American style burger-joints and diners often gain a lot of traction, and even McD's and KFC get imitators. The classic 50's diner is probably the most iconic home of non-regional American cuisine though. Meatloaf... burgers and shakes; pancakes and hash-browns etc.
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Dec 22, 2013 05:24
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Hirayuki posted:I found this thread when I'd caught up on my bookmarks and was browsing PYF for something new and interesting. Two days and 61 pages later, I'm ready to contribute a dish of my own: Fun fact: due to its high price and scarcity, most white bait is made of fish paste substitute. Kinda like surimi. DoctorPresident has a new favorite as of 05:32 on Dec 22, 2013 |
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Dec 22, 2013 05:29
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DoctorPresident posted:Fun fact: due to its high price and scarcity, most white bait is made of fish paste substitute. Kinda like surimi. Do you have a source for that? Wikipedia isn't showing anything and whenever I've had whitebait it looks like a pile of baby fish so I'm having a hard time figuring out how they would make 'whitebait' out of fish paste.
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Dec 22, 2013 10:03
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DicktheCat posted:Though tongue really isn't all that exotic. In rural America, it is still semi-common. Right, beef tongue is a semi-common dish in plenty of Western countries. In Belgium, it is usually served with Madeira sauce:  It's alright, but I tend to get tired of the texture after a while. Dr. Jamming posted:What are you talking about? American style-restaurants are popular all over the world, they're called McDonald's and KFC. In all seriousness though, American style burger-joints and diners often gain a lot of traction, and even McD's and KFC get imitators. The classic 50's diner is probably the most iconic home of non-regional American cuisine though. Meatloaf... burgers and shakes; pancakes and hash-browns etc. Of course, and I bet there are plenty of typically American dishes beyond what is exported to the rest of the world. Even though it's meant as a self-deprecating joke, the insistence that there is no such thing as American cuisine is actually ridiculously Americentric, as if American culinary habits are completely neutral and lack specific characteristics. On a similar note, I really, really hate the term 'ethnic' used in this context.
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Dec 22, 2013 13:05
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RosaParksOfDip posted:Raw pork and raw egg. They were trying to die of everything.  It's basically raw eggs mixed with sugar. Delicious and surprisingly non-lethal. Alhazred has a new favorite as of 13:16 on Dec 22, 2013 |
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Dec 22, 2013 13:13
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Phlegmish posted:Of course, and I bet there are plenty of typically American dishes beyond what is exported to the rest of the world. Even though it's meant as a self-deprecating joke, the insistence that there is no such thing as American cuisine is actually ridiculously Americentric, as if American culinary habits are completely neutral and lack specific characteristics. For example: most people I know (myself included) have never had something as simple as blueberry pancakes with maple syrup. Dutch pancakes are much bigger and flatter, our toppings are different, we use sugarbeet syrup and we only eat them for dinner. It illustrates a cultural difference too because Dutch people might think Americans are decadent for having a dinner item for breakfast while Americans would probably think it's pretty decadent to have breakfast for dinner. I've never had hashbrowns or beef jerkey, American barbeque sauce was unknown to me until recently (except as that magical sweet marinade on spare ribs), even our bacon is different. Your normal food IS your local cuisine V  VE: Also pecan pie, pumpkin pie, roasted turkey, cranberry sauce, key lime pie... Deep dish pizza, fried chicken, hamburgers and American muffins are popular american foods in Europe, they might not be fancy but then again pasta isn't fancy to Italians and no one would deny that pasta is part of Italian cuisine. PiratePing has a new favorite as of 14:32 on Dec 22, 2013 |
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Dec 22, 2013 14:13
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Hirayuki posted:
Try some tongue tacos. It's nothing strange or exotic here in the whole American continent.
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Dec 22, 2013 17:10
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Desperado Bones posted:Try some tongue tacos. It's nothing strange or exotic here in the whole American continent. I've had tongue tacos before. I don't know if it was because I had bad ones but the texture was amazingly off putting to me. It kind of reminded me of liver/beef jello.
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Dec 22, 2013 17:19
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cyberia posted:Do you have a source for that? Wikipedia isn't showing anything and whenever I've had whitebait it looks like a pile of baby fish so I'm having a hard time figuring out how they would make 'whitebait' out of fish paste. It's mostly the white wormy looking one known in spanish as Angula, the substitute looks exactly the same and it's called "Gula". Translated from Wikipedia in spanish: quote:High prices for eels in the fish markets, coupled with the scarcity of eels in the rivers, have made a substitute made from surimi become very popular. It is popularly known as "gula", a name that really belongs to a particular brand of that product. To produce a kilo of surimi five kilos of fish are needed. The food industry has been slowly improving the qualities and similarities, and have long been major substitutes that mimic the colors and gray eyes of the original eel. A recipe made with Angulas:  The same recipe, this time with Gulas:  As you can see, you would need a very trained palate in order to spot the difference.
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Dec 22, 2013 19:05
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I'm not sure I'm thinking of the same whitebait as you are: 
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Dec 22, 2013 19:16
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thespaceinvader posted:I'm not sure I'm thinking of the same whitebait as you are:
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Dec 22, 2013 19:23
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^^After more reading, it seems that white bait seems to be a catchall term for the immature fry of fish. The exact names for the angulas in english is Elvers:quote:Elvers are young eels. Traditionally, fishermen consumed elvers as a cheap dish, but environmental changes have reduced eel populations. Similar to whitebait, they are now considered a delicacy and are priced at up to 1000 euro per kilogram. Spain has eel dishes, called "angulas", which are baby eels usually served sauteed in olive oil, garlic and a chili pepper. Elvers are now very expensive. A small serving of angulas can cost equivalent of $US100, and there are imitation angulas which can be purchased cheaply.
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Dec 22, 2013 19:26
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thespaceinvader posted:I'm not sure I'm thinking of the same whitebait as you are: Yeah these are whitebait in england, not baby eel. Whitebait are baby fish in general but no way would eel be included these days, far too rare and expensive. Also since baby eel became very fashionable tapas a decade or two ago, eel numbers have absolutely crashed. edit: beaten.
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Dec 22, 2013 19:26
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Well, I'll be damned. I dug up the restaurant menu to check the price of those baby eels, and sure enough, they were listed as "gulas".  They were still tasty.As for my first experience with the "exotic" tongue, I grew up middle- to upper-middle-class in the northern Midwest U.S., where I still live. I had never even had an opportunity to try tongue until it wound up on my chopsticks in Japan when I was 16, nor was it part of my parents' solidly middle-class childhoods. It just depends on your upbringing. Happily, we've all expanded our palates far beyond our Midwestern roots.
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Dec 22, 2013 20:46
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 I can't tell the lighting or the food itself makes it look bad  Aphtonites has a new favorite as of 14:31 on Dec 23, 2013 |
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Dec 23, 2013 14:29
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In good, not-horror-movie lighting those would be slightly misshapen but perfectly edible pancakes, not pressed flesh discs drizzled with blood.
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Dec 23, 2013 14:44
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xoFcitcrA posted:Looks familiar.  Yes, anyway, I came here to post this patent application I found: quote:United States Patent D312,719
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Dec 23, 2013 16:40
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twoday posted:
That drawing looks like poop on a stick but pretzel dogs are great
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Dec 23, 2013 18:21
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barcoded posted:I have three foods to share with you today from Johannesburg, South Africa.  
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Dec 23, 2013 18:24
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Masala Coke This was served with desert at my friend's wedding in Kolkata. I'm not sure what particular blend of spices they used, but it tasted more or less like someone crushed a bunch of bouillon cubes into a glass of coke. The stuff we had also had more green in it, which may have been mint and/or cilantro.
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Dec 24, 2013 03:26
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Fancy Molasses posted:Masala Coke This poo poo is delicious yo. They put things like chat masala, rock salt, lemon, pepper, mint and so on into the coke, or just plain soda, so you get a salty, spicy flavour to go with the sugar in the coke.
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Dec 24, 2013 03:49
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Aphtonites posted:
The lighting makes it look like a savoury dish. The serrated knife next to it doesn't help. Only after examining it long and hard do you understand that its perfectly harmless pancakes with chocolate syrup instead of brown gravy.
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Dec 24, 2013 06:02
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Alhazred posted:In Norway it's called spekeskine and spekepølse and it does not belong in this thread: Eate all the meates. There was a salami I had a while back, from a Polish guy. He called it "old trivoli", said it was aged in a cotton sheath. It was the most flavourful, but borderline dangerous salami I've ever eaten. It made my tongue go numb at first (probably a bad sign). hosed if I can find it again.
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Dec 24, 2013 09:02
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barcoded posted:Eate all the meates. There was a salami I had a while back, from a Polish guy. He called it "old trivoli", said it was aged in a cotton sheath. It was the most flavourful, but borderline dangerous salami I've ever eaten. It made my tongue go numb at first (probably a bad sign). hosed if I can find it again. I have a feeling the cotton sheath was a sock. Actually though, I've had authentic sausage that made my tongue feel numb too, that's really weird.
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Dec 24, 2013 11:09
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SC Bracer posted:This poo poo is delicious yo. They put things like chat masala, rock salt, lemon, pepper, mint and so on into the coke, or just plain soda, so you get a salty, spicy flavour to go with the sugar in the coke. You're not really doing the drink any favors by describing it more accurately. 
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Dec 25, 2013 07:58
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Jonny Nox posted:Man you got me looking at videos of butchery, which was kind of neat. Just like... imagine being sedated but it didnt take right... so your concious as the wirring blades kick in... the cold methodical way it turns your limp body as it scans your flesh... you have but a moment to silently pray to a deity you no longer believe... then the cutting starts...
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Dec 28, 2013 07:21
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Jimson posted:Just like... imagine being sedated but it didnt take right... so your concious as the wirring blades kick in... the cold methodical way it turns your limp body as it scans your flesh... you have but a moment to silently pray to a deity you no longer believe... then the cutting starts... I don't think there are a lot of sheep on the Something Awful forums.
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Dec 28, 2013 08:16
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Jimson posted:Just like... imagine being sedated but it didnt take right... so your concious as the wirring blades kick in... the cold methodical way it turns your limp body as it scans your flesh... you have but a moment to silently pray to a deity you no longer believe... then the cutting starts... I don't know, I think it's almost beautiful in a way. That sort of deathly focused speed and precision, something that's on a level that could never possibly exist in nature, is amazing to see. My favorite part was at the where they used the knife arm to cut out the big chunk of spine, or whatever it was. It just starts jabbing it into the thing, and before you know it the lamb falls apart with the one section of bone being perfectly removed.
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