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.
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.
Marmite
Mochi
Olives
Pickled ginger
Boiled Peanuts. I love 'em, but they’re salty and sodden and messy, and they can range from a disconcerting pop texture to a disconcerting slimy texture, all in the same batch.
Pineapple on pizza.
I only understand other people hating it because so many people have said so. So it’s more of an acknowledgement than actually understanding.
Of course, I understand people are different, so there’s that.
Waiting on the balut comment… 🤢🤮
