Strangest/Grossest food you'd ever eaten?!?

Oyster. Hideous texture and taste, like salty phlegm. Actually spat it out.

Blunt Instrument wrote:

Oyster. Hideous texture and taste, like salty phlegm. Actually spat it out.

Never had the courage to try one. Doubt I ever will.

Not a huge fan either, but I can tolerate them in Bloody Mary shots or dipped in seafood/cocktail sauce.

CJB wrote:

Not a huge fan either, but I can tolerate them in Bloody Mary shots or dipped in seafood/cocktail sauce.

Are there oysters along Oz's coastline? Perhaps the southern coast, which, I gather, is fairly cool.

Galway in the ROI has an annual Guinness and oyster festival. They may be more palatable with a few pints of the black stuff to accompany them.

Perilagu Khan wrote:

Are there oysters along Oz's coastline? Perhaps the southern coast, which, I gather, is fairly cool.

Yes, South Australia and Tasmania in particular.

Blunt Instrument wrote:

Galway in the ROI has an annual Guinness and oyster festival. They may be more palatable with a few pints of the black stuff to accompany them.  

That actually sounds like a good combo. The malty, bread-like Guinness as a counterweight to the fishy oysters.

On a related but random note, McDonnells curry sauce must be the most underrated chip accompaniment around.

CJB wrote:

Perilagu Khan wrote:

Are there oysters along Oz's coastline? Perhaps the southern coast, which, I gather, is fairly cool.

Yes, South Australia and Tasmania in particular.

Blunt Instrument wrote:

Galway in the ROI has an annual Guinness and oyster festival. They may be more palatable with a few pints of the black stuff to accompany them.  

That actually sounds like a good combo. The malty, bread-like Guinness as a counterweight to the fishy oysters.

On a related but random note, McDonnells curry sauce must be the most underrated chip accompaniment around.

You might like currywurst. It is sliced German sausage accompanied by ketchup adulterated with curry powder--and maybe a few other seasonings--accompanied by chips. Sounds a bit odd, but it's quite good.

Perilagu Khan wrote:

CJB wrote:

Perilagu Khan wrote:

Are there oysters along Oz's coastline? Perhaps the southern coast, which, I gather, is fairly cool.

Yes, South Australia and Tasmania in particular.

Blunt Instrument wrote:

Galway in the ROI has an annual Guinness and oyster festival. They may be more palatable with a few pints of the black stuff to accompany them.  

That actually sounds like a good combo. The malty, bread-like Guinness as a counterweight to the fishy oysters.

On a related but random note, McDonnells curry sauce must be the most underrated chip accompaniment around.

You might like currywurst. It is sliced German sausage accompanied by ketchup adulterated with curry powder--and maybe a few other seasonings--accompanied by chips. Sounds a bit odd, but it's quite good.

Sounds right up my alley. Adore just about all German/Central European food. Bratwurst, jaegerschnitzel, sauerkraut, schweinshaxe... scheiße, I'll have it all.

CJB wrote:

Perilagu Khan wrote:

CJB wrote:

Perilagu Khan wrote:

Are there oysters along Oz's coastline? Perhaps the southern coast, which, I gather, is fairly cool.

Yes, South Australia and Tasmania in particular.

Blunt Instrument wrote:

Galway in the ROI has an annual Guinness and oyster festival. They may be more palatable with a few pints of the black stuff to accompany them.  

That actually sounds like a good combo. The malty, bread-like Guinness as a counterweight to the fishy oysters.

On a related but random note, McDonnells curry sauce must be the most underrated chip accompaniment around.

You might like currywurst. It is sliced German sausage accompanied by ketchup adulterated with curry powder--and maybe a few other seasonings--accompanied by chips. Sounds a bit odd, but it's quite good.

Sounds right up my alley. Adore just about all German/Central European food. Bratwurst, jaegerschnitzel, sauerkraut, schweinshaxe... scheiße, I'll have it all.

Agreed. The wurst shall be first! Alas--and I don't know what it's like in Oz--but Mitteleuropean restaurants are almost nonexistent in my corner of AINO. If I want that kind of food, I've got to cook it myself, and I certainly do from time to time.

Perilagu Khan wrote:

CJB wrote:

Perilagu Khan wrote:

CJB wrote:

Perilagu Khan wrote:

Are there oysters along Oz's coastline? Perhaps the southern coast, which, I gather, is fairly cool.

Yes, South Australia and Tasmania in particular.

Blunt Instrument wrote:

Galway in the ROI has an annual Guinness and oyster festival. They may be more palatable with a few pints of the black stuff to accompany them.  

That actually sounds like a good combo. The malty, bread-like Guinness as a counterweight to the fishy oysters.

On a related but random note, McDonnells curry sauce must be the most underrated chip accompaniment around.

You might like currywurst. It is sliced German sausage accompanied by ketchup adulterated with curry powder--and maybe a few other seasonings--accompanied by chips. Sounds a bit odd, but it's quite good.

Sounds right up my alley. Adore just about all German/Central European food. Bratwurst, jaegerschnitzel, sauerkraut, schweinshaxe... scheiße, I'll have it all.

Agreed. The wurst shall be first! Alas--and I don't know what it's like in Oz--but Mitteleuropean restaurants are almost nonexistent in my corner of AINO. If I want that kind of food, I've got to cook it myself, and I certainly do from time to time.

Thankfully, there's a handful of options around for me.

A most underrated genre of cuisine in my view, criminally overshadowed by Italian, Thai et al (not that I don't like those too).

CJB wrote:

Perilagu Khan wrote:

CJB wrote:

Perilagu Khan wrote:

CJB wrote:

Perilagu Khan wrote:

Are there oysters along Oz's coastline? Perhaps the southern coast, which, I gather, is fairly cool.

Yes, South Australia and Tasmania in particular.

Blunt Instrument wrote:

Galway in the ROI has an annual Guinness and oyster festival. They may be more palatable with a few pints of the black stuff to accompany them.  

That actually sounds like a good combo. The malty, bread-like Guinness as a counterweight to the fishy oysters.

On a related but random note, McDonnells curry sauce must be the most underrated chip accompaniment around.

You might like currywurst. It is sliced German sausage accompanied by ketchup adulterated with curry powder--and maybe a few other seasonings--accompanied by chips. Sounds a bit odd, but it's quite good.

Sounds right up my alley. Adore just about all German/Central European food. Bratwurst, jaegerschnitzel, sauerkraut, schweinshaxe... scheiße, I'll have it all.

Agreed. The wurst shall be first! Alas--and I don't know what it's like in Oz--but Mitteleuropean restaurants are almost nonexistent in my corner of AINO. If I want that kind of food, I've got to cook it myself, and I certainly do from time to time.

Thankfully, there's a handful of options around for me.

A most underrated genre of cuisine in my view, criminally overshadowed by Italian, Thai et al (not that I don't like those too).

Well, it's just not sexy and exotic enough for the trendmeisters who rule our roost. Ultimately, central European cuisine is rib-sticking peasant food--unless you get into the high cuisine of Vienna--and that stuff just doesn't cut the mustard...so to speak.

Slavic cuisines get overlooked for similar reasons. Hearty peasant grub by and large. Different enough to Anglo 'meat and potato' fare but just not exotic enough.

CJB wrote:

Slavic cuisines get overlooked for similar reasons. Hearty peasant grub by and large. Different enough to Anglo 'meat and potato' fare but just not exotic enough.

Made shchi--Russian cabbage soup--once and it was one of the most involved, labor-intensive things I ever cooked. Delish, but I was too worn out to enjoy it properly.

Shchi seems to get thrown around a lot - not literally one would hope - in the Russo-Ukrainian soup wars now that the latter has had their claim to the (probably superior) borsch recognised by the UN.

CJB wrote:

Shchi seems to get thrown around a lot - not literally one would hope - in the Russo-Ukrainian soup wars now that the latter has had their claim to the (probably superior) borsch recognised by the UN.

We've alredy had the Boer War, why not the Borshch War?

Now there's an iron curtain...