Mines black pudding

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  1. We’ve got black pudding as well, but we call it blood pudding. Even in naming we’re metal.

    Anyway, I think it’s our extremely popular tubed caviar. Never met a foreigner who doesn’t find it exceedingly strange.

  2. Meat that isn’t just from the muscles, I guess. Brains, hearts, livers and other internal organs are commonly in the streets cooking.

  5. Mämmi is usually considered the strange Finnish food. It’s a sort of rye porridge that unsuspecting foreigners mistake for chocolate pudding and not even all Finns eat it. I’ve started liking it more as an adult and I consider it a very smart way of creating a dessert in a poor country with a short growing season. Traditionally they only used rye and water and the process of making it made it sweet, these days the commercial mämmi is sweetened with molasses.

  6. Probably **Bigos**, and anything that has sauerkraut in it,

    Also, like many other countries we also have our own version of blood sausage called **kaszanka** (from “kasza” meaning groats, which is one of the ingredients)

    And **Czernina**- a soup made of duck blood and broth.

    And **flaki**(meaning literally “guts”) which is a tripe stewmeat stew

  7. From UK as well but I don’t think pork blood sausage is actually that uncommon in Europe? I think it’s more Americans that’d find it odd.

  8. I told my Portuguese/South African stepmom that I made [vitello tonnato](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitello_tonnato) which is thinly sliced veal with a Mayo and tuna sauce. I consider it a very normal and pretty mild dish but she was disgusted by the thought of mixing meat and fish… I thought telling her about my MIL’s pork-stuffed squid would be a bit much lol

  9. “Ciorba de burta” aka tripe sour soup. Allegedly good to treat hangovers. Also “piftie”, a pork jelly (aspic) made by boiling for hours pig trotters, to extract gelatin. Fried “Fudulii” namely fried pork/beef/turkey testicles. In Romanian cuisine, the entire pig gets cooked, including trotters and balls. This is the main meat in harsh winters.

  11. What I find super weird is that probably 90% of the foreigners that come to Bulgaria don’t like boza. I’m well aware of acquired taste, etc. but what is there not to like?

  12. For France🇫🇷 what about foie gras, and gésiers. The fattened duck or goose liver, and their gizzard

    I love them but I recognize it can be difficult for others

    Also, escargots (snails)

  13. I find that even many Czechs can’t stand it – milk soup with drop noodles. Personally I love it. But I also love liver which many people hate.

  14. Beuschel, a stew made from veal heart and lung. It’s really great.

    Also, we do black pudding as well, it’s aptly called “Blutwurst” (blood sausage). Love it.

  15. Salted drop (liquorice). I think most foreigners hate it except the Finnish. To my surprise when someone brought me salmiakki from Finland, it just tasted exactly like it. If I buy salmiak here it tastes quite differently (and it’s probably even more hated by foreigners lol).

    My Italian neighbours once had friends from Italy over during Halloween, so the friend’s daughter wanted to go trick-or-treating. But we have a similar feast here on a different day (St. Maarten) and don’t really celebrate Halloween, so I didn’t have any candy except some salty drop. When she tried it she looked like I was trying to poison her lol.

  16. There is the widely circulated semi-myth that the Swiss national sausage of Cervelat is made from brains, eyes, and other offal. Also that rarely whole eyes appear in the sausage.

    IIRC Cervelat once truly partially was made with brains (thus the name). But I don’t care to find out if it’s correct because I don’t care about meat.

  18. It’s a very common food but not common knowledge. Swedish (fish) fished in the baltic sea is toxic and not allowed to be sold in the EU, only in Sweden because they got an exception as it is for cultural reasons.

  19. – By people you mean non locals? **Utopenec** = Špekáček that is left in vinegar to age.

    – By people you mean locals? **Aspik** : that is just straight weird damn thing, that most of people in my social bubble does not understand. Yet, it is sold in most of shops and popular.

    – Bonus story : I love black pudding. Funny enough, before visiting England for some time, I always thought it is some kind of sweet desert. And never understood, why it is so controversial. Then I realized what it is and never understood how black pudding is served for breakfast..

  22. Cold soup-like dish made of cubed cucumber, yoghurt, water and salt. It’s called tarator and it’s awesome!

  23. Kokoreç, its essentially cooked and heavily spiced lamb intestine. I personally have never tried it, but its extremely common.

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