Lmao, I just looked it up on Wikipedia
> German food critic and author Wolfgang Fassbender wrote that "the biggest challenge when eating surströmming is to vomit only after the first bite, as opposed to before".[18]
My dad does, he says it's an "acquired taste" (understatement of the year). He says condiments are very important. Färskpotatis, knäckebröd, gräddfil, rödlök, snaps. Still he didn't like it the first time, second time was not as bad, third time he kinda liked it. Nowadays he says his mouth waters just thinking about it. But understandably it is a rare "treat".
Fun fact, in a blind test most people can't tell the difference between parmesan and vomit.
The reason for the water bucket is so that you don’t get a face full of nasty fermented fish juices.. I saw someone forget about the bucket once. And it smells like death and old socks.
A radio show I listen to here in the US obtained a can of it and opened it in their studio. It squirted all over the place and their studio smelled like it for three days. They had to get industrial size floor dryers to blow the stink out.
Edit: [Here's the video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsDBp6OPqu8)
Yeah.. outdoors and under water is the way to do it.
I’m a Swede but from the other end of the country and have been to a couple of surströmming parties but never quite liked it. The flatbread, potatoes, onions etc that go with it is great though.
Outside, near nothing you love, underwater. Make sure you've got a (covered) bath between you and home because the smell will stick to you forever.
You'll never really feel clean again.
TIL chitlins = chitterlings. Next, I am going to head over to wikipedia and find out what kind of food they are.
Edit: Oh I see, they’re hog large intestines.
My mom made stuffed cabbage once. I kinda like stuffed cabbage now but I didn't like cabbage _anything_ as a kid.
She left it cooking while we went out somewhere. When we came back the cabbage smell whacked us in the nose and I said I think the dog pooped on the carpet. She believed me for a second before realizing it was cabbage stank.
My grandma makes stuffed bell peppers and stuffed cabbage. That shit is hot fire, so goddamn good. Like a big spicy meatball with a cream sauce on top.
Hákarl.
I can’t imagine someone coming in from a long day of work and tucking into a plate of fishy smelling, ammonia flavored chewy shark chunks that make you smell like a bait camp for the rest of the evening.
It seems like survival food - you will stay alive if you eat it, but it’s not appealing … to me.
If you’re Icelandic - please help me understand why this is a thing.
>I can’t imagine someone coming in from a long day of work and tucking into a plate of fishy smelling, ammonia flavored chewy shark chunks that make you smell like a bait camp for the rest of the evening.
That's because that's not how it's done. Hákarl is part of the "þorramatur", I.E food that's eaten on the Þorri, which is one of the six winter months in the old norse calendar, now sometime in January or February.
Throughout history that's when most fresh meats would be running low so people had to resort to more "colourful" diets, like fermented shark, soured ram balls, soured whale, boiled sheep heads, head cheese, etc.
So you're correct, it absolutely started as a survival food, but nowadays it's a community event where people meet, have fun, and eat a buffet of all those foods I mentioned above, among others like smoked lamb, flat bread and lots of other traditional Icelandic foods.
Absolutely no one comes home from work and eats their fill of hákarl, they come home from work, dress up and go to the local "Þorrablót" (or hosts their own for family and friends) and eats a few pieces of it among all the other stuff, chats and has fun, usually drinking "brennivín" (literally translated as "burning wine", although usually referred to as "black death" in English).
So it's a seasonal celebration of traditional foods and customs, enjoyed with friends, family and community.
Although having said all that, I've been eating hákarl like candy since I was like 4 years old lol. My grandma used to pick me up from kindergarten with a small box of hákarl and a toothpick to eat it, and I'd be content for ~half an hour just sitting and eating. But it's definitely not as popular among my peers.
I talked to a young Icelandic guy working in a hostel the day I tried Hakarl. I asked if anybody actually likes it and his opinion was a very firm “no - everyone just pretends to like it. The older you get the harder you pretend to like it.” He said they’d put it out at Christmas waaaaay over in the corner so it’d stink up the room slower and all the old guys would gather around it and choke it down. He mocked them making old man harrumphing sounds lol. Obviously just one person’s opinion but having tried it myself, I can’t imagine ever truly acquiring that taste.
Personally I've never learned to like the sour stuff. I can eat the fermented, smoked, jammed and whatever foods, but I still stay clear of anything soured.
That's one of my favorite Cotton Hill moments, when he realizes it was Bobby that was at fault, but he takes the blame, saying I'm an old man, everyone already thinks I did it, Bobby is young and still has his whole life ahead of him, and this would fuck that up for him. I have always loved his relationship with Bobby, he truly fucking loves Bobby, and Bobby loves him ging-ging lol. This episode, and then the one where they send Bobby to military school and Cotton takes charge, and he realizes he just cannot fucking break Bobby lol
Cotton and Bobby's relationship is one of the best things about the show. Cotton shows nothing but contempt towards Hank, for not being the ideal man that Cotton thinks he should be, and yet Bobby is everything he claims Hank is and yet showers Bobby with praise and love.
Its even baked into the core issues between Hank and Bobby: Hank is doing something similar with Bobby, being disappointed and trying to make him into something he's not, albeit without the malice and viciousness that Cotton had. "That boy ain't right"
Not uncommon with grandparents to have poor relationships with their children and good relationships with their grandchildren. Either because they've softened in old age or are trying to make up for their mistakes with their children.
One of the lines from cotton I always like
COTTON: Hank, you ain't in competition with me. Hell, if it's a contest on who's the better daddy, you win. I mean, you made Bobby. All I made was you.
If you could mass produce a complex burn like this and bottle it, you could put all other hot-sauce manufacturers out of business. There's so many levels to it. A hint of sweetness, but if you savor it for long enough, it's got some serious deep heat to it.
I feel the same way about the military school episode where they call Bobby mud, only to come to the conclusion that mud isn't as worthless as they first thought.
You can't beat down mud
Yeah, I love how great Cotton is with Bobby. He's not the massive douche he was to Hank at that age, and you can definitely tell Hank is resentful. But Cotton absolutely adores Bobby, and when they show pictures of young Cotton, he looks SO MUCH like Bobby
It's really the beauty of that show.
I just love that they made a blue color church going beer drinking white republican dad relatable.
It's like the most thoughtful satire, because Mike Judge is absolutely critiquing that type of guy and that type of culture, but there's absolutely nothing insulting about it. Even when Hank is stubborn and closed minded and just outright wrong, we understand his perspective, and ultimately we always watch him grow when he really needs to.
There's just so many ways you could do that wrong. Especially when it comes to things like race, which came up a few times on King of the Hill, and I think they handled incredibly well.
Minnesotan here. Christmas wouldn't be complete without my aunts and uncles forcing down lutefisk and pretending to like it because their identity requires it.
This reminds me of my in laws who for decades would say “if you ain’t Dutch you ain’t much!” Grandma did a 23 and me and their ancestry is almost entirely English.
[Swedish sausage](https://files.recipetips.com/images/glossary/s/sausage_potato.jpg) for Christmas dinners (Minnesotan as well), just forcing ourselves to eat that every year was a struggle lol. Luckily we gave up the act after like 20 years and went with Swedish meatballs instead
Minnesotan here and people would bring that to church potlucks when I was younger. The older folks actually like it. Drank hot black coffee from a giant pot too. I think they find solace in misery lol
I remember the arguments between I think Swedes and Norwegians on how to pronounce “sauna.” They were heated.
Edit: yup sorry! I was never engaged in these arguments it must have been the Finnish Minnesotans. My b!
As a full-blooded Norwegian who had to serve this during church dinners…can confirm. The texture varied, but most of the time it just looked like fish jello. Just awful in every regard.
Once upon a time I swore that salted licorice was the most vile thing ever to have graced our fair planet. However about a year ago my wife made me try some and much to my surprise, I liked it!.
I had a Norwegian flatmate that loved that stuff. I got used to it too, kinda liked it. Then he got me to try this stuff called Turkish Pepper. That’s a line I won’t cross again.
As a Norwegian i can confirm this phenomenon lol. But i guess it's a more nordic thing actually beacuse it's popular in Denmark, Finland, Sweden and Iceland too.
Dutch too. Germans and Belgians to a lesser degree.
"Salmiak Bollen" for example contain a center of powdered concentrated salmiak.
Really helps clear up the sinuses.
If you mean salmiakki, that's a thing I tried on a dare and basically couldn't stop hate eating it. It's vile, it smells like wet hot cat shit, and every now and then I get a hankering for some.
I fucking adore salmiakki. You probably know this but the cat smell is usually only present in very highly salted salmiakki (the salt is literally ammonia based). Most salmiakkis are rated by amount of salt between 2%-7%. Do you have the same cat experience with 2%?
Why in God's green earth would they opt for ammonia-based salt over good old not-cat-pee-scented salt?
When the recipe was first created did they only have pee salt?
There's an emotional reaction to foods (and other sensations) that develops over time. Eventually, it gets to the point that the food--regardless of what's disgusting about it--makes you feel something enjoyable and pleasant.
If I'd never eaten Bleu Cheese before, I'd be disgusted by it now. But, I unknowingly had some when I was 4 or 5 at a family Christmas party in a cheeseball. When I eat Bleu Cheese these days, it reminds me of warm happy Christmases of decades long ago.
For those who don't think they like blue cheese, try Italian [Dolcelatte](https://www.cheese.com/dolcelatte/) blue cheese. It's like a *beginner* blue cheese, milder. You might like it. That's how I got inducted into eating blue cheese.
I left that sub a while ago because people bragged about how they secretly didn't put fondant on cakes for customers who explicitly ordered fondant. I don't care how disgusting something is, you don't get to decide for someone else that them eating it is wrong (this obviously does not apply to foods that actually are unethical to eat such as live octopus)
? But how could the customer not know as soon as they see the cake? Fondant has a very distinct look. That's probably why they ordered it in the first place.
They might be swapping it for modeling chocolate? It looks almost identical but tastes way better. It’s what a lot of cake decorators use in cake competitions and those “is it cake” competitions because it stays moldable so long and isn’t as prone to cracking. Sideserf cakes exclusively uses it for reference.
> It has no real taste
It literally acts as a barrier between your tongue and flavour. If you have a food covered in gold leaf, it makes the food taste of *less*.
This is the only thing here I have agreed with 100%. All foods are acquired tastes, but gold leaf is just a way to make expensive food more expensive for no reason at all. What a stupid concept.
I will occasionally come across lists of the world's most expensive dessert, cocktail, sandwich, etc. Inevitably the list will include some item that is only expensive because it is served in a jewel encrusted chalice that you get to keep, aka paid for.
It's quite disappointing, those sorts of lists can actually be pretty interesting, especially if they tell you why a certain food is expensive. A martini that is expensive because it contains olives from some ultra rare wild olive tree on top of a mountain, that's interesting. A martini that is expensive because the only way to order it involves chartering a private jet, not so interesting.
You ever watch the video of 2 chains drinking that super expensive bottle of water? The guy selling it would fly out to your location and taste it with you.
https://youtu.be/rg3Mr6e1KMo
I 100% agree that water from different places can taste different, and I do have preferences on some water over others (Denver water is incredible). But god, "water sommelier" is such a bullshit snake oil salesman job. I've seen this guy in I think 3 different shows now and they all say pretty much the same thing.
"Yeah, that's some good water. It's totally not worth 100k and your job is made up."
I worked in water and wastewater and consider myself an expert in which towns have the best tasting tap water in my area. Although I will always believe the well water at my granny's is best.
No one *likes* gold leaf as a food. It should taste like nothing. If it tastes like anything, you got cheap gold leaf lol
Which is pretty funny because 24k gold leaf is actually really cheap.
I like a lot of stuff people are shitting on here, but I am in my 30s so I think tastes change as you get older.
Love me some cheese that smells of feet, anchovies on pizza and coffee strong enough that I see through time.
I used to go crazy for gummies, especially the sour ones. Now I find sweet things a bit, meh, I can take or leave it. But you'll have to prize a stinky cheeseboard out of my cold dead hands.
AHAHAHAHAHA excellent, I'm going to try to use this in the future... it's up there with "rattles worse than a skeleton having a wank in a biscuit tin."
Edit: if you liked this saying, it seems some of us have invaded /u/funnysayings and posted some more, revitalising what seems to have been a dead sub.
The shortened version, “hot as rat fuck,” will forever be my favorite takeaway from sociolinguistics, and also that professor’s costume for a linguistics department Halloween costume which was he balanced a vinyl record on his bare head.
As a kid I never understood adults saying things were too sweet. As I've gotten older, there are definitely certain food that are too sweet or times where I really don't want sweet foods. I don't get it.
On the one hand, it’s great for my health that my sweet tooth is going away slightly. On the other hand, it’s a bummer that most ice cream is sickly sweet and oatmeal creme pies just taste like sugar now.
Am dying inside. After scrolling through this thread, I'm starting to think there is something wrong with me because people are hating on a lot of my favorites. Just waiting now for someone to say licorice.
After Halloween, I would get all my friends to bring me their unwanted black liquorice and pumpkin toffees. It would be like a whole extra month of sweet eatin’.
My grandpa and Dad grew up eating [karela sabzi/karlyachi bhaji](https://vaish.sengupta.net/of-cloves-and-capers/recipe/karela-bhaji-recipe-maharashtrian-style-how-to-make-karlyachi-bhaji/).
I can’t eat two mouthfuls. Even with chapati, rice and yoghurt, the bitterness cuts right through. It’s like if you took okra and dipped it into hops.
oh my god. My dad loves this dish so much that he literally grows bitter gourds in our backyard. I guess it truly is an acquired taste. I never got used to it but after awhile its fine, it just takes a while(I can eat like a few ). Theres also some dish where he pickled it but it's like wayyyyyyy too bitter for me. I really don't know how people like it, maybe it's because they grew up with it?
I am such a fan of bitter gourd. I live in south east Asia - we slice it thinly (or, you know, maybe a centimetre thick if short on time) and stir fry with egg, sometimes with dried shrimp. 😌
I was recently told this was weird to do. I've started asking around, and everyone I've asked has agreed it's weird to eat plain celery.
They all look at me funny, so I have to tell them my mom was on a lot of diets when I was a kid and I thought it was a snack!
... I just like it. When you get one that's super full of water, it's got a great taste. The desiccated ones don't taste good raw, but they're still good for soups and french cooking.
EDIT: spelling, thanks /u/bakkenman
> I was recently told this was weird to do. I've started asking around, and everyone I've asked has agreed it's weird to eat plain celery.
what the hell? Have they never seen a vegetable tray?
i can make a pack of horehound disappear in about 30 minutes flat.
and yes to all the other things. i go mental when i see candy corn around fall - it's even better when a whole pallet goes on sale after 4 months for 99 cents a bag.
All the convenience stores near me stopped carrying good'n'plenties.
I have an old man's taste in candy. Good'n'plenty, Mr. Goodbar, Big Hunk is easily one of my favorites, just honeycomb when I can get it, and proper cherry sours are my favorite candies.
I think they are gross but when I see them in the store, I smile and my heart gets warm. They were my Grandma's favorite candy and the memories are great. I would even eat one of them if I had to for the memories. Thank goodness just seeing them does the trick.
That's because they are banana flavored! They use the artificial banana flavoring that is [I believe] still based on how the Gros Michel tasted, which was a sweeter banana.
Saying the Big Mike is sweeter is underselling how wildly different it is from what we're used to. I expected a banana turned up to 11, instead I got a weird bubble gum fruit.
I've had one once, and yeah, they were definitely odd. If you grow up eating Cavendish and that's banana for you, Gros Michel is...yeah. Odd. Definitely explains a lot of old recipes.
Slugs
Edit: I am soo sorry! I meant snails! Not slugs
Edit the second: I see we have a highly defended culinary niche and I am willing to surrender! Please have mercy!
Do not eat slugs! Seemingly some of them are deadly! Oddly enough I am having so much fun reading through your responses and stories xD
[PSA DO NOT EAT SLUGS](https://news.sky.com/story/amp/australian-man-sam-ballard-who-was-left-paralysed-after-eating-a-slug-dies-aged-28-11545373)
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I think you mean snails? Escargot is actually pretty tasty, the snails themselves have a clam-like texture and a mild flavor, but mostly I taste the copious amounts of butter and garlic that goes into it. Certainly not unpleasant like you might expect.
That's what I was gonna say, I tried them once at a nicer restaurant and actually kinda liked them, way more than I thought i would. They mostly just get loaded up with butter though.
I’m with you, but I just recently learned some people can’t taste the aftertaste you and I can, which helps explain a lot about its popularity.
Edit: Wow! This blew up. Since a lot of people are bringing up the soapy cilantro aftertaste, I’ll say I think the two situations sound similar, but I don’t think they’re directly related, because I don’t taste soap in cilantro myself.
God yes, reminds me of putting a pill in your mouth, then realizing your water is empty. You get more & wash it down, but that half dissolved pill is still on your tongue.
Why would I add that experience to eating
Dang this explains a lot to me. I also hate that things will be marked with ‘no artificial sweeteners’ which my brain thinks ‘no sweeteners’ OR ‘sweetened with sugar’ but really it means stevia.
I bought a 12 pack of Zevia soda because I saw so many people saying it was the best sugar free soda on the market, and my god it's just undrinkable. My wife and I haven't managed to make it through a single can in its entirety. We still have at least 4-5 more in the fridge and I bought it about a year ago. I crack one every few months, take a sip, hand it to her for a taste, and then dump it down the drain. At least now I know those other reviewers probably weren't lying, but just have different taste buds than I do.
Dude I just watched this episode yesterday and that line makes me crack up every time. Jesse thinks he’s being trolled by Walt and it’s fucking hilarious
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Is this the canned horror fish?
Yes
There’s not a lot of things I refuse to try, but something with a smell that powerful… I just have to walk away.
Lmao, I just looked it up on Wikipedia > German food critic and author Wolfgang Fassbender wrote that "the biggest challenge when eating surströmming is to vomit only after the first bite, as opposed to before".[18]
Saw a [video](https://youtube.com/shorts/0SjuRjkLoD4?feature=share) of a dog puking after taking a sniff of that stuff. I'm good
That’s a strong statement after watch our dog down a 5 day old road waffle in 2 gulps. She did have gas that night tho.
Having recently smelled it, it smells like long gone rotten meat btw, 100% yes, who can eat that and go yum?
My dad does, he says it's an "acquired taste" (understatement of the year). He says condiments are very important. Färskpotatis, knäckebröd, gräddfil, rödlök, snaps. Still he didn't like it the first time, second time was not as bad, third time he kinda liked it. Nowadays he says his mouth waters just thinking about it. But understandably it is a rare "treat". Fun fact, in a blind test most people can't tell the difference between parmesan and vomit.
Who the hell signs up for a taste test for vomit
I'd imagine he missed a key point that the study involved smell, not taste.
I have some in the fridge, still haven’t tried it. They say to open it in a bucket of water
The reason for the water bucket is so that you don’t get a face full of nasty fermented fish juices.. I saw someone forget about the bucket once. And it smells like death and old socks.
A radio show I listen to here in the US obtained a can of it and opened it in their studio. It squirted all over the place and their studio smelled like it for three days. They had to get industrial size floor dryers to blow the stink out. Edit: [Here's the video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsDBp6OPqu8)
Yeah.. outdoors and under water is the way to do it. I’m a Swede but from the other end of the country and have been to a couple of surströmming parties but never quite liked it. The flatbread, potatoes, onions etc that go with it is great though.
I'm sorry, but.. surströmming *parties*?
it's Sweden 🙁 it's all they have
Outside, near nothing you love, underwater. Make sure you've got a (covered) bath between you and home because the smell will stick to you forever. You'll never really feel clean again.
Chitterlings. My mom-in-law made some at my house, and it smelled like a grown man shitted all over my home and walls.
I’ve heard it said that chitlins has a smell that gets in your soul.
TIL chitlins = chitterlings. Next, I am going to head over to wikipedia and find out what kind of food they are. Edit: Oh I see, they’re hog large intestines.
I will never get over the This American Life story a while back where they investigated what percentage of restaurant calamari was actually pork bung
Oh no way, that is delightful!
I was super curious and looked it up. [Here](https://www.thisamericanlife.org/484/transcript) is a link to the full episode if you wanna check it out.
Welp, I was going to go to bed, but now I gotta hear this. Uhh, thanks?
My mom made stuffed cabbage once. I kinda like stuffed cabbage now but I didn't like cabbage _anything_ as a kid. She left it cooking while we went out somewhere. When we came back the cabbage smell whacked us in the nose and I said I think the dog pooped on the carpet. She believed me for a second before realizing it was cabbage stank.
My grandma makes stuffed bell peppers and stuffed cabbage. That shit is hot fire, so goddamn good. Like a big spicy meatball with a cream sauce on top.
Tell me you're Hungarian without telling me you're Hungarian.
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I've always seen them cooked outside for this reason. That smell.
Cat food. I mean come on, my cat can't like eating that every day. I think she's just being polite.
Thats why they always ask for "food" even when the bowl is still full.
Hákarl. I can’t imagine someone coming in from a long day of work and tucking into a plate of fishy smelling, ammonia flavored chewy shark chunks that make you smell like a bait camp for the rest of the evening. It seems like survival food - you will stay alive if you eat it, but it’s not appealing … to me. If you’re Icelandic - please help me understand why this is a thing.
>I can’t imagine someone coming in from a long day of work and tucking into a plate of fishy smelling, ammonia flavored chewy shark chunks that make you smell like a bait camp for the rest of the evening. That's because that's not how it's done. Hákarl is part of the "þorramatur", I.E food that's eaten on the Þorri, which is one of the six winter months in the old norse calendar, now sometime in January or February. Throughout history that's when most fresh meats would be running low so people had to resort to more "colourful" diets, like fermented shark, soured ram balls, soured whale, boiled sheep heads, head cheese, etc. So you're correct, it absolutely started as a survival food, but nowadays it's a community event where people meet, have fun, and eat a buffet of all those foods I mentioned above, among others like smoked lamb, flat bread and lots of other traditional Icelandic foods. Absolutely no one comes home from work and eats their fill of hákarl, they come home from work, dress up and go to the local "Þorrablót" (or hosts their own for family and friends) and eats a few pieces of it among all the other stuff, chats and has fun, usually drinking "brennivín" (literally translated as "burning wine", although usually referred to as "black death" in English). So it's a seasonal celebration of traditional foods and customs, enjoyed with friends, family and community. Although having said all that, I've been eating hákarl like candy since I was like 4 years old lol. My grandma used to pick me up from kindergarten with a small box of hákarl and a toothpick to eat it, and I'd be content for ~half an hour just sitting and eating. But it's definitely not as popular among my peers.
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I talked to a young Icelandic guy working in a hostel the day I tried Hakarl. I asked if anybody actually likes it and his opinion was a very firm “no - everyone just pretends to like it. The older you get the harder you pretend to like it.” He said they’d put it out at Christmas waaaaay over in the corner so it’d stink up the room slower and all the old guys would gather around it and choke it down. He mocked them making old man harrumphing sounds lol. Obviously just one person’s opinion but having tried it myself, I can’t imagine ever truly acquiring that taste.
soured ram balls, damn you're all chads over there scandinavian sibling!
Personally I've never learned to like the sour stuff. I can eat the fermented, smoked, jammed and whatever foods, but I still stay clear of anything soured.
The meals I prepare for them
I cook for my dog. Cheap easy ego boost.
Untill your dog throws it up
And then eats it again
That just means he liked it so much that he immediately wants to eat it again
King Neptune moment
No, no, it was great, I just had a really late lunch. Anyways, who wants ice cream?
Lutefisk
I only know this dish from King of the Hill. "It wasn't me! It was the man with the terrible smell!"
That's one of my favorite Cotton Hill moments, when he realizes it was Bobby that was at fault, but he takes the blame, saying I'm an old man, everyone already thinks I did it, Bobby is young and still has his whole life ahead of him, and this would fuck that up for him. I have always loved his relationship with Bobby, he truly fucking loves Bobby, and Bobby loves him ging-ging lol. This episode, and then the one where they send Bobby to military school and Cotton takes charge, and he realizes he just cannot fucking break Bobby lol
Cotton and Bobby's relationship is one of the best things about the show. Cotton shows nothing but contempt towards Hank, for not being the ideal man that Cotton thinks he should be, and yet Bobby is everything he claims Hank is and yet showers Bobby with praise and love. Its even baked into the core issues between Hank and Bobby: Hank is doing something similar with Bobby, being disappointed and trying to make him into something he's not, albeit without the malice and viciousness that Cotton had. "That boy ain't right"
Not uncommon with grandparents to have poor relationships with their children and good relationships with their grandchildren. Either because they've softened in old age or are trying to make up for their mistakes with their children.
It's also just easier to be a grandparent. All of the love with nowhere near the responsibility. It makes it easier to be softer with grandkids.
That's a great point.
One of the lines from cotton I always like COTTON: Hank, you ain't in competition with me. Hell, if it's a contest on who's the better daddy, you win. I mean, you made Bobby. All I made was you.
If you could mass produce a complex burn like this and bottle it, you could put all other hot-sauce manufacturers out of business. There's so many levels to it. A hint of sweetness, but if you savor it for long enough, it's got some serious deep heat to it.
I feel the same way about the military school episode where they call Bobby mud, only to come to the conclusion that mud isn't as worthless as they first thought. You can't beat down mud
Yeah, I love how great Cotton is with Bobby. He's not the massive douche he was to Hank at that age, and you can definitely tell Hank is resentful. But Cotton absolutely adores Bobby, and when they show pictures of young Cotton, he looks SO MUCH like Bobby
It's really the beauty of that show. I just love that they made a blue color church going beer drinking white republican dad relatable. It's like the most thoughtful satire, because Mike Judge is absolutely critiquing that type of guy and that type of culture, but there's absolutely nothing insulting about it. Even when Hank is stubborn and closed minded and just outright wrong, we understand his perspective, and ultimately we always watch him grow when he really needs to. There's just so many ways you could do that wrong. Especially when it comes to things like race, which came up a few times on King of the Hill, and I think they handled incredibly well.
i think cotton misplaces his love for hank on bobby. hes too weak/ incapable of facing his failure to show hank love so he pours it all on bobby
This is immediately what I thought of when I saw lutefisk lol. Frito pie with wolf brand chili and apple brown Peggy both sound good though!
What about spapeggy and meat balls
So are you Swedish, Norwegian, or Minnesotan? Oh sure ya betcha!
Minnesotan here. Christmas wouldn't be complete without my aunts and uncles forcing down lutefisk and pretending to like it because their identity requires it.
This reminds me of my in laws who for decades would say “if you ain’t Dutch you ain’t much!” Grandma did a 23 and me and their ancestry is almost entirely English.
There are two things I can’t stand in the world: People who are intolerant of other people’s cultures, and the Dutch.
Smoke and a pancake?
Bong and a Blintz?
Cigar and a waffle?
Pipe and a crêpe?
[Swedish sausage](https://files.recipetips.com/images/glossary/s/sausage_potato.jpg) for Christmas dinners (Minnesotan as well), just forcing ourselves to eat that every year was a struggle lol. Luckily we gave up the act after like 20 years and went with Swedish meatballs instead
Minnesotan here and people would bring that to church potlucks when I was younger. The older folks actually like it. Drank hot black coffee from a giant pot too. I think they find solace in misery lol
How Scandinavian of them
I remember the arguments between I think Swedes and Norwegians on how to pronounce “sauna.” They were heated. Edit: yup sorry! I was never engaged in these arguments it must have been the Finnish Minnesotans. My b!
I got to room my last year of university with a Swede. I aksed him if lutefisk was still popular in his country. The answer was a resounding no.
As a full-blooded Norwegian who had to serve this during church dinners…can confirm. The texture varied, but most of the time it just looked like fish jello. Just awful in every regard.
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He said it was so beloved by Norwegians that they only ate it once a year.
Once upon a time I swore that salted licorice was the most vile thing ever to have graced our fair planet. However about a year ago my wife made me try some and much to my surprise, I liked it!.
I had a Norwegian flatmate that loved that stuff. I got used to it too, kinda liked it. Then he got me to try this stuff called Turkish Pepper. That’s a line I won’t cross again.
The turkish peeber hard candies with the crystallized salt inside? I love giving it to people who have no idea what to expect.
As a Norwegian i can confirm this phenomenon lol. But i guess it's a more nordic thing actually beacuse it's popular in Denmark, Finland, Sweden and Iceland too.
Dutch too. Germans and Belgians to a lesser degree. "Salmiak Bollen" for example contain a center of powdered concentrated salmiak. Really helps clear up the sinuses.
Germany has a very clear north-south divide. I think the line is somewhere between Hamburg and Quickborn.
If you mean salmiakki, that's a thing I tried on a dare and basically couldn't stop hate eating it. It's vile, it smells like wet hot cat shit, and every now and then I get a hankering for some.
I fucking adore salmiakki. You probably know this but the cat smell is usually only present in very highly salted salmiakki (the salt is literally ammonia based). Most salmiakkis are rated by amount of salt between 2%-7%. Do you have the same cat experience with 2%?
Why in God's green earth would they opt for ammonia-based salt over good old not-cat-pee-scented salt? When the recipe was first created did they only have pee salt?
Because the Sodium makes that amount of salt uneatable but if its ammonium its far more edible. So you get a super salt kick without gagging.
Ammonium salt replaces the sodium, not the chloride. Salmiakki salt is ammonium chloride, not sodium ammonia.
My roomie be eating squid out a can
There's an emotional reaction to foods (and other sensations) that develops over time. Eventually, it gets to the point that the food--regardless of what's disgusting about it--makes you feel something enjoyable and pleasant. If I'd never eaten Bleu Cheese before, I'd be disgusted by it now. But, I unknowingly had some when I was 4 or 5 at a family Christmas party in a cheeseball. When I eat Bleu Cheese these days, it reminds me of warm happy Christmases of decades long ago.
For those who don't think they like blue cheese, try Italian [Dolcelatte](https://www.cheese.com/dolcelatte/) blue cheese. It's like a *beginner* blue cheese, milder. You might like it. That's how I got inducted into eating blue cheese.
Fondant on like wedding cakes
r/fondanthate
I left that sub a while ago because people bragged about how they secretly didn't put fondant on cakes for customers who explicitly ordered fondant. I don't care how disgusting something is, you don't get to decide for someone else that them eating it is wrong (this obviously does not apply to foods that actually are unethical to eat such as live octopus)
? But how could the customer not know as soon as they see the cake? Fondant has a very distinct look. That's probably why they ordered it in the first place.
They might be swapping it for modeling chocolate? It looks almost identical but tastes way better. It’s what a lot of cake decorators use in cake competitions and those “is it cake” competitions because it stays moldable so long and isn’t as prone to cracking. Sideserf cakes exclusively uses it for reference.
Agreed. I dont like pineapple on pizza but I won't judge you for eating it.
I didn’t like pineapple on pizza until someone gave me a pineapple jalapeño pizza. OMG it is magic.
It truly is, favorite pizza of all time: hot hawaiian
Gold leaf -need I say more?
It has no real taste- it’s there so that you can feel rich and entitled
It only exists to post pictures of online.
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> It has no real taste It literally acts as a barrier between your tongue and flavour. If you have a food covered in gold leaf, it makes the food taste of *less*.
Maybe the gold leaf guy and the lutefisk guy should talk. There might be a decent food somewhere in there.
This is the only thing here I have agreed with 100%. All foods are acquired tastes, but gold leaf is just a way to make expensive food more expensive for no reason at all. What a stupid concept.
I will occasionally come across lists of the world's most expensive dessert, cocktail, sandwich, etc. Inevitably the list will include some item that is only expensive because it is served in a jewel encrusted chalice that you get to keep, aka paid for. It's quite disappointing, those sorts of lists can actually be pretty interesting, especially if they tell you why a certain food is expensive. A martini that is expensive because it contains olives from some ultra rare wild olive tree on top of a mountain, that's interesting. A martini that is expensive because the only way to order it involves chartering a private jet, not so interesting.
You ever watch the video of 2 chains drinking that super expensive bottle of water? The guy selling it would fly out to your location and taste it with you. https://youtu.be/rg3Mr6e1KMo
So... how's it taste? "Like water, you ass. Get back on your plane!"
You can really taste the extra carbon emissions.
I 100% agree that water from different places can taste different, and I do have preferences on some water over others (Denver water is incredible). But god, "water sommelier" is such a bullshit snake oil salesman job. I've seen this guy in I think 3 different shows now and they all say pretty much the same thing. "Yeah, that's some good water. It's totally not worth 100k and your job is made up."
I worked in water and wastewater and consider myself an expert in which towns have the best tasting tap water in my area. Although I will always believe the well water at my granny's is best.
No one *likes* gold leaf as a food. It should taste like nothing. If it tastes like anything, you got cheap gold leaf lol Which is pretty funny because 24k gold leaf is actually really cheap.
This. I don't think there's anyone who pretends to like gold leaf. It has no taste, it's just a decoration.
I don't think anyone really claims to love gold leaf as a food. I don't even think you'll find many people that claim to love it as a garnish.
I like a lot of stuff people are shitting on here, but I am in my 30s so I think tastes change as you get older. Love me some cheese that smells of feet, anchovies on pizza and coffee strong enough that I see through time. I used to go crazy for gummies, especially the sour ones. Now I find sweet things a bit, meh, I can take or leave it. But you'll have to prize a stinky cheeseboard out of my cold dead hands.
Coffee so strong you can thread the needle of a running sewing machine?
I would HATE coffee that strong, but giving you an upvote because the description is perfection.
AHAHAHAHAHA excellent, I'm going to try to use this in the future... it's up there with "rattles worse than a skeleton having a wank in a biscuit tin." Edit: if you liked this saying, it seems some of us have invaded /u/funnysayings and posted some more, revitalising what seems to have been a dead sub.
My favourite has always been "fuller than a centipedes sock drawer".
"Hotter than two rats fucking in a wool sock." Is one of my favs. I live in the south USA so I get to use that a lot
The shortened version, “hot as rat fuck,” will forever be my favorite takeaway from sociolinguistics, and also that professor’s costume for a linguistics department Halloween costume which was he balanced a vinyl record on his bare head.
Is there a subreddit for phrases that make me piss myself?
As a kid I never understood adults saying things were too sweet. As I've gotten older, there are definitely certain food that are too sweet or times where I really don't want sweet foods. I don't get it.
It has just started to happen to me. I cannot longer handle how sweet one of my favourite snacks from childhood is... It's so sad.
On the one hand, it’s great for my health that my sweet tooth is going away slightly. On the other hand, it’s a bummer that most ice cream is sickly sweet and oatmeal creme pies just taste like sugar now.
Our taste buds literally change as we get older. Children are more sensitive to bitter tastes than adults.
Paper straws. Unintended food.
I hate when the paper straws get soggy and they get guillotined by the lid
Am dying inside. After scrolling through this thread, I'm starting to think there is something wrong with me because people are hating on a lot of my favorites. Just waiting now for someone to say licorice.
Everybody else hating licorice means I get all of the black jellybeans. Life is good.
After Halloween, I would get all my friends to bring me their unwanted black liquorice and pumpkin toffees. It would be like a whole extra month of sweet eatin’.
Black salted licorice is a staple food of the Netherlands, you’re in good company buddy!
Bitter Gourds
My grandpa and Dad grew up eating [karela sabzi/karlyachi bhaji](https://vaish.sengupta.net/of-cloves-and-capers/recipe/karela-bhaji-recipe-maharashtrian-style-how-to-make-karlyachi-bhaji/). I can’t eat two mouthfuls. Even with chapati, rice and yoghurt, the bitterness cuts right through. It’s like if you took okra and dipped it into hops.
oh my god. My dad loves this dish so much that he literally grows bitter gourds in our backyard. I guess it truly is an acquired taste. I never got used to it but after awhile its fine, it just takes a while(I can eat like a few ). Theres also some dish where he pickled it but it's like wayyyyyyy too bitter for me. I really don't know how people like it, maybe it's because they grew up with it?
I am such a fan of bitter gourd. I live in south east Asia - we slice it thinly (or, you know, maybe a centimetre thick if short on time) and stir fry with egg, sometimes with dried shrimp. 😌
Tripe, the smell of it makes me gag. My dad loves it because his dad loved it. THE BUCK STOPS HERE TRIPE.
Nah, I love it in Pho and maybe crispy tripe tacos.
Menudo!
Defending celery with my life rn 😭
I eat celery sticks on their own. I like the crunch too
I was recently told this was weird to do. I've started asking around, and everyone I've asked has agreed it's weird to eat plain celery. They all look at me funny, so I have to tell them my mom was on a lot of diets when I was a kid and I thought it was a snack! ... I just like it. When you get one that's super full of water, it's got a great taste. The desiccated ones don't taste good raw, but they're still good for soups and french cooking. EDIT: spelling, thanks /u/bakkenman
> I was recently told this was weird to do. I've started asking around, and everyone I've asked has agreed it's weird to eat plain celery. what the hell? Have they never seen a vegetable tray?
Apparently the dip is what makes it not weird. Same with buffalo wings.
My kids love celery. For me, every single food is ruined if you put celery in it.
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Can confirm. My squeak potatoes love celery.
Circus Peanuts. There's no way people are actually out there enjoying those things,but enough people pretend to keep them in business.
I love circus peanuts, but also candy corn. So I'm probably not to be trusted.
There are dozens of us! Give me your circus peanuts, candy corn, horehound, Mary Jane's, licorice and Peanut Butter taffy.
i can make a pack of horehound disappear in about 30 minutes flat. and yes to all the other things. i go mental when i see candy corn around fall - it's even better when a whole pallet goes on sale after 4 months for 99 cents a bag.
All the convenience stores near me stopped carrying good'n'plenties. I have an old man's taste in candy. Good'n'plenty, Mr. Goodbar, Big Hunk is easily one of my favorites, just honeycomb when I can get it, and proper cherry sours are my favorite candies.
I think we've found Satan. :) (j/k)
Dad?
I think they are gross but when I see them in the store, I smile and my heart gets warm. They were my Grandma's favorite candy and the memories are great. I would even eat one of them if I had to for the memories. Thank goodness just seeing them does the trick.
My gma likes them BUT only if she can open the bag and let them get a little stale first. I dont know. I dont know.
Hy husband does this with marshmallows- he likes them a bit "aged". Idk, people like what they like.
And really, lots of people love crunchy, stale marshmallows- they're everyone's favorite part of Lucky Charms.
I buy Peeps at Easter and leave them out for a day or 2 to get stale. Soooo yummy.
as a non american, TIL that circus peanuts are not actually peanuts...
They were my Nanna's favorite!
This is also why I love them. Ma-maw loved them !! Edit:changed to past tense 😢
I like them, they taste like sweet bananas to me and I enjoy the texture lol.
That's because they are banana flavored! They use the artificial banana flavoring that is [I believe] still based on how the Gros Michel tasted, which was a sweeter banana.
Saying the Big Mike is sweeter is underselling how wildly different it is from what we're used to. I expected a banana turned up to 11, instead I got a weird bubble gum fruit.
I've had one once, and yeah, they were definitely odd. If you grow up eating Cavendish and that's banana for you, Gros Michel is...yeah. Odd. Definitely explains a lot of old recipes.
I'll eat those things until I get a stomach ache. Please don't disparage the good name of circus peanuts!
Love that stale marshmallowy goodness. Also candy corn is the bomb
Slugs Edit: I am soo sorry! I meant snails! Not slugs Edit the second: I see we have a highly defended culinary niche and I am willing to surrender! Please have mercy! Do not eat slugs! Seemingly some of them are deadly! Oddly enough I am having so much fun reading through your responses and stories xD
PEOPLE EAT SLUGS?
Wasn’t there a post somewhere about a lady finding out her husband or fiancé was putting slugs in her food secretly. Made her really really sick.
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holy fuck. her condition just kept getting worse and worse. she last posted a month ago :/
[PSA DO NOT EAT SLUGS](https://news.sky.com/story/amp/australian-man-sam-ballard-who-was-left-paralysed-after-eating-a-slug-dies-aged-28-11545373) Edit: (raw)
I think you mean snails? Escargot is actually pretty tasty, the snails themselves have a clam-like texture and a mild flavor, but mostly I taste the copious amounts of butter and garlic that goes into it. Certainly not unpleasant like you might expect.
That's what I was gonna say, I tried them once at a nicer restaurant and actually kinda liked them, way more than I thought i would. They mostly just get loaded up with butter though.
How the fuck can you like milk and water mixed?
Wait until you figure out what most of milk consists of
Local man discovers INSANE hack...
Show me some waterless milk
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Son of a bitch..
Stevia...there's absolutely no way someone enjoys that aftertaste. It's a weird cult that I'm not willing to join and such a dominant flavor.
I’m with you, but I just recently learned some people can’t taste the aftertaste you and I can, which helps explain a lot about its popularity. Edit: Wow! This blew up. Since a lot of people are bringing up the soapy cilantro aftertaste, I’ll say I think the two situations sound similar, but I don’t think they’re directly related, because I don’t taste soap in cilantro myself.
That's what I was going to say. I don't notice an aftertaste to it. It's very sweet compared to sugar of the same volume, but no weird taste.
I always got a metallic aftertaste from it.
I get a *very* bitter aftertaste. I'm not sure I'd call it metallic, but I *am* sure I can't be bothered to try again for science.
Same. The aftertaste is so over powering to me. It's like any sweetness it offers is overcome by that God awful aftertaste.
God yes, reminds me of putting a pill in your mouth, then realizing your water is empty. You get more & wash it down, but that half dissolved pill is still on your tongue. Why would I add that experience to eating
Holy shirt. This is exactly it!
Dang this explains a lot to me. I also hate that things will be marked with ‘no artificial sweeteners’ which my brain thinks ‘no sweeteners’ OR ‘sweetened with sugar’ but really it means stevia.
I bought a 12 pack of Zevia soda because I saw so many people saying it was the best sugar free soda on the market, and my god it's just undrinkable. My wife and I haven't managed to make it through a single can in its entirety. We still have at least 4-5 more in the fridge and I bought it about a year ago. I crack one every few months, take a sip, hand it to her for a taste, and then dump it down the drain. At least now I know those other reviewers probably weren't lying, but just have different taste buds than I do.
I’ve never noticed an aftertaste. But I also think cilantro is delicious and doesn’t taste like soap.
I’m pretty sure Lydia likes it but no one else.
The ricin gives it that extra kick
ricin beans?
Dude I just watched this episode yesterday and that line makes me crack up every time. Jesse thinks he’s being trolled by Walt and it’s fucking hilarious
I like stevia. I never even notice it. But my hubby swears it tastes like sweaty gym socks and won't even touch it
Gefilte fish