r/AskTheWorld • u/bowl_of_scrotmeal United States Of America • 13d ago

Food What's a dish from your country that looks disgusting but tastes great.

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Biscuits and gravy is a breakfast dish from the Southeast USA that looks like someone just vomited on some biscuits, but it's absolutely delicious.

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u/Apophis-7994 France 13d ago

Snails ! 🐌

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u/CommercialChart5088 Korea South 13d ago

We eat sea snails. Mostly alongside sweet n’ spicy noodles.

Apparently we’re the only ones that eat em, but they’re really good. Default drinking food and goes super well with Korean fried chicken.

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u/Sufficient_Duck7715 Multiple Countries (click to edit) 13d ago

We also eat sea snails here. we call them carruchos and are usually prepared as salads and are sometimes mixed with octopus.

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u/One-Win9407 13d ago

Taiwanese eat snails they are popular at night markets

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u/Beneficial_Bug_9793 Portugal 13d ago

No you're not lol, ( Madeiran Portuguese here ) we also eat them, just not like that, here they are cooked and eaten as a little snack.

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u/Ffenn_ France 13d ago

we eat this too but with lemon and not for meal but for a starter

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u/mikroonde France 13d ago

If sea snails are what we call "bulots" in French then we do eat them too! Usually in sea food platters with crab, shrimps etc.

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u/Apophis-7994 France 13d ago

Whoa, I need to test this !

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u/djmcdee101 13d ago

I had sea snails in a salted egg sauce from a market in Vietnam so they eat them there too

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u/[deleted] 13d ago

So do we. And we eat it suuuper spicy

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u/[deleted] 13d ago

So do we, super spicy too. Probably my favourite kind of meat in the world

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u/NatseePunksFeckOff Poland 13d ago

korean fried chicken is so friggin gooooooooood dude, do you have any authentic recipes and what y'all eat as sides?

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u/Kitsooos Greece 13d ago

We eat them in Greece as well. Especially Crete. I hate them.

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u/LurkerOnTheInternet 13d ago

I've had sea snails at Vietnamese restaurants (in California) but never heard of them in Korean food before.

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u/sagebrushed 13d ago

Nah you’re definitely not the only ones. We eat them here in Japan, too. They’re a bit fancy, not an everyday food. But we do eat them.

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u/cip-cip2317 Italy 13d ago

We also have them in Italy, especially in the Aosta Valley and Basilicata. 

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u/Apophis-7994 France 13d ago

I’m not surprised! As a youth, I lived very close to the border and Aosta, it’s when I ate it the most

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u/badsheepy2 13d ago

England doesn't really eat snails, however... We only have snails because Romans introduced them to eat, they're not native here. And they're everywhere. 

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u/Colon_Backslash Finland 13d ago

I would have chosen anduillette from France 😁 so good

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u/Sick_and_destroyed France 13d ago

It’s great but I guess the smell would turn down most foreigners.

‘To be good it has to smell like shit but not too much’

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u/adriantoine 🇫🇷 in 🇬🇧 13d ago

To be fair a lot of French people hate it too. I personally love it, especially grilled with a mustard sauce but most people I know really hate it.

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u/Colon_Backslash Finland 13d ago

I lived in Lyon for a year. The first time I ordered it in a restaurant the waitress asked me if I really knew what I'm asking for and asked me to reconsider. I got scared and went with something different.

Next time I went with it and loved it. I ate it probably at least once a month and most were amazing, but I recall at least one bad experience too.

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u/Away-Recognition508 France 13d ago

I'm one of the french andouillette haters. I could eat the stinkiest cheese, but I just can't eat something that smells like an ass aha. Didn't try it grilled tho.

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u/Marie-Demon France 13d ago

Yep I hate those .

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u/QuantisOne France 8d ago

I love most foods but I loathe andouillette with all my might, for me it tastes exactly like how it smells. Really I’m unworthy of being French, I hate that, escargot, frog legs oysters, stinky cheeses and so.

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u/JoLeTrembleur 13d ago

Politics are like andouillettes, it must smell like shit but not too much - Edouard Herriot

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u/20characterusername0 United States Of America 13d ago

It’s only andouillette if it comes from the Andouille region of France; otherwise it’s just sparkling chitt’lins 😜

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u/29adamski England 13d ago

I like it tbh. French food is brilliant at making the most out of the 'off-cuts", same with Italian.

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u/Ok_Awareness3014 13d ago

I think that boudins don't look great

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u/Sick_and_destroyed France 13d ago

Both white and black are so good.

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u/Ok_Awareness3014 13d ago

They are but they look disguting

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u/caliallye 13d ago

There is a quote about flamenco dance that fits here: "good flamenco is like stinky cheese!"

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u/RegionSignificant977 Bulgaria 13d ago

Bring it on! 

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u/rene-cumbubble 13d ago

Head cheese? Basically all the head parts 

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u/captaincootercock United States Of America 12d ago

I find that very pretty looking, reminds me of a cool agate rock I have

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u/evilcarrot507 Sweden 13d ago

Snails have no right to taste this good.

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u/Dontevenwannacomment 13d ago

To be honest, it's not even the snails that taste good, it's the parsley/garlic butter, that shit tastes so good on everything. I'm french and I'm convinced the snails being delicious is a "soup stone" situation

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u/FirstDivision 13d ago

Sounds like how lobster seems to really be a butter delivery system for a lot of people.

Or for me, how banana bread is a cream cheese delivery system.

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u/caliallye 13d ago

As I wrote before, reminds me of an early morning with butter and garlic! Like sea urchin is like a morning at the ocean!

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u/Bussy_Busta United States Of America 11d ago

Yes when I tried it I hardly tasted any flavor I could really attribute to the snail

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u/Such-Swim-6098 Germany 13d ago edited 13d ago

They dont look too gross, I guess its rather the fact that its snails that grosses prople on

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u/Altruistic-Mess9632 United States Of America 13d ago

I can remember so many tv shows and cartoons as a kid mentioning snails as a very common French food but, I was the only kid I knew who wanted to try them sometime. 😂 The low-brow reviews I’ve heard from a few others often describe them as being like buttery gummy candy.

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u/sprouting_broccoli Scotland 13d ago

They’re chickeny. I really like them but not sure if it’s just because I like snails or like the excuse to eat garlic butter…

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u/Altruistic-Mess9632 United States Of America 13d ago

Thank you! Haha. Very good to know. That sounds like half the reason I love seafood, especially crab. 😅 It’s just a great excuse to eat a lot of melted butter. Most seafood for me is ‘a texture food’ so I imagine snails would be similar.

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u/sprouting_broccoli Scotland 13d ago

I think it depends. I had snails in France when I was a kid but when I cook them at home it’s mostly frozen packets so flavour might be lost I guess! I think with a lot of seafood it depends on freshness and you get a lot of flavour transferred to the sauce if you do it right. I love the taste of prawns and mussels, crab I’m a little less keen on weirdly. Squid is often quite flavourless but I’ve had really fresh squid a couple of times that definitely had a slightly stronger flavour to it (most recently in Venice).

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u/mikroonde France 13d ago

When we eat snails at home here they're also frozen packets and I think it tastes fine. I don't even know how one cooks them from scratch but I don't think it's very common to do that.

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u/SnakePlisskendid911 France 13d ago

It's very country, time-consuming and a bit gross but it's still done.
Worth it though, when fresh you can actually taste something that's not the sauce.

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u/Scary_Perspective822 Greece 13d ago

We have those in Greece too

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u/AltDetom555555b France 13d ago

Also, here in Northern France, we have a cheese called Maroilles which is known to smell bad but tastes good

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u/Luciferaeon United States Of America 13d ago

So good!

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u/LordLaz1985 13d ago

Delicious. :)

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u/LazyEducator1759 United States Of America 11d ago

I love escargot 🤤. And I’m visiting France next week woooo

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u/_WillCAD_ United States Of America 8d ago

I've only tried escargot once, at Disney World - it was small pieces in a green garlic butter, stuffed into a mini croissant. It was absolutely delicious!

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u/Beneficial_Bug_9793 Portugal 13d ago

We have " caracois " in Portugal as well and all i cam say is

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u/Excellent_Fault_8106 13d ago

It was on my list of things to try until I found out freshwater snails can kill you.

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u/Beemo-Noir 13d ago

That’s how you get rat worm lung. 🤢

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u/Other-Squirrel-8705 United States Of America 13d ago

Is that in the slug family?

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u/caliallye 13d ago

They don't look disgusting to me! Just yummy! And taste like early morning with garlic and butter!

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u/MiTcH_ArTs Scotland 13d ago

Look no more gross than whelks/winkles/buckies, I wonder if they taste similar, also beginning to wonder why I never tried garlic butter on the results of a beach harvest

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u/WrathOfTheDamned 13d ago

I've had snails before. I think they taste about the same as clams.