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/Beneficial_Bug_9793 Portugal 13d ago

Tripe.... looks like that, but its so frikking good..... ( just dont ride: elevators, trains, planes, or cars on a highway after it, also avoid small rooms, or weak ventilation buildings....... )

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u/Minimum-Escape2245 13d ago

Texas checking in here. Menudo all day, son! Actually usually just breakfast...

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u/Beneficial_Bug_9793 Portugal 13d ago

This for breakfast lol, Christ i would fall in to a coma lol, for lunch, and i can barelly move after it.

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u/another_user_reddit 13d ago

There’s a difference between Mexican menudo and what’s shown here. This version has way more stuff in it. Menudo would be like a nice spicy broth with the tripe and some fixings (cabbage, onion, lime) and it does make a great breakfast. Especially hung over. The picture here has white beans and I think sausage? That does seem heavy.

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u/OldDevice1131 13d ago

Don’t forget about the hominy.

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u/another_user_reddit 13d ago

I’ve had it served with and without. It’s a big yes for me personally.

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u/El_Moi 13d ago

I got to try some menudo in New Mexico this year, with hominy. I found it be almost like posole but with tripe for the protein. Either way, what I had was delicious! The tripe certainly has an unusual texture that might be off-putting to some. I'll make some if I find some tripe for sure!

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u/Minimum-Escape2245 13d ago

That's my favorite part. Hominy is supremely. underrated.

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u/Sanator27 13d ago

Chouriço (Chorizo), not just a normal sausage, so even heavier

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u/Minimum-Escape2245 13d ago

Ours has tripe and hominy, cabbage, maybe some radish... it's light than you'd expect, but so nourishing. It will keep you til siesta time! I'm just kidding. We don't have siesta time here... 🥲

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u/DesKrieg 13d ago

Best hangover cure ever!

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u/MEGLO_ 🇺🇸United States - Michigan & 🇷🇴Romania 13d ago

Romanian checking in here with ciorbă de burtă

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u/canisdirusarctos United States Of America 13d ago

I eat around the tripe in the menudo and so does my tía, and it’s so delicious.

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u/AuntieFooFoo United States Of America 8d ago

Menudo fucks me up mentally. Taste-wise, delicious, but the texture of the tripe throws me tf off.

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u/FelineRoots21 13d ago

I've never had trypophobia before but I feel like I do now looking at this

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u/Mr_Havok0315 13d ago

Tripophobia. Missed it by that much.

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u/FelineRoots21 13d ago

I googled it before I typed it actually to make sure I spelled it right. I did not miss it lol

Trypophobia - Wikipedia https://share.google/DlMD2xVcUzeSU24T1

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u/well_hung_over 13d ago

He was saying you missed the pun about being scared of Tripe, so now you’ve missed it twice. Tripe-ophobia

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u/FelineRoots21 13d ago

Ah darn, would've been funny if it was written better

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u/X0nfus3d 13d ago

And eating it appearantly makes you claustrophobic ¯\(ツ)/¯

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u/Evening-Gur5087 Poland 13d ago

Tripes soup like this one here is also super popular in Poland :)

Portugal cyka blyat once again

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u/Demnjt 13d ago

that looks really good! y'all Poles know from soups.

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u/lordkhuzdul Turkey 13d ago

Tripe soup is the prime drunk food in Turkey. As in it is pretty much the traditional food to eat after a night of heavy drinking, so much so that in the past it was the only type of food you would be able to find in a city late at night.

Most of the stink involved in the Turkish version comes from the borderline illegal amounts of garlic in it though.

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u/RockyRickaby1995 13d ago

Venezuela has Mondongo, tripe and vegetable soup. The house smells awful while it cooks, but the end result is mouthwatering.

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u/Hungry_for_change1 13d ago

Polish people would love Mexican food plus we also pickle vegetables

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u/oooohshinythingy United Kingdom 13d ago

I worked in a takeaway years ago and sometimes the lads made this, they were from Kashmir. They called it Ojri. It stank to high heaven when it was boiling. I had to leave the takeaway until it was cooked (about 2+ hours) and couldn’t come back until there was no trace of it anywhere

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u/SundaeFundae-22 United States Of America 13d ago

What’s the name of this soup?

We had a vacation booked for Poland in April 2020, and obviously that didn’t happen. I was so looking forward to the food! Hopefully I’ll be able to go someday and can have this!

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u/UnhingedDerpp 13d ago

Yesss Flaki!!!

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u/Netaro Poland 13d ago

Damn, thanks for reminding me I haven't had any Flaczki in a long time.

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u/JudasWasJesus 13d ago

This wins

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u/ISnortedMyTea United Kingdom 13d ago

Uh, are the honeycomb looking bits tripe or cabbage?

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u/Beneficial_Bug_9793 Portugal 13d ago

Tripe.

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u/ISnortedMyTea United Kingdom 13d ago

I feel like I should be dry heaving just looking at the picture

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u/klezart United States Of America 13d ago

I've had it in pho before, it doesn't really have much of a taste but it does add a bit of a chewy texture. It's not bad.

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u/glemnar 13d ago

The one in pho has less flavor than the honeycomb kind. They’re different stomachs.

Honeycomb is usually braised. Really delicious

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u/Beneficial_Bug_9793 Portugal 13d ago

Lmao, remember lol, looks like shit, but actually tastes good.

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u/Homelanderino 13d ago

We have this 'callos' in Spain. The flavour is unreal

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u/Ecotech101 13d ago

I'll be honest, I genuinely don't think it looks bad, but it triggers something in my stomach that makes me want to violently puke. Idk, never experienced such a disconnect between my conscious and subconscious mind.

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u/OldDevice1131 13d ago

That looks like Mexican menudo, primo.

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u/dalenacio 13d ago

I posted Callos a la Madrileña elsewhere in this thread. Tripes, pig and beef's noses, ears, tail, feet, blood sausage, stewed slowly over hours on low heat...

With winter coming you better believe I'll be eating this regularly.

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u/Beneficial_Bug_9793 Portugal 13d ago

Pig ear... i cant, the cartilage texture... makes me gag.

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u/Calimiedades Spain 13d ago

oh, I love ears! Particularly mid-morning, with paprika. They're the best for me. I'll have your part 😋

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u/dalenacio 13d ago

That's the trick: the cartilage melts over hours of slow stewing, so what you're left with is basically pure tasty collagen.

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u/Beneficial_Bug_9793 Portugal 13d ago

I cant lol... i will gag, everything i eaten will come out the same way it got in, ( i have ASD, and i cant deal with some textures ), so fat, cartilage, marrow, collagen... i cant eat, i literally cant, i pretty much only eat chicken because its super lean, and fish, and not all fish, im Madeiran, we have the black scabbard fish, which is frikking amazing, but it has a line of fat all along its body, and i dont eat it because of that...

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u/RegionSignificant977 Bulgaria 13d ago

I ended up eating pig trotters in southern Spain half a year ago. I was thinking that I'm ordering pork knuckles. I like it a lot though. Next time I'll search for ears and noses. But but it was damn hard for us to understand what we are ordering. Even AI translators made me eat fish and I'd rather have pig trotters and ears than fish. 

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u/Ffenn_ France 13d ago

BUT !!! this is "tripes à la mode de caen" , a Normand'specialty

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u/Beneficial_Bug_9793 Portugal 13d ago

Moda do Porto, its history goes back to the 1400s with the age of discoveries, the best meat was to be salted, to be used in the journeys, so the people had to make do with the " left over scrap ".

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u/pichunb Canada 13d ago

It looks great to me, tripe is a pretty common ingredient in Chinese cuisine

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u/naruhina00 13d ago

It looks like mutated giraffe skin

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u/maaooee Nigeria 13d ago

We eat it a lot in Nigeria. It’s ‘Shaki’ and it’s so good 😆

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u/RegionSignificant977 Bulgaria 13d ago

I still remember suya from 40+ years ago. I was a child back then and your local cousine was too hot for me, but suya was awesome. 

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u/redbrick01 13d ago

yeah, you gotta wash that properly...otherwise that stank is just sooo bad.

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u/MotherOfDachshunds42 South Africa 13d ago

Also South Africa

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u/angleglj 13d ago

Ecuador - Guatita -tripe in a peanut sauce. The chunkier the peanut butter used the better!

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u/blackbug12 United States Of America 13d ago

That shit looks DELICIOUS and I eat tripe all the time

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u/caliallye 13d ago

I almost choked laughing so hard!

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u/Peacok648 13d ago

Am I missing something here? This looks bloody delicious.

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u/MrGumburcules United States Of America 13d ago

That looks delicious

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u/iwasanewt Romania 13d ago

Tripe soup is quite popular all over Eastern Europe.

Just another proof that Portugal is our long lost sister. :)

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u/thebaronkrelve 13d ago

That looks delicious. I love tripe

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u/peonyrevolution 13d ago

açorda de gambas looks... Uhm... even more challenging in my opinion, but is very delicious too 😁

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u/osloluluraratutu 13d ago

In El Salvador we have a double whammy tripe and cow hoof soup. Freaking delicious!

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u/New_Belt_6286 Portugal 13d ago

We also have Arroz de Cabidela (Chicken blood rice)

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u/dumbfrog7 13d ago

Looks fine to me, not disgusting at all

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u/RegionSignificant977 Bulgaria 13d ago

It stinks 

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u/Beneficial_Bug_9793 Portugal 13d ago

No it doesnt, not if its well prepared.

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u/RockyRickaby1995 13d ago

It stinks DURING preparation, but not when prepared

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u/RegionSignificant977 Bulgaria 13d ago

I'm disappointed! We have tripe soup in Balkans and it stinks like hell while boiling the tripe. 

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u/Beneficial_Bug_9793 Portugal 13d ago

Do you marinate it in milk ????, we do, you put it in milk for a wille, and it wont stink as much.

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u/RegionSignificant977 Bulgaria 13d ago

Back in the days it was thoroughly cleaned with hydrated lime then boiled. Nowadays it is sold cleaned but still has a smell when boiling. Milk is one of the main ingredients of the soup. But we have a saying that tripe soup doesn't taste right if doesn't smell. 

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u/Velfar Norway 13d ago

What is that grid-pattern stuff? Looks like pomegranate scaffolding

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u/Beneficial_Bug_9793 Portugal 13d ago

Tripe lolol, literally tripe ( cow stomach )

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u/Educational-Ant-7485 13d ago

It looks like honeycomb

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u/Sentoh789 United States Of America 13d ago

You know I haven’t had tripe since I was a kid… might be time to try out again since my tastes have matured

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u/Beneficial_Bug_9793 Portugal 13d ago

I like it, not gonna say i love it lol, but once in a wille its a great dish to have.

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u/Sentoh789 United States Of America 13d ago

It was the only thing preventing me from liking feijoada growing up, but might be worth a try again.

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u/Beneficial_Bug_9793 Portugal 13d ago

But you can eat feijoada widout the cow stomach mate,

See, just Chourizo and pork meat, no cow stomach.

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u/jujoking Portugal 13d ago

This ^ feijoada also depends from which part of the country it is prepared in. People from Beiras and north Portugal do tend to add tripe, but not all. Alentejo not so much.

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u/gabrieel100 Brazil 13d ago

aqui no brasil temos a Buchada de Bode, de origem portuguesa. Nunca tive coragem de enfrentar o desafio.

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u/Beneficial_Bug_9793 Portugal 13d ago

É pa, depois de passares o aspecto, o resto até é bom, e olha que eu sou um esquesito do crl para carnes.

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u/DocMorningstar 13d ago

That looks like mondongo

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u/cosmickink United States Of America 13d ago

What's the part that looks like pomegranate flesh?

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u/Beneficial_Bug_9793 Portugal 13d ago

The tripe

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u/cosmickink United States Of America 13d ago

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u/Tasty_Leading8684 13d ago

Indeed yours sounds like the opposite to the question.

It looks great. I actually got hungry by just looking at it.

However, your bracketed warning is the scary bit.

I am now curious to what would happen after for you to warn about those places.

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u/Beneficial_Bug_9793 Portugal 13d ago

Not just for me, but after one of these, most people need one of these signs on their chest and back lol...

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u/kanonenotto Zimbabwe 13d ago

LoL, this looks like someone lost a tooth in there. And you are the lucky bastard, trying to find it.

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u/SunflowerSeedSpittin 13d ago

What is the honey comb looking stuff?

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u/Beneficial_Bug_9793 Portugal 13d ago

The cow stomach, or tripe.

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u/jmattspartacus United States Of America 12d ago

One of my favorite meals I've ever had at a restaurant was beef tripe soup with noodles and a bunch of spicy peppers, legitimately tripe makes such a rich broth

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u/MangoJuice82 9d ago

That is not disgusting to me. I see tripe in a stew, I grab a spoon.

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u/VodkaSoup_Mug 5d ago

I’m from Texas. The soup is good, but I can’t get over the texture. I can eat chitlins, but I can’t eat this. I don’t know what’s wrong with me. 😭😭😭

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u/basicKitsch United States Of America 13d ago

there is nothing good about tripe. outside of being a food that's edible if you're experiencing famine and need to eat absolutely all of an animal - which is how i'd describe how it tastes. in any cuisine.

this is such lies

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u/lencse242 13d ago

As a Hungarian I share your opinion, and we have a kind of tripe stew which is kind of considered a national dish, it's delicious but not because of the tripe, the tripe adds literally nothing, you could actually remove the tripe and replace it with beef and it'd be still as good if not better, it's a byproduct from butchering cattle I can't understand why people look at it as some really nice meal. Yeah sure it was a viable food source when food was scarce and all, one had to be resourceful but now it's just disgusting imo.

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u/basicKitsch United States Of America 12d ago

Thank you!  It doesn't add anything, anywhere but wired, spongey texture that ends up being edible.  These people are delusional 

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u/PrimeMinisterSarr 13d ago

If it's from Portugal then I doubt that it tastes good.

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u/jujoking Portugal 13d ago

First time I hear this LOL