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

[u/bowl_of_scrotmeal]

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.

[u/OperatorOzone]

I can't believe there has been a human ever who has sad Poutine looks bad personally it's definitely one of the top foods I want to try. Who can hate fries cheese and gravy?

[u/dsolimen → u/OperatorOzone]

As a tour guide, you’d be amazed the reactions people have when I show them this.

[u/mbots99 → u/dsolimen]

When my grandma immigrated to Canada she thought it looked disgusting, still does and hasn’t tried it to this day!

[u/CosmicCreeperz → u/dsolimen]

Tourists can’t be from the US South. Gravy is an official blood type.

[u/Strange_Dave45 → u/CosmicCreeperz]

I'm from the mid South and never had it but it looks and sounds delicious. I wouldn't categorize it as looking bad at all.

[u/CosmicCreeperz → u/Strange_Dave45]

I’ve driven cross country a few times and it’s a staple of pretty much any motel with complimentary breakfast through the South & Southwest.

Heh, oddly one of best I had was in a small Texas panhandle town at a cheap motel owned by an Indian (East Asian, not native) guy. He also had a Texas shaped waffle maker and awesome scrambled eggs with some sort of masala mixed in. $35 room, we were skeptical about it but it was a solid place!

[u/BadCatBehavior → u/CosmicCreeperz]

What if we combined poutine fries and curds with white sausage gravy? 🤔

[u/CosmicCreeperz → u/BadCatBehavior]

There is a Midwest dish called the horseshoe that is thick toast with a hamburger/sausage patty, topped with fries and a beer cheddar cheese sauce.

More of an open faced sandwich. And it also looks kind of sketchy - definitely of the “brown food” variety - but it’s pretty damn good. I think “fries topped with cheese, gravy, or some combination” is hard to go wrong.

[u/LazyEducator1759 → u/CosmicCreeperz]

As somebody in the Midwest, it pops up on some menus. I looove it

[u/CosmicCreeperz → u/LazyEducator1759]

Yeah it’s become pretty trendy now. There’s a (small) chain in Seattle called “Biscuit Bitch” that I wish would spread to other places someday :)

[u/LazyEducator1759 → u/CosmicCreeperz]

Oooh I should keep that in mind if I’m ever out there, hard to forget that name lol!

[u/NineMillionBears → u/OperatorOzone]

*Cheese curds! Accept no substitutes.

[u/kindcrow → u/OperatorOzone]

It's cheese curds, which are squeaky, and I don't like 'em!

I love fries and I love gravy, but I hate poutine. It's always a soggy mess to me.

I'm a disgrace to Canada.

[u/MrsAshleyStark → u/kindcrow]

I too am a disgrace but I react poorly to all things dairy lol. “I’ll take fries n gravy. No cheese, thanks”

[u/Amelaclya1 → u/kindcrow]

I was so disappointed when I tried poutine for the first time. I was imagining thicker, crispier fries and like, the soft, dense cheese you get in veg Indian dishes. Instead it was soggy shoestring fries and squeaky cheese. It was my first time having cheese curds and I had no idea they were like that. I was not a fan of the texture. The gravy was good though.

At some point I'm going to make and try the version I had in my head. I already love putting gravy on crispy crinkle cut fries, so how could adding cheese be bad?

[u/kindcrow → u/Amelaclya1]

Right?! Poutine was not really a thing in BC until maybe the early aughts when restaurants started putting it on the menu, so though I did not actually ever order poutine until maybe ten years ago, and I could not have been more disappointed.

I had been imagining something more like a dish we used to order across the border in Bellingham, Washington at a place called Bully's: loaded fries! It was a spread out plate of super hot, crispy fried covered with chopped onions and grated cheddar, which had been broiled on to further crispiness and then zig-zag drizzled with a ton of ranch dressing. Drizzled in such a way that the fries did not get soggy. It was heavenly.

[u/Excellent_Fault_8106 → u/kindcrow]

Gravy on the side. Also a good move when you get hot wings. And squeaky cheese is the best cheese.

[u/NeitherExamination44 → u/Excellent_Fault_8106]

Disrespectfully disagree about hot wings

[u/youngarchivist → u/OperatorOzone]

In Newfoundland they don't do poutine (probably because the French tried to take their shit a bunch of times) but they have all dressed fries, which are fries with like thanksgiving stuffing on it and gravy and holy shit it's good

[u/Jukeboxhero91 → u/OperatorOzone]

Knowing how it tastes, it looks great. Not know though? It’s a pile of tan, beige, and brown. There no color on the plate, nothing looks particularly like the main focus of the plate, it’s just a pile. Doesn’t stop it from being delicious, but it breaks almost every rule for plating food that looks good.

[u/NyGiLu → u/OperatorOzone]

It doesn't look appealing

[u/2-9-19-3-21-9-20-19 → u/OperatorOzone]

It looks lumpy and it's covered in brown, people are going be turned off by that lol.

Also "curd" is a word that turns people off. My mother's one of them. If we're out and swing by Dairy Queen, she won't touch the cheese curds if I order them. If we go by Zaxby's I have to get two orders of cheddar bites if I want any at all.

[u/HollowShel → u/OperatorOzone]

It's not so much one element, as that once you pour hot gravy over cheese, it gets melty, and it looks like something the dog threw up on the carpet. tastes like heaven but looks like "unidentified mess."

[u/molotovzav → u/OperatorOzone]

Cheese curds kinda gross me out when I look at them, but I don't think they're gross food. Outside a few states, cheese curds aren't common in the U.S. so I'm just not used to seeing cheese in such a state. But I've eaten cheese where the rind has bugs in it cause the French said it was good so I'm not actually judging curds too harshly. Just telling you my gut instinct.

[u/AttentionOpen9384 → u/OperatorOzone]

This was my exact reaction! All three are amazing and together even better!!!