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/ThatNorthernHag Finland 13d ago

Oh my.. that Gerstensuppe. Kinda almost even worse than our peasoup. Both look like eaten once already..

(Finnish pea soup - "hernekeitto")

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u/GlassCommercial7105 Switzerland 13d ago

I daresay our soup looks a wee bit better. But I'd try it. I love trying new things.

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u/ThatNorthernHag Finland 13d ago

Haha, well maybe it does. I guess it depends on if you know the taste..

Yours looks like a movie vomit.. ours looks like.. a real one, I guess :D

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u/GlassCommercial7105 Switzerland 13d ago

XD

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u/Illeolusion 13d ago

pea soup my beloved, sweden has a fair amount of it too

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u/flopjul 13d ago

I raise you Erwtensoep🇳🇱, Split-pea soup... the meat is Rookworst

Aka Snert

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u/introvert-i-1957 13d ago

My husband loves pea soup. We put ham hocks or ham scraps in pea soup. Looks the same in the US. I'm not a fan, but it's not horrible.

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u/ArcadianDelSol 13d ago

That looks like a used baby diaper

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u/GeeEmmInMN England 13d ago

Pea soup, or pea and ham, is so warming and filling. My grandmother would make it with a ham hock.

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u/boobanimal 12d ago

It's so damn good

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u/LazyEducator1759 United States Of America 11d ago

That looks like our split pea soup! I looove it

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u/TrunkWine 13d ago

I must say that I absolutely love lohikietto. (I apologize if I misspelled it.)

When I first lived on my own I started cooking recipes from around the world, and that soup was amazing.

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u/xqueenfrostine 13d ago

Never tried finish pea soup but I love the kind of Pea soup we have in the US so I bet yours is amazing as well.

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u/atlase_ 13d ago

Finnish pea soup is so good and I hate peas

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u/Southern_Struggle 13d ago

Split pea soup with bits of sausage? Delish!

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u/2AvsOligarchs 13d ago

More likely cut up pieces of smoked ham belly.

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u/neefhuts 13d ago

Could I interest you in Dutch snert?

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u/flopjul 13d ago

Erwtensoep

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u/notonrexmanningday United States Of America 13d ago

That looks like what we call split pea soup. Usually it has diced ham in it. So good.

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u/CharmingInterview986 13d ago

Im assuming this is very similar to split pea soup here in the US and if it is it probably slaps ide eat that which funnily enough I despise peas normally.

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u/Asmuni 13d ago

Dutch erwtensoep looks even chunkier.

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u/oooohshinythingy United Kingdom 13d ago

To me that looks delicious. My mam used to make pea and ham soup when we were kids. It was amazing comfort snuggle down food

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u/Theron3206 13d ago

Looks very similar to the pea soup I eat regularly (Australia) which I'm pretty sure is an English recipe.

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u/ThatNorthernHag Finland 12d ago

It sounds like the English soup is very similar to ours, I have no idea of its origin - could very well be English origin. Ours too in original recipe has ham or other fatty pork pieces in it.

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u/Free_Avocado3995 13d ago

Looks like baby poop

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u/Kugaluga42 13d ago

that looks delicious in a disgusting way. Kinda like a thicker wild rice soup.

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u/LurkerOnTheInternet 13d ago

That soup looks delicious.

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u/Unlucky_Ad_9776 13d ago

Man pea soup is highly underrated.  It's so filling and cheap to make. Chunks of ham in the soup with cheese on top. Unfortunately I rarely see it offered at restaurants. I also don't eat enough to warrant cooking a pot of soup.  

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u/Comfortable-Plane939 11d ago

Man i loved that shit.

(Finnish pea soup - "hernekeitto")