Dulse - yes, another strange food

[Broomstick]

I just bought a package of Dulse at Whole Foods. I put it into my chicken-with-greens stir fry and it was pretty good.

Who else eats dulse and how do you fix it?

[GingerOfTheNorth]

It's a really common food on the coasts in Canada. I've only ever eaten it dried, like jerky almost.

[Dr_Paprika]

I'm not a big fan of dulse, available everywhere in Maritime Canada. My dad likes it, which is rare enough that my friends commented on "an Upper Canadian" enjoying the taste of dulse.

I've heard people say "Maritimers eat dulse like potato chips". Perhaps a few of them really do. I've heard of folks eating dulse sandwiches. But I think it is more commonly used as a side ingredient in fish dishes, chowders and the odd salad.

[Cisco]

I'm going to look for this when I'm grocery shopping tomorrow. How do you pronounce it?

[Anastasaeon]

I'm from New Brunswick. We get our dulse from Grand Manan. (Don't french it up, kids, it's pronounced how it looks: Grand mah-NAN, or, by locals: granmanan). We used to get big hauls of it and dry it out at Pennfield airport. (Tiny, deserted airport used for small craft and where we all learned how to drive as teenagers.) Delicious just picked up from the ground and eaten after it's been crying in the sun.

I eat it like potato chips, right out of the paper bag. Never had it in anything, I thought you were supposed to just eat it. Salty, chewy, purply. Yum.

On preview: it's pronounced how it looks: Dulse. No extra "ee" sound at the end or anything. Dulls - extra sharp "s" sound at the end. Depending on what region you're from, it might also be "dolse".

[Askia]

I don't know what food group this belongs in and I'm scared to guess.

[Anastasaeon]

I don't know what food group this belongs in and I'm scared to guess.

Seaweedy goodness group! :D

[Askia]

Oh, thank God. That comment about "salty" and "purply" had me so worried.

[Broomstick]

I'm going to look for this when I'm grocery shopping tomorrow.
Good luck finding it.

Outside of seaside communities it might be hard to find - here in the Midwest it's not at all common. When I say "it's a type of seaweed" I usually get steered to the nori in the "Asian food aisle". It's not nori. It's dulse.

I tried it just out of the package and it is pretty good. I'm guessing that you can pretty much treat it as spinach (althought it doesn't taste like spinach). Eat it raw, eat it on sandwhiches, put it in soups, salads, stir-frys... Although it is a form of seaweed I'm tending to categorize it as "greens" in my personal mental filing cabinet.

[Cisco]

On preview: it's pronounced how it looks: Dulse. No extra "ee" sound at the end or anything. Dulls - extra sharp "s" sound at the end. Depending on what region you're from, it might also be "dolse".
See, to me it looks like dull-say - that's wrong? It's dulls?

[Pábitel]

See, to me it looks like dull-say - that's wrong? It's dulls?
Rhyme it with pulse

[jjimm]

Note: dulse is derived from an Irish word and dish, and it's traditional in the north-west of Ireland. The title track of Clannad's album Dúlamán (http://www.geocities.com/celticlyricscorner/clannad/dulaman.htm) is about collecting dulse.