Have seen references that carpetbag steaks were Australia’s national dish and I’ve never seen one served. Personally I think the concept is a waste of any decent steak.
On more solid culinary grounds are the South Australian specialty of meat pie floaters. Of course, what croweaters eat should be a sage lesson to the rest of us. Again, I’ve never seen one served … even when in Adelaide.
I’ll usually try anything once. Other than certain flavors I don’t like (coconut, beer, licorice), I’ll give things a try. I can’t think of many I outright hated, but some just didn’t appeal and I don’t try them again.
How is it possible to not like manapua? If I ever moved back to Hawaii (and I can’t unless I’m really rich because I get island fever something terrible) manapua would be 80% of the reason.
For the two years I lived there, curry chicken manapua from 7-11 was a major component of my diet. And if even the 7-11 hot case is a good source the ones from people who care are even better.
I prefer clapshot (mash with swedes).
Once was more than enough for me when it came to poi - I didn’t even finish the small amount I was given. (My wife says it looks like what you would get if you had a blender big enough to put a whole elephant in.)
I’m looking forward to our vacation in St Martin (one month away!), in part because of access to conch dishes. We always dine at Yvette’s once or twice for their Conch Seviche. Improperly prepared conch is disgusting, but done correctly it is heavenly.
I’ve had chittlins in cornbread and to me it was like trying to chew calamari=rubber bands.
People would cook up the brains in their scrambled eggs. (
There’s no barf emoticon.)
Maybe for me it was just the Mapunapuna* manapua
*a Honolulu exurb of body shops and warehouses. Fun language though.
Eyes & brains in backyard barbacoa. I’ve pretty much eaten everything else including menudo, lengua, cabrito. I ain’t too picky.
IIRC, they tried to get us Vic’s to adopt the Pie Floater, selling it as a frozen meal in the supermarket. For obvious reasons, it didn’t quite take off. But you can buy ‘mushy peas’ in a can, so I guess there’s a few South Australian refugees who managed to cross the border at some point.
I’ve never tried abalone.
My parents – from north-west England – knew that mixture from their childhood, and made it. I refused point-blank to eat it (am not a big vegetable fan). There seem to be revolting names for this revolting concoction: yours as above – and my parents called it, if you’ll believe this, “stump mipe”.
I tried poi on a trip to Hawaii. It tasted like dirt. It was like eating mud.
My husband bought coconut milk and I have no desire to try it. I’ve never tried oysters, scallops, cod, plantains, venison, tripe, honeydew, kiwi, blueberries, beer, hard liquor, dozens of other things and a local delicacy around here in NJ called Taylor ham.
I have tried duck, veal, crawfish, Kobe beef, Vidalia onions, bok choy, huckleberries, fresh sweet corn nearly right off the stalk, apples I picked myself, clams gathered from Cape Cod, meyer lemons, Russian Kvass, pomegranate juice and many other interesting food items.
I am not ever going to eat scrapple.
Scrapple got discussed in a recent Cafe Society thread: “What foods do you only like because you were raised with them, you’d otherwise hate?”, commenced 11-30-2013. I’ve never tried scrapple (wrong country / continent, anyway). Impression got from such research as I did, is that it seems pretty disgusting; but I’d be prepared to give it a go, on the chance that that impression might be wrong.
That’s all it took for me to know I wasn’t ever going to eat them, too. I had a roommate who decided to cook them once, and I had to leave the apartment. It smelled like he was frying a pan of pig poop.
<Hijack>Heh, good western barbecue shouldn’t need sauce.</Hijack>
I will never ear Philippine boctac. It sounds like a duck abortion.
Balut?
I love the people who say they’ve never tried a particular dish, then go on to describe it in a fair amount of detail. How the hell do you know what Brunswick stew is like if you’ve never had it? Your description betrays your ignorance.
…um what? Other than a first person account of “taste” people can give a lot of details about a dish they have never tried.