A Kagoshima speciality: Torisashi. Short for niwatori sashimi. Means raw chicken.
What?
It’s good!
One thing I used to get every year at the Minnesota State Fair: a “Pickle Dog.” Take a (really thin) slice of pastrami, and spread cream cheese on it. Then roll up a pickle spear in it. My friends always looked at me funny as I munched happily away. (What do they know – they’re the ones who get the deep-fried Snickers bar every year…)
My mother eats orange marmelade and bacon sandwiches.
I don’t eat weird food combos…although when PMSing I have been known to eat a jar of pickled chilli peppers and follow it with a bowl of bird’s custard and a pint of Guinness. Cravings are different, because when you’re not craving it you feel mildly revolted at what you ate.
I like grits, and I like them even better the next morning after it has hardened, been sliced and fried like a piece of meat. With syrup & black pepper on top. Actually syrup and black pepper in fresh grits is pretty good too.
My first knee-jerk thought was, “Ewww!” but then the more I thought about it the better it sounded. I might have to try that; I love sweet and salty combinations. I have marmelade and I have bacon. Now I’m hungry - is it lunchtime yet?
I’ve heard of the cornbread and milk thing also, but never tried it. It does sound good.
This isn’t weird at all. This is a pretty popular appetizer actually. Can also be done with ham or salami as the meat. In fact I had this for lunch yesterday - salami with cream cheese wrapped around a kosher dill. Yum.
This is (almost) how my husband eats baloney. He’ll use just Worcestershire when we’re out of A1 and we don’t buy Heinz 57.
My husband eats this all the time. Vita makes it.
All that being said, is a peanut butter and dill pickles sandwich weird? That’s what I had for dinner last night.
In New York in June, you can get the fresh caught (unpickled) herring from Holland in a few places. It’s great with chopped onion, crumbled egg and a cold one (preferably Heinie’s or Grolsch). It’s one of those love-it-or-hate-it kinda things; many people can’t even stomach the thought of it for some reason.
Well, I tried to explain this to my friends, but they just couldn’t understand.
No, although some people were mildly worried about it. Funny how they were all over the sukiyaki (meat & veggies & noodles & tofu & other stuff, simmered in a big pot on the table, and then dipped into raw egg before eating). Although actually, that’s pretty good too.
One thing I absolutely refused to try: Ba-sashi. Raw horsemeat, a specialty of Kumamoto Prefecture. >shudder<
Atually, it’s originally a Dutch thing, but, yes, a lot of Jews and goyim alike delight in herring in a number of ways.
My contribution is either Vegemite on pretzels (for when a salt lick is too unwieldly) or fried chicken skin. Salted, peppered, and with either a shake of cayenne or a shot of hot sauce. I also like pork rinds with sour-cream based dip or as redneck bourgousie canapes, which are pork rinds topped with caviar and sour cream. Salty, crunchy and no carbs.
Herring is a basic Scandinavian/Baltic/Eastern European/Dutch thing.
Especially if it’s raw or pickled and eaten with onions, boiled eggs and rye bread.
Herring pickled in sherry is good, so too are rollmops (mackerel filets rolled around slices of onion and pickled in vinegar). I LIKE pickled fish, it’s yummy.