# That sounds gross - I'd like to try it sometime. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 10, 2013, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-sounds-gross-id-like-to-try-it-sometime/668519 "2013-09-10T19:42:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-sounds-gross-id-like-to-try-it-sometime/668519/1 "2013-09-10T19:42:18Z")
Semi-random wandering around Wiki led me to the page for [currywurst](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currywurst), which just sounds horrible to me. And now I want one! Ever have anything like that happen to you? See a food that is just all sorts of wrong and immediately hunger for it? ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-sounds-gross-id-like-to-try-it-sometime/668519/2 "2013-09-10T19:46:37Z")
Our family’s word for that is nasty, pronounced with a long /a/ sound. Curryworst sounds nasty. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-sounds-gross-id-like-to-try-it-sometime/668519/3 "2013-09-10T19:51:26Z")
currywurst is great stuff. Quality german sausage doused in a spicy curry sauce and dusted in curry powder (or smoky paprika…i’ve had both) serve with fries and a beer. Proper post-pub food (or Christmas market with a gluhwein) ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-sounds-gross-id-like-to-try-it-sometime/668519/4 "2013-09-10T20:24:06Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Ever have anything like that happen to you? See a food that is just all sorts of wrong and immediately hunger for it? Every single time I watch “Bizarre Foods” on the Travel Channel. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-sounds-gross-id-like-to-try-it-sometime/668519/5 "2013-09-10T20:28:01Z")
Deep fried … anything and everything. ---
**Author:** ![B.Serum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/b.serum/32/14266_2.png) [@B.Serum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/B.Serum)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-sounds-gross-id-like-to-try-it-sometime/668519/6 "2013-09-10T20:28:23Z")
Don’t knockwurst it before you’ve tried it. Currywust is awesome! [Plug](http://www.currywurstus.com) ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-sounds-gross-id-like-to-try-it-sometime/668519/7 "2013-09-10T20:41:10Z")
There’s a little hole-in-the-wall place in the East Village on First Ave called Wechsler’s that specializes in currywurst (and similar German fare). I wasn’t hugely impressed w/ the currywurst, but it went all right with a Radeburger–certainly nothing I’d classify as gross at all. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2013, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-sounds-gross-id-like-to-try-it-sometime/668519/8 "2013-09-10T21:12:01Z")
Fish tacos…until I tried one. ---
**Author:** ![Uther\_Penguin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Uther\_Penguin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uther_Penguin)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2013, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-sounds-gross-id-like-to-try-it-sometime/668519/9 "2013-09-11T02:31:31Z")
Honest question - what makes it sound gross? I don’t particularly like currywurst but it seems a very ordinary, regular type of food. Is it the fried sausage? The tomato based sauce? The curry powder? Together it tastes a bit like a “poor man’s goulash”. What I really dislike is the current macho fad of eating the currywurst impossibly hot. Many fast food joints and trucks offer a variety of hotter and hotter chili essences up to near lethal variants with a few fantastillions scovilles. Pure posturing, IMO. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2013, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-sounds-gross-id-like-to-try-it-sometime/668519/10 "2013-09-11T02:40:47Z")
We make currywurst here in the US all the time, but it doesn’t compare to one bought hot off the grill in a German park… ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2013, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-sounds-gross-id-like-to-try-it-sometime/668519/11 "2013-09-11T03:30:48Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Semi-random wandering around Wiki led me to the page for [currywurst](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currywurst), which just sounds horrible to me. And now I want one! Currywurst is pretty much the only time I’ll eat any kind of sausage with ketchup. So I can understand your revulsion. But, otherwise, it’s pretty pedestrian–just smoked sausage with curry ketchup, and a little extra curry powder to boot. It’s easy enough to make at home. ETA: Dammit, now _I_ want some. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2013, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-sounds-gross-id-like-to-try-it-sometime/668519/12 "2013-09-11T03:33:06Z")
The ketchup was the first thing, but the clincher is the curry. I really, really don’t like curry. But so many people love the dish that I feel compelled to try it at least once. ---
**Author:** ![Werekoala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7993a0/32.png) [@Werekoala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Werekoala)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2013, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-sounds-gross-id-like-to-try-it-sometime/668519/13 "2013-09-11T03:36:53Z")
Wasn’t real sure about the idea of boudin until I tried it. Yum! ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2013, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-sounds-gross-id-like-to-try-it-sometime/668519/14 "2013-09-11T03:37:50Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > The ketchup was the first thing, but the clincher is the curry. I really, really don’t like curry. But so many people love the dish that I feel compelled to try it at least once. Oh, well, if you don’t like curry, as in curry powder, then I can’t see you liking this. I mean, it’s still mostly ketchup, but it has the unmistakable taste of curry powder–that’s what makes the dish (and the ketchup palatable to me.) ---
**Author:** ![Kolga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e56c9b/32.png) [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2013, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-sounds-gross-id-like-to-try-it-sometime/668519/15 "2013-09-11T03:48:55Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Semi-random wandering around Wiki led me to the page for [currywurst](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currywurst), which just sounds horrible to me. And now I want one! I didn’t know that was the definition of currywurst. The locally-made currywurst I get at our farmer’s market has the curry powder actually in the sausage. They grill up heavenly. But I like curry, so YMMV. ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Downtown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Mr\_Downtown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Downtown)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2013, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-sounds-gross-id-like-to-try-it-sometime/668519/16 "2013-09-11T03:53:29Z")
I like currywurst, too, but I didn’t know the recipe was that simple. I have a big bottle of curry ketchup in the fridge, that I’ve been using on Tater Tots. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2013, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-sounds-gross-id-like-to-try-it-sometime/668519/17 "2013-09-11T04:23:04Z")
Anyhow, as to the OP, there’s nothing on my list right now, but I’ve certainly been drawn to certain foods based on a curiosity of “how exactly do those flavors work out.” One recent success was the Swedish dish, [the Flying Jacob](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Jacob), a casserole made of chicken, cream, peanuts, bananas, and bacon. One that didn’t work out so well is a tuna casserole from the 1936 Chicago Tribune. Here is just the list of ingredients: > [@](#): > > Sweet-Sour Tuna Casserole > > 2 7-ounce cans tuna > ⅔ cup raisins > 1 cup water > ⅓ cup chopped celery > ⅓ cup chopped sour pickles > ½ cup peanut butter > 2 tablespoons lemon juice > ½ teaspoon salt > 2 tablespoons butter > ⅓ cup crushed gingersnaps I tried. It did not transcend the sum of its parts, no matter how much the author insisted it would. That said, the recipe was reprinted about a decade later, so apparently it had its fans. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2013, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-sounds-gross-id-like-to-try-it-sometime/668519/18 "2013-09-11T04:35:21Z")
Currywurst is basically just a hot dog with ketchup, except that the ketchup is slightly spicy. It’s not at all unfamiliar to Americans. I’d really like to try haggis one of these times. Except that I don’t think it’s particularly gross. ---
**Author:** ![shantih](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f6c823/32.png) [@shantih](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shantih)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2013, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-sounds-gross-id-like-to-try-it-sometime/668519/19 "2013-09-11T11:28:20Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > Fish tacos…until I tried one. Double! I found the name vaguely offputting for the longest time. Fish tacos? Like, is the fish ground up like ground beef? That really doesn’t sound appetizing. Until I was feeling adventurous on our last summer vacation and fell _madly_ in love with them. MADLY. I ended up eating them three times in a week and a half at three different restaurants. Each was different from the others and each was its own special brand of heaven. MmmmmMMMMMmmmmm, fish tacos … And currywurst is its own special brand of awesome. I find ketchup repellent, but somehow I’ve had no issue with curry ketchup. Mind, I haven’t had it for a while now, but I do remember enjoying the experience. ---
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2013, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-sounds-gross-id-like-to-try-it-sometime/668519/20 "2013-09-11T11:36:32Z")
I had my first Currywurst a couple of months ago. It was good, but nothing special. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-sounds-gross-id-like-to-try-it-sometime/668519.md?page=2)