# Unusual foods you've recently tried for the first time **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [October 19, 2022, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-foods-youve-recently-tried-for-the-first-time/973477 "2022-10-19T07:47:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 13
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2022, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-foods-youve-recently-tried-for-the-first-time/973477/13 "2022-10-19T20:30:42Z")
I imagine there are parts of the US where kimchi is very much a workaday sort of thing, but in the UK it’s somewhat unusual. I like it; I gather that the South Korean leader has been quoted as saying that when he travels he misses kimchi more than his wife\*. I didn’t like it _that_ much. We’ve been experimenting with Turkish breads - we have a nice new local shop and there’s a great stall on Shoreham Market. My favorite is [gözleme](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6zleme), a stuffed unleavened bread. The wiki suggests that it could come stuffed with pretty much anything; the market stall version has spinach, potatoes, cheese and an allium - I would guess leek, maybe onion as well. Doesn’t sound too inspiring, but it’s particularly moreish. And then there are medlars - an ancient fruit that you have to blet (rot, essentially) before you eat them. I started [a thread about them](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coelacanth-jam-a-thread-to-update-the-medlar-chronicles/924830). Once you get over the thing about eating rotten fruit, they’re delicious, like a citrus fig. I bought a tree, and (fingers crossed) should have nice little crop this year (year two). j \* - he was joking --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unusual-foods-youve-recently-tried-for-the-first-time/973477)._