# Weird-Sounding Food That Is Surprisingly Good.

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 23, 2017, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-sounding-food-that-is-surprisingly-good/794449 "2017-08-23T11:22:57Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 27, 2017, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-sounding-food-that-is-surprisingly-good/794449/61 "2017-08-27T03:01:29Z")

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> [@Jim\_B](#):
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> Do any of the rest of you have examples of foods that sound gross, but are really not that bad? :):)🙂

Stuffed derma, or kishka. My grandmother made it the old fashioned way, with lots of schmaltz (chicken fat), and chopped onions, carrots, spices, in natural casing. Today it’s mostly made in a synthetic casing (not real intestines), with spices, veggies, and matzoh meal.

Still tasty, but nothing like my bubbe… 🙂 Oh, and weird to my taste, but now delis serve it with some kind of gravy!

Traditional recipe: [http://jewishlivingmedia.com/thejewishkitchen/recipe/stuffed-derma-kishka/](http://jewishlivingmedia.com/thejewishkitchen/recipe/stuffed-derma-kishka/)

More modern kishka: [https://www.washingtonpost.com/recipes/modern-stuffed-derma-matzoh-meal-spices-and-onions-kishke/15806/?utm\_term=.f0b53c88421a](https://www.washingtonpost.com/recipes/modern-stuffed-derma-matzoh-meal-spices-and-onions-kishke/15806/?utm_term=.f0b53c88421a)

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**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2017, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-sounding-food-that-is-surprisingly-good/794449/62 "2017-08-27T03:57:46Z")

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> [@RealityChuck](#):
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> I tried haggis last weekend. Turned out to be pretty good. Same for white pudding and black pudding.
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> I grew up eating beef tongue. I especially liked the texture of the pieces with the taste buds. Haven’t seen it in awhile, though.

Haggis is excellent. Black pudding showed up in my breakfast from time to time when I was in Scotland.

Cold sliced tongue is great for sandwiches.

Deli at the supermarket I used to work in back in the '70s had a blood-and-tongue sausage that was very good. They also had deep-fried chicken gizzards that I’d buy at least a couple times a month.

> [@SpoilerVirgin](#):
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> I do love eel – it’s my favorite sushi.

Mine, too!

> [@CelticKnot](#):
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> I love scrapple! I moved away from Maryland years ago and I won’t live there again, but if I ever visited, Scrapple would be on the breakfast menu. I have no idea where else you can get it, but not AZ, NM, or OK that I’ve ever seen.

Haven’t had scrapple in years – think I’ll look for some when I go shopping tomorrow. I’ve always associated it with the Pennsylvania Dutch.

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