Post your horrible ethnic foods!

I don't know whether this is an Australian ethnic food, but it's someone's food, and we treat it like our own so...

Meat pies. This dish ostensibly consists of a pastry crust, possibly with a variety of toppings including mashed potato, cheese, mushy peas, or even pastry (!). It also contains a substance known as 'meat'. The trouble with THIS meat though, is that only something like 25% actually has to be meat. The rest is 'gravy' and a component commonly referred to as 'unknown'. This 'unknown' consists of mystery ingredients, most of which are unknown. It isn't unknown, however, for things like bits and pieces of veins and tendons to show up in the lower quality 'meat' pies, along with other delightful tidbits such as fat and gristle.

Yet we consume these pies like there is no tomorrow, probably because once you've had enough, there WILL be no tomorrow for you.

 

Yeah, we have that here. "Pie 'n' Mash" is a traditional cockney dish, and the pies are pretty much as you describe them. Generally served with mash (bet you didn't see that coming) with a green sauce called "vinegarette". I didn't mention this before, because I actually like the taste of it (or did before I gave up red meat).

 

Never heard about the hamster biting incident! What location was the bite inflicted? Um...Maybe I don't wanna know... ARMAGEDDON!!! ARMAGGEDON!!!!!!!!!!!!

Meat pie. We have that too. But we usually know what all the meat consists of.

 

Actually, I kind of like meat pies - although 9/10 times, they're home-made.

However, I did work in a meat pie factory once (put me off them for about 2 years). A lot of the mystery ingredient is usually starch-based products, such as potato paste and cereals, especially in the higher quality ones (the ones I eat if I eat ready-made ones). In the lower quality ones it tends to be ground-up offel, such as intestines, hydrolically-reclaimed meat (hence all the sinew, venous tissue and cartillage) and whatever is left after the animal has been fully used (like fat reserves).

Actually, the highest quality pies are wuite good for you and contain vertually no 'nasty' ingredients.

 

*KA-BOOM!*

*THUD!*

:rofl:

 

mmmmmmm potato paste

 

Oops, sorry about the spelling. I guess I should look at what I type before submitting my post... :roll:

 

Those meat pies sound exactly like what we call "Pot Pies" here in the US. The same dish that all those Heaven's Gate Cult members ate before they rode the comet.

I have another gross dish. It's not technically an ethnic dish unless you consider broke and drunk an ethnicity. It's called "Spa-ghetto".

• Spa-ghetto
  • One package of Vermicelli noodles
  • One bottle of Ketchup
  • Some hot dogs (not rotten), sliced into rounds

Tastes exactly the same going up as it does going down.

One "ethnic" dish that I and most pacific islanders would agree is delicious, but the whole rest of the civilized world seems to get grossed out by is: Fried SPAM slices with Rice. MMM MMM GOOD. I don't get why people find SPAM so disgusting. It's so salty and porky and gelatinous and pink.... glalallalrlrlalahahhggh. Fried and served up with hot steaming rice is a meal fit for a king.

 

The Pig thing with guts, blood, and everything else in it, and calling it chocolate sounds totally disgusting. Although, if one were starving on a mountain peak somewhere, it might be better than eating raw human flesh. But not by much, I'd wager. uke:

Some of the things I've read here sound interesting, like the cow brains in egg and flour, tongue, heart, and bull nuts. But the pig thing? I'd rather eat hot rat on a stick!!

Whatever happened to the good old "pot of ham & beans", or grandma's home-made chicken soup, hamburgers on the grill, nice rare grilled steak, boiled lobster, sauteed shrimp, or a platter full of steamer clams?????

Chocolate pig pudding. Sorry, not in this lifetime!!! :wink:

 

frog legs

 

and cooked snails uke:

 

Well, nothing, seeing as they never existed for me. Well, the grilled steak did, but I don't like them rare. Hamburgers my mum used to make. Too much damn onion though.

Fatman, what do you mean you gave up red meat? Red meat is good for you! If it tastes good, it is good! If it tastes bad, then chances it is good as well, but it tastes bad. So eat what tastes good and you can't go wrong¹!

Jasper, there is an edit function. Use it make additions to your posts, instead of posting twice. Or, better yet, get it right the first time!




¹Amateur nutritional advice is most likely inaccurate.

 

How true.... :x

 

There's no accounting for taste. I know the rest of the world isn't with me on this one, but I never particularly liked meat. I gave red meat up 11 years ago, and think it has been a good choice. For 9-10 of those years I smoked, which gave my arteries a hard enough time without pouring cholesterol over them too.

 

By giving up red meat, I assume you still eat chicken, fish and turkey?

 

i got one....... vegemite, peanut butter (smooth) and raspberry jam on wholemeal bread with lots of butter........ okay it's not really an "ethnic" food but it's "unique" at least and don't judge me till you at least try it, it's really quite tasty*




* may not be tasty unless you are REALLY stoned

 

Yep. Some people say "No food with a face", mine is more like no food with a nose.

 

mrnobodie, that is about the sickest idea for a sandwich I have ever heard. For starters, I don't like vegemite or peanut butter. I don't like butter with other condiments in a meal. Combining them all is just disturbing.

Here's a couple of strange ideas that actually taste good though:

Toast, add salsa, cheese, and then whack in the microwave until cheese melts...

Toast, baked beans, cheese, and then whack in the microwave until cheese melts...

Mmmm, tasty...

 

Omigod. Peanut butter. God's gift to man. I will eat a half a jar of peanut butter by itself. One good snack is a whole banana smeared with peanut butter.

 

You are sick and retarded, retard. I USED to like peanut butter (paste is a more accurate name, but sounds so childish) and vegemite, but I was turned off them when I was young, by encountering chunky peanut butter and getting a sore tooth while eating some toast with vegemite. The minds of children work in mysterious ways, but aversion techniques sure as hell work, and they work for life.