Food that looks as disgusting as it sounds!

[Sakkarin Profile]

This week's challenge: find online and post a pic here of a dish that looks as disgusting as it sounds.

Here's my starter for 10 - in my Russian cookbook, I found a recipe for "Pickled Lampreys", which started with the not very appetising comment, "The culinary processing of a lamprey involves just a removal of the head and mucus which is sometimes poisonous". I had no idea what a lamprey was, but the dish looks like lots of very dead looking dark grey slugs on a bed of salad.

So I googled, and found this dish on the "food" section of the lamprey page.

Portuguese Lamprey Rice

[Badger's Mate Profile]

Wasn't there an English king who was supposed to have died from 'a surfeit of lampreys'?

Henry 1st iirc.

Wouldn't take too many by the looks of it!

[Sakkarin Profile]

I daresay he did, I am afraid based on that piccy my limit would be "none"!

Maybe they can be minced and made into a sausage for a less nauseating presentation?

[Joanbunting Profile]

This is a bit of a cheat really because some cooks make it look rather nice.

However I know a lot of people simply won't try because of the name and/or knowing that it is sheep feet and tripe! I adore it however

https://www.google.fr/search?q=photos+p ... -56ZKdvqVM:

[Sakkarin Profile]

Sounds absolutely delicious, feet in tripe!

As an added bonus, scroll down that page and for some reason they've got this piccy of a very strange looking delicacy. I wonder if that tastes as good as it looks...

[Sakkarin Profile]

Not many meals for which rabies is potential side effect! This contains the most disgusting ingredient so far (IMO), half-digested cow bile, which adds a grassy bitterness to the dish.

https://www.pri.org/stories/thai-dish-s ... t-kill-you

[Lusciouslush Profile]

what IS that ?!?!

Looks like a cross between a turtle/lizard & squid! Poor thing - imagine having that protuberance in front of your eyes all the time!

I can't think of anything really revolting at the minute - I'm sure I will tho' around 3am.

[Suelle Profile Website]

You can't really make tripe look attractive, even if you like the flavour, texture and smell - all of which, even the Tripe Marketing Board admit, can be off-putting.

Typical recipe:
http://www.foodtolove.com.au/recipes/to ... etta-22729

Tripe Marketing Board (I can't tell if this is genuine or a joke!):
http://tripemarketingboard.co.uk/

[Badger's Mate Profile]

Tripe Marketing Board (I can't tell if this is genuine or a joke!)

A challenge, more like

I enjoy tripe in many ways, milky with onions, various Eastern Europeans soups or stews (you can get it in jars in the Polish bit of supermarkets these days).

Charlie Chan's in Cambridge do a dim sum dish of ox stomach in hot sauce.

[jeral Profile]

Maybe tripe's saving grace is that it's not as bad as lamprey or bile grass. Oops. I forgot the first rule of Tripe Club: You DO NOT talk about Tripe Club.

Eating those duck embryos still in their shells always seem "just wrong" to me, quite irrationally probably.

[Lusciouslush Profile]

Just remembered - a bit of a cheat because I didn't actually see it, but on the menu at the place up in Chinatown we were at - it had 'Braised Hairtail in brown sauce' on the menu - I remember reading it outloud - my imagination was working overtime with that one - all these chinesers running around London wondering just who had nicked their hairtails

They also had duck blood in chilli sauce - I hope it was a sausage type of thing- 'twould be a bit messy otherwise!

[Petronius Profile]

I'm confused.com.

I thought lampreys were eel like creatures. Where does the tripe come from?

[jeral Profile]

Yes, they look eel-like (to me) but eel is a misnoma apparently; see link Sakkarin posted for a pic.

Lampreys were our starter for ten, to add to per thread heading. Unless I've got it wrong and tripe is really a fish

[Sakkarin Profile]

I just remembered the French Andouillette sausage, which I've never encountered, but remember reading that it basically smells of poo. A quick google brought up this account of someone trying it for the first time, which I found entertaining...

http://www.thegrubworm.com/2010/12/ando ... -of-death/

I will be passing on that one too.

I looked for a suitable piccy, and settled on this one. If it smells of poo, why not make it look like a backside...

[Joanbunting Profile]

Sakkers M just adores andouillettes, and this is a man who claims not to like tripe!
Our butcher makes wonderful ones we often cook them on the BBQ - funnily enough not many of the family agree. They prefer the merguez.

Something else even people who will eat snails in their shells with galic butter, find worrying is this more Provencal dish in which petit gris are removed from their shells and cooked served in individual dishes.

https://www.google.fr/search?q=&tbm=isc ... 6DET2Gq8tM:

[Lusciouslush Profile]

Funilly enough Andouillette was the first thing I thought of yesterday but it doesn't look bad, apart from that pic - and bullots more ugh!

[Badger's Mate Profile]

Someone on the old Beeb board, possibly Ian, used to describe andouillettes as 'turd-flavoured rubber', but I quite like them, albeit I agree the photo isn't entirely flattering.

I did some on a barbeque in the past and one of my mates reminded me of it a couple of weekend ago. He's still moaning about them twenty years later...

[Pampy Profile]

How about this? I first came across it when I went to live in Sardinia but never had the courage - or the slightest desire - to try it!
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=pictu ... HJjvvViRwM:

[Sakkarin Profile]

Oh dear, I remember that disgusting cheese now you've brought it up.

You go straight to the top of the chart, as I reckon anything that is alive when you eat it trumps anything that's dead and cooked.

Alive and extremely unpleasant, that is - I guess oysters can be eaten live, but never having eaten a raw oyster I can't comment.

[Suelle Profile Website]

I'm confused.com.

I thought lampreys were eel like creatures. Where does the tripe come from?

The title of the thread is 'Food that looks as disgusting as it sounds!'

Admittedly the word tripe isn't disgusting in itself, but almost everything else about the product is!

No connection at all to lampreys!