Hey Foreigners! These are not a "delicacies" they're fücking sick!

[Alex]

If kimchee is worse than balut then balut can't be all that bad. Kimchee is good.

What I don't understand about the reaction to lutefisk is that people are appalled it is soaked in lye but then have no problem with hominy which is just corn soaked in lye (though Mexican hominy uses lime -- and I don't mean the citrus fruit).

[BarTopDancer]

Isn't kimchee just a cabbage or seaweed salad?

[Alex]

fermented cabbage (usually, like pickles technically it can be different vegetables but cabbage is the most common).

And it is a perfect example of why I don't say a food is gross if I haven't tried it. It should be gross but isn't.

[BarTopDancer]

Originally Posted by Alex

fermented cabbage (usually, like pickles technically it can be different vegetables but cabbage is the most common).

And it is a perfect example of why I don't say a food is gross if I haven't tried it. It should be gross but isn't.

That's good stuff!

[innerSpaceman]

Originally Posted by alphabassettgrrl

#5- sheep's head- not used to my food looking at me. I guess on the bright side it's not alive, but eewww. (emphasis added)

Hahaha, was that supposed to be a pun about sheep? If not, you got some inadvertent pun-gold going there.

[Capt Jack]

diggin some good kimchee. havent had any in ages.

as far as the lye...isnt that what they use to make black olives?

(the answer being yup )

[BarTopDancer]

Originally Posted by Capt Jack

diggin some good kimchee. havent had any in ages.

as far as the lye...isnt that what they use to make black olives?

(the answer being yup )

Lye or brine.

Originally Posted by Capt Jack's link

The fruit, naturally bitter, typically subjected to fermentation or cured with lye or brine to make it more palatable.

Green olives are allowed to ferment before being packed in a brine solution. American black ("California") olives are not fermented, which is why they taste milder than green olives.

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Originally Posted by Alex

And it is a perfect example of why I don't say a food is gross if I haven't tried it.

That reminds me of a line from George Carlin's "Fussy Eater" routine. When as a little boy he is asked by his mother why he doesn't like something he hasn't even tried, he has a couple different responses:

• It came to me in a dream!
• I know I don't like it and I know if I tried it, I would like it even less.

[LSPoorEeyorick]

Lye's also used for real bagels, yo.

[blueerica]

Word.