I got to taste some fermented sheep the other day that my Faroese housemate got from her home country. I actually rather liked it and thought it tasted and smelled like very mature cheese (my Danish housemate however thought it smelled "wrong" and proceeded to open the door to vent out, not caring how much frost she let in)
However, I got a bit concerned when she told me you can't buy it in stores, so if you want it you have to make it yourself...
@NeinNeinNein9 sir, you do know as New Zealand, i am his family pet (as in i am the pet of England, Australia, America, and Canada, including the sister countries) and with New South Wales as my kid, it'd be like eating your own grandson. so..... ;-;
@elj78 *when you're trying to get you're fellow sheep and kiwi's ready for battle, but the sheep, who are peaceful creatures, keep getting teased by the tougher kiwis* ತ,_」ತ
Something to note is that most of these delicacies are only possible because of the particular climates of these countries, if you tried to make fermented sheep in say, England, you'd just get rotten meat.
I wonder who inveted this food, where they like: "Oh my, it looks like my belly is making the rumblies again, but I can't see any reliable food sources in my proximity. All I can find is this sheep that has been rotting for days with maggots crawling all over it, and this big, gigantic, collosal, massive, huge, full sack of salt. Oh well, here goes I guess..."
@ManBear Those things are invented, how all lokal "specialities" where invented (according to a theory of mine). People where poor and starving!!!
How else do you explain Haggis, Kale and Brain-Sausages etc. ?
@ManBear Desperation has probably been the source of numerous recipes throughout the centuries. Though I'm still trying to figure out how people were persistent enough to find a safe way to eat fugu.
@ShoggothOnTheRoof
Decadence... The eternal race of Putting Something Special on the Table for the Bored. If it's actually dangerous, all the better.
In the case of Fugu, its actually quite easy to prepare the fish so that it's not dangerous, just make sure you don't hit bits with the knife. Which anyone who's ever cleaned out a chicken should know.. *DON'T* nick the gall bladder... ( won't kill you, but the taste.... ugh..) .
The "art" of Fugu is making it *just poisonous enough* that you feel it tingling on your tongue, without any further harm. Not my thing, but ymmv if youre going for a dare, and can afford it.
@LawOfTheSeas bah, don't worry i'm still here :>If The Faroes DID kill me, you can bet my children (being their mother and all), Wales (being his wife and all), and England, Australia, America, and Canada (being their family pet and all) and my bro would of beaten his ass into the ground and so much worse, then probably to Denmark and all the other countries under Denmark's rules as revenge :>
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that fills me with disgust.
She, though, likes the putrid taste;
her stomach's quite robust.