I'm Craving Head Cheese

by snowbird 155 Replies latest social entertainment

  • snowbird
    snowbird

    Blood sausages look like bloated leeches.

    All of a sudden, my craving has left.

    No, I didn't know that about hamsters.

    Sylvia

  • snowbird
    snowbird

    Bloaters are large mackerel or herring that have been lightly salted and smoked.

    Sylvia

  • hamsterbait
    hamsterbait

    Where does the word "bloaters" come from?

    Is it that the bodies bloated with gas during the preservation process?

    Talking of preserved fish - has anybody tried the preserve of herring from norway.

    It is left in barrels to ROT. The stench is awful but taste divine. Rather like the fungus that looks like steak, smells of poo when you cook it but tastes of stewed apples.

    HB

  • Dagney
    Dagney

    This is the funniest thread.

    You guys are a riot...I've learned so much!!

  • Gregor
    Gregor

    I have tried Lutefisk, the Norwegian rotten fish the consistancy of pudding. Only if I were starving to death in a snowbound cabin and did not have a gun to shoot myself with would I eat it.

  • snowbird
    snowbird

    I've read about lutefisk and surstromming - one person said they smell like fresh horse dung!

    I don't know why they're called bloaters, Hamster.

    Maybe because their bellies are bloated?

    Sylvia

  • White Dove
    White Dove

    I have never tried head cheese nor chitterlings. Love bacon flavored scrapple, though! I slice it thin and fry it to a crisp like bacon, then dip it in my sunny side up eggs. YUMMY!

  • beksbks
    beksbks

    Snow! Head cheese is so last week! Give us a new food thread!

  • Priest73
  • Dagney
    Dagney

    Eeeeeshhhh, I actually remember an Awake! article on Lutefisk, with gory details on how to prepare it!

    Beks, this thread is going for a record!

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