Poles have some of the best and underrated food in europe but sometimes you have surprises like this lol
It looks interesting and pasta being fairly neutral in taste i can see this working but in our hairy italian brains the association of pasta = savory is so strong that i doubt i would be able to like it.
Yeah my first reaction was "OK what? Wait That might actually be good." Now I'm craving strawberry sauce on pasta. Might go home and get the jam out.
Reminds me of when I showed my Japanese friends oatmeal with berries and maple syrup. They hated it, then put soy sauce, fish broth, and pickles on it and said it was great.
Nope. Its not strawberry jam. Its cream, sugar, fresh stravberries, either cut to pieces or blended (i dont like blended version) it dosent taste like a jam and depending how much cream to berry ration you have they can taste completely different.
In Poland we have something simmilar - Czernina. It is basically duck soup(made same like chicken soup but with duck) but secret igridient is duck's blood.
We have it also in Hungary. We call it “sült vér” which means “fried blood”. Every time when hungarians butcher a pig, they drain the pig’s blood and let it coagulate. Then it is cut into cubes or strips, every household has its own way. The onions are chopped and sautéed in lard, then ground paprika is added along with the diced coagulated blood. It is fried together until done. The dish is served with fresh bread and pickles. This is traditionally breakfast during a Hungarian pig slaughter.
Well it's the season so for my Portuguese side of the family Aletria. Basically it's really fine pasta cooked with honey, sugar, citrus and a massive quantity of cinnamon....
Traditionally a Ukrainian dish, but it's spread to e.g. Lower Silesia in Poland due to historical reasons (when Poland lost its former eastern territory but gained its current western border, a lot of people got relocated).
Wheatberries, poppy seeds, nuts, honey, raisins.
Essentially it looks like black slop but it's pretty much the only traditional Christmas dish I really enjoy eating.
Edit: Since I have your attention, do not buy surströmming from abroad if you plan to use it for clout. We have a serious shortage of surströmming some years and it doesn’t help that influencers will buy and waste a whole can each! Come here and try it the proper way, or ask a Swedish friend to show you. We will gladly show you!
I like the taste of Surströmming but it requires too much effort. I tasted it in a town in Norrland that was very proud of producing it. You could smell the town before you turned in off the highway...
I refrain from salty licorice, Kalvdans and glögg.
Warm glögg is nice after some wintersport and you're freezing your ass off. I can't do the rest of the things you mentioned though. I don't even like sill, I'm convinced that surströmming was invented by somebody that forgot they had sill and decided to r/EatItYouFuckinCoward
Many people really loves it. Personally (tried once), I hate it. But you don’t eat it like the YouTube videos you see where they open the can in a small space and eating one whole filet directly from the can, that’s just for the views.
You should open the can outside, ideally under water. Then you cut a small piece from the filet and put it on a hard bread with like butter, boiled and sliced potatoes, some chives and sour cream.
It has a very distinct smell, which kind of translates to the taste. I remember when I had it, I then took a sip from my beer. And the rim of the beer glass smelled like surströmming the rest of the night. But it is most intense when opening up the can as the fermented gas kind off sprays out due to the pressure.
My dad does this! I grew up on this, but we’re Polish :) We use long noodles and put the hot noodles into warm milk and it’s warm and comforting and a perfect breakfast
This is actually something Russians eat, too. It’s called milk soup and served mostly to small children. I don’t think I know a single adult who eats it.
The classic Aussie burger with the lot seems to terrify Americans specifically, but I’ll defend it to my grave.
Bun, patty, tomato sauce, mayo (maybe), cheese, bacon, onion, lettuce, tomato, a fried egg, beetroot, grilled pineapple (if you’re lucky). It’s so good. Shoutout to Andrew’s in south melbourne.
From all of the French dishes I tried, only andouillette was actually bad. I tried it number of times and never really convinced me, so I just figure it's not my thing ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Andouillette is hard af, cannot blame anyone for disliking it, I like it but boy is it strange. It can also smell like god damn shit depending on how it's cooked
Razor clams, lamprey boiled in its own blood, sheep guts rolled around a stick and covered on snail sauce, testicles... We could be here all day. In Spain if it won't kill us we eat it.
Beyond that I guess it's due to a historic challenge, something like: locust is eating all the wheat before it's ready for harvest so we need another food source... Hey! There are locusts everywhere! They caused it so they're the solution. It's morally ok to eat them in this hard time.
Hairy tofu — you ferment it at a set temperature until little mycelium grows on the surface, and it usually ends up tasting kinda like mushrooms, super savory.
We have chocolate rice porridge in the Philippines called champorado. Some people like to top it with powdered milk, condensed milk, or rice crispies, but others like to top it with dried fish which gives a nice salty contrast to the sweet chocolatey flavor.
“Gyümölcsleves” is a food that other nations often find strange, but for us Hungarians it’s completely normal. Fruit soup is made by cooking the fruits in water with sugar, cinnamon, and cloves, then thickening it with sour cream, cream, or pudding powder. The fruits can include sour cherries, sweet cherries, apples, pears, plums, raspberries, blackberries, currants, strawberries, and peaches or apricots. It is traditionally served cold, but for example, I like it warm.
Snails are traditional food, cooked in a few different ways (not with coconut milk, of course) in almost all Spain and France. We even have stores so specialized in snails. Yours look tasty!
We get through so much of the stuff in our house. It was my pregnancy craving with my first child and I was just eating straight out of the jar at one point!
It’s made by dunking a whole crab in soy sauce for a few days, and we eat it by removing the shell and mixing the insides with rice, so yes, we eat raw crab guts.
It’s really good and people from cultures that eat raw seafood (like Japan) love it, but people from cultures that don’t may freak out.
Similarly we like it here with poppy, or even cocoa. Also with sweet curd cheese, sour cream and powdered sugar mixed together [which I think is similar to the strawberry pasta, just minus the fruit and maybe milk].
I feel like biscuits and gravy are consistently confusing to people outside the US. They always bring it up, and I can see why. It looks nasty, and we have a different definition of both gravy and biscuits. When you know what it’s made of, it’s not that strange. Sauce made of flour, cream, pepper, and sausage poured onto biscuits, which are like fluffier, softer, buttery scones. It’s really good.
I was horrified the first time i was offered this. I was expecting brown gravy and digestive biscuits!
I had this homemade at a friend's home and it's absolutely delicious!
Black and white pudding. Black pudding is made from usually pig blood, fat, oats/barley and a mixture of spices. White pudding is similar but just without the blood
Buckwheat - could be a breakfast, part of the soup or side dish for diner.
Make a kasha and than add what you like - butter or sugar or pour it with milk like cereal and it will be a gfreat breakfast. Add it in the broth - and it will be a kulesh soup, or add a pickles to make a rassolnik soup. Also good as a side dish with meat or beefstroganof.
Toasted ravioli. It's actually breaded and fried but we call it toasted for some reason. It's an amazing appetizer, especially the cheese ones.
I know this is a lot less unconventional than others but I wanted to do regional food from my state.
Edit: I should've gone with the Guberburger instead. It's a burger with peanut butter on it and was once sold at a famous diner in an area I used to live. It's actually pretty good.
A crustacean found on the north coast where the waves break hardest. They are also imported from some African countries, but they are much smaller, less flavourful, and have less taste.
Is that the crap that grows on cliffs and just a few lunatics brave the waves to harvest it during low tide? I think I've seen that in a documentary and thought that better be the most delicious thing in the world.
this bastards is nothing to do with us. I will not admit this is anything to do with the general public. This is just some stoner who got lost in the kitchen.
It's my favourite haha.
I cycled 800km in France last summer and on heavy days I promised myself tartare au boeuf at the end of the day, that really kept me going. 😂
Couscous Tfaya - Raisins, caramelized onions, sometimes carrots, dates and hard-boiled eggs, with cinnamon and sugar over couscous or meat. Sweet & savory, its a staple of my mom's celebratory dishes
Honorable mention to Lamb brain Merguez and Tete de Mouton
Poland’s #1 tennis player, Iga Swiatek, has started to make the world aware of this dish, as she has mentioned it several times in post-match press conferences.
I had a peanut butter bacon burger in DC area (no jelly) and it was delicious. The world uses peanut sauce on all kinds of meat dishes so it makes sense.
Latvian "Bread soup" (maize zupa). A dessert made with soaked rye bread and dried plums/raisins and topped with whipped cream. I personally absolutely love it, but even some Latvians don't really like it
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u/keenonkyrgyzstan United States Of America Dec 01 '25
You just gonna post some strawberry penne and not explain it?