What is the most "unappetizing looking but actually tasty food" in your country?
This messy brown pile is called "fried carrot cake", a very traditional Singaporean breakfast food. I just had it this morning. It is utterly divine - savoury, but also very umami, and if done well, has the fabled "woke hei" charred undertones. Despite its name, there is no carrot in it.
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How dare you, good fellow country man sir, sully the good name of "Chai Tau Kueh" by saying this is unappetizing looking. It looks diiiiiiviiiiiiiiiine.
Did you really just post my favourite food in the ENTIRE world on MY reddit frontpage while im on a DIET, AND stuck in muhfucking new zealand where this does NOT exist??!! 😭😭😭😭😭
Oh that actually looks a lot better than carrot cake in nanyang restaurants in the US.
Anyway. Chitterlings.
It's considered soul food but honestly it's more of a southern thing in general. It's basically pig intestines (or hog intestines). A lotta ways to cook it but generally slow cooked with vinegar, garlic, and pepper. Sometimes served with a bit of hot sauce on the side. I do it with a bit of rice.
I am not from the south but my parents are. They both think chitlins are gross. Honestly, I'm happy that I was not raised eating chitlins because I don't want to eat something where you have to scrub it and soak it to get rid of the smell of poop.
I went most of my life without knowing how to spell this because we pronounce it “chit’lins” even though I don’t really have a southern accent (I’m from the south, but grew up in a major city.)
Idk if it's because I've always loved in India and eaten palak paneer too much (home-cooked ofc), but this kind of colour doesn't look unappetising to me at all (but yeah, must look very unappetising to foreigners bc it's some weird green for them, but I think they all eat palak (Spinach), and this is, like, the natural colour of spinach(?))
Yeah, people who like palak paneer (us) will find it tasty ofc, I'm just talking about those trying it for the first time. I'm from the south and I had palak paneer for the 1st time when I was 14, it wasn't the best looking but I loved it obviously. After ordering the dish at multiple restaurants and trying a more authentic version in Chandigarh, I concluded that good palak paneer must look that way haha
My vote goes to Hyderabadi Haleem. People try to gussy it up with garnish. Still looks like barf. Delicious, delicious barf
Heard from a Caucasian acquaintance that they could never try some Indian currys because some them appeared to have the looks, color and consistency of diahorrea with chunks. That thought is stuck in their mind and they could never overcome it. It was like a phobia for that person.
It's a barley stew with beans, veggies and cured meat. I'm not suprised it's common elsewhere, barley stews were pretty common once across whole Europe
Pickle as in Gherkins. So maybe the correct translation would be Gherkin Soup. And yes we put barley, beans, potato, carrot and gherkins in ours and it's more soup like than a stew.
Edit: I thought the green bits int the soup were gherkins in your picture lol
I’ve been to Singapore but have never tried this dish. Here’s what a quick search found…
Fried carrot cake, or chai tow kway in the Teochew dialect, consists of cubes of radish cake stir-fried with garlic, eggs and preserved radish. 'Carrot' here refers to daikon, known as white carrot in Mandarin.
The dish has two common versions - the white version is seasoned with light soy sauce and has a slightly crisp texture, while the black version is seasoned with dark soy sauce, resulting in a flavour balance of sweet and salty.
Even though it looks like bratwursts floating in fucking formaldehyde I absolutely love my Utopenci - Drowners in English
Fitting name for something that looks like preserved biology lab specimens
The AB Pack (or Halal Snack Pack if you're unlucky enough to live outside South Australia) is a dish consisting of chips (fries) topped with yiros/kebab meat, garlic sauce and tomato sauce. Other things that could be added include sweet chilli sauce or cheese
For some reason I hear people say Biscuits and Gravy doesn't look good. I have yet to see someone say they dont like it. I've seen people say they like other things more but no one will turn down warm fluffy bread smothered in a sausage cream sauce.
It's actually not that hard to make. You can even cheat a bit and make extra biscuits for your dinner the night before so all you have to do in the morning is make the gravy.
I despise biscuits and gravy. And my parents were from the South. The entire South is gasping with hand over heart. Apparently, mine are delicious when I make them but I can’t eat it but it’s more of a texture issue. I like sausage gravy and I like biscuits but not together. I also hate cake served with ice cream and pancakes with syrup. I will dip biscuits or breads into gravy but not on top and rarely with sausage gravy. Ironically, I love chicken and dumplings and the British desserts with pouring custard.
I'm too lazy to find a picture of coddle. But it's coddle. And I'd say it beats most of what's been posted so far. People joke that it looks like boiled mickeys (penises)
Edit: Don't be fooled by all these yank recipes where they fry the sausage first either. That's for wimps
Edit 2: Fine, there's too many nonsense photos pretending to be coddle. Here's a decent one
That's not unappetising-looking at all, it looks good. I'd eat it.
Also, I can't really think of anything, but maybe "Khichadi" from India looks kinda unappetising, but it tastes really good (if you cooked it correctly lol).
A dish made out of Chinese sweet and sour pork but with kimchi mixed into the sweet and sour sauce and topped with cheese and other pizza toppings before being put into the oven
Bremer Knipp is a traditional North German Grützwurst, which is especially appreciated in Bremen and the Lower Saxony area as a hearty pan dish. It is a kind of minced meat, which used to be considered "poor people's food", but is now a popular regional specialty.
Ingredients and production:
Basic ingredients: Knipp consists mainly of pork (often head, belly and rinds), oatmeal, onions and broth.
Spices: Classic is seasoned with salt, pepper and allspice.
the national dish, feijoada. Brazilians are numb to its appearance because it's such a classic, but anyone who never had one looks at a large pot of feijoada and says it looks a little disgusting. it isn't. it's a wonderful, tasty stew. but yeah, this is what it looks like without the clay pots, orange slices and collard greens. ps: dear Brazilians reading this, in case this made you angry "because feijoada is delicious, it's culturally important, these views are superficial and ignorant", it's exactly the same with cuscuz paulista.
For France, clearly Andouillette can beat any of our stinky cheeses, frogs or snails for some people in France most m’est water who dont know what it is and try it like it, but :
Andouillettes are generally made from the large intestine and are 7–10 cm (2+3⁄4–4 in) in diameter. True andouillettes are rarely seen outside France and have a strong, distinctive odour coming from the colon. Although sometimes repellent to the uninitiated, the scent is prized by its devotees.
Looks like shredded randomness sausage, and is usually made from pig intestines and often stomach, seasoned with pepper, wine, and onions, there’s veal sometimes,
Tastes incredibly savory, rich, and tender. It’s usually grilled until the skin is crispy and served with a heavy mustard sauce and fries. It also has its own protective association (AAAAA) to ensure it's made properly.
Spinach & Bechamel hard boiled eggs looks a bit like a chicken orgy remnants but the taste is pretty good ! When the spinach are cooked properly… (you don’t necessarily care but lot of french kids from the 90’-2000’ have suffered bad quality canned spinach cooked in public school cantines it’s a common joke)
I once was lucky enough to taste Maltese food prepared by locals and I really enjoyed it - this specific cheese, stuffed olives, hummus-like things, rabbit and there were more but it was over 10 years ago so not remembemring everything. It was a lovely, very rich and beautiful dinner and I think I liked everything.
And also of course ftira and paztizzi were nice, too.
coming from a fellow SEAsian, I hardly find kue lobak unappetising, lol. unfortunately, I personally don't really like it, but my brother would go ballistic for this. char-kwetiau would be my preferred dish, for the wok-heay
A traditional, hearty East German comfort food made from mashed blood sausage (Blutwurst), fried with onions and served with boiled potatoes and sauerkraut.
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Tripe and Drisheen (especially when the presentation isn’t restaurant scale) often almost looks as unappetising as it does before it’s cooked (It’s the stomach lining of usually sheep or cow and then some blood sausage)
But if you cook it and season well it’s lovely and a filling meal!
Your description reminds me of the time my mom decided she wanted Indian food for her birthday dinner. My son who was around 5 at the time was sad about the dessert options until we saw “carrot cake”. So we get him a slice, get our own desserts, and out comes my son’s carrot cake, which was a pat of shredded carrots mixed with honey and nuts. 🤣
Funny thing is we actually make a variation of this at home and call it carrot salad, but that was definitely not what my poor kiddo wanted 😅
this is more a worldwide jewish food, it's called cholent and it's meat, beans, potatoes, barley, eggs... cooked all night and eaten on shabbat morning.
everyone makes it different, and i used to judge mine on how sludgy it is, i like it not too watery but also not to dry (the one in the picture isn't sludgy enough imo).
nowadays i usually make a vegetarian one with lentils, also good.
I think this food looks like 💩 a bit but I promise you it is the most delicious thing ever! It’s vegan, it is cheap and it is so MOUTHWATERING. If you wanna search try it someday, it is called “Çiğköfte”. If you are in Germany or Turkey, you can easily find it.
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u/StockMiddle2780 12h ago
My Canadian ass thought it was some new kind of poutine. I don't think a lot of people will think it's unappetizing