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What food or drink from your country is the least internationally appreciated?


The Scots have haggis, us Norwegians have brown cheese... The natives love it, everyone else either thinks it's nasty as hell or just nothing special. What are the things that people eat/drink and enjoy in your country, but go unappreciated when non-natives try them?

Here in the Philippines, Balut is a delicacy. It is a fertilized duck egg with a nearly-developed embryo inside that is boiled and eaten in the shell. Duck eggs that are not properly developed after nine to twelve days are sold as Penoy, which look, smell and taste similar to a regular hard-boiled egg. Most filipinos love it, but some can't stand the sight or texture of the duckling.
This delicacy is certainly not accepted or unappreciated in other countries specially in the US.

CoLOMBIAN chorizos- it's a sausage and is so delicious and unlike your typical sausages in the u.s. Also sweet banana with cheese in the middle. ohhhh you made me hungry

Rice with rasam and sambar(Rice and sambar are concoctions of spices, chillies and water in traditional South Indian cuisine). One has to mix them with the rice and then eat the rice with your palm. Foreigners and North Indians find it very strange.

I would have to say pickled bologna. It is popular in Kentucky but not in the rest of US. Personally, it is good.

I know you said internationally. What do you think is gross that Americans eat?

Puerto Rico - Taino
Well I would have to say it's a toss up between pig's feet and cuchifrito (misc. pig parts). Most people (non Puerto Ricans - latinos) turn green just by the description, but to those of us who love our Boricua food...it is delicious.

Nasi Lamak... Breakfast coconut rice with condiments... very Singaporean(Malay Ethnic) but not too well known.

hot dogs, cuz even we aren't sure whats in it.

I live in the SE US and we are rather fond of our grits. Chances are not only does the rest of the world not appreciate it, the rest of our own country doesn't appreciate it. I am from Mississippi and my husband is from Texas, he won't even try them.

And for anyone who doesn't know what grits are:
A ground, usually white meal of dried and hulled corn kernels that is boiled and served as a breakfast food or side dish.
You usually eat them with fried eggs or my daughter prefers them with cheese.

malaysia

DURIANS.. they taste like bananas, vanilla and caramel all in one.. who wouldnt like that?

Black-eyed peas and cornbread. What can I say, both of my parents are from Alabama. As for the person who posted that most people don't like grits.... you're just around the wrong people, because I love grits, honey. Old fashioned, though, not instant.

peanut butter and jelly sandwich

Here in Florida, boiled peanuts.

In Austalia we love meat pie and tomato sauce

Ciorba de burta

Is a Romanian soup (some in the Arad area say it must be eaten cold) based on quite a lot of yoghurt and/or cream and having inside stripes of cut stomach of cattle (at least I taste it so)

my ocuntry is famous for durians.. its a fruit tht taste like custard.. but non natives hate it cause its has a smell tht reaches miles

Borcht(not sure on the spelling) cold beet soup

El Salvador... I love popusas.... but most other peeps I know don't care for them much. . . They're so good though, especially when my ol' granny makes 'em with cheese, and cream and avocado smothered on top...

Chicken's feet. Steamed in a black-bean and soy sauce. It's very tasty, actually, but needless to say, the non-native Chinese are not very fond of it.

Our ballpark hot dogs.You just can't watch a game without one. They are as American as our apple pie!!

fried rice (in italy they call it risotto, -similar method-different spices)
oxtail soup wth carrot n potato
------a must menu in hotels
satay with peanut sauce
chicken soup with yellow clear broth with vermicelli n vegetables

Maryland blue crabs. That is a Baltimore past time in the spring and summer. Most people think that we are nuts! I almost forgot our potato chips with Old Bay seasoning! LOL!

Meat loaves and meat balls are too heavy.

jelly

Tripe Soup... boy do I love it!

Tripe Soup (Mondongo Criollo)

Dominican Republic

4 and 20 meat pie with sauce! YUM!

grits

i dont know but id never eat any thay u mentioned

well, i think for lotsa my penpals, they hate to eat 'durian' a fruit. the smell of it is quite strong. but i do not like it really much, but id eat till i drop once i eat it....

ACKEE AND SALTFISH...JAMAICA

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