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b_b  ·  2646 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: January 25, 2017

Maybe it's too late to say this if you've been fantasizing for a couple decades, but I wouldn't expect too much from the haggis. I think it's an acquired taste, and I've eaten it few enough times that I definitely have not acquired it. Update us though. Maybe it was just me.





kleinbl00  ·  2646 days ago  ·  link  ·  

No experience with haggis, but lutefisk is every bit as vile as it's made out to be and repeat exposure does not diminish the repulsion.

b_b  ·  2646 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Haggis isn't revolting like I imagine lutefisk to be. It's just kind of gross. The texture is shitty; the taste is shitty; the thought that you're eating a stomach is shitty. Eating a weird part of the animal is fine if it tastes good (e.g. tripe or balls), but when it doesn't it makes the experience much worse. The first time I had it I was three sheets to the wind and threw up shortly after. It was probably unrelated to the haggis, but it still left a bad taste in my mouth.

kleinbl00  ·  2646 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Lutefisk is like if someone took the galvanized steel garbage can that the fishmonger uses without a liner and then filled it full of water and boiled grapefruit in it.

The grapefruit is the lutefisk.

It has an incongruous texture and an aggressively rotten taste.

With gravy.

arguewithatree  ·  2646 days ago  ·  link  ·  

This comment was a train wreck that just wouldn't stop

kleinbl00  ·  2646 days ago  ·  link  ·  

thundara  ·  2646 days ago  ·  link  ·  

First thought: sweet and condensed semen

Cumol  ·  2644 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I also thought about something sweet, like the bottom part of Knafe

OftenBen  ·  2646 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm from the culture that popularized the stuff, I love pickled herring, and even I think lutefisk is nasty garbage.

arguewithatree  ·  2646 days ago  ·  link  ·  

do you consider yourself an adventurous eater or no?

b_b  ·  2646 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yes. For an American.

arguewithatree  ·  2646 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well I thought it was fuckin delicious. Would eat again

OftenBen  ·  2646 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ever had menudo?

And was it the type of would eat again where you'll eat it if it's served, or will you go out of your way to eat more of it in the future?

arguewithatree  ·  2646 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Not yet but it's also on my list of weird things to eat