Mmmm mmmm

Edited April 19, 201411 yr by yamaha_man

Mmmm mmmm

Pass.......

But i do like to see people enjoying dutch cuisine

Cant do Rollmops ... but no problems doing anchovies & capers in oil

Being half Swedish I was practically raised on these things......love em'

Surströmming on the other hand I cannot touch (search YouTube for people opening tins of this stuff to see what I mean)

Love 'em

Lol hadn't heard of either of these. Look at these guys dry-reaching upon opening the can! 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vEl6Ey8Gdc

Nup!

Oh, i thought it was a euphemism! ... or you were asking if anyone way from Denmark or thereabouts...

Edited April 19, 201411 yr by rab

nope 

 

but hehe did a google on Surströmming

 

came up with this ....

 

Surströmming (Fermented herring) Let me just state from the beginning, Surströmming is NOT my favorite food (even though it is from my country). You leave a huge amount of slightly "under-salted" (at least for tinning) herring in a wooden barrel for a couple of months. The result is that it starts to ferment. The smell (much worse than the taste) is like rotten egg, but the taste is like something fermented/rotten and salty. You can NOT open the tin that the "fish" is packed in after the fermentation process (that is bulging) indoors. You have to do that outdoors, in a plastic bag or under water!! Eaten with potatoes, bread, onions and "gräddfil" (curded cream) and a strong hard cheese. This is a course more popular in northern Sweden, but I'm afraid that some people as south as Stockholm it this crap (not counting people with heritage in the northern part of Sweden).
Don't try it, don't even get close to it. It might be fun though to try to import a tin or two just to see what the custom people in your country would do with it, I'd love to see their faces when they open the tin.
(Another Report) The most disgusting thing I've ever attempted to eat in my life must go to a Swedish dish called Surstromming, translated into English as 'fermented herring.' Now, surstromming is something that I often heard mentioned by friends, "Hey, Bob, have you eaten surstromming yet, hah hah hah?" I knew that it was fermented fish and that eating it would be a challenge but, having eaten all sorts of weird seafood when I lived in Spain, I was determined to give it a go.
One day, just around lunchtime, I was shopping in my local supermarket when I came across a tin of the stuff. "Well, now seems as good a time as any," I thought, and popped it into my shopping basket. When I got back home, I put it in the middle of the kitchen table and took a tin opener out of the drawer. Now, what no one had told me was that fermenting builds up quite a lot of pressure inside the can and that you should always cover a surstromming can with a cloth before you open it. The other thing I didn't know is that surstromming is usually eaten outdoors.
I leaned over the tin and just at the moment I pierced it, there was a hissing sound and then a fountain of juice shot into the air and spattered the left lens of my glasses - thank goodness I was wearing glasses; I hate to think what it could have done to my eye. Then, the air in the room was filled with a stench that was reminiscent of a public toilet that hadn't been cleaned for 20 years. I picked up a piece of the fish on my fork, held my breath, screwed up my eyes and placed it into my mouth.
Can you imagine how a solidified lump of surgical spirit would taste? Well, that's the feeling I had as it burned into my tongue. I rushed over to the kitchen sink, spat it out, coughed a lot, and drank several glasses of water. Then I went back to the table, tied up the can in 3 plastic bags and dumped it in the garbage. Some of the juice had spilled onto the plastic tablecloth, so I wiped it up with a dishcloth, opened the window to get rid of the stench and then left the room.
When I went back into the kitchen 10 minutes later, I beheld the most nauseating thing I've ever seen in my whole life. The room was full of flies - about forty of them and they were just going absolutely crazy, charging all around the room at supersonic speed, bouncing off one wall, then bouncing off the opposite one. I put my handkerchief over my mouth (the fact that I didn't throw up was close to miraculous), ran over to the window and closed it. I then ran for some fly spray and just sprayed continuously for over a minute. Then I left the room and waited for about 10 minutes. Finally, I looked back in - all the flies were lying on the floor. I got the vacuum cleaner out of the room and swiftly disposed of the remains.
Sweden has some nice dishes. I loved pytt i panna, Janssons frestelse, and pickled (as opposed to 'fermented' herring) washed down with Swedish schnapps is a wonderful treat. But as for surstromming... well, enough said. (This came from Bob Jones' website at tradisjoner.no. For more items about surstromming, see Surstromming and Surstromming)

 

 

re rollmops, I worked for quite some years in a supermarket going through school and uni...and the rollmops...we used to put a carton out on the shelves...then time would go buy and then we'd notice they were past their useby date, we'd chuck the bottles in the bin and replace wiht another carton....and so the same would go on ...year upon year  very ocassionally we would notice a bottle gone....we did the same with the vegan sausages and tofu something or the other we also had....things am sure changed these days

Being half Swedish I was practically raised on these things......love em'

Surströmming on the other hand I cannot touch (search YouTube for people opening tins of this stuff to see what I mean)

Hej!

I grew up in Sweden and love all things pickled, cured, salted, smoked etc etc.

Not to mention salty liquorice and all the other weird and wonderful things from that part of the world.

Mum used to make her own rollmops.

Delicious.

Never tried surströmming though and have no intention of doing so.

Edited April 20, 201411 yr by Dirty_vinylpusher

Rollmops?

Only at Oktoberfests in my youth before going on the "Big dipper" 

"Look out below!!" 

Being half Swedish I was practically raised on these things......love em'

Surströmming on the other hand I cannot touch (search YouTube for people opening tins of this stuff to see what I mean)

I have seen an episode of Hamish and Andy.

Where they challenged each other by finding hard to eat items of food.

Offcourse this came along....

Will be getting some for a Eurovision party

Not to mention salty liquorice and all the other weird and wonderful things from that partof the world.

 

 

Yeah, the salty liquorice was enough of a surprise for me, so pass on this stuff. 

 

The local women are friendly though, but that's for another time and place...

The local women are friendly though, but that's for another time and place...

That thread got locked

Yes , have been known to enjoy them and salt licorice is a favourite .

Pass.......

But i do like to see people enjoying dutch cuisine

Typical Dutchie.

Thinks they invented everything :lol:

Typical Dutchie.

Thinks they invented everything :lol:

But we did invented everything 8-)

In sure of it.... Lol....

Have a look at the glass jar in the first post.

It clearly says holland....

Yes, It does say Holland. :-)

That thread got locked

 

I feel like I'm walking on egg shells every post I make nowdays...

Lol hadn't heard of either of these. Look at these guys dry-reaching upon opening the can!

Haha that's funny.

The big fella didn't seem too bothered though.

But you know it's bad when this guy says it's bad...

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BzB203OjU-M

Edited April 21, 201411 yr by Dirty_vinylpusher

Being half Swedish I was practically raised on these things......love em'

Surströmming on the other hand I cannot touch (search YouTube for people opening tins of this stuff to see what I mean)

 

I am partial for the odd rollmop. I've also tried the salty Dutch licorice.

 

We were quite friendly with some Dutch neighbours when I was a kid, so that probably explains it.

 

I am unfamiliar with Surstromming though (if I'd ever tried that, I'm sure the experience would have been etched in my memory!).

 

According to a Japanese study, a newly opened can of surströmming has one of the most putrid food smells in the world, even more so than similarly fermented fish dishes such as the Korean Hongeohoe or Japanese Kusaya.

 

Mmmm, sounds like something I should try one day.

 

 

These hard lollies are the go.

 

Salty, peppery licorice.

Yum..

 

 

 

From Wiki:

 

 

Tyrkisk Peber (Danish for "Turkish Pepper", often referred to as "Turkinpippuri" in Finland, "Tyrkisk pepper" in Norway, "Turkisk peppar" in Sweden and "Türkisch Pfeffer" in Germany) is a strong liquorice candy flavored with ammonium chloride (salmiakki) and pepper, made by the Finnish company Fazer and popular in Scandinavia.

Tyrkisk Peber was originally invented by Per Fjelsten, his wife's name was Elly, therefore the company name Perelly, in 1976 ^[1][2] and made by the Danish company Perelly, which was taken over by Fazer.

 

The basic variant is a large, hollow round shell both coated and filled with salmiakki powder. It is sold in dark blue bags.

The Tyrkisk Peber product family has later expanded to include the "Hot & Sour" (a milder variant of the traditional design, produced in four different flavours) and "Bonfire" (soft, much milder candies) bagged variants, as well as lollipops and filled licorice.

 

There has also been a chili flavored version and a strongly licorice-flavored version with less of the ammonium chloride and peppercorn flavoring, but these have since been discontinued. The licorice-flavored variant can still be found as one of the flavors in the “Hot & Sour†bags, though. Tyrkisk Peber ice cream is sold by Hjem-IS/Kotijäätelö in Norway, Finland, Sweden and Denmark.^[3]

 

Edited April 22, 201411 yr by Dirty_vinylpusher

I am partial for the odd rollmop. I've also tried the salty Dutch licorice.

 

We were quite friendly with some Dutch neighbours when I was a kid, so that probably explains it.

 

I am unfamiliar with Surstromming though (if I'd ever tried that, I'm sure the experience would have been etched in my memory!).

 

According to a Japanese study, a newly opened can of surströmming has one of the most putrid food smells in the world, even more so than similarly fermented fish dishes such as the Korean Hongeohoe or Japanese Kusaya.

 

Mmmm, sounds like something I should try one day.

 

 

The Chinese have this - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stinky_tofu

You can smell it for several blocks. I remember my first encounter with it in Hong Kong. I thought it was sewerage I was smelling and the Hawker's cart was one street over from where I was. When I sampled it after getting over the pungent smell, it tasted just like normal tofu. Nothing to write home about.

Edited April 22, 201411 yr by Sir Triode

 

 

These hard lollies are the go.

 

Salty, peppery licorice.

Yum..

Ooo.. they are interesting ...

I do like my salmiak lollies, but never had any with pepper in them..

Sounds like a good idea. :-)

I've seen them for sale on a website.

Thought it was this one but can't seem to find it on there now

http://www.itsalldutchtome.com.au/index.php

Plenty of other goodies there though