what do these foods taste like?

[Scott DeWar]

I saw this thing on Msn about foods from Englnd/Ireland/scottland and I am curious to know, How good are these dishes, and can you describe what they taste like?

http://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddri...cans-just-don’t-understand/ss-AAfdrg2#image=1

 

[Morrus]

Wouldn't know for most of them. Chip butties I'm sure you can imagine. Marmite is kinda tangy; I like it. The rest I've never had, and some of them I've never even heard of.

 

[Tonguez]

haggis and blood pudding are a spiced sausage with a oatmeal base and thats what it taste like too, Stargazy's essentially fish in white sauce. I think eels taste better than trout so if you've tasted trout imagine that for eel.
Laverbread taste like seaweed - imagine the nori in sushi, I like it although the texture can be off putting (the same with the jellied eels)

chip butty is great

 

[Dioltach]

Black pudding can be either OK or delicious, depending how it's done. I once had some in a Michelin-starred restaurant with a Hindustani chef, and it was fantastic.

(For what it's worth, black pudding isn't peculiar to Britain -- it's cheap peasant "waste not want not" food, so you'll find it all over Europe, if not beyond.)

 

[Scott DeWar]

I suspect the black pudding is something similar in the US as it sounds like what I have heard some old timer call blood pudding and my grandma call blood sausage. Is the Chip butties really nothing but chips and a bun?

 

[Tonguez]

I suspect the black pudding is something similar in the US as it sounds like what I have heard some old timer call blood pudding and my grandma call blood sausage. Is the Chip butties really nothing but chips and a bun?

yes and yes

German Blutwurst is also a blood pudding

puddings have a grain flour base but really the only difference between sausage and pudding is that puddings are boiled in bags (or a stomach) and sausages in tubes (like intestines)

 

[Morrus]

Is the Chip butties really nothing but chips and a bun?

Yes, it's very simple. It's a chip sandwich (not what you call chips). It wouldn't work with American fries - they need to be thick. Just chips, bread, butter (melted by the hot chips), ketchup as required. Simple, quick, but utterly delicious. Now I want one.

 

[Scott DeWar]

yes and yes . . . . .and sausages in tubes (like intestines)

or cellulose. There are hot dogs and brats made in this in the Oscar Meyer product line before it gets cooked/smoked.

 

[Scott DeWar]

Yes, it's very simple. It's a chip sandwich (not what you call chips). It wouldn't work with American fries - they need to be thick. Just chips, bread, butter (melted by the hot chips), ketchup as required. Simple, quick, but utterly delicious. Now I want one.

Now let me get this right, because this food looks good in my diabetic -lo carb only- mind, thick french fries, or chips - the only type of french fry in my mind any way, on bread with butter and ketchup.

Right?

blood pudding sardines haggis, I cannot not go with, as someone from 'the colonies, but the chip butties, I can easily learn to LOVE that sammich!

 

[Scott DeWar]

. . . . . Stargazy's essentially fish in white sauce. I think eels taste better than trout so if you've tasted trout imagine that for eel.
Laverbread taste like seaweed - imagine the nori in sushi, I like it although the texture can be off putting (the same with the jellied eels)

chip butty is great

Stargazy:
fish in a white sauce - cream, cheese and butter base with white wine I m guessing?- it sound good, but the disturbing thing is seeing the heads just sticking out of the crust. It shouldn't bother me at all because cook my trout with head on, so I have no excuse.

As for eels, that is just not a common food where I have lived, anywhere.

Chip butty:
see 2 posts up

(For what it's worth, black pudding isn't peculiar to Britain -- it's cheap peasant "waste not want not" food, so you'll find it all over Europe, if not beyond.)

the wast not want not thing is seen as a depression era mentality, which is something my grandma and grandpa survived. The also ate the marrow out of the bones *shudder* spreading it on bread.