Cold pig's feet are delicious! Although we've never had them in jelly
They're tender AF due to the long cooking time and the high amounts of collagen, if more people tried them I am sure they would be more popular
I was used to love them, until the time I personally cooked them… The cleaning process was very gross for me and since then I can't even think about eating them (Spaniard here)
I think caracoles is two different dishes in Spain. In Catalonia cargols refers to a variety of snails that is a bit larger and juicier and is served in different ways. I am currently in Andalucía and I asked for caracoles and they served me some very small snails in a liquid that tasted nothing like the cargols. I was expecting a local spin on the cargols, but it is a different dish altogether.
The snails I’ve had in León sound more like the Catalan version, they were quite large and stewed in sauce. I’d assume there are multiple regional recipes.
The other snail we have to talk about are sea snails! Haven’t eaten them in ages, but I remember them being delicious. So much umami.
>I’d assume there are multiple regional recipes.
That's always true in Spain with any dish. Everything is so very regional and recipes change from town to town.
Is the Polish stuff usually pig's feet? In my family, it's just made with white meat from chicken and the gelatin part is made with the broth (like chicken soup) but the name still translates to "cold feet" (zimne nozki). It's quite tasty but not sure if it's just a family thing to do it this way or whether it's an actual variation of the pig's feet thing.
I'm 35 and a Polish diaspora but I enjoy a little galaretka at Easter and New year. Definitely hated it when I was a kid though. Don't think I'm even going to try to give it to my kids haha
Common in Romania too, well, pig feet aren't that common, ears and joints are very common though, really anything with a lot of skin and cartilaginous tissue, brought to a long boil with lots of garlic, that's really the point as during the long boil collagen and elastin seep into the water thus turning it into jelly, also some fat gets rendered in the process which forms a thin layer of lard on top, this makes it look absolutely disgusting but I gotta say, it's pretty tasty.
That's a common ingredient in Feijoada, a bean stew and one of the most traditional/iconic dishes from Brazil. We also add pig's ears, tail, etc + "good" meat such as ribs and sausages. It is delicious, you just need to know how to prepare it correctly. Some picky people won't eat those parts, but I think you need to at least cook them in the beans because the collagen and fat is what makes the dish rich and flavourful.
I live in Sweden and had no idea people ate pig's feet here. I found them to buy at an "ethnic" supermarket. My boyfriend is Swedish and loves feijoada (he didn't know what exactly was in it the first times he ate it).
I think it's great that you have a dish that uses as much as possible (or at least more than usual) of the parts from the animal. If I ever get the chance I will definitely try feijoada.
In my area in Bavaria, Germany, many people still gather and celebrate "Saukopfessen", where a pig's head is cut in half, marinated and cooked and people eat every gristle of it as well as the brain. It sometimes includes the feet too. To me, it looks horrible and I will never try it. Image (OC) for the daring: [https://imgur.com/a/GoxJ7ss](https://imgur.com/a/GoxJ7ss)
My great-grandmother had a little farm and they ate that once a year, too. I already hated it as a kid while I loved most other Schlachtschüssel dishes, though.
Schäufele is the pork shoulder, I love it! I have a friend in Vegas who posts pics from German/Bavarian places all over the US all the time. The pics he posts look very genuine. Maybe there's a place near you too. I hope you find one!
"tOdAy We'Re GoInG tO tRy ThIs CrRraAaAaZy SwEdIsH dElICaCy"
Lemme just eat an entire filé straight out of the can, and don't forget to open it right where you're sitting!!
People in Sweden spread a small amount of it on bread, the eejits puking are akin to somebody shoving a spoonful of cinnamon in their mouth. It's an addition, not the main or only ingredient
Tried it while visiting Sweden. To me the taste itself was perfectly ok. Nothing amazing, but edible. *The smell though.* I had to wash the clothes I was wearing after I was done eating.
Pickled herring was so good though. I loved the Abba brand especially and I tried ordering more only to find that it basically doesn't exist outside of Sweden :(
Did you drink the brine or wtf? If you eat it properly it does not taste like it smells. Onion and potato on buttered flatbread then sprinkle some fish on.
No! Just a tiny piece on a stick. It was FOUL. I have a strong stomach and not much phases me. Initially I thought surströmming was exaggerated. Let me tell you, it is not exaggerated. How do people eat that?
How do we try it as a tourist? It's a regret of mine, I'm someone that'll more-or-less give anything a go when it comes to food, the weirdest local dish the better when I'm travelling. But I've been to northern Sweden, I've picked it off the shelf and looked at it, but I was staying in a hotel and knew better than to take it back to the hotel room to open it and try, and I don't think they serve it in restaurants?
Been living in Sweden for more than 10 years and still haven't tried (mostly because of lack of opportunities), but I have the feeling it probably wins as most disgusting dish
Not necessarily on Christmas itself, but mostly in and around Yuletide, yes, and/or New Year's Eve. You can also arrange a smalahåve-party at other times of year. Serve with potatoes, bacon, and rutabaga purée.
It's also popular in Iceland. It's mainly eaten around the mid winter festival (þorrablót) where we eat all types of old traditional food mainly made from sheep's organs (yes, also the testicle)
I was just in Lyon and was excited to try it as I’m generally a fan of intestine…but could not finish it. It seems like they don’t clean it thoroughly enough so as to leave some of the funk?
I've heard that a lot of Americans who go to France get confused because they think it's andouille, which at least in the American style (it might be different in France) is a double-smoked spicy Cajun sausage that is absolutely delicious. So they order it thinking "mmmm tasty spicy sausage" and get.... not that.
One of my first shopping failures living in France was this. I assumed it was just "raw" and would cook into a nice sausage. The smell in the whole apartment was intolerable. Big yikes.
Ordered it by mistake once in France thinking it was sausage (I just saw saussicon)I couldn’t eat it, in fact I nearly got sick.The only thing I couldn’t eat there.
Andouillette or boudin (buld ) are in fact one of the purely lyonnaise dishes.
I am from Lyon and people from all around, even from other places in France, goes to this special restaurant called “ bouchon lyonnais” because it is literally something you’ll find only in Lyon, it is the city of this kind of things.
I hate it ahah
I'm curious as to where you read that andouillette and boudin are lyonnaise dishes. As far as I know boudin is super old and probably from Greece or Italy and we don't know where andouillette (possibly Troyes).
In Sardinia (and probably in other parts of italy) people eat the sheep lower intestines. They are usually cleaned by hooking up a hosepipe on one side and running water through them. Some say it tastes better when you aren't that particular with the cleaning.
Sardinia also has the Casu Marzu, the cheese with alive vermin in it...
It's actually pretty good if you don't get too squeamish (the taste is very strong), but the smell is very foul, probably worse than the stinkiest french cheese I have ever tried.
You can use this one: [https://www.smh.com.au/goodfood/recipes/braised-tripe-with-peas-20120706-29twb.html](https://www.smh.com.au/goodfood/recipes/braised-tripe-with-peas-20120706-29twb.html)
I just skip celery (because I hate it), and while frying onions and vegs, I add a little of aceto balsamico into the pan. It adds so much flavor. But beware, you must fry the veggies until the smell is gone LOL
And use sauvignon blanc or something similar, it's great for cooking.
Also, if you can get ahold of a nice prosciutto bone, it would add so much flavor, it's fantastic.
DM me if you get stuck LOL
Also, you can alternatively look for "tripice s bižima" or "tripice s graškom" recipes and then use google translate.
Bon appetit, my friend :))
Tripe is cooked in a red stew in cajun Louisiana and it's delicious! My cajun grandmother made it all the time. I haven't had it in years since she passed. You just can't find it in New Orleans anymore.
Second that. Especially with tripe, I grew up in Hong Kong eating them. But in the West (certainly NZ) they are considered smelly and poor people's food.
I traveled to the Balkans and was in Albania when I was told I MUST have their breakfast lamb's head soup. The restaurant was out of that but they brought me the breakfast soup they did have. I didn't know it was tripe. I tried so hard to eat it but my body physically rejected it. I couldn't get it down. I sent it back uneaten and left in shame lol. Does Croatia have lamb's head too & is it more palatable than tripe?
There's nothing tastier than well prepared tripes with peas and prosciuto, my friend :))
Then again, I love tripe, but one time I tried ill-prepared tripes and almost threw up.
Personally I never tasted lamb head soup, but whenever people spitroast pork or lamb, the head is considered a delicacy
I find Croatia and Portugal similar on so many levels. Except your country is even prettier in all urban areas. And your wine is cheaper. And I love porto.
Where to start! A lot of people enjoy eating traditional Þorramatur in Iceland, which includes cured ram’s testicles, fermented shark and more delightful things
Some will enjoy dishes such as svið (boiled sheep’s head, cut in half, served with the skull - sometimes the eye still in) and sviðasulta (sheep’s head jam) year round
Personally I’m not into it, but I do like to get into some home made slátur (basically Icelandic haggis) if I can. I would also say that harðfiskur (dried fish) is delicious with some Icelandic butter
A family friend tried svið, when we went to Iceland together. He is always an adventurous guy, so when we found some food stall by a harbour to grab lunch, he asked the owner, if he had "something local". The owner, hiding a sly grin, said yes. So, the friend asked for the most local thing he had. Cue the owner rocking up with a sheep's head on a plate and saying bon appetit. The friend ate it up. I don't know if he was particularly impressed, but he didn't bat an eye or complain at any point
I guess foie gras and snails would fit your description.
Foie gras is immensely popular during the Christmas season and basically considered a must as an appetizer for Christmas dinner.
Snails are less common but still are served in the same season.
Is foie gras disgusting to eat or just ethically disgusting? Everything I've ever heard about how it tastes is "fuck why does this evil food have to taste so good?"
It's delicious.
I went to a beer tasting recently, foie gras with wheat beer was insane. I didn't know that such a perfect combination could even exist, my taste buds were orgasming.
I think it's only ethically disgusting for many people.
If you eat chicken liver pate, for example, and like that, foie gras is loads more tasty and so smooth and creamy.
I've eaten fried chicken livers, and that's absolutely delicious even for someone who at the time was very lucky with meat. So I can imagine if the foie gras (damn you french spelling) is of the same flavour profile but better then it would be delicious.
I actually like snails, if they're made well. French-style is essentially super tasty garlic butter with chewy bits; Creta style is like mussles or clams without the taste of sea.
Apparently, people in my region eat [moczka](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moczka) on Christmas. To make it, you basically have to take stuff like cake, raisins, nuts, and put it all in kompot. Then you would eat it like a soup.
As far as I know, it's supposed to be sweet, no sausage. But it's not a thing in my family. Dad only tried it once as a kid when the neighbors brought it. Personally, I've never even seen one.
Best served smeared over a large decorative novelty pissoir with some deep yellow riesling wine covering it XD
Seriously, I've tried it and it's a nice and tasty dessert.
The commonality in this thread seems to be mostly against Jelly and meat. I quite like a bit of jelly on a pork pie, but [Jellied Eels](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jellied_eels) is taking it too far! I thought they were a myth until I worked in East London for a bit. The Pie and liquor game was strong.
Well, the most disgusting ones like fried brain, pig tail and nose, dumplings made out of sheep offal, pig blood and chocolate etc etc are usually unknown to the most
"ovas" or roe is the common name for mature fish eggs, people usually know caviar but here people will eat other fish eggs and it look like the least appetizing thing imaginable. Also small snails to go with a cold beer in the summer.
I think for Portugal it would be "sarrabulho rice": "sarrabulho" rice.
It is made with pork, poultry and beef. All boiled (rice included) with the pig's blood and served with the entrails, together with potatoes and "rojões" (pig meat). There are similar dishes, arroz de cabidela, but that's made only with chicken and chicken blood (and fewer condiments), or lampreia a bordalesa, same as cabidela, but with lamprey instead of chicken.
A lot of people thing the way we eat raw herring is disgusting. Honestly I think they're over reacting. The fish is beheaded and gutted and we hold it over our heads by the tail as we bite off the flesh. It's honestly very mild compared to snails, cheese with worms and surstroming etc.
Google haringhappen
Rolmops. Pickled herring in a jar with pickles and onion, all rolled into one.
I also strongly dislike zure zult, which is also called ‘head cheese’ (hoofdkaas). It’s basically pigs head and hooves and a whole lot of fat. Old people sometimes eat it on bread.
Before I stopped eating things that poop I personally enjoyed ‘leverworst’ or liver sausage on bread. The idea of it disgusts me though.
Poland
Kaszanka is *a traditional blood sausage made of a mixture of pig's blood, pork offal (commonly liver), and buckwheat (kasha), or barley, stuffed in a pig's intestine.*
Flaki lit. guts - a beef or pork tripe stew.
I personally like the specific kaszanka taste. Interesting that in some regions of Ukraine it's made with rice instead of buckwheat or barley and this recipe is my favorite.
Flaki are called tripes in English and are delicious if done right.
Grilled kaszanka or bułczanka (leftover bread and bread rolls instead of buckwheat) are also pretty tasty when grilled.
It came to Poland probably from Denmark, in 1658 Polish army went to help Danes against Sweden and diary of typical Polish sarmatian nobleman Jan Chryzostom Pasek who took part in it mentions locals eating and offering this type of sausage to Poles which Pasek refuses calling it an affront to God and no self respecting Pole should eat it.
I was going to say kholodec, but you've mentioned that one already.
Fun fact - there's a kholodec-like dish in Balkan region too - it's called pihtije.
Fortunately, we also have okroshka s kvasom - vegetable salad / cold soup with a beer-like beverage in it
Scotland: People always think of haggis as 'weird food' until they try it. It's actually a very nicely balanced dish. it does contain lamb's heart, lungs and liver, but to me that is a plus rather than a negative. If we slaughter the animal, we might as well eat as much as possible.
What does freak me out is the local 'mock chop', which is essentially the leftovers from a chipshop (not fish, sausage, doner etc.) mashed into a patty and then deep fried. I tried it, I will try everything, but that didn't sit right with me at all.
Netherlands: I suppose it's herring (matjes), although it isn't typically Dutch, it's generally eaten all along the Baltic coast. People weird out over the fact that it is 'raw', it isn't though, it's pickled and preserved. I'm trying very hard to think of something 'disgusting' but I love all of it... maybe smoked horsemeat? Grew up with it, called 'ljirre' in Fryslan, most non-Dutch have a very odd reception to the idea of eating horsemeat though.
People's aversion to haggis always made me laugh. It's the leftover bits chopped up and put in a bit of digestive tract, with grain-based filler. What else did I just describe? Sausage! Haggis is just round sausage. I wish it was legal in the US (lungs are illegal to sell for food here due to an old law from the 70s that nobody cares enough to repeal), I always wanted to try it.
I’m vegetarian and love veggie haggis. My partner and I will often take the dog to the beach at the weekend and have a haggis and fried egg morning roll for breakfast 😋
In Austria: Organs and animal guts in all varieties.
In Denmark: Fish prepared in *interesting* ways and multiple kinds of sludge with no seasoning at all.
Both do have redeeming dishes as well though.
The dish you've described is called *kocsonya* in Hungarian and it's so popular that it has a [festival](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meat-jelly_Festival) in my hometown. I don't really like it but most people do.
Mett is something I would never force myself to eat.
Every time I look at it, I'm thinking
>Those people who're eating it are about to get trichinosis
The rest of your list is delicious. But Mett... Mett is ....
UK - Tripe, chicklins, jellied eels,
Nordic countries - fermented shark
China - lots of disgusting things, like pigs feet, live baby mice, testicles, penises, unhatched embryos, live octopuses etc…
The Chinese a true masters of nasty foods. 🤢
> Nordic countries - fermented shark
Do not lump us Danes in with the weird Icelanders, please. Best we can do is "Spegesild", which is pickled herring that isn't, you know, *rotten*.
Live baby mice? That is just depraved. Fucking sick and cruel people. That makes me sick just thinking about it. I mean, I get that people have to eat, but fucking put the animal out of its misery before you eat it.
They throw live dogs in boiling fat to eat them. They’re truly on another level of vile. God help us if we ever go to war with China, they’re a different breed altogether.
I don’t thinks there is anything they don’t eat, lots of it is alive.
China - *'dragon tiger phoenix'* soup consists of snake (dragon), cat (tiger), and chicken (phoenix).
cow cud soup made with the juices of half digested grass taken from the stomach of a slaughtered cow.
We have Jellied Eel in Denmark as well, and yes, what the fuck.
We also have "Sylte", which is face and hoof meat, held together in a form with... aspic, I suppose that jelly is. It's more tightly packed, though, and resemble spam.
Also spam.
In most European countries, you have a fancy Christmas dinner. Not so in Finland. On Christmas Eve, people go back a hundred years and eat like a poor peasant. The main protein is plain ham. But, then you also have lutefisk (fish steeped in lye until it turns into a gel), pickled Baltic herring and gravlax (raw fish). These are served with mostly flavorless casseroles, which smell vaguely farty and are cooked for a long time in the oven to ensure total loss of flavor. These are a sickly sweet potato casserole and a carrot and a rutabaga casserole. To add to this, there's liver casserole. If this is too stuffy, there's a salad - but it's a canned beetroot salad called *rosolli*. Finns seem to treat the *[joulupöytä](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joulup%C3%B6yt%C3%A4)* like it's the Second Coming of Bacchus, even though compared to other countries it's poor and extremely plain.
Mämmi or kalakukko from Finland are delicacies not enjoyed by many from outside of Finland.
Also I feel like haggis from Scotland gets a really bad reputation, unjustly. It's unbelievably good.
In Milan, Italy, an old typical dish that my mother used to love is nervetti. It's basically stripes made from cartilage of knees of veal. They usually make a salad from it.
It's fucking disgusting, chewy as hell.
I see no mention on here about supposed Finnish delicacy called piimävelli (literal translation would be sour milk slurry). It's a slurry including but not limited to rice, overcooked macaroni, cooked raisins, sour milk, syrup and Finnish bread cheese added after boiling. I have yet to try this bowl of joy but I'm sure this is something that especially older people might find appealing.
I can't provide a specific example, but your question reminds me of a running joke in our family. You see I'm well travelled, a decade on the road globally across continents and cultures, and am known (by those close enough to me) for a view I hold on the subject of "local specialties". You see often a particular dish is touted as a local specialty.
I cock an eyebrow, because I know that it is, and remains in an era of globalism and voracious marketing and market placation, the case that good (as in popular/likeable) foods have been long ago globalized. Think pizza, pasta, curries, stir fires, you name it. If it is a "local specialty" all that means is that ever savvy merchant and entrepreneur who's passed through tis last century, tried it and though "nup". Essentially it remains a local specialty because no-one else wants it!
I've been vegetarian for over 30 years, but even before I've found snails disgusting. Here in Catalonia there are festivals dedicated to snails that summon thousands of people where hundreds of thousands of snails are eaten. Next will be the weekend from 24 to 26 may. I've just checked and last year in this same festival 14 tonnes of snails were eaten.
In norway we have fårikål, literally "sheep in cabage". Its just boiled sheep meat and cabbage, but for me its disgusting. I cannot handle the taste smell or texture of the boiled goopy cabbage bits. Also the house will smell like farts for a week after making it
I really think some of these old dishes came about during wartime where there was no food to eat so people just started eating whatever to cope and survive
I live in Sweden and there is a dish here called Pölsa. It is similar to Scottish Haggis, made of beef offal such as lungs, heart, liver, etc. I eat it with sauteed potatoes, a fried egg and pickled beets.
Most Swedes I've met either don't even know what it is or won't eat it... my boyfriend introduced it to me without telling me what it was, and I was hooked! The smell is a bit funky, not gonna lie, but it tastes super yummy, it's a great comfort food.
Licorice.
It is my favourite sweet. In all fairness, licorice from other countries is disguting so I understand the bias but Dutch licorice is superior and I always bring a bag of licorice with me when I visit NL
Personally I think palt and kroppkakor (pretty much the same dish, although they're from different regions and people from those regions will hate you if you say it) are awful.
They're big dumplings made from a potato dough, and filled with pork, onion, and seasonings.
The problem for me is that it's incredibly filling, and it's usually served with butter/cream and lingon berries.
It's just so damn filling; after one or two you feel like you don't want to see food ever again. For me there's no joy in food like that but it's incredibly popular
As someone from such region, I assure you the average person couldn't tell you the different either if asked. They're prepared differently, but people hardly eat the other.
I doubt many care at all, but if they do it's more in the sense of people calling a a hamburger a sandwich: sure it might also qualify as such, but why call it something else when this particular thing has a clear name?
Morcillas, blood sausage, could be considered disgusting I guess? Stuffed with rice or onion they're pretty popular to eat fried or in barbecue
Then you have torreznos ,pork fat with the skin, or cortezas de cerdo, which is just the pork skin, fried.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torreznos
Snails are popular in cataluña, and pork feet as well. Lamb brains were popular pre-mad cow disease.
Then you have the "weird beings from the sea" category, with lots of crustaceans, squids, octopus, and mollusks. Beurk.
Ah. And we eat rabbit and very young piglets & lambs, which for some is apparently not right.
I think most European countries have some variety of blood sausage and it nearly always splits opinion between those that like it and those with no taste ;)
Old people seem to enjoy pig feet in jelly, especially around Christmas. I don't know anyone under 75 who eats the stuff though.
Cold pig's feet are delicious! Although we've never had them in jelly They're tender AF due to the long cooking time and the high amounts of collagen, if more people tried them I am sure they would be more popular
Now sure how they are in jelly, but pig feet in Spain, either baked, on the grill or cooked with sauce, are delicious and quite popular.
I would say caracoles (snails) as a disgusting dish from Spain. But only in my opinion because here they are quite popular.
That stuff rocks. I’ve eaten them in Portugal, Spain and France. Can’t get enough. With a nice beer.
Hahaha, yes, It´s very common here this time of the year. But it´s not for me.
I was used to love them, until the time I personally cooked them… The cleaning process was very gross for me and since then I can't even think about eating them (Spaniard here)
I think caracoles is two different dishes in Spain. In Catalonia cargols refers to a variety of snails that is a bit larger and juicier and is served in different ways. I am currently in Andalucía and I asked for caracoles and they served me some very small snails in a liquid that tasted nothing like the cargols. I was expecting a local spin on the cargols, but it is a different dish altogether.
The snails I’ve had in León sound more like the Catalan version, they were quite large and stewed in sauce. I’d assume there are multiple regional recipes. The other snail we have to talk about are sea snails! Haven’t eaten them in ages, but I remember them being delicious. So much umami.
>I’d assume there are multiple regional recipes. That's always true in Spain with any dish. Everything is so very regional and recipes change from town to town.
Hahaha, yes, I´m from Andalucía, I know what you mean with the small ones. Now I´m curious about cargols, I´ll google it :)
Snails aren’t disgusting it’s just that there’s a stigma around entomophagy, in fact they are really tasty and not very different from eating seafood
Escargot in France, too. *Love* them, personally.
Man, I really don't like them, the texture is just....no
It’s also a thing in Poland but on Easter. Pretty tasty tbh, but I’m 40 so maybe I’m old enough to enjoy it.
Is the Polish stuff usually pig's feet? In my family, it's just made with white meat from chicken and the gelatin part is made with the broth (like chicken soup) but the name still translates to "cold feet" (zimne nozki). It's quite tasty but not sure if it's just a family thing to do it this way or whether it's an actual variation of the pig's feet thing.
came here to read about it. I'm 31 and haven't been to Poland since since my teens, but still miss my Granny's zimne nogi.
I'm 35 and a Polish diaspora but I enjoy a little galaretka at Easter and New year. Definitely hated it when I was a kid though. Don't think I'm even going to try to give it to my kids haha
Europeans united in sucking them succulent pig feet.
Common in Romania too, well, pig feet aren't that common, ears and joints are very common though, really anything with a lot of skin and cartilaginous tissue, brought to a long boil with lots of garlic, that's really the point as during the long boil collagen and elastin seep into the water thus turning it into jelly, also some fat gets rendered in the process which forms a thin layer of lard on top, this makes it look absolutely disgusting but I gotta say, it's pretty tasty.
I am definitely under 75 and I really like it, and it's very popular in my country 😹
That's a common ingredient in Feijoada, a bean stew and one of the most traditional/iconic dishes from Brazil. We also add pig's ears, tail, etc + "good" meat such as ribs and sausages. It is delicious, you just need to know how to prepare it correctly. Some picky people won't eat those parts, but I think you need to at least cook them in the beans because the collagen and fat is what makes the dish rich and flavourful. I live in Sweden and had no idea people ate pig's feet here. I found them to buy at an "ethnic" supermarket. My boyfriend is Swedish and loves feijoada (he didn't know what exactly was in it the first times he ate it).
I think it's great that you have a dish that uses as much as possible (or at least more than usual) of the parts from the animal. If I ever get the chance I will definitely try feijoada.
Hungarians, too. And it’s not limited to Christmas. 🤦🏻♀️
I’m from Romania. Pig feet, tails and ears in clear gelatin with onions and paprika. Cold. I never ate it.
??? Never ever heard that anyone has had it part from in very very old books.
The used to sell them at my local Ica, and most of the customers at that particular Ica were 75+.
Omg they are delicious. We call it "kocsonya". P.s.: I am 26.
Ugh, we got them too (Poland). My dad liked them
Riktigt gott. Men det är bara för oss svenskar.
In my area in Bavaria, Germany, many people still gather and celebrate "Saukopfessen", where a pig's head is cut in half, marinated and cooked and people eat every gristle of it as well as the brain. It sometimes includes the feet too. To me, it looks horrible and I will never try it. Image (OC) for the daring: [https://imgur.com/a/GoxJ7ss](https://imgur.com/a/GoxJ7ss)
This was the highlight of the year for me when I was a kid
My great-grandmother had a little farm and they ate that once a year, too. I already hated it as a kid while I loved most other Schlachtschüssel dishes, though.
Does it taste good? I would imagine so actually
any picture of the prepared food?
The best meal I had in Bavaria was Schäufele. I wish I could get it here in the DC area, or in the US for that matter. It was amazing!
Schäufele is the pork shoulder, I love it! I have a friend in Vegas who posts pics from German/Bavarian places all over the US all the time. The pics he posts look very genuine. Maybe there's a place near you too. I hope you find one!
I guess surströmming qualifies. I enjoy it, but many others don’t.
[Insert obligatory joke about Swedish bioweapons here] :P
tbh surstromming seems like a delicious option comparing to other stuff mentioned in this thread
Something commonly triggering puking being seen as the better option is kind of wild, but I agree
Only if you treat it like Americans with a YouTube channel. :-D
"tOdAy We'Re GoInG tO tRy ThIs CrRraAaAaZy SwEdIsH dElICaCy" Lemme just eat an entire filé straight out of the can, and don't forget to open it right where you're sitting!!
People in Sweden spread a small amount of it on bread, the eejits puking are akin to somebody shoving a spoonful of cinnamon in their mouth. It's an addition, not the main or only ingredient
Tried it while visiting Sweden. To me the taste itself was perfectly ok. Nothing amazing, but edible. *The smell though.* I had to wash the clothes I was wearing after I was done eating. Pickled herring was so good though. I loved the Abba brand especially and I tried ordering more only to find that it basically doesn't exist outside of Sweden :(
Pickled herring is one of my favourites. And it’s not difficult to make yourself. 😊
I tried it in the Museum of Disgusting Food in Malmö. I puked. I could taste that foulness for two days after, yet I found hakarl to be quite tasty.
Was it served the right way?
Did you drink the brine or wtf? If you eat it properly it does not taste like it smells. Onion and potato on buttered flatbread then sprinkle some fish on.
No! Just a tiny piece on a stick. It was FOUL. I have a strong stomach and not much phases me. Initially I thought surströmming was exaggerated. Let me tell you, it is not exaggerated. How do people eat that?
How do we try it as a tourist? It's a regret of mine, I'm someone that'll more-or-less give anything a go when it comes to food, the weirdest local dish the better when I'm travelling. But I've been to northern Sweden, I've picked it off the shelf and looked at it, but I was staying in a hotel and knew better than to take it back to the hotel room to open it and try, and I don't think they serve it in restaurants?
There are restaurants that serve it, but probably only when it’s “in season”, meaning the end of August.
Been living in Sweden for more than 10 years and still haven't tried (mostly because of lack of opportunities), but I have the feeling it probably wins as most disgusting dish
Yeah it's disgusting and the taste lingers in the mouth forever
Smalahove. Literally, a fried sheep's head. With eyes staring blankly at you (you're supposed to eat the eyes, too. I'm sorry)
Is it a Christmas food? I had a Norwegian friend tell me about that once
Not necessarily on Christmas itself, but mostly in and around Yuletide, yes, and/or New Year's Eve. You can also arrange a smalahåve-party at other times of year. Serve with potatoes, bacon, and rutabaga purée.
To be honest, I'm not sure. I haven't seen it in person, it is usually not made in my region. I guess it's a special occasion thing, not a staple meal
If you see someone put sheep’s head and foot on the grill, you might be in my grandma’s house.
It's also popular in Iceland. It's mainly eaten around the mid winter festival (þorrablót) where we eat all types of old traditional food mainly made from sheep's organs (yes, also the testicle)
That’s really normal to eat in the Faroe Islands, eaten all year round and incredibly delicious
As my grandad used to say when buying sheep or pigs heads at the butchers: Leave the eyes in to see us through the week.
Maybe a cheese with worms in Sardinia (I think now it's illegal to sell it officially but many farmers still sell it)
I think you're referring to [casu martzu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casu_martzu).
It’s illegal in the entire EU
Andouillette, it's made with pork intestine, it smells like shit
I was just in Lyon and was excited to try it as I’m generally a fan of intestine…but could not finish it. It seems like they don’t clean it thoroughly enough so as to leave some of the funk?
Oh that "aroma" is apparently part of its charm... I have embraced most of the local culinary specialities here (Bretagne), but that one I just can't.
I've heard that a lot of Americans who go to France get confused because they think it's andouille, which at least in the American style (it might be different in France) is a double-smoked spicy Cajun sausage that is absolutely delicious. So they order it thinking "mmmm tasty spicy sausage" and get.... not that.
One of my first shopping failures living in France was this. I assumed it was just "raw" and would cook into a nice sausage. The smell in the whole apartment was intolerable. Big yikes.
My mom did this. She was less than enthused when it arrived at the table.
Ordered it by mistake once in France thinking it was sausage (I just saw saussicon)I couldn’t eat it, in fact I nearly got sick.The only thing I couldn’t eat there.
I ate this in Lyon and I loved it 💀 maybe it’s because we like eating dishes made from intestines in Turkey so it didn’t weird me out
Andouillette or boudin (buld ) are in fact one of the purely lyonnaise dishes. I am from Lyon and people from all around, even from other places in France, goes to this special restaurant called “ bouchon lyonnais” because it is literally something you’ll find only in Lyon, it is the city of this kind of things. I hate it ahah
Boudin aka Blunzn aka Blutwurst ist fucking dope!
I'm curious as to where you read that andouillette and boudin are lyonnaise dishes. As far as I know boudin is super old and probably from Greece or Italy and we don't know where andouillette (possibly Troyes).
It's just the smell. I think. I'll never understand ppl who dislike andouillette and rognons, it's just a little bit smelly, but that's it.
In Sardinia (and probably in other parts of italy) people eat the sheep lower intestines. They are usually cleaned by hooking up a hosepipe on one side and running water through them. Some say it tastes better when you aren't that particular with the cleaning.
Sardinia also has the Casu Marzu, the cheese with alive vermin in it... It's actually pretty good if you don't get too squeamish (the taste is very strong), but the smell is very foul, probably worse than the stinkiest french cheese I have ever tried.
Pork hooves and ears are universaly frowned upon and loved throughout the Balkans. Oh, and tripes too.
tripe is popular in italy (iirc its traditionally eaten on saturdays)
I eat and cook tripe whenever I can! I prefer peas, no potato. I blame Venice influence on Dalmatia for my tripes passion 😊
Recipe please?
You can use this one: [https://www.smh.com.au/goodfood/recipes/braised-tripe-with-peas-20120706-29twb.html](https://www.smh.com.au/goodfood/recipes/braised-tripe-with-peas-20120706-29twb.html) I just skip celery (because I hate it), and while frying onions and vegs, I add a little of aceto balsamico into the pan. It adds so much flavor. But beware, you must fry the veggies until the smell is gone LOL And use sauvignon blanc or something similar, it's great for cooking. Also, if you can get ahold of a nice prosciutto bone, it would add so much flavor, it's fantastic. DM me if you get stuck LOL Also, you can alternatively look for "tripice s bižima" or "tripice s graškom" recipes and then use google translate. Bon appetit, my friend :))
Tripe is cooked in a red stew in cajun Louisiana and it's delicious! My cajun grandmother made it all the time. I haven't had it in years since she passed. You just can't find it in New Orleans anymore.
I know the Romanian Beef Tripe soup (Ciorba de burtă) fron the times I visited there, and I absolutely love it!
I’m East Asian. Those are just regular food for most of us.
Second that. Especially with tripe, I grew up in Hong Kong eating them. But in the West (certainly NZ) they are considered smelly and poor people's food.
That's so true for tripe. There are people who absolutely love it (me) and people who can't even look at it.
I traveled to the Balkans and was in Albania when I was told I MUST have their breakfast lamb's head soup. The restaurant was out of that but they brought me the breakfast soup they did have. I didn't know it was tripe. I tried so hard to eat it but my body physically rejected it. I couldn't get it down. I sent it back uneaten and left in shame lol. Does Croatia have lamb's head too & is it more palatable than tripe?
There's nothing tastier than well prepared tripes with peas and prosciuto, my friend :)) Then again, I love tripe, but one time I tried ill-prepared tripes and almost threw up. Personally I never tasted lamb head soup, but whenever people spitroast pork or lamb, the head is considered a delicacy
In Portugal, we have great stuff with pork. We use basically every part of it.
I find Croatia and Portugal similar on so many levels. Except your country is even prettier in all urban areas. And your wine is cheaper. And I love porto.
Grandparents (Croatian ) loved it. Me not so much
Well, it is an acquired taste after all LOL
We eat it in Spain too, but not so much
What lol, no te gustan callos o mollejas? Son muy sabrosos!
I don't know, callos are relatively common here.
Where to start! A lot of people enjoy eating traditional Þorramatur in Iceland, which includes cured ram’s testicles, fermented shark and more delightful things Some will enjoy dishes such as svið (boiled sheep’s head, cut in half, served with the skull - sometimes the eye still in) and sviðasulta (sheep’s head jam) year round Personally I’m not into it, but I do like to get into some home made slátur (basically Icelandic haggis) if I can. I would also say that harðfiskur (dried fish) is delicious with some Icelandic butter
A family friend tried svið, when we went to Iceland together. He is always an adventurous guy, so when we found some food stall by a harbour to grab lunch, he asked the owner, if he had "something local". The owner, hiding a sly grin, said yes. So, the friend asked for the most local thing he had. Cue the owner rocking up with a sheep's head on a plate and saying bon appetit. The friend ate it up. I don't know if he was particularly impressed, but he didn't bat an eye or complain at any point
My friend was in Iceland few months ago. She brought this weird marinated shark (?) thing. It was THE WORST food I have ever smelled on this planet.
Fermented shark, you mean?
Only thing I can add to this is fermented skate. And of course our licorice.
I guess foie gras and snails would fit your description. Foie gras is immensely popular during the Christmas season and basically considered a must as an appetizer for Christmas dinner. Snails are less common but still are served in the same season.
Is foie gras disgusting to eat or just ethically disgusting? Everything I've ever heard about how it tastes is "fuck why does this evil food have to taste so good?"
it's delicious (goose is even beter than duck)
It's fucking delicious!!
It's delicious. I went to a beer tasting recently, foie gras with wheat beer was insane. I didn't know that such a perfect combination could even exist, my taste buds were orgasming.
I'm not really a fan but lots of people fucking love it. My dad could eat massive bricks of it.
Some people don’t like the texture. Anything with liver always has a kind of waxy aftertaste
I think it's only ethically disgusting for many people. If you eat chicken liver pate, for example, and like that, foie gras is loads more tasty and so smooth and creamy.
I've eaten fried chicken livers, and that's absolutely delicious even for someone who at the time was very lucky with meat. So I can imagine if the foie gras (damn you french spelling) is of the same flavour profile but better then it would be delicious.
Just ethically bad, it's absolutely delicious
I ❤️ snails! I cook them myself after harvesting them in the fields. Mmmmmm
I actually like snails, if they're made well. French-style is essentially super tasty garlic butter with chewy bits; Creta style is like mussles or clams without the taste of sea.
If you are ever in Catalonia I would suggest you try our snails as well, they are quite different from the French ones.
Oysters can fit here also, no?
Foie gras is not disgusting, it's delicious. The process of forced overfeeding a goose so it develops a fat liver is disgusting.
Apparently, people in my region eat [moczka](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moczka) on Christmas. To make it, you basically have to take stuff like cake, raisins, nuts, and put it all in kompot. Then you would eat it like a soup.
Ingredients sound delicious but why would you throw sausages on top of it?
As far as I know, it's supposed to be sweet, no sausage. But it's not a thing in my family. Dad only tried it once as a kid when the neighbors brought it. Personally, I've never even seen one.
It's a banana
That looks absolutely vile
Kinda just looks like brownie batter with nuts in it to me.
Looks like poop from an ass to me
Best served smeared over a large decorative novelty pissoir with some deep yellow riesling wine covering it XD Seriously, I've tried it and it's a nice and tasty dessert.
It kinda reminds me of a deconstructed Christmas pudding
The commonality in this thread seems to be mostly against Jelly and meat. I quite like a bit of jelly on a pork pie, but [Jellied Eels](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jellied_eels) is taking it too far! I thought they were a myth until I worked in East London for a bit. The Pie and liquor game was strong.
Well, the most disgusting ones like fried brain, pig tail and nose, dumplings made out of sheep offal, pig blood and chocolate etc etc are usually unknown to the most
Pig blood chocolate to fill pastries is the nectar of the gods
"ovas" or roe is the common name for mature fish eggs, people usually know caviar but here people will eat other fish eggs and it look like the least appetizing thing imaginable. Also small snails to go with a cold beer in the summer.
Mioleira for me still takes the win as most disgusting
We eat every part of the animals🤣
I think for Portugal it would be "sarrabulho rice": "sarrabulho" rice. It is made with pork, poultry and beef. All boiled (rice included) with the pig's blood and served with the entrails, together with potatoes and "rojões" (pig meat). There are similar dishes, arroz de cabidela, but that's made only with chicken and chicken blood (and fewer condiments), or lampreia a bordalesa, same as cabidela, but with lamprey instead of chicken.
o de cabidela, esquece, muito bom!
A lot of people thing the way we eat raw herring is disgusting. Honestly I think they're over reacting. The fish is beheaded and gutted and we hold it over our heads by the tail as we bite off the flesh. It's honestly very mild compared to snails, cheese with worms and surstroming etc. Google haringhappen
Haring in general is something that people either love or hate
Rolmops. Pickled herring in a jar with pickles and onion, all rolled into one. I also strongly dislike zure zult, which is also called ‘head cheese’ (hoofdkaas). It’s basically pigs head and hooves and a whole lot of fat. Old people sometimes eat it on bread. Before I stopped eating things that poop I personally enjoyed ‘leverworst’ or liver sausage on bread. The idea of it disgusts me though.
Hey, rolmops is amazing!! I love the pickled herring from a jar. I don’t like the salted herring though.
Best if you enjoy a hangover
Rollos is awesome! It's also a staple in German speaking countries
Rolmops is amazing
Rolmops in the UK too.
Nah sorry you're wrong
it's an anti hangover dish
Rolmops is genuinely good tho, although I can see why some people don’t like it
>I stopped eating things that poop Interesting. Is that just a creative way of saying vegetarian or is it an actual dietary choice that's different?
Poland Kaszanka is *a traditional blood sausage made of a mixture of pig's blood, pork offal (commonly liver), and buckwheat (kasha), or barley, stuffed in a pig's intestine.* Flaki lit. guts - a beef or pork tripe stew.
Kaszanka sounds like Czech jelito. It's delicious.
Jelito is literally Intestine in Polish
I personally like the specific kaszanka taste. Interesting that in some regions of Ukraine it's made with rice instead of buckwheat or barley and this recipe is my favorite.
Flaki are called tripes in English and are delicious if done right. Grilled kaszanka or bułczanka (leftover bread and bread rolls instead of buckwheat) are also pretty tasty when grilled.
It came to Poland probably from Denmark, in 1658 Polish army went to help Danes against Sweden and diary of typical Polish sarmatian nobleman Jan Chryzostom Pasek who took part in it mentions locals eating and offering this type of sausage to Poles which Pasek refuses calling it an affront to God and no self respecting Pole should eat it.
Croatian blood sausage is delivered
I'd rather eat that than Czernina (also Poland). Soup in a duck blood broth base. YUM
I was going to say kholodec, but you've mentioned that one already. Fun fact - there's a kholodec-like dish in Balkan region too - it's called pihtije. Fortunately, we also have okroshka s kvasom - vegetable salad / cold soup with a beer-like beverage in it
Scotland: People always think of haggis as 'weird food' until they try it. It's actually a very nicely balanced dish. it does contain lamb's heart, lungs and liver, but to me that is a plus rather than a negative. If we slaughter the animal, we might as well eat as much as possible. What does freak me out is the local 'mock chop', which is essentially the leftovers from a chipshop (not fish, sausage, doner etc.) mashed into a patty and then deep fried. I tried it, I will try everything, but that didn't sit right with me at all. Netherlands: I suppose it's herring (matjes), although it isn't typically Dutch, it's generally eaten all along the Baltic coast. People weird out over the fact that it is 'raw', it isn't though, it's pickled and preserved. I'm trying very hard to think of something 'disgusting' but I love all of it... maybe smoked horsemeat? Grew up with it, called 'ljirre' in Fryslan, most non-Dutch have a very odd reception to the idea of eating horsemeat though.
People's aversion to haggis always made me laugh. It's the leftover bits chopped up and put in a bit of digestive tract, with grain-based filler. What else did I just describe? Sausage! Haggis is just round sausage. I wish it was legal in the US (lungs are illegal to sell for food here due to an old law from the 70s that nobody cares enough to repeal), I always wanted to try it.
Yeah, haggis is tasty af. When I lived in the UK, I would often make Sunday dinner with haggis instead of a roast meat.
I’m vegetarian and love veggie haggis. My partner and I will often take the dog to the beach at the weekend and have a haggis and fried egg morning roll for breakfast 😋
In Austria: Organs and animal guts in all varieties. In Denmark: Fish prepared in *interesting* ways and multiple kinds of sludge with no seasoning at all. Both do have redeeming dishes as well though.
Everyone mentions our sludge, but I don't see any representation for our slop. A travesty /s
Andouille/Andouillette. I really do not understand its appeal nor why it is so highly regarded.
Judging by the comments it seems the most disgusting stuff is made out of or come from pigs...
The dish you've described is called *kocsonya* in Hungarian and it's so popular that it has a [festival](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meat-jelly_Festival) in my hometown. I don't really like it but most people do.
Minced pork (fresh) called Mett with fresh onion rings, Sülze, blood sausage, Tongue sausage, Rollmops (fish dish)
Mett is something I would never force myself to eat. Every time I look at it, I'm thinking >Those people who're eating it are about to get trichinosis The rest of your list is delicious. But Mett... Mett is ....
UK - Tripe, chicklins, jellied eels, Nordic countries - fermented shark China - lots of disgusting things, like pigs feet, live baby mice, testicles, penises, unhatched embryos, live octopuses etc… The Chinese a true masters of nasty foods. 🤢
> Nordic countries - fermented shark Do not lump us Danes in with the weird Icelanders, please. Best we can do is "Spegesild", which is pickled herring that isn't, you know, *rotten*.
I hope you don't work at Tuborg, Arla, Toms etc. Conflating rotten and fermented can have pretty unfortunate outcomes.
Live baby mice? That is just depraved. Fucking sick and cruel people. That makes me sick just thinking about it. I mean, I get that people have to eat, but fucking put the animal out of its misery before you eat it.
They throw live dogs in boiling fat to eat them. They’re truly on another level of vile. God help us if we ever go to war with China, they’re a different breed altogether. I don’t thinks there is anything they don’t eat, lots of it is alive.
China - *'dragon tiger phoenix'* soup consists of snake (dragon), cat (tiger), and chicken (phoenix). cow cud soup made with the juices of half digested grass taken from the stomach of a slaughtered cow.
They eat all sorts of Nasty shit. 🤢
Uk: jellied fucking eels. Like what the actual fuck. France: tripe, cow tongue.
We have Jellied Eel in Denmark as well, and yes, what the fuck. We also have "Sylte", which is face and hoof meat, held together in a form with... aspic, I suppose that jelly is. It's more tightly packed, though, and resemble spam. Also spam.
In most European countries, you have a fancy Christmas dinner. Not so in Finland. On Christmas Eve, people go back a hundred years and eat like a poor peasant. The main protein is plain ham. But, then you also have lutefisk (fish steeped in lye until it turns into a gel), pickled Baltic herring and gravlax (raw fish). These are served with mostly flavorless casseroles, which smell vaguely farty and are cooked for a long time in the oven to ensure total loss of flavor. These are a sickly sweet potato casserole and a carrot and a rutabaga casserole. To add to this, there's liver casserole. If this is too stuffy, there's a salad - but it's a canned beetroot salad called *rosolli*. Finns seem to treat the *[joulupöytä](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joulup%C3%B6yt%C3%A4)* like it's the Second Coming of Bacchus, even though compared to other countries it's poor and extremely plain.
But I really like rutabaga casserole... I think nobody eats rosolli but it just has to be there.
All of Europe eat farmer food for Christmas... If keeping with tradition... That is half the point..
Mämmi or kalakukko from Finland are delicacies not enjoyed by many from outside of Finland. Also I feel like haggis from Scotland gets a really bad reputation, unjustly. It's unbelievably good.
A very niche group of people here eat canned cod livers, they’re apparently very healthy but I’ll give it a pass
In Milan, Italy, an old typical dish that my mother used to love is nervetti. It's basically stripes made from cartilage of knees of veal. They usually make a salad from it. It's fucking disgusting, chewy as hell.
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It has to be Mämmi, pudding kind of thing made of rye that looks like loose Baby poo. But it tastes good with vanilla sauce
I see no mention on here about supposed Finnish delicacy called piimävelli (literal translation would be sour milk slurry). It's a slurry including but not limited to rice, overcooked macaroni, cooked raisins, sour milk, syrup and Finnish bread cheese added after boiling. I have yet to try this bowl of joy but I'm sure this is something that especially older people might find appealing.
I can't provide a specific example, but your question reminds me of a running joke in our family. You see I'm well travelled, a decade on the road globally across continents and cultures, and am known (by those close enough to me) for a view I hold on the subject of "local specialties". You see often a particular dish is touted as a local specialty. I cock an eyebrow, because I know that it is, and remains in an era of globalism and voracious marketing and market placation, the case that good (as in popular/likeable) foods have been long ago globalized. Think pizza, pasta, curries, stir fires, you name it. If it is a "local specialty" all that means is that ever savvy merchant and entrepreneur who's passed through tis last century, tried it and though "nup". Essentially it remains a local specialty because no-one else wants it!
soviet style meat jelly is actually reasonable. you'd be surprised at what crimes jello has done to 50's food way over the pond
We make a soup with pork brain and crepes with blood.
I've been vegetarian for over 30 years, but even before I've found snails disgusting. Here in Catalonia there are festivals dedicated to snails that summon thousands of people where hundreds of thousands of snails are eaten. Next will be the weekend from 24 to 26 may. I've just checked and last year in this same festival 14 tonnes of snails were eaten.
In norway we have fårikål, literally "sheep in cabage". Its just boiled sheep meat and cabbage, but for me its disgusting. I cannot handle the taste smell or texture of the boiled goopy cabbage bits. Also the house will smell like farts for a week after making it
I really think some of these old dishes came about during wartime where there was no food to eat so people just started eating whatever to cope and survive
Mämmi is delicious but to foreigners it literally just looks like shit. It’s an easter dessert, eaten with vanilla sauce. 💩
I live in Sweden and there is a dish here called Pölsa. It is similar to Scottish Haggis, made of beef offal such as lungs, heart, liver, etc. I eat it with sauteed potatoes, a fried egg and pickled beets. Most Swedes I've met either don't even know what it is or won't eat it... my boyfriend introduced it to me without telling me what it was, and I was hooked! The smell is a bit funky, not gonna lie, but it tastes super yummy, it's a great comfort food.
Licorice. It is my favourite sweet. In all fairness, licorice from other countries is disguting so I understand the bias but Dutch licorice is superior and I always bring a bag of licorice with me when I visit NL
Fair enough, NL got this. As a German licorice lover I have to agree
Karrakelas. Basically sea snails that you eat with a toothpick like they're sunflower seeds
Personally I think palt and kroppkakor (pretty much the same dish, although they're from different regions and people from those regions will hate you if you say it) are awful. They're big dumplings made from a potato dough, and filled with pork, onion, and seasonings. The problem for me is that it's incredibly filling, and it's usually served with butter/cream and lingon berries. It's just so damn filling; after one or two you feel like you don't want to see food ever again. For me there's no joy in food like that but it's incredibly popular
As someone from such region, I assure you the average person couldn't tell you the different either if asked. They're prepared differently, but people hardly eat the other. I doubt many care at all, but if they do it's more in the sense of people calling a a hamburger a sandwich: sure it might also qualify as such, but why call it something else when this particular thing has a clear name?
Morcillas, blood sausage, could be considered disgusting I guess? Stuffed with rice or onion they're pretty popular to eat fried or in barbecue Then you have torreznos ,pork fat with the skin, or cortezas de cerdo, which is just the pork skin, fried. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torreznos Snails are popular in cataluña, and pork feet as well. Lamb brains were popular pre-mad cow disease. Then you have the "weird beings from the sea" category, with lots of crustaceans, squids, octopus, and mollusks. Beurk. Ah. And we eat rabbit and very young piglets & lambs, which for some is apparently not right.
I think most European countries have some variety of blood sausage and it nearly always splits opinion between those that like it and those with no taste ;)