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The Scottish are a bit extreme with their haggis but surely you can come up with something worse than white sandwich bread. Who compiled that list?

It is a very crappy list, agreed. But ~hey~ even going back to my earliest wmw-pumping days, nothing, repeat nothing, fires up a forum of lazy members like a food thread.

>hagis

I know it was a slightly downgraded, restaurant version you and i had in edinb, but i thought it was ok.  Wouldn't turn i.t away if someone served it.

The worst i've had was that black ink squid meal in Barcelona.

I'm going to Denmark for their traditional christmas dishes, one day.  I should be right at home.  Here, i would take the vikings out for extreme southern meals where only good-ol-boys ate, and every disk would be "bork bork bork" --which translate to "tastes like a dish we have at christmas."

You guys are making me hungry.  Except for the white bread, heck they add some chemical to that sh## so it won't even dry out anymore.

Also, grits, never liked them.  You can tell which side of the Mason Dixion line you are on if the breakfast menu says hash brown potatoes or grits with you breakfast eggs. Navigation skillz.

Peanut Butter and Root Beer were always the two foods that I was surprised most Europeans find revolting. We had a number of exchange students growing up and they all hated those two.

The foreign food that many SE Asian cultures adore and love that I just can't wrap my head around is durian. I tried one of those in Indonesia a few years back and it tasted like rotten onions and gasoline strained through a dirty sock. Other foods you can taste and not care for but see why some people might like it but durian isn't one of those. And of course I bought some durian candy and made everyone back home taste it.

>>There is a local Asian market that sells them.

I bought one at an Asian market here. I believe it was frozen and shipped over and the taste was no where near as pungent as a fresh one. It was still horrible and would definitely give you enough of the experience. Just make sure to not cut into it inside your house. That smell will linger for quite a while.

>>collards

Since moving down south I have eaten a LOT more collards than when I lived up north. There are some really good collards out there and some really bad ones. I hate the collards that have too much garlic or too much hot sauce. That spicy note doesn't mix well with the greens in my opinion. But when you can find a place that makes good, well cooked collards they can be a thing of beauty.