What's your GNP?

[Liar]

GNP is short for Gross National Product.

So, what product, signifying for your nation, really gross you out?




I'll start: Sweden - Pickled Herring.

Take stupid bait fish, dip stupid bait fish in vile fluid made up of three different poisonous components, pretend it's a delicacy of national pride, serve it at every major holiday and export it to the Japanese who'll buy anything Swedish.

Can only be consumed with copious amount of akvavit. Which is, I guess, why so many are so fond of this gastronomic abomination. Cheers.

 

[freshface]

US - Root beer.

It's brown and it's liquid, but that's as close as it ever gets to actual beer. Sickly sweet with a medicinal taste that can't be described but is never forgotten. One of the vilest concoctions ever put in a bottle.

 

[The_Fool]

Sweden - Pickled Herring.

Take stupid bait fish, dip stupid bait fish in vile fluid made up of three different poisonous components, pretend it's a delicacy of national pride, serve it at every major holiday and export it to the Japanese who'll buy anything Swedish.

Can only be consumed with copious amount of akvavit. Which is, I guess, why so many are so fond of this gastronomic abomination. Cheers.

US - Root beer.

It's brown and it's liquid, but that's as close as it ever gets to actual beer. Sickly sweet with a medicinal taste that can't be described but is never forgotten. One of the vilest concoctions ever put in a bottle.

I have to admit, I like both of these things, just not together.

 

[oggbashan]

We have several:

British Sherry - It may be alcoholic but it isn't sherry and we Brits should be ashamed of it. Only half a degree better than drinking Methylated Spirits.

Cornish Pasty - The real thing is great. The mass produced commercial products, particularly supermarket own brands, are indigestible rubbish.

Sausage roll - see Cornish Pasty above. If produced by a local butcher can be reasonable but every other variety should be avoided.

And, of course, not a product but an activity, - Morris Dancing. It should have died out centuries ago but it survives to provide free beer for men who can't and shouldn't dance.

Og

PS. I haven't attempted to mention Scots, Welsh and Irish GNPs.

 

[Katyusha]

Scotland - Haggis

Something about taking the organs of a sheep, stuffing them inside the stomach, and boiling it is just...ew.

 

[loganforester]

Canada-Poutine

Nothing like french fries slathered with gravy and melted cheese to give you an early heart attack.

 

[Handley_Page]

Scotland - Haggis

Something about taking the organs of a sheep, stuffing them inside the stomach, and boiling it is just...ew.

Well, not quite. These days it's minced spiced mutton/lamb inside something else and boiled slowly. It's bit like kebab.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

California (Hey, with the seventh biggest economy in the world, we qualify as a country): ice berg lettuce. Green water that grow in a ball suitable only for providing flavorless crunch in sandwiches. Its single virtue is that it contains no calories.

 

[The_Fool]

I never was much for chitlins...

 

[JagFarlane]

Appalachia - Roasted squirrel brains...have had squirrel before, but something about tearing apart the skull to eat the brain reminds me of high school biology and their relentless need to dissect everything.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

US - Root beer.

It's brown and it's liquid, but that's as close as it ever gets to actual beer. Sickly sweet with a medicinal taste that can't be described but is never forgotten. One of the vilest concoctions ever put in a bottle.

Youve obviously never drank A&W or FROSTEE

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I never was much for chitlins...

It's 'chitterlings,' dear. Get it right or leave it to the men to handle.

 

[jomar]

California (Hey, with the seventh biggest economy in the world, we qualify as a country): ice berg lettuce. ...

Hey! Wha'choo got against icebergs???

 

[DesertPirate]

Southern border - menudo (tripe soup)

 

[TE999]

Cow's brains

Cow's tongue

Liver (of any animal)

Okra (unless fried)

Pig's feet

Chicken necks

Chitterlings


Gahhhhh!

 

[Katyusha]

Northeast U.S.: cow's tongue.

There is just no way to cook this properly. *gag*

 

[Dragonlipz]

Canada-Poutine

Nothing like french fries slathered with gravy and melted cheese to give you an early heart attack.

Don't forget the mustard!!!!

 

[Leto Degeneres]

Northeast U.S.: cow's tongue.

There is just no way to cook this properly. *gag*

Southwest U.S.: Lingua

There is just no way to avoid having it and say you've eaten properly. *yum*

 

[past_perfect]

Germany - Sauerkraut (obviously) and pork hock.

Both mildly disgusting on their own, in combination extremely vile.

Cabbage soup with caraway.

The scent of this is actually enough to make me refund any previous meals - strap me to a chair in a kitchen where this is being prepared, and I tell you everything (much more effective than waterboarding).

 

[neonlyte]

Portugal: Cabidella - chicken blood mixed into rice, there are some things one really shouldn't pretend to be palatable.

UK (NorthEast): Deep Fried Mars bar in batter.

 

[glynndah]

I'm pretty sure my husband has served me, or tried to serve me, each and every one of the things mentioned here, including haggis and menudo.

 

[JagFarlane]

I'm pretty sure my husband has served me, or tried to serve me, each and every one of the things mentioned here, including haggis and menudo.

You're married to Andrew Zimmern!? [hehe love watching Bizarre Foods]

 

[oggbashan]

South Australia: Pie Floater

Take one gristly meat pie, place in a bowl and pour greasy gravy over it until it is invisible.

Best eaten after too many tinnies of local beer.

Some parts of the UK: Anything not fish or sausage deep-fried in chip shop batter e.g. Mars Bars, Ice cream, chocolate bars, pickled gherkins, pickled eggs. NOTHING is improved by being deep-fried in batter.

Northern France/Belgium: Deep fried Chips with mayonnaise. The chips (thick fingers of potato saturated with fat) might be palatable but the mayonnaise is too cheap and frequently disgusting.

Og

 

[ishtat]

South Australia: Pie Floater

Take one gristly meat pie, place in a bowl and pour greasy gravy over it until it is invisible.

Best eaten after too many tinnies of local beer.
Og

Og , not gravy! It should be floating in thick green pea soup with tomato sauce on top.

 

[oggbashan]

Og , not gravy! It should be floating in thick green pea soup with tomato sauce on top.

Shows how much I don't know.

I was served one in gravy in Adelaide in 1960. The pie didn't float. It sank as if it was filled with lead instead of meat. I'm still recovering...

Og