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I frequently watch videos of people from outside the US trying biscuits and gravy for the first time. Every one starts with “I’m not trying that disgusting slop” and ends with “I want to eat this every day for the rest of my life”
Random pic from the Internet for reference.
This was my experience with poutine before and after visiting Canada. No one truly gets it until they've had it. The real stuff. Not shredded mozzarella over fries.
White cheddar cheese curds/squeakers over fries with piping hot brown gravy poured directly over.
Now I live in Canada and eat it all the time.
I have not found a better hangover cure than biscuits and gravy.
Well, except moderation of course, but you know... the everything.
For the looks good but tastes awful category I'd go with fondant.
Rendang
Used to eat it as often as I could when I visited southeast asia
That plating in particular looks like a stainless steel prison toilet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baba_ghanoush
Looks like slop, tastes like a party in your mouth.
Babar Ganesh!
So we can add hummus and... probably lots of other sauces / dips as well.
My candidate might be guacamole, which looks like it could almost be toxic ooze at first sight.
There's a pie in that soup, isn't there - digger?
Somewhere. Its not the best example.
Kebab:
I do t know where you got that, but change place. Doesn't look like kebab at all.
legit looks like a fat greasy turd, not sure I could physically go for it
I'm going to say Sviðasulta með rófustöppu. You take sheep head and turn it into whatever this is and serve it with a mashed orange beetroot and it's A+ category food.
Jesuschrist, looks like the texture wasn’t applied correctly.
Sheep’s head, or sheep’s brain?
The former is fine.
The latter screams spongiform encephalopathy.
Pretty much all seafood. Shrimp in particular tastes fantastic but looks like something you’d try to flatten with a shoe.
In Nice there’s a kind of swisschard gnocchi that’s called merda de can (dog’s shit) because of its appearance.
Judge by yourself (image taken from here).
The shape can be different depending on how you make them, but it always looks a bit suspicious.
I think the dogs in Nice eat too much grass.
Poutine tastes a lot better than it looks
I'm sure poutine tastes great but this picture just looks like a bowl of human teeth to me.
Spam. When it comes out of the can, it looks like a disgusting gelatinous blob. But when you cut it thin and pan fry it, it's actually pretty tasty.Pretty much any canned meat. Ever seen a whole canned chicken? Although most canned meat doesn't taste nearly as good as fresh. But there really isn't a "fresh" spam. So I think it fits the question. https://c8.alamy.com/comp/CW0NEJ/luncheon-meat-on-plate-CW0NEJ.jpg
Most British food, haggis, black pudding, kidney pie. Also tried marinated intestine once in Shanghai and got addicted to it, so now I'm always on the hunt for authentic Chinese restaurants that serve it.
Basically most offals or paste-like foods.
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No, I'm not a wendigo lol
Poutine
As a Canadian: fuck, no.
Poutine isn’t visually unpalatable in the least. It’s just fries with curds and gravy. Unless the kitchen did a total hash of the dish and fucked it up six ways to Sunday, there ain’t no way it looks bad.
It’s even better with extras in it, like pulled pork, wiggly bacon chunks, or chopped onion greens.
Congee. It’s a Chinese rice dish. It’s not bad tasting, but it has all the looks and texture of regular boiled rice with equal parts runny snot. It even more closely matches the “runny snot” impression if it’s correctly salted.
Pork Shumai. Also Chinese, but actually delish AF. But like so many other Dim Sum foods, it also looks - if made correctly - like it’s dripping with gelatinous snot.
Chicken’s feet. Also Chinese, these are braised in soya sauce until they look like little clawed grave markers of an incompletely-buried avian body. You’re not Chinese if you don’t eat these with absolute gusto. Meanwhile I’m thinking if the barnyard poop indelibly buried in each crevice of that clawed monstrosity.
Sauce: married to ethnic Chinese first-gen for the last twenty years. I’ve been exposed to a lot of Chinese foods, especially those from the Canton region.
Scrapple.
I first had it at a diner in Philly. I tend to try things I might not get a chance to try elsewhere and so I asked what scrapple was. I was told it was better not to know and just eat it. Delicious.
A good split pea soup, for sure.
Edit: and macarons look super pretty but taste..meh? Imo. Like if you were to imagine what Barbie food tasted like, it’d be a macaron.
I remember absolutely hating the look of sorrel soup
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Its murky bowl of swamp water
Peanut brittle.
Some may disagree, but I always thought it looks like frozen vomit
I'm gonna catch hate for this, but I don't care. I have a thing that physically looks awful, but also seems conceptually awful.
Sometimes, if I have the money and I wanna get a little treat, I'll buy a block of cheese, Nutella, and bread, and make a Nutella and cheese sandwich. I do not know why or how I got to the point where I ate it, but I did and I love it.
Usually, I'd get like a pecorino romano cheese, cut a couple slices of dark (full grain) bread, and just paste it in place with Nutella, and that would be a little desert for me. If I have a lot of cheese on there, I might add raspberry jam (not too much or it gets waaaaay too sweet).
Are you, by chance, a rat who controls a French man and helps him with cooking?
As a 'Murican, I'll say Vegemite. Black, gooey, smells like an unwashed armpit, but I love it on a sandwich with salami and mustard. Mixed it into a chili that ended up winning a chili cook off.
Shame you can only easily find Marmite around here. It's similar, but the texture is different, more like rubber cement.
Refried beans literally look like diarrhea doodoo. Thankfully they taste way better.
Xinxin de bofe. A brazilian food made (As far as I know) only in Bahia, created by the slaves during imperial time. It's good af, but it was hard to convince me to try the first time.
Almost every single meal that's served as slop. Slop can be very tasty, but it's slop.
