TIL some Scandinavian countries eat blood pancakes. (made with whipped reindeer blood.)
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Blood is good, a bazillion mosquitos can't all be wrong
I hear they’re really buzzing about it
*buzzilion
Wait until you hear about flies from the farm.
Does their blood shake bring all the boys to the yard?
Fyi, blood can be used as a replacement for eggs in many recipes. I've even seen it used in savory macarons.
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Idk what's worse if I think about it. When you think what eggs really are, blood almost seems more normal.
An egg is basically a queef.
What do you think a queef is?
Basically an egg.
Yolks on you...
A chunky queef if you will
Yum
Mm, chicken periods
They are not typically made with reindeer blood, as is incorrectly stated on Wikipedia. The alleged source for this claim even says so:
TIL there are still egregious errors on Wikipedia. I guess it could be a case of updated source?
I mean Sami are hungry, they're not savages! Except I guess by some outdated definitions they are.
Did you think I somehow implied that they are? I'm confused
Well, it's usually cow blood, but they are delicious. Just like blood sausage.
In my culture we have a sausage made mostly with blood. Quite tasty.
I think you will be hard pressed to find a European country which doesn't have some sort of blood sausage/pudding.
No, I won't. I don't know how widespread that is and don't actually care. I just mentioned "in my culture" to filter out crazies who like to scream "no, that's super niche and nobody does that except you, weirdo!" Well, now I have crazies who shout "No, that's super widespread and everyone does that" :) That happens. Not a big deal.
We have blood sausage (black pudding) in the UK, France (boudin noir, sanquette), Germany (schwarzsauer), Italy (biroldo), Poland (duck soup) and Spain (morcilla).
So it seems like "most places" tbh.
We do as well in Norway. Exactly the same as the british black pudding/sausage.
Same in Finland!
I've never tried the British stuff, but our blood sausage is pretty good. Goes very well with lingonberry jam. :)
Had some in a pub in England. It's as good as identical to ours.
We got them in France too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boudin
That's great to hear! Did they offer any lingonberry jam though?
No. Part of a full English. Bacon, baked beans, etc.
Mine too. I've tried it, but didn't like the texture much.
You can fry it and it tastes different.
It depends on what the butcher uses as a base.
It's popular in many cultures. Love me some morcilla.
Your culture is white supremacy, yeah, I get it’s just a big sausage fest of awkward hand jobs, but I don’t think that’s what anyone means when they say sausage.
Seem like yours is hasty conclusion and nasty personality, but whom am I to judge?
I know the user. They are.
If you think these blood recipes are nasty, empty all food you have and don't eat anything for 3-4 days. Then go to the store and get some blood food or ingredients and eat a blood dish. You'll understand then very quickly why these became a thing nearly everywhere around the world. Hunger is the ultimate spice.
So if I think they're nasty, I'm wrong because I'm not starving enough? Not a great counterpoint. They're still nasty in that scenario, just a helpful nasty.
Aaaaaand that's how you know someone who has never starved before. Truly starved. The stomach has it's own opinion when left empty long enough.
It's good though, that you never had. I've been through a lot, but the trauma of starvation is a permanent one. It's best you don't ever see the perspective of why people made food from blood.
My point is that if you have to be starving to enjoy eating something, then its default descriptor is probably much closer to "nasty" than "delicious"
I absolutely concede the point that everything nutritious will taste good if you're starved, and I'm glad to have never needed to rely on nasty tasting food to stay alive. I'm very lucky, no need to be adversarial about it
Not every disagreement is worth arguing about
Pretty much no comment in this entire thread is "worth" posting, including yours. What did you add to the discussion by saying that?
that explains tripe....and how hungry were early settlers to eat crayfish, they look like bugs.
crayfish IS bugs
So is Shrimps and both is tasty
I really enjoy baked or fried crickets.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7c/Schwarzsauer-3.jpg
German "Black-Sour" traditional north eastern dish doesn't taste half bad...
and if you butcher an animal.. you have blood available... why not eat it instead of wasting it.
also... black pudding/blood sausages and stuff are amazing
Blood sausage isn't uncommon. We eat it in Belgium, France, Germany,... Delicious.
If you decide on rating animals, eat all of them. All the animals and all the parts of the animals.
Half of the countries listed are Finland and Estonia lol.
But they're honorary Scandinavian, that's an old tradition.
We don't want it >:(
I don't understand english-speakers' enduring obsession with the term "scandinavia" anyway. What's wrong with "the nordic countries" which is what they're actually called and which isn't culturally meaningless unlike some peninsula?
Some folks eat an animals testicles also, humans are nasty. Get used to it.
white kidneys
::: spoiler Le Grille? What the hell is that rognons blancs :::
People who eat chicken embryos probably shouldn't be judgemental.
Rocky mountain oysters
If you're gonna eat animals, eat all the edible bits.
We also have a few foods with blood in it in hungary. Most countries have them. Also fun bonus fact, because hungarian and finnish/estonian are related very distantly i understand their word for blood which is veri, for us its vér.
I'm calling Whipped reindeer blood as the name of my upcoming metal xmas album. You are not allowed to steal it.
Nah, you got dibs, you lucky duck.
I'd listen to that album!
Get a grip.
Blood has about the same amount of protein as the same weight in eggs so it makes sense.
It's basically equivalent from a culinary standpoint. You can even make meringue with blood instead of egg whites.
I think you mean Egguivalent.
Semen can also be a direct replacement for egg whites. There's actually a cook book on it.
The chefs pulled an all-nighter for this meal.
Then there's Filipino dinuguan, a pig's blood stew.
And it's fucking delicious.
Polacks have Duck Blood Stew:
Friggen yummy!
you get used to the taste, its quite strong. Had it many times growing up
great with people with iron deficiency
They'd just have even more deficiency if you use their blood
One blood pancake with a side of iron deficient people, please!
Buh dum tiss.
Used to eat black quiche in France as a kid, eventually my parents asked, whats it made of...Chicken blood. Bloody delicious, no pun intended.
I didn't really need to know anything in this thread.
In Sweden it's a common lazy dinner to fry up a couple of slices of factory made Blodpudding made of pigs blood and rye. Traditions of how it is eaten is regional but I'm used to it with lingonberry jam and grated carrots. It's quite similar to British black pudding.
EWH grated carrots
this used to be my favorite food as a kid. now i'm vegetarian.
Would it be vegetarian if you use your own blood? 🤔
The product? No. The act? Maybe.
I knew a vegan who drank their friend's blood because it could be done with consent. They were still vegan, morally.
... Was that friend also allergic to garlic and you only saw them at night?
Morcela - aka Portugese Blood Sausage. Weird texture.. like sand and oil mixed together - before it's cooked.
I'm from a heavily Portuguese immigrant populated area and the local cafe would serve a morcela omelette. Nothing better after a night out drinking
There's also the typical "arroz de cabidela", a chicken rice made with chicken blood and in the north of Portugal there's the "arroz de sarrabulho" made with pig's blood.
Die gute Blutwurst!
Where's the spiderman pointing at himself meme about people from different cultures pointing out how gross each other's animal based food are?
No.
So you think it's a better idea just to chuck half the creature in the bin?
Unless you're eating kosher, you're eating blood when you eat meat, by the way.
Even when you're eating kosher. Let's not kid ourselves here, the whole "clean meat" thing in kosher and halal is total bullshit.
Chinese also eat blood pudding (aka blood curd or blood tofu), can be made from any blood like pig, chicken, or goose. I find it to be disgusting, never had it before even when my parent asked me to tried it.
So are the reindeer physically whipped for their blood, retaining the reindeer, or are they processed into a dairy substance and then mixed with their blood?
The blood of the reindeer is whipped, then mixed with some of its meat, lard, flour, onion and spices.
In reality it's very rarely made of reindeer blood. Pig and cow bloods are the most common ingredients.
I grew up with the understanding that using blood for pudding was called Black Pudding and the Scottish ate it. With a side of Haggis! 🏴
When I play Valheim the game says Black Soup tastes like: "A perfect balance of sweetness and acidity."
Today I learned.
Looks a bit like red blood cell.
The word blodplätt actually translates to blood platelet and it's the common name for thrombocytes in Swedish.
I've seen goose and duck blood soup but pancakes is new to me
Yeah and it tastes awful
You don't?
Sheeps blood in some places
Huh, never heard of blodpannekake
It's good idea to not think too hard about your food, as you eat it.
It's really not an issue, if you source your food ethically
Yeah and its delicious.
That's pretty fucking Metal.
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That's fucking disgusting
To be fair, americans put ranch dressing on a pizza
Oh come on, surely it's not just fat louts from the US that put ranch on pizza. Right? Right?
Right, it's skinny and average louts as well.
Not as much as you would think. There is an old saying, if you aren't thin you don't fit in/
You should try bloodsausage once, it might become your favourite dish. I'm not kidding.
It's delicious. Although it does depend on the butcher.
How so? Does it depend on the butcher? I am about to "harvest" some deer, so I would actually like to know.
It's going to be a bit of a hassle to catch the blood of a deer that you've killed. You would need enough equipment to immediately hang the carcass to drain it. And the sealable pans to hold the clean blood. And the blood doesn't have much of a shelf life in the field.
Not sure it's worth the effort. Better to go a small locker plant and ask them to catch you some blood from a pig or cow when they kill one.
It won't. I get enjoyment from my meal knowing that no murder or suffering was involved.
I'll take the seitan sausage instead.
You eat meat? What's the difference?
I don't. That's disgusting
You clearly have no window into how our food is made. It's way way grosser than this. To be clear I don't think this is gross at all.
I'm very clear on how my food is made, thank you. That's why I choose not to eat any rotting corpses. There's zero blood or suffering in my diet.
I choose to educate myself instead of pitting my head in the sand, like most folks.
Alot of countries eat a lot of blood in a lot of ways. Its only shocking to western sensibilities.
And here "western" excludes at least Finland, Estonia, Netherlands, Scotland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Austria, Germany, Poland, France, and England.
Add France to the list ("Boudin Noir", which is a blood based sausage).
Now edited France into the comment 🙂
The Netherlands (bloedworst).
Added :)
The western countries are getting lesser and lesser in their number :D
*Americans
I think you mean shocking to american sensibilities. Most western countries have similar sorts of food, i.e black pudding in England.
Blood sausage and blood pudding is a thing in most European countries. It is not shocking to Western sensibilities. Did you mean American sensibilities?
Eh, we still remember the old ways. So it's not so shocking. We made fried pigs brain sandwiches a thing for example. Crispy outside, creamy insides.
Poverty = waste not want not when it comes to food.
English style blood pudding is delicious with brekky. Had it for the first time in Scotland a few years back and now I buy it when for a big breakfast cookup on weekends.
Try Johnny cakes while youre at it. Cornmeal and a pinch of salt, mix in boiling water until you get a thick batter, then fry it up like a pancake. You can add egg or blood as you see fit.
*a lot.
And non murderers