How about a little herring a la Tartar?(This picture is from a cookbook that was published in Denmark in 1960. It had a bunch of great looking photos of awful looking food and it was written in a strange kind of English. I'll be posting more from it here and on Monkey-Scan. And of course they're be a Flickr set of all the photos soon as well, feel free to use them for your own nefarious purposes if you like.)
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Wow. I'll take a pass on those. Mind you, it wouldn't be the worst thing I've eaten. I live in South East Asia for a couple years. Everything from dog to cubes of coagulated ducks blood. *shudder*
Excuse me while I hurl...those look like egg yolks sitting atop mounds of ground beef, with some weird leafy greens thrown in for good measure.
Rather than put my reaction in words, please reference this picture with my reaction to tasting pickled herring in Grand Marais:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=38955523&l=e1b46&id=13947156
Maybe tartar would be different?
I love the smell of salmonella in the morning
Hey, pickled herring is good stuff!! Those wacky Scandinavians - even their food has to be about suffering.
Is that like raw egg yolks surrounded by raw hamburger? No wonder the Danes are so slim.
Hey,
Have you ever read James Lilek's "Gallery of Regrettable Food"?
I truly think you'd enjoy it!
He's also got a truly fun collection over at his website The Gallery Of Official Cheer. I strongly recommend it!
I am pretty sure that is steak tartar, not herring tartar. Herring, raw and ground and surrounding a raw egg yolk would look much less appetizing than this.
But, in defense of the Danes and all Scandanavian cuisine, many good folks in Minnesota and close by still eat Lutefisk. It is a dish of Norwegian origin whereby whitefish is cured in lye, rinsed, rinsed, and then rinsed a few more times, then steamed and covered with your choice of a luscious white sauce or an equally flavorful butter sauce. It looks like fish Jello covered in phlegm. Lately, the Norwegians have been on a campaign to get their good MN descendants to give it up - not for Lent, but for good, just as they did about a hundred years ago.
Oh, and by the way, lest any of you Southernerns get all uppity about the Lutefisk, remember that hominy, from whence grits (aka Georgia Ice cream) hails, is also treated with lye.
Hey, I just noticed! It's lunch time! Who's hungry?
Yes, many lutefisk dinners in my neck of the woods.
My mommy made me that as a baby.
That dish looks pretty fancy for cat food.
I have never eaten lutefisk. Or hominy. I do enjoy grits though.
IF-Go on, eat, you'll love it.
Jane-Shall I hold your hair out of your face while you hurl?
Missy-Very cute.
Jess-It smells like victory.
MnMom-I'll take your word for it on the pickled herring.
Mad-Even worse, it's not hamburger, it's herring.
Bugbear-I've seen that site before but I did not bookmark it until to day. Thanks for reminding me of it.
Snad-Believe me, it's herring. The cookbook was all about herring and other vile stuff. I'll always pass on lutefisk, and hominy too thanks.
Kim-That was child abuse!
Blueberry-Now that you mention it...
Monkey, did you know that James Lileks is a big fat right wing tool? His political POV makes O'Reilly seem smart.
Just so you know who you're letting infiltrate Monkey Central.
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