How "ethnic" are you? The ethnic food thread [Archive]

primesuspect

1 Sep 2004, 1:03am

I am mostly Polish. When I was a kid, I would be carted off to great grandma's where all the adults would speak only Polish and I would be bored to tears. At least I picked up the cadence and accent and familiarity with the tongue, but I don't speak Polish at all. I only know food words and simple phrases that a 3-4 year old would know of a second language (I love you, come here, yes, no, etc.)

However, one thing that I definitely have with me "from the old country" is my polish food eating habits.

The story begins two days ago at the grocery store. I picked up a package of liverwurst (or bronschweiger) and threw it in the cart, casually. I noticed a wayward glance from my (non-polish) wife and then the clerk kind of looked at it funny as well. I thought nothing of it. It's just lunch meat, right?

Wrong.. Only a polack or a german would buy this crap. It's mashed up livers! yuck! wtf!

However, I grew up eating it, and I love it. ;D

These are things that I like; things that I would never, ever try if I was not Polish. Not because they are all necessarily disgusting, but because they are somewhat obscure. Because I grew up with them, I think nothing of it. But, still....:

Czarnina (duck blood soup! for real!)
Kyzka (all kinds of blood and animal parts crammed into an intestine - a sausage... Don't ask)
Potato Pancakes
Pierogi
Golobki (some americans call it "pigs in a blanket" or stuffed cabbage)
City Chicken (the slogan is, Hey, It's Not Chicken!)
Kluski (best .... noodles .... evar)
Nalyzniki (better than crepes - the french don't know what they're doing)

Again, some are just nasty, but they are obscure to someone who is not polish.

So I ask, how ethnic are YOU? Tell us about some of the traditional foods in your family, or other eccentricities :)

Jello Biafra

1 Sep 2004, 1:10am

primesuspect

1 Sep 2004, 1:12am

Russian food is pretty close to Polish food. You probably don't want to know what you're eating. Trust me, it's better that way ;D

Straight_Man

1 Sep 2004, 1:13am

I like Braunsweiger also (aka Liver Sausage). Also swedish "pancakes" (these are actually deep dish pfankuchenische dingen (things cooked in baking dishes))and soufles. And Peanuts, Kona Coffee, and Gorp. Now how Hawaiian coffee fits into Swedish ancestry, I have no idea, but I like it, ditto for Gorp of several varieties.... :)

Being Swede on one side of family, and part Welch on other, my major ideocyncrasy (SP?) is STUBBORNESS.... Hmmm, in the culture I come from, what can I say....

-----
The Straight_Man, whose town (Punta Gorda, FL) survived Charley with a lot of quick thinking, baling wire, duct tape, and adaptation.... Even the major stop lights have been rehung along with miles of power and cable and phone cable runs, thanks to Utility workers from AT LEAST 13 States that I know of. The schools will take longer to rebuild, though.

Jengo

1 Sep 2004, 1:23am

im half mexican, and how ethnic am i? well... all we eat around here are beans and tacos... and bunch of caldo (soup/stew type mix) i HATE caldo... especially FISH clado... omg... thats sick... i hate fish....

and well... i speak spanish just as good as i speak english... and... i look like a straight up white boy... i even have light hair and Blue eyes!! w00000t!!..... :( all the latinas (the hot ones) dont even look at me cause i look all white, and all they are interested in is other latinos :bawling: and i really like latinas! cause they are teh h0tz0rz...

hmm... im your avg mexican.. i turn up the music in my car really loud and nobody likes what i listen to (like your avg latino) and i... am a bad driver... and i... hmm...

But on the other hand.. when i go visit my mom (my parents are divorced i live with my dad (hes the mexican in me) i eat Hamburgers, mac and cheese, Cambels chicken n00dle soup and any other american food... if i ask for it... (cause she re-married another mexican) so its like... mexico everywhere for me... meh... Enchiladas are good!! tamales are good!! w00t w00t... even tho ive been eating that all my life... i guess its still good... lol

:thumbsup:

Jello Biafra

1 Sep 2004, 1:24am

Russian food is pretty close to Polish food. You probably don't want to know what you're eating. Trust me, it's better that way ;D

Indeed, borscht is the only thing I am comfortable eating, cause, well, you cant go wrong with borscht, the rest I just grin and put up with (although some of it is tasty :D ) oh, and the Vodka! oooh! sooo good, sooo very very good :cheers:

Thrax

1 Sep 2004, 1:27am

You know, of all the things you've listed, I only have ever heard of potato pancakes, golobki, and pierogi.. And you know? Those are really damn good.

leishi85

1 Sep 2004, 1:35am

well, i'm full chinese, and at home we only speak chinese to our parents, i speak english and chinese with my sisters.

and about the food i ate, there are so many that will probably gross you out, but like prime said, i grew up with it.

first there this is pig blood solidified stuff(also duck), we put it in noodles

then there are all these raw seafood we eat.

also pig heart, liver, snake, and lots of other stuff.

it's very rare that i eat other food besides chinese. I watch chinese TV shows more than regular TV. I listen to about the same amount of chinese and english music.

Nomad

1 Sep 2004, 1:39am

WASP

Mt_Goat

1 Sep 2004, 1:40am

Prime,
You forgot my favorite, Halupki. Or some of the stuff that only comes out at Easter. Like (sp?) Huddutka (that stuff made from a million eggs that looks like a brain) or beets and horseraddish. I am what my friends used to call a Bo-Hunk meddley. A real blend several of thoes Eastern European countries. I still remember going to church when I was a kid with all the incencse and could never understand a word of the mass, which was all sung by men only!

RWB

1 Sep 2004, 1:40am

My mom is all Irish, my dad is all Czech.

I am all Texan. I live like a Texas, Eat like a Texan, and I will probably die a horrible horrible death like a Texan

Clutch

1 Sep 2004, 1:57am

primesuspect

1 Sep 2004, 2:02am

mtgoat: Halupki is just ukrainian for Golobki! ;D

entropy

1 Sep 2004, 2:04am

I'm like, 40% German (as is everyone around here! ;D) and well, even though I grew up with brats ... they're NASTY. I would NEVER eat one of those sticks of death. They look the color of printer paper before they're cooked!!! And after they're cooked, well, they look like ... a hotdog from hell.
The taste, though, is ... how can I describe it? Incredibly, 100% pure fresh

sewage. :wtf:

primesuspect

1 Sep 2004, 2:06am

citrixmeta

1 Sep 2004, 2:10am

i'm a syrian armenian raised in Kuwait.....and i speak arabic too.

when i was living with my parents, i was pretty much eating armenian/kuwaity/syrian/lebanese food. that would explain the gallstone removal at the age of 22 ;D ;D

http://www.sensiblehealth.com/gallstone.html

entropy

1 Sep 2004, 2:12am

Omg I remember the last time I had a brat (when I was 5 or 6) I almost threw up. I also have a fierce hate against those 'skinned' hotdogs :D. I don't care much for hotdogs to begin with, but if they have .... SKINS .... I'll flat out refuse to eat them. Sauerkraut though :D:D THAT stuff rules!

Clutch

1 Sep 2004, 2:13am

Also, polish-style cucumbers, sour cream, and lots of sugar. I don't know the polish name for it.

Never heard of polish-style cucumbers. Is it the way you cook them? We just pick them out the garder and get the cold, then slice them up, and sprinkle salt on them.

csimon

1 Sep 2004, 2:20am

brian the cajun menu is endless ...I think we have almost every food you listed on by another name (ie Kyzka (all kinds of blood and animal parts crammed into an intestine - a sausage... Don't ask) = blood boudin)

and if you've ever heard rumors of how we eat muskrat possum and tutle I assure you that at one time it was all true. You can still find turtle sauce picante in restaurants however.

Basically you name it ...we cook it.

Kingfish and mudd yall help me out here hunh?

I guess the basic food groups would be:

gumbo
sauce picante
fricassee
stew
etoufe
court boullion

...all with a base of a rue.

We also have batter fried, steamed, boiled, broiled, grilled and smoked.

primesuspect

1 Sep 2004, 2:30am

I've had turtle meat. It was awful :(

Clutch: Polish style cucumbers:

cucumbers thinly sliced
sour cream
sugar

enough sugar to make it sweet. Mix it all up, voila!

leishi85

1 Sep 2004, 2:41am

ooh yeah, i have had turtle meat also, like csimon said, chinese pople basically cook anything.

primesuspect

1 Sep 2004, 2:50am

Jello, I love borscht... It is one of the best things my mom makes, and you know as well as I do that nobody makes it better than mom.

omg I want some right now.... with kluski... omg.

Thrax

1 Sep 2004, 2:50am

Kielbasa and brats are incredibly good, too. Borscht rocks hard. Prime, Poland has some good food. The slavic/germanic/polish nations have good food in general.

Nomad

1 Sep 2004, 2:57am

Sorry for my horrible under explanation.WASP means White Anglo Saxon Protestant

In other words, your standard white guy who came here a long time ago, our traditional foods are everyone elses food. Also, pigs in a blanket is not Golobki, some Americans do call it that for no reason. The real 'pigs in a blanket' is a German/American food, it's tiny hotdogs wrapped up in a crescent like thing.

Kwitko

1 Sep 2004, 3:03am

Russian, Ukrainian, Hungarian, and Brooklyn.

entropy

1 Sep 2004, 3:06am

Pigs in a Blanket are good! (the hotdogs in that ... bread stuff)

primesuspect

1 Sep 2004, 3:13am

I've seen pigs in a blanket moniker given to:

Golobki (which isn't even pork. I hate when they call it that!)

Sausage links in pancakes (makes sense to me....)

Hot dogs in Crescent rolls (whatever...)

But NOT golobki! Come on, it's beef for chrissakes!

mcwc

1 Sep 2004, 3:37am

ooh yeah, i have had turtle meat also, like csimon said, chinese pople basically cook anything.
My mom's from China. She has eaten dog, cat, snakes, and field rats.

I am born in Canada and have eaten typical Chinese food but I have never set foot on China or Hong Kong to even eat what they eat nor do I plan to even go there.

leishi85

1 Sep 2004, 3:50am

so are you part chinese??

KingFish

1 Sep 2004, 4:03am

Although raised in Lousyana I'm mostly Irish with traces of Cherokee and a little German/British. Wife is predominantly hispanic with some indian. Our kids will be quite confused. I'll eat damned near anything that won't eat me first while the wife is a picky eater at times. You'd easily confuse both of us for being straight up caucasian.

csimon, here are others
boiled crawfish
corn macque cheux (my personal fav and not completely sure about the spelling)
frog legs
anything seafood
shrimp pistolettes
beignettes

KingFish

TheSmJ

1 Sep 2004, 4:03am

Well one side of me is Irish, the other is Lithuanian Jew. Naturally, the Lithuanian side is the interesting one.

Whenever I would go to my Lithuanian grandparents house, I'd get to listen to them argue in Yiddish with each other and my mom, eat chopped liver and crackers, Gefilte fish (whitefish and pike mashed together, served in cold blobs), and all sorts of other kosher foods.

My older sister is Korean, and my family used to partake in all sorts of Korean activities. One of my favorite things of my childhood is the annual get-together held by a Korean church close by to where I used to live. There - ALL the authentic, home made Korean food you could eat! You name the Korean food, I ate it (and probably loved it). We still eat stir fry and stuff for dinner at my house all the time.

leishi85

1 Sep 2004, 4:09am

never knew SM is this diversed.

mcwc

1 Sep 2004, 4:11am

so are you part chinese??
Nope, I all chinese.

primesuspect

1 Sep 2004, 4:12am

Well if you wanna go THAT route, TheSMJ... My second "unofficial" nationality is Thai, since I have been attending a Thai buddhist temple for almost two years. One of the benefits is access to the REAL deal Thai food - not the americanized/chinese-ized stuff they serve at Thai restaurants.... I wish I knew the names, but there are some bizarro meats and strange vegetables and fruits in a lot of the home-style dishes.

Not to say I dislike Thai restaurant food. I'm really lucky in that I get the best of both worlds :D

TheSmJ

1 Sep 2004, 4:15am

keto

1 Sep 2004, 4:21am

1. corn macque cheux (my personal fav and not completely sure about the spelling)

2. shrimp pistolettes

KingFish

1. Corn McChew? Has McDonalds branched out their menu in the south?

2. Firearms are banned or require a license in Canada. Would be cumbersome to have to go get a license to go eat shrimp.

csimon

1 Sep 2004, 4:21am

Gefilte fish (whitefish and pike mashed together, served in cold blobs), and all sorts of other kosher foods.

Hmmm Kingfish ...I wonder what you'd get if you mash garfish and choupique together? ...and would it be kosher??? ;D

keto

1 Sep 2004, 4:26am

For my real reply, I am WASP as noted by Nomad above. Dad's side is half Norweigan, half British Isles and my Mom's side is like potato famine Irish, tho their ain't a redhead in 4 big generations. Straight ahead northern north american diet, plenty o fast food heh. No real family traditions.

Mrs. keto however is full Japanese, tho 3rd generation Canadian. Still lots of Japanese tradition in the extended family.

Have eaten most seafood I can think of off the top of my head raw and enjoyed it. OK, not big on octo or squid and haven't tried whale. Yes, I would. Da best is raw salmon and raw belly cut tuna.

One food I don't enjoy is Daikon (sp?) basically yellow pickled radish or horseradish - aka stinky pickle and for a reason EWWW STRAIGHT SULPHUR!!

KingFish

1 Sep 2004, 4:38am

Hmmm Kingfish ...I wonder what you'd get if you mash garfish and choupique together? ...and would it be kosher??? ;D

It would be a hella trashfish. Sounds like a southern version of carp (a yankee trash fish). I'd still eat it though. Dunno about it being kosher, although if you throw enough seasoning on it it will be :)

Keto,
Shrimp pistolettes are a roux/shrimp mixture in bread. Corn macque choux (pronounced corn mock soo, again, not sure about the spelling) is quite spicy with corn, tomatoes, peppers and a variety of different meats (doesn't have to be a particular kind although usually with chicken, sausage, or seafood such as crab, shrimp, or crawfish). It's like a very thick stew in consistency. We haven't gotten to the remoulade yet.

KingFish

leishi85

1 Sep 2004, 4:41am

anyone else besides me also hungry reading this thread?

CaffeineMe

1 Sep 2004, 4:52am

Brats....LOVE the brats...they're so....GIRTHY!!!!

But I can't STAND saurkraut. My dad loved the stuff, and it was his mission that BY GOD, I was going to love it too....eat it, EAT IT he'd scream, pound his fist on the table, yeah, that's a happy memory. So no, no kraut for me. Rotted cabbage soaked in brine, yeah, that's good eatin'. :(

But brats, awww hell yeah, slathered in mustard and stuffed in a bun...eat 'em til I pop!

Thrax

1 Sep 2004, 4:56am

I just want pierogis and borscht now. :( A friend of the family makes incredible versions of both, as he's from that region.

primesuspect

1 Sep 2004, 5:01am

Keto: Daikon is pretty good, but as for natto... omg...

For those not so familiar with japanese cuisine, natto is basically rotten soybeans in fungus mucus. Really tasty :vomit:

MediaMan

1 Sep 2004, 5:02am

I read ETHIC instead of ETHNIC and thought ETHICAL...

So how ethical am I? I design and create television advertising so I'm not a bit ethical in the least.

;D

Swedish by lineage but not really "Swedishly ethnic."

Fior dee heeoor de hoooor bork bork bork!

S_Wilson

1 Sep 2004, 5:03am

Black Hawk

1 Sep 2004, 5:11am

Didn't see this thread. I guess I'm Cuban and Puertorican. I don't think we really eat wierd dishes (atleast for me). There's this thing called Mondongo (some type of cow intestine soup), Lengua (spanish for tounge. Cow tounge), liver (steak and stuff), etc. I don't eat any of that wierd crap. We usually eat all type of foods. Chinese (not all that authentic), Italian, american, central and south american, etc. We mostly eat rice and beans every single day.

Prime: Send me some Azteca and Thai coffee :crazy:

primesuspect

1 Sep 2004, 5:13am

Or hot dogs with chocolate and ranch.... :eek3:

http://www.short-media.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=9919&stc=1

Thrax

1 Sep 2004, 5:14am

Dude, thai coffee was the ****. It was soooo good.

Black Hawk

1 Sep 2004, 5:17am

Or hot dogs with chocolate and ranch.... :eek3:

http://www.short-media.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=9919&stc=1
Bah! I was hungry :rarr:

Crazy Joe

1 Sep 2004, 5:39am

Well my mom's side of the family is German so I love that stuff... My favorite is my special German Casserole (Polish Kielbasa, Saurkraut & Mashed Potatoes) Mmmm mmmm good!! Plus Southern Cincinnati has a really good German restaurant called the Haufbrau House (The only one outside of Munich)... Mmmmm....

muddocktor

1 Sep 2004, 5:53am

I'm mostly French with some Irish and Welsh blood back down the line and my wife is a real mongrel with French, Italian, German Jew, Spanish, Irish and American Indian (Coushatta).

As far as what we eat, csimon and KingFish have pretty well covered except for one thing; ALLIGATOR!! :rockon: Properly fixed, it's hard to beat. :thumbsup:

We do also eat normal food too down here, we just aren't too picky about what it is. :bigggrin:

Thrax

1 Sep 2004, 6:53am

"If I can hit it with my car, I've eaten it."
-Muddockter

Thrax

1 Sep 2004, 7:16am

Brats....LOVE the brats...they're so....GIRTHY!!!!

So, you're saying you like your meat to have girth, huh?

robby

1 Sep 2004, 7:38am

My grandfather's last name was Mcgee and fought for Germany in ww2, my father (abusive **** who my family is better off without) gave me the last name of Cole. I was born on an American military base in Okinawa, Japan. We lived in Japan for 3 years and then moved back (well, actually not back, but to, for me) to America when my so called father left us to start a new family with the woman he had gotten pregnant. My mom married Larry Stanford, who's last name I claim proudly as he raised me, a cajun. Now I live in Texas, so I love sushi, gumbo, and all sorts of Mexican dishes. But my all time fave has to be potato egg and cheese taquitos from whataburger. Part reply, part LJ entry. :rolleyes: sorry.

madmat

1 Sep 2004, 7:45am

I am German and Cherokee mix and fluent in most of the southern dialects except Cajun. ;) My wife is full Cherokee. As far as ethnicity goes neither of us were raised in knowing of traditions or traditional food. Therefore she likes salad and as for me, if it is fried with gravy, preferably white or cream, then I will eat it. :)
Yeah, I'm in the same boat, I'm 50% German and 25% native American (Chickasaw and Apache) although I was raised by "Southern" born parents (OK and MO).
I was raised on stuff like mashed taters and gravy, fried okra, fried squash, fried green tomatoes, crawdad tails, BBQ'd frog legs, deer, (and yes, deer sausage rocks :Rocker: ) and quite a lot of what is refered to as soul food in Yankee states...hell, the first time I described stuff I was used to eating to a guy I worked with who was black his reaction was "damn, I didn't know crackers ate like brothers" but I think it's fairly typical of a lot of southern foods.

Jimborae

1 Sep 2004, 1:34pm

Me, I'm a wasp too. So it's roast beef & homemade Yorkshire puddings every Sunday for me round at my mum & dad's. And as they are from Yorkshire, the Yorkshire puddings are served as a starter, on their own, doused in thick gravy and none of your oxo crap either. Its proper gravy made from the meat juices. hmmmm

primesuspect

1 Sep 2004, 2:05pm

Okay, enlighten me. As an american, to me, pudding is a dessert - sugar and cream and vanilla or banana, chocolate, something like that.

Can you tell me what you mean when you are talking about yorkshire pudding?

leishi85

1 Sep 2004, 2:09pm

maybe it's salty puuding instead of sweet.

leishi85

1 Sep 2004, 3:04pm

yah, i was right.

Jimborae

1 Sep 2004, 3:30pm

Yep basically its a pancake mix but served as a savoury dish. If there is any left over after the meal, (if I'm around there wont be), you can then have it cold with jam or honey as a desert.

And Mia, how can you say Weetabix is a funny food!!!! :) It's been my staple breakfast food for the last 33 years. Apparently it was about the second word I could speak and the first I could read. It also works as a mighty powerful laxative I find, has been keeping me regular also for 33 years, god only knows how much fibre & roughage is contained in two weetabix but it works for me ;D

primesuspect

1 Sep 2004, 3:45pm

Ummm. Is Weetabix the same as Shredded Wheat? (http://www.kraftfoods.com/postcereals/cereal_postwheat.html)

Jimborae

1 Sep 2004, 3:53pm

Ummm. Is Weetabix the same as Shredded Wheat? (http://www.kraftfoods.com/postcereals/cereal_postwheat.html)

To the uniniatiated it maybe but to those in the know they are light years apart. Shreaded Wheat is waterproofed horse food, basically straw repackaged for human consumption/constipation.

Weetabix on the other hand is the breakfast cereal of champions. :ukflag:

Weetabix (http://www.weetabix.co.uk/frameset.asp)

Jimborae

1 Sep 2004, 4:04pm

Uh dear, as I said, I didn't mean to offend anyone. It's just the sight of these two rectangular(-ish) sugar-coated islands in a sea of milk ... that makes me unwell. I understand that it is very popular though. My "someone" practically lives of it.

Don't worry Mia, i was just joking, no offense taken. Weetabix just has a very special place in my heart. :crazy:

muddocktor

1 Sep 2004, 4:37pm

Don't worry Mia, i was just joking, no offense taken. Weetabix just has a very special place in my heart. :crazy:

And colon too, perhaps? ;D :crazy:

GHoosdum

1 Sep 2004, 5:16pm

I'm at least 1/2 German, with some Irish and Dutch and Native American (not sure which tribe, but probably Shawnee due to location) thrown in for good measure. I'm also 1/4 I have no idea what, since my maternal grandfather was adopted. That 1/4 is mostly *******-white-guy though.

As far as foods go, I was raised vegetarian (except that I eat fish, too) so I'm pretty much prevented from eating most German foods. I do like sauerkraut though.

I also heartily enjoy a good 1/2 dozen pierogis whenever I get the chance. Most folks around here have no idea what they are, but when I feed them to 'em they find out they're damn good!

My favorite nationality of food happens to be Italian, although there is no evidence of Italian blood in my lineage. It's hard to resist pounds of cheese, pasta, and tomato sauce, though!

Well my mom's side of the family is German so I love that stuff... My favorite is my special German Casserole (Polish Kielbasa, Saurkraut & Mashed Potatoes) Mmmm mmmm good!! Plus Southern Cincinnati has a really good German restaurant called the Haufbrau House (The only one outside of Munich)... Mmmmm....

You remember that CB's Oma said Hofbrau House is very much non-authentic German food, right? And that you're not allowed to eat your German Asserole before you come over to our apartment...

primesuspect

1 Sep 2004, 5:23pm

"asserole" ;D

I'm gonna have to bring that up at the next family gathering. We have the same deal, except we use kapusta instead of sauerkraut. It's the same damned thing though.

GHoosdum

1 Sep 2004, 5:51pm

"asserole" ;D

I'm gonna have to bring that up at the next family gathering. We have the same deal, except we use kapusta instead of sauerkraut. It's the same damned thing though.

I'm having a serious case of deja vu (http://www.short-media.com/forum/showthread.php?t=12966&page=2&pp=20) here... ;D

McBain

1 Sep 2004, 8:00pm

You're crazy! Brats are awesome! Polish markets carry them (I'm talking real, not Johnsonville or whatever american brand). That brings up another huge polish food item that I missed: Kielbasa and Kapusta. how could I forget!

(Kapusta is almost the same as german sauerkraut, but a bit sweeter).

Also, polish-style cucumbers, sour cream, and lots of sugar. I don't know the polish name for it.

I was gonna whup your ass if you didn't put Kapusta on that list. SOOOO tasty.....my g-ma is 100% polish and still cooks a ton.

Other G-ma is 100% english, she spares us from most of her god-awful dishes, but we still eat yorkshire pudding by the ton.

PressX

1 Sep 2004, 8:34pm

Weetabix on the other hand is the breakfast cereal of champions. :ukflag:

Weetabix (http://www.weetabix.co.uk/frameset.asp)

I, both my children, my family and most of the UK start there Day with weetabix. We NEVER run out. It's the law. Always have plenty of weetabix in the cupboard! :thumbsup:

Yorkshire Pudding. Traditionally served with Roast Beef and a good gravy. As already stated it is made with pancake mix (eggs, Flour, milk). Usually in individual portions. Sunday aint Sunday without Yorkshire pudding :)

Toad in the whole: Same as Yorkshire pudding expect you pour the batter mix into a hot roasting tin over pork sausages. Chuck in the oven for about 35 mins. Serve with bake beans (Heinz of course) Can't get more British than that! :ukflag:

Black Pudding: Pigs blood and oatmeal with a few herbs and spices. Could eat it all day! Normally served with breakfast. It has recently got popular with quality restaurants who serve it with a warm salad or goats cheese... :rolleyes:

I am Welsh http://www.ipressx.com/images/welshwave.gif, Mother is Welsh, Dad was English/Scottish. That's it. I will try anything once. Went to a polish friends for Xmas lucn (Seem to remember is was Christmas eve though) and had about a zillion course. Stayed away from he fish but everything else was magic. Used to go to a restaurant in London that did great borscht (spell?). I love ostrich. Buffalo is good. Sweetbreads (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=neck%2C%20or%20throat%2C%20sweetbread) are great but not so easy to get since Mad Cows.. new rules and all that.

Straight_Man

1 Sep 2004, 8:59pm

How ethnic am I.

Well my family sticks to the homemade foods. We don't buy the fake seafood like you get at the store, we go out in the river to get it or we buy it from the docks down by the river. Good ol' country cookin like you see in the movies, that is what I am used to.

I got a dose of the different cooking styles and all when I went to Michigan for the lan party. It was good for a change but I was so happy when I got home and got a cold glass of sweet tea.

Anyone had deer sausage? wow that is good, I love deer meat :thumbsup:

Venison suasage is good. So is Venison roasted, coated with ground pepper, plus garlic spears stuck in slices in the meat, cloves stuck in it, baked in oven until done. So much pepper coating its ALMOST considered blackened.

Fried Rattlesnake or broiled Shark steak is not bad either....

csimon

2 Sep 2004, 2:27am

it's alligator season!!!

Clutch

2 Sep 2004, 2:53am

Never had Rattlesnake that I know of. Fried catfish is very good when fried. And fried shrimp is the best when they are fresh out the river, yummy. I am starting to get hungry myself.

KingFish

2 Sep 2004, 3:26am

What river are you finding shrimp there Clutch?

Clutch

2 Sep 2004, 3:46am

hehe, well I say river, it's really the ocean but you know how it goes. We always say we are going in the river no matter if it is the ocean or not ;)

dragonV8

3 Sep 2004, 1:23am

How ethnic am i ?? Born in Holland. Left when i was 16. Been in Australia since then. That was back in 1964.

Don't really eat many of the "Old country" dishes, except Sauerkraut and rookwurst.
Never speak anything but english, though i remember some of the dutch language.

Enjoy Polish gerkhins too. On occasions still enjoy a "Rolmops" (raw herring) and still love and eat Dutch licorice.

Nightwolf

16 Feb 2006, 4:21am

I'm resurecting this thread.

I'm half Italian. I eat a lot of simple pastas..home made of course.

Thats how gangsta..cough..i mean Italian i am.

Buddy J

10 Mar 2008, 7:50pm

Rise from the ashes!

I'm Irish and Norwegian in all its pasty whiteness. Hooray for St. Patrick's Day and krumkake.

Gnome Queen

10 Mar 2008, 7:53pm

Prime hath commanded us to revive this thread....

I am half Italian, a quarter German and a quarter Irish, but my family has been in the U.S. for a while so most of our food is fairly standard. We've kind of forgotten the German part of us, since my grandmother married Irish and decided she loved it. The most German I get with food is bratwurst with sauerkraut, and that's more because there's nothing like watching a great Sox game at Comiskey park with a brat. :D Other than that, we do the whole corn beef and cabbage thing on St. Paddys, and my mom makes awesome soda bread. Beyond that, we have some sweet spaghetti and Italian foods in the family, but nothing too unusual- the snails went out after my great grandma passed, so unfortunately, I never got to experience them.

Nomad

10 Mar 2008, 8:02pm

I'm a gay, black, Jewish eskimo.

10 Mar 2008, 8:03pm

I'm a gay, black, Jewish eskimo.

Sure sure, but what do you eat?

rolleggroll

10 Mar 2008, 8:19pm

I'm 100% Filipino. I was born here in the US. I am lucky enough to have been an exchange student to Philippines when I was still in grade school. In regards to how ethnic I am, I would say pretty darn ethnic. I've eaten my fair share of weird food and I can say that my day to day food is pretty unusual compared to most American standards.

I grew up eating 3.5 meals a day. You had your typical breakfast, lunch, dinner and a "merienda" which is an after lunch snack eaten around 3-4pm. The staple food of my home is rice. I eat it with everything. Eating common foods without rice leaves me hungry, and it just feels weird. A good example would be Bacon & Eggs. Gotta have rice with bacon and eggs. Another good example would be KFC. Get a bucket of chicken and some cole slaw, come home eat it with steamed rice. Thats great.

As for the weird ethnic foods I eat....
Balut - pre-hatched poultry. essentially its duck fetus still inside the egg completely with gooey sauce that surrounds it. its like a snack.
Tocino - Filipino version of bacon. Its a sweet cured meat that is a 2-5mm thicker than bacon, but enjoyed in the same way (with eggs & rice).
Lumpia - Filipino version of an eggroll. More specifically its a fried springroll with ground meat and vegetables.
okoy - deep fried shrimp and papaya fritter.
pancit - fried noodles with w/e you can find. a good analogy is "pancit is to Filipinos, as martinis are to bartenders." everyone has different recipe.
dinaguan - fried pigs blood stew.

Lotta BBQs with random meat. Filipinos don't like to waste any part of the animal, so you'll have a whole pig roasted on an open fire, chicken BBQ, chicken intetestines and entrails BBQ, chicken feet etc. I've had dog before. They never told me until after I ate it. It was really good. Had it a few times with a tomato stew, and a couple of other times marinated with a this sauce made out of beer. It was really good once you get past the part that it was your previous pet that past away. But then again, most people can't see past that part.

GHoosdum

10 Mar 2008, 8:26pm

Then why isn't your name pialumpia? ;)

primesuspect

10 Mar 2008, 8:32pm

lol

rolleggroll

10 Mar 2008, 8:34pm

Then why isn't your name pialumpia? ;)

rolleggroll originally supposed to mean "roll egg roll" not eggroll. But eggroll is easier to remember so it stuck and thats why i have eggroll pics and avatar.

Jokke

10 Mar 2008, 9:03pm

Right, I'm born and bred Norwegian, with som faaaar back Finnish ancestry and I guess I'm kinda ethnical in what I eat. I enjoy "F�rik�l", sheep, cabbage and whole black peppers boiled/steamed for hours. I like dried raindeerheart, blood sausages, dried fish, fish cakes, and almost all forms of processed fish. I'm not particulary fond of boiled, unprocessed fish. I love Norways national-pizza, Grandiosa.
I absolutely loathe the dish called "m�lje", which is fish, fish liver, roe (fish eggs) and fish stomach boiled together. I'm not tempted to try out "smalahove" either, which is a grilled/boiled sheep-head.
Also, Norwegian christmas cakes are the best!
Shait, forgot to mention the most famous Norwegian fish-dish, lutefisk. I'm not fond of it, but a lot of people are. Some like it enough to serve it on christmas eve. You take a piece of dried fish, leave it in lye (caustic soda), and boil it until it has the consistency of fish jelly. Smells awful, and tastes even worse. Legend has it that a in old times, a dried fish warehouse burned down to the ground. In the winter, a poor old man went out to the house, and searched the ashes. He founds some fish, that he went home and boiled. The ashes had given the fish an unusual flavour, and he made a fortune selling what he called ash-fish.

Black Hawk

10 Mar 2008, 9:43pm

I grew up eating 3.5 meals a day. You had your typical breakfast, lunch, dinner and a "merienda" which is an after lunch snack eaten around 3-4pm. The staple food of my home is rice. I eat it with everything. Eating common foods without rice leaves me hungry, and it just feels weird. A good example would be Bacon & Eggs. Gotta have rice with bacon and eggs. Another good example would be KFC. Get a bucket of chicken and some cole slaw, come home eat it with steamed rice. Thats great.My brother from another mother! Us Puerto Ricans are the same due to our common Spanish influences

Nomad

10 Mar 2008, 10:03pm

Sure sure, but what do you eat?

Seal bagels with hot sauce.

sharkydart

10 Mar 2008, 10:05pm

I've got Irish/Scottish/Norwegian/Polish (from Minnesota) on one side and African/Irish/Indian/Native American (from Maryland) on the other. I've got a Filipino godmother and Chinese-American godmother... I've had lumpia, but can't say I've had any traditional Chinese dishes. My mom and dad's families never really got along well, so we didn't grow up close to either of them - I have no idea if there are any traditional family recipes aside from my grandma's muffins and lemon pudding! The closest thing to cultural dishes my family makes would be 'greens'(kale?), cornbread, and various things seasoned with Old Bay like steamed shrimp, broiled salmon, and crab cakes (specifically with Maryland blue crab according to my mom). It kills me how many people in the midwest are afraid of seafood.

primesuspect

10 Mar 2008, 10:23pm

Now I see why your Xbox Live ID is Wild Flavors ;D

NiGHTS

11 Mar 2008, 8:43am

After having been dubbed an honorary asian back in elemantary school, I've had my fair share of Filipino cuisine. What I have learned is that you shouldn't ask what it is, you just eat it unless told to stay away from it. ...Eat it with lots of rice.

I'm mostly German. We eat people AFAIK. I have sprinkles of lots of others, due to that fact.

sharkydart

11 Mar 2008, 9:22am

Now I see why your Xbox Live ID is Wild Flavors ;D

hehehe Well, I guess that could have been a reason for me to use that name. :)

primesuspect

31 Mar 2009, 10:02pm

2009 thread bump! :D

Kwitko

31 Mar 2009, 10:13pm

Jewish food just isn't exotic. The European stuff is rather meh. Stuffed cabbage, borscht, whitefish, gefilte fish. The Sephardic stuff is much more exciting.

Leonardo

31 Mar 2009, 10:38pm

2009 thread bump! Good call. Great thread. My stock came from the northern Germany/Holland area in the 19th century. Most of the German culture was washed out of the family (unfortunately) by the time I came along.

Destiny, I don't know, but I ended up marrying my wife, a German, in Germany in 1984. I've since become conversant in German cuisine and beverages. My wife is an expert baker. We almost never buy bread of any kind. We have a professional grade mixer (Viking) and there is the smell of baking bread in the house routinely. That smell is one of life's great pleasures. The "ethnic" component extends beyond German. My wife also bakes French and Italian breads. Add another cultural twist. My last military tour was in eastern Georgia. My wife became very fond of Southern BBQ and mastered South Carolina pulled pork and South Carolina mustard BBQ sauce. That is one tremendous meal when served with fresh out-of-the-oven sandwich size dinner rolls!

Prime, I'm also a big fan of liver sausage, called leberwurst in German. Best served with strong brown mustard, a pickle, and rich beer!

SweetDragon

31 Mar 2009, 11:19pm

anyone else besides me also hungry reading this thread?

I am!!!
Well if you know DogDragon you know I am confused. My dad is crazy white people. My mom is Italian and Porto Rican/Spaniard.

At our house we cook a verity but every week is the same one night of each. Pasta/Italian, rice and beans, meat and potatoes, fast food, grilled meat and veggies, stir fry and rice, soups and stews.

My poor daughter will never know only one culture.

We only speak American English (even though I have family that only speaks Spanish) I think people are retarded if they live in another country for more then a year and don't know how to speak the local language. Surround in a different language it should only take three months to learn to speak it. Unless you choose to be ignorant. Since my family has been in Florida all my life and still don't know the language it totally annoys me. It also annoys me when I have to use a picture menu to order from McDonald's in Pine Hills, Florida because the order taker only speaks Spanish.

pigflipper

1 Apr 2009, 12:00am

I have to use a picture menu to order from McDonald's in Pine Hills, Florida because the order taker only speaks Spanish.

Thats what you get for going to the McDonald's in Pine Hills.

1 Apr 2009, 2:13am

I think I'm really ethnic. I come from a pluthra of countries and I like to eat everything. From hambervhelper, from hamberg, to soup, from were soup comes from. I have a enlighten pallet and only the finest of foods satisfy me.

WagsFTW

1 Apr 2009, 2:57am

I am half Polish, and very in touch with those roots. Once in a while I get to eat Kzshka (spelling?), but my dad can't stand the smell. I also love golabki, kielbasa and saurkraut, pierogis, borscht, potato pancakes, etc. My mom's side of the family is having a huge Polish Easter, and my Uncle makes some awesome homemade Beet Borscht! (Prime, I might have to save you some!)

My other half is a mixture of German, Irish, among others... but on my dad's family, my Great-Great Grandfather fought in the American Revolution. That's pretty awesome, but not very Ethnic. I guess I have the best of both worlds. :)

WagsFTW

1 Apr 2009, 2:59am

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Haven/1538/polish3_1.gif

cambrose

1 Apr 2009, 3:43am

I'm a big nasty mess of all things. My father's side being german/polish/west-african (great grandmother was an ex-slave's daughter and they settled in Wisconsin after reconstruction. She fell in love with a pasty polish dude and had one kid, she died, but the genetics live on). Mom's side being french/english, but both my grandmother and grand father on that side lived in the south most of their lives (WV and KY respectively). German food never stuck with our family much (the meats I love, but that's about it), but the southern food really has (if it wouldn't make me a boat, I'd eat southern-style cooking for the rest of my life). To top it off, my parents were both in the air force and stationed in NM for part of my childhood, so we have ate traditional mexican and tex-mex as often as continental US food for as long as I can remember. My personal favorite food is kielbasa with soupy black beans and brown rice (strange combination of traditional mexican and german/polish food).

pigflipper

1 Apr 2009, 4:53am

I eat cheese grits and fried catfish for breakfast!

MAGIC

1 Apr 2009, 5:25am

I'm an American.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v35/captainwarez/hamburger.jpg

Mt_Goat

1 Apr 2009, 6:00am

Reading this thread is making me hungry for pickled eggs (only the red beet juice kind need apply!). Add any of the Eastern European sausage kind of meat, some bread and chocolate and I will be good! :slurp:

Well maybe I could add some Irish corned beef and cabbage or sauerkraut since I missed St. Patty's.

MAGIC

1 Apr 2009, 6:10am

primesuspect

1 Apr 2009, 6:11am

Mt_Goat

1 Apr 2009, 6:19am

[v][AGIC']OMFG Brian, make those eggs.

ok

Send me a round trip ticket and I will come help. I really did like the peppers you put in with the eggs Brian.

primesuspect

1 Apr 2009, 6:20am

One round trip ticket from alaska to detroit comin' right up! :crazy:

Mr TRiot

1 Apr 2009, 5:36pm

Anyone ever had peaking duck before? I had it once at a buffet and spent the rest of the night hugging the toilet :(

Mt_Goat

1 Apr 2009, 5:42pm

Anyone ever had peaking duck before? I had it once at a buffet and spent the rest of the night hugging the toilet :(

Oh, so bad! I recall that was what happened when ducks got a hold of LSD in the 60's and is not to be confused with the pervert version of "peeking duck". No wonder you got sick. Personally I have had "Peking Duck" and loved it! :D

Mr TRiot

1 Apr 2009, 5:59pm

...What about venison pepperettes? They're pretty good...not really ethnic, but a good change of pace.

p.s. btw, Mt_Goat....Gfy. Rippin' apart my spelling :(

SweetDragon

2 Apr 2009, 4:27am

Thats what you get for going to the McDonald's in Pine Hills.

Ain't that the truth. Who know Porto Rico was only an hour drive away;D;D;D

Crazy Joe

2 Apr 2009, 5:12am

Thats what you get for going to the McDonald's in Pine Hills.

Seriously. I have never been to that part of Orlando and I probably never will. I'll stick with Volusia and Seminole Counties. Other than a Magic game now and then and my yearly trip to FETC in the Convention Center I haven't been to much of anything in Orlando/Orange County at all...

SweetDragon

2 Apr 2009, 6:26pm

Seriously. I have never been to that part of Orlando and I probably never will. I'll stick with Volusia and Seminole Counties. Other than a Magic game now and then and my yearly trip to FETC in the Convention Center I haven't been to much of anything in Orlando/Orange County at all...

If you ever want to know what it feels like to be in a country where you don't speak the language go to Orlando on west hwy 50. It's like going to Mexico, Porto Rico or Cuba. Hispanic music is pumped so loud out of cars you would think you where at a concert, Great home made Hispanic cuisines are sold off trucks super cheap, and don't forget that you will only be speaking some form of Spanish.

Thrax

2 Apr 2009, 7:58pm

I'm so ethnic that I eat ethnic trolling for lunch.

Snarkasm

2 Apr 2009, 9:32pm

(Puerto Rico)

floppybootstomp

2 Apr 2009, 9:52pm

What a peculiar thread :D

Ethnicity?

Hmm, I'm UK and in our dim and distant past we got invaded so many times most folks born here are mongrels though some don't like to admit it.

Fair skinned, blue eyed, brown haired if you wuz born on this isle you'll very likely be a mixture of celt, french, and danish. Plus a few other influences ;)

I'm white but I ain't no WASP cos I ain't got no religion so the 'P' don't apply to me.

I was raised English, roast dinners, fried breakfasts, lamb stew with pearl barley & dumplings, bacon, beans, weetabix, cornflakes, jam pud & custard etc.

And although that stuff is ok, I figure I must have a dash of asian in me cos I love curry more than anything else.

In fact I eat very little that is 'traditional' English.

Favourites are curry, italian and hearty lamb stews.

FWIW, my ancestry goes back to Irish (1850) and French (1550) but I'm me, and I think roots is basically a load of cobblers, we is all a big mix :)

SweetDragon

3 Apr 2009, 1:18am

(Puerto Rico)

Sorry I'm so in touch with my roots I can't even spell them. Now you know I must be related to DogDragon.
See what happens when you eat all those cherries and reproduce.
;D;D;D;D;D;D;D;D;D

DogDragon

4 Apr 2009, 10:57am

Now you know I must be related to DogDragon.
See what happens when you eat all those cherries and reproduce.
;D;D;D;D;D;D;D;D;D

You were born before the I came up with the cherries so don't blame them :shakehead

pigflipper

4 Apr 2009, 4:30pm

You can ALWAYS blame the cherries.

airbornflght

6 Apr 2009, 3:46pm

Milk noodle soup and sausages, fried potatoes, etc. These are all German foods which I enjoy.

Thrax

6 Apr 2009, 4:42pm

I have to say that I do have a great love of German cuisine... Hassenpfeffer, Knockwurst, Sauerkraut, craft brewing, Apfel-pfannkuchen, Kartoffelpuffer, Badische Snupfnudeln, Zwiebelkuchen and Schwaebische Kasespaetzle are some of my absolute favorites. It also goes without saying that German craftsmanship with Wurst is unparalleled, and profoundly delicious.

Kwitko

6 Apr 2009, 5:34pm

I eat Polish.

QCH

6 Apr 2009, 6:25pm

Ok... so I am 1/2 Irish, 1/4 Italian, and 1/4 Lithuanian. My dad makes a killer marinara sauce and home made ravioli. My mom, before she passed, made a Lithuanian bread thingy called bundalla (sp) which is a mini loaf of bread with cheese and ham baked inside. It was AWESOME. The entire family would place orders months in advanced.

Now... I am a connoisseur of many ethnic cuisine. I love Mexican, Chineese, Indian, Italian, Thai, a bit of the Polish, German, French, Spanish, Greek.... I love food. :D

Crazy Joe

9 Apr 2009, 3:35am

Mmmm... Food... I'll try anything once... I love the Food Tour of Detroit... We had everything... Even Ethiopian, which was pretty awesome... Definitely a social experience...

pseudonym

9 Apr 2009, 9:37am

I eat Polish.

What is her name?

Mt_Goat

15 Apr 2009, 8:52am

I eat Polish.

You animal! Aren't they a bit hard to wrestle to the ground and subdue so you can cook them? ;)

I got my pickeled eggs made last week. I put some cherry peppers in with them as well as some sweet pickels to try something different. It was weel worth the try as I like them a lot! Thanks Brian for introducing me to your version of the eggs. Without trying your eggs i would have never tried this variation.

primesuspect

15 Apr 2009, 8:58am

Oh man!

I think I need to make me some more eggs, Larry. If it wasn't for you, I never would have developed the recipe in the first place! We helped each other out on that one :D

Kwitko

15 Apr 2009, 2:11pm

I celebrated Easter with my fiancee. Breakfast was kiełbasa baiła, barszcz biały, bigos, and Ukrainian potato salad. We also had eggs, kiełbasa, babka, and bread from the basket blessed by the priest. For dinner we had Krakus ham.

NiGHTS

16 Apr 2009, 7:45am

Recently (re)discovered Mediterranean food - there's an awesome Gyro place right around the corner from my office.

leishi85

16 Apr 2009, 6:34pm

Recently (re)discovered Mediterranean food - there's an awesome Gyro place right around the corner from my office.

omg, i love mediterranean, well, i love them next to asian food.

poofie

16 Apr 2009, 7:20pm

zomgees, why would i read this entire thread when i'm hungry? i want it all. and i want it NOW.

RyderOCZ

16 Apr 2009, 7:24pm

i want it all. and i want it NOW.That is not correct.

I WANT IT AAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLL (yeahyeah) I WANT IT AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLL and I WANT IT NNNNOOOOOOOOWWWWWW.

poofie

16 Apr 2009, 7:26pm

thank you, Ryder. i'm ashamed to admit i spelled almost that entire sentence incorrectly. <3

RyderOCZ

16 Apr 2009, 7:27pm

^5 :D

Was not sure if the reference would come through correctly.

QCH

16 Apr 2009, 7:45pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFDcoX7s6rE

Kwitko

16 Apr 2009, 7:57pm

What is her name?
Somebody got the joke.
You animal! Aren't they a bit hard to wrestle to the ground and subdue so you can cook them? ;)
Somebody didn't.

Preacher

18 Apr 2009, 4:44pm

I'm Cajun and the wife is Mexican. We eat lots of tacos, tortilla soup, refried beans, gumbo, creole, fried crawfish, etc...Bro-In-Law is from Pakistan (kebabs!) and kids are currently in a Chinese/Japanese food phase. We have some family meals that look like the United Nations are coming over for dinner.

My current obsession is Japanese food...Ooooo those EVIL Japanese that put addictive chemicals in Edamame and Gyoza dumplings. I'd done as soon as the Ahi Tuna comes out...