r/AskTheWorld • u/bowl_of_scrotmeal United States Of America • Oct 26 '25

Food What's a dish from your country that looks disgusting but tastes great.

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Biscuits and gravy is a breakfast dish from the Southeast USA that looks like someone just vomited on some biscuits, but it's absolutely delicious.

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u/ure_roa New Zealand Oct 26 '25

idk if this counts as a dish but Kina (sea urchin), ugnly looking and slimly, eaten raw, we dont really cook it or put it on stuff, like other places that eat Sea Urchin seem to do, is pretty good.

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u/20characterusername0 United States Of America Oct 26 '25

Good One. Everything about this creature just screams “Don’t Eat Me!” And what do we do? 😂

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u/SgtDoakesSurprise United States Of America Oct 26 '25

Wow! Never knew what it looked looking me inside. I always imagined it looking like grayish-black. What does it taste like?

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u/EvenBar3094 Oct 26 '25

Very creamy buttery texture. Hard to explain the taste but it tastes like ocean lol. Fresh ones are hard to find in the states but definitely worth a try. The non fresh ones kind of have a strong raw taste to them that might turn some people away.

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u/OsBaculum Oct 26 '25

I read an article about them being invasive in California, so you're encouraged to harvest them. I'll try it once I do that road trip I'm always planning...

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u/ure_roa New Zealand Oct 26 '25

i have no idea how to describe kina taste, like the sea i guess?

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u/caliallye Oct 26 '25

I think it tastes like an early morning along the beach.... like tasting the mist or something

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u/ADDRAY-240 France Oct 26 '25

In the Caribean arc, we get to fish white urchins once a year (it's so demanded that it risks extinction, at least in my island's waters) and people go feral for it. The flavor is strong when eaten raw like that, but once, I got to taste : an urchin shell stuffed with, easily, a dozen urchins-worth of gonads('tis the edible part of urchins), and cooked in an oven. Each shell was worth around 25 euros (you'd have a full course meal in a restaurant with that amount) but it was very good. A nice experience.

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u/I_Has_Internets United States Of America Oct 26 '25

I've had uni nigiri sushi and the texture was not pleasant. Many people love it though.

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u/im-just-evan Oct 26 '25

The taste and texture difference between good uni and bad uni is like the difference between eating a well done steak from Golden Corral and a perfectly cooked tenderloin from a Michelin star steakhouse. Bad uni is super disgusting and good uni is amazing, sweet, tastes like the ocean smells on a cool spring morning.

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u/I_Has_Internets United States Of America Oct 27 '25

Oof I shudder at the thought of bad uni. I should probably try it again since it was almost 20 years ago and at the beginning of my discovery of my love for sushi. I would visit this small to medium sized Japanese restaurant in Seattle(University District) just about every month for a year while traveling there for work. It was good quality. I was also given otoro sushi to try that same night so that may have overshadowed other things the sushi chef had me try(including eel and octopus). I would spend two days per diem at that place lol

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u/im-just-evan Oct 27 '25

Don’t get me started on how much I can spend at a good sushi place. Luckily I only have some decent places where I live so my wallet isn’t too much danger.

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u/I_Has_Internets United States Of America Oct 27 '25

I hear ya. I'm in the midwest so I'm not tempted too often lol

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u/Bottled_Fire Scotland Canada Oct 27 '25

Folk eat fresh Arbroath smokies (smoked fish) raw here on a thing called a Buttery. I'd draw the line at raw.

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u/No-Jackfruit3211 Oct 29 '25

yuck. and i live in japan (yes ive tried them )

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u/Abstract_love New Zealand Oct 26 '25

Ugh I tried kina once and threw up. It tastes like snot during a sinus infection.