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TIL some Scandinavian countries eat blood pancakes. (made with whipped reindeer blood.)
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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.
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 didn't really need to know anything in this thread.
Blood is good, a bazillion mosquitos can't all be wrong
I hear they’re really buzzing about it
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...
Yum
A chunky queef if you will
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.
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
In my culture we have a sausage made mostly with blood. Quite tasty.
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.
That's great to hear! Did they offer any lingonberry jam though?
Mine too. I've tried it, but didn't like the texture much.
You can fry it and it tastes different.
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Where's the spiderman pointing at himself meme about people from different cultures pointing out how gross each other's animal based food are?
Looks a bit like red blood cell.
Scandinavian
Half of the countries listed are Finland and Estonia lol.
But they're honorary Scandinavian, that's an old tradition.
Then there's Filipino dinuguan, a pig's blood stew.
And it's fucking delicious.
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Huh, never heard of blodpannekake
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