What are the little white bits, chopped onions?
Yes, raw white onion.
Well, there goes my appetite, this Dutch guy hates herring. Can’t stand the smell, taste or texture. 🤢
I’m not sure if I’ve had herring but I feel the same about pickles.
I don’t think the IQ is intact
As a Dutch child, we shouldn’t assume too much about their starting point.
You’d only get second-hand smoking if you spent every day in your life in the tourist hellhole of central Amsterdam. Try going to Germany instead, everything and everyone reeks of cigarettes and they even have vending machines for them in plain sight in amusement parks.
I swear, smokers in Europe have atrocious social graces with no concept of personal space. Even at the busiest and most cramped cafes, they will light up at the table with you or standing next to a doorway, and then act like you’re the problem if you’re annoyed or upset about second hand smoke. Beer gardens and outdoor seating almost universally include a carcinogenic haze, it just ruins the meal/drink imo to be tasting the air between bites
At least in America the social stigma is strong enough where they scurry off to their
opium densmoking area and get their nicotine hit with their brethren. Go in peace friend, you do you over there to y’all’s lungsSweet summer child, you should have seen Europe at the turn of the century.
I’ve seen doctors pulling out a cigarette and start smoking in the middle of a ward. Any place you’d go at night - a cafe, a bar, a pub, a disco - and you’d nearly vomit at how your clothes smelled the next day.
Everything and everyone smelled like tobacco.
Nowadays? It’s paradise I tell you.
The US used to be a lot like this too. Food service workers smoking cigarettes while they carve meat and then throwing the butts in the drain. Smoking sections in restaurants being most of the restaurant while the non-smoking section was a corner of the restaurant where they just sat you between all the smokers like the smoke was gonna hit an invisible barrier. Everybody was smoking all the time. My grandma once served my grandfather his breakfast in an ash tray because she was so sick of him putting out his ciagrettes on the plates.
It wasn’t until around the 2000s that things really shifted in the US, and now the thought of a smoking vs non-smoking section of anything other than a little room at the airport where the smokers all squash into to smoke is unheard of.
While I am regularly annoyed at smokers in restaurants, at bus stops/train stations and in pedestrian zones, you haven’t felt “everything” until you go to e.g. Turkey (as much as I love the country)
can confirm (germany), it’s gotten better but in my childhood there was literally just a cig vending machine outside my block, like 30-40m away from a playground
The US used to have those vending machines in bars and some restaurants too, up until the 90s. The smoking section of restaurants was mostly an invisible line that cut the room in half, so you could have a smoking table literally right next to a non-smoking one.
Fun fact, this is how I got about half of my cigarettes in high school. The local dive had the machine by the back entrance which was around the corner from the host stand. You could easily use it without being seen. And on the rare occasion someone did see you and said something all you had to do is tell them to mind their own business and leave because the entire process took about 30s.
And it’s damn tasty. herring and raw onions are amazing. That sad pickle slice can screw off though.
I’d try it. Is the skin meant to be eaten after pickling, or does it remove easily?
It’s very soft, you eat it with the skin. The Dutch version of salted herring is the nicest one (compared to Nordic and Baltic versions), it’s quite mild flavoured and has a great raw-fish kind of texture. Ones which are pickled longer are still nice but can get a bit floury sometimes.
Danish pickled herring is amazing though… You really think Dutch salted herring beats it?
In my opinion yeah, the texture is better, smoother, when they’re freshly brined as opposed to the more crumbly/flaky texture when they’re marinaded in vinegar. But Danish picked herring is also delicious.
do you also do the varieties that the swedes do? that’s my favourite part, getting a whole bunch of differently spiced ones. probably need to try the dutch version.
No need to remove the skin. It’ll just melt in your mouth.
The herring is not pickled, it’s raw and fresh.
It’s not raw, it’s cured in brine.
I guess you’re Dutch, you might not know that in English ‘pickled’ doesn’t only refer to things in vinegar, but it can also refer to things put in salt brine for a few days like maatjes.
Yeah, I don’t understand why there is a freaking slide of pickle.
I take it this is not available in a tin and must be purchased at some street cart vendor?
It would have to be cooked to be in a tin. You can get jarred pickled herring but it’s nowhere near as good as a fresh salted herring.
I tried the tinned stuff once and it was gaggingly bad. Not the nordic kind that will literally cause you and everyone in the room to vomit - but it really… was not good. And I’m adventurous when it comes to food. Plus the fish was cut across, not in fillets, so it had the spinal bones which were difficult to eat around.
Obviously that tin sucked. I’m just wondering if there is another kind I should look for specifically. That is until I get to visit Denmark.
Yeah. I’ve had a wide variation of them, some are awful like the ones you had, some are just okay. If they are shelf stable they’re usually never good, but you can get vinegar pickled ones in refrigerated jars or pouches which can sometimes be a bit nice if you’re into that. I would definitely recommend them over tinned ones. But none of them come anywhere close to the real delicacy that’s in that photo.
Even though they’re “pickled” these don’t really keep so you don’t really see them overseas much.
How adventurous? Have you tried balut? Only food i can’t handle personally.
No. I’m both curious and repulsed.
The crunch/feathers in the egg got me. I was told i didn’t like it because I didn’t use salt. I suspect that is not the case, never tried it with salt.
You usually get it at a fish cart or at a supermarket.
This meme is timed really well with me being on holiday in the Netherlands. But it’s also true
One of my favorite things about visiting the Netherlands are the herring stalls :D
I prefer mine in a bun, but all forms are delicious.
Is that fish even fucking cooked? It sure doesn’t look like it.
why would it be cooked? it’s pickled!
Put 200 on Herring, this matchup isn’t even close.
Why is that fish raw😶
Its pickled, not raw. Scandinavians have been pickling fish for a very long time and it’s worked out OK so far.
But no baking, frying, or cooking of any kind?
No of course not, you have to pick just one of the options for your people’s cusine
I’m American. We choose microwaving.
No deepfrying?
Sure, but if we had to pick one, I’d say microwave. Deepfry is enjoyed by all, but mostly a southern thing.
I’ve lived along a lot of the east coast, south of DC. Yeah, that’s southern mostly, but I would say fried fish is not only a southern thing. Hell, it’s a British thing too. Fried chicken, and everything else, is southern, but I’ve seen fried fish all over, wherever fish is common.
I don’t know if I’d call it the American style, but it’s common. The issue is America is a bunch of states. It’s like if you tried to combine all the states in the EU to one style.
I think fried is becoming less common in the US though. It definitely isn’t my preference, and I think that’s increasingly true as time goes on.
Y’all ever heard of sushi? Pickled is overkill.
It’s no different than sushi. The Dutch have lekkerbekje if you want to eat fried fish.
Tasty beak?!
I’ve never eaten sushi either.
well then you have your summer schedule all worked out!
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