finbar wrote: ↑Thu Dec 06, 2018 9:24 pm

Anchor Moy wrote:Scotland, home of the deep-fried Mars bar and horrendous greasy deep-fried gunk in general.

Come on now, lower class food is generally terrible everywhere, the national stereotype can be skewed by demographics.
What about haggis, black pudding, smoked haddock/cullen skink/kedgeree/kippers, porridge (of course connotes drudgery, but done well can be delicious), smoked salmon, aberdeen angus, venison, grouse, famous grouse et al ...

The worst food is undoubtedly Eastern European and Russian, all boiled gristle and cabbage.
After Khmer street food.

Don't forget a for Scottish sausage.

Yummy.

Gee UT I didn't know you batted for the other team!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Damned plebians.

The thing with Scottish sausage is the ravenous carnivores, fresh in from a day skinny dipping in the loch after hunting down stray sassenachs, didn't give the poor butcher time to stuff the meat* into the intestines.

Of course, the other answer about stuffing meat into the GI tract is something that they don't do up there, even when they are lonely in winter.

*an overly generous term

Anchor Moy wrote: ↑Thu Dec 06, 2018 9:06 pm The World Championship Finals for World's Worst Food ...

Do we have any other contestants here for the world's worst food ?

Ireland. (Land of my nearly birth.). Cabbage. They invented white cabbage by boiling green cabbage until it was white. The green dye then being used in their best battle garb, for use when facing off against them pesky English.
The Irish cooking method (according to my mother) was to boil everything into submission. Cabbage thus was devoid of colour and texture. The three main food groups being vegetables, boiled to mush, and white or translucent. Meat, boiled to mush, and turned grey. And potatoes, which make Poteen*.
Occasionally potatoes were eaten, too. Or not, if those pesky English had nicked them all.


*Not to be mistaken for Cannuck poutine which involves French fries, gravy and almost-cheese. An excellent dish which when eaten quietly, you can hear your arteries hardening with each gulp.