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RE: You once hated it, but now....
April 16, 2018 at 5:48 am
(April 16, 2018 at 5:42 am)Antares Wrote: (April 16, 2018 at 5:31 am)Sal Wrote: Fermented meat.
Ya heard me.
I've a friend in Durham that owns a butcher shop. She explained how they age meat and just how putrid some of the customers want it. To each his own...
We hang it up to dry in a dry cellar and the conditions here give it a certain flavor that you wouldn't get anywhere else - people have tried letting meat hang up to ferment other places, but only here in Faroe Islands are the right conditions to get the distinct flavor associated with skerpikjøt.
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RE: You once hated it, but now....
April 16, 2018 at 5:51 am
Is that like a dried salami or something? photo?
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April 16, 2018 at 5:53 am
(April 16, 2018 at 5:51 am)ignoramus Wrote: Is that like a dried salami or something? photo?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skerpikj%C3%B8t
A short article with 3 images on it.
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April 16, 2018 at 5:56 am
Yes, I'd say it's an acquired taste ...
I wouldn't mind tasting it, but not if I can smell it from the next room...
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April 16, 2018 at 6:02 am
The smell mainly comes from improper storage, the article gives the impression that's normal when there's wet weather, but that's not the case in my experience. It just has to be in the right conditions in a brisk ventilated cellar. And the flies thing is just because of lack of fly nets in the cellar, not exactly a new invention.
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RE: You once hated it, but now....
April 16, 2018 at 6:32 am
Branston pickle. Lychees. Olives (although it still depends on the olives).
... but now in a pack of Liquorice Allsorts those are the first ones I go for and pretty much leave the rest.
