Isekai de Tochi wo Katte Noujou wo Tsukurou - Vol. 6 Ch. 36.5

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It's health food, and locally popular. Both of those pretty much imply that it doesn't taste good to anyone else. There has to be a name for the whole category of foods that only people from a given region eat, but is horrifying to pretty much everyone else.
 
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It's health food, and locally popular. Both of those pretty much imply that it doesn't taste good to anyone else. There has to be a name for the whole category of foods that only people from a given region eat, but is horrifying to pretty much everyone else.
There definitely should be a name for that. One of my coworkers ate Kiviak (look it up) while in Greenland without knowing what it was beforehand. He's got a stronger stomach than I do - I'd have puked.
 
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@spauldo That's horrifying. To paraphrase the line about haggis in So I Married an Axe Murderer, "In fact, I think most Scottish Inuit cuisine is based on a dare."

I think I found a phrase, though not a single word, that describes this phenomenon: acquired taste delicacy. That's also the politest way someone can describe such foods. Some of these are not only repellent, but can be actively dangerous to eat, like fugu or casu martzu. There is a single word in Japanese, chinmi (which translates to 'rare taste' or 'delicacy') but I don't know the language well enough to know if that's the best term for this context, though.
 
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I tried natto once. Once. It forms the Unholy Trinity (along with balut and harkarl) of Foods I Won’t Eat On A Bet.
 
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@StLOrca Balut, uhgh, and I thought century eggs were horrifying. The demon that gives me nightmares thanks you for the new inspiration.
 

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