And it’s damn tasty. herring and raw onions are amazing
Alley cat lunch
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Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’d try it. Is the skin meant to be eaten after pickling, or does it remove easily?
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
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.
BorgDrone@feddit.nl 2 months ago
No need to remove the skin. It’ll just melt in your mouth.
MoonRaven@feddit.nl 2 months ago
Yeah, I don’t understand why there is a freaking slide of pickle.
wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I take it this is not available in a tin and must be purchased at some street cart vendor?
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
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.
MoonRaven@feddit.nl 2 months ago
You usually get it at a fish cart or at a supermarket.
Aganim@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Well, there goes my appetite, this Dutch guy hates herring. Can’t stand the smell, taste or texture. 🤢
ramenshaman@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m not sure if I’ve had herring but I feel the same about pickles.
axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe 2 months ago
I don’t think the IQ is intact
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 months ago
As a Dutch child, we shouldn’t assume too much about their starting point.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Fun fact, if you look up “Dutch cuisine” on Wikipedia, this is literally the second picture (right after Gouda cheese).
krawutzikaputzi@lemm.ee 2 months ago
It doesn’t show that for me, but now I know of Bamischijf. That sounds good but so weird. Has anybody tried that?
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 2 months ago
The only Dutch food I can vouch for is hagelslag.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What are the little white bits, chopped onions?
CalipherJones@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yes, raw white onion.
ieGod@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
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.
atlien51@lemm.ee 2 months ago
This meme is timed really well with me being on holiday in the Netherlands. But it’s also true
Mongostein@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
So… is that good? It doesn’t look very good to me, but I’ll try anything twice 🤷♂️
lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
It could be good if it’s pickled nicely and seasoned well
LongLive@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Put 200 on Herring, this matchup isn’t even close.
FuckFascism@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Is that fish even fucking cooked?
lime@feddit.nu 2 months ago
why would it be cooked? it’s pickled!
LumiNocta@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
It’s raw herring. They call it Hollandse Nieuwe and they’re literally raw herring without guts and head. They add onions and sometimes a pickle.
But it really is just raw fish and it’s quite tasty!
Gladaed@feddit.org 2 months ago
It is cooked. In the sense that it is not raw. There are other ways then boiling to produce safe, accessible calories.
glorkon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
In Germany, we have pickled herring too, but this German is happy to admit that Hollandse Nieuwe reigns supreme.
Gladaed@feddit.org 2 months ago
Seems like a waste of onion. At least get it on there!
TheBat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Why is that fish raw😶
pulsewidth@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Its pickled, not raw. Scandinavians have been pickling fish for a very long time and it’s worked out OK so far.
Hoimo@ani.social 2 months ago
It’s been working out a lot better since the invention of flash freezing. For both sushi and pickled fish, the risk of parasites was always present. Now it’s just as safe as cooked fish and it doesn’t taste any different from raw.
TheBat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
But no baking, frying, or cooking of any kind?
breecher@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
We have, the Netherlands aren’t Scandinavia though.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Do Americans not eat fish?
RobotZap10000@feddit.nl 2 months ago
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.
Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee 2 months ago
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 den~ smoking area and get their nicotine hit with their brethren. Go in peace friend, you do you over there to y’all’s lungs
ByteJunk@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Sweet 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.
baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
can confirm, 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
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
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.
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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)
Mongostein@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
What about second hand fish?