My father had some weirdness about him and told us kids if we would eat pickled pigs feet he would give each of us $.50. That was big money for a kid in the fifties. First and only time.
@JAWG What was it like?
@RickiTarr
Well I'll say that anything gelatinous makes me gag. Lol
I may have held my nose and quickly swallowed. My father didn't lay down any rules beforehand, but, that it had to go down.
@JAWG @RickiTarr Pickled pig's feet in Bavaria (Surhaxe) is really good. A whole pig's foot pickled until it becomes kind of like ham. Served with Sauerkraut. very tasty.
@rrb @RickiTarr
I dig the sauerkraut part. Lately I've taken to sauerkraut, pickled beets and cottage cheese for breakfast. As for the pigs feet it's just one of those things.
@JAWG @rrb @RickiTarr oh, sauerkraut! where I grew we had fermented cabbage cold and crunchy(sometimes with carrots, or cranberries, or bell pepper, or sour apples). When I first came to Germany and tried actual sauerkraut: cooked, soft and served warm - it seemed the weirdest thing to me. It seems, totally new products often feel rather exotic, but what often feels actually weird is a familiar product with some twist, some shift in taste paradigm
Is this tied to making cider or (German) most? Fermented apple (obst) juice?