Finnish rye flour and blood dumplings called palttu or rössi are the second worst traditional "delicacy" in the world according to ratings from tastetlas.com. They're superceeded only by blood pancakes which the site labels as a Swedish delicacy. I thought this was a competition where we could beat them, for once! Alas, no… To be fair, blood pancakes or veriletut are also quite popular in Finland traditionally.
Both palttu and blood pancakes are absolutely vile and I would literally cry every time when forced to eat these in daycare and school.
by technosboy
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Blood pancakes are absolutely vile, but mustamakkara is ok.
Who cares? I wanna try a jellied eel tho!
Literally one of my favourite foods with lingonberry jam.
The swedish rotten fish is fine and the Icelandic rotten piss shark is supposedly better?
Seems I’m going to have to try palttu, as it is impossible to find a good blood sausage in Finland. Musta makkara is fine, but not quite high-grade blood sausage in my book.
Why are they using Swedish name for a Finnish food? Are they stupid?
Veripalttu I’ve never had but in school blood pancakes were one of my favourites.
Surely they are survival dishes at a time when you needed to use it all. The iron content would have been handy with lack of other foods available.
I don’t like the blood pancakes they sell at stores, but I love palttu (or kampsut, as my granny calls them) made by my grandma.
Eating blood is a pretty big taboo across most cultures, so I’m not surprised. We’re the odd ones out.
Never had veripalttu, should probably try it I guess.
Philistine, blood pancakes are divine.
They definitely were among the best foods in school.
So worse than a Balut egg?
As a kid, I actually liked veripalttu. Blood pancakes were hardly edible even then. Veripalttu with Synkeä Sakari potatoes would be nice.
That’s also a very regional dish. I think I have never even seen veripalttu in the wild, let alone eaten it (I’m from the southeast). We did have blood pancakes in school sometimes but even that was very rare.
Torille
And who are the judges here lol? Cant find a single review on most items on the list. Who cares.
A few years ago I went to southern France and the locals gave me a piece of some blood sausage, a local delicacy, to try. I quite liked it and when I asked if I could have another piece, their reaction was “Wtf, you actually like it???”
I got all the pieces.
Blood sausages are great, as well as blood pancakes. The southern weaklings cannot handle the delicacies of us northern warriors.
All of those foods in the list look tasty. Blood pancakes and palttu are pretty good if a bit boring foods.
Delicacy = When animal was butchered – or had to be, like injured cow – blood was of course used. Cooked with flour and dried. That’s survival food, wouldn’t call it a delicacy.
Can we just ban anything Tasteatlas publishes.
Where in Finland are these eaten? I’ve never tried them.
There is stuff like blood pancakes (verilettu), blood sausage (musta makkara), veripalttu etc.. I personally like them all. I quite often buy a piece of musta makkara from local store (lihatiski) and eat it either like that or with puolukkahillo.
We are not unique in blood foods. For example, germans have similar black sausages, and British have black pie and black pudding etc.. Blood is a good source of iron in cooking.
If you have not tasted these foods, try once! You can be surprised how good they taste – or not, everyone has their preference.
As if most cultures didn’t have a version of black pudding.
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