Have you got a sorta tradational dish that makes you cringe?

Any Pizza or Sweet and Sour dish that has pineapple in it, deserves to be binned!

ooooh we have a sweet&sour pork PIZZA in my town ... as well as a tandoori pizza !!!!

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Sweet & Sour & Tandoori Pizza?............................That is both Bizarre & Surreal!

We get sweet and sour chicken from a local take-away and it's actually quite nice. The chicken in batter comes separately from the sauce so it's not soggy when you get it home. The batter is a bit stodgy after a while though so we can never finish it all. I have had some dire stuff in China Town.

I used to like sweet and sour chicken but the last time I tried it I wasn't impressed. I imagine it was me that changed and not the chicken.

Once a year my mother serves gefilte fish, which I liked as a kid but can't stomach now. Gefilte Fish

Any questions?

Ee no, pie floater? Never heard of such a thing.

Sachac I feed my kid a whole lot of things she'll question later in life:)

Don't have guilty pleasures very often but when I do it's got to be extra extra butter on popcorn. Cheese, chilli, everything on a street dog, nachos with the works. Quite cringeworthy and I usually feel sick later, but it's so worth it.

sashac, do you know about the Gefilte Fish Line?

In his 1965 doctoral dissertation, “The Yiddish Language in Northern Poland: Its Geography and History,” based on interviews with Jews from pre-Holocaust Eastern Europe, Marvin Herzog presented what is now known as the “gefilte fish line.” The line runs north to south, about 40 miles east of Warsaw; west of it, the preferred gefilte fish preparation was sweet, while to the east the fish was peppery.

The bottled stuff here all seems to be from the Galitzianer (sweet) side of the line. I think if somebody made Litvak gefilte fish here it might sell -- although maybe most people want what their mother used to make or rather buy.

I wasn't. Now I am. That's a rather interesting article but I've never seen gefilte fish stuffed into anything. In my parents' and grandparents' (when they were alive) houses it's always been served in the jelly. Although no one eats the jelly part, it's rather gross. It's always served with horseradish, after the matzo ball soup on Passover. The taste isn't horrible, slightly fishy but mostly bland but It has a slightly gritty consistency which I no longer find pleasant. Besides, by the time I'm done with the matzo ball soup and the chopped liver, there's little room for dinner, much less gefilte fish.

#16 Why would the Galitzianer be sweet since Galicia was to the east of that north-south line?

You made me do some research, bjd.

And where did the “gefilte fish line” run? Almost exactly along the boundary separating Central Yiddish, on the one hand, from Northeast and Southeast Yiddish, on the other. There is a map of this line in Volume III of “The Language and Cultural Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry,” published by the Yivo Institute for Jewish Research, showing exactly where in Eastern Europe gefilte fish was sweetened and where it wasn’t. Starting some 100 miles northeast of Warsaw, the frontier ran in a southeasterly direction, with an eastward bulge in eastern Galicia, which is today in western Ukraine. To the west of it, gefilte fish was sweet; to the east, it wasn’t. The frontier between vus and vos followed the very same path.

"Vus" and "vos" refers to two prononciations of the Yiddish word for "What".

Source.