Blutwurst!
That's right, as in bloodwurst. Which is, as one might guess, mostly blood. A lot of people joked about me eating this while I'm in Germany, and I always said that if I got the chance I would - if for no other reason than to say I did. Well, I did. Furthermore, it's actually pretty good.
So first, to explain how utterly vile this stuff looks. You can get it in sausages or in tins, and this was in a tin. It looked like congealed blood (big surprise there) with a layer of congealed fat on the top, and some rough chunks of varying colors of brown to white mixed in. It looked, frankly, like something that had been forgotten in the back of the fridge for a very, very long time. Words cannot do it justice. I need to get a picture of it next time Frank has some. Seriously.
I did an internet search for pictures of Blutwurst, but this was the best I could come up with, which doesn't do it justice. Also, imagine those aren't nuts in it, but rather chunks of bacon, or at least bacon fat. And yes, all of that reddish brown that is the majority of the sausage is blood. Also, randomly, did you know that if you do an image search for "Blutwurst" on google, you will come up with a picture of the poster for The Punisher movie? It's very odd. Anyway.
So I tried it. The texture is like a dry paste - a tiny bit crumbly, but really just kind of thick. With chunks.
And to my great surprise... it's actually pretty good. Better with some mustard on it (which comes in tubes out here, like toothpaste), but really pretty good. It's got lots of spices in it, which, sadly, I can not begin to sort out. Not something I would eat a lot, but certainly something I would eat again.
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So first, to explain how utterly vile this stuff looks. You can get it in sausages or in tins, and this was in a tin. It looked like congealed blood (big surprise there) with a layer of congealed fat on the top, and some rough chunks of varying colors of brown to white mixed in. It looked, frankly, like something that had been forgotten in the back of the fridge for a very, very long time. Words cannot do it justice. I need to get a picture of it next time Frank has some. Seriously.
I did an internet search for pictures of Blutwurst, but this was the best I could come up with, which doesn't do it justice. Also, imagine those aren't nuts in it, but rather chunks of bacon, or at least bacon fat. And yes, all of that reddish brown that is the majority of the sausage is blood. Also, randomly, did you know that if you do an image search for "Blutwurst" on google, you will come up with a picture of the poster for The Punisher movie? It's very odd. Anyway.
So I tried it. The texture is like a dry paste - a tiny bit crumbly, but really just kind of thick. With chunks.
And to my great surprise... it's actually pretty good. Better with some mustard on it (which comes in tubes out here, like toothpaste), but really pretty good. It's got lots of spices in it, which, sadly, I can not begin to sort out. Not something I would eat a lot, but certainly something I would eat again.
B-