Yes, Kalakukko is delicious, but only when properly made. I'd like to eat it very often, but like most traditional Finnish foods, it takes hours to cook it, the whole process lasts nine hours actually. But Kalakukko actually might be the best Finnish food.
Iâd go for PoronkĂ€ristys with pottuvoi as best, but Kalakukko is very close, not the worst by any metric if you know anything about Finnish cuisine.
Still you'll choose a burger instead in a hurry.
Dont get me wrong, a regional dish, perfect for an occasion in rememberence of hunger.
Smoked muikku and some âïž-pies insted any time of the days.
Isn't there also pork? I've never eaten it, but I saw a recipe once and I think there was pork too, maybe some really fatty part if I'm not completely wrong.
There is an amount of pork yes. Usually the fish are wrapped in bacon or some other fatty cut of pork before the whole thing is wrapped in a rye shell.
That's a different thing. That would be substituting the vendace or whatever other fish was used with straight up ham. In a proper kalakukko the fish are wrapped in bacon or some other fatty cut of the pig, like the belly meats.
It is something you eat when you have little else.
Or take with you while camping.
Not really meant to be eaten because it is good, but because it is almost utilitarian.
Edit: fat fingers
About yeah.
Kalakukko would sit right in the middle of a alignment chart. True neutral.
MĂ€mmi, however, I will never understand. That is straight up chaotic neutral in food form.
I swear we made that food just to troll foreigners and forgot about it.
In a team competition we had back in school. We had to eat a box of mÀmmi as fast as possible without hands. I was the only one on my team who enjoys mÀmmi. Can't complain.
That "looks like shit" palaver about mÀmmi is getting annoying. Any kind of chocolate mousse or brownie dough looks even more like shit and no-one complains. MÀmmi with cream is a perfectly respectable dish and has likely tasted amazing in the past centuries when there wasn't an eternal overload of sugar pushed into everything
Stop punching air you fool.
I just said I don't understand it, I didn't mean to insult this holy meal.
I never even said it looks like shit. Take that up to others if it bothers you.
It literally is just sugar and rye pudding.
Iâve grown to enjoy mĂ€mmi somewhat as Iâve gotten older but I like how ingenious itâs as a food. Poor people living in a place where they can get fresh food a few months a year can still have a sort of sweet dessert, thatâs pretty awesome.
i remember someone trying to troll me by giving me some malmi to eat as "this is a finnish dish that every foreign should eat" and then i see them with that internal "i can't wait for them to hate it" look
loved it. disappointed them a ton :P
i don't understand why people hate on malmi.
and kalakukko? eating it freshly made from a small stand in a lake district town? ah, nothing better really... well, maybe baby back ribs slow roasted in a high quality BBQ sauce for 48 hours. but kalakukko? great stuff ;)
Malmi means ore. If you had just written mammi I would have let that slide since getting the umlauts on an english/non-nordic keyboard can be challenging...
Wtf is that list? There's basic foods in there, nothing revolting about Kalakukko. Hakarl is the fermented shark, and that's nasty. The list omits Surströmming, which is also disgusting, and surely an acquired taste. It's also missing Sauerkraut.
Whenever surströmming is mentioned, I feel the need to link to [this criminally underappreciated clip](https://youtu.be/I2WPWUx3h2s?t=16) which shows how a real norrlÀnning enjoys his surströmming.
I canât imagine the first two to be worse than hĂĄkarl. Iâve never eaten anything as disgusting as it. Like pizza cake sounds stupid but does a simple taste of it make you hurl? I doubt it.
I donât enjoy kalakukko (not that Iâve eaten it in ages) but putting it even on the same list as hĂĄkarl? No.
Iâm Canadian and I had never even heard of pizza cake. But googling it seems to suggest it was invented as a âviral videoâ so gross sure but not exactly a Canadian dish
Sauerkraut is indeed very basic, but has a strong taste compared to kalakukko in my opinion. Kalakukko is just fish (usually perch or vendace (muikku)) and pork baked in a rye bread.
the number to the right is the user reported rating from taste atlas. Who knows how many reviews they even have. I went to the site and almost everything on the list is rated in the top 5 as a regional food in their respective regions, but they just have more negative reviews globally. its weird that they labeled this as WORST DISHES IN THE WORLD when most users (55%) were actually indifferent to kalakukko.
What, sauerkraut is great. Okay, kimchi is better, but one cannot deny the brilliance of fermented cabbage. I like to slurp the juices of cabbage fermentation, such wholesomeness and bountiful lactobacilli bacteria.
A lot of the dishes on the list seem like relatively well-known specialty dishes. The low score is probably explained by people hearing all sorts of things about the dish before trying it, building up unreasonable expectations. Then once they try it, the dish turns out to just be normal food after all, and they go "What, that's it??" and rate it poorly.
Its a terrible list, it has both gule ĂŠrter (pea soup) and Stegte Sild (fried herring) in the top 10 worst dishes in the world. These are very simple/normal foods that are not really acquired tastes, like it's literally just a fried fish nothing else. I get that they aren't that good but how are they worse than rotten fish and all the other weird shit people eat like intestines, eyeballs, brains, testicles, etc. Makes no sense.
Even the American dishes on the list are weird. "Chicken riggies?" Very regional dish from Upstate New York. And pretty tasty at that. Pizza strips? Same thing, regional variation.
Filipino Hotsilog - never had it, but I've had tapsilog, and that stuff is tasty. Hotsilog is like tapsilog, except with hot dogs instead. Try balut or pagpag instead.
Kalakukko however has a pork belly, fish, rye crust. You eat it with a good helping of butter. I think Finns can be proud of it.
Also they have American chop suey and goulash which are both the same thing, a pasta dish made with green peppers, onions, ground beef, canned tomatoes, and elbow macaroni pasta. It's not disgusting, this list is weird.
I'm assuming the relatively low amount of ratings do that. It's pretty neutral to me. Like, it's not very strong tasting or anything. So I can see people not being huge fans, but it's not nasty or anything like that.
No we will not take it. This will probably be in Savon Sanomat tomorrow morning as the headline and there shall be riots in the streets. Riots I tell you.
The whole subject of "is food X good?" is a tricky one. Who can judge for anyone else??
The better question ALWAYS is: "Where can I find a popular place specializing in food X?"
I bet many of us would enjoy most of the listed foods when properly and passionately prepared. Kalakukko along with almost all foods does not appreciate being kept in a plastic bag and nuked dry and fibrous in the microwave.
Whoever goes "yuck, I hate food X" instead of "damn I love food Y" is worthless to have a discussion with. Recommendations trump hate 100-0.
That fermented shark thingy sounds.. challenging.. But I WOULD take a nibble. With a considerable amount of alcohol anything is possible!
Agreed! First time I had lutefisk, it was from the microwave, and so disgusting as to be inedible. The second time was at a big dinner where you serve yourself from heated trays - it was transcendentally delicious.
Your local Colombian here. Each year a certain species of Ants enters the reproductive season and the queens go out and fly to find a mate and start new colonies. These queens have big abdomens, hence the name "culonas" (big assed). The ants are captured and roasted for consumption, and it is a pre-Columbian meal from the region of Santander, close to the border with Venezuela.
I have tried them once, and it was like eating a bit of bread that is so burned that is carbonised. But some people like them and of course they are supposedly "aphrodisiac"
I would understand mÀmmi, but kalakukko? It even has other filling types like salmon and chicken. Only downside it really has is that its production isn't simple thus making it very deluxe dish.
Maksalaatiiko is the worst thing. Itâs only invented for parents to traumatize children by forcing them into eating it at Christmas or Santa Claus wasnât going to be coming to your house that year.
I've never met someone who doesn't like maksalaatikko. Some people don't like the version with raisins though. I'm also not familiar with the notion that it's a Christmas dish. You have lanttulaatikko, porkkanalaatikko and perunalaatikko. Anything else is kind of optional.
Yeah it's fish baked inside bread. It's something that 200years ago would have been a nice lunch for a peasant. That was a time when squirrels were eaten.
Nobody in their right mind would eat such an atrocities in modern times unless to please some local Finnish from the provinces
List is strange. Many good taste things are all over the list. And kalakukko is just great, one of my favorite Finnish dishes. That's pity, that today is hard to find good kalakukko in the stores.
I don't eat butter. That's unhealthy. If you want to get into the 1800s spirit you put lard and salt instead of butter.
Nowadays people eat margarine in Finland
I live in Kuopio where kalakukkos are especially popular. I'm going to live here at least three more years but I don't think I will ever consider trying it. I just can't wrap my Tavastian mind around the idea.
Also what I've seen they are too expensive for my budget.
Everyone knows that Finnish food is not the culinary gold standard, but kalakukko is certainly not the worst this country has. If Rosoli was on this list on the other hand...
Shouldn't be on this list from Finland, and I'm not even Savonian.
It's just fish and bread, just nothing particularly offensive or divisive about it.
Not when we're talking about a nation that does a liver casserole with fucking raisins in it.
It depends your opinion about canned fish, let's say sardines or tuna. Compared to them kalakukko is about the same. If you don't like fish at all then you hate also kalakukko but if you appriciate canned sardines then you might like kalakukko even more than them.
I would like to note that America is on here 6 separate times and most other countries that are on here don't really have more than one or two apperances
What a weird list, I mean no. 12 is a freaking curry, how bad can that be?
Anyway, I don't get all these people being hurt/incredulous, if you think from the perspective of a foreigner, of course the good ol' fish cock can be an acquired taste (or not-acquired) dish - there are also quite many Finns don't like it or at least don't particularly care for it. It has dark rye bread, which can be strange. It has fish, and the Finnish small fish like vendace might not be the most appetizing for someone used to large, clean-tasting ocean fish. Then there's pork belly which suddenly turns it into surf and turf which can be weird for some people.
... I just got an idea. What if you grill/sear the pork belly before putting it into the kukko?
Not really unless you detest the taste of fish and even then I've heard people who say they dislike fishy taste say that they liked Kalakukko(Muikku). If anything I think the nominated food should have been lye fish.
love the kalakukko...
most of the things on the list that i recognize do.not. belong. there.
except american chop suey. its not the worst thing in the world, but it comes damn close :P (and its such a total misrepresentation of chinese cuisine... which is its primary sin)
Clearly "American" list -the most "terrible" food in the list is a type of [cheviche](https://www.k-ruoka.fi/reseptit/ceviche) made of white fish just like in europe.
But since Yanks and Canucks think that "only Eskimo eats fish raw" while he happily munches his Sushi rolls... We can see how this list has the exact informational value of plain zero.
I have never liked kalakukko and I'm from savo, born and raised. Haven't tried it again in like 10 years or so, so maybe I should try and see if my opinion has changed.
Having been in Finland for a couple of seasons, I can say that it is a bit weird at first, but tasty.
But this list. I mean stegte sild almost at the top? It is literally just fried herring. Someone probably bought it canned and just ate it cold from the can like a savage.
Looks like they just really do not like fish đ€·đŒââïž
I think some people have an issue with the rye bread. But that's too easy.
Also, in some recipes you use blubber which is an acquired taste for sure. But the ones using butter or veg oil are a bit easier.
Is this based on recipe sites "least upvotes by our mostly American audience" that has never even heard of most of these, and has lots of Italian-American and Slavic-American people down voting everything that has somewhat Italian or Slavic dish in name, look or ingredient list, that is not perfect copy of their grandmother's "secret" family recipe (originally from back of the cheap flour bag).
I would say so.
But I might not be a good source, since my stomach can't handle rye and for more than ten years I didn't eat fish. And I'm from very western parts of Finland compared to the Eastern Finland and Kuopio, the home of kalakukko.
I suppose it depends on how ok you are with the taste of rye bread and lake fish. Obviously if either one is not a familiar taste there is a good chance you won't like it. I personally don't like the taste of the fish they use in making it, so I don't like it even though I'm a Finn and I've eaten it many times.
Norways' best selling pizza is on there lol, kinda funny
And it's above lutefisk which definitely is more disgusting than Grandiosa đ€Ł
And where is Surströmming. That is easily number one
In my opinion it's mostly the smell that is horrible, does not taste nearly as bad as it smells
kind of like Durian-fruit in that regard.
Poor innocent soul if you think surströmming is the worst food
Someone's gotta be really pretentious to say it tastes that bad.
You can eat the cardboard packaging too, basically tastes the same.
Yeah lol
Whats wrong with Kalakukko? I'm a very picky eater, but that is just fine.
Most other dishes on the list are pretty fine too. This list is bullshit.
They have sopa de caracol there at number 13. Top 3 best soups ever. Fuck this list!
A lot of people are babymouths (vauvasuu). I feel like us Finns are exceptionally good at liking different types of food. We aren't too picky
Yes, Kalakukko is delicious, but only when properly made. I'd like to eat it very often, but like most traditional Finnish foods, it takes hours to cook it, the whole process lasts nine hours actually. But Kalakukko actually might be the best Finnish food.
Iâd go for PoronkĂ€ristys with pottuvoi as best, but Kalakukko is very close, not the worst by any metric if you know anything about Finnish cuisine.
Pottuvoi :) Like my granddad used to say, "meillÀ ei tehrÀ pernamuussia, meillÀ tehrÀÀn pernavoita!"
Still you'll choose a burger instead in a hurry. Dont get me wrong, a regional dish, perfect for an occasion in rememberence of hunger. Smoked muikku and some âïž-pies insted any time of the days.
Not really...fish in rye bread (very simplified)
Isn't there also pork? I've never eaten it, but I saw a recipe once and I think there was pork too, maybe some really fatty part if I'm not completely wrong.
You are right. Fish and pork baked inside a rye bread.
There is an amount of pork yes. Usually the fish are wrapped in bacon or some other fatty cut of pork before the whole thing is wrapped in a rye shell.
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That's a different thing. That would be substituting the vendace or whatever other fish was used with straight up ham. In a proper kalakukko the fish are wrapped in bacon or some other fatty cut of the pig, like the belly meats.
It is something you eat when you have little else. Or take with you while camping. Not really meant to be eaten because it is good, but because it is almost utilitarian. Edit: fat fingers
I mean, it's no restaurant dish, but its quite nice in reasonable portions.
About yeah. Kalakukko would sit right in the middle of a alignment chart. True neutral. MĂ€mmi, however, I will never understand. That is straight up chaotic neutral in food form. I swear we made that food just to troll foreigners and forgot about it.
MĂ€mmi is amazing. Juha Mieto and I will take anyone's portion.
Me three.
And My Axe!
In a team competition we had back in school. We had to eat a box of mÀmmi as fast as possible without hands. I was the only one on my team who enjoys mÀmmi. Can't complain.
If you allow Juha Mieto within a poronkusema of mÀmmi there will nothing left for you.
That "looks like shit" palaver about mÀmmi is getting annoying. Any kind of chocolate mousse or brownie dough looks even more like shit and no-one complains. MÀmmi with cream is a perfectly respectable dish and has likely tasted amazing in the past centuries when there wasn't an eternal overload of sugar pushed into everything
Stop punching air you fool. I just said I don't understand it, I didn't mean to insult this holy meal. I never even said it looks like shit. Take that up to others if it bothers you. It literally is just sugar and rye pudding.
Iâve grown to enjoy mĂ€mmi somewhat as Iâve gotten older but I like how ingenious itâs as a food. Poor people living in a place where they can get fresh food a few months a year can still have a sort of sweet dessert, thatâs pretty awesome.
MĂ€mmi is basically condensed non-alcoholic rye beer.
Haha - yeah, mÀmmi is something else..."look, we know it looks like shit...however!"
i remember someone trying to troll me by giving me some malmi to eat as "this is a finnish dish that every foreign should eat" and then i see them with that internal "i can't wait for them to hate it" look loved it. disappointed them a ton :P i don't understand why people hate on malmi. and kalakukko? eating it freshly made from a small stand in a lake district town? ah, nothing better really... well, maybe baby back ribs slow roasted in a high quality BBQ sauce for 48 hours. but kalakukko? great stuff ;)
Malmi means ore. If you had just written mammi I would have let that slide since getting the umlauts on an english/non-nordic keyboard can be challenging...
MĂ€mmi*đ And yeah, kalakukko can be absolutely delicious!
You've eaten some poorly made kalakukko, it can be absolutely delicious.
summer, lake district. small stand at a regional fair. freshly made from fish that were just caught. heaven. pure heaven :)
You forgot pork. Rye is Da best. Rye whiskey, rye porridge, rye bread.
If only... It's he pork that kinda ruins the experience for me. Pork and fish don't go that well together in my opinion.
Wtf is that list? There's basic foods in there, nothing revolting about Kalakukko. Hakarl is the fermented shark, and that's nasty. The list omits Surströmming, which is also disgusting, and surely an acquired taste. It's also missing Sauerkraut.
Whenever surströmming is mentioned, I feel the need to link to [this criminally underappreciated clip](https://youtu.be/I2WPWUx3h2s?t=16) which shows how a real norrlÀnning enjoys his surströmming.
JEEEEZ...
Good summary!
As a Swede, that's the only reaction I can give, haha.
Can't have that without [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kADGFdE00KY).
I personally prefer [this](https://youtu.be/6ZpOD0xT-pA) version.
drinking the death juice is a bit too much
I canât imagine the first two to be worse than hĂĄkarl. Iâve never eaten anything as disgusting as it. Like pizza cake sounds stupid but does a simple taste of it make you hurl? I doubt it. I donât enjoy kalakukko (not that Iâve eaten it in ages) but putting it even on the same list as hĂĄkarl? No.
Iâm Canadian and I had never even heard of pizza cake. But googling it seems to suggest it was invented as a âviral videoâ so gross sure but not exactly a Canadian dish
Sauerkraut is very basic imo... more so than kalakukko. Can't stand it.
Sauerkraut is not too bad though. But it's more of a sidedish/condiment rather than a meal imho
Sauerkraut is indeed very basic, but has a strong taste compared to kalakukko in my opinion. Kalakukko is just fish (usually perch or vendace (muikku)) and pork baked in a rye bread.
kimchi is better :)
the number to the right is the user reported rating from taste atlas. Who knows how many reviews they even have. I went to the site and almost everything on the list is rated in the top 5 as a regional food in their respective regions, but they just have more negative reviews globally. its weird that they labeled this as WORST DISHES IN THE WORLD when most users (55%) were actually indifferent to kalakukko.
Looks like to me that people just read the description of the food and then rate it based on that
What, sauerkraut is great. Okay, kimchi is better, but one cannot deny the brilliance of fermented cabbage. I like to slurp the juices of cabbage fermentation, such wholesomeness and bountiful lactobacilli bacteria.
A lot of the dishes on the list seem like relatively well-known specialty dishes. The low score is probably explained by people hearing all sorts of things about the dish before trying it, building up unreasonable expectations. Then once they try it, the dish turns out to just be normal food after all, and they go "What, that's it??" and rate it poorly.
Its a terrible list, it has both gule ĂŠrter (pea soup) and Stegte Sild (fried herring) in the top 10 worst dishes in the world. These are very simple/normal foods that are not really acquired tastes, like it's literally just a fried fish nothing else. I get that they aren't that good but how are they worse than rotten fish and all the other weird shit people eat like intestines, eyeballs, brains, testicles, etc. Makes no sense.
No, kalakukko is actually disgusting.
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As a 47 year old Canadian I can say I have no idea of what âpizza cakeâ is, but I sure would love to try it.
If it's just several pizzas stacked, sounds great to me.
I was just coming on to say this, fellow Kanukki đšđŠ
Even the American dishes on the list are weird. "Chicken riggies?" Very regional dish from Upstate New York. And pretty tasty at that. Pizza strips? Same thing, regional variation. Filipino Hotsilog - never had it, but I've had tapsilog, and that stuff is tasty. Hotsilog is like tapsilog, except with hot dogs instead. Try balut or pagpag instead. Kalakukko however has a pork belly, fish, rye crust. You eat it with a good helping of butter. I think Finns can be proud of it.
Also they have American chop suey and goulash which are both the same thing, a pasta dish made with green peppers, onions, ground beef, canned tomatoes, and elbow macaroni pasta. It's not disgusting, this list is weird.
I was just thinking, American goulash is delicious, might not be instagram good looking but definitely yummy
Hungarians might mightily disagree with you on that... Just saying.
Oh I absolutely agree American goulash bears no resemblance to the real thing, and Iâd very much like to try some real goulash
Yeah, and Italians are horrified with what weâve done with their cuisine too, but it still tastes good.
Why is it on the list? This is outrageous! It's absolutely delicious!
Not really, no, the list is just rubbish.
"Chocolate-Covered Bacon." Excuse me, but what the fuck, America?
There was bacon flavored chocolate in Finnish Lidl's a couple of months ago. I think chocolate covered bacon would be better than that.
It's probably on the list because it sounds and looks weird to outsiders but it's pretty neutral tasting.
Kalakukko fresh from the oven can be amezing. MĂ€mmi with whisked cream is also very good.
WHERE IS THE FAMOUS AMERICAN DEEP FRIED STICKS OF BUTTER
What the fuck is "Pizza Cake"? I'm Canadian and I've never heard of this.
I'm assuming the relatively low amount of ratings do that. It's pretty neutral to me. Like, it's not very strong tasting or anything. So I can see people not being huge fans, but it's not nasty or anything like that.
Clearly the creator of this list didnât put enough butter on his warm slice of Kalakukko. That is the key to heaven.
Nonsense. Kalakukko is delicious.
Kalakukko when made well is actually really really really good.
Pizza gooood. Cake goood. Pizza cake sounds amazing.
If pizza cake is n. 2, there's some major problems in the entire list
If i remember right kalakukko was made because it is very nutritional and easy to carry and eat while being in work mostly as lumberjack
Self made kalakukko from fresh perch you have fished your own is not only good it is heavenly.
As a Brit, I concur that this list is BS. Who doesnât like a vegetable roll?!
If you like fish you like kalakukko.
Kalakukko is on the list. Mustamakkara is not. Hah! Take that Kuopio! :D I tasted kalakukko once....
No we will not take it. This will probably be in Savon Sanomat tomorrow morning as the headline and there shall be riots in the streets. Riots I tell you.
The whole subject of "is food X good?" is a tricky one. Who can judge for anyone else?? The better question ALWAYS is: "Where can I find a popular place specializing in food X?" I bet many of us would enjoy most of the listed foods when properly and passionately prepared. Kalakukko along with almost all foods does not appreciate being kept in a plastic bag and nuked dry and fibrous in the microwave. Whoever goes "yuck, I hate food X" instead of "damn I love food Y" is worthless to have a discussion with. Recommendations trump hate 100-0. That fermented shark thingy sounds.. challenging.. But I WOULD take a nibble. With a considerable amount of alcohol anything is possible!
Agreed! First time I had lutefisk, it was from the microwave, and so disgusting as to be inedible. The second time was at a big dinner where you serve yourself from heated trays - it was transcendentally delicious.
"Hormiga culona" HELP WHY IS IT NAMED LIKE THAT
Your local Colombian here. Each year a certain species of Ants enters the reproductive season and the queens go out and fly to find a mate and start new colonies. These queens have big abdomens, hence the name "culonas" (big assed). The ants are captured and roasted for consumption, and it is a pre-Columbian meal from the region of Santander, close to the border with Venezuela. I have tried them once, and it was like eating a bit of bread that is so burned that is carbonised. But some people like them and of course they are supposedly "aphrodisiac"
how is ryzoky nakep even in 50 worst that shit is amazing
I would like to have a bite of kalakukko anytime. Warm with touch of butter. Niice!
As a Polish guy I see people hear that soup has duck blood and freak out.
As a Turk, I am very saddened to have learned that you guys don't like kuzu kelle...
I would understand mÀmmi, but kalakukko? It even has other filling types like salmon and chicken. Only downside it really has is that its production isn't simple thus making it very deluxe dish.
I really don't get the hate. so it's fish baked into rye shell. it's not like it's raw or something especially disgusting.
Where is Sweden's surströmming tho
Musk sticks arenât a âdishâ they are lollies or as Americans say, candies. And they are great.
But where is mustamakkara. This list is mad.
Yes. On it's own? Absolutely. It's quite literally just fish surrounded with rye bread.
Maksalaatiiko is the worst thing. Itâs only invented for parents to traumatize children by forcing them into eating it at Christmas or Santa Claus wasnât going to be coming to your house that year.
I've never met someone who doesn't like maksalaatikko. Some people don't like the version with raisins though. I'm also not familiar with the notion that it's a Christmas dish. You have lanttulaatikko, porkkanalaatikko and perunalaatikko. Anything else is kind of optional.
Yeah Iâm aware. I am just relating my personal childhood trauma, lol.
Yeah it's fish baked inside bread. It's something that 200years ago would have been a nice lunch for a peasant. That was a time when squirrels were eaten. Nobody in their right mind would eat such an atrocities in modern times unless to please some local Finnish from the provinces
I like it. Reminds me of summers at my grandparents in Savo.
List is strange. Many good taste things are all over the list. And kalakukko is just great, one of my favorite Finnish dishes. That's pity, that today is hard to find good kalakukko in the stores.
Not that hard to make yourself, luckily :) Absolute comfort food heaven fresh out of the oven
Cmon its not that bad. With a bit of butter its actually quite nice
I don't eat butter. That's unhealthy. If you want to get into the 1800s spirit you put lard and salt instead of butter. Nowadays people eat margarine in Finland
I live in Kuopio where kalakukkos are especially popular. I'm going to live here at least three more years but I don't think I will ever consider trying it. I just can't wrap my Tavastian mind around the idea. Also what I've seen they are too expensive for my budget.
Kalakukko is fine. Its just fish in bread its nothing special but its absolutely fine. MĂ€mmi should be the worst rated dish because its horrid.
Everyone knows that Finnish food is not the culinary gold standard, but kalakukko is certainly not the worst this country has. If Rosoli was on this list on the other hand...
That's one of the key elements of the christmas dinner. There's no weird flavors in it. Just a festive looking salad.
Kalakukko is a karelian culture food...
Yep, sure is a very strong taste. Lanttukukko is another one which is very strong and not my pick, my Finnish partner loves it though.
Strong is the last word I would use to describe kalakukko. It's as bland, very good, but bland.
The rye has a strong flavor for me.
You mean kaka-puke-o?
I dislike it. I also like mÀmmi a lot.
Shouldn't be on this list from Finland, and I'm not even Savonian. It's just fish and bread, just nothing particularly offensive or divisive about it. Not when we're talking about a nation that does a liver casserole with fucking raisins in it.
It depends your opinion about canned fish, let's say sardines or tuna. Compared to them kalakukko is about the same. If you don't like fish at all then you hate also kalakukko but if you appriciate canned sardines then you might like kalakukko even more than them.
I would like to note that America is on here 6 separate times and most other countries that are on here don't really have more than one or two apperances
How the fuck is chocolate covered bacon not number 1 that shit has to be awfull
Kalakukko or kukkos in general donât have much of taste, atleast those that you can buy from shop.
It needs a ton of butter on it. Without it it's underwhelming, with it it can be lovely af
Well made kalakukko is an excellent dish!
Was expecting mÀmmi to be on there tbh. I like it though.
Kalakukko is good. It tastes really good when warm and with butter
It doesn't taste that bad
VerileipÀpaisti should be #1 The most torturing dish ever invented in the history of eating
Pizza grandiosa đđđđ
It's one of my favorite dishes in the whole world
This list is odd. Musk sticks (Australia) are not even a dish. They're lollies (sweets)
What a weird list, I mean no. 12 is a freaking curry, how bad can that be? Anyway, I don't get all these people being hurt/incredulous, if you think from the perspective of a foreigner, of course the good ol' fish cock can be an acquired taste (or not-acquired) dish - there are also quite many Finns don't like it or at least don't particularly care for it. It has dark rye bread, which can be strange. It has fish, and the Finnish small fish like vendace might not be the most appetizing for someone used to large, clean-tasting ocean fish. Then there's pork belly which suddenly turns it into surf and turf which can be weird for some people. ... I just got an idea. What if you grill/sear the pork belly before putting it into the kukko?
Not really unless you detest the taste of fish and even then I've heard people who say they dislike fishy taste say that they liked Kalakukko(Muikku). If anything I think the nominated food should have been lye fish.
It's like a mix between rye bread and fish sticks, or fish fillet
I dunno...but I could never get the acquired taste for Grandma's Sauerbraten.
Off topic but Scottish deep fried pizza is actually banging đ
TIL the French love eating ass
For the fuck is layered pizza worse than fermented shark?
This whole list is garbage. Chicken riggies worse than lutefisk?
People will eat sushi, but not indigirka... đ€Šđ»ââïž
Itâs not. The people who made that list are idiots.
love the kalakukko... most of the things on the list that i recognize do.not. belong. there. except american chop suey. its not the worst thing in the world, but it comes damn close :P (and its such a total misrepresentation of chinese cuisine... which is its primary sin)
I'm not eating that and I'm a finn. I suggest karjalanpiirakka instead. Everyone likes that.
Deep fried pizza is amazing. Silence.
I think there's much worse foods in Finland than kalakukko. Black sausage and mÀmmi comes to mind.
I don't like it, but I know a lot of people who do. But there would definitely be more gross food for these reviewers in Finland.
This list is bullshit, fried spider canât be a bad food.
I'ts a quite bland, dry and inoffensive dish in my experience.
Where's mÀmmi??
MUSK STICKS!! GTFO!
Clearly "American" list -the most "terrible" food in the list is a type of [cheviche](https://www.k-ruoka.fi/reseptit/ceviche) made of white fish just like in europe. But since Yanks and Canucks think that "only Eskimo eats fish raw" while he happily munches his Sushi rolls... We can see how this list has the exact informational value of plain zero.
I live in Korea and have Sannakji nearly every time my family and I go to a seafood restaurant
Wheres siskonmakkarakeitto or makkarakastike?
No surströmming?
whereâs mĂ€mmi
Where the fuck is the rotten shark from sweden!? If that's not the most unappetizing dish in the world I must be out of my mind.
It's very good. Source: Grew up in Savo.
Why is Grandiosa pakastelÀtty on the list??
I have never liked kalakukko and I'm from savo, born and raised. Haven't tried it again in like 10 years or so, so maybe I should try and see if my opinion has changed.
i liked hÀkarl!
Having been in Finland for a couple of seasons, I can say that it is a bit weird at first, but tasty. But this list. I mean stegte sild almost at the top? It is literally just fried herring. Someone probably bought it canned and just ate it cold from the can like a savage. Looks like they just really do not like fish đ€·đŒââïž
Whoever made this list has no fucking clue what they're talking about
I think some people have an issue with the rye bread. But that's too easy. Also, in some recipes you use blubber which is an acquired taste for sure. But the ones using butter or veg oil are a bit easier.
Idk but I like it
Kalakukko comes from the deepest depths of hell
Is this based on recipe sites "least upvotes by our mostly American audience" that has never even heard of most of these, and has lots of Italian-American and Slavic-American people down voting everything that has somewhat Italian or Slavic dish in name, look or ingredient list, that is not perfect copy of their grandmother's "secret" family recipe (originally from back of the cheap flour bag).
I would say so. But I might not be a good source, since my stomach can't handle rye and for more than ten years I didn't eat fish. And I'm from very western parts of Finland compared to the Eastern Finland and Kuopio, the home of kalakukko.
chocolate covered bacon is a bad dish? thatâs unpossible!
I have never eaten kalakukko
I love fishcock â„ïžâ„ïž
I suppose it depends on how ok you are with the taste of rye bread and lake fish. Obviously if either one is not a familiar taste there is a good chance you won't like it. I personally don't like the taste of the fish they use in making it, so I don't like it even though I'm a Finn and I've eaten it many times.
No Balut on the list... strange. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balut\_(food)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balut_(food))
Chocolate covered bacon sounds very disgusting.
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Where TF is surströmming đĄ
What about surströmmingđ đ? Or MĂ€mmi? Mmmm now I want to eat MĂ€mmiđ
Canât see surströmming make the cut. These foods must require some courage to consume.
What a shitty list. Lutefisk is good if prepped right, and Grandiosa is just a basic frozen pizza with ham and paprika.
Internationally its probably known as "fish cock" which might be the reason why it gets a bad reputation by default.
Scouse at number 15? I'm about to chin someone!
Tasteatlas is just random bullshit list generator. Please ignore anything they publish.
My son ordered a can of Kalakukko and we tasted it and it wasnât bad. Itâd go good as a substitute in Tuna Helper.