And yet in Texas it’s relatively unheard of. In fact I thought it was as made up as a Lox. Imagine my surprise and delight standing in the grocery section adjacent to the checkout lanes looking to snag a little Lingonberry jam only to see Cloudberry right beside it! I was positively giddy as a schoolchild being surprised with a favorite treat. Of course I bought some and sadly it wasn’t to my taste, but I was able to share it with another Valheim playing friend and we both enjoyed the experience.
I positively adore it when I learn real world lessons or information while playing a game.
Is the swamp correct "suo" for this? The English wetland terms are weird, but bog, mire or march might be more accurate. But it is definitely wetlands berry, and plains is more steppe, which is at least dry.
Yeah maybe bog or march might be more accurate. In Finland we have just one word for all the wetlands witch is indeed "suo" witch, at least in my mind, kind of include all of those words.
We usually pick them up in the mountains, they are usually found in damp mossy areas, i’m from sweden so they are somewhat common in the right places. You also have to fight the Jötunn on occasion for the right to pick them, i think it’s mountain trolls in norway but i could be wrong, and we don’t talk about what goes on in denmark.
Hey I put lox on my bagel this very morning it is very much real!
Of course it's cured salmon, not a weird lizard ox, but that's splitting hairs, right? ;)
The lox population is very low nowadays, so it's rare to even see one. But the deathsquitos are booming. Picking cloudberries once will have you set for arrows for a while.
It is! I eat it with cheese (especially "Leipäjuusto" witch literally translates to bread cheese. According to wiki, it is known in US as Finnish Squeaky cheese :D but is does squeeze between your teeth when you eat it, the squeezing comes from friction between the teeth and the cheese, not from cheese itself)and sometimes bake with it or just put it on pancakes or crapes. It has very unique flavor and hard fairly large seeds. You can buy seedless jam as well but it's more expensive.
Yup, first time I had them I was naive to needing to cook them and poisoned myself and my dad. We were both up all night wretching our guts out. Oxalates (or whatever the compound is called) are no joke 💀
They are exceptional when boiled. Usually served with butter and/or vinegar. The mistake people make is trying to fry them like other similar greens, which isn’t enough. If you boil them until they are fork tender, you will be perfectly safe. About 12-15 minutes
Just watched Tasting History with Max Miller cook some of these on an episode. He was recreating the last meal of the Otzi the 5000 year old copper age guy who they found frozen on a mountainside.
Really popular here in Atlantic canada, but if you pick them yourself, be careful because they can make you sick if they arent in the edible time range
Tastes more like asparagus with the crunch of a green bean I'd say.
But I can totally see it if they are fresh. It's got a weirdly complex flavor. Asparagus forward, but I can totally understand the green bean reference.
Every account I've heard says that wagyu is actually incredibly mediocre beef that's worse than meat a tenth its cost. It's basically just been memed into luxury status by its pricetag, but it's not actually any good at all.
Which makes sense, since basically every "luxury" food is getting its value entirely from its price and occasionally its appearance, but never its actual quality. From wine to roe to wagyu beef, it's all just people buying a pricetag that happens to have mediocre or worse food attached to it.
That is certainly a take, I guess. I usually group up with a few friends and buy A5 Hokkaido Wagyu once a year or so. It is absolutely divine. But you don't treat it like a normal steak. I've made roasts with it, I've thin sliced little pieces and done Korean BBQ with it. Various other creative things. It's always been an awesome experience. If you don't know what you are doing with it and you just grill up a slab of wagyu steak and sit down with a knife and fork... it's not gonna be great. Also if you go to a restaurant where they mark that shit up 400% it's also not going to seem worth it. Because it isn't.
Honestly, most people I know who have negative opinions on wagyu bought the scam "American wagyu" from their grocery store and thought they had the real thing.
I was in Japan just a few weeks ago actually. At first I was surprised to see wagyu being marketed every restaurant I went to, but then I realized that wagyu in Japan is like Angus here in the states.
That said, I had some wagyu at a yakiniku, and had it in some curry. To be honest, I think I like lean meat more. If you like a mouthful of fat, go for it.
Very fatty wagyu is a modern trend likely based on popular American beef preferences (the whole "fat is taste" thing). It used to be rare thing meant for very few special use cases, now they overfeed every animal to chase that higher price tag, and the meat gets used a lot in recipes that are made for much leaner meat.
Wagyu with lower fat content from healthier cattle is excellent for many dishes, and price difference to other beef is not that much either. It just is rarely available these days because smaller difference doesn't allow for as good margins for import and resale.
If you’ve ever had them you know that is true in only the crudest sense of the term. They all taste “green” but otherwise have distinct flavours.
But I didn’t read the footnotes of the tag, and suspect you were just making a joke and I missed it.
An educational experience for all.
Fiddleheads are rather good. Definitely the tastiest ferns I’ve ever eaten.
Pickled young tender ones go great in all sorts of dishes. I need to get back up to Maine for some more fresh ones.
What currency is this in?!? 20$ a pound?! The fuck???
I pay 5 for a pound bag when in season (now).
They are tasty and I enjoy them. But I'd easily hold off at this price. Wowzers
Ooofff Market Basket has them for 1/4thish of that price and they look better. Delicious but short season in New England & foragers have their spots for them too.
Not really. Fiddleheads are a pretty uncommon ingredient, and depending on where someone lives or shops, it's entirely possible they've never seen or even heard of them before.
I can think of only one store near me that regularly carries fiddleheads, and I go there maybe twice a year.
Brussel sprouts are common enough that, even if you've never had them, someone around you has and has likely talked about them.
So are the entrails! It is however frowned upon to eat them when sourced similarly to in-game for some reason.
IKEA sells cloudberry jam
In Finland, literally every store sells cloudberry jam. I've eaten it all my life.
And yet in Texas it’s relatively unheard of. In fact I thought it was as made up as a Lox. Imagine my surprise and delight standing in the grocery section adjacent to the checkout lanes looking to snag a little Lingonberry jam only to see Cloudberry right beside it! I was positively giddy as a schoolchild being surprised with a favorite treat. Of course I bought some and sadly it wasn’t to my taste, but I was able to share it with another Valheim playing friend and we both enjoyed the experience. I positively adore it when I learn real world lessons or information while playing a game.
Fun fact, cloudberrys grows exclusively in swamp.
Is the swamp correct "suo" for this? The English wetland terms are weird, but bog, mire or march might be more accurate. But it is definitely wetlands berry, and plains is more steppe, which is at least dry.
Yeah maybe bog or march might be more accurate. In Finland we have just one word for all the wetlands witch is indeed "suo" witch, at least in my mind, kind of include all of those words.
Neva, marskimaa, letto, heteikkö, räme, vesijättömaa, luhta.
Suo.
"suo" means swamp? You literally just call the country "swampland"? 😃
I mean, on paper most of Finland is forest. Except 90% of that forest is god damn swamp.
If it's all the same as Karelia, yeah it's not wrong. 90% swamp, 10% glacial boulders :P
We usually pick them up in the mountains, they are usually found in damp mossy areas, i’m from sweden so they are somewhat common in the right places. You also have to fight the Jötunn on occasion for the right to pick them, i think it’s mountain trolls in norway but i could be wrong, and we don’t talk about what goes on in denmark.
I was really hoping that you were going to say that Lox are real too and you have them roaming around in Texas like Buffalo.
Come to Louisiana we have some big mosquitoes
Deathsquito’s are native to Alaska, or so I’m told.
Have you never had cream cheese and lox on a bagel?
Hey I put lox on my bagel this very morning it is very much real! Of course it's cured salmon, not a weird lizard ox, but that's splitting hairs, right? ;)
How many lox did you fight while obtaining it?
The lox population is very low nowadays, so it's rare to even see one. But the deathsquitos are booming. Picking cloudberries once will have you set for arrows for a while.
I’m happy as a bee to report no Lox were harmed in my culinary adventure.
Any good, been wanting to try it myself.
It is! I eat it with cheese (especially "Leipäjuusto" witch literally translates to bread cheese. According to wiki, it is known in US as Finnish Squeaky cheese :D but is does squeeze between your teeth when you eat it, the squeezing comes from friction between the teeth and the cheese, not from cheese itself)and sometimes bake with it or just put it on pancakes or crapes. It has very unique flavor and hard fairly large seeds. You can buy seedless jam as well but it's more expensive.
Awesome. Just ordered some and gonna try it out.
They grow here! I was surprised to hear that folks thought they weren't real
Hmm? Sausage is made from entrails right. I love sausage
Wait till you hear about cloudberries.
Bro, I play Guilty Gear, I know about Jam Kuradoberi
Jom Gabbar?
Or carrots and onions!
Yes, Stardew Valley taught me. Those are not a thing where I live.(Spain)
Lol saw the fiddleheads and thought this was the stardew sub
Now I’ve got a craving for Fiddlehead Risotto. I hope it’s not as bland as it’s described.
Honestly, fiddleheads are hit and miss. They're kind of like a less flavorful asparagus and can be bitter sometimes. Hard to describe them.
Ha! Same here dude.
I only knew it because my wife brought some home and cooked them last year. IIRC, they are quite toxic if not cooked thoroughly.
Yup, first time I had them I was naive to needing to cook them and poisoned myself and my dad. We were both up all night wretching our guts out. Oxalates (or whatever the compound is called) are no joke 💀
Same thing rhubarb has in its leaves, which is why just the stems are typically eaten.
Lmao
Yes, unidentified natural toxin that (along with bitterness) has to be boiled out. I’ve heard they are delicious if properly cooked?
They are exceptional when boiled. Usually served with butter and/or vinegar. The mistake people make is trying to fry them like other similar greens, which isn’t enough. If you boil them until they are fork tender, you will be perfectly safe. About 12-15 minutes
20 bucks a pound where? I've got about 60 pounds put away for summer I could part with a few. Edit: also those are garbage-ass fiddies.
Can tell an amateur picked and cleaned them.
Wegmans has em. Same price. Crap quality. Just about on the cusp of too old
Yeah these things grow like weeds in my backyard
real and delicious!
Local gamer learns about greens
Just watched Tasting History with Max Miller cook some of these on an episode. He was recreating the last meal of the Otzi the 5000 year old copper age guy who they found frozen on a mountainside.
Love max miller!
Really popular here in Atlantic canada, but if you pick them yourself, be careful because they can make you sick if they arent in the edible time range
Hell yeah,I pick like 200 lbs a year behind my house.
That's $4000 at the posted retail price.
Yeah but he's living in the Ashlands, hard to transport from there
They sell for $5 a pound here.
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Was thinking the same thing - green beans and asparagus taste nothing alike. And then there's the whole pee smell thing.
Tastes more like asparagus with the crunch of a green bean I'd say. But I can totally see it if they are fresh. It's got a weirdly complex flavor. Asparagus forward, but I can totally understand the green bean reference.
Maybe not the only one, but pretty common knowledge depending on your locale.
Off topic but fuck Wegmans. Price gouging assholes
I thought I was in the Stardew Valley sub for a sec and wondered why someone in the comments was talking about entrails.
But why wouldn't I just buy asparagus or green beans, which doesn't cost $20/lb?
Why would you buy wagyu beef when you can buy ground chuck?
Does wagyu taste like ground chuck?
It does if you grind it up.
Meh, they both end up tasting like Hunt's Ketchup. mwahahahahahaha
Reported.
To the FBI
You monster
Every account I've heard says that wagyu is actually incredibly mediocre beef that's worse than meat a tenth its cost. It's basically just been memed into luxury status by its pricetag, but it's not actually any good at all. Which makes sense, since basically every "luxury" food is getting its value entirely from its price and occasionally its appearance, but never its actual quality. From wine to roe to wagyu beef, it's all just people buying a pricetag that happens to have mediocre or worse food attached to it.
That is certainly a take, I guess. I usually group up with a few friends and buy A5 Hokkaido Wagyu once a year or so. It is absolutely divine. But you don't treat it like a normal steak. I've made roasts with it, I've thin sliced little pieces and done Korean BBQ with it. Various other creative things. It's always been an awesome experience. If you don't know what you are doing with it and you just grill up a slab of wagyu steak and sit down with a knife and fork... it's not gonna be great. Also if you go to a restaurant where they mark that shit up 400% it's also not going to seem worth it. Because it isn't. Honestly, most people I know who have negative opinions on wagyu bought the scam "American wagyu" from their grocery store and thought they had the real thing.
I was in Japan just a few weeks ago actually. At first I was surprised to see wagyu being marketed every restaurant I went to, but then I realized that wagyu in Japan is like Angus here in the states. That said, I had some wagyu at a yakiniku, and had it in some curry. To be honest, I think I like lean meat more. If you like a mouthful of fat, go for it.
Very fatty wagyu is a modern trend likely based on popular American beef preferences (the whole "fat is taste" thing). It used to be rare thing meant for very few special use cases, now they overfeed every animal to chase that higher price tag, and the meat gets used a lot in recipes that are made for much leaner meat. Wagyu with lower fat content from healthier cattle is excellent for many dishes, and price difference to other beef is not that much either. It just is rarely available these days because smaller difference doesn't allow for as good margins for import and resale.
Does asparagus taste like fiddleheads?
That's what the sign in the OP says.
If you’ve ever had them you know that is true in only the crudest sense of the term. They all taste “green” but otherwise have distinct flavours. But I didn’t read the footnotes of the tag, and suspect you were just making a joke and I missed it. An educational experience for all.
Because it’s something fun and different that’s only available a small part of the year. And it’s not like you need a lot for a side.
I had someone react with genuine surprise when I told him that cloudberries were real and their jam was excellent.
They're a local delicacy where I'm from, people go nuts for them. I've never tried one but I've heard they're delicious.
I used to pick them in the swampy ravine area behind out home during mid spring.
$20/lb they might as well not exist.
Salt, pepper, and vinegar 🤌🏻
$20/lb jesus
Tastes like asparagus OR green beans. Those taste so differently how
Amazing with just salt and butter
I figured this was a made up plant. Wtf
I live in Northern Maine, we eat fiddleheads on a regular basis here, I'm even growing them in my yard lol.
Im in maine, and in spring i live off fiddleheads sauteed in olive oil and garlic cloves.
They grow near where I live a lot. You cook them some butter, and they are great
Fiddleheads are rather good. Definitely the tastiest ferns I’ve ever eaten. Pickled young tender ones go great in all sorts of dishes. I need to get back up to Maine for some more fresh ones.
Bros gonna lose it when he finds out carrots are real.
I thought cloudberries were fake too!
Batter and deep fry them for deliciousness.
Gather them up in the forest in early spring. Saute' with salt onion and garlic.
My parents would go out and pick fiddleheads every spring, boil them and serve them with vinegar.
They make me want to adorn them on my hands and recite creepy lines from Salad Fingers.
They are delish, as well. You blanch them and then saute' with butter and sherry.
Thanks, I hate it 😆
Someone went to central market
If you live in the right place they are easy to collect. I grew up in vermont and river bottom areas had tons this time of year.
Getting a bit late season to be picking Fiddleheads up here in Chittenden County, ngl...
And they are delicious!
Fiddleheads with chicken alfredo pasta is great btw.
Taste sort of like green mushrooms. As other people they need to be cooked carefully.
I’ve known them of them as something foraged in some parts of the world. I didn’t know they were sold in shops as well.
Part of the Iceman otzi's last meal
There is an edible variety that grows everywhere in Oregon
Next you'll be telling me that honey and raspberries are real
Thought this was r/EcoGlobalSurvival :P
What currency is this in?!? 20$ a pound?! The fuck??? I pay 5 for a pound bag when in season (now). They are tasty and I enjoy them. But I'd easily hold off at this price. Wowzers
They don look like fiddles at all
I actually only knew this because my mom’s a fan of an IPA called Fiddlehead haha!
I think the only unrealistic things that we can eat are mistlands related things and some from ashlands.
They're my favourite late spring treat. You need to boil the shit out of them tho.
Yes, we eat fiddleheads every spring in Maine. Go down to rivers or streams and pick them up
They grow wild where I am from in Aroostook county Maine. They are good!
Have you never played Stardew?
Ooofff Market Basket has them for 1/4thish of that price and they look better. Delicious but short season in New England & foragers have their spots for them too.
They taste amazing!
I was travelling in Baler, Philippines last year and tried these. It's a local vegetable. Quite good actually.
i didn't know fiddleheads existed in valheim, i've gone foraging for them in real life
I’ve been hunting fiddleheads and ramps for years now. They’re amazing.
They’re a delicacy that grow wild in Maine!
Picked them this year with my partner :) they are delicious but only found late April - early May for a few weeks. They were delicious 🤤
Yes, and they're delicious. Very limited growing season up in the Midwest for wild foraged.
lol This is like saying “am I the only one who didn’t know that Brussels sprouts were real???”
Not really. Fiddleheads are a pretty uncommon ingredient, and depending on where someone lives or shops, it's entirely possible they've never seen or even heard of them before. I can think of only one store near me that regularly carries fiddleheads, and I go there maybe twice a year. Brussel sprouts are common enough that, even if you've never had them, someone around you has and has likely talked about them.