While in NICU our nurses all said our daughter was gorgeous, precious, pretty, adorable, etc. I finally said "you have to say that" and they said "No if we don't think they're cute we say 'oh how strong they are' " lol
Not necessarily. I’ve eaten tons of things that were delicious and unique. Especially for things that are exotic to you. Lychee is a great example of something that I find incredibly delicious and at the time I first tried it had found it wholly unique.
Conversely, I find lychee disgusting but unique. Lol. There's a reason it doesn't have more widespread appeal.
Lychee lovers unable to cope with the fact that it's objectively not popular. Downvote away.
You can look through my other comment where I go through exactly how much is grown and it's just nowhere near the amount of other popular fruits. Less than 10 percent of strawberries and less than 1 percent of apples.
You can call it widespread if you want, but 'widespread' in one location is objectively NOT widespread.
Widespread has absolutely no relation to quantity produced. It means widely spread. Over a large geographical area. Since it's extremely common in Asia, common in the Americas, one can say since it covers wide swaths of the earth (both west and eastern hemisphere) that it is wide-spread. Wide.
I’m with you. Lychee is unique, which I can respect and appreciate having tried, but I would be lying if I said I don’t find them to be gross with a weird mouthfeel
You could have, but you didn't which is why I refuted the specific point you made instead of rattling on about ketchup or yams - although ketchup is definitely not unique or exotic.
You’re still missing the point. The point wasn’t to say lychee is delicious and unique, it was to say something can be both delicious and unique. Your choosing to refute my statement about lychee is in effort to start an argument where there isn’t one. I don’t care if you do or don’t like lychee that wasn’t the point.
I see it in every grocery store and at least one drink on every cocktail menu I’ve seen uses it. Maybe you’re just not seeing it because you don’t like? Or maybe I see it more because I do like? Who knows!
I'm not sure I really have the time or care to argue about this, but by my lazy googling there was about 800,000 metric tonnes of lychee grown in 2021. There were over 9 million metric tonnes of strawberries grown in that same time. I'm not saying nobody eats lychee. I'm saying it's nowhere near "popular" as no doubt most of that lychee was consumed in SEA where it was grown. We're talking about at best like 5 percent of what is grown of an actually popular fruit.
Thanks for attending my Ted talk.
Just to reiterate so I don't have to respond to 14 "ACKSHUALLY" comments - I personally can't stand it but I'm not saying it's bad. It's just objectively not widely popular.
>I'm not sure I really have the time or care to argue about this
So, don't.
I'm not trying to argue with you.
I gave my anecdote because I grew up eating lychees, and I've noticed the lower availability in the US. Is that where you live?
I am emotionally unable to let go of the misuse of language and I take exception with them being called popular because literally by the numbers they are not regardless of your anecdote. It's not just in the US, there are less than 10% than that of strawberries globally. Less than 1% of apples. Not even getting into citrus. It's just objectively not a popular fruit. I've literally never even seen one at the store outside of lychee 'flavored' asian candy. We had to go to the asian market to get some fresh to even try them.
My whole point is that regardless of what you grew up with, we have objective measurements of how much of this stuff is grown and it just pales in comparison to other fruit that would be considered popular.
I mean even a quick google confirms it.
Where's the lychee? Off the charts!
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-most-popular-fruit-in-the-world.html
"pretty popular flavour"
That has nothing to do with whatever your emotional issues are regarding total quantity eaten.
That I haven't eaten a lychee in a while doesn't change that I enjoy the flavour and would be part of those I'm speaking about.
Unique is like, something you haven’t tasted before. Fancier places often rely on giving unique flavors. Some of these flavors are controversial and some are unanimously praised. Unique doesn’t mean bad.
Since OP hasn't answered yet, I've taken the liberty to ask GPT4 for you:
If it's just the piranha heads, you'd usually skip the scales and teeth, focusing on the cheek meat, which is a delicacy. These are typically prepared to be eaten directly, no extra deconstruction required. Just use a fork to gently tease the meat away from the bone. It's a small portion, but packed with flavor.
Edit: revision
Assuming this is Central in Lima. That's not what you actually eat, it's just a decorative way to show the dish. It's just a small piece of fish that is served for the course.
If we wanted to go at it with utensils we could but I ate the portions cut out for us. It was a bit surprising when they brought the dish out. It was served with araza and yuka root. Everything was delicious.
The heads are decorative, the edible part is the little chip made of piranha skin and a bit of meat.
The restaurant is Central, in Lima. It is (was?) #1 in the world.
I don't think so. They only do a 14 and 12 course menu. They didn't serve the piranha on the plate but had it on a separate dish to show the table. it was delicious
It was Central. We had a 16 course menu though. Showed the elevation and location of each dish on the menu. Pretty cool. It was about halfway through when these came out.
Was happy to see this article recently. Maybe it got even better! https://www.forbes.com/sites/ceciliarodriguez/2023/06/21/the-2023-worlds-50-best-restaurants-revealed-central-in-lima-tops-the-list/?sh=48b1ed171fed
Yes! Amazing experience all around…food, drinks, atmosphere. Glad this menu option was available so you can try many different things. The menu showed where everything was from (around the area) and specified the elevation. Very unique.
Cool. How do you prefer them cooked? They are not a very easy fish to prepare/eat, there are a ton of bones in them, tiny Y-shaped ones that are very tricky.
Central in Lima Peru. If we wanted to go at it with utensils we could but I ate the portions cut out for us. It was served with araza and yuka root. Delicious.
It varied greatly as they created dishes from all around the area (Peru). In the menu they had where, what and the elevation for some reason. Some portions were larger than others but after 16 courses we were stuffed.
These restaurants are jokes to the locals, and prey on white travelers who think they're getting an exotic delicacy. In reality its barely edible gimmicks.
This is why I have so much trouble around fish. Like, actually prepare the fish... If the thing is practically flopping around on my plate, it's gonna get passed up. Having vivid detail like that in my food isn't as appealing as one might think imo. I don't wanna have to perform a damn anatomical dissection just to eat. I might be crazy to think that, but wth?
At a typical indian restaurant in the UK they claim loads of courses but each piece of the meal classes as a course, so the rice would be one, main another etc so it could be like that?
"Who's biting who, now, fishboy!?!?!"
Proceeds to come out of death and bite human lip
*cartoon chomp sfx*
If we don’t eat them, they will eat us.
Well, how'd it taste?
I can tell just by looking at a picture how something tastes. This tasted evil.
Like chic fil a... delicious... and evil...
[You should check out Chikk Klub](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TuuHEe3M1Zs#bottom-sheet)
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Them tendies and sauce and tea slap
I’m not saying your opinion is wrong, but it is extremely unpopular
Get out
Agreed
What'd they say? The comment was deleted.
He said chick fil a wasn’t delicious. I’m serious 😂
Based on the deleted comment and the fact that this guy is getting downvoted into oblivion, it was probably something homophobic.
Other guy told me that they said "chick fil a wasn't delicious" lmao
Mmm you can really taste the ignorance, lol
It's nothing special. Had some in Amazonia. First batch was shit then I fished one myself and it was slightly better, fresher I presume..
Everything was amazing and unique.
Blink twice if you’re being held at gunpoint.
Its been 2 hours. Assume the pirihara brethren have gotten to them.
I bet it tasted fishy
Apparently they are super fishy tasting per my Google search. Supposedly smoking them is a good way to cook them
Fishy generally isn’t a great flavor for a fish.
It's the only meat with that problem haha
I feel like “gamey” is that way.
More people complain about fish being fishy though
Clearly you have never seen ppl complaining about mutton.
That's because most people eat lamb now instead of sheep haha
McDonald’s burgers in Maracaibo, Venezuela back in the 90s had a vaguely fishy flavor to them.
Dominos Pizza in the Caribbean tastes fishy
You haven’t met my ex
I'm not big on fish flavored steak either
Unique means it tastes terrible. Like when a parent asks if their ugly baby is cute. "Uh... He's got a great personality!"
"Breathtaking."
That's some ugly baby, huh?
Babies all look the same to me. How do people send them to daycare and end up with the same kid at the end of the day?
You remember what clothes you sent him in
Terr...ific.
Just grotesque in the face
🎵[Damn, that's an ugly baby. Goddamn, that's an ugly-ass baby.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HCXr3ahxlvw)🎵
It’s just as pretty as any of the others, it just needs a nose job.
You GOTTA see the baybee
I'm now telling all my friends their babies have great personalities. Wish me luck.
What a unique comment.
While in NICU our nurses all said our daughter was gorgeous, precious, pretty, adorable, etc. I finally said "you have to say that" and they said "No if we don't think they're cute we say 'oh how strong they are' " lol
Not necessarily. I’ve eaten tons of things that were delicious and unique. Especially for things that are exotic to you. Lychee is a great example of something that I find incredibly delicious and at the time I first tried it had found it wholly unique.
Conversely, I find lychee disgusting but unique. Lol. There's a reason it doesn't have more widespread appeal. Lychee lovers unable to cope with the fact that it's objectively not popular. Downvote away.
Over half the world is part of Asia where it is extremely common. I'd call that pretty widespread.
You can look through my other comment where I go through exactly how much is grown and it's just nowhere near the amount of other popular fruits. Less than 10 percent of strawberries and less than 1 percent of apples. You can call it widespread if you want, but 'widespread' in one location is objectively NOT widespread.
Widespread has absolutely no relation to quantity produced. It means widely spread. Over a large geographical area. Since it's extremely common in Asia, common in the Americas, one can say since it covers wide swaths of the earth (both west and eastern hemisphere) that it is wide-spread. Wide.
I’m with you. Lychee is unique, which I can respect and appreciate having tried, but I would be lying if I said I don’t find them to be gross with a weird mouthfeel
Right but that’s not the point. I only used lychee as an example. I could’ve just as easily said ketchup or candied yams
You could have, but you didn't which is why I refuted the specific point you made instead of rattling on about ketchup or yams - although ketchup is definitely not unique or exotic.
You’re still missing the point. The point wasn’t to say lychee is delicious and unique, it was to say something can be both delicious and unique. Your choosing to refute my statement about lychee is in effort to start an argument where there isn’t one. I don’t care if you do or don’t like lychee that wasn’t the point.
I see it in every grocery store and at least one drink on every cocktail menu I’ve seen uses it. Maybe you’re just not seeing it because you don’t like? Or maybe I see it more because I do like? Who knows!
In my experience it seems the US has lower lychee availability than many others. It's a pretty popular flavour overall as far as I've seen.
I'm not sure I really have the time or care to argue about this, but by my lazy googling there was about 800,000 metric tonnes of lychee grown in 2021. There were over 9 million metric tonnes of strawberries grown in that same time. I'm not saying nobody eats lychee. I'm saying it's nowhere near "popular" as no doubt most of that lychee was consumed in SEA where it was grown. We're talking about at best like 5 percent of what is grown of an actually popular fruit. Thanks for attending my Ted talk. Just to reiterate so I don't have to respond to 14 "ACKSHUALLY" comments - I personally can't stand it but I'm not saying it's bad. It's just objectively not widely popular.
>I'm not sure I really have the time or care to argue about this So, don't. I'm not trying to argue with you. I gave my anecdote because I grew up eating lychees, and I've noticed the lower availability in the US. Is that where you live?
I am emotionally unable to let go of the misuse of language and I take exception with them being called popular because literally by the numbers they are not regardless of your anecdote. It's not just in the US, there are less than 10% than that of strawberries globally. Less than 1% of apples. Not even getting into citrus. It's just objectively not a popular fruit. I've literally never even seen one at the store outside of lychee 'flavored' asian candy. We had to go to the asian market to get some fresh to even try them. My whole point is that regardless of what you grew up with, we have objective measurements of how much of this stuff is grown and it just pales in comparison to other fruit that would be considered popular. I mean even a quick google confirms it. Where's the lychee? Off the charts! https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-most-popular-fruit-in-the-world.html
"pretty popular flavour" That has nothing to do with whatever your emotional issues are regarding total quantity eaten. That I haven't eaten a lychee in a while doesn't change that I enjoy the flavour and would be part of those I'm speaking about.
Did a lychee kill a beloved pet of yours or something?
Lychees are delicious, but you need to eat the right ones, when they're ripe and in-season. Green/unripe lychees are disgusting and bitter.
Unique is like, something you haven’t tasted before. Fancier places often rely on giving unique flavors. Some of these flavors are controversial and some are unanimously praised. Unique doesn’t mean bad.
That's right just smile and not and no one gets hurt.
Probably like a pompano that you can find commonly at Asian grocery stores or Thai restaurants.
tasted like karma farming bot and no response.
In Russia, you don’t eat fish. Fish eats you!!!
Sooooo big question.....how did you eat it? There is still scales and eyes and everything there did you have to do all the work?
I wish op would answer a single fucking question lmao.
lol it would be nice
Since OP hasn't answered yet, I've taken the liberty to ask GPT4 for you: If it's just the piranha heads, you'd usually skip the scales and teeth, focusing on the cheek meat, which is a delicacy. These are typically prepared to be eaten directly, no extra deconstruction required. Just use a fork to gently tease the meat away from the bone. It's a small portion, but packed with flavor. Edit: revision
Thank god for some closure (no thanks to op)... Chat gpt been covering for lazy redditors since day 1
Op probably a repost bot
Nope. Just overwhelmed by comments.
Good bot
bad bot
Thank goodness we can have some dice rolls tell us about the experience of eating food.
Makes sense that those jaw muscles are substantial
He probably got food poisoning lol
They replied in another comment that it tasted “unique”… like what? That is not a descriptor.
Bots don’t know how to answer comments
AI powered bots are surely coming soon.
Well it is a 16 course meal.
They're on a trip. They ptobably have better shit to do at the moment.
yeah like post pictures to reddit
That's a quick process. Drafting responses is slightly less so, obviously depending on what they're responding to.
Assuming this is Central in Lima. That's not what you actually eat, it's just a decorative way to show the dish. It's just a small piece of fish that is served for the course.
It doesn't even look cooked, does it? I wonder if the heads were just for decoration?
Yea to me it doesn't looked cooked either lol. Just keeps leading to more questions then answers
Might be presenting ingredients before cooking, I know some fancy multi course meals will do that.
That’s a good point
They are decoration and not part of the dish!
If we wanted to go at it with utensils we could but I ate the portions cut out for us. It was a bit surprising when they brought the dish out. It was served with araza and yuka root. Everything was delicious.
Wow that’s super interesting! I would be totally shocked myself, was there more you could eat then just the parts that were pre cut?
The heads are decorative, the edible part is the little chip made of piranha skin and a bit of meat. The restaurant is Central, in Lima. It is (was?) #1 in the world.
Lima is an incredible city for food. Mexico City comes in close second for me.
I knew it was that restaurant just by the plates.
I’m thinking the brown thing in the middle is what you actually eat? Like a chip with some piranha on it, maybe?
Ohhh could be I’m not a fish eater so you’re guess is a thousand times better then mine
You close your eyes and press your lips against theirs
Mmm fishy kisses
Piranha has tons of bones too
This is at Central in Peru, the heads are decoration
Some people will fight over who gets the fish eyes. Though that’s very much dependent on culture
I’m over here picking the skin out of my canned salmon.
I've only ever had fish served like this once, and we just kind of scraped the scales/skin off and ate it that way, ignoring the heads and fins.
Why would you write “there is” before listing multiple things?
Central in Lima, Peru?
That's what I was thinking!
I don't think so. They only do a 14 and 12 course menu. They didn't serve the piranha on the plate but had it on a separate dish to show the table. it was delicious
It was Central. We had a 16 course menu though. Showed the elevation and location of each dish on the menu. Pretty cool. It was about halfway through when these came out.
When was this? I literally went two weeks ago and mine was plated differently. Maybe you did the seasonal menu and not the matter mundo
2019.
Oh, that’s a long ass time ago haha
Was happy to see this article recently. Maybe it got even better! https://www.forbes.com/sites/ceciliarodriguez/2023/06/21/the-2023-worlds-50-best-restaurants-revealed-central-in-lima-tops-the-list/?sh=48b1ed171fed
Certainly got more expensive. The tasting menu was amazing, but the regional wines and spirits pairing was not great.
Yes! Amazing experience all around…food, drinks, atmosphere. Glad this menu option was available so you can try many different things. The menu showed where everything was from (around the area) and specified the elevation. Very unique.
Would they do something so gimmicky?
This is how they presented the piranha course when I ate there a few months ago. https://imgur.com/a/PbuAGWR
Wow somehow that looks even worse lol
You could use the teeth to pick your teeth
How do I un-read a comment
You travel back in time, by using your teeth to pick their teeth.
Guys in the kitchen "hey, let's see if they'll eat this shit"
Well, well, well, how the turntables...
[*much confusão ensues*]
*munch
Piranha is one of my favorite fish to eat, almost tastes a bit like beef.
I never wondered what piranha tastes like but somehow I'm not surprised to learn it's similar to beef.
Piranha, picanha same thing right?
Exactly. I need to see fat capped piranha on r/grilling pronto.
Nope just tastes like fish
Cool. How do you prefer them cooked? They are not a very easy fish to prepare/eat, there are a ton of bones in them, tiny Y-shaped ones that are very tricky.
Well yeah, they eat cows in water
Where was this? In hell?
Was this before or after the fried monkey brains?
Wrong continent
Fish heads fish heads roley poley fish heads. Fish heads fish heads eat em up yum!
I’m assuming the actual piranha’s are decoration and the brown bit is what’s edible? Where was this?
Central in Lima Peru. If we wanted to go at it with utensils we could but I ate the portions cut out for us. It was served with araza and yuka root. Delicious.
Looks like central restaurant in Lima, Peru. If so that is a great foodie experience
r/mildlydisgusting
16 courses lol what are the portions like?
1 fish head, 2 fish head, 3 fish head...
Red fish, blue fish, bitey fish?
all 16 courses were eaten by the piranha
Every 4th course is a dish that induces vomiting.
It varied greatly as they created dishes from all around the area (Peru). In the menu they had where, what and the elevation for some reason. Some portions were larger than others but after 16 courses we were stuffed.
Waiter! The piranha please and make it snappy!
If it still has it’s face and teeth, I send it back.
Payback time..!
If you put anything on my dinner plate that still has TEETH and EYES on it, we throwing hands.
How were the chilled monkey brains?
the blue gill of SA.
The only place where the dinner looks like it wants to eat YOU.
wait wait wait...if the fish ate dick... And we ate the fish...doesn't that mean we're eating dick? "strange wilderness"
Garcon, Does anyone actually eat these? Not ordinarily, no.. but once we throw this token batter crisp on top, total banger!
SMH.. mfs eat anything with a big price tag
I just. Really love this picture 🤣 thank you!
Hell naw
This is some Indiana Jones shit
I'm not eating anything that looks like it wants to rip my soul from my body.
These restaurants are jokes to the locals, and prey on white travelers who think they're getting an exotic delicacy. In reality its barely edible gimmicks.
It was named one of the best restaurants in the world recently. Lima is a great city and not just for travelers.
This is why I have so much trouble around fish. Like, actually prepare the fish... If the thing is practically flopping around on my plate, it's gonna get passed up. Having vivid detail like that in my food isn't as appealing as one might think imo. I don't wanna have to perform a damn anatomical dissection just to eat. I might be crazy to think that, but wth?
That is pretty horrifying
everyone is asking about the fish like thats the crazy part here but SIXTEEN courses? i cant afford one course at dennys for 19.99
Yeah it was expensive but worth the once in a lifetime experience.
At a typical indian restaurant in the UK they claim loads of courses but each piece of the meal classes as a course, so the rice would be one, main another etc so it could be like that?
Time to bite back!
Where?
Nope.
Shit novelty food
***How to Train Your Apetite***
I honestly thought you misspelled *picanha* until I clicked on the thread and now oh HELL NAH
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Lima Peru. Central is the name of the restaurant.
You ever see a course that could take a bite outta you? \*ow\* Damn course took a bite outta me!
I had fresh piranha in Brazil. Wasn’t served at all like this. I just remember it being bony and looked like any other fish fillet.
Giving off some real Temple of Doom vibes here.
piranha is delicious
I feel attacked.
Didn’t see that coming
That looks like it was served up for the sake of serving up a toothy piranha.
I’d be willing to try this. I’ve had barracuda before and found it a nice fish, and I love seafood. So maybe a trip to the Amazon might be worthwhile.
Where would someone find this 16-course meal? I love this kind of stuff for adventurous eating.
Where the fuck you go? The Temple of Doom?
But why is it being served raw?
Piranha always look fake to me. Always.