I have never had caviar; what am I missing?

[pokerfan]

[NightWatcher]

1. expensive salt water.

[pokerfan]

3. cool

I can make my own then...

[Forkboy]

2. The vomiting afterwards.

[pokerfan]

7. yeah, that's consistent with the salt water

I did that the last time I went snorkling in the ocean.

[crim son]

4. It's very good with dilled cream cheese and a squeeze of lemon

overtop. On a cracker, toast, whatever. Yum!

[pokerfan]

9. so I could spread some cream cheese on a bagle

Dunk the lot in Puget Sound and get the same effect? :)

[MadMaddie]

13. Ha..ha..ha..

[crim son]

48. There's no lemon in Puget Sound.

:D And no. Part of the joy of caviar is the texture. Pop, pop, pop! Seriously.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

51. I agree with the Pop, Pop, Pop, It is the texture of it all...

along with experience ;) :hi:

[trof]

54. Maybe, but don't use a beagle.

Entirely different taste.

[Midlodemocrat]

49. Seriously, it can be delicious if it's decent quality.

We get some around the holidays every year.

[SoxFan]

5. Not a damn thing

[janx]

6. NOTHING. n/t

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. I was given a little jar of caviar once.

It was nasty. I fed it to the cat.

[pokerfan]

11. Is it an emperor has no clothes thing?

Everyone standing around pretending to enjoy it because it's expensive and they don't want to look unsophisticated?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

12. I suspect that's the case.

Caviar is fishy and salty and slimy. It's expensive cat food. There's a lot of exotic high-end food that tastes like crap but you have to pretend to like it so you don't look like a rube. I think brie is another one of those foods. Slimy, smelly cheese. Bleh.

[pokerfan]

17. I'm not a fan of brie or anchovies

so I doubt I'll like caviar.

Foie gras, I know I like.

[TK421]

30. ooohhh...now I love a good brie

so I have to disagree with you on that one

but on the caviar...yes, I agree

[TK421]

28. Did the cat barf it out, too?

;)

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

31. No, but cats will eat a lot of weird stuff.

If they'll eat June bugs and raw mice, they'll eat caviar. And they are welcome to it.

[TK421]

33. I had it years ago.....at a social function my Aunt had with her friends

it was a private party, but she invited my Dad and I to it ( Mom wasn't interested in this ) That was the first and last time I had caviar....and they had beluga (sp), which I think is one of the higher-end caviars out there. There was two other kinds, and I tasted all three...all of them disgustingly salty and tasting so strongly of the sea I almost spit them out...and I normally don't mind anything salty ( being a fan of junk food and ramen noodles ).

Anyway...it's something I don't care to try eating again

[mtowngman]

10. salty black fish eggs-I think

only had it once, a long time ago.

[pokerfan]

15. I think I might have some caviar in the garage from last summer!

[mtowngman]

22. Yours must be maraschino caviar mine was black. What do you catch

with the dice lure? Money?

[pokerfan]

35. loan sharks, of course

[mtowngman]

38. .

LOL :rofl:

[mtowngman]

23. Delete/dupe

[LeftyMom]

14. Bait.

You can pick up something every bit as nasty at your local bait and tackle shop, should you feel the need to eat something that smells like low tide.

[pokerfan]

18. beat me to it

see post #15.

:rofl:

[elleng]

16. Nothing.

.

[applegrove]

19. Nothing. Just tastes like salt.

[Shell Beau]

20. Crunchy poppyseed like fishy eggs! Not a damn thing!

:puke:

[TK421]

21. Nothing...imagine putting a spoonful of salty nothing in your mouth

on top of a fucking cracker....yeah...you haven't missed a fucking thing so don't feel bad

when I say salty...I MEAN it..it's crap

[Xipe Totec]

24. You'll never know

Unless you try it.

And do so with a good fine beer, not champagne.

Caviar was never meant to go with champagne.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

26. But be sure you have a cat standing by

for when you decide it tastes like something that washed up at the edge of a tide pool. Feed the caviar to the cat and drink all the beer.

[Xipe Totec]

27. I gather you don't care for shellfish either.

I'll fight your cat for that last morsel of caviar.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

29. I love shellfish, except for raw oysters.

I just think caviar tastes like the bottom of a well-used minnow bucket.

[pokerfan]

36. oysters are fine but they must be lightly cooked

and certainly not to the point that they become rubbery.

[Xipe Totec]

46. Raw oysters is exactly what I was thinking

I love those too, as well as salmon eggs and flying fish eggs on sushi.

Good caviar tastes great. If something tastes like the bottom of a well-used minnow bucket, maybe it's not because it's caviar, but because it came from the bottom of a well-used minnow bucket.

quality and freshness matters always.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

50. ok...I have to ask --

WHY were you licking the bottom of a well-used minnow bucket? :D

[pokerfan]

37. I'll try anything once

Does it go with vodka?

[Kali]

41. yes - ice cold vodka

while the overly salty sea flavor descriptions are correct, nobody is nailing the texture (which to me is more important) little pearls that burst with that flavor when you pop them with your teeth or tongue.

Personally I didn't care for the caviar I tried (hand carried from Russia by people who should know what is edible) but we had it with blinys (or however you spell it - crepes by any other name) and they were too soft for me. I think the cream cheese and toast points or crackers would be better. I still wouldn't really like it, but I could eat a few with some shots of vodka.

[Xipe Totec]

47. Yes!

and a good dense russian bread.

[SeattleGirl]

25. Spitting it out a la Tom Hanks in "Big"

I tried it once, and nearly lost my cookies.

Blech!!

[Captain Hilts]

32. Something REALLY disgusting to eat. nt

[Generic Brad]

34. If its good caviar - little balls of heaven

If it's bad caviar like everyone else here seems to have eaten - I have to agree with them.

[ashling]

39. Roe v Puke

:rofl:

[960]

40. Salty nirvana

I think it's amazing with some ice cold vodka.

Maybe I'm nuts, or maybe everyone else on this thread had some nasty caviar?


:shrug:

[vixengrl]

42. Dudes--the last time I had caviar was a Mexican-Italian wedding.

Well, not exactly. It was Mexican-Italian girl, marrying a total American (pronounced Ahmerrygahn) kind of like me. But it was the best thing evr. There was mostly Italian food, with some caviar laid out with the cheese and salumi. And there was a mariachi band--and I will tell you what--I loved !! I've been at sucky-DJ Weddings. A mariachi band rocked my world by being listenable, unpredicatable, totally good, and toe-tapping. So, yay for that.

As for caviar, it's salty and fishy, but it's the texture I think that makes it work (I've also eaten the cheap caviar you can sometimes get from supermarkets--that's just salt and fish spooge--not texture, fine rain, iffy taste). The eggs snap open when you taste them, and release a kind of salty-fishy-gelatinous wonderment.

There's a diner by my parents in the Russian part of town where I think I can get proper blintzes with caviar--it won't be as good as I think, so maybe I'll take a flask of vodka with to make it better. That's how I've always wanted to try it (although I've also had blintzes without caviar). You know, just to be doiing the thing the way...I dunno. (Psyching up myself: Sounds good--blintz, caviar, swig from the flask. Note to self, do this thing. Caviar is more than the little red sprinkles on sushi.)

[DFW]

43. NOTHING!

I tried it exactly once. I nearly gagged. Even if offered 100% of the retail price to eat it, I'd still pass.

Day old white bread with lima bean paste tastes better.

[Ikonoklast]

44. Good caviar is Nirvana, cheap caviar, blechhh.

As in most things, you pay for quality.

But I love double-anchovie pizza, too, so maybe I just enjoy that type of salty, fishy flavor.

[struggle4progress]

45. Dammed if I know. I only ever ate it on pizza with anchovies and octopus

[old mark]

52. Salty fish jelly at very high prices. nt

[siligut]

53. Caviar is high in Omega 3 oils.

One of the reasons it may have been considered a luxury; back when it was first eaten, people became healthier. It was also rare, which raises the price and thus becomes a luxury. Good caviar is not just salty fish flavor, it has subtle nuances. Now that it is being cultivated and cheaper, salt is added to increase the flavor.

[RebelOne]

55. Absolutely nothing.

The only time that caviar ever tasted good to me was when I was at a party and the hostess made an egg salad and covered it with caviar. Otherwise, I would not go out of my way to eat or buy it.