Saint John: Foreign Grocery Friday: Sucking on 'Dulse' Seaweed in New Brunswick: "
When we travel, one of our favorite things to do is to pop into a local grocery store and check out the food products and candies we'd never find anywhere else. So we're trying out this new feature, Foreign Grocery Friday, where each week we'll feature some of our (and your) favorite overseas treats. Got a recommendation? Let us know!
Mmm seaweed potato chips. Wait, what? It's true; there is a place where seaweed is dried and eaten like crunchy potato chips, and that place is the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, in Canada. We just picked some of the fishy-smelling stuff—called Dulse—ourselves from the Saint John City Market, and we're chewing through a bit as we type this description of the rare, but totally have-to-try-it foodstuff.
The taste: Oh, it's seaweedy alright, but nothing like eating the salty dried seaweed sheets typically wrapped around sushi. This dark egglant-colored stuff is crunchy at the first bite, and very chewy like octopus during further mastication. The natural saltiness hits first, followed by a flavor not unlike a coastline covered in stinking, slippery seaweed-covered rocks. In other words, it tastes like how a sunny fishing village smells.
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