It sounds awful to eat seaweed for more than some few moments.
It is great for fiber and minerals.
Early Europeans ate seaweed for thousands of years
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Re: Early Europeans ate seaweed for thousands of years
#82Some of us still do! In Northern Ireland, we have a lesser-known seaweed dish called Dulce. https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20180522-the-renaissance-... It's tricky to find it fresh, you usually only get it in small greengrocers or at the Auld Lammas fair. Used to be quite cheap for a bag. Very salty but quite edible and said to be nutrient-dense.
Haha, I clicked on comment to be the token Northern Irishman bringing this up, but you beat me to it! I didn't know seaweed wasn't a common food until I moved to the Netherlands and started enquiring about the local seaweed, only to be met with blank looks or people pointing me to the sushi nori at Albert Heijn. I've been here for years and I still don't understand how such a seafaring nation with such an intimate co…
I have only ever eaten it dried, but last time I was in Portstewart I saw someone collecting it fresh, and got talking to him.
It tastes a LOT nicer fresh. But that's not saying a lot, I mean it still tastes like salty rubber.
As for the content below, that it tastes like bacon?? I mean, yeeeeeaaaaaahhh? In the same way that a used condom might taste of bacon?
Re: Early Europeans ate seaweed for thousands of years
#83Anecdotally, I once worked with a guy who told me his wife was so hooked on seaweed is healthy she ate too much of it over time and the iodine destroyed her thyroid.
All things in moderation.
Re: Early Europeans ate seaweed for thousands of years
#84Some of us still do! In Northern Ireland, we have a lesser-known seaweed dish called Dulce. https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20180522-the-renaissance-... It's tricky to find it fresh, you usually only get it in small greengrocers or at the Auld Lammas fair. Used to be quite cheap for a bag. Very salty but quite edible and said to be nutrient-dense.
It’s “dulse”, from the link. “In dulse jubilo”, one might say. ;)
Re: Early Europeans ate seaweed for thousands of years
#85It sounds awful to eat seaweed for more than some few moments. It is great for fiber and minerals.
Dried seaweed is delicious, and seaweed salad (sushi-style) even moreso. Both are available in nearly every grocery store in the US. Even my 3 year old niece loves the dry stuff.
Re: Early Europeans ate seaweed for thousands of years
#86And still do? It is still eaten in the Mediterranean. (e.g. salad.) Is the article supposed to be surprising or just keeping us updated on the oldest findings? It seems it thinks the former.
It's news for the "modernized" people, that scoff at offal, weird mushrooms and "unusual" foods.
Only a few peoples stopped consuming traditional foods, as one might expect.
Re: Early Europeans ate seaweed for thousands of years
#87Sushi rolls (Japan) and Kimbap (Korea) are wrapped with Nori (seaweed). Historical accounts as far back as year 702 mention the taxation of seaweed. https://marutaka-nori.co.jp/en/nori1.html#:~:text=The%20hist... .
Dashi, the basic Japanese stock, is made from kombu (dried kelp) (and optionally katsuobushi, dried bonito flakes).
Also, wakame as a salad or in miso soup.
Re: Early Europeans ate seaweed for thousands of years
#88Lots of people eat seaweed without even knowing it; carrageenan, an ingredient derived from seaweed, is used as a filler in many food products.
Re: Early Europeans ate seaweed for thousands of years
#89Some of us still do! In Northern Ireland, we have a lesser-known seaweed dish called Dulce. https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20180522-the-renaissance-... It's tricky to find it fresh, you usually only get it in small greengrocers or at the Auld Lammas fair. Used to be quite cheap for a bag. Very salty but quite edible and said to be nutrient-dense.
Haha, I clicked on comment to be the token Northern Irishman bringing this up, but you beat me to it! I didn't know seaweed wasn't a common food until I moved to the Netherlands and started enquiring about the local seaweed, only to be met with blank looks or people pointing me to the sushi nori at Albert Heijn. I've been here for years and I still don't understand how such a seafaring nation with such an intimate co…
>Have heard the theory that it's part of Calvinistic protestantism to avoid strong flavours
That's very believable. Puritan protestants banned all kinds of things that produce "pleasure". How do you think westerners got so prudish about intercourse?
> but then I'd expect to see more seaweed etc in the South.
Warmer waters carry less oxygen(I think that's the gist of it), so less seaweed grows.
Just think about a perfect beach, with clear blue waters and seeing all the way down to the sand on the seafloor... you know it's somewhere very warm and there's no seaweed.
Re: Early Europeans ate seaweed for thousands of years
#90Sushi rolls (Japan) and Kimbap (Korea) are wrapped with Nori (seaweed). Historical accounts as far back as year 702 mention the taxation of seaweed. https://marutaka-nori.co.jp/en/nori1.html#:~:text=The%20hist... .
Quite common in Peruvian seafood too. Yuyo (Chondracanthus chamissoi) is everywhere.