Sour/Bitter - a food thread

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I suppose I owe to my wife the fact that I've expanded my palate beyond the traditional American sweet/salty axis. So a thread for food and drink of delicious sour and/or bitter flavor. Please be as specific as possible (and first person who says "Sour Patch Kids" gets zapped).

― Hurting 2, Sunday, 28 October 2007 19:39 (eighteen years ago)

lime pickle!

― lauren, Sunday, 28 October 2007 19:45 (eighteen years ago)

sumac!

― lauren, Sunday, 28 October 2007 19:46 (eighteen years ago)

bitter drink - campari
bitter food - broccoli rabe/rape/rapini

― gershy, Sunday, 28 October 2007 19:48 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.macromex.com/images/produse/tb_0_12_BN270.JPG

― Hurting 2, Sunday, 28 October 2007 20:10 (eighteen years ago)

i love sumac

― get bent, Sunday, 28 October 2007 20:21 (eighteen years ago)

apple cider vinegar (great for your health!)

― get bent, Sunday, 28 October 2007 20:22 (eighteen years ago)

erivan yogurt

― Hurting 2, Sunday, 28 October 2007 20:58 (eighteen years ago)

salty lassi

― Hurting 2, Sunday, 28 October 2007 20:58 (eighteen years ago)

tell me more about sumac plz

― Hurting 2, Sunday, 28 October 2007 21:10 (eighteen years ago)

Sumac is like purple flakes, really sour, used in a lot of middle eastern foods or in a spice mixture called za'atar. I have a jar of it but don't use it that often, but I got some knowing kind of what it was used for but I haven't been on a big middle eastern kick in a while.

Mango pickle for me in terms of sour foods. It's one of those things I didn't like at all when I first had it but got acclimated to it and started to really like it.

― joygoat, Sunday, 28 October 2007 21:28 (eighteen years ago)

mango pickle, lime pickle, lemon pickle, eggplant pickle... basically any kind of indian pickle is aces.

in addition to being part of spice mixtures, ground sumac is sometimes sprinkled on dips and salads.

― lauren, Sunday, 28 October 2007 21:32 (eighteen years ago)

fuck u I LUV sour patch kids! Also sassy sour jelly bellies. I have been know to eat both in such quantities that I developed hella canker sores in mah mouf.

― quincie, Sunday, 28 October 2007 22:12 (eighteen years ago)

Oh yeah, we have some za'atar. It's yummy.

― Hurting 2, Sunday, 28 October 2007 22:26 (eighteen years ago)

Fernet-Branca is a masterwork of "bitter".

― libcrypt, Sunday, 28 October 2007 23:39 (eighteen years ago)

raw cranberries

― remy bean, Sunday, 28 October 2007 23:53 (eighteen years ago)

Oh MAN sumac is yum for real. There's other things I can think of but I can't think of them. Will report later.

― Abbott, Monday, 29 October 2007 00:37 (eighteen years ago)

Za'atar is really good with labeneh. It's really hard to find good labeneh in the states though - my only luck has been these kind of preserved balls of it that came in a jar of oil.

― Hurting 2, Monday, 29 October 2007 00:40 (eighteen years ago)

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