Despite all the great food that Albania has, and fresh, one food and one other during that, it didn't give me too much impact, was one of them, it was in Albassan, it's called bogaca. It's made by bread and filled with too much butter, and you can eat it with sausage or meatballs. It's super heavy food, but it's popular in Albassan. And the other one that most of Albanians used to drink is lav, it's made by cow. Here in Albania, people drink with the pie, the burek.
So in Albania, there's not a ton of crazy foods, but one of the, I guess, unique foods of Albania that you can get is called burek. And basically what they do, it's as if you take, imagine like a roll, you take the insides of the roll, take that out, dip that in oil, and then take another roll and put that, like the oiled bread, in the bread. So it's like bread and bread. And it's probably not healthy for you, but it was really good. I really liked it.
You know, I think probably some of the crazier things that we'd think of as Americans are, you know, like eating brains, like from sheep or things like that. I think probably the craziest thing that I was able to eat was probably goat lungs. I went on a trip up to a city called Theth and they had a goat that they cooked for us, a whole goat, and just eating goat lungs just was not the most pleasant experience. But, you know, I guess it's crazy because, you know, we normally don't eat lungs, at least I don't. But, you know, it was just kind of a funny and wild experience, but, you know, I wouldn't probably eat lung again just because it was the most enjoyable thing.
Albanian food is amazing. It's actually like some of the best food I've ever had in my entire life and I've been all over the world. But one time we went to a lady's house in one of the concrete apartments that are everywhere and her friend came over and she had a Tupperware of like something homemade. It did not look appetizing and so she was really proud of it. She said, hey do you want to try it? And I said, sure. It was like long and skinny and brown and she said, oh it's cow intestines filled with chicken liver. And I was like...
So just for a point of reference, like some common foods that you'll see a lot in Albania are what's called fasule, which is like really really good bean soup. That sounds very underrated here in America but it's amazing. Like I have come back to America and I've missed fasule. It's like a three-day process, several days at least. They take like these beans and they will wash them off and then dry them and then wash them off and dry them just over and over again for like hours on and then they cook them and they season them really well and it takes a long time. They cook it just right. So if an Albanian ever says, come have fasule at our house, say okay we will be there whenever he wants to be there. It's just so good and then also they have a lot of pilaf, which is really good rice. So you'll get fasule and pilaf together all the time and again it sounds just like very underrated here in America but it is amazing and I miss it and oh my goodness it's so good. So those are kind of some standard Albanian foods that we just don't have a lot of but really good.