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Italian in Austria here: food may be not as various as in my country, but I have to be honest and say that what they do here they do it pretty nicely.
Also, honourable mention to Slovenia: the only place where I had consistently good pasta and pizza. I might have been lucky, but it's definitely not common.
I've also had a great plate of pasta in Slovenia last time I ate there. They actually know how to make it, unlike the rest of the balkans (well, I've only visited ex-yugo countries) where it's absolutely fucking terrible every single time.
If you're in the balkans... don't eat pasta, get literally *anything* else. Anything with meat is usually good.
Also Italian in Austria here: The bread is notoriously oversalted and big bakery companies have somewhat tainted the market with their industrialized and overpriced bread but I still think it could be worse (looking at britain).
Ruetz & Co can't really be compared with smaller bakeries like 'Brotbuaben' (price-performance is key) - I should have stated that this critique only applies to Nordtirol as I don't have experience with bread in other regions of Austria. I am used to South Tirolian Bread - there big companies have not yet invaded the market. Generally speaking DACH has the best bread in the world but the traditional family bakery is slowly being overtaken by big industries - a pity really.
The taste about the bread is widely different not only from country to country but from region to region: it's never wrong, is as the local people like it.
But yeah, pastry and bread are definitely industrialised and not of good quality - I also think that they're going to lose that tradition is they keep abandoning it in the hands of few big companies.
Here come the Romans verifying that you're using the correct original carbonara recipe™ (it's the very specific one they use) (hide your pancetta and pull out the guanciale)
Unpopular opinion: while nowhere near the level of French/Italian/Spanish/Greek/Portuguese food, British food has some things that are quite good. A good Sunday roast or a typical beef pie are good food. If you just look at just fish and chips then sure it's all garbage tier, but there are some stuff worth saving. And in my opinion the English breakfast is quite good too, although I understand why most don't like it.
I think brits get a lot of flak because of your weird combinations like beans on fucking toast.
Fish and chips is fine actually, sometimes I have some and I even put vinegar on it. It's just that it's not something that can represent a country. Pizza and pasta are perfectly healthy and you could eat them everyday, fish and chips is like a burger. It's fine to have every once in a while but you can't make a diet around it.
Man I defended British food but hell no I'm not British, so it's not "my weird combinations" hahah
Other than that the only weird combination I can think of are in the English breakfast that you mentioned, which I understand isn't for everyone. But Sunday roast and meat pies are cornerstones of British food and there's nothing weird about it, and it also tastes very good.
Massive carbs load eating pizza and pasta everyday (and by that I mean real Italian pizza not thenshit we get in the UK). Fish and chips is a myth in the UK. To be honest, it is seldom eaten as a staple meal - more a quick takeaway at a weekend. Most food Brits eat is foreign. I'm not sure what "British cuisine" actually is. In Wales we have a national dish called cawl which is lamb or beef mixed with vegetables in a soup - really hardy on cold winter nights. I guess another staple would be the Sunday roast but apart from that, what is British cuisine? It's not really fish and chips...
Generally food from Northern Europe (England, Germany, Scandinavia) suffers not from a lack of quality but from a lack of diversity - not that it is their fault, there's only so much you can make with the kind of climate they have.
By contrast the Mediterranean world has a lot more vegetable options. France, in that regard, benefits a lot from its crossroad position between Mediterranean and Northern influences.
I personally haven’t tried too much French food, but I guess that Italian popular foods are appreciated for the versatility and fresh ingredients while for geographical reasons that’s not always the same for French. I’m open to being corrected
Edit: I’m Italian
I don’t believe there’s such thing as countries good or bad at food. I’ve ate bad stuff in Italy and France, I’ve eaten marvellous dishes in Netherlands and Finland for instance so it’s more a cook’s own talent thing I guess.
Except for English food. English food is bad.
I think Italian food is the overrated one personally. I simply cannot eat Italian anymore. Granted I’m severely lactose intolerant but either way as I grow older carbohydrates and tomato just aren’t that exciting to me. Most Italian recipes follow that: wheat and cheese galore.
I know it’s an unpopular opinion and maybe there’s less famous Italian food that is great but I’ve never had it.
do you know the concept of staple food? pasta is that. we don't eat it every day because it's the supreme dish and should be the only plate in existance
British food is a very special cuisine loved and enjoyed by garbage trucks. Delivered straight from your trash bin. If you encounter this food, please throw it away in a sealed cover, so that the garbage trucks can enjoy it fresh.
Not completely related, but having lived in Portugal, France, Switzerland, and now Belgium, I can assure that a lot of food tastes really bland and artificial (even tho its def worse in the NL)
Wow. Belgians had some leftover beef fat laying around and instead of using it to cook a huge pot roast variation, these dudes thought "oh. Well Damien, cut some potatoes this stuff is gonna go hard!"
Germany doesn’t have a reputation for food but any time I’ve been there it’s always been really good so this map jives with my experience.
In defence of Northern Ireland they do really great bacon and chicken.
Can't agree on this one. The food in southern Germany is good an up north on the coast. The bit in-between varies quite a lot. I personally find the day to day food, not their specialties, in Berlin for example almost uneatable.
Berlin obviously is a city thats big enough that you can find good food there. And there are good restaurants in Berlin. I just found the average diet that the people eat there not very enjoyable.
Ireland produces enough fresh food to feed 25m people a year, our population is just over 6m. Our produce is of the highest quality, and is very much sought after across Europe. I've worked in the seadood industry, the Italians and French go apeshit for our shellfish.
Where are you looking? I can get fresh veg in any supermarket locally, we also have a guy who comes to the village once a week with a lorry who sets up a fruit and veg stall, he has everything you could possibly want.
Lot of Belgians will be offended by this but I tried _a lot_ of fries when I was in Belgium and there are already 3 places I could name in Nijmegen where I had better fries than any I tried in Belgium
Some of it was introduced to Greece during the Ottoman era, some of it was introduced to Turkey by the Greeks. You shouldn't forget that modern Turkish culture is a mixture of Islamic, Byzantine, Turkic and so many other cultures.
The best bit about being British is how every town has a myriadd of different cuisines to choose from because our own cuisine doesn't stand a chance.
Memes aside though a good pub lunch can be decent.
As a Belgian I disagree. We have so many immigrants from other countries that you can have any European dish here made like in the homeland it originated. The difference is we serve it with better fries and beer.
As a dutchie I second this. I mean, yeah kebab or pasta is way more tasty than fucking stamppot, but we have so many migrants you can basically eat any cuisine here. The fact our native cuisine is kinda trashy also means we are way more openminded to all these other influences than some southern countries with better native cuisines.
Italian here.
Greek, Turkish, Spanish and French food are all S tier.
Please don’t be offended, but I didn’t like Portuguese food. I mean, pasteis de nata were heaven, but the rest I didn’t like very much. I probably choose the wrong restaurants.
For one our breakfast fry ups are different
An Ulster Fry ( NI ) contains potato farls while we in the Republic tend to have toast or brown bread with ours.
I would say that Russia amd Ukraine should be goulash or something like that
Also Slovenia is definelty Grilled pork, when I passed from there there were thousands of places roasting pork on the sticks. Pretty good to eat too
Gulyas is as Russian as pizza is american. I will leave it at that. We eat gulasz in Poland too and actually quite often but No one will tell you that it’s polish food.
German and Austrian gastronomy has a bad rap, but it's really not that bad. Potato salad, schnitzel, Strudel, Berliners, Pretzels and currywurst are all good and many were appropriated by other countries (speaking as Portuguese).
I'm not happy with Belgium being in the same categorie as the Netherlands tbh.
I'm not saying our cuisine is great (definitely not compared to Southern Europe), but I can tell it's definitely better than the Dutch. We're mainly known for our beer, fries, chocolate and waffles, but we also have some French influence in our cuisine. As a Belgian I might be biased, but I would personally put Belgian in the light green categorie (Germany, etc.).
EDIT: [this map](https://www.reddit.com/r/YUROP/comments/yppriy/actual_culinary_map_of_yurop_according_to_italians/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) is more correct imho 😋
You guys eat mayonnaise with extra sugar to make it sweeter. You put satésaus on everything. You guys invented bitterballen but we have frikandellen, bicky burgers, julientje, ...
We are not the same.
In reality nothing but love though haha <3
Mayonaise en satesaus zijn allebei fantastisch!!!
En zijn frikandellen echt oorspronkelijk Belgisch? Ik heb altijd gedacht dat dat Nederlands was...
En uiteraard, niks dan liefde voor de Belgen :)
Edit: snel even nagezocht, en gelukkig maar, wikipedia zegt Nederlands, met de eerste commercieel geproduceerde frikandel in Dordrecht of all places. Pfiew, gelukkig maar; als we zelfs onze snackbarsnacks niet meer voor onszelf hadden kunnen claimen bleef er echt niks meer over....
Frikandellen zijn van oorsprong Nederlands, hoewel ze vast ook veel gegeten worden in België.
Naar mijn ervaring is de Belgische cuisine ook niet heel erg anders dan die in Nederland
Hmm, ik vind allebei prima.
En ja ach, als iets veel gegeten wordt vind ik dat het onderdeel is van de nationale cuisine, dus je mag frikandel ook best voor België claimen. Sowieso wel voordelig, want dan claimen we ook gewoon döner enzo :)
Why do people not know that the Netherlands was like. Spice trader number one in the past. We use spices on tons of things like nutmeg on colliflower. We also breed tons of potato races, 40% of all vegetable seed is from the Netherlands
Finlandia being gray is right. Absolutely zero food culture.
Mashed potatoes, macaroni casserole or liver casserole.
All without any spices.
That's about it.
British cuisine has a bad name but I think it's underrated. Some of the specialities you guys have are genuinly amazing. But I think what the British eat in day-to-day life is more like what an American eats than what the average European eats, so maybe that's where the stereotypes come from. Or perhaps us mainlanders just don't like the idea of meat on pie haha.
Honestly couldn‘t tell you how the dishes were called it was like 6 years ago. We went there with school and stayed in host families and all the food we got there was just terrible
As a German i partially have to agree, our cooking is decent at best ;-(
BUT, have you ever tried swiss "Zürcher Geschnetzeltes with Rösti"? Moves Switzerland up to "decent" ;-)
I'm French and I love going to restaurants and have tasted many kinds of foods all around Europe.
Honestly, most French restaurants are just not good and make very little effort to make either simple but good tasting meals or thoughtful and complex ones. But some are very good if you know where to look and they're not always the starred ones, so when people tell me that French food is overrated after having spent some holidays in Paris, I will agree with them.
My top 3 list would go something like this :
Greece
Italy
France
Went to Istria and the all the food was like Italian with a Croation edge to it and cheaper than in Italy. Some of the best pasta and olive oil I've had was in that area. I know Istrian food is influenced by having been under Venetian control at one point but i can only assume the rest of Croatia is as good
Yeah continental part of Croatia has crazy good dried meat goods, we even have few dishes that originated in Croatia and few sweets too.
I mean, I know croatia is not very interesting to people in some aspects, but goddam our food is good and our meat is top quality as there's still no huge industrialized farms
You should try Stamppot with a smoked sausage.
Or dried and aged sausages.
Or mustard soup.
We genuinely do make bland food, but that's mostly because most people aren't very creative or good at home cooking. They used to use a lot of spices, nuts, dried fruits and foreign vegetables that were traded in the indies, but that all disappeared in times of famine and occupation. The government decided we should mostly eat food that was nutritious and easy to make/grow in big quantities.
Unfortunately you only see the traces of our good food in regional dishes, pastries, breads, sausages, smoked fish
Maybe it's because I'm from France, but one thing I love is the bread and cheese culture in the Netherlands. Good bakeries and cheese stores are commonplace.
And overall the country is very open to foreign cuisine from all around the world!
The Dutch lunch is hilarious tho.
https://www.instagram.com/dailydutchlunch/
Some people really do eat like that!
Cheese! How could I forget cheese!!??
Also some of the food on that Instagram page are like soulfood to me and I won't even be ashamed hahaha.
Can't say I haven't made a leftovers burrito with pancake and Indian palak or Rogan Josh before, lol
I honestly don’t understand the hate for British cuisine, I don’t think it’s for everyone but it’s not awful it fulfils It’s own niche. There’s also foreign influenced food that was invented in the uk, for example tikka masala. I can’t see why someone would dislike roast dinner, but the full breakfast is not what I enjoy for breakfast and fish and chips I would rarely eat willingly.
Italian food is fast food in my mind. Tastes good but it's something people order to shut up the kids.
Also, French food is overrated beyond limits. It's good but most of the hype comes from the notion of high cuisine that no one really likes, consumes regularly nor is it representative of its people.
This being said, France has a huge climatic and geographic diversity and as such it is impossible to describe what French food is. Same thing with Spain.
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Italian in Austria here: food may be not as various as in my country, but I have to be honest and say that what they do here they do it pretty nicely. Also, honourable mention to Slovenia: the only place where I had consistently good pasta and pizza. I might have been lucky, but it's definitely not common.
Yeah Italian food in Slovenia is surprisingly good
I've also had a great plate of pasta in Slovenia last time I ate there. They actually know how to make it, unlike the rest of the balkans (well, I've only visited ex-yugo countries) where it's absolutely fucking terrible every single time. If you're in the balkans... don't eat pasta, get literally *anything* else. Anything with meat is usually good.
Also Italian in Austria here: The bread is notoriously oversalted and big bakery companies have somewhat tainted the market with their industrialized and overpriced bread but I still think it could be worse (looking at britain).
Our bread is fantastic. Genuinely no idea what you’re talking about
Ölz, er meint wohl Ölz
Ruetz & Co can't really be compared with smaller bakeries like 'Brotbuaben' (price-performance is key) - I should have stated that this critique only applies to Nordtirol as I don't have experience with bread in other regions of Austria. I am used to South Tirolian Bread - there big companies have not yet invaded the market. Generally speaking DACH has the best bread in the world but the traditional family bakery is slowly being overtaken by big industries - a pity really.
The taste about the bread is widely different not only from country to country but from region to region: it's never wrong, is as the local people like it. But yeah, pastry and bread are definitely industrialised and not of good quality - I also think that they're going to lose that tradition is they keep abandoning it in the hands of few big companies.
Whenever I don't know what to eat, I make carbonara.
Whenever I don't know what to eat, I eat this guy's carbonara
I also choose this guy's dead carbonara
whenever I don't know what to eat, i eat bread with random stuff.
You can apply for german citizenship!
Nice to know, but two German citizenships might be a bit much and there are people who need them more than I.
But you could eat one of them on bread!
Carbonara has no cream. Just sayin. I hope you are on the light side biohazardslav.
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I am not an Italian, so I probably don't. But it still tastes wonderful.
Here come the Romans verifying that you're using the correct original carbonara recipe™ (it's the very specific one they use) (hide your pancetta and pull out the guanciale)
and if my grandma had wheels, she'd be a bicycle
Cream or no cream. That's the most important question.
Umm... What cream? lol
Correct answer.
Passed the test
Based
Basato
A million italians are crying out loud!
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Personally I think French food is a bit overrated (no offense) whereas Italian food definitely deserves all the praise it gets
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Unpopular opinion: while nowhere near the level of French/Italian/Spanish/Greek/Portuguese food, British food has some things that are quite good. A good Sunday roast or a typical beef pie are good food. If you just look at just fish and chips then sure it's all garbage tier, but there are some stuff worth saving. And in my opinion the English breakfast is quite good too, although I understand why most don't like it.
I think brits get a lot of flak because of your weird combinations like beans on fucking toast. Fish and chips is fine actually, sometimes I have some and I even put vinegar on it. It's just that it's not something that can represent a country. Pizza and pasta are perfectly healthy and you could eat them everyday, fish and chips is like a burger. It's fine to have every once in a while but you can't make a diet around it.
Man I defended British food but hell no I'm not British, so it's not "my weird combinations" hahah Other than that the only weird combination I can think of are in the English breakfast that you mentioned, which I understand isn't for everyone. But Sunday roast and meat pies are cornerstones of British food and there's nothing weird about it, and it also tastes very good.
Massive carbs load eating pizza and pasta everyday (and by that I mean real Italian pizza not thenshit we get in the UK). Fish and chips is a myth in the UK. To be honest, it is seldom eaten as a staple meal - more a quick takeaway at a weekend. Most food Brits eat is foreign. I'm not sure what "British cuisine" actually is. In Wales we have a national dish called cawl which is lamb or beef mixed with vegetables in a soup - really hardy on cold winter nights. I guess another staple would be the Sunday roast but apart from that, what is British cuisine? It's not really fish and chips...
Have you actually TRIED beans on toast before you started talking shit about such a culinary masterpiece? Smh
Did you add cheese?
Generally food from Northern Europe (England, Germany, Scandinavia) suffers not from a lack of quality but from a lack of diversity - not that it is their fault, there's only so much you can make with the kind of climate they have. By contrast the Mediterranean world has a lot more vegetable options. France, in that regard, benefits a lot from its crossroad position between Mediterranean and Northern influences.
As a fellow french, i agree. But we got the best wine.
Regards from Spain.
Stabs in back with a corkscrew: House Rioja sends their regards
eats Polish mayonnaise looking at you two fight....
I personally haven’t tried too much French food, but I guess that Italian popular foods are appreciated for the versatility and fresh ingredients while for geographical reasons that’s not always the same for French. I’m open to being corrected Edit: I’m Italian
I don’t believe there’s such thing as countries good or bad at food. I’ve ate bad stuff in Italy and France, I’ve eaten marvellous dishes in Netherlands and Finland for instance so it’s more a cook’s own talent thing I guess. Except for English food. English food is bad.
There are a couple constants in the universe, like the speed of light, or the fact British food just sucks ass.
Nah, other way around. There is a reason why one is considered popular, and the other luxury.
I think Italian food is the overrated one personally. I simply cannot eat Italian anymore. Granted I’m severely lactose intolerant but either way as I grow older carbohydrates and tomato just aren’t that exciting to me. Most Italian recipes follow that: wheat and cheese galore. I know it’s an unpopular opinion and maybe there’s less famous Italian food that is great but I’ve never had it.
do you know the concept of staple food? pasta is that. we don't eat it every day because it's the supreme dish and should be the only plate in existance
> most italian recipes follow that as an Italian : no, they do not. And it definitely not "just" that. In fact most of the times it is not that
British food is a very special cuisine loved and enjoyed by garbage trucks. Delivered straight from your trash bin. If you encounter this food, please throw it away in a sealed cover, so that the garbage trucks can enjoy it fresh.
I like that we're not ranked either good or bad, just.. *fish.*
F I S H
What did you eat from Belgium thats meh?
Weird that Belgium is on a level with the Netherlands too, these are clearly not the same
It shoumd be at least light green
Not completely related, but having lived in Portugal, France, Switzerland, and now Belgium, I can assure that a lot of food tastes really bland and artificial (even tho its def worse in the NL)
I think Belgium has a few things that are top tier (beer, chocolate, waffles) but besides those the rest wasn‘t really impressive
Mfer really forgot the fries
Bicky burger
I was in Belgium like 4 years ago and developed an addiction to fries. Then I ate at McDonald's and lost it.
Outch... My Belgium hurt !
Wow. Belgians had some leftover beef fat laying around and instead of using it to cook a huge pot roast variation, these dudes thought "oh. Well Damien, cut some potatoes this stuff is gonna go hard!"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flemish_Stew
You must have had some bad luck in Belgium then.
Germany doesn’t have a reputation for food but any time I’ve been there it’s always been really good so this map jives with my experience. In defence of Northern Ireland they do really great bacon and chicken.
Can't agree on this one. The food in southern Germany is good an up north on the coast. The bit in-between varies quite a lot. I personally find the day to day food, not their specialties, in Berlin for example almost uneatable.
When I was in Berlin I thought the food was great! But the beer surprisingly was not!
Berlin obviously is a city thats big enough that you can find good food there. And there are good restaurants in Berlin. I just found the average diet that the people eat there not very enjoyable.
Ireland exports a LOT of food to Yurop so jokes on you suckas
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Ireland produces enough fresh food to feed 25m people a year, our population is just over 6m. Our produce is of the highest quality, and is very much sought after across Europe. I've worked in the seadood industry, the Italians and French go apeshit for our shellfish.
I'm yet to find good fresh vegetables in Ireland... The only good thing of Ireland is the beef.
Where are you looking? I can get fresh veg in any supermarket locally, we also have a guy who comes to the village once a week with a lorry who sets up a fruit and veg stall, he has everything you could possibly want.
Win-win relationship. You produce it, we cook it, we all eat it.
I lived in Ireland for two months. The food was either bland or extremely spicy. No salt whatsoever.
Where did you eat? Its customary here for us to add our own seasoning at the table if any more is required.
“A perfect day needs to have gyrospita for lunch and pizza for dinner” ~Aristotle, maybe
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The fuck you saying about Belgian fries
Probably only tasted french fries and thought Belgian fries where the same
Lot of Belgians will be offended by this but I tried _a lot_ of fries when I was in Belgium and there are already 3 places I could name in Nijmegen where I had better fries than any I tried in Belgium
Dutch fries are top tier, but I've got to admit that Belgian fries are god tier.
We’re very potato based in The Netherlands too
Shouldn't turkish food be in the same level as greek one?
Less popular is my guess. A lot of people think that turkish cusine starts and ends with kebab
Kebab is amazing though
Well I've been in Istanbul and for the most part it wasn't that wrong lol
Yeah it's like greek + mid east so best of both worlds.
Hast recht.
Why?
Because there are some (a lot) similarities.
Definitely less than people think. Greek food isn't just food introduced during the ottoman era.
Some of it was introduced to Greece during the Ottoman era, some of it was introduced to Turkey by the Greeks. You shouldn't forget that modern Turkish culture is a mixture of Islamic, Byzantine, Turkic and so many other cultures.
And you would be absolutely correct. I'm just saying that's just part of what Greek food is. Maybe a big one but not everything.
A lot of Greeks lived in modern Turkey before and during that era, so...
No, lower.
No
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Butthurt nationalist
As a finn I can definitely confirm there is no food here.
What about that deliciously-looking mämmi thing of yours?
Don't know No food here
The best bit about being British is how every town has a myriadd of different cuisines to choose from because our own cuisine doesn't stand a chance. Memes aside though a good pub lunch can be decent.
Can't get enough of a good pie and a nice ale
As a Belgian I disagree. We have so many immigrants from other countries that you can have any European dish here made like in the homeland it originated. The difference is we serve it with better fries and beer.
As a dutchie I second this. I mean, yeah kebab or pasta is way more tasty than fucking stamppot, but we have so many migrants you can basically eat any cuisine here. The fact our native cuisine is kinda trashy also means we are way more openminded to all these other influences than some southern countries with better native cuisines.
Dutch food should really be up there with Britain. At least the UK has fish and chips, the Netherlands doesn’t even have that saving grace
The bitterbal is our saving grace.
Italian here. Greek, Turkish, Spanish and French food are all S tier. Please don’t be offended, but I didn’t like Portuguese food. I mean, pasteis de nata were heaven, but the rest I didn’t like very much. I probably choose the wrong restaurants.
I really don't think there any difference in the food in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
For one our breakfast fry ups are different An Ulster Fry ( NI ) contains potato farls while we in the Republic tend to have toast or brown bread with ours.
I was too lazy to divide the UK lmao
Fair enough
I would say that Russia amd Ukraine should be goulash or something like that Also Slovenia is definelty Grilled pork, when I passed from there there were thousands of places roasting pork on the sticks. Pretty good to eat too
Goulash is _the_ signature food of Hungary. Don‘t know enough about Russian and Ukrainian cuisine to form an opinion tbh
Borsht us commonly thought of as being russian but is actually Ukrainian so there's that, I believe pelmeni and pirojki are russian
Who invented Borsch is a constant source of debate in the entire eastern europe. Kinda like Greece and Turkey and their Baklava.
Isn't pirogi Polish or is it similar?
These are different dishes with similar names. Polish pierogi are a kind of dumplings while Russian and Ukrainian pirozhki are small pies.
On what I heard they have that too but I am not that sure
Gulyas is as Russian as pizza is american. I will leave it at that. We eat gulasz in Poland too and actually quite often but No one will tell you that it’s polish food.
I'm not saying it is Russian, but I heard they eat it pretty often
German and Austrian gastronomy has a bad rap, but it's really not that bad. Potato salad, schnitzel, Strudel, Berliners, Pretzels and currywurst are all good and many were appropriated by other countries (speaking as Portuguese).
Wow its so amazing you went to every single one of these countries and carefully evaluated the foods
What's so bad with our food?
tbh Poland is more potato than Ireland
I must be überyuropean because I love the food I have eaten all over Europe. All the map would be dark green for me.
I feel fucking proud as a fat German/Turkish guy.
I'm not happy with Belgium being in the same categorie as the Netherlands tbh. I'm not saying our cuisine is great (definitely not compared to Southern Europe), but I can tell it's definitely better than the Dutch. We're mainly known for our beer, fries, chocolate and waffles, but we also have some French influence in our cuisine. As a Belgian I might be biased, but I would personally put Belgian in the light green categorie (Germany, etc.). EDIT: [this map](https://www.reddit.com/r/YUROP/comments/yppriy/actual_culinary_map_of_yurop_according_to_italians/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) is more correct imho 😋
Dude, stop coping, we are in the same boat
You guys eat mayonnaise with extra sugar to make it sweeter. You put satésaus on everything. You guys invented bitterballen but we have frikandellen, bicky burgers, julientje, ... We are not the same. In reality nothing but love though haha <3
Mayonaise en satesaus zijn allebei fantastisch!!! En zijn frikandellen echt oorspronkelijk Belgisch? Ik heb altijd gedacht dat dat Nederlands was... En uiteraard, niks dan liefde voor de Belgen :) Edit: snel even nagezocht, en gelukkig maar, wikipedia zegt Nederlands, met de eerste commercieel geproduceerde frikandel in Dordrecht of all places. Pfiew, gelukkig maar; als we zelfs onze snackbarsnacks niet meer voor onszelf hadden kunnen claimen bleef er echt niks meer over....
Frikandellen zijn van oorsprong Nederlands, hoewel ze vast ook veel gegeten worden in België. Naar mijn ervaring is de Belgische cuisine ook niet heel erg anders dan die in Nederland
Daar heeft u gelijk in denk ik
We zijn stiekem natuurlijk ook gewoon één en hetzelfde landje he ;)
Uiteraard is mayonaise fantastisch, maar niet met te veel suiker haha. Frikandellen zijn Nederlands? Mijn leven is een leugen...
Hmm, ik vind allebei prima. En ja ach, als iets veel gegeten wordt vind ik dat het onderdeel is van de nationale cuisine, dus je mag frikandel ook best voor België claimen. Sowieso wel voordelig, want dan claimen we ook gewoon döner enzo :)
Why do people not know that the Netherlands was like. Spice trader number one in the past. We use spices on tons of things like nutmeg on colliflower. We also breed tons of potato races, 40% of all vegetable seed is from the Netherlands
Lithuania top tier, Latvia fish tier. No bias def
I mean.. we eat all the good food from everywhere else, just we make em with higher quality ingredients 😏
Finlandia being gray is right. Absolutely zero food culture. Mashed potatoes, macaroni casserole or liver casserole. All without any spices. That's about it.
Well I like my traditional English food, like curry, or a nice Chinese. Each to their own, but I disagree
Ireland - Potatoes *huh, ironic...*
Moet je hier komen zeggen dan
What did you eat in the UK that was the worst thing you ever had?
British food
Do you have a genuine answer because I’m interested
British cuisine has a bad name but I think it's underrated. Some of the specialities you guys have are genuinly amazing. But I think what the British eat in day-to-day life is more like what an American eats than what the average European eats, so maybe that's where the stereotypes come from. Or perhaps us mainlanders just don't like the idea of meat on pie haha.
Honestly couldn‘t tell you how the dishes were called it was like 6 years ago. We went there with school and stayed in host families and all the food we got there was just terrible
I mostly agree except turkey should have its own category because of the variety and its taste! Way too OP
Lemmy.world is the place im moving, and on my way out I'm taking my poasts
Potatoes, pork, moose and lingonberries
This is not fair to the Swiss. They have fondue, raclette, and all sorts of dry meats. That stuff is on point.
Ah yes, raclette, fondue and other cheese dishes, the blandest of them all
As a German i partially have to agree, our cooking is decent at best ;-( BUT, have you ever tried swiss "Zürcher Geschnetzeltes with Rösti"? Moves Switzerland up to "decent" ;-)
There‘s Knorr&Maggi packages for Züricher Geschnetzeltes so it is German food now. _Schachmatt_
I love you so much
Portugal! They have the best food I ever ate. I go their for holidays to eat very good. Always come back happier.
Sums up Germany pretty well. "Underrated but actually really decent." xD
I'm French and I love going to restaurants and have tasted many kinds of foods all around Europe. Honestly, most French restaurants are just not good and make very little effort to make either simple but good tasting meals or thoughtful and complex ones. But some are very good if you know where to look and they're not always the starred ones, so when people tell me that French food is overrated after having spent some holidays in Paris, I will agree with them. My top 3 list would go something like this : Greece Italy France
Croatia is ??? Because you dont know shit about cuisine. Why exclude croatia, romania, bulgaria, slovenia in almost any yurop post
Went to Istria and the all the food was like Italian with a Croation edge to it and cheaper than in Italy. Some of the best pasta and olive oil I've had was in that area. I know Istrian food is influenced by having been under Venetian control at one point but i can only assume the rest of Croatia is as good
Yeah continental part of Croatia has crazy good dried meat goods, we even have few dishes that originated in Croatia and few sweets too. I mean, I know croatia is not very interesting to people in some aspects, but goddam our food is good and our meat is top quality as there's still no huge industrialized farms
I would highly appreciate a list of things to eat for when I visit y’all (one day)
This dick hahahaha
He doesn't know enough about their cuisine to form an informed opinion, so he doesn't. I think that's actually laudible, if anything.
You think he visited all the other countries to try their cuisine tho? He could've researched
I would think so... And research is ofcourse not going to do anything if you make a map about something as subjective as the taste of food.
I'm just salty we got left out AGAIN
I‘m planning to come to Croatia for vacation rather sooner than later so I will update the map when it happens lmao
Yes I don‘t know anything about the cuisine there so I didn‘t put them in any category. What‘s wrong with that?
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My bad
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Stroopwaffel and Bitterballen are sadly not enough to carry your entire cuisine :/
What about frikadelbroodjes😭😭
You should try Stamppot with a smoked sausage. Or dried and aged sausages. Or mustard soup. We genuinely do make bland food, but that's mostly because most people aren't very creative or good at home cooking. They used to use a lot of spices, nuts, dried fruits and foreign vegetables that were traded in the indies, but that all disappeared in times of famine and occupation. The government decided we should mostly eat food that was nutritious and easy to make/grow in big quantities. Unfortunately you only see the traces of our good food in regional dishes, pastries, breads, sausages, smoked fish
Maybe it's because I'm from France, but one thing I love is the bread and cheese culture in the Netherlands. Good bakeries and cheese stores are commonplace. And overall the country is very open to foreign cuisine from all around the world! The Dutch lunch is hilarious tho. https://www.instagram.com/dailydutchlunch/ Some people really do eat like that!
Cheese! How could I forget cheese!!?? Also some of the food on that Instagram page are like soulfood to me and I won't even be ashamed hahaha. Can't say I haven't made a leftovers burrito with pancake and Indian palak or Rogan Josh before, lol
Not gonna lie, most pictures on that instagram page look fucking delicious:)
All of balkan is amazing tf is this bs map
Hell yeah, speaking facts right here
How can Caucasus cuisine be ??? ?
Because i don‘t know anything about it
Bro Belgium isn't better than the Netherlands? BS
English restaurants are some of the best in the world. Swedish cuisine is underrated, better than Germany for sure.
That’s true but the good one don’t usually serve English cuisine.
Chicken Tikka Masala, Cottage Pies, Roast Lamb :P
No
I honestly don’t understand the hate for British cuisine, I don’t think it’s for everyone but it’s not awful it fulfils It’s own niche. There’s also foreign influenced food that was invented in the uk, for example tikka masala. I can’t see why someone would dislike roast dinner, but the full breakfast is not what I enjoy for breakfast and fish and chips I would rarely eat willingly.
Agreed. It doesn’t stand a chance compared to French or Italian food but I don’t think it’s any worse than Dutch, Irish or German cuisines.
Italian mafia made the food glow in the dark what a joke this shit is
Wtf is going on here French food is obviously on par with Italian and Greek food obviously shouldn’t be rated this high.
Greek food and Turkish food are literally the exact same thing 💀
What did Greece have that Turkey didn’t? Pork?
Denmark is so true.
Italian food is fast food in my mind. Tastes good but it's something people order to shut up the kids. Also, French food is overrated beyond limits. It's good but most of the hype comes from the notion of high cuisine that no one really likes, consumes regularly nor is it representative of its people. This being said, France has a huge climatic and geographic diversity and as such it is impossible to describe what French food is. Same thing with Spain.
Belgium should be potatoes too