I feel like British culture viloates everything but the alcohol. There are memes about how weak their food and criminals are.
My favorite type of pasta lately is called cavatappi, which I assumed was some ancient Italian thing. Turns out it was invented by accident in 1970 and was originally named after Adriano Celentano, the dude who made Prisencolinensinainciusol. The more I learn, the less I know.
Saw a map today, on reddit or around here, showing the dominant kind of restaurants across european countries : local food or foreign food. And sure enough, most of northern and Eastern Europe prefers foreign food. Anyone who's traveled around Europe will have a fairly good idea why.
All I'm saying is, the bit about food doesn't work for all countries.
I for one love (most of) the traditional Norwegian dishes. But I will concede that I'm not expecting to see Lutefisk stalls in the UK anytime soon, (Although they have their own questionable things they do with fish), and I doubt street food buyers in Kuala Lumpur would queue up if Ola went there to sell Pinnekjøtt.
Oh yeah, no hate on the local specialties! I always looked forward going to IKEA as a kid, for the cardamom based pastries and such. But like... I can't really imagine what a traditional Swedish cuisine restaurant would serve.
Dutch cuisine is so boring and bland, it’s no wonder almost everyone prefers anything foreign. Everything traditional we cook tends to lack flavor and texture, it’s filling but not exactly attractive.
We also don’t really have a food culture here. Dutch people don’t like to spend more time eating than they have to. A meal never lasts more than 20-30 minutes tops.
It’s not exactly surprising that there’s no such thing as a Dutch restaurant outside of the Netherlands…
There was a really fun Dutch restaurant in Osaka. Besides that I don't know of any.
agreed. the best Indonesian restaurants I've been to were in Amsterdam/Den Haag
From what I know about the dutch, they bake very nice bread at least. We have a lot of Dutch brands of bread over here that are pretty good.
As a Brazilian, the criminal part is, unfortunately, the truest. Second only to our grannies wielding a Flip flop on a hand
As soon as I read the original text I knew the thrown shoe thing was gonna come up somewhere in the comments
I learned the art of dodging the la chancla pretty early on. Only way I get hit is when abuela would cheat and hit me for something I did like 3 days ago and I've forgotten about it and I'm busy with some chore. That's when la chancla is at its most dangerous.
Counterpoint. In some cultures stray cats are allowed in universities.
I simply would never get anything done. I already make myself late to wherever I'm going if I meet an unexpected street cat.
Criminals in our country are pretty lame.
Ours start wars with foreign countries in order to drive up the price of oil.
You mean like Pokemon Team Rocket, or like Home Alone?
I'm Dutch/British, and I can honestly say the Dutch don't (historically) like tasty food. Maybe it's the Calvinism, maybe were culturally broken. Maybe both.
Behold the Dutch breakfast
Now behold the Dutch lunch
No, that's not a joke or a mistake. That's real.
Typical Dutch food is Stamppot. Which is boiled potatoes (poorly) crushed with 1 or 2 boiled vegetables in it. There are a dozen versions of it and people will argue which beacon of sadness is better.
Another typical Dutch food: pea soup so thick you can eat it with a fork. It has peas, bacon, potato and sadness. Recently people added stuff to make it tasty, but historically it's just peas and potato.
As a little break from food talk, here's a famous Dutch painter making a famous Dutch painting: People eating potatoes . Literally just potatoes.
A typical classic Dutch desert is Hangop, which is yoghurt you hang (hence the name) in a cheesecloth to let the water soak out to make it more dense. That's it. Plain yoghurt. Maybe add some honey for this amazing Dutch "treat".
Now, we have amazing cheeses today, but historically Dutch cheese was pretty shit. Most of the land isn't suited for cattle, so the milk had very little flavour. The Dutch invented adding herbs and spices into cheese. While french cheese might have a vague hint of cumin due to the ripening process in an ancient cave system, the Dutch would just chuck cumin into cheese.
We hate food, and it's a genetic problem we still haven't managed to break.
I once spent three weeks in Amsterdam, mainly for weed tourism. Breakfast and lunch was just an utter wasteland; I just stayed in my apartment all day eating ice cream bars and ham salad. Dinner was salvaged by the Indonesian restaurants.
Direct embeds of breakfast and lunch above
Yeah, I call bullshit or a case of not appreciating your own culture.
Dutch were the damn spice traders of the world. This can be still seen in many dishes, even damn cookies like hagel.
You have had proper meats, so all meat products were in your cuisine - rook and metworsts. Pancakes with bacon and shit. Tiger bread with spreads.
You eat the damn abomination of a spice liquorice like its good, and you're per capita biggest liquorice consumers.
Regarding sweet desserts, you have had a shitton of different pies and buttercakes, as well as this weird cake sandwitch called tampons or smthing like that.
Stamppot is food for the poorest workers. Like literally Dutch version of, idk, mcdonalds or smiliar. Of course its going to be filling but not fancy. If you eat it daily then damn, I'm sorry for you, grab some pears and red wine and make stoofperen.
Dutch were the damn spice traders of the world.
I'm just going to point out that the English were also spice traders and made good use of the spices themselves until they had to sell all their spices to prop up their collapsing empire.
How dare you make fun of my culture!
This is also true for psychiatric or neurological issues. For example:
https://lemmy.world/post/38035805
We're truly just one dude in 8 billion trench coats.
Okay, but my culture really likes flavourful food that tastes good!
My culture... is in a petrie dish.
My culture is also in this persons petri dish... contaminating the sample.
Told ya to hold UV for longer, dammit!
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