Okay, but my culture really likes flavourful food that tastes good!
So that at least excludes the British
Shut your whore mouth, Tikka Masala is great.
It’s telling that it’s always tikka masala, though, isn’t it?
Cornish pasty, cheddar cheese, Cumberland sausages, Lincolnshire sausages, not Richmond sausages.
I honestly enjoy mushy peas. Not from a box, but fresh made. And there's a million amazing pies.
This is a cry for help, clearly.
Now I want pork pie
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.
The only major colonial empire which did not, in any way, import food from the colonies?
I'm from Denmark, we traditionally ate porridge and potatoes and pork, and of course rye bread so dense you can club someone to death with it if you want to.
The best Dutch food owes a lot to the occupation of Indonesia.
See, I know almost nothing about the Dutch cuisine. I heard you deep fry almost everything, and I like stroopwafels a lot.
In 10th grade I spent 2 weeks in the Netherlands on a school trip, but I remember absolutely nothing about the food which is actually sort of odd.
If I had to guess, I'd assume you eat classic farmers food, carb heavy with some sort of meat and dairy. But maybe that's just because I assume everyone north of the Rhine to eat that.
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.
You take those stamppot hating words back or we're gonna have a problem vriend
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But yeah our breakfast and lunches are dog shit
You know it's bad when a Brit thinks your food is bad.
On the other hand... Bitterballen, poffertjes, awesome cheeses of all sorts, rookworst, stroopwafels, spekkoek, speculaas, advocaat...
And stampot is awesome, shut your piehole. :)
Oh yeah. Pannekoek
I had a Dutch roommate once who routinely ate sprinkles on toast for breakfast — she called it traditional.
Half my family is from the Caribbean and I’ll admit we eat some odd things (all manner of salted fruit for example), but I have a hard time computing sprinkle toast as a complete meal
I had a Dutch roommate once who routinely ate sprinkles on toast for breakfast — she called it traditional.
It is! Hagelslag on bread is very much a Dutch traditional food.
Bread, apply butter, pour chocolate sprinkles on. Eat.
My culture is super unique because it's built on classism and religious wars.
Well, my culture is uniquer because it's built on classism and wars against religions!
Okay but do you spank a log you fed all month until it poops candy and presents?
At first I thought piñata, but that’s not usually a log, and you don’t feed it? Wtf is this?
Catalan Tio de Nadal. Catalans are obsessed with shit so they also have the Caganer.
My culture is unique, we spend half the day arguing and the other half reading really old books :3
Vatican?
Okay but to be fair we actually have insane amounts of alcohol and alcoholism in eastern europe. I think all cultures have something unique whether that be good or bad. Sweden, where im living now, truly is very antisocial sometimes.
I am from the south of northern Germany, we are close enough to the nordics that food is not that important to us save for a few exceptions.
Our grandpas are at least as bad as the grandmas in regards to pissing them off being a bad idea but that has more to do with many of them (of both genders) being assholes to younger people.
I live in one of the cities with the most crimes committed in the country but most normal people will never really notice it especially since the Hell's Angels don't have as much of a presence and direct influence in the city center as in the 90s and early 2000s.
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.
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…
Ironically where I live everyone downplays the criminal groups when they really shouldn't.
My culture... is in a petrie dish.
My culture is also in this persons petri dish... contaminating the sample.
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.
All food was invented in NY between 1960 and 1990. Before benevolent Americans taught us how to eat food, we all lived for 20 to 30 days and died of starvation. Thank you, Americans.
As a Brazilian, the criminal part is, unfortunately, the truest. Second only to our grannies wielding a Flip flop on a hand
I feel like British culture viloates everything but the alcohol. There are memes about how weak their food and criminals are.
Forgot traditional culture and embrace neocultures for the terminally online.
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.
I wonder what percentage of Western lemmings can actually say they have at least these "simple" things (excluding the last few points, of course).
Cornbread and fried chicken have been around since before 1980, but the rest is pretty generic and fitting. I also have relatives who were moonshiners out in Ohio by a town which is literally called “knockemstiff” because one drink was powerful enough to “knock ya stiff” lol
Not sure the part about criminals fits though. Old men running illegal rooster fights aren’t exactly organized crime haha
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