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[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 81 points 1 year ago

"The Vast Atlantic Ocean" is 😙🤌

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

What do you mean? That's just reality, isn't it?

[-] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

Some say there are islands there that have food without flavour.

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Nah, that's just misinformation.

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[-] Ethalis@jlai.lu 38 points 1 year ago

Meh, "proper cuisine" is definitely accurate since it's our national pride, but most of the others don't really feel like french stereotypes. "Soggy pastry" for Denmark even sounds suspiciously american, I've never heard anyone say that about this country in France and I don't even know what it's referring to

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

Yeah as a Scandinavia living in france, all that part is totally off too.

The Meatball thing? Sounds amerikanish too, def not french.

[-] felykiosa@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

The meatball thing came from Ikea 100%

[-] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

We stole them bad boys from Turkey iirc.

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[-] inlandempire@jlai.lu 9 points 1 year ago

I took a look at the website this is coming from, it seems to be mostly the blog author's interpretation of what the stereotypes are for each of their maps

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[-] guaraguaito@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 1 year ago

I think this belongs more in !cartographyanarchy@lemm.ee

But I chuckled so thanks for sharing

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Chicken Tikka Masala was invented in the UK. I can't think of a single item of French cuisine I would choose over Chicken Tikka Masala.

[-] WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social 9 points 1 year ago

I agree. But we don’t get recognised. I couldn’t be more amused.

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[-] Akasazh@feddit.nl 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I know it's part of your transition period and are forced by law to continue the 100 year war on a culinary manner.

I'd say that the proper French culinary colonialist equivalent to the Tikka Massala is the Bahn Mi sandwhich and that feels like a proper match for it.

But now come up with a dish that doeesn't take any inspiration from former colonies and I think most of them can be beaten by a simple onion soup

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I can’t think of a single item of French cuisine I would choose over Chicken Tikka Masala.

you're insulting yourself and CTM more than french cuisine there mate.

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[-] lime@feddit.nu 18 points 1 year ago

"inventors" is the best diss i've ever seen for modern swedish food

i asked a friend from italy what she thought about our pizza and she basically said "as long as i don't think of it as pizza it's fine"

she and her bf would regularly hang out with the guy who ran the only italian pizzeria in town and they would shit-talk our food for hours. mad respect.

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

the way i'd summarize our cuisine is that the natively available food is basically "meat and parsnip stew", and thus we have a profound cultural (bordering on genetic) trauma which causes us to give precisely 0 fucks about what is "correct" or "looks good" and only care about it being tasty and interesting.

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[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Ice cube salad"?

Our Finnish cuisine is so non-existent people can't even make jokes about it.

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

"You like black licorice? We can fix that."

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[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Uuuhh... the starvation bark bread? I think there was a reindeer meat pizza that won some award.

Whatever, our own one thing is a vaguely modified American dish, and comes from Quebec, so you're not alone.

[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

That's not cuisine, that's a dish. It's a Finnish dish, but the cuisine is technically Italian.

We don't have a cuisine in the same way in the North as mainland Europe does. Like do you know what the national dish of Finland is? Karjalanpaisti, Karelian stew. Which when traditionally made, has the following ingredients ONLY; beef cubes, pork cubes, a mildly salted pot of water.

Heat for several hours.

That's it.

Like people joke about how bland British food is but it's literally on fire compared to our traditional dishes. Like a shepherd's pie made with a red wine and even bland-ish British spices would be absolutely gorgeous compared to Karelian stew.

I think the national dish really reflects the Finnish spirit well though.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Mongolian "cuisine" is kind of the same. At some point you're far enough north meat is the only reliable ingredient. It's remarkable how well the Koreans and Russians have managed to make out, really.

I think the national dish really reflects the Finnish spirit well though.

In which way do you mean?

[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Well Mongolia is quite a bit further South than even the furthest part of Finland. Finland being around 59° and Mongolia 52°. But it's warmer here, more likely. Because we get some of the warming effects of the Gulf.

Mongolia is mostly desert and we have the sea and forests. My point here being there's tons of plants and whatnot. I understanding having to eat just horse if there's literally nothing else around, but... spices would've been more common in that part of the world though, so I wonder if the meat got some spices?

We didn't really even have peppers lol. Could've just thrown in some thyme and carrots and onions and whatnot at the least.

I've also heard a thing in which sometimes in hot parts of the world like say India, some of the heavy spice mixes originated because the lower classes would often have near spoiled meat and you wanted the spices to make up for the poor quality.

Here in Finland storing meat wouldn't have been much of an issue because of the cold.

I think the national dish really reflects the Finnish spirit well though.

In which way do you mean?

Half pigs, half cows, mildly salty and without any passion (spice).

[-] andresil@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

It's ironic that they've missed out Ireland, throwing some great hunger shade.

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[-] shiny_idea@aussie.zone 10 points 1 year ago

What's "soggy pastry" talking about?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I'm more concerned about the fact that they think Austrians subsist on the corpse of a queen.

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[-] bricklove@midwest.social 10 points 1 year ago

Rotten cabbage rocks, especially the Korean varieties

[-] Engywuck@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

LOL, that's funny. As an italian, I regret not having tried real french cuisine yet.

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[-] galanthus@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Russians actually call russian salad "olivier", after the guy who made it, but it was invented in Russia by a man that was born there, so I am not sure you can say it is French.

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[-] Vrijgezelopkamers@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

The French admit that ‘French fries’ are in fact Belgian? Sounds very un-French.

[-] EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

The term French Fries was most likely coined by American GIs, the French never had anything to do with that

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[-] MayonnaiseArch@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

Every frenchperson who came to serbia eats like they have never tasted food before. Dunno

[-] Obi@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

They do that everywhere regardless, disregard.

[-] naeap@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago

Marie Antoinette?
What cuisine should that be?

[-] qarbone@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago
[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Eat the rich

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[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

More like according an American person who identifies as French.

[-] HK65@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

No such thing as too much pepper

[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I can confirm there IS such a thing as too much Oregano though.

[-] Akasazh@feddit.nl 5 points 1 year ago

Technically the French call the puff pastries most countries seem to equate to typically French (the croissant f.i.) after Vienna. Those are called Vienoiseries

[-] MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Lol, the French cannot even make wine as good as Italians can and they think they can touch their food?

[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

What's with the Health Hazard?

[-] mercano@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Probably lutefisk, fish cured in lye.

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