Also german food is not that dire. What's wrong with minced pork sandwiches, kale stew and breaded sausage?
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What happened to everywhere on the planet apart from Germany to make bread so dire?
I could eat different German breads every day for a week, and not be bored.
Tiger bread slander.
And Schnitzel, I love a good Schnitzel!
Plus Sauerkraut is the most versatile and delicious thing ever.
Germans couldn't cook Schnitzel if their live would depend on it, and then dump a shitton of sauce on top to cover up their crimes against culinary
Where in Germany have you been?
i've worked for a German company before; Berlin, Frankfurt, Dresden, Leipzig, Hamburg to name a few known ones
That's an Austrian dish. Rule of thumb is, if it's good and German, then it's probably not German.
if it's standard food in germany nowadays how is it not german?
And what about Eisbein mit sauerkraut?
Swede here. Before we imported potatoes in the late 1700s all we had were beets. Just beets. Beets everywhere.
What did you expect.
that's not fair, we had parsnips too, which are honestly pretty alright. It's like fibrous less sweet carrots.
I supposed I expected swedes.
At least Sweden has decent fikabröd. The rest of the world has only almond croissants, brownies or dire travesties of kanelbullar to accompany its coffee
Pickled beets are awesome though
Well, no yummy Wienerschnitzel for you then!
People are constantly underestinating Germany. Like half the food is fried in butter and is delicious.
Just as a note: Wienerschnitzel is from Austria!
or any of a plethora of awesome sausages
This whole food thing. It's so subjective. How has it reached this stage? 😄😄
I'm a proud Celt! Fuck them Anglo-Saxons!
Genetic testing kicks down the door
Tikki masala carrying all of Scotland's cuisine reputation
luv me 'aggis and marag gheal, 'ate me black pudding
Fuck that. German food is awesome. Swedish food is awesome.
And how can you not include finland? They don't serve anything unless it is either grey or brown.
I mean, steak pies are delicious.
In my opinion as a "foreigner" living in the UK the biggest problem with the British cuisine is marketing.
You have all the pies which are awesome, steak and ale, kidney pie, Toad in the hole, beef wellington, the Cornish pasties...
Then cottage and shepherd's pie which are not in the same category even though they share name, because they're not bread pies but a "potato mash lasagne".
There's the Sunday roast, and all things game are excellent - this country has a longstanding tradition of game and you often see in pubs things like venison wellington, especially in the countryside.
Also fish and chips has the reputation of being fast food, but a proper one from a pub rather than a chippie is usually excellent.
If we think about snacks, there's many really nice things typical from the UK, that we routinely dismiss because we don't think of a homemade version but what you can get from a supermarket. Sausage rolls, scotch eggs, things like that.
And desserts - this country has a sweet tooth. Trifles, anything with rhubarb in it (rhubarb is quite rare in Mediterranean countries), sticky toffee pudding, Eton mess, rice pudding, crumble...
I have missed many things like the ploughman's, all of the cheeses, or the haggis which is hated almost exclusively by people who've never tried it before.
Yet all of this gets routinely reduced to "fish and chips". It's like saying Italian cuisine is only pasta or all Spanish can make is paella. I find quite sad that Brits don't do a better job at marketing their cuisine.
Wow, well said
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Why those 2 specific small areas of Finland?
I believe this is just a map of Germanic peoples.
Thanks for pointing that out.
However it didn’t answer my question and I’m now heading down a google rabbit hole to find out if it’s a mistake on the map or something far more historically interesting.
Edit: nothing interesting, just the territorially defined Swedish language area.
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Finland Swedes
Austrian food is pretty much enjoyable. Irish food on the other hand... 🙄
I like that Finland Swedes got a special mention but rest of Finland was left out
Why isn't cornwall shaded. Pasties?
Don't you know? Cornwall isn't in England!
I don't think our Swiss food is so bad... Also what's the big difference between German and Czech food, it seemed pretty similar to me when I was in Brno.
But worst of all is shading Ticino the same as the North of Switzerland. Their food is just like Italian food, so you take that back right now!
I had freaking great food in Iceland. Not cheap, but that's not the discussion.
Fuck you, more Pinnekjøtt and Fårikål for me
This map is ass. Mainland European countries don't compare to the blantness of UK.
ah yes the famously bland chicken tikka masala, wich you should of course be aware was invented in britain.
In the same way that the döner kebab represents German cuisine.
Currywurst? Käsespezle? All the other stuff?
Are you being sarcastic? because that's true, the döner that most people think of comes from Berlin:
"The modern sandwich variant of döner kebab originated and was popularized in 1970s West Berlin by Turkish immigrants.[5][6][7] This was recognized by the Berlin-based Association of Turkish Doner Manufacturers in Europe in 2011.[8]" -Wikipedia
We have our own versions here in the nordics, in fact we have a whole very specific culture of pizzerias operated only by middle-eastern immigrants where you can always find pizza with whatever you want on it and kebab that is very distinct from döner and is usually served on a plate with french fries. This does not exist in the middle east and obviously the mere concept would outright kill many italians.
This is how food and culture works, when a bunch of people from one place emigrate to another place they take their culture and cuisine with them and it fusions with that of their new homes.
This isn't something new, and this isn't something rare. The "pan" in panko (japanese breadcrumbs) comes from Portuguese.
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