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!
currywurst is incredible
or any of a plethora of awesome sausages
The best food I’ve had in England was from other countries.
What’s up with German food? Didn’t know it was disliked…I’ve had plenty of good German food.
Not true! England invented Rogan Josh!
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 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 eat sauerkraut from the jar with a fork.
Then I drink the brine.
You must have an amazingly healthy gut microbiome
Finland not included?
Let me tell you the recipe for the Finnish national dish: Karelian stew.
Cubes of meat. Beef, pork, lamb. Put them in water. Add salt, (but like less than you’d actually need.)
Chuck it in the oven for hours.
Done.
No pepper. No vegetables. Nothing. Cubes of meat and salt.
God I hate Finland. There’s great parts and definitely easymode compared to a lot of places, but there’s problems as well. A lot, actually. Just very different.
Karelian stew is simple peasant food, easy to make but fulfilling. It’s that but also delicious. It’s not supposed to go toe-to-toe with the whole culinary world.
“Delicious”?
My fucking god.
I’d like to see Gordon Ramsay reacting to people saying that cubes of meat in lightly salted water are “delicious.”
The self-deluding is insane.
I mean, there are modern versions which actually add spices and vegetables, and then it is good, but that isn’t “traditional” per se.
I mean I like the taste of meat so I really like it
Just… plain, unpeppered meat?
Whatever floats your goat, man.
Good meat doesn’t need anything else than salt imo. But usually Karelian stew has pepper and other stuff in it too.
Traditional Karelian Stew only says salt in the recipe, though.
Some do, some don’t. It’s not a set in stone thing afaik. Some old recipes are simpler than others. These days mostly always it’s more than just meat(s), water, salt.
What makes you feel like pepper is such an incredible and necessary ingredient?
If the meat is good, it’ll be good with or without pepper.
Overall I feel like boiling is in general ignorantly ridiculed far too much by modern cooking culture, especially famous restaurant chefs. Stews are usually easily better than the average “home chef’s” steak attempt #62.
It’s no the lack of pepper. It’s the lack of everything.
What makes you think boiled undersalted meat cubes are a meal?
Boiled meat is good.
I dunno, long-drink is a pretty solid beverage. Cheaper in Estonia tho.
There are good things, yeah.
But lately, for me, the problems have become too much to bear living here.
The emotional coldness is not exaggerated.
I like that Finland Swedes got a special mention but rest of Finland was left out
I’ll totally agree with Norway. Did a 3 week road trip from Oslo to Å and back this summer. Got sick of hamburgers, pizza, and fake “kebabs” real fast. I expected to be eating so much fresh fish, but it was fairly rare to find. Best meal I had was a Thai “restaurant” attached to a one pump gas station in the middle of nowhere run by the sweetest Thai grandma. It took some back and forth to convince her I wasn’t Norwegian and wanted actual Thai spicy. And it was excellent.
Are you not a fan of toast sandwiches?
I’ve done that before, because it seemed funny. No real complaints, I like toast and it was just buttery toast.
Full Welsh Breakfast adds cockles and it’s actually really great.
Obviously Scottish has lorne sausage and (often) haggis, and the Ulster fry has white pudding and farl bread. I’m so hungry.
Fuck you, more Pinnekjøtt and Fårikål for me
I had freaking great food in Iceland. Not cheap, but that’s not the discussion.
While I can agree with most of this map, you have absolutely no right to include South Tyrolia in this, they value their food a lot and don’t lack behind the rest of Italy at all.
Same for Ticino I’d say
This person clearly has no taste
I get highlighting England for the meme (though the modern UK has some of the best food culture in the world)
But Germany, Belgium, Denmark & Austria? I’m sorry, OP clearly has never travelled outside their hometown and eaten nothing but white bread.
UK has good food culture, yes, but clearly indian inspired recipes shouldn’t count as british food.
It’s the Germanic countries, simple as.
Swede here. Before we imported potatoes in the late 1700s all we had were beets. Just beets. Beets everywhere.
What did you expect.
I supposed I expected swedes.
Bears and battlestar Galactica as well?
Pickled beets are awesome though
that’s not fair, we had parsnips too, which are honestly pretty alright. It’s like fibrous less sweet carrots.
And alcohol. And trees, darkness, cold, mud, did I mention darkness?
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
