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.
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.
And alcohol. And trees, darkness, cold, mud, did I mention darkness?
I supposed I expected swedes.
Bears and battlestar Galactica as well?
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
Also german food is not that dire. What’s wrong with minced pork sandwiches, kale stew and breaded sausage?
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
there is a myriad of different types of schnitzel.
If there’s a lot of sauce and you feel that shouldn’t be there, you should have specified what kind of schnitzel you want.
the Classics: Schnitzel Wiener Art (pig) or Wiener Schnitzel (baby cow) do not come with sauce on top at all.
they are standard recipes, you get exactly what you expect everywhere. it also pretty much tastes the same in every restaurant… no matter if its in Austria, Bavaria or even Hamburg. (…unless you order it in a shit tier restaurant where shit tier meat is used)
extensive testing in hundreds of restaurants beyond the border and within lead to my above conclusion
alt text: im really boring. i always order schnitzel, its the safest bet to get reliably tasty food
alt text 2: also fuck you, your crimes against the schnitzel will be punished with extra sauce!
we need a schnitzelverbrechen community on lemmy 😂
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
Hard disagree on sauerkraut, you can have my share. But I’d hit someone with a Spaten for a Jägerschnitzel right about now.
Hit a Jäger, make Schnitzel of him.
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?
probably cause it’s an austrian invention? which makes it austrian by defintion?
it’s common in germany, but not native…that’s like saying pizza is a german dish…
at what point does it become native? 50 years? 100?
would you call new york food italian to the face of an italian chef?
it’s not a question of age; it’s a question of origin.
that doesn’t change.
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.
You get bread from a small bakery instead of a huge chain, you get exactly the same thing. Shit’s so great you can eat it without anything on it and it still is good / not boring.
Frowns in Finnish rye bread. That shit’s delicious. Especially the dark ones with syrup which are slightly sweet.
Or archipelago bread, made with sour milk.
Or cumin bread.
A nice Northern flatbread. Or a crispbread with some hard cheese and peasoup.
Tiger bread slander.
And what about Eisbein mit sauerkraut?
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
I’d heard the slander about Irish food but when I visited I had beef and Guinness pies, spiced stuffed mushrooms and herbaceous handmade brats.
also had a potato chip butter sandwich, but I was quite deep in the cups by that point and it tasted great.
could not complain.
haven’t been to Britain yet.
Tayto sandwich feckin rules
I’d heard the slander about Irish food but when I visited I had beef and Guinness pies, spiced stuffed mushrooms and herbaceous handmade brats.
That’s just something they serve there in the Irish themed pubs for the tourists.
not in my experience, those were fairly common menu items in restaurants.
besides, that was far from an exhaustive list of the good food in Ireland.
also, irish themed pubs?
in Ireland?
you mean “pubs”?
Sorry, I should have added a /joke or something on the end.
There was/is a proliferation of Irish themed pubs in other countries that give a false impression of what pubs in Ireland are like, as well as some actual Irish pubs in very touristy areas doing the same. The standard explanation being “it’s just for the tourists”.
oh, haha, sorry, of course.
I should better keep context in mind.
instead, I assumed you were an american doofing around.
Sounds quite similar to Steak and Ale pies, various curried items and herby sausages you’d find across the UK.
I’m sure.
I’ve been to a lot of countries, and food stereotypes are almost always misinterpreted or false.
a person who had lived in Ireland for a year told me the food was terrible and specifically mentioned the stews, how difficult she found it to get good food.
by which I guess she meant sandwiches?
then I ate several stews in Ireland and I was like how the heck could you possibly hate a boldly flavored savory beef and veg stew, especially during the colder part of the year?
to the point where you damned the entire cuisine?
speaking of stereotypes, I’m in India right now, and curry is not super popular here.
it’s just not a very popular dish.
they have tons of sauces and gravies, and spiced lentil soups, but curry is way down on the list in terms of popularity.
wouldn’t have guessed.
ireland was supposed to have terrible food from firsthand accounts people I knew who traveled there, and I had a bunch of great food there.
I think people just don’t like things that are different than they’re used to, so if they travel somewhere for a week and they aren’t used to the texture or taste of something, they try it once, get surprised and assume it’s bad.
So where are you from 😁 ?
Also love shading the Faroes and Shetland specifically. That’s very funny. It’s a couple of archipelagos in the sea. In the howling North Sea at that. They’re tiny islands not known for agricultural bounty. How much culinary choice do you think they historically had? They aren’t exactly growing pineapples up there. Of course it’s all fish and dried mutton.
Tikki masala carrying all of Scotland’s cuisine reputation
Buy dis cunt a square on roll with brown sauce n a pint a Tennant’s. Maybe a plate a good chips if ya good.
Mate, chips sandwich and pint aint exactly what I’d call a local speciality
I eat sauerkraut from the jar with a fork.
Then I drink the brine.
You must have an amazingly healthy gut microbiome
This whole food thing. It’s so subjective. How has it reached this stage? 😄😄
luv me 'aggis and marag gheal, 'ate me black pudding
At the very least the Scots know that deep-frying stuff makes it better even it was kinda dire to begin with.
This is racism against the Irish
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.
They need to add wherever it is the Franks and Normans live nowadays then.
Finland Swedes
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.
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.
