Very true, they're bread (and beer) connoisseurs!

I recently learned about German bread and damn it looks legit af! But I’m a sucker for a lot of Bavarian food. Been lucky to eat a HOFBRÄUHAUS in the States and it was really good

Good lord, the funniest thing I remember from college German was how easy it was to distract Frau Professorin from her lecture by just mentioning bread.

I would like to have a taste too 😋

Now I want to try this brand spanking new cuisine you speak of. It has become my life mission. 👀

Traditional German food is supposed to make you sated so you can go back to the fields and work! And the go to the army and fight! And then go to the ruins and rebuild!

This is frickin awesome. Ima tell this to my German-American relative. They come from a family of farmers, come to think of it.

Swedish food is the same!

There are German towns surrounding San Antonio, such as Gruene (pronounced Green, because we're heathens), with everything from traditional to fusion German foods. Anyone who treats mustard like its own food group is alright with me.

As someone who enjoys the satiety of eating a good meal but not necessarily the flavors... I think this clicks for me now, why I seem to like Nordic/German styles of cuisine. It need but be flavorful, but it is hearty! Also, my tongue hates spices (sadly).

That is more of a southern thing if not Austrian

I accidentally ordered a wurstsalat once. I have opinions after that expirence

And to add on that, yes German food can be very good. If you try it out though, be aware of what is regional in the area you're in. To familiarize yourself, just read the wikipage on German food

Fair.

The Germans love their döner kebabs, possibly even more than the British love their chicken tikka masala

I have used Mettbrötchen with success to scare foreigners away from my German food. "Yes zis bread has ze raw meat on it. Salmonella? Das ist eine possibility. Schweinepest? Worth it."

Lived in Germany for years and had all of these. Love mettbrötchen, krustenbraten etc etc. BUT. I believe Germans don't prioritize food. They will eat any cheap shit and save the money for beer. In the office a bunch of people - mainly foreigners - got together and arranged for a restaurant to be bringing food every day for a relatively cheap price. It was great. But most Germans would still prefer to go to Lidl and eat canned pasta for lunch. It's not that they couldn't afford it. They just didn't want to spend €8 for food every day. Canned pasta and Birckenstock with white socks dude. Every day.

Lol sausage and ketchup, let's pretend you didn't mention Currywurst.

Spätzle might be the one exception, although the Swiss make it better.

Sausages, I don't get your fetishization of it here. A random merguez from the local Arab place is still better than these.

And bread... Yeah, a billion sorts of it, still worse than a random French bakery's baguette.

Germans never wonder why there's no German restaurants abroad, go figure

TBF, potatoes slap. Potatoes and rice are like 80% of my fatass diet, lol.

I could literally live on plain potatoes for the rest of my life and I’d be fine with it.

You wouldn't and life would be short. There are not all nutritions in potatoes.

Haha 😄 kinda funny but I love the part you mentioned Ancestors. I like seeing people mentioning their Ancestors 👌✌❤

I haven't had the pleasure yet.

The best hotel breakfast I've ever had was in Finland... I still miss it.

Yeah that's not cultural, that actually sounds like an eating disorder.

What the fuck? Raw onion??

I trust everywhere round the globe has it's own culture and heritage but some places are great with Culture, Cultural Food, Cultural Music, Cultural Dance, cultural History and Mysteries.

I'm originally from Nigeria 🇳🇬 In Africa and as a citizen of the Giant of Africa, I can bet with my mother land that Africa is the true definition of Culture and Heritage.

Regardless the ongoing crisis, which is also happening in other places in the world. Africa has been great and will forever be great!!! ✌✌✌

Hagelslag is tasty, at least. Can't say that for beans on toast.

I trust everywhere round the globe has it's own culture and heritage but some places are great with Culture, Cultural Food, Cultural Music, Cultural Dance, cultural History and Mysteries.

I'm originally from Nigeria 🇳🇬 In Africa and as a citizen of the Giant of Africa, I can bet with my mother land that Africa is the true definition of Culture and Heritage.

Regardless the ongoing crisis, which is also happening in other places in the world. Africa has been great and will forever be great!!! ✌✌✌

🤣🤣🤣

I admit, i made a bold assumption based on the name Kenny, but Ken is genderless, so my bad.

I trust everywhere round the globe has it's own culture and heritage but some places are great with Culture, Cultural Food, Cultural Music, Cultural Dance, cultural History and Mysteries.

I'm originally from Nigeria 🇳🇬 In Africa and as a citizen of the Giant of Africa, I can bet with my mother land that Africa is the true definition of Culture and Heritage.

Regardless the ongoing crisis, which is also happening in other places in the world. Africa has been great and will forever be great!!! ✌✌✌

Agreed. People think British food is dull because they've not seen what British people have as a treat. Cases in point:

England

• Roast Dinner with Yorkshire Pudding.
• Melton Mowbray pies
• Cornish Pasties.

Scotland

• Haggis (yes, I'm citing this, Haggis is actually fucking delicious and versatile).
• Cullen Skink
• Shortbread

Wales

• Welsh Cakes
• Bara Brith
• Glamorgan sausage

Northern Ireland

• Fifteens
• Paris bun
• Gravy ring

That's not even getting into the weird shit like Scottish Fast Food or what we've done with immigrant cuisine. Fuck, if you want a tour of Britain, try a fry up in every home nation because other than Sausage and Bacon, there's a different spin on it in every home nation. People shit on British cuisine because they shit on Working Class food, or food people have when they've just come home from work and need something in their stomach. Beans on Toast is what people have for Lunch when they need something quick and filling, Mince and Tatties is what people have when they have mouths to feed. I don't see Americans having home-fried chicken every day or making Clam bake or something, why would we have full on roast dinners every night?

carrot... carrot cake? That's my quick answer, but I'll take the day off just to be safe

Or even biscuits for that matter

Why can't you get a good lemon meringue pie any more?

British food is unironically great, and the stereotype is based on experiences during WW2 rationing

I think this overstates things. A substantial number of countries have their modern culinary culture defined in the post-war decades, though.

Japanese culinary identity came together after World War II, and many of the dishes and traditions defining their cuisine are recently invented or have evolved considerably during the post-war period: the popularization and evolution of ramen, katsu, Japanese curry, yakitori, etc. Even ancient traditions like sushi and Modern Japanese food draws a lot of influence from classic pre-war cuisine, but the food itself is very different from what was eaten before the war.

Even French cuisine underwent a revolution with nouvelle cuisine, heavily influenced by Japanese kaiseki traditions. Before the 20th century, French cuisine was about heavy sauces covering rich, slow-cooked foods (see for example the duck press and how that was used), and it took a few waves of new chefs pushing back against the orthodoxy to emphasize lighter, fresher ingredients. The most notable wave happened in the 1960's, when Paul Bocuse and others brought in small, lighter courses as the pinnacle of fine dining.

Korean, Italian (both northern and southern), and American culinary traditions changed pretty significantly in the second half of the 20th century, as well, through changes in food supply chains, political or economic changes, etc. And that's true of a lot of places.

Britain's inability to shake off an 80-year-old culinary reputation comes in large part from simply failing to keep up with other more food-centered cultures that continually reinvent themselves and build on that classic foundation. Some of the criticism is unfair, of course, but it's not enough to point at how things were 100 years ago as if that has bearing on what is experienced today.

I was in London for a couple of days, Ate at a hotel, a couple cafes, two pubs, a chip shop with one hell of a line. I must have missed something; flavors were low-key, under-seasoned, and under-spiced. The closest thing I got to flavor was breakfast; the sausage was decent, I think you fully understand sausage there. The beans and eggs were just kinda meh.

Then you have places like this catering to local tastes. https://www.oldelpaso.co.uk/products/extra-mild-super-tasty-fajita-kit

I think things are changing. People are starting to crave a little more spice. There's no lack of curry shops with plenty of spice, but they're not strictly British food.

A full English breakfast is one of the best meals in the world.

We don't all obviously spray cheese from a can, some of us are from or near Wisconsin, the place where Monroe cheese is from, which is to say very well regarded in the international community. Whatever bad things Americans did to cheese is basically either a Republican's doing or the interests of companies like Kraft or Nabisco who are cheap and want to can a product that lasts without refrigeration. See also, Old English cheese spread.

My wife was just telling me about unironic british abominations on tiktok

Look I have been to Britain and the best British food I had was Indian. "Indigenous" British food is rarely anything special. It isn't usually god awful but I've never had British food that made me want to eat it again

That's a great video.

There's several mentioned in this thread. Among them, Scandinavian countries, England and the US, and I don't disagree

When everyone but you thinks your food is shit, it probably is.

See e.g. Germany

And what's the correct formulaic response to that?

I don't know much about corn syrup, but I assume for all the talking about it and the way it's used that it's basically ambrosia if the gods lived in a trailer park instead of on Mount Olympus.

Or ketchup

Comments like OP usually come from Europeans who just want to shit on America. I live abroad in Europe and I can tell you their food has just as much crap in it as ours. Plus fast food is everywhere in the cities. The key difference is access to healthy food and a higher standard of living. No food deserts or high cost of living to make fast food your only real option.

If America didnt like food it wouldn't have so many different food cultures to begin with

These people eat the local version of it. I personally like to go to MacDonald's in France. Better than any German dish I can find here. Yet I shudder when I recall what that crap tasted like in the USA

It's also about making it as cheaply as possible, which is why cooking yourself is better than almost any other food.

A culture that doesn't appreciate food allows it to happen slowly.

Haha 😄 🤣 😂

Yes, people in my culture often speak about the foods they enjoy.

Funny story. As a kid I'd laugh at my father, because he put black pepper on everything.

Today I have about nine different hot sauces on my spice rack.

Implying that ketchup is spicy at all?

How do you know people don't like spicy food? Don't worry, they'll tell you.

But the importance of food can be very different still. As a German I would say food is not a huge part of social culture. Like yes we eat together when we celebrate, but the food is usually just a necessity instead of the main focus

Soon it will be FootWar, sponsored by Pete Hegseth and the War Hawks as well as sports betting.

Sometimes we even include women

Greece

What are you supposed to do if your tea goes cold?

I used to make my own soylent because it was dirt cheap and I couldn't be bothered to spend all that time in the kitchen every day. I still cooked once a week, did meal prep and whatnot, but breakfast would be a carrot, lunch would be a nap and dinner would be a cold oaty soylent most weeknights. I just enjoyed not cooking and cleaning more than I enjoyed food. And because it was diy, I could make the soylent powder the way I liked it.

that's where i'm at, too, but i've known a few people who view their body's need for nutrition as an impediment to their ability to be productive. they're very sad people…

I don't often feel hungry or have a drive to eat, until I am literally dizzy from low blood sugar. I have found in my life that the need to prepare food can often be a stumbling block to me actually eating. For a while my go-tos were instant oatmeal or cup of noodles. I also have no problem eating the same thing repetitively (see my hummus and cheese sandwich lunch for over a year).

Soylent was bland, but pretty much instantaneous. I could notice that it was after a certain point in time, have a soylent shake ready to go in less than a minute and sip on that while doing other things.

I'm not still doing it because now I have a partner who will (sometimes) ensure that food ready to eat is shoved in front of me in a semi regular basis. (Additionally sometimes it is easier to think "I need to prep food for partner" and then there's dinner for me too, than trying to make the time to make dinner for myself).

I tried it back when I was trying to gain weight. The powdered Soylent was absolutely awful.

you probably have never seen real American food

Objection: speculation.

Yes I have. I've seen local dishes from several locations in the US, however I wasn't impressed. It generally consisted of too much meat and far to few vegetables. It's far from a healthy balanced diet. There are too many sugars and fats in most dishes. Even when ordering dinner often there's sugar in it. There's even sugar injected into supermarket meats. What the actual fuck. I've also had the pleasure (not really) to have meals on US war ships on too many occasions. Including the USS Enterprise. Yes, the one from Top Gun, now decommissioned.

I've also seen reports on the food safety regulations, or lack thereof. This is the reason why many American food isn't allowed in Europe. It doesn't even come close to meet our minimum standards. I've seen reports on the issue of real food like fruits and vegetables (still not meeting European standards in most cases though) being extremily expensive while fast food is relatively cheap, forcing people living in poverty, which is a massive part of the American population, to eat chemical waste causing loads of health issues. You know, the stuff you need heath care insurance for, which they can't pay for either.

In your picture is herring with pickles and onions. It's healthy, but I don't like it. The Dutch cuisine used to be Bourgondisch but since the second world war it became very plain as people had to make healthy food fast and simple with whatever was available, to rebuild the country. Our rich cuisine never returned. However, these days you can order food originated from all over the world. Yet again, going for Americans style food, it's very much not healthy at all.