As a(n ethnic) Pole, I find this offensive. We're more than just potato munchers.
We're also potato drinkers.
As a(n ethnic) Pole, I find this offensive. We're more than just potato munchers.
We're also potato drinkers.
Love how the UK isn’t even there
"THE VAST ATLANTIC OCEAN." Nothing to see here...
Brexit happened in 2016, the French knew what was up
Nah, their "food" sucked well before that.
kinda wish it was there but just "BUTTER CHICKEN"
And the Irish boiled potatoes, boiled meat and boiled cabbage are missing too.
The even took out Ireland. What did Ireland do?
Idk they missed 4 good puns for their one there. The scottish one almost rights itself, just describe haggis.
I like it how the map essentially says "we cannot find anything proper to complain about Italy."
“We stole half our flavor profiles from them and refuse to admit it, so we pretend like anything we stole is actually just common knowledge.”
it is not like tomatoes are native italy
We improved them. One of Italy's most famous dishes, carbonara pasta, has a French version that is way better.
the Korean version is even better.
I looked it up and it's spicy carbonara. I should try this.
Why they gotta do Ireland and Scotland dirty like that?
They got the whole half continent dirty. Except Belarus, they are proud of it.
Come on, you really think you're that much better than English food?
The most popular Scottish dish was invented by a Pakistani and everyone thinks it's Indian.
Danish pastry is not soggy. On the contrary, it's a lot crispier than what the rest of Europe is eating.
Perhaps they're thinking of the pastry called a danish, which is not Danish. We ourselves call it a Berliner, but I think it's actually from Austria.
maybe it's actually swedish but wienerbröd is kinda soggy, isn't it?
The origins are unclear. The Danish bakers stole the recipe for soggy cakes from Vienna, hence the name, but then the Austrian bakers startede calling it a copenhagen plunder. Immigrants brought the cake to America by the name danish.
Technically the whole range of similar cakes are neither cakes, bread or pastry. They're viennoiseries, which is layered dough, just like croissants.
Wienerbrød, aka bread from Wien was inspired by Austrian bakers (classic "neutral" SCABS!) who came up to work in Denmark during a huge baker's strike in the mid 1800s. But as is the Danish way, we managed to pump it full of dairy, in this case butter.
But yeah, it is possible that it's referring to "remonce", the filling/topping used.
Why is the place with the best food labeled "famine"
It’s the European equivalent of extreme poverty. But by world standards, they’re doing just fine lol.
Was gonna say, maybe I'm just not aware of it, but France had famine in it much later than the Balkans . . . .https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_famines
I was gonna say they miss the wine and fancy cheeses, but now that I think about it the wine selection is actually fairly solid, and you don't get much fancier than Pule.
Where’s the UK? Should be “frightened of flavor.”
Meatball inventors? We stole that straight up from the ottomans
That's why the map says meatball "inventors" instead of just meatball inventors
The Franco-Ottoman alliance of 1536 stands strong
I think you confuse that with kåldolmar, which has that origin. Meatballs were quite a staple in most Northern European countries for centuries before any of that. Of course Sweden didn't invent meatballs either, they just popularised them outside of Europe via Ikea.
Soggy pastry? I'm a Dane, and I have absolutely no clue, what that's supposed to refer to?
As an American that has lived in dk for 7 years, I've no clue either. Danes sure do love their sweets, but I can't think of any soggy ones.
I don't know how it is in France, but if someone says "Danish pastry" where I'm from, they're talking about wienerbrød.
I love this insult between France and the Netherlands:
Having 50 varieties of Gouda doesn't make you a cheese country
Ha ha, that was pretty good. I feel like the Uk, scotland, and ireland, if not wales too, could be good puns even as the vast atlantic ocean is a good single pun.
English is not my first language, can you explain what the pun is on the ocean?
That english food is so bad that it's not worth mentioning.
One day we’ll catch them on film enjoying a Greggs sausage roll and the charade will be over.
Completely valid criticism for hungary. I just put like a kilo of paprika on like 100 grams of chicken 💀
As someone who was lucky enough to visit Italy, it is far from overrated.
My friend from Finland (of all places) went there and said it was overrated
Maybe he lacks taste buds, biologically?
I'd say 90% of places I went were remarkably meh. But that 10% was on point.
People go to italy or france, eat at some shitty place, says it's overrated.
Or maybe they aren't used to non processed food?
Well I've never been to Finland, maybe their food is vastly superior. And to be fair it doesn't take much to be better than the USA. So maybe your friend is right
Finland is the land where only spices are salt and pepper.
Well this is still according to the French so take it with a grain of salt!
It's the only country I've ever traveled to where it felt like everyone was trying to upsell you on every little thing. See those bread sticks in the center of the table? Don't touch them, don't even fucking glance at them, or you'll get charged an arm and a leg in Euros. Ask for water but you wanted still and not sparkling? Fuck you son, that's another charge you didn't think about.
One place I went to, I shit you not, had the toilet seat and toilet paper chained to a weight you had to carry from the front of the shop to the upstairs toilet after making a purchase.
The food was just ok.
Where the hell did you go in Italy? All the food I got was super cheap. Sounds like you ate at the equivalent of a southern USA gas station
The seat chained to a weight was in Venice. TBF they did have an issue with people stealing their toilet paper...but the seat?
I will say, there was a little spot in Florence where we saw one of the workers run out the back to a nearby shop to grab an ingredient they'd just run out of. That was pretty cool of them.
Right? I feel like the labels for Italy and France should be switched.
"Marie Antoinette" is probably the strangest food on that map. I had no idea about French meat preferences.
PS: I wonder where the Viennoiserie is from.
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