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[–] 92 points 2 months ago* (9 children)

As a(n ethnic) Pole, I find this offensive. We're more than just potato munchers.

We're also potato drinkers.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    Is there anything a potato can't do? 😍

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  • [–] 21 points 2 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Ah but they're not potatoes there.... They're ground apples (that's the translation in case you've no French). Doesn't count. Big pharma got in on the naming after a campaign by doctors who didn't like them.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)
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    Talk to the English.... They were very fond of taking potatoes for taxes in the 1800s (historically accurate truth is that the Irish grew other crops to pay the taxes and used potatoes for their own subsistence but it was an obvious dig that I had to get in for the giggles).

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  • [–] 160 points 2 months ago (18 children)

    Love how the UK isn’t even there

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  • [+] 29 points 2 months ago (4 children)
  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    And the Irish boiled potatoes, boiled meat and boiled cabbage are missing too.

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  • [–] 48 points 2 months ago

    Not for nothin, we love to see a territorially intact Ukraine.

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  • [–] 36 points 2 months ago (8 children)

    I like it how the map essentially says "we cannot find anything proper to complain about Italy."

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  • [–] 18 points 2 months ago* (6 children)

    “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.”

    🎯 2
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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (3 children)

    We improved them. One of Italy's most famous dishes, carbonara pasta, has a French version that is way better.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    the Korean version is even better.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Why they gotta do Ireland and Scotland dirty like that?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    maybe it's actually swedish but wienerbröd is kinda soggy, isn't it?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Why is the place with the best food labeled "famine"

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Where’s the UK? Should be “frightened of flavor.”

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Meatball inventors? We stole that straight up from the ottomans

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    Soggy pastry? I'm a Dane, and I have absolutely no clue, what that's supposed to refer to?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    I love this insult between France and the Netherlands:

    Having 50 varieties of Gouda doesn't make you a cheese country

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    English is not my first language, can you explain what the pun is on the ocean?

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    That english food is so bad that it's not worth mentioning.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    One day we’ll catch them on film enjoying a Greggs sausage roll and the charade will be over.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    "fries"

    Accurate.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    Completely valid criticism for hungary. I just put like a kilo of paprika on like 100 grams of chicken 💀

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    checks out. i had rotten cabbage today.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 months ago (18 children)

    As someone who was lucky enough to visit Italy, it is far from overrated.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago (9 children)

    My friend from Finland (of all places) went there and said it was overrated

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (3 children)

    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

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    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

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago*

    "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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