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[–] 176 points 1 year ago (32 children)

D has a ton of Asian goodness

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  • [–] 106 points 1 year ago* (13 children)

    Also, D even gets the entire bay of Naples, in addition to the cuisines of 3-4 billion people. Anyone who wants anything from A can get anything from there in Oceania.

    D is so OP, I cannot imagine anyone picking anything else unless they are basing their choice on where they live.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Anyone who wants anything from A can get anything from there in Oceania.

    But then that's food you can eat in Oceania, not food from Oceania. D has a ton of good Asian food, but for traditional Western cuisine you want A or H.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (7 children)
  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Yeah but the real cuisine from Australia is grubs, roo meat and berries.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    You cant only consider indigenous cuisine though. In that case it completely changes Mexican cuisine etc. Infact it changes literally every single cuisine in the world with the idea of 'real'

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    But that takes out all the chalange because all the regions have major cities and therefore all sorts of restaurants. I mean you can get good Chinese food in Buenos Aires I know and most other regional cuisines. I mean then New York City is op and everyone else is second place.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    So do we not count potato dishes for India since they were introduced by the Brits or how about tomatoes for Italy?

    If we allow ingredients but recipes are the issue, than is Japanese curry not counted for Japan considering it went from India to Britain to Japan?

    How about removing biryani from India/ Pakistan since the mughals created it with Persian techniques.

    What about fusion cuisines? All the pizzas in the world for example?

    Keeping it indigenous is literally impossible bc that idea doesn't even exist.

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  • Yeah it too hard a problem. Like what about fusion places? I guess if we’re talking about only being able to eat in one region I guess we have to admit NYC is OP with so many different immigrants from around the world you’ll be able to find anything there. I can’t tell if NYC is in H or G but that’s one to pick.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    This gate keeping of cuisine is ridiculous. It would logically follow that you have to throw out anything that's made with something originally from a different zone. So no potatoes, tomatoes, corn or other new world crops... Well, anywhere but one of these sections. Anything that comes from cultural exchange is, apparently, right out. So good luck with whatever the fuck they were eating in mesopotamia and the Indus river valley civilisation. I hope you like your beer to be bread.

    If it's been made by people who identify culturally as being "of that zone", and they self-identify it as part of their culture, then that's from there. Pretending that the awful colonisation of the entire world by white Europeans just... didn't happen is insanely naïve.

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  • [–] 55 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    D is literally the only answer.

    Greek, Turkish, Arab, Indian, Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai, Korean, Japanese. If you want something more western, there's Australian for some classic bbq or fish n chips. There's also a tiny sliver of Italy.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    That’s only if you like those things. G gets you barbecue, Mexican, Peruvian, Cuban, every Caribbean island, Hawaii, French Polynesia, and several others it’s hard to tell from the map.

    Of the things you listed from D I only like Greek, Italian, Chinese, and Japanese. And I can get all of those from Hawaii and California.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Yeah I'd choose D but will be really really sad to not be able to eat anything from G ever again.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    But you HAVE BBQ, in the form of Hawaiian BBQ, which goes pretty hard too. And there’s BBQ-analogues all over Southeast Asia. And don’t forget, like, all of the Middle East. Check out some of the feast preparations of whole animals, as well as modern “convenience” spins on older recipes more suitable for family-size prep.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I won't deny, I'd miss Mexican food. Sure, a kebab is basically a burrito, but the differences are enough that it'd be a shame to never have either one.

    But I do find the barbecue thing weird. Australian barbecue is close enough to American to be a more than acceptable substitute (although perhaps I'm biased). Korean galbi is amazing, though quite different.

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  • [–] 56 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (13 children)

    Easy D for me. It has Indian, Bangladeshi, Japanese, Chinese, Thai, and Vietnamese. I don't think I need anything else in life lol. Come to think of it, the only food I've had in the last month or so that isn't from D is pizza, but I can live without pizza.

    (I'm Indian so there's obvious bias. But even if Indian and Bangladeshi food were removed, I'll still choose D. I'll be a little tempted by G because of Barbecue, but Korean barbecue is pretty great as well.)

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I dont think any other country would claim this, so I pretty sure this counts as Japanese pizza

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Dude that, and then there's like most of West Asia from Afghan to Lebanese with everything in between, plus Turkey and even a sliver of Greece and Italy.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    D is the answet and it's so unfair. It has the entire diverse range of Asian cuisine, a glimpse of Western and Latin (through Australia-NZ and Philippines), and a slice of Medditeranean. It has all the ways to cook rice!

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I’ll be a little tempted by G because of Barbecue, but Korean barbecue is pretty great as well

    Galbi is great, but don't forget you also get Australian barbecue. Which, while not exactly the same as American barbecue, is much more similar to it than galbi is.

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  • [–] 49 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    D, hands down. Indian, Thai, Vietnamese, Iranian, Turkish, Japanese, Chinese. Literally my favorite foods

    Edit: Also includes a little bit of Italy!!

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  • [–] 49 points 1 year ago

    D without a doubt. Southern tip of Italy, Greek, Turkish, Persian, Pakistan, Indian, Chinese, Thai, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, Australian, just to name a few.

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    B You get italian food but still can have Surströmming

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  • [–] 36 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    G.

    Love Mexican and south American food, Creole, Southern, Cuban…plus the US has stolen foods from around the world, so I guess I get to keep pretty much eating whatever.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    There's also some Morocco, Spain and Portugal in there.

    I mostly agree, on American Southern and Mexican alone.

    D is tempting though, I love all Asian food. The variety from Middle Eastern, Indian, Vietnamese, Thai, Chinese, Japanese and Korean. I might have just convinced myself to go D while I was writing this actually...

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    There is a community of Chinese immigrants that settled in Mexico as well. So some Asian cuisine can be included as well.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I'm not sure that's the rules, in that case you can get anything from America.

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

    Everyone in the Americas are immigrants other than Natives, all our food is from someone else’s culture, borrowed and mixed. So what’s the answer? You’re only allowed Native American food? Where’s the timeline cutoff for what constitutes foods in these regions?

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Same with all of Europe and Asia. "You can only eat food from the original neolithic people". See how stupid you sound.

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  • I’m sorry, what? I pointed out the absurdity of trying to say what the food is of the region when, particularly in the US, everyone is an immigrant. So your response is everyone eats Paleolithic foods now? Your idea is to take my “absurd” question and double down on it? Why not have a reasonable discussion?

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  • Agreed. However - my exposure to Asian foods has been mostly those foods popular in western culture like sashimi, restaurant Thai or Chinese, etc. There’a a lot of if that I haven’t been exposed to or eaten, and even though I think I’d probably like a lot of the new stuff, there’s plenty I think I could never get used to like still-kinda-living food on my plate, nattō, etc. So I opted for the biggest slice of multicultural food I could get.

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  • [+] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    D, Italian, Japanese, Vietnamese, Chinese and Indian are already 90% of my diet

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    D without a doubt. Indian, Thai, Vietnamese, Japanese, parts of China. It's even got some Mediterranean in there. That's basically all I eat already.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago

    D because of the huge variety in food, and the tiny chunk of Italy means I still technically get Italian food :)

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    D has virtually all god-tier food Asia has ever produced, plus a bonus of whatever culinary bullshit Australia vomits onto the world stage.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Meat pies, Lamingtons, Tim Tams, Chicken Salt & Bundaberg Ginger Beer

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    And Foster's. Not to drink. It's made from rye wheat, so if you let it rot it has a small chance to produce ergotamine. Ergotamine is a hallucinogenic precursor that is believed to have been one of the causes of the Salem Witch Trials.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    B is being slept on in this thread. I mean, look at it - you get northern Italy, Germany, Austria, Hungary, the northern Balkans, Sweden, and Finland. If you like pasta, pizza, grilled meats, fries, potatoes, sausages, licorice, a mindbogglingly large number of breads and cheeses, etc. etc. you'd be stupid not to pick that region.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Sad news: you wouldn't get any pizza, because that comes from Naples, which is in the south of Italy.

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

    We were talking about national cuisines. To my knowledge Naples is part of the country of Italy.

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  • [–] 94 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

    Lots of peeps on the D train, so I’m going G. You’ve got the spiciness of Mexican and Caribbean paired with the savoryness of Guatemalan and Colombian. Jam packed with fish and chicken dishes. Ceviche, jerk chicken, jambalaya, fried plantains, cornbreads, tacos, and giant burritos. Southern Spain means you get paella chock full of shellfish and also Spanish olives. And in the far west you get a bit of Hawaiian flare, so a little bit of Japanese sneaks in.

    Regardless D and G are S tier. E and A are A tier. Everything else is, well, a carb with sauerkraut and sausage.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    After living in D for half my life, the lack of decent Mexican food makes me a G person too.

    I'll argue that C has a pretty solid showing. Southern Italy, Greece, Croatia, Serbia, the rest of the Balkans, Turkey, Ukraine, Russia, Northern China, Central Asia, Mongolia, Northern Japan. There's a lot going on there.

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

    E and A are A tier.

    A is obvious, but why E?

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  • This map is doing flavor gerrymandering with D.

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