All food was invented in NY between 1960 and 1990. Before benevolent Americans taught us how to eat food, we all lived for 20 to 30 days and died of starvation. Thank you, Americans.
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Just doing our part.....sniff sniff is that....OIL your cooking with?!
I feel like British culture viloates everything but the alcohol. There are memes about how weak their food and criminals are.
Are you kidding? All of this describes someone from Manchester.
Guy Richie made his career on movies about this kind of British person
Okay, but my culture really likes flavourful food that tastes good!
Okay but do you spank a log you fed all month until it poops candy and presents?
At first I thought piñata, but that’s not usually a log, and you don’t feed it? Wtf is this?
I'm Dutch/British, and I can honestly say the Dutch don't (historically) like tasty food. Maybe it's the Calvinism, maybe were culturally broken. Maybe both.
Behold the Dutch breakfast
Now behold the Dutch lunch
No, that's not a joke or a mistake. That's real.
Typical Dutch food is Stamppot. Which is boiled potatoes (poorly) crushed with 1 or 2 boiled vegetables in it. There are a dozen versions of it and people will argue which beacon of sadness is better.
Another typical Dutch food: pea soup so thick you can eat it with a fork. It has peas, bacon, potato and sadness. Recently people added stuff to make it tasty, but historically it's just peas and potato.
As a little break from food talk, here's a famous Dutch painter making a famous Dutch painting: People eating potatoes . Literally just potatoes.
A typical classic Dutch desert is Hangop, which is yoghurt you hang (hence the name) in a cheesecloth to let the water soak out to make it more dense. That's it. Plain yoghurt. Maybe add some honey for this amazing Dutch "treat".
Now, we have amazing cheeses today, but historically Dutch cheese was pretty shit. Most of the land isn't suited for cattle, so the milk had very little flavour. The Dutch invented adding herbs and spices into cheese. While french cheese might have a vague hint of cumin due to the ripening process in an ancient cave system, the Dutch would just chuck cumin into cheese.
We hate food, and it's a genetic problem we still haven't managed to break.
Yeah, I call bullshit or a case of not appreciating your own culture.
Dutch were the damn spice traders of the world. This can be still seen in many dishes, even damn cookies like hagel.
You have had proper meats, so all meat products were in your cuisine - rook and metworsts. Pancakes with bacon and shit. Tiger bread with spreads.
You eat the damn abomination of a spice liquorice like its good, and you're per capita biggest liquorice consumers.
Regarding sweet desserts, you have had a shitton of different pies and buttercakes, as well as this weird cake sandwitch called tampons or smthing like that.
Stamppot is food for the poorest workers. Like literally Dutch version of, idk, mcdonalds or smiliar. Of course its going to be filling but not fancy. If you eat it daily then damn, I'm sorry for you, grab some pears and red wine and make stoofperen.
Dutch were the damn spice traders of the world.
I'm just going to point out that the English were also spice traders and made good use of the spices themselves until they had to sell all their spices to prop up their collapsing empire.
You can take my dropjes out of my cold, dead fingers. :D
Not only I don't want them, I'm happy to designate Neatherlands (Holland specifically) to be world's stockpile of the liquorice. Just keep it containted there :)
They hate us 'cause they anise.
I had a Dutch roommate once who routinely ate sprinkles on toast for breakfast — she called it traditional.
Half my family is from the Caribbean and I’ll admit we eat some odd things (all manner of salted fruit for example), but I have a hard time computing sprinkle toast as a complete meal
I had a Dutch roommate once who routinely ate sprinkles on toast for breakfast — she called it traditional.
It is! Hagelslag on bread is very much a Dutch traditional food.
Bread, apply butter, pour chocolate sprinkles on. Eat.
So many people don't appreciate how good high-quality butter is!
Thank you! Nobody I've pointed this out to seems to understand what an abomination cold butter on raw bread, with sprinkles is, I thought I was the crazy one.
It's a treasured tradition in Australia and New Zealand: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_bread
This is why you people were expelled to the furthest possible distance.
On the other hand... Bitterballen, poffertjes, awesome cheeses of all sorts, rookworst, stroopwafels, spekkoek, speculaas, advocaat...
And stampot is awesome, shut your piehole. :)
Oh yeah. Pannekoek
The only major colonial empire which did not, in any way, import food from the colonies?
I'm from Denmark, we traditionally ate porridge and potatoes and pork, and of course rye bread so dense you can club someone to death with it if you want to.
Oh no, we imported lots of food. And we kept it nearly separate, never to mix it with our own.
We imported Indonesian food, mixed it with Cantonese food and called it "Chinese food", or the "Chinese Indian Speciality Restaurant" https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinees-Indisch_restaurant
My culture is super unique because it's built on classism and religious wars.
Well, my culture is uniquer because it's built on classism and wars against religions!
Ahhh I remember when pozole was invented in the early 80's down the street in some block in the bronx
My favorite type of pasta lately is called cavatappi, which I assumed was some ancient Italian thing. Turns out it was invented by accident in 1970 and was originally named after Adriano Celentano, the dude who made Prisencolinensinainciusol. The more I learn, the less I know.
Saw a map today, on reddit or around here, showing the dominant kind of restaurants across european countries : local food or foreign food. And sure enough, most of northern and Eastern Europe prefers foreign food. Anyone who's traveled around Europe will have a fairly good idea why.
All I'm saying is, the bit about food doesn't work for all countries.
Dutch cuisine is so boring and bland, it’s no wonder almost everyone prefers anything foreign. Everything traditional we cook tends to lack flavor and texture, it’s filling but not exactly attractive.
We also don’t really have a food culture here. Dutch people don’t like to spend more time eating than they have to. A meal never lasts more than 20-30 minutes tops.
It’s not exactly surprising that there’s no such thing as a Dutch restaurant outside of the Netherlands…
From what I know about the dutch, they bake very nice bread at least. We have a lot of Dutch brands of bread over here that are pretty good.
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Except for the blatant US-centricism, it is pretty accurate for most part.
Thats the joke. The us is a mix of religious banishment, war refugees, plague refugees, crime refugees, slavery, and capitalism profiteering and contains the cultures of damn well near every country on earth somewhere here because of it.
And because we have pockets of basically every culture in the world it shines a light on the simple fact. WE ARE ALL VERY FUCKING MUCH ALIKE.
The us for as much of a "mixing pot" as we are. We are also fantastic of creating cultural bubbles.
Okay but to be fair we actually have insane amounts of alcohol and alcoholism in eastern europe. I think all cultures have something unique whether that be good or bad. Sweden, where im living now, truly is very antisocial sometimes.
My culture is unique, we spend half the day arguing and the other half reading really old books :3
This is also true for psychiatric or neurological issues. For example:
https://lemmy.world/post/38035805
We're truly just one dude in 8 billion trench coats.
Forgot traditional culture and embrace neocultures for the terminally online.
Criminals in our country are pretty lame.
My culture has this one food that takes a lifetime to learn to like, that nobody else seems to appreciate. We will aggressively push it on you every dinner, partly to watch your reaction!
I wonder what percentage of Western lemmings can actually say they have at least these "simple" things (excluding the last few points, of course).
Ironically where I live everyone downplays the criminal groups when they really shouldn't.
As a Brazilian, the criminal part is, unfortunately, the truest. Second only to our grannies wielding a Flip flop on a hand
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