I had a great time in money. It definitely cost a lot of money.
Got to love the French calling Italian food overrated, when their international recognized dish consists of black coffee and a cigarette.
I dunno, man, a black coffee and a cigarette is pretty good.
Love how the UK isn’t even there
“THE VAST ATLANTIC OCEAN.” Nothing to see here…
We are happy with everything we stole from other cultures thanks. Along with with a lot of carbs.
I wish I’d had shade like this all summer
that’s what brexit does to a mf
Brexit happened in 2016, the French knew what was up
dam i didnt even notice lmao u right
Nah, their “food” sucked well before that.
i meant it as in they exited physically and moved the island elsewhere
(credits to ZDF Heute-Show 2011-12-12)However, Ireland is gone too.
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I mean the entire isle of Ireland is gone in the French cuisine map. The map in my reply depicts only the UK at a different position.
I actually realized the misunderstanding and deleted my comment, but I guess the deletion hasn’t echoed over to all federated instances yet!
The even took out Ireland. What did Ireland do?
Something something potato joke that everyone’s heard a million times
kinda wish it was there but just “BUTTER CHICKEN”
Tikka chips
And the Irish boiled potatoes, boiled meat and boiled cabbage are missing too.
You can do plenty more than just boil a potato
Like mashing or sticking it in a stew?
Idk they missed 4 good puns for their one there. The scottish one almost rights itself, just describe haggis.
That was a good roast.
“map of Europe”
As a Pole, I find this offensive. We’re more than just potato munchers.
We’re also potato drinkers.
Is there anything a potato can’t do? 😍
please the french
They even dont recognise the potato as a seperate entity. They really just call them pomme de terre (ground apple) and job’s a goodun.
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.
Yeah but that’s like asking a potato to colonize the moon. The space moon.
Taxes.
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).
[Laughs in Inca]
You forgot about rotten cabbage that is close to our hearts. In all shapes and forms.
UK not even being on the map xD
The French are just jealous of our portable usable bread, that isn’t 16 feet long, doesn’t go off 20 minutes after purchase, and can actually be used to make sandwiches.
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Why they gotta do Ireland and Scotland dirty like that?
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.
Haggis?
Chicken tikka.
The got the whole half continent dirty. Except Belarus, they are proud of it.
They’d prefer to say it doesn’t exist
We Dutch people don’t even eat that much sauerkraut since it is a German dish. The French actually know us for our baked goods. You know the ones that kick in after an hour.
“fries”
Accurate.
Not for nothin, we love to see a territorially intact Ukraine.
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.
And now guess what Viennoiseries means and its story of origin.
Croissants, also from Vienna.
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.
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
The Italians embraced them much sooner and did a lot more with them. The French were too worried they were poisonous because they were nightshades and only slowly adopted them with the advent of tomato exports from Italy and Spain.
We improved them. One of Italy’s most famous dishes, carbonara pasta, has a French version that is way better.
Do you really just leave us hanging without telling us how to upgrade carbonara?
https://tangerinezest.com/en/creamy-bacon-pasta-with-onion-french-carbonara/
Basically, pasta with cream and bacon. It’s barely carbonara anymore, but it’s what we call it anyway.
the Korean version is even better.
I looked it up and it’s spicy carbonara. I should try this.
There are massive leaps to be made by combining French techniques with foreign ingredients, it just requires accepting that maybe other places also have good food, perhaps even better food in some cases.
Or, you could look at it from the other end, everything is shit.
France is good for bread and wine. French food is basically Italian food without pasta. Lots of butter and salt with no competing flavors. Want something with your savory dish? Fuck you, pair it with a wine. Want spicy? Fuck you that’s not tradition!
French food is bad. It tastes fine but the ceremony and culture around it are toxic.
“French food is really good.” they told me during months I spent traveling all around country over many years. “It’s just complicated and most people don’t know how to cook it.”
Me “So in the past two weeks I have tried 14 different places in 6 different cities and all 14 meals have been horrible. Okay…”
There’s a reason why a tire company publishing a list of recommended places to eat when traveling around France became so popular. Its not because the average place to get food was good.
Mexico: Stopping at a gas station, a little old lady hand rolling tortillas and cooking them on an open bbq. Her “Tacos?” Me nodding vigorously"Si, si, si" They were insanely delicious.
Yeah I can’t think of any French food that I’m like yeah this is good. Michlin stars? I to like the putting on sticky gold stars in grade school to make myself feel better? I literally have no memory that I can say that was something good that I tried.
I’ll have an Irish/English breakfast or fish and chips any day. German sourdough or bratwurst and pretzels or schnitzel. Sushi any day.
The irony is there’s a what used to be a gas station, and repair place as I had my car worked on there, that’s now considered one of the best Mexican places in town.
but the ceremony and culture around it are toxic.
That’s what makes it French.
I can’t even tell you what French food is… Nothing comes to mind as particularly French. I can imagine Italian, Greek, Spanish, German, etc but all I can come up with for French is baguettes and escargot.
They have frogs and snails and force-fed goose liver
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However French baguettes are so good the Italians had to copy it with their Ciabatta.
Hey! The ciabatta is totally different from a baguette!
Ciabatta’s crust is more thicc, the crumb has more holes and is more chewy while the baguette crust isn’t as thicc as ciabatta’s one and the crumb is more dense and soft
True, but I believe the baker who invented it did state that it was meant to compete or substitute a baguette, but Italian.
Baguette: Chewy on the inside, hard, crusty, and chewy on the outside. Gotta scrape the inside of your mouth and give your jaw muscles a workout. If your mouth and jaw isn’t sore after eating one, it’s no good.
Ciabatta: We like the chewy but the hard and crusty not so much. Let put a ton of olive oil on the outside to lessen the crusty, but keep the chewy. And being Italian, olive oil goes on most things anyways.
True. France makes the best bread.
Nice rage bait try 😁
If you seriously think french food is bread and wine, lol, then you have a lot of nice food to discover.
Next time add cheese to the stereotype 😉
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?
Honestly I’d believe that for all of Scandinavia, but it also might be that the salt liquorice burns them off at a young age.
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 yes, but you can go to any country and eat in a great restaurant and have great food. That’s not the point either.
I’d say 90% of places I went were remarkably meh. But that 10% was on point.
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 I’m not judging until I eat it with a side of ice cube salad
Dill, you forgot about dill. Also Aromat.
Well this is still according to the French so take it with a grain of salt!
And an entire bulb of garlic.
And some onions.
Right? I feel like the labels for Italy and France should be switched.
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.
That explains everthing: you went in a tourist trap
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.
That region includes some of the highest wine producing countries in the world
