• andresil@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    It’s ironic that they’ve missed out Ireland, throwing some great hunger shade.

  • Ethalis@jlai.luEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Meh, “proper cuisine” is definitely accurate since it’s our national pride, but most of the others don’t really feel like french stereotypes. “Soggy pastry” for Denmark even sounds suspiciously american, I’ve never heard anyone say that about this country in France and I don’t even know what it’s referring to

    • inlandempire@jlai.luEnglish
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      5 months ago

      I took a look at the website this is coming from, it seems to be mostly the blog author’s interpretation of what the stereotypes are for each of their maps

    • Valmond@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Yeah as a Scandinavia living in france, all that part is totally off too.

      The Meatball thing? Sounds amerikanish too, def not french.

        • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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          5 months ago

          i mean maybe that’s what made it well known outside sweden, but meatballs are also a bog standard thing inside sweden.
          Meatballs with mashed potatoes, gravy, and lingonberries is the “default food” basically, like fish and chips in the UK.

            • Valmond@lemmy.world
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              5 months ago

              The statue was given by the french, but the USA started by giving one to France IIRC (they paid for the first one in Paris if I got that correctly). It’s obviously smaller, you can see it on one of the bridges in Paris.

              Actually there are a whole bunch of them in Paris, that’s a little rabbit hole if you’re curious.

  • lime!@feddit.nuEnglish
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    5 months ago

    "inventors" is the best diss i’ve ever seen for modern swedish food

    i asked a friend from italy what she thought about our pizza and she basically said “as long as i don’t think of it as pizza it’s fine”

    she and her bf would regularly hang out with the guy who ran the only italian pizzeria in town and they would shit-talk our food for hours. mad respect.

    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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      5 months ago

      the way i’d summarize our cuisine is that the natively available food is basically “meat and parsnip stew”, and thus we have a profound cultural (bordering on genetic) trauma which causes us to give precisely 0 fucks about what is “correct” or “looks good” and only care about it being tasty and interesting.

  • mayooooo@beehaw.org
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    5 months ago

    Every frenchperson who came to serbia eats like they have never tasted food before. Dunno

  • Dasus@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    “Ice cube salad”?

    Our Finnish cuisine is so non-existent people can’t even make jokes about it.

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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      5 months ago

      Uuuhh… the starvation bark bread? I think there was a reindeer meat pizza that one some award.

      Whatever, our own one thing is a vaguely modified American dish, and comes from Quebec, so you’re not alone.

      • Dasus@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        That’s not cuisine, that’s a dish. It’s a Finnish dish, but the cuisine is technically Italian.

        We don’t have a cuisine in the same way in the North as mainland Europe does. Like do you know what the national dish of Finland is? Karjalanpaisti, Karelian stew. Which when traditionally made, has the following ingredients ONLY; beef cubes, pork cubes, a mildly salted pot of water.

        Heat for several hours.

        That’s it.

        Like people joke about how bland British food is but it’s literally on fire compared to our traditional dishes. Like a shepherd’s pie made with a red wine and even bland-ish British spices would be absolutely gorgeous compared to Karelian stew.

        I think the national dish really reflects the Finnish spirit well though.

        • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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          5 months ago

          Mongolian “cuisine” is kind of the same. At some point you’re far enough north meat is the only reliable ingredient. It’s remarkable how well the Koreans and Russians have managed to make out.

          I think the national dish really reflects the Finnish spirit well though.

          In which way do you mean?

          • Dasus@lemmy.world
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            5 months ago

            Well Mongolia is quite a bit further South than even the furthest part of Finland. Finland being around 59° and Mongolia 52°. But it’s warmer here, more likely. Because we get some of the warming effects of the Gulf.

            Mongolia is mostly desert and we have the sea and forests. My point here being there’s tons of plants and whatnot. I understanding having to eat just horse if there’s literally nothing else around, but… spices would’ve been more common in that part of the world though, so I wonder if the meat got some spices?

            We didn’t really even have peppers lol. Could’ve just thrown in some thyme and carrots and onions and whatnot at the least.

            I’ve also heard a thing in which sometimes in hot parts of the world like say India, some of the heavy spice mixes originated because the lower classes would often have near spoiled meat and you wanted the spices to make up for the poor quality.

            Here in Finland storing meat wouldn’t have been much of an issue because of the cold.

            I think the national dish really reflects the Finnish spirit well though.

            In which way do you mean?

            Half pigs, half cows, mildly salty and without any passion (spice).