What culture has the worst cuisine?

[Ahriman]

Well I've heard that Romanian cuisine is pretty bad.

 

[Psychotron]

Ethiopian food is hands down the worst.

I'm going to just fucking say it, Italian food is most overrated.

 

[Sparkling Yuzu]

Thai. They add a lot of sweetness to anything savoury or spicy and it's gross.

 

[Mdabrik]

Middle-Eastern food is great


British food is not great

 

[Mister Uno]

I dont understand why people are opposed to Slavic dishes, I love every single one I've made. The only thing they lack are roasted meats. I'll destroy some dumplings, borscht, radish salad, smoked sprats on black bread and pork&carrot stew etc. I'm going to make a beet salad perhaps one of the "cursed" ones with gelatine once it warms up.
Russian spice cookies with a little sugar glaze are absolutely fantastic too, I left some fresh baked ones out for my local fire department for an inspection.

When I stayed in Lithuania, most of the foods I had there was some of the blandest shit I ever had. The only good shit I had was from a Lithuanian MRE with deer meat. That shit was the bomb. Some of their sweets are alright. Poland on the other hand had some good food, same with the Krauts.

 

[Stasi]

When I stayed in Lithuania

There is your problem right there. The only thing Lithuanians are notable for is ruining good things the Poles or the Russians gave them.

 

[Cats]

OH LOOK, what a shocker:

 

[Matthew216]

Ethiopian food is hands down the worst.

I'm going to just fucking say it, Italian food is most overrated.

Authentic Italian? or the stuff that was made in new York's Little Italy region?

 

[Realistic Elephant]

Ethiopian food is hands down the worst.

I'm going to just fucking say it, Italian food is most overrated.

I actually like Ethiopian a lot but it's not common outside of ethnic areas. Seems like one of those things you either really like or despise.

In terms of worst, the "American" of past decades is probably absolute bottom of the barrel. Cheap, processed junk in various bland and uninteresting flavors...thankfully it's mostly died out now, at most you might get some lousy casserole at a potluck.

 

[Slap47]

Everyone says British but Shepard's Pie is underrated.

The British actually have very decent food.

The issue is that they are judged by what everyday people eat while other cultures are judged by their cuisine. Do you think your average Indian is eating delicious butter chicken everyday? No, plain chickpeas with rice and onions. Do you think Italians eat Napoli style Pizza everyday? No, Nutella toast for breakfast and plain flatbread with tomato for supper.

Your average Brit eats the Queen's favorite dish every week, Shepherds Pie.

 

[Spasticus Autisticus]

A former co-worker of mine was a frail, 70 year old incestuous vegan from India. He would always smell horrific even when he wasn't blowing up the breakroom and bathroom with his lunchbox shit.

Indian cuisine is disgusting regardless of if it is authentic or an imitation. Drowning starchy vegetables into a curry of cumin, cinnamon, chili peppers, tumeric, and ginger is overpowering. Not to mention they're usually averse to beef and pork.

A couple years ago an Indian family moved in next door to me. Their cooking is so pungent I can smell it from 100 feet away on a windy day. Every now and then it smells OK but usually it smells like rancid cooking oil infused with burnt spices. Absolutely nasty. Good thing I'm moving soon.

I'll never say a bad thing about British cuisine. Cottage/shepherd's pie is one of my favorite dishes, and I practically grew up eating Cornish pasties (anyone who has lived in an old mining boomtown knows the deal)

 

[Michael Janke]

isn't haiti literally known for mudcakes?

cant get much worse when it comes to bad cuisine than that
people in the comments say its a cultural delicacy but its literally slave/poverty food.
heck, american slaves managed to produce stuff like chitlins and grits.
also crawlfish

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

Seriously, have you not tried regional stuff from the south, New England, or Louisiana? Properly done creole and cajun dishes are a taste of heaven...

To add to this, I think you could make an argument that Northern/non-Southern US cuisine is basically sandwiches. It seems like sandwiches and pizzas are the big things Americans really made a big deal out of even if they didn't invent them. (Who invented what isn't really important, everybody the whole world round has basically the same food, just emphasizes and spices things differently.)

 

[TheTrumanShow]

I actually cant think of one, I guess British and some central European cuisines are a bit boring but they have a bunch of nice gems.

People mention Ethiopian and although I like some of their stuff I guess I haven't been awed by any restaurant Ive visited thats Ethiopian. But Ive never been to Ethiopia so you know, it's not really fair when there is such an extreme discrepancy between ingredient availability and freshness.


I really don't like the idea of eating whales nor insects but I'd still try it.

Danish.
Sure they have pastries and butter cookies, but what else? The only people I've met from there always say the traditional food is terrible either store bought or home made and when they come to my country they always revel in how much better the food is.
And my country sucks for food

You know what, I'll agree with you here actually.


Almost anything they do good the Norwegians and Swedes do better (Fish, Smorgasbard, Meat - Dannish meat is infested with antibiotics cause their living conditions are crap and they have no real hunting-grounds).
Their cheese smells and is the opposite of French/Swiss, this kind of flossy/sticky rubbery cheese - which they share with their northern brethren.
Their charcuteries are mostly sour and terrible.
The sausages the Germans or Brits do better.


Fucking hell I can't think of one single thing the Danes do really well that isn't sweet.

 

[Sex Cannon Lupa]

Southern Black food. Not just soul food with the pig feet and cow blood and okra, but crawdads and whatever other shit they dig out of dirty ditches and spend ten hours a day cooking up.

 

[Takayuki Yagami]

Hey, Laziji / Chongqing chicken is actually good. Genuine Sichuan cooking is top-tier. Y'all niggas are missing out on the best China has to offer.

On topic, I'm going to signal Ethiopian food as being lousy and disappointing. Imagine Indian food without the depth or the texture. The spicy food has all the heat and no flavor. The bread is also too spongy.

Cambodian food is lacking, too. The dishes tend to be way too oily and greasy.

While not bad, Japanese food is overrated. Apart from ramen which is genuinely tasty, too many of their dishes taste weird to me.

French food can either be top-tier or absolutely disgusting. No in between. They tend to burn things.

Cantonese isn’t bad either.

 

[HodgePodgeRogerDodger]

The issue with broadly saying American or British cuisine is shit is that a lot of their cuisine is ubiquitous. British and French cuisine are opposite sides of the same coin at their heart they are the same, but they run counter due to England being a rainy island hellhole and they had to experiment with a lot of awful ideas.

America after the 50’s had way to much surplus shit. They made enough SPAM to feed the world ten times over (Russia and England were actually still eating through that until the late 70’s.) US cuisine partially got killed during Prohibition and then again when processed foods and TV dinners were more affordable due to the US having wartime surplus. The US has way to much regional specific food. Barbecue, seafood, roasts, and desserts vary by region.

Chinese breakfast sucks dick. It’s rice porridge, even the Japs rightfully adapted once they realized eggs and sausage are fucking amazing. Indian is also terrible because they used spices to cover up rancid veggies and meat. They shit themselves because of that usually.

 

[Cats]

The issue with broadly saying American or British cuisine is shit is that a lot of their cuisine is ubiquitous. British and French cuisine are opposite sides of the same coin at their heart they are the same, but they run counter due to England being a rainy island hellhole and they had to experiment with a lot of awful ideas.

America after the 50’s had way to much surplus shit. They made enough SPAM to feed the world ten times over (Russia and England were actually still eating through that until the late 70’s.) US cuisine partially got killed during Prohibition and then again when processed foods and TV dinners were more affordable due to the US having wartime surplus. The US has way to much regional specific food. Barbecue, seafood, roasts, and desserts vary by region.

Chinese breakfast sucks dick. It’s rice porridge, even the Japs rightfully adapted once they realized eggs and sausage are fucking amazing. Indian is also terrible because they used spices to cover up rancid veggies and meat. They shit themselves because of that usually.

At least we found out what to DO with SPAM:



I learned how to make these from an ex of mine who spent some time in Hawaii where they are apparently everywhere. I have extolled the virtues of spam musubi on here plenty of times and If anyone needs my personal recipe just hit me up I know a special technique to ensure the best taste and candied-ness of your spams :}

 

[Obi Wan Kenobi]

Out of everything I've tried the one I liked the least must be Thai. I like the idea of what they have going on with the sweet & spicy, but I have awful spice tolerance and I dont like sweet dishes. Does it probably taste good to someone that likes spicy or sweet food when they are eating main dishes? Absolutely, a huge yes.

As per the cuisine(s) that sound uninteresting or just awful, I'd probably say British cuisine. They have some good food here and there, but a concept like the "English Breakfast" makes me want to kill myself, and my country's cuisine puts a lot of emphasis on breakfast, so I dont hate big & hearty breakfasts at all.

 

[SITHRAK!]

I despise Greek food. Nothing good has come out of Greece. I think the only thing I liked from it was the baklava and the loukoumades and that was it.

There’s a special place in hell for the person who first thought of canned dolmades. The only things Greeks do well are olive oil, some cheeses, octopus and lamb, everything else is garbage.