What culture has the worst cuisine?

[Return of the Freaker]

It's not whale sperm, it's cod sperm.

Oh yeah, it's not marine mammal jizz it's fish jizz! That makes it so much better!

 

[The FedEx Pope]

Technically every ethnic culture has a horrendous dish if it's native to them. If it's stolen and adopted by the west, it most likely will not taste like shit.

Although you could make an argument with Jewish kosher cuisine is the worst because you get the added annoyance of having to deal with the jews having to ask you a hundred questions how it was prepared and if it was kosher enough for their tastes.

 

[Return of the Freaker]

Although you could make an argument with Jewish kosher cuisine is the worst because you get the added annoyance of having to deal with the jews having to ask you a hundred questions how it was prepared and if it was kosher enough for their tastes.

I mean, thats not really cuisine. That's just dealing with Jews

 

[mr.moon1488]

So I ran into this online today.

Edible bird's nest - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Apparently the Chinese eat these birds' nests which are literally made from birds' spit.

 

[A.P. Hill]

Not worst but most dissapointing is japanese food, everything is tasteless. Rather have a hotdog down the street than eat a fancy japanese lounge.

Japanese food is supposed to be simply cooked in order to bring out the flavor of fresh seasonal foods (fish, vegetables, etc.). The problem is when they attempt to do this with foods of European origin that aren't meant to be cooked that way.

A properly seasoned katsu curry beats anything from India any day.

 

[Medical Hawaii]

When I was younger, we had some sort of world fair project that the whole academy participated in—we were assigned a country and had to make their traditional cuisine, garb, decorations, etc. and in second grade I remember going to my friend’s classroom next door, which had been assigned some African country. The food was horribly bland and I wanted to spit it out right away—the teacher said that in the past, that particular country or region didn’t have access to much salt at all. I want to say it was Kenya, but that doesn’t make sense as it was really West African regions that had to trade for salt in ancient times. I’ve been trying to figure out which country/empire that classroom was assigned, it’s been bugging me for so long!

I pity the fool people who didn’t/don’t use salt—besides helping preserve the food, even just a pinch of it really does make a difference in the taste!

 

[Wünderkind]

french/italian food is fine but what's with pastry for breakfast, that ain't right and will lead to constipation eventually

 

[Pentex]

I've yet to see or smell any Indian food that wasn't just barely fit to slop hogs with.

 

[A.P. Hill]

I've yet to see or smell any Indian food that wasn't just barely fit to slop hogs with.

The Caribbean version of curry legitimately looks like feces.

 

[Alex Krycek]

I’m told Mongolian food is pretty awful. It’s all meat and milk, not to mention they like to add salt their tea.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

HOWEVER, a LOT of Scandinavia, especially once you go to rural Norway and Finland, fucking sucks at making dishes palatable. You'll have bread, you'll have lard, and you'll have fish. If you're very lucky, you can have salt. Spices? Let me show you the door, go ahead and freeze to death outside with your spices.

Essentially this:
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That's because spices as we known them were not around in that area and cusine developed from there. Some herbs were around though and if you would slap a piece of nice gravlax on a piece of rice people would go "oh so sugoi, the mild tastes! The fusion!". I don't even have to go that far with taste and flavor, salmon on sushi is a Scandinavian creation.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

french/italian food is fine but what's with pastry for breakfast, that ain't right and will lead to constipation eventually

Does your culture forbid fiber?

 

[Owlflaps]

I'm gonna shit on my own culture's dishes. There's a reason Southeastern Asians are stereotypically diabetic -- the dishes they make are loaded with sodium.

Filipino food is special kind of repulsive that I hold near and dear to my arterial clogged heart. Everything is either salty and sour, but there's a depth of flavor that can't be emulated in western food. You got the standard stuff like chicken adobo and and pancit canton, but then you have balut and dinuguan. It's why I deem Filipino food "special occasion" food, I'd send myself and my family to an early grave.

 

[mindlessobserver]

Ethiopian and British

Once again I must defend British food. British food is amazing. The problem is its not good restaurant fare because it cannot easily be made to order and is often very complicated and time consuming.

British food uses the bane of any casual dining facility. The oven. Pies, roasts, stews, and of course they also use perennial herbs like lavender and mint that are fucking hard as balls to source on the regular.

BUT, if you can get it all together and spend the time to do it, it's fucking amazing. Shepard's pie, steak and kidney pie, the vaunted corned beef, roasted lamb, beef wellington, eel pie. And of course the full english breakfast with eggs, toasted whole grain bread, sausage and yorkshire pudding...God tier. Also a good Cornish pasty is the best thing in the world on a cold winters day. Better then a burger.

Most of the shit talk about English Food comes from the French, and they are not a reputable source. They eats sautéed snails after all, and horse.

 

[Dirk Willems]

I had Ethiopian food once, admittedly not in Ethiopia, and honestly I thought injera bread was pretty good. It is spongy and a bit wet, but honestly I like that. Enjoying really sour bread might be a German thing, but I thought it went well with everything else. Can't really deny that stewed meat in a dark sauce does kind of look like literal shit, but you can't put that entirely on one country. Plus you're only looking at a picture, when it's in front of you, it smells like meat and your brain never goes there. Or maybe it does, I dunno. Weirdo.

candians all the eat is maple syrup and french fries with sauce and cheese on them.

This is true though. The only reason Canadian food isn't the worst is because we barely have any. Regional parts of Canada have some pretty good stuff, butter tarts in particular are something everyone should try, but Canada as a whole barely has anything distinct to it.

Going through the Wikipedia page, I see mostly ingredients from a particular region, and foods brought over from elsewhere. Having lots of Indian people here does not mean curry is a Canadian food.

The only real Canadian foods I see are:

• Bannock - dry and flavourless, but can be good if you modernize it
• California Roll - I hate sushi, can't comment
• Poutine - delicious, but only if it's made with good ingredients
• Butter Tarts - amazing
• Maple Syrup - the best pancake topping, but not really useful in much else
• Nanaimo Bars - alright, maybe a bit too sweet sometimes, nothing to write home about
• Fucking Tim Hortons

And that's it. That's every Canadian food. There's good Quebec food, good B.C. food, good Manitoban food, but like three good Canadian foods total.

 

[Otterly]

I really have to stand up for British food.
Yorkshire pudding - stuff of the gods.
Welshcakes
Tattie scones
Proper scones with clotted cream
Cawl
Scottish salmon, scallops fresh from the loch, seaweed.
Bakewell tart
Proper sausages
Fish and chips
There’s a lot of great food in the uk. Ok, if you’re in slough and eating from a kebab shop, you’re not going to see the best, and we do have a habit of deep frying everything, but we do have some good things.
French food is bloody awful. I remember my first trip as a kid in the 80s and being served stewed chunks of horse, wet tomato salad and prune and lard pie. Seriously foul.
Vietnamese food is amazing. Trad Polynesian stuff is great too. Nigerian and Ethiopian is pretty unpleasant, although I’ll admit by experience of both is uni housemates who were insane (one used to butcher and grill meat in her bedroom…)

 

[Quantum Diabetes]

Ethiopian and British

Would you like some grease, with potatoes in it?

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

So I ran into this online today.
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Edible bird's nest - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Apparently the Chinese eat these birds' nests which are literally made from birds' spit.

Yeah, they eat gross weird shit because they're a gross weird people.

 

[Windows 10 Upgrade]

I think theres a big cultural and genetic component in what we even can eat.

I LOVE ethoiopian, Indian and Middle Eastern Food, but this is because my Mother (RIP) couldn't cook and all her food was "shitty British stews with no spice", so an actual tasty food was a revelation. She would also try and microwave meat.

Ethnic enclaves were cheap rentals back in the day, so when I finally got out of the home I had to live in the suburb of the Arabs/Indians who know how to cook food, and I can fortunately tolerate spices.

Some people do genuinely have a visceral negative reaction to cardamom and coriander etc, apparently it can be genetic. So you can see them not liking those foods which contain them - pretty much every eastern or Northern African food.

As for ethnic food I don't like: Japanese was a learned experience - I thought it was too salty and everything was teriaki flavoured, that might have been what was available in my country at the time.

Vietnamese is "starvation cuisine". It's a bowl of hot water when someone opens a soup packet in the next room. The nicer Viet food tends to be taken from Chinese and Thai appropriation.

I haven't ever had the Northern European/Swedish cuisine but from this thread I would have a miserable time of it.

 

[Skitterways]

Or maybe you didn't know that they eat the fucking genitals of sheep.

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