What culture has the worst cuisine?

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Thinking more in the direction of their land food then seafood. But then I really do like cured meats, mustards and potato anything. To be fair though if we are getting right down to it, this may be less "Jewish food" and more central European food made by the Jews who happened to live there. Honest to god Jewish Deli's in the States are god tier food though.
That happens a lot with Jewish food. Sephardi Jewish people have stuff that I don't traditionally associate with Judaism, including hummus. I'm used to stuff like kugel and whitefish salad.

Jewish delis are pretty ballin. There are some good ones around here; I've got some good memories of one in particular.
 
But then I really do like cured meats, mustards and potato anything. To be fair though if we are getting right down to it, this may be less "Jewish food" and more central European food made by the Jews who happened to live there.
inferior copies of inferior copies... stuff like latkes comes from germany, was copied by polish and than copied by jews in poland. its supposed to be fried in the fatty part of cured ham.
the polish didnt have that fat so they use normal lard and the jews dont even use lard.

also Bavarian sweet mustard is the best by far,
 
China is easily one of the worst, although international Chinese restaurants can be really good. Real Chinese people eat Bats, Living Turtles and Living Snails, they even use sewage waste as cooking oil. North Korea is usually pretty bad too. What they serve at AirKoryo is monstrous.
 
More of a meta post, but it proves how much "authentic cuisine" is subsistence shit (goats head, pickled fish, sewage-derived cooking oil, bugs) that's only eaten when one is shit-poor and there's no electricity and any protien has a food source potential, no matter how disgusting.

When cooks from those cultures move to a place with plentiful fresh food, refrigeration and hygiene standards, they often create wholesome and tasty food. There's no need to eat the entire fucking goat and serve the gross head up on a plate when it should have gone into the bin.

English food has a lot of that that - disgusting offal like tripe, liver, kidneys, that needs to be cleaned and given to the pigs.
 
When cooks from those cultures move to a place with plentiful fresh food, refrigeration and hygiene standards, they often create wholesome and tasty food. There's no need to eat the entire fucking goat and serve the gross head up on a plate when it should have gone into the bin.
/Nader Elshamy laughing and excitedly yelling in unintelligible accent/

True for some thankfully. Others... it should be criminal for them to share a wall with the living.
 
Jewish delis are pretty ballin. There are some good ones around here; I've got some good memories of one in particular.
Nothing like a good pastrami on rye with some brown mustard.

A tip for finding a good Jewish deli - there should be absolutely nothing on the menu that has meat with cheese on it, or really any cheese or other dairy products offered in general. It's a huge PITA to separate meat and dairy and comply with kashrut. If it's not kosher, it's not worth going to.
 
Russian food is pretty terrible, but I guess if you're a nation of drunks you don't notice that the only noticeable flavor in your food is dill.
I still like it though, dill, sour cream, mustard, vodka, buckwheat, excessive amounts of sugar in tea: they're great flavors that go great together. Maybe I've just got shit taste.
 
Dutch has been brought up before, but I want to bring it up again in the vain hope of getting through to my countrymen that things need to change.

If you google "Dutch food" you're likely going to see the things we do well. Candy, liquorice, apple pie, and deep fried snacks. Americans always get shit for deep frying everything, but somehow we, your colonial ancestor, can get away with having deep fried cheese as one of our staple snacks.
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The deep fried cheeses are the wavy ones just above the red cylinder ones. They're delicious. When in The Netherlands, grab some "bittergarnituur" and a beer, and prepare to consume thousands of calories in a couple of minutes. However, this is not "cuisine." This is barely "food."

So what's for dinner?
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Winter vegetables, smoked meats, gravy. Don't be fooled by that last image, "hutspot" does not have any peppers or tomatoes in it, that's a carrot-potato-onion mash. I'm not even going to show pictures of "snert" our staple pea soup. If you want the snert experience, grab a dirty t-shirt and smell the armpit.

Prepare to fart.

We clearly have the same problem as many countries listed in this thread. Our traditional food is nothing but poverty and winter survival food, and we eat it because our parents eat it, and their parents ate it. Anyone with any sense has branched out their cooking to our neighbors or former colonies, but this can be seen as "bougie" rather than an attempt to avoid culinary torture.
 
Dutch has been brought up before, but I want to bring it up again in the vain hope of getting through to my countrymen that things need to change.

If you google "Dutch food" you're likely going to see the things we do well. Candy, liquorice, apple pie, and deep fried snacks. Americans always get shit for deep frying everything, but somehow we, your colonial ancestor, can get away with having deep fried cheese as one of our staple snacks.
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The deep fried cheeses are the wavy ones just above the red cylinder ones. They're delicious. When in The Netherlands, grab some "bittergarnituur" and a beer, and prepare to consume thousands of calories in a couple of minutes. However, this is not "cuisine." This is barely "food."

So what's for dinner?
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Winter vegetables, smoked meats, gravy. Don't be fooled by that last image, "hutspot" does not have any peppers or tomatoes in it, that's a carrot-potato-onion mash. I'm not even going to show pictures of "snert" our staple pea soup. If you want the snert experience, grab a dirty t-shirt and smell the armpit.

Prepare to fart.

We clearly have the same problem as many countries listed in this thread. Our traditional food is nothing but poverty and winter survival food, and we eat it because our parents eat it, and their parents ate it. Anyone with any sense has branched out their cooking to our neighbors or former colonies, but this can be seen as "bougie" rather than an attempt to avoid culinary torture.
I must know what those red cylinders are. Also, what are the other goodies there as well.
 
Dutch has been brought up before, but I want to bring it up again in the vain hope of getting through to my countrymen that things need to change.

If you google "Dutch food" you're likely going to see the things we do well. Candy, liquorice, apple pie, and deep fried snacks. Americans always get shit for deep frying everything, but somehow we, your colonial ancestor, can get away with having deep fried cheese as one of our staple snacks.
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The deep fried cheeses are the wavy ones just above the red cylinder ones. They're delicious. When in The Netherlands, grab some "bittergarnituur" and a beer, and prepare to consume thousands of calories in a couple of minutes. However, this is not "cuisine." This is barely "food."

So what's for dinner?
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Winter vegetables, smoked meats, gravy. Don't be fooled by that last image, "hutspot" does not have any peppers or tomatoes in it, that's a carrot-potato-onion mash. I'm not even going to show pictures of "snert" our staple pea soup. If you want the snert experience, grab a dirty t-shirt and smell the armpit.

Prepare to fart.

We clearly have the same problem as many countries listed in this thread. Our traditional food is nothing but poverty and winter survival food, and we eat it because our parents eat it, and their parents ate it. Anyone with any sense has branched out their cooking to our neighbors or former colonies, but this can be seen as "bougie" rather than an attempt to avoid culinary torture.
What's the difference between any deep fried cheese, and a common mozzerella stick?
 
Toss up between Czech and the Eastern Baltics. Czech bread dumplings are just... terrible and annoying enough for me to shit on the whole "cuisine". Tatranky are bomb-ass, though, tbf.

Reindeer sausage and rough bread (Estonia) and Grey peas stew with buttermilk (Latvia) made me hate those damp, broke-ass places until I realized they both also had Uzbek food.
 
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I must know what those red cylinders are. Also, what are the other goodies there as well.
The red cylinders and the nearby orbs are called "kroketten" (croquettes) and "bitterballen" (bitterballs) respectively. I just learned today that the term bitter in bittergarnituur and bitterbal refers to the strong cocktail that traditionally accompanied it. They would usually come with a jenever (juniper gin) spiced with bitter herbs. Ironically, this is probably healthier than consuming them with beer and more beer, as we do nowadays.

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They are traditionally filled with a beef ragout, however you can get them filled with a ragout of chicken, mushrooms, lamb, etc. The red color usually indicates that the contents may be spicy, probably Thai or Indonesian inspired. Ironically, Dutch people like to shit on them and claim they are filled with mystery meats, saying "don't ask what's in it." But if you actually filled them with the mystery meat parts of animals you don't typically eat, you may end up with something more nutritious than these indulgent snacks.

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The wrinkly thing at the far side of the bittergarnituur picture is an abomination known as a frikandel. It is a deep fried, skinless sausage. No flour, no egg, no spiced ragout. Invented in the 50s, the creator was told he cannot legally call this a gehaktbal (meatball) and hence the weird name. Dutch people actually eat this and consider it a treat.

What's the difference between any deep fried cheese, and a common mozzerella stick?
Good question! I thought it was mainly the larger size and the fact that it uses Gouda instead of mozzarella, but a "kaassoufflé" is actually deep fried dough stuffed with cheese.
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You can see the dough separating from the cheese and the breading. Healthy! I read that you can use frozen pastry dough for this if you want to make one yourself.
 
Dutch has been brought up before, but I want to bring it up again in the vain hope of getting through to my countrymen that things need to change.

If you google "Dutch food" you're likely going to see the things we do well. Candy, liquorice, apple pie, and deep fried snacks. Americans always get shit for deep frying everything, but somehow we, your colonial ancestor, can get away with having deep fried cheese as one of our staple snacks.
View attachment 3670291
The deep fried cheeses are the wavy ones just above the red cylinder ones. They're delicious. When in The Netherlands, grab some "bittergarnituur" and a beer, and prepare to consume thousands of calories in a couple of minutes. However, this is not "cuisine." This is barely "food."

So what's for dinner?
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Winter vegetables, smoked meats, gravy. Don't be fooled by that last image, "hutspot" does not have any peppers or tomatoes in it, that's a carrot-potato-onion mash. I'm not even going to show pictures of "snert" our staple pea soup. If you want the snert experience, grab a dirty t-shirt and smell the armpit.

Prepare to fart.

We clearly have the same problem as many countries listed in this thread. Our traditional food is nothing but poverty and winter survival food, and we eat it because our parents eat it, and their parents ate it. Anyone with any sense has branched out their cooking to our neighbors or former colonies, but this can be seen as "bougie" rather than an attempt to avoid culinary torture.
So are you trying to humblebrag here? You could have just made a thread about good cuisine in that case.
 
So are you trying to humblebrag here? You could have just made a thread about good cuisine in that case.
They asked, so I wanted to answer. Here, have some more pictures of dinner to make up for it,

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I honestly don't know what this is

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here is your snert

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mmm snert yes don't you want your pea mush
 
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