What culture has the worst cuisine?

[Atli]

If we're just looking at cultures that make real food (that is to say, anywhere except for sub-saharan africa and "indigenous" America), my vote is the balkans. I love balkaners but their food there is the blandest thing on earth. It is literally just bread and meat, usually sosig or lamb. That's it.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

What grants southern cuisine a blanket claim to Mac and cheese, green beans, and fried seafood? Or to categories as general as “soups and stews”? Or casserole, which is French?

Anyway, my exs mom loves cheese straws and gives people homemade tins of cheese straws for the holidays. Cheese straws as also sold fairly often in specialty southern grocery shops, so it was popular where I went.

Maybe it could be good with another 100 years of development, but the Paula Deen type stuff is real

The only differences in mac'n'cheese and green beans between the South and outside of it are that:

Macaroni and cheese is baked, generally with a crust (like, Panko or some other breading) on top of it. I don't know why that is. Because it's baked it's also more solid, unlike the mac'n'cheese you see that's just pasta with a sauce on it. It's eaten like a casserole.

The green beans, and this applies to pretty much every vegetable, are "killed" (boiled with bacon grease) which imparts a smoky and meaty flavor. Some people dislike this because they say it makes the vegetables greasy, I say those people are faggots. Green beans prepared in the Northern style are inedible.

Cornbread: Has the flavor and texture of sawdust because they insist on never adding any sweetener, because cornbread with flavor, why, "That's Yankee cornbread." They even acknowledge that it's inedible on its own, and you have to smother it in butter or sauce to make it edible. The'll spend their entire lives eating dry, flavorless cornbread because they insist that's what Southerners do, because to do otherwise is what Northerners would do.

Southern sweet tea: It's like drinking maple syrup. It's disgustingly sweet. I used to drink my tea sweetened with sugar or honey until I had to work for an extended time in the South a few years back. I got so sick of their sweet tea that I've only had unsweetened tea since then.

That must be a lot of you, then, because the Southern states have the highest obesity rates in America. They also have the highest rates of diabetes and heart disease. It might surprise you to learn that frying everything, covering everything in gravy, and drinking half a pound of sugar with every cup of tea will lead to weight gain.

1. Yeah, because the cornbread is bread, not a desert cake, and is eaten in the same manner you'd eat any other bread (with a condiment on it). If you want to eat dessert then you eat dessert.

2. It's basically the equivalent of drinking soda (the flavor of which is all sugar with a small bit of some herb thrown in), a person should go in with that expectation.

3. People who have good food eat a lot and get fat.
3.

 

[Alex Krycek]

I discovered years ago that the Scottish have Deep Fried Mars Bars, forgot about it, and remembered it was a thing while I’m on a smoke break when a girl said she would happily deep fry anything even a snickers bar.

How in the fuck did anybody think it was a good idea to batter and deep fry a Chocolate Nougat candy bar?

 

[neverendingmidi]

I discovered years ago that the Scottish have Deep Fried Mars Bars, forgot about it, and remembered it was a thing while I’m on a smoke break when a girl said she would happily deep fry anything even a snickers bar.

How in the fuck did anybody think it was a good idea to batter and deep fry a Chocolate Nougat candy bar?

You have obviously never been to a US State fair... deep fried candy bars are definitely a thing. Deep fried snickers are good, as one of those "once a year if I get to the fair" things, like funnel cakes. I've seen deep fried Snickers, Milkyway, 3 Musketeers, Butterfinger, Oreos, Twinkies, Buckeyes...

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

I discovered years ago that the Scottish have Deep Fried Mars Bars, forgot about it, and remembered it was a thing while I’m on a smoke break when a girl said she would happily deep fry anything even a snickers bar.

How in the fuck did anybody think it was a good idea to batter and deep fry a Chocolate Nougat candy bar?

Like neverendingmidi said, they're common US festival junk food, but I think it's a stupid gimmick like wrapping everything in bacon. People deep fry lots of junk that isn't the slightest bit improved by it just because loldeepfry=funny.

I recently ate "deep fried corn" in a restaurant, and I was thinking it would be like breaded corn nuggets or something, nope, they just slapped down regular corn still greasy with vegetable oil in front of me.

 

[Al from Dadeville]

This is the most vile shit I’ve ever personally encountered

 

[ten dollars off]

Chinese food. Not because the concepts are bad, but because when they are serving Americans they often have no reservations about cutting every corner possible to offload subpar or garbage ingredients on customers, and practice reprehensibly low standards of hygiene and cleanliness. If you want a dish made from several day old wilted vegetables and dry overcooked meat cooked in recycled oil that is a dozen uses past its prime, served in nasty and barely rinsed dishes, hit up a stripmall Chinese joint catering to honkies. And if you complain about anything, be prepared for the usual dead eyed stare and blank expression where they feign an inability to understand you until they flip out and try to overwhelm you with incessant, loud rambling until you leave.

 

[PeggieBigCock]

Hands down British & most Chinese

 

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Chinese food. Not because the concepts are bad, but because when they are serving Americans they often have no reservations about cutting every corner possible to offload subpar or garbage ingredients on customers, and practice reprehensibly low standards of hygiene and cleanliness. If you want a dish made from several day old wilted vegetables and dry overcooked meat cooked in recycled oil that is a dozen uses past its prime, served in nasty and barely rinsed dishes, hit up a stripmall Chinese joint catering to honkies. And if you complain about anything, be prepared for the usual dead eyed stare and blank expression where they feign an inability to understand you until they flip out and try to overwhelm you with incessant, loud rambling until you leave.

I still miss the one at my college. I'd order one of their chicken dishes for lunch 1-2 times a week and whatever it was it was super flavorful and juicy. Once there was even something which didn't at all have the texture of chicken, like it was that organ you can find in the chicken thighs (you know which one I mean) getting fried separately or some other meat or god knows what else. It was actually kind of good but not what I expected when I bit into that piece of chicken. I don't think I want to know what it was.

But yeah I'd eat there any day over junk like Panda Express.

 

[Shadfan666xxx000]

It was actually kind of good but not what I expected when I bit into that piece of chicken. I don't think I want to know what it was.

Achually, that was a perfectly edible piece of chicken called an oyster. It's considered the most favorable part of a chicken, especially if you roast it.

 

[Alex Krycek]

You have obviously never been to a US State fair... deep fried candy bars are definitely a thing. Deep fried snickers are good, as one of those "once a year if I get to the fair" things, like funnel cakes. I've seen deep fried Snickers, Milkyway, 3 Musketeers, Butterfinger, Oreos, Twinkies, Buckeyes...

I live in Texas, but I guess I haven’t been to a state fair in quite a long time. Even when I did go it was an excuse to drink beer and ride go-karts and I never bothered looking at any menus that didn’t involve barbecue sandwiches or burgers.

I guess I thought of another one that’s fucking weird, and from my own culture nonetheless. Czechs enjoy the head of sheep and particularly the eyeballs. I’ve never had them (coming from the guy who likes Balut). Supposedly they taste super salty and Smokey I have had the tongue meat which is okay so laying as it’s served with spicy sauerkraut and potato dumplings. Can’t say I’m a fan of the brains though like at all.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

This is the most vile shit I’ve ever personally encountered
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Fuck you
Skyline is a national treasure

For those not in the know, in the Cincinnati area "chili" is a meat sauce (akin to spaghetti sauce) instead of a stew. The Skyline restaurants make a version of spaghetti and meatballs that's:
Spaghetti
Chopped up hot dogs
Chili sauce
String cheese
Oyster shell crackers
Diced onions
Dark red kidney beans

I personally like it better than spaghetti and meatballs.

 

[Flavius Claudius Julianus]

I've eaten a lot of Chinese food, even a few so called 'high end and authentic' places. Chinese food manages to have some of the tastiest and faeces-like dishes in one place.

My biggest issue however is so many dishes are centred around what is undoubtedly poor quality meat - chicken feet, pig's trotters, cow stomach/intestine (and several other kinds of intestine,) and otherwise shitty cuts of otherwise tasty animals.

Chinese people only eat these because they grew up with them. If given a do over, not a single one of them would pick pig's trotters over bacon, or pork cutlet; nobody would choose chicken hearts over breast; nor would anyone order up a plate of grizzled, furry cow stomach over a sirloin steak.

Actually tasty Chinese food though? Hell yeah nigger.

 

[Kršćanin Čendlervic]

Chinese food. Not because the concepts are bad, but because when they are serving Americans they often have no reservations about cutting every corner possible to offload subpar or garbage ingredients on customers, and practice reprehensibly low standards of hygiene and cleanliness. If you want a dish made from several day old wilted vegetables and dry overcooked meat cooked in recycled oil that is a dozen uses past its prime, served in nasty and barely rinsed dishes, hit up a stripmall Chinese joint catering to honkies. And if you complain about anything, be prepared for the usual dead eyed stare and blank expression where they feign an inability to understand you until they flip out and try to overwhelm you with incessant, loud rambling until you leave.

You should see what they serve to their own kind then. It’s even worse.

 

[supermonkeylove]

Italian cuisine is world’s most popular | YouGov

In a survey of 24 countries, pizza and pasta take the top spot – closely followed by Chinese and Japanese cuisine

yougov.co.uk

 

[White_N]

Unconditionally France. Not because they don't have good dishes, but because they are the sodomites of the culinary world. These are people who will offer you to eat snails and frogs, calling it haute cuisine, and they don't even have the excuse of being Asian.

 

[1996 Toyota Camry]

Nigeria or Malaysia

 

[cinnamon doggie]

I hate any and all Asian food. I will eat literally any other culture's food, and every other food group. I'm far from picky. But Asian food is just... awful. I feel like it's the same kind of social contagion thing as "haha bro nooooo I love spicy food I always make them give me REAL spicy not white people spicy broooo". There's no way THIS many people who aren't raised with it actually find it that appetizing.

 

[Anne Hyroe]

I don’t get all of the Indian food hate. I’m sure there are plenty of people who genuinely hate all Indian food but it’s like saying you hate all European food, there’s just too much of a range for most people to adequately judge. The vast majority of India is vegetarian (often including eggs) so if you’re eating meat then it’s likely to be Punjabi (best option) or a Pakistani/Bangladeshi chef calling their food Indian because it’s more widely recognised. For those who don’t want ‘slop on rice’ try a dosa from the South, aloo tikki from the North (often served as a veggie burger alternative), seafood fans should try food from Portuguese-influenced Goa and Kolkata egg rolls are amazing street food from Bengal.

 

[WhatInTheActualFuck]

If we're just looking at cultures that make real food (that is to say, anywhere except for sub-saharan africa and "indigenous" America), my vote is the balkans. I love balkaners but their food there is the blandest thing on earth. It is literally just bread and meat, usually sosig or lamb. That's it.

I feel the same way about a lot of Eastern European food - there are some standout dishes, but a lot of it is pretty depressing.