What culture has the worst cuisine?

[Return of the Freaker]

australians and frenchmen

What even is Aussie cuisine? Not counting Abo bush tucker and cannibalism with a glass of methanol

 

[mindlessobserver]

What even is Aussie cuisine? Not counting Abo bush tucker and cannibalism with a glass of methanol

Vegemite sandwiches, canned Bourbon and Coke and a ciggy

 

[Screamer_2]

Vegemite sandwiches, canned Bourbon and Coke and a ciggy

Nah mate. You get a tin can. Boil some creek water with a couple of gum tree leaves for some tea.

Then get some flour, some salt and some water. Make a shitty dough. Wrap it around the end of a branch. Hold it over the fire to cook.

They unironically do this to show tourists Aussie cuisine in the bush.

 

[Art School Admissions]

Traditional Japanese food. Everything is so bland. The only sushi with flavor are the westernized ones.

Wasabi is good on prime rib though.

 

[RussianBlonde]

I spent a couple of years in Poland, and it's really weird. A lot of the cuisine is great in theory, but the traditional way of preparing it ruins it. Pierogi, for instance. The people I met just sort of warm it up in a pan with butter, so you end up with slimy dumplings devoid of taste you chase around your plate with a fork. I remember actually making pierogi myself - Searing them off in a hot frying pan so they went nice and crispy on the outside totally made them edible, like gyoza with potatoes.

The ultra-Polish-Catholic Christmas food fucking blew though. Thirteen courses of fish and they all sucked ass. Especially the sixth course of fucking carp I'm sure was just the family I was with trolling the dirty foreigner. The cakes afterwards were nice though, and I don't really have a sweet tooth.

You made pierogi yourself? From the scratch? Because that's how they are normally made in our households. It's a lot of work so I'm guessing you just heated them up the way you liked it aka pan fried. The thing about pierogi is that they are quite versatile, in my house my mom and my grandmas would boil the pierogi (with meat or cabbage &mushrooms) and then sprinkle them with pork scratchings . In the summer wed eat sweet pierogi stuffed with fruit (ie blueberries) and topped with cream.

Pierogi are not supposed to be like gyoza, I actually prefer them soft boiled because not every carb in the world is meant to be fried or deep fried and crunchy and golden. The flavour is there but it's subtle and if you're used to drowning everything you eat in tons of herbs and spices you will find Polish cuisine pretty bland.

When i was a kid Christmas fried carp was my favorite thing. Also our Christmas bigos (sauerkraut stew with mushrooms) is not the best looking thing but it's one of the best Polish dishes imo.

 

[RussianBlonde]

Eastern Europe. Everything is just bland versions of better food, or it's just plain fucking disgusting.

Pelmeni is just bland ravioli or potstickers. Chebureki is just a bland calzone or Navajo Taco. Borscht is just fucking generic beef soup with beets in it. Holodets is bland headcheese which somehow looks worse. All the rice dishes like Plov are just bland versions of shit from Sandnigger land. Sarma are just bland Dolmathes. Half of everything else looks like it comes from the same hell that Hurgin does.

Indian is garbage too. It's like Thai food but you dumped the entire spice rack in it then digested it and shit it out on a plate.

Cheburek, just like Azerbaijani kutab, is usually thin and filled with meat or herbs. Calzone is oven baked, cheburek or kutab are fried with or without oil. Also, literally every culture in the world has a dough pocket that's baked or fried and filled with something.

Holodets is not hardcheese, it's literally a meat or fish dish in gelatine.

Also, who the hells compares Thai to Indian? Thai flavours combine sweet, sour, salty and spicy. Thai kitchen uses fresh herbs and coconut milk, Indian kitchen uses ground spices and yoghurt. And that's generalizing since their cuisine vary greatly between regions like north / south.

 

[GatorAids]

Cheburek, just like Azerbaijani kutab, is usually thin and filled with meat or herbs. Calzone is oven baked, cheburek or kutab are fried with or without oil. Also, literally every culture in the world has a dough pocket that's baked or fried and filled with something.

Holodets is not hardcheese, it's literally a meat or fish dish in gelatine.

Also, who the hells compares Thai to Indian? Thai flavours combine sweet, sour, salty and spicy. Thai kitchen uses fresh herbs and coconut milk, Indian kitchen uses ground spices and yoghurt. And that's generalizing since their cuisine vary greatly between regions like north / south.

Headcheese, not hardcheese you mongoloid. Cheburek is flavorless meat fried in flavorless bread. Calzone is flavorful meat baked with flavorful sauce and dough. Every slav that dies of starvation isn't a tragedy, it is divine justice. If your best dish is beef soup you've mangled into looking like pepto bismol you deserve to die of starvation.

 

[RussianBlonde]

Headcheese, not hardcheese you mongoloid. Cheburek is flavorless meat fried in flavorless bread. Calzone is flavorful meat baked with flavorful sauce and dough. Every slav that dies of starvation isn't a tragedy, it is divine justice. If your best dish is beef soup you've mangled into looking like pepto bismol you deserve to die of starvation.

Lmao and holodet still ain't that, you're gonna criticize something at least learn what is it that you're criticizing because I see you haven't got a clue. Calzone is a fucking folded pizza, I can tell from your post you're most likely morbidly obese American he-boon, or greasy American Italian called Joey, whos taste buds aren't working since he can't tell the difference between Thai and Indian and describes folded pizza as "flavourful meat".

Jump on your mobility scooter and go get yourself some calzone and "flavorful" fried chicken and leave discussions about food to those who are a little bit more cultured than you, newfag.

 

[RomeoBravo]

I’d probably say American, simply because of how unhealthy it always seems to be

 

[Donnyy]

Once I happened to live in Kyrgyzstan with natives in the village, and they cooked for me. You know, I lost 7 some weight there because I ate only fruits and eggs. I couldn't eat pilaf - it's so fat! They put fat in their baked goods instead of meat. The plates cannot be washed because they are very greasy. My body could not cope with so much lamb fat in food. I also do not like zira, which is put in almost any dish.
But the fruits are fantastic.

 

[Rendang]

Thread tax:
In North Sulawesi, the Minahasan (or Manado) people are one of the few Indonesians that sided with the Dutch during the national revolution, wanting to join the kingdom in 1947. Because of this, they do have some western influence. A big highlight is klappertaart; you make a big macaroon, but you added rum and produced a custard. Highly recommended, and easy to make.

However, the quick adoption of Christianity and rejection of Islam is apparent in the "interesting" culture the Manado have. Thanks to the abundant jungles, the Manado have thrived on foraging, developing a cuisine (until recently) unaffected by domesticated animals. Because of this, they believe eating the most exotic bush meat is a sign of prestige: Jungle rat, bats, snakes, dogs and even cats can be found from butchers. You have gems like Paniki (curried bat),

Spoiler: bat wings

Tikus Paggang (grilled rat),

Spoiler: rats on a stick

and "Rintek Wuuk" (literaly translates to fine hair, but is just dog meat).

Spoiler: dead whole dogs

It really makes my stomach churn on how crazy tribal cuisine can be.

Spoiler: off topic: responding to the Dutch

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.

Attempting to actually cook some good Indonesian food outside the islands can be difficult, and very "bougie" at times. A few spices (candlenuts, galangal, Indonesian bay leaf) are mostly exclusive to Indonesian cooking, so it's necessary to find a Indonesian import store. These are vital for most dishes, and the spice base can get absurdly complex. Rendang should have over 10 spices; if you don't, you'll never make a good rendang It has no complexity. Through 1000s of years of cultural evolution, Indonesian can differentiate the sad curry disguised as a delicious national dish. All the complements on your watery-diarrhea is half-hearted, and your peers will jeer behind you.. And then you have to slow cook the dish overnight. It is bougie.

I do admit, there are plenty of dishes you can easily make without these spices, especially from Chinese-Indonesian origin. Mun tahu, mi ayam, or mi baso are simple but delicious picks. Sop Buntut (Ox-tail soup) is simply heavenly. I wish the Dutch people well to escape their gastric war crimes.

 

[Paul Atreides]

Thai food.

 

[Twat Waffle]

Most African food (aside from cuisine in like, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia...) most of it is slop with the same tomato-onion-maggi cube base, eaten with giant balls of glue. It's troll food. I also think Indian food is vastly overrated with its perfume-level spices & again, mainly slop. I will break for like, chicken Korma and naan, but there's a lot of hot, perfumed slop going on.

 

[The Blue Morpho]

Most African food (aside from cuisine in like, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia...) most of it is slop with the same tomato-onion-maggi cube base, eaten with giant balls of glue. It's troll food. I also think Indian food is vastly overrated with its perfume-level spices & again, mainly slop. I will break for like, chicken Korma and naan, but there's a lot of hot, perfumed slop going on.

I like the peanut sauces in African food but otherwise I agree.

On Indian food I also mostly agree. There are a handful of dishes I simp for (Korma being one of them) but most of them aren't really worth anyone's time. In my experience Malay food is superior to Indian food in almost every regard.

 

[Lady Bizness]

Traditional Japanese food. Everything is so bland. The only sushi with flavor are the westernized ones.

Wasabi is good on prime rib though.

While I was there a lifetime ago, all the talento we're saying "mayonnaise" was their favorite food. It must have been so exotic to them.

Bland I can handle, but it's the texture of things. Too many cartilaginous cuts of meat, too many dishes with chewy mollusc chunks in it. Don't even get me started on umeboshi and natto. I know westerners who claim to love that stuff, but I can't be in the same room with it.

 

[Camo Fox]

Thai food.

Thai food fucking stinks but it tastes glorious

 

[Anonitolia]

Shocked that there're only 2 other mentions of greek food here. Every single time i've tried it i've just hated it. Never liked any of the ingredients, never liked the end result, and yet my parents insist it's the best thing ever and it's their go-to take-out shit. Abhorrent.

Thai gets an honorary mention for always being in a weird zone between too sweet and too sour or bland. It's incredible how their food always tastes wrong somehow. I'm sure if I had some super high-quality Thai I'd actually like it, though, unlike Greek.
Can't comment on Ethiopian because I've never had it, Chinese is just okay, and the only British thing i've ever had was Fish and Chips which I really liked.

 

[OrangeJuliusEvola]

Traditional Japanese food. Everything is so bland. The only sushi with flavor are the westernized ones.

Wasabi is good on prime rib though.

To be fair, I was "meh" about traditional Japanese food until I lived in Japan. Then I understood it. Now I fucking hate most Japanese food you get outside Japan.

The secret of Japanese food is to be so autistic about it you spend years just learning the right way to do something it takes an hour to learn to do "good enough", like boil rice. Never take any shortcuts and never do substitutions, no matter how small.

 

[The Blue Morpho]

Thai food can be good but you really need to stick to the white-people friendly dishes most of the time. Laab salad was completely inedible to my white taste buds last time I tried it, but their curries are very delicious. I'm pretty sure this is that same region where the paddy-apes eats those big disgusting coconut grubs live.

Shocked that there're only 2 other mentions of greek food here. Every single time i've tried it i've just hated it. Never liked any of the ingredients, never liked the end result, and yet my parents insist it's the best thing ever and it's their go-to take-out shit. Abhorrent.

The word you are looking for to describe Greek/Meditteranean food is "pungent." And I strongly disagree that its gross, but I can absolutely understand why some people might think that. Its smelly, pungent food. Kalamata olives and feta cheese and baba ganoush and hummus and falafel and dolmas and spiced lamb kebab. My mouth is watering just typing this.

Its also quite nutritious and good for you from what I understand.

 

[Anonitolia]

The word you are looking for to describe Greek/Meditteranean food is "pungent." [...] It's smelly, pungent food.

I mean, kind of, but not really? I'm talking a lot more about the taste. I don't care much about the smell, it's the actual food that just isn't for me.
Also I don't think posting an "inspirational" video about eating worms is gonna convince me to give Thai another chance, sorry dude