What culture has the worst cuisine?

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Anonitolia said:
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 :cryblood:
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Are you ESL or just a bit dull? I wasn't trying to convince anyone to eat Thai with that video, I posted it because it was disgusting. I was advising people to stick to savory curries in my post, which you apparently didn't read.
 
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The Blue Morpho said:
Are you ESL or just a bit dull? I wasn't trying to convince anyone to eat Thai with that video, I posted it because it was disgusting. I was advising people to stick to savory curries in my post, which you apparently didn't read.
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The latter, and sticking to curries doesn't change the content of my post since I don't like curries either. Thai ones specifically are weirdly bland. No real way you could've known that, but regardless.
 
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The Blue Morpho said:
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.
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I actually love both, Indian and Malay. Korma is probably my least favorite of Indian dishes, it's overly sweet and doesn't have much flavour. Karahi, Jalfrezi and Rogan Josh are probably my favorite from the Indian kitchen, and laksa from Malaysia.

But they are all western versions of these cuisines I'm familiar with so I don't know how much they differ from the original local ones.
 
RussianBlonde said:
I actually love both, Indian and Malay. Korma is probably my least favorite of Indian dishes, it's overly sweet and doesn't have much flavour. Karahi, Jalfrezi and Rogan Josh are probably my favorite from the Indian kitchen, and laksa from Malaysia.

But they are all western versions of these cuisines I'm familiar with so I don't know how much they differ from the original local ones.
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I like korma because its very creamy. I've had rogan josh before and liked it. I also like saag paneer/aloo/chana/etc. Vindaloo has a nice flavor but almost every time Ive had it the sauce was too thin. Butter chicken is also very delicious when done well. But this is a tiny fraction of all of Indian cuisine and most things I like from it tend to be similar to these. I've a friend who swears by biryani but I've never given it a shot because it looks boring.
 
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So

Conditionally Honduran and Russian.

This is some of the most delicious foods you can ever taste, but you do NOT want to know how it's made.
 
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By the way, I personally haven't been, but literally every person that i know who traveled to Bolivia said that country has the worst food imaginable. Two friends of mine who went backpacking there for few weeks came back 10kg lighter, they were unable to stomach anything other than boiled vegetables.
 
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Chechen cuisine. That's sort of an obscure one, isn't it? Let Wikipedia set the tone:

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Which is an odd one, because I am a big fan of slavic cuisine. I know, they aren't slavs, but they're definitely in the cultural sphere.
 
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I've had the privilege of living upstairs from a multitude of transient rainbow people from every corner of the globe, here are my findings, from a western (aus) perspective:

Indians: Disgusting spicies, waking me up (everyday, still) at 6am with a breakfast of 18 spices and whatever, chicken or beef, want to gag (but when they invite me to dinner, tastes pretty yummy)

Chinese: Strange smells of animals and herbs I don't know about, still gross but better than Indian spicies. (chinese would never invite me to dinner)

Jap: Smells really good like Euro food, fried breaded chicken etc. no complaints. Very polite and cool dudes.

Arab: Mostly neutral spicy meat smells, great Turkish style kafwa smell. We all know arab meat and rice is good. although this dude would flip out about pigs and dogs, not assimilated.

Baltic: Cool dudes, normal yummy food.
 
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I have never understood Jamaican food being popular. All it seems to be is jerk chicken and rice.
To be fair mabey I just have not found a really good place, but I just don't get it.
 
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A lot of "Authentic Mexican" food is just salty garbage that relies on you being drunk to enjoy it. Many such cases of restaurants that do some variation of a tortilla, cheap cheese and bean paste. It's not disgusting, but just super underwhelming.

Doesn't help people at work functions love doing lunches there.
 
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Doesn't help people at work functions love doing lunches there.
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Had to clean an office before that constantly had Chipotle and other Mexican takeout parties. I would have hated working there being subjected to that cheap trash twice a week.

I think I permanently associate Chipotle, Starbucks, and Chick-fil-A with garbage because of when I was a custodian, lol.

On the topic of Greek food: I hate olives. Never really had Greek anything but olives taste like little salty fermented assholes so I wouldn't like it anyway. Tsatsiki is gross too.
 
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Shek$il said:
A lot of "Authentic Mexican" food is just salty garbage that relies on you being drunk to enjoy it. Many such cases of restaurants that do some variation of a tortilla, cheap cheese and bean paste. It's not disgusting, but just super underwhelming.

Doesn't help people at work functions love doing lunches there.
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I like water Mexican but I can't stand land Mexican.
Seafood? Yes. Ceviche? Gimme.
Inland food? No thanks.
 
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Powerlevel here but my birth mother is from West Africa and so I've grown up eating quite a lot of it. Let me tell you, it's horrific.

A lot of it was just greasy garbage sat in oil but not seasoned much beyond destroyed in chili. Boiled chicken feet, boiled pigs feet, boiled pig's tails, and unseasoned baby octopi in a "sauce" of oil and spinach. Peanut butter sauce, also dripping with oil.

One dish that stood out to me was this "classic" west African dish called fufu.

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Which is like a clump of dough you eat with some dipping sauce. Probably just oil.
 
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Midwestern United States. Hands down. Ground meat, cheese and tomato is about as good as it gets. Everything else is meat charred to being a charcoal briquette or vegetables that have had the evetloving shit boiled out of them. All that's left is grease drippings lightly garnished with the remains of food.
 
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