How Americans see Europe

Yep, that's the stuff, but it's almost never available here in Finland excluding 1dl flasks in few selected stores, and making it yourself is cheaper

 

Damn, that does sound good!

 

You're going to have to provide a birth certificate!

 

Germany and shitty food? Who the fuck wrote this? It's not only wrong, I've never even heard of that meme...

 

Germany's cuisine ranges from amazing to terrible. This is not surprising. English food is limited to horrible while France is largely "butter."
Spain and Italy kick butt and All things North (Norway, Holland, Finland) aren't worth mentioning. (ludafisk? come on!)

 

Well, maybe. Thing is that this meme is news to me. And I don't really know anything I would classify as "terrible", either.

 

Hogan's Heroes

 

Pub food in Germany can (and in the US *is*) be greasy speztle and soft veggies like the UK...and white asparagus that is stringy, etc. Basically you can get "bad" German food. No surprise.

 

I love german food, where else in the world can you go into a restaurant and get a whole chicken (no vegetables etc)
The germans + some central european countries know about making decent food.Whilst it mightnt be the healthiest fare available its certainly the tastiest
Last year a german restaurant opened up where I live, Ive been about 4 times so far, Sometimes youve just gotta get your fix of schlager
http://www.harlequin.co.nz/menu/Restaurants/Krauts.asp

 

Well, I guess the problem is that I actually am German and don't consider that (greasy) stuff "German food" - funnily enough, I usually associate "greasy" with American food. And like I said, while I know that many memes usually aren't all that grounded in reality, I've never even heard of that particular meme. That was my main point.

By the way, white asparagus isn't all that bad either. If it's done the way it's meant to be.

 

Holland = "north"??? Scotland's more north than holland! Holy crap, Mize c'mon!

As for northern cuisine, I dunno where or what you've been eating, but there's lots of delicious Scandinavian food. Maybe your "ludafisk" (wtf? *texan accent* "I'd like some ludafisk, silver plate!" ) wasn't properly prepared. Then again, not everybody likes lutfisk; you should come to my city, Göteborg, and go to Sjömagasinet and have some real, fresh fish. It's an internationally recognized high-class seafood restaurant.

We're good at salmon and mackerel, herring - and not just pickled; fried fresh herring coated in crumbs, mashed potatoes and lingonberry jam is somewhat of a national dish over here. Absolutely delicious!

Or Sjöbaren, which is less pretentious - although not less in any other way - in the intimate city district of Haga. Come a warm summer evening, sit outside. If you're lucky the boy's choir upstairs will have a practice session that day and you'll get to listen to their beautiful singing.

Of course, scandinavia isn't all fish. We got moose, reindeer, lots of succulent animals walking our forests just waiting to be shot, gutted and expertly prepared. Carolus Rex imported Turkish wine-leaf dumplings to Sweden during the 1700s (which explains why he's now become the figure-head of right-winger nationalists...HMMM! ), they also go well with lingonberry jam.

Oh, and don't dis Holland's cuisine either. They make excellent pancakes over there. Some of the best I ever had in fact. They sure beat French crepes, I might add. Of course, the best pancakes I ever had are my own...heh.

 

the cakes you can buy in the local coffee shops are very moreish

 

you obviously havent lived there (true some cakes are ok)
but heres a brief rundown of the dutch staple diet (I may forget a couple)
boerkool - cabbage with potatoe mashed + sausage

rodekool - red cabbage with mashed potatoe + sausage (occasionally some apple saus as well)

hutspot - carrot + potatoe mashed with sausage

zuurkool - sauerkraut +potatoe mashed with sausage

stamppot endive (some sort of cabbage, dont know in english) with mashed potatoe and sausage

theres a couple more, but you get the idea

 

Haha, well, I like sassidge + mashed potatoes, so that's FINE with me! At least if it's a nice kapruner bockwurst, or maybe an emmenthaler käsekrainer....... YUM!

Sauerkraut is fine too. Goes VERY well with some nicely grilled turkish gyro meat!

 

Of course i know dutch cuisine, i dine at Febo............
behold the magnificence


ps: zed who taught you how to spell, Dan Quale

 

You obviously have never tried reindeer

Couple small examples of great finnish cuisine:


Coldsmoked reindeer, leipäjuusto ("bread cheese") & lingonberry salad




Karjalanpiirakka

 

That's "Dan Quayle", actually...

However, we know what you really meant. Btw Zed, the unknown cabbage in your picture looks kinda like broccoli, which I like. A lot, actually. Goes really great with other veggie stuff in various thai wok dishes! Plus, it's quite healthy food too.

 

I can imagine a lot of redneck Americans from say Texas or Oklahoma or Texas seeing rodekool on a menu and deciding to get that thinking it's like their own famous cuisine back home.

 

not broccoli but
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endive
or
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witloof (this is about the only one of the dishes thats not that tasty)
By coincidence I made a broccoli/mince pizza last night (broccoli season ATM so its cheap in the supermarkets)

 

yeah, but they have scotch!

So just get the lingonberry jam. Check.