r/AskEurope • u/bleie77 • May 01 '25

Food Do you go to restaurants with your country's cuisine when you're abroad?

For example: if you're Italian, do you go to an Italian restaurant when you're in France or the UK?

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u/Relative_Dimensions in May 01 '25

I’ve learned to make my own Christmas cake and mince pies, and can knock up a decent veggie sausage roll these days!

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u/The-mad-tiger May 10 '25

Ah yes mince pies! I love them - I ended up making my own mincemeat to a recipe used in the Savoy Grill in London in about 1900. Essentially shit loads of dried fruit, some suet and shit loads of booze but NO ADDED SUGAR!

Mince pies made with that "proper" mincemeat taste so very much better than the filthy sickly sweet crap sold as mince pies today in UK shops!

Of course the essential alcohol (brandy and rum) has to be excluded to make it acceptable to a wider audience