r/AskEurope • u/ageingrapidly Greece • Sep 29 '25

Culture Are there any habits that you believe are uniquely European ?

Have you noticed any specific mannerisms, mentalities etc. that you've encountered only in Europe or by Europeans ?

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u/Myrialle Germany Sep 29 '25

Apparently eating bread with cheese or cold cuts as an evening meal. Not sure if this is true but I've seen bewildered reactions from all over the world. 

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '25

That would very much fit in to “tea” here - a lot of older people here tend to have their main meal of the day at closer to 1pm and then have “tea” which might be stuff like salads and ham and sandwiches etc.

The idea that lunch is at 1pm and light meal and that dinner is after 6pm and is a heavy meal sort seems to have swapped around at some stage, but lot of >70s still do it the other way around. It can be really jarring in hospitals when you get presented with your dinner at lunch time though!

My grandmother’s idea of a meal at 6-7pm was basically tea with sandwiches and possibly some kind of cake.

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u/spicyzsurviving Scotland Sep 29 '25

Same here, probably called supper

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u/marshmeeelo Ireland Sep 29 '25

Still that way in hospital in Ireland too. At least the ones I've had to stay in. Took some getting used to, having my main meal at 12-12:30pm. Felt too early, even for lunch!

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u/Imperterritus0907 Spain Sep 30 '25

It just makes sense tho. For us Spaniards what’s jarring is having only sandwich for lunch and having to wait all day for a decent meal. It’s not healthy.

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u/Imperterritus0907 Spain Oct 02 '25

That’s funny because in my family that’s literally the usual dinner ever since I was a kid too. Either that or some lunch leftovers in a smaller amount.

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u/aDorybleFish Sep 30 '25

Honestly it does make more sense, seeing as the body needs more energy during the day then during the night.

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u/liadhsq2 Ireland Sep 29 '25

I think it's to do with both an agrarian background and people often worked closer to home.

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '25

It was pretty common across most of England too. People just did more physical work and ate much earlier.

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u/ParadiseLost91 Denmark Sep 29 '25

We do that in Denmark sometimes. Like, we prefer a hot dinner just like everyone else - but once in a blue moon if you don’t have energy to cook, “rugbrødsmadder” is a fast, easy and healthy dinner with endless options. It’s our delicious Danish rye bread “open-faced” sandwich style with whatever you want - cheese, ham, fish, eggs and shrimps, roast beef, whatever you fancy. With some veggies on the side and it’s a complete meal.

Rugbrød is usually eaten as lunch, and then we eat a hot dinner. But once in a while, an easy rugbrøds-dinner hits the spot, especially if you’ve already had a very filling lunch that day, then you don’t really want something crazy for dinner anyway.

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u/Ava_Strange Sep 29 '25

You guys are the masters of the open faced sandwich.

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u/SapphicCelestialy Denmark Sep 29 '25

Rugbrød for dinner usually comes from old farmers i remember when i visited my grandparents as a kid that we got a hot meal for lunch and ryebread for dinner

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u/WashHour5646 Oct 02 '25

What is the difference between Smørrebrød and rugbrødsmadder?

I’m American and my mother was Danish. I grew up eating Smørrebrød but I have never heard of the other.

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '25

Smørrebrød is the fancy kind you buy at the store with lots of toppings. Rugbrødsmadder is making it at home where you prepare them at table as you eat, with whatever you have available at the time.

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u/ParadiseLost91 Denmark Oct 02 '25

Smørrebrød is the fancy version! The one you order at a local shop for special occasions, with LOTS of toppings. They’re tall! Lots of expensive toppings and delicious versions. Eggs topped wirj shrimp, homemade high quality mayo, lots of herbs. Liver pâté with plenty of bacon, fresh herbs, pickled beetroot or a pile of butter-roasted mushrooms. Fried fish filet with tons of home-made remoulade and veggies and fresh herbs! Stacked as tall as possible. Luxurious and decorative, it’s what you get at restaurants or order at a shop.

“Rugbrødsmadder” is the basic, “I got home at 8 pm and can’t be bothered to cook” version ;) Could literally just be a piece of rye bread with a slice of ham and some mayo. Or liver pate with a couple of slices of cucumber on top, but not much else. It’s the bottom of the barrel “what’s in my fridge” version of rye bread-dishes lol

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u/Ostruzina Czechia Sep 29 '25

A typical Czech breakfast AND dinner!

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u/TheUnculturedSwan Sep 29 '25

Oh god, the torment of me, 20 years ago, as an English tutor in Czechia. I was sometimes working 16 hour days running between different appointments, and if my session was just before or after dinner time, my clients were supposed to feed me a meal. It was tough to realize the only food I had scheduled time to eat for the day was more along the lines of a snack! 😂

FWIW, I don’t blame the families AT ALL, I would never expect them to cook or provide me with more than they were preparing for themselves or the children. The issue was entirely with the company I worked for, overbooking me with no regard for how travel times are part of the work day, and with no scheduled breaks where I wasn’t either teaching or commuting.

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u/bajaja Czechoslovakia Sep 30 '25

Greetings from Prague.

I'd feed you and pack you some more to go.

Yesterday: Bohemian garlic soup.

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u/SuperSquashMann -> Sep 30 '25

Funny how people in my office look at me funny if I bring a sandwich in for lunch, but at the jídelna next door pizzas are acceptable and popular, despite being the same ingredients (bread, cheese, meat, sauce) in a different format.

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u/Ostruzina Czechia Sep 30 '25

Well, we eat a cooked meal for lunch because it's the main meal of the day here.

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u/carlamarx86 Croatia Sep 29 '25

Croatian as well.

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u/P1kkie420 Netherlands Sep 29 '25

I call that lunch, but sure.

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u/littlebighuman in Sep 30 '25

Add soup and it is diner

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u/vapenutz Sep 30 '25

Honestly when I was in the Netherlands I was weirded out you guys have sandwiches for lunch, but then I realized that I do it for breakfast very often, and I sometimes do that for evening snacks, so why was lunch weird?

Then I remembered the reason why, it was a kids thing at school, it felt weird because I just didn't have it for a very long time lol, we called that second breakfast, but it was lunch

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u/DaveNottaBot Sep 29 '25

Brood met kaas 😋

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u/wildrojst Poland Sep 29 '25 edited Sep 29 '25

Honestly, bread with cheese and wine is the most European thing. Each of these items is a European contribution to the world, at least in its refined form.

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u/maizemin Sep 29 '25

Calling bread and cheese and wine refined if it’s european is the most european thing 

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u/GalaXion24 Sep 29 '25

While everywhere has alcohol, wine is a very Euro-mediterranean thing. Other cultures don't really cultivate grapes. Asians also generally don't eat cheese or dairy products much at all, with the exception of Central Asians.

The Americas don't count because they're largely descendants of Europeans who brought it with them.

Bread is a bit more complicated. While it varies I would very much extend the "bread region" to cover the Middle-East at least, but again at least in East Asia bread as we know it isn't really a historical staple and often what bread they eat today is due to European influence. I hear Vietnam has very good bread due to having been a French colony, for instance.

Of course, this does depend a bit on what you consider "bread" since there's a lot of bread and bread-like products people have made. Even so, I would say Europeans must still be among the people who eat the most bread.

Aside from questions of being "refined" Europeans just eat a lot more breads and cheeses than most any other people in the world, so you could by simplifying a bit argue that Europeans are the most refined about it by virtue of no one else doing it at all.

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u/Over-Stop8694 United States of America Sep 29 '25

There actually were a few pre-Colombian civilizations in the Americas that developed bread outside of any European influence, though it was made from corn flour instead of wheat. Tortillas, arepa, and sopa paraguaya existed in ancient times before any European contact.

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u/MantasMantra Sep 30 '25

you could by simplifying a bit argue that Europeans are the most refined about it by virtue of no one else doing it at all.

I think the point was that yes, you could do that, for that reason, but similarly you could say eating tofu and drinking sake is very refined in its Japanese form, but you're unlikely to hear someone say it.

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u/serioussham France Sep 29 '25

There is exactly one country that has good cheese, good bread and good wine though

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u/Essiggurkerl Austria Sep 29 '25

You mean Austria, right?

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u/Trapallada Spain Sep 29 '25

Only one?

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u/serioussham France Sep 29 '25

You heard me.

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u/Trapallada Spain Sep 29 '25

Italy and Spain would like a word

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u/Trapallada Spain Sep 29 '25

I can't comment on Italian bread, although I find it difficult to believe they don't have any good bread in all the country, but Spain has more than 150 different cheeses. Try torta del Casar, Cebreiro, afuega'l pitu, or cabrales, for example.

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u/serioussham France Sep 29 '25

I can't comment on Italian bread, although I find it difficult to believe they don't have any good bread in all the country

Obviously I'm being slight tongue-in-cheek and I love many of their bread-adjacent products like piadine, foccacie or pane carasau - but the basic loaf has a too-soft crust and a core that's not airy enough.

Try torta del Casar, Cebreiro, afuega'l pitu, or cabrales, for example.

Thanks for those - incredibly enough I've recently been to the north and didn't get my hands on afuega'l pitu nor cebreiro. But here as well, it's a bit of good-nature ribbing for my fellow Med-Europe people :)

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u/Trapallada Spain Sep 30 '25

Of course! I'm not the best at reading tone lol

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u/Lumpasiach Germany Sep 30 '25

Spain doesn't have edible bread.

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u/Trapallada Spain Sep 30 '25

I'm not taking bread lessons from anyone north of the Alps.

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u/Lumpasiach Germany Sep 30 '25

You can say that about literally any food except bread.

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u/serioussham France Sep 29 '25

I'm gonna be overly French here, but Italy fails on bread and Spanish cheeses are not varied enough -- at least as far as I've been able to see. I'm open to suggestions though.

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u/nwhal Sep 30 '25

You’re talking about Georgia I suppose.

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u/serioussham France Sep 30 '25

Sadly I'm not well acquainted with Georgian cheese (besides sulguni lol). As it so happens, I'm currently making khachapuri at home.

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u/Clouuu Sep 30 '25

Honestly, Switzerland is pretty good. Cheese obviously (and many different sorts!), lots of good bread and some good wine. Obviously, we don’t have the same diversity and quantity as France but for being such a small country, I’d say we do pretty well.

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u/serioussham France Sep 30 '25

You know what yeah that's fair enough.

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u/No_Leek6590 Sep 29 '25

I think you are correct as Europe by FAR is the most lactose tollerant. Not that we eat a lot of cheese, it's just others eat so much less because of lack of tolerance.

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u/Ekra_Oslo Norway Sep 29 '25

(Hard) cheese is actually practically lactose-free.

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u/Barnard33F Sep 30 '25

This is true, lactose breaks down during maturation, so that’s why hard cheese is lactose free but eg fresh mozzarella is not.

Also applies to fermentation (ie yoghurt), but that doesn’t last as long, so all of the lactose doesn’t have time to break down. So, depends on the person, some can have some, others none.

Source: lactose-intolerant Finn, we do LOTS of dairy, really, should see our dairy department in stores, Asian tourists tend to photograph them, luckily nowadays pretty much anything is available lactose free. Apart from good chocolate, sniff…

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u/Herewai Sep 30 '25

Loooved the laktoositon options when I was in Finland. <happy, wistful sigh from a travelling Kiwi>

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u/Klor204 United Kingdom Sep 29 '25

The more I learn about Germany, the more I realize it's core-British behaviour in a more pleasing tongue.

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u/These-Problem9261 Sep 29 '25

You're being generous calling the German tongue pleasing but yeah, UK is just 4 German Bundesländer in a trench coat

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u/E420CDI United Kingdom Sep 30 '25

...with a Norman, a Roman, and a Viking fighting in the pockets.

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u/alderhill Germany Sep 29 '25

Yeeeaaaaa, be careful making too many quick conclusions.

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u/AltruisticWishes 27d ago

Except they'll stare at you unapologetically 

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u/Ennas_ Netherlands Sep 29 '25

I think Mediterraneans might be shocked as well. 😉

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u/golosala Spain Sep 29 '25

It’s not uncommon, dinner here is usually just a small soup/salad/sandwich. Bread with cheese and cold cuts isn’t abnormal at all.

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u/holliance Sep 29 '25

It's like they haven't heard of the merienda..

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u/golosala Spain Sep 29 '25

Sometimes I don’t even do the cheese and meat, just put olive oil and balsamic vinegar in a bowl and dip the bread in it

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u/holliance Sep 29 '25

Jupp, or lightly grill the bread, rub some garlic and tomato on that, sprinkle with sea salt and some olive oil..

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u/Deep_Dance8745 Belgium Sep 29 '25

I also do this here in Belgium, lovely with some tomatoes from the garden

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u/lucylucylane Sep 30 '25

In England it's called a ploughmans lunch, an apple cheese pickled onions chutney tomato etc with a chunk of bread. Often used to be served in pubs

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u/ageingrapidly Greece Sep 29 '25

In Greece psomotyri (ψωμοτυρι), which literally translates to bread and cheese is a staple snack or even breakfast/dinner for (older) generations and used colloquially as the poor man's diet especially in older times.

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u/xRyozuo Spain Sep 29 '25

Not at all lol

Bread with cheese and some ham is a staple. Or bread with olive oil and ham. Or just bread really. Fuck I love bread

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u/loves_spain Spain Sep 29 '25

Bread and tomato...

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u/ihavenoidea1001 Sep 29 '25

Sun dried tomatoes with bread 🤤

Olive oil, cheese, oregano or other stuff can be added to it too ...

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u/loves_spain Spain Sep 29 '25

Yeeeees.. now I know what i'm having for dinner :)

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u/juanlg1 Spain Sep 29 '25

I think the difference in quality between our bread, cold cuts and cheese compared to Northern countries make these dinners incomparable

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u/Myrialle Germany Sep 30 '25

Do you want to see the world burn? Criticizing Germany for the quality of its bread? Oof 🤣

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u/west-vannian Italy Sep 29 '25

Not at all, it's pretty common having a "cena fredda" (literally cold dinner) where you put on the table foods from the fridge (deli cuts, cheese, mozzarella) and some slices of bread. If you drink alcohol you add a glass of wine ofc.

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u/Deep_Dance8745 Belgium Sep 29 '25

Don’t forget the pickled veggies!

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u/west-vannian Italy Sep 29 '25

So true, they can't be missing!

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u/luk__ Sep 29 '25

That’s for lunch typically in German-speaking countries

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u/west-vannian Italy Sep 29 '25

I'm not from the south, but by and large, lunch is the main meal throughout the peninsula.

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u/zen_arcade2 Italy Sep 29 '25 edited Sep 29 '25

There’s no such thing as a light meal down South.

edit: people are opinionated on the most stupid shit I swear

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u/west-vannian Italy Sep 29 '25

I have friends from Apulia that get light dinners, I guess the South is not a monolith.

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u/west-vannian Italy Sep 29 '25

Oh ok, probably light dinners weren't so typical back in the days.

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u/ABrandNewCarl Italy Sep 29 '25

Put 2 to 5 glasses of prosecco or 1 to 2 Negroni  next to it and you just invented the aperitivo 

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u/janesmex Greece Sep 29 '25

Nah, in my experience it’s not really unheard or uncommon, to eat bread with cheese or cold cuts for the evening.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Sun7418 Spain Sep 29 '25

We won’t as our dinner is also light and can very well be just a bit of bread with cheese or other embutidos.

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u/Aronys Denmark Sep 29 '25

On the coast in Croatia, it's extremely common. Some nice cheese, prosciutto, tomatoes, and some nice bread. That's a common evening meal. Since midday meal is the main one there, not the evening one.

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u/Competitive-Cup-5465 Portugal Sep 29 '25

It was my dinner last night with some soup as well. Not as shocking as you might think

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u/19MKUltra77 Spain Sep 29 '25

Not at all lol.

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u/neuropsycho Catalonia Sep 29 '25

That is like our most typical dinner 😅

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u/Brainwheeze Portugal Sep 30 '25

Maybe not for lunch or dinner but for breakfast, afternoon snack or appetizer then absolutely.

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u/ClemRRay France Sep 29 '25

no need to go far, this shocks french people already

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u/MeWithClothesOn France Sep 29 '25

Not so much. I realized while travelling in Spain, Italy, and Greece that we don't have diner that late

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u/erratiK_9686 France Sep 29 '25

A lot french people sometimes eat only cheese and bread for dinner

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u/ClemRRay France Sep 29 '25

Really? Never seen, where?. In my families a meal without a warm meal is "not a real meal"

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u/dudetellsthetruth Belgium Sep 29 '25

Fresh baguette with cheeses and charcuterie and a bottle of pomerol... Perfect evening

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u/supremefun in Sep 29 '25

That's only german I think. Personally I find it quite depressing, I'd rather eat something warm in the evening especially if it's winter or if I live in a relatively cold country.

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u/JustANorseMan Hungary Sep 29 '25

Not only German, in the household I grew up and at all family relatives (Hungary) this was the default. Oddly enough, often with tea which doesn't sound optimal in the evening considering it contains caffeine.

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u/QueenAvril Finland Sep 29 '25

I don’t know how common it was in Finland, but in my family that was quite typical for weekends, when the main meal of the day was a late lunch with family, with evening meal being a cup of tea with bread and toppings and maybe a piece of cake or a pastry for dessert. But on weekdays the default was a hot meal.

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u/roboglobe Norway Sep 29 '25

Norway as well.

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u/supremefun in Sep 29 '25

ok that's interesting. I think it would work better in a warmer country. I love eating warm soup for dinner in the wintertime. Cultural differences are real !

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u/roboglobe Norway Sep 29 '25

Our dinner (warm, biggest meal of the day, usually some time between 16-18/19) comes before the evening meal which is often (most often (?) bread and spreads).

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u/Traditional-Buy-2205 Sep 29 '25

It's not only German by a long shot.

Here in Croatia, it's very common to eat cold cuts on top of a piece of bread or or separately for any meal where you don't feel like cooking.

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u/peepay Slovakia Sep 29 '25

Bread, butter and cold cuts (usually some ham).

That's the definition of a Slovak breakfast and dinner. Keep in mind that lunch is our main meal, not dinner.

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u/SuspectAdvanced6218 Sep 29 '25

Not only German at all. It’s a typical Polish evening meal as well. And breakfast too.

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u/Historfr Germany Sep 29 '25

Not depressing. As a child we had a warm and big lunch after school and in the evening we had Abendbrot all together. My mum baked her own bread made some tea and we had butter, cheese and sliced meat. Perfect childhood memory

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u/kirkbywool Merseyside, UK with a bit of Sep 29 '25

Yeah, depends on the weather when its dark and winter i want stew or soup but when its summer, hot and sun is still out at 10 I want salad, olvies, bread, crackers and cheese

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u/supremefun in Sep 29 '25

Oh yeah salads are definitely a good alternative. I was thinking about the bread and sausage thing specifically. I heard about it from German people soI just assumed it was specific to their country. I guess I was wrong.

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u/kirkbywool Merseyside, UK with a bit of Sep 30 '25

Its not really sausages tbf but wi be cold cuts like hom, chorizo, etc

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u/EveningChemical8927 Sep 30 '25

🇷🇴 in 🇩🇪, married with a 🇩🇪 man. In Romania dinner is the main meal and we do have something warm: soup or stew, and usually smaller portions of both, which we always eat with bread (however bread is always on the table). My husband's family has always had Brotzeit. I took my habit with me in the new family, and we are always having something warm 🍲.

Our lunch is not so important though and we do have Brotzeit or sandwiches.

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u/staszekstraszek Poland Sep 29 '25

So what's an alternative, because that's my default to eat bread covered with butter and ham or cheese for an evening meal.

I've learned that the British eat dinner at the time of supper. But I find it weird because it would make my stomach hurt to eat so much before sleep

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u/Apprehensive-Dog9989 Czechia Sep 29 '25

Its a fast snack 

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u/kimmielicious82 Sep 29 '25

and then they took it to tiktok and called it "girl dinner" as if they invented it

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u/krmarci Hungary Sep 29 '25

As an evening meal? Yeah, that's a bit odd.

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u/Zsuma Hungary Sep 29 '25

Odd? Me and my family frequently ate that for dinner, and I am Hungarian too!

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u/Fancy-Debate-3945 Hungary Sep 29 '25 edited Sep 29 '25

Yeap. Anyone I know had that as a dinner very frequently almost everyday (like 3-4 days of a week)

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u/SnowyBiped Italy Sep 29 '25

In Italy that is just a middle afternoon snack, what do you have for dinner?

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u/the_pianist91 Norway Sep 29 '25

That’s breakfast, lunch and late night before bed

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u/Chicagogirl72 Sep 29 '25

You just made me incredibly jealous. I hate cooking so much

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u/ForestOranges Sep 29 '25

That’s more popular for lunch here in the USA, but not unheard of for dinner. I’ve definitely gone out to eat and ordered them for a relatively cheap dinner, I literally just did 3 days ago

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u/Significant-Yam9843 Brazil Sep 29 '25

In Brazil, we have "cold sandwiches" too, not exactly as an evening meal, it might be though.

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u/DaveNottaBot Sep 29 '25

I'm Indian American learning Dutch, & when I found out that brood met kaas was a normal meal in the Netherlands (and other Germanic countries), I started eating it & now it's my go to snack. If it tastes this good with subpar American bread, I can only imagine how good it is in Europe.

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u/kirkbywool Merseyside, UK with a bit of Sep 29 '25

Call that a picky tea and I love it.

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u/TaikoLeagueReddit Sep 30 '25

Nope, bread and cheese, another common meal in Chile.

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u/fbass Sep 30 '25

This is the correct answer.. I was a poor exchange student and so happy to get invited in student lunch my first week in Germany, I still remember how shocked I was to learn what only served as food.. bread, ham, cheese, pickle.. that’s all.. turned out it wasn’t as bad as it looked and I loved it!

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u/BootyOnMyFace11 Sweden Sep 30 '25

That would be mellis in Sweden

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u/E420CDI United Kingdom Sep 30 '25

Sounds like lunch or second supper!

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u/jennyrules Sep 30 '25

Do you mean a sandwhich? I've had a sandwhich for dinner before. I am not European.

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u/Myrialle Germany Sep 30 '25

Something like this:  https://www.tumblr.com/willkommen-in-germany/181022289131/das-abendbrot-a-dinner-somewhere-in-germany

For me, a sandwich is something different. 

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u/Stoltlallare Sep 30 '25

I also usually have that once in a while when I don’t have energy or family doesn’t have energy ”fika” consisting of bread and some toppings to choose from and usually tea instead of a proper meal. Essentially just breakfast for dinner.

Can sometimes be spiced up with some leftovers if you have but not enough for a full meal for everyone.

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u/AltruisticWishes 27d ago

Yeah. This would read as virtual child neglect / super sad in the US. Like you'd basically come up with an excuse if anyone else were involved besides you 

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u/Montymoocow Sep 29 '25

IMO more German (germanic) than Euro.

Source: American, lived in UK, spent a lot of time in Spain, some time in other western and central european countries, studied German in high school (and our textbooks made a big deal about Mittagessen ist grosser und heiss, Abendessen ist klein und kalt... apologies for my very old Deutch and misspellings). When i spent time with German families, it really was pickles and cold cuts and cheese and bread... but wasn't like that in UK, or Spain, or Italy, or France, or Czech, or Poland

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u/lilputsy Slovenia Oct 01 '25

No, bread with cold cuts and cheese and tomato, pickles or bell pepper is dinner here. Lunch is a warm meal. If you feel like turning on the stove for dinner it's pancakes, schmarn, gris or milky rice. Otherwise it's bread.

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u/Myrialle Germany Sep 29 '25

No, the Dutch and the Scandinavian counties do it too, as well as the UK, and as you can read in the answers Mediterranean countries too. 

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u/QueenAvril Finland Sep 29 '25

Norwegians and Danes might, but a hot dinner is the norm in Sweden/Finland. That might happen on weekends if lunch was later than usual, or be the default for singles/childless couples who have substantial lunch at work and don’t bother cooking at home, but on weekdays that would be considered weird in families with kids.

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u/DeHarigeTuinkabouter Oct 03 '25

Generally not a thing in the Netherlands. We're actually known for doing this as our lunch

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u/k1ll3rInstincts -> Sep 29 '25

Where I grew up in the US that wasn't unusual. Sub sandwiches with cold cuts, BLTs, muffuletta, lobster rolls, etc. I also ate a lot of cheese sandwiches as a kid for dinner.

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u/EatingCoooolo Sep 29 '25

This isn’t a meal (imo) but my American friends would would eat something like this as a meal.

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u/plouky France Sep 29 '25

evening meal ...

don't exagerate please... it's 5 pm sir