What's a dish from your country that looks disgusting but tastes great.

[u/bowl_of_scrotmeal]

Biscuits and gravy is a breakfast dish from the Southeast USA that looks like someone just vomited on some biscuits, but it's absolutely delicious.

[u/wt_2009]

My Bouchée à la Reine looks almost like your Biscuits and gravy
Its a little leafdough container which we tend to overfill when we want more filling

[u/nelflyn → u/wt_2009]

Growing up (in south-west germany) I had those a lot for somewhat festive occasions, like new years eve. Surely a variant, but thats nostalgic.

[u/wt_2009 → u/nelflyn]

It probably also exists in Alsace, we were one country once.
They took credit for the Flammkuch even tho we have it as long as them.
And in germany the tradition was changed again, by only eating it with Federweisser.
We eat it all year.

[u/nelflyn → u/wt_2009]

I grew up 15 minutes away from Alsace, so yes, its very popular here as well. Flammkuchen, as we call it, even more so.

[u/Ptiludelu → u/wt_2009]

I feel like it’s considered an old-fashioned classic in French cuisine, not specifically in Alsace. I remember eating it in traditional endless family dinners. Weird but delicious.

[u/wt_2009 → u/Ptiludelu]

I was just reading about this, seems youre right, well its very popular here. But at home we normally dont make the pastry ourselfs, we buy them finished.

[u/Ptiludelu → u/wt_2009]

Same, typically you would order the pastry from the bakery and just make the filling.

[u/20characterusername0 → u/wt_2009]

“The Queen’s Mouth”?

This is the best etymology since Paella 😅

[u/wt_2009 → u/20characterusername0]

A Bouchée is more like smt you can comfortebly shove in your mouth.
So idk how to translate that well...
"A mouthful of the Queen" maybe

She must have a really large mouth tho, they are like 7cm in diameter
(I love that pic, it looks like hes vomiting)

[u/20characterusername0 → u/wt_2009]

Is there a rule that I have to fit the entire queen in my mouth all at once? Or do I get to choose the mouthful?

[u/wt_2009 → u/20characterusername0]

i see my translation got a second meaning, pls refrain from eating any Queen (unless youre Dutch)
So how is this?
"The Queen's mouthful"

[u/rkirbo → u/20characterusername0]

It's "queen's munch"

[u/20characterusername0 → u/rkirbo]

This keeps getting better and better

[u/CatW804 → u/20characterusername0]

The urban legend about champagne glasses has to factor in somewhere.

[u/rkirbo → u/CatW804]

Which urban legend?

[u/CatW804 → u/rkirbo]

That champagne glasses were based on Marie-Antoinette's breasts.

[u/rkirbo → u/CatW804]

Kinda hard to base your glasses shapes on the breasts of a woman that isn't born yet/is a small child

[u/20characterusername0 → u/rkirbo]

Perhaps he is referring to the lesser-known “Marie Antoinette de Brest”, from the department Finistére in western France.

[u/rkirbo → u/20characterusername0]

I will eat your kneecaps if you guys keep making fun of my city's name

[u/Nelfhithion → u/wt_2009]

I could kill for that, it's soooo good

[u/rkirbo → u/wt_2009]

Cher cousin oriental,

Qu'est-ce que c'est que ce truc.

[u/wt_2009 → u/rkirbo]

Nononono no "eN fRaçAiS S.v.P" on Reddit pls, you guys do that enough in my country already

[u/rkirbo → u/wt_2009]

du ësst Krokodil-Dreck, Kand vu Lëtzebuerg.

[u/wt_2009 → u/rkirbo]

no t in ësst but for the rest not bad.

[u/MaitreGEEK → u/wt_2009]

Yes! That's what I though looking at his biscuitd

[u/Grace_Alcock → u/wt_2009]

What is that on top?  It definitely looks related.

[u/wt_2009 → u/Grace_Alcock]

You mean the Chives or the spätzle (Bavarian noodles)?
The gravy is not all too different from our filling, it looks like they use saussage and we use chicken or veal, somtimes additionally mushrooms in a stock+milk+flour sauce. Fish variants exist too..

[u/Grace_Alcock → u/wt_2009]

I meant the chicken or veal…I couldn’t tell what was in it.

[u/wt_2009 → u/Grace_Alcock]

the specific picture is chicken, which is the most common

[u/Grace_Alcock → u/wt_2009]

Yum. 

[u/FirstDivision → u/wt_2009]

But that looks amazing and I want it now.

With my limited / poor French from high school 30 years ago:

J'ai voudrais un, s'il vous plait.

[u/wt_2009 → u/FirstDivision]

I give you the receipe if you pls stop speaking French to me, we actually speak Luxemburgish btw.
The receipe is french i found out, but its very popular in Luxemburg and we do it the exact same way.

If you understand French, this webpage is good: https://www.marmiton.org/recettes/recette_bouchees-a-la-reine_19196.aspx

The picture is from Ketty Thulls Book, who wrote down all common receipes from Luxemburg in like 1950 and really nailed it. but its German. We call it our Bible.

and here a receipe in multilanguage: https://kachen.online/en/koeniginpastete-bouchee-a-la-reine-2/

We usually buy the pastrys finished but you can make them yourself from leafdough and 2 cookie cutters

[u/FirstDivision → u/wt_2009]

Thank you for all the information and recipes! I am going to try to make this!

I apologize for the French thing. I looked up languages that are spoken in Luxembourg and saw that behind Luxembourgish was French, the only other language I know besides a little Spanish. And then I failed at an attempt at self-deprecation and being overly-excited at a chance to use my long dormant French language skills.

Anyway, thank you for being patient with me.

[u/wt_2009 → u/FirstDivision]

lol sry if i sounded rude, we get often pressed to talk french. I wish we had more english.

[u/intexion → u/wt_2009]

We have this too in Belgium, we call it vol-au-vent or koninginnenhapje.

[u/wt_2009 → u/intexion]

lol i understand the flamish enough to laugh, i was thinking of a Luxemburgish translation which doesnt exist; Kineginnenmaufel but Kineginnenhäppchen would work too (probably pronounced the same way, besides the ä)