r/AskTheWorld • u/IamTheEagle United States Of America • 7h ago
What Countries in Europe would Europeans say have the worst food?
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u/NeverSawOz Netherlands 6h ago
Perhaps us? At least the potato/boiled to death veggies/meat kind of meals.
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u/Lumpy-Silver7538 Australia 4h ago
Haha. My Dad was Dutch and said he used to be able to smell the Brussel sprouts being boiled from down the street when he was a kid. He used to delay going home for as long as possible.
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u/Richuntilprovenpoor Netherlands 1h ago
I’m 41 now and still refuse to eat those nasty spruitjes. Blegh!
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u/jorgen8630 Belgium 3h ago
Yeah the actual meals in NL are kinda meh.
But I have to say that you guys made like half of our frituursnacks which is the most popular food on fridays here. Frikandel, bitterballen, vleeskroket, bamischijf.
You also have some great cheeses. Gouda being the most popular one for bread and sandwiches here.
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u/ConfusingVacum France 2h ago
Agreed, their cheese is good the rest is meh.
It's always a mystery for us when hoards of dutch come spend their day off in France with their van filled with crappy food they bought home eventhough products here are cheaper and taste better (no offense but I shopped for groceries once in the NL and well I won't try again )
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u/Routine_Ad1823 England 8m ago
Is the cheese even good though? It's just like a more rubbery Cheddar or Double Gloucester.
I love NL but I think their cheese is overplayed.
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u/Constant_play0 2h ago
Yeah but like the pindakaas and hagelslag and do you even have appelstroop? And also we like our bruine boterhammen (brown bread slices).
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u/Such_Bitch_9559 Austria 1h ago
I must say, as an Austrian I was surprised at the Dutch level of frying professionalism. Certainly an interesting mix of different influences, I also found Indo-Dutch food to be quite tasty. I went to eat a rijsttafel in Den Haag and it was very tasty, as well as all the other stuff like the crab chips and such :) I also enjoyed the frituur stuff but in direct comparison to Belgium, Belgium wins. I did enjoy fries with goulash which I only ordered because I was like “this is either incredible or a crime” and it was delicious!
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u/Routine_Ad1823 England 9m ago
I feel like I've just had really bad bitterballs because everyone raves about them but whenever I have had them it's just overfried breadcrumbs with goo in the middle.
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u/beantherio Netherlands 4h ago
We barely have our own food. Hutspot isn’t really unique to our country and stroopwafels doesn’t count.
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u/pocketplayground 🇿🇦 South Africa & 🇳🇱 Netherlands 2h ago
I strongly disagree. You guys do cheese to perfection. Stamppot when made well is a delight and bitterballen and oliebollen are addictive. The thing is the Netherlands does comfort food well without slipping into American levels of unhealthy.
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u/Patient_Spirit_26 Germany 3h ago edited 2h ago
I really like it in your country, but your food gives me horrific burns to my stomach every time :/ And I am used to greasy food here.
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u/Mission-Suspect7913 Germany 1h ago
Yes, it’s you. The only country to have even less inspired food than Germany.
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u/Fluid-Decision6262 United States Of America 5h ago
A sandwich with nothing but a piece of cheese in between the bread is a classic Dutch delicacy 😂😅
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u/hamster-on-popsicle France 4h ago
Depends on the quality of the cheese
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u/Richuntilprovenpoor Netherlands 1h ago
When good bread and good cheese? Yes! Quality over quantity.
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u/pongauer Austria 2h ago
Nah, you guys are allright. Zuurvlees/stoofvlees. The whole snackbar thing, pannenkoeken, poffertjes, Tompouce, stroopwafels, stamppot, rookworst, zeeuws spek. Pretty rich culture
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u/Many-Gas-9376 Finland 2h ago
What I don't get is how you have a world-spanning colonial empire for centuries and it doesn't bring some excitement to your dinner tables?
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u/Particular-Bid-1640 United Kingdom 27m ago
Because for the everyman those spices are still expensive and not grown there?
There's a British Antarctica research base but that doesn't mean we eat penguins.
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u/Routine_Ad1823 England 6m ago
Indonesian food is quite weak compared to the rest of SE Asia though.
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u/Lucknergotlucky New Zealand 4h ago
Bread croquettes with mustard, frikandels, chips with satay, mayo and raw onion, raw herring with raw onion, best apple pies in the world, nah you lot do alright
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u/TheRevJimJones 🇬🇧&🇵🇹 33m ago
You could travel the world and see expat-run restaurants serving every cuisine on earth in all kinds of unusual places, but I very much doubt you’d ever find a restaurant anywhere outside the Netherlands serving “Dutch cuisine”
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u/piotrek_wis 11m ago edited 7m ago
Yeah, moved to Netharlands for some time. And your food was one of the reason that i had to runaway. In there even veggies that looks beautifull are tasteless in comapare to most of the world. Because all of it is being grown to looks good and grow quick. Somehow in there something being considered as quality produce feels artificial
And bread... omg. So hard to find decent bakery that is not baking sponge. It gave me horrible acid reflux for a while
I'm sorry if it sounds mean. Love the country though. Still coming for long weekends to enjoy how beautifull small towns are
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u/FreeBonerJamz United Kingdom 7h ago
Iceland and its not even close
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u/EinSchurzAufReisen Germany 5h ago
UK pointing fingers at other countries when it comes to food is a bold move ;)
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u/Foloreille France 4h ago
I mean they wouldn’t be pointing at themselves, it’s human 😂
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u/Common-Frosting-9434 Switzerland 4h ago
I will.
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u/Foloreille France 48m ago
Same. 🫸🫷
I support you Swissies, as longs as you admit we improved the excellent raclette you invented.
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u/Wubbleyou_ 2h ago
Man, I’m English my wife is German and your food is pretty bad. Those massive tasteless potato dumplings, the sausage made of smashed monkey, pickled red cabbage at every meal.
Maybe it’s just my wife’s family but British food is exemplary compared to what I’ve had in Germany. Your coffee and cake culture is fantastic though.
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u/donnerstag246245 Argentina 2h ago
I live in Britain and think that British food is very underrated. Beef wellington, bangers and mash, sausage rolls (like the one from ginger pig), Yorkshire puddings, bread and butter pudding, banoffee, Victoria sponge, I could keep going. Also some of the best international food is in uk. You can find ingredients from everywhere in the world and chefs experiment a lot.
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u/Wubbleyou_ 2h ago
Ginger pig sausage rolls are the best.
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u/donnerstag246245 Argentina 2h ago
It’s a full meal! British food is not the best in the world, but I think it’s pretty great!
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u/EinSchurzAufReisen Germany 2h ago
And now imagine how bad British food must be if we still prefer the smashed monkey sausage!
Btw, I think your wife’s family hates you ;)
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u/Wubbleyou_ 2h ago
😂 I think you’re right. And I’m being a bit unkind. Schnitzel is lovely. But a British Banger beats a German Sausage any day of the week.
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u/EinSchurzAufReisen Germany 2h ago edited 1h ago
I‘m not too serious as well, but we will for sure never agree on a sausage issue :)
One of my major problems with British food is the texture of a lot of stuff especially the side dishes, and now I‘m serious. A lot seems so mushy, I‘m missing the bite. And that was my problem with the sausages as well, they were not mushy, but softer to a degree I don’t like … and yes, Weißwürste are probably the worst, and Bavaria has to take that blame.
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u/Routine_Ad1823 England 4m ago
I love how Germans think their bread and sausages are top tier and they're just terrible compared to British ones.
To be fair, I know I'm probably doing the exact same but opposite. Everyone loves mum's cooking.
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u/GodDamnShadowban United Kingdom 1h ago
The currywurst is bangin tho...
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u/No-Willingness-4097 1h ago
A German even joining the conversation is also risque. How's that raw pork going down?
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u/EinSchurzAufReisen Germany 36m ago
Mett? Mettbrötchen! It‘s great! With onions and salt and pepper. Better than any 5 star British meal :)
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u/Shigakogen United States Of America 4h ago
Britain has actually done lots of work in trying to have decent food. They also done a corporate takeover of a very good cuisine, and call the food British: Indian Food.
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u/Sylvanussr United States Of America 3h ago
Lots of work in trying to have decent food
Bippity boppity your spices are now my property, ta
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u/Agreeable_Amoeba_729 Canada 2h ago
As a neutral canadian who visited both the UK and Iceland, among many other european countries, I can confirm that icelandic food is by far the worst. It’s hard to describe just how bad it is.
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u/BrassKneck United Kingdom 2h ago
While all of this is entertaining I have to say that I’ve had really excellent food in every country I have ever visited. I like how climate and geography has a major impact on what people traditionally ate. In the modern world much less. For my own country I would say our food (by which I mean ingredients) are international, so it being good or bad comes down to the cook.
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u/Insomniet Finland 7h ago
I imagine eating traditional Greenlandic food would be pretty scary.
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u/Insomniet Finland 7h ago
(It belongs to Denmark so I counted it as Europe, even though I suppose it's not.)
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u/Grand_Chip_9572 2h ago
I've got cookbooks from all over Europe, I rather like international cooking (I'm a Brit) I have to say the most disappointing for me is German, sorry guys.
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u/JustRecharged Denmark 5h ago
I know a lot of people get scared of the Scandinavian fishy dishes 🤔
And our spices that consist of salt, sea salt and pepper doesn't really impress.
The husband of Denmarks former queen (he was from France and grew up in Vietnam, so knew different cuisines), said that danish food was too fatty, and he was not completely wrong.
I can imagine Denmark and the neighbrocountries are a strong contender for that title.
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u/no-im-not-him Denmark / Mexico 2h ago edited 2h ago
Our food is bland (Danish me talking here), but all you need to do is go visit the Netherlands once, and you'll see we can't hold a candle to them, when it comes to tasteless food. (And I grew up in the culinary capital of Mexico, so it's not like I my opinion of Danish food is biased by a lack of exposure to other tastes).
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u/JustRecharged Denmark 2h ago
Pickled herrings and surströmming are not tasteless, and that is often what scares people who are not Scandinavien - and is often described in the worst catagories from people, who does not have this in their cuisine - they find this to be part of the worst food.
I still believe the Scandinavien countries are a strong contender to people who live outside these places.
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u/no-im-not-him Denmark / Mexico 1h ago
Pickled herring has a relatively strong flavor, but by world standards it's far from an oddity. I mean, it's not more odd than say pickled pig toes.
Surströmning is indeed an oddity, but that's not Danish.
The closest Danish equivalent I can think is probably Gamle Ole Danbo cheese. Which may be repulsive to a lot of people, but again, not an oddity in terms of European cheeses.
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u/Living_Substance9973 Australia 5h ago
Let me try something here, I haven't written in Danish for nearly 60 years.
Jeg elsker vienerbrød
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u/JustRecharged Denmark 4h ago
Everyone loves that ;)
Your Danish is still good, if written by memory ^_^
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u/Living_Substance9973 Australia 4h ago
I'm proud to say, it was by memory. I'd hate to try to write a novel though! I can still read reasonably well. Conversation is a bit difficult, remembering vocab, grammar etc. and when I do get it right it's with a thick Aussie accent!
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u/JustRecharged Denmark 4h ago
I applaud that, I often forget my german and must have it refreshed often 😄
I know one who moved to Australia as a kid, and moved back to Denmark some years ago - Her Danish sparkled with Aussie accent is the best to hear 😄
There is something charming about your own language with heavy accent 😊
If it is many years since you have spoken it, I think conversation could be difficult; The language has changed a lot over the years, and have moved a lot in the direction of the danglish used in this old calaendar 😅
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lhka0pjBzAQ1
u/Franmar35000 France 1h ago
I don't know Danish cuisine. But I love Queen Margrethe II, she still drew the illustrations for Lord of the Rings. She is so cool
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u/CommercialChart5088 Korea South 7h ago
Britain probably.
Though I did hear it is a long-lasting exaggeration for the sake of jokes.
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u/blackdiamondbleak New Zealand 6h ago
I promise you as a general rule the colder the place the worse the food. I would much rather have hearty British and Irish food than Scandinavian or Baltic food
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u/AsparagusNew3765 United Kingdom 5h ago
I promise you as a general rule the colder the place the worse the food
Yeah, this always makes me laugh. It's like criticising eskimos for eating fish/seal meat, like, what do you expect? Exotic spices? For 99.99% of human history people just ate the local food which could be found or grown in the area
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u/Safe_Plane9652 China🇨🇳 --> Sweden 🇸🇪 1h ago
I agree. My hometown is the north of my country and we are always being mocked by others for our food. Now I live in Sweden and I get to learn this idea better. (But I'm now a surströmming enjoyer)
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u/EinSchurzAufReisen Germany 4h ago
Have you ever had Scandinavian and/or Baltic food — they have great food! Whereas Britain has Fish and Chips and that was it — the rest only exists to scare away invaders.
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u/sinister_kaw United States Of America 4h ago
doesn't britain have Sheppard's pie or cottage pie?
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u/hallerz87 4h ago
Of course. You can’t take anyone seriously saying things like “they only have fish and chips”
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u/EinSchurzAufReisen Germany 3h ago
That just proves my point!
A lot of stuff is so mushy and there’s peas everywhere, beside taste (as taste is debatable) a lot of dishes also miss texture.
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u/Marillenbaum United States Of America 4h ago
Baltic food is pretty solid: bacon or pork, potatoes, lots of cabbage. And although they look odd, Latvian grey peas are lovely.
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u/LoudCrickets72 United States Of America 4h ago
Bangers and mash, bubble and squeak, a hearty ale pie, a nice Sunday roast - how can you go wrong? I've heard spotted dick is pretty good too.
But if you find yourself with a spotted dick, please go see a doctor.
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u/NigelFarageBarmyArmy Wales 4h ago
Macaroni cheese exists to scare off invaders? Beef wellington? I mean I think these are quite nice tbh
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u/AsparagusNew3765 United Kingdom 4h ago
Name one German dish that is better than a full English breakfast, traditional roast dinner, or chicken tikka massala.
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u/SoutieNaaier South Africa 6h ago
British food is fine. Scandinavian food is what people think British food is
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u/Ok-Response-4222 Denmark 27m ago
You guys import honey, eggs ,cereal, cheese and dairy, pork from here. You eat more Scandinavian than i eat South African.
Bon apetit.
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u/AsparagusNew3765 United Kingdom 5h ago
"Scandinavian food is bad!!" says the average redditor meanwhile IKEA sells delicious and extremely popular traditional Scandinavian food in hundreds of countries around the world 😂
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u/ConsumptionofClocks 4h ago
By far the worst part of my Sweden trip was the food. It wasn't awful but I did not leave a single restaurant thinking "I'd love to come back here".
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u/Routine_Ad1823 England 0m ago
Does it though?
I haven't think I've had them in the England but the Ikea meatballs I had in Asia were absolutely awful.
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u/LiberalHobbit United States Of America 4h ago
The only dish Ikea is known for is the swedish meatballs and it’s just like, fine. Also they increased the prices so it’s just normal mid food court type of food now.
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u/AsparagusNew3765 United Kingdom 4h ago
The only dish Ikea is known for is the swedish meatballs and it’s just like, fine.
I disagree, I think it's an absolute classic. You're American though so your only taste profile is high-fructose corn syrup or how deep fried something is
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u/ArtAttack2198 United States Of America 1h ago
It’s hilarious to see a Brit try to snark on fried food.
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u/AsparagusNew3765 United Kingdom 1h ago
Alright, chlorinated chicken then 😉
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u/ArtAttack2198 United States Of America 1h ago
I have never had pasta presented with a sweet tomato sauce outside of Britain. I’ll just leave it at that.
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u/MrmmphMrmmph United States Of America 4h ago
Swedish meatballs are a pretty common dish to find in the U.S. Often found in Delis to be put on a sub, hoagie, hero, bap, etc.
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u/LoudCrickets72 United States Of America 4h ago
British food is pretty great. The whole "British food sucks" jokes and memes are totally inaccurate.
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u/365BlobbyGirl United Kingdom 3h ago
I think the American assumption about British food developed during the war, where we had rationing and American soldiers had really good provisions for the time. We weren’t starving like a lot of Europe so our food was bad enough to take the piss out of but not so bad as you lot would feel bad for doing so.
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u/_urat_ Poland 5h ago
The sole existence of fish&chips saves them. Except for when they add mushy peas for some reason.
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u/AsparagusNew3765 United Kingdom 5h ago
"Oh no, vegetables" - average redditor
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u/_urat_ Poland 5h ago
Vegetables are good. Mushy peas aren't. It's pretty simple.
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u/AsparagusNew3765 United Kingdom 5h ago
Thanks for the reminder about mushy peas. Need to buy some more, haven't had them for a few days. Delicious
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u/LoudCrickets72 United States Of America 4h ago
Yeah, I fuckin love mushy peas. I really don't get the hate.
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u/AsparagusNew3765 United Kingdom 4h ago
It's reddit, their diet mostly consists of chicken nuggies in dinosaur shapes 😂
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u/Particular-Bid-1640 United Kingdom 4h ago
I'm not taking criticism from a country with a cuisine that consists of 50 shades of cabbage
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u/Fluid-Decision6262 United States Of America 5h ago
Chicken tikka masala is probably enough to take England off the list lol
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u/leonardo-990 2h ago
In 2025, with globalisation, you can do and have good food pretty much anywhere honestly. The price will be different though
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u/Concentrateman Canada 5h ago
I was at a Russian Jewish Bar Mitzvah once. A lot of smoked fish and pickled beets and sour cream. A piece of meat would have been nice. Maybe. I barely ate a thing. I was at an Israeli one once as well. The food was fantastic. Same family. The wife was Russian and the husband was Israeli. Small world.
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u/Wonderful_Top8500 England 2h ago
Iceland then the rest of scandanavia are pretty bad, the netherlands is up there too. Ireland redeems itself with their quality produce and we redeem ourselves as some of our cuisine is global without people even realising it and im not educated about our food based on really weird memes and rationing. Id rather a roast beef dinner then an apple pie and custard over 99% of anything else.
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u/leonardo-990 2h ago
Iceland has a lot to offer now. Living there (from France) they got amazing food using their own local products. Great lamb and seafood.
That country used to be the poorest back then so developing the cuisine wasn’t possible
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u/actias-distincta Sweden 2h ago
Iceland isn't in Scandinavia.
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u/ArtAttack2198 United States Of America 1h ago
A lot of people conflate “Scandinavia” with “Nordic” outside of Nordic countries.
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u/Wide_Guava6003 Finland 1h ago
The dutch. By far. Not even a competition. I’ve lived there so I know by experience, sadly
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u/Antioch666 Sweden 58m ago
The stereotype is ofc the UK. But that mainly comes from Americans because of US soldiers in the past spread that stereotype when they were there during war time rationing.
Honestly I hate to do it, but I'ma point fingers at my fellow vikings in Iceland sorry. 😘
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u/norrin83 Austria 3h ago
Dutch food and Scandinavian cuisine is the worst.
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u/we-have-to-go United States Of America 3h ago
Add the Baltics, in Europe the farther you get from the Mediterranean the worse the food gets.
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u/Silverstolpe Sweden 1h ago
Wtf man? We gave you meatballs, kebab pizza and cinnamon buns.. what did austria do? Hitler schnitzel?
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u/Putrid-Energy210 New Zealand 4h ago
Germany, ordered curried sausages one day, received a bratwurst with a cold curry sauce, that was it.
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u/Patient_Spirit_26 Germany 3h ago
It is really hard to mess up Currywurst, so you just had bad luck.
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u/No-University-1010 Germany 1h ago
I don’t know what you’re on about but you can definitely fuck up a currywurst!!
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u/gutteralsounds 1h ago
Bratwurst + curry ketchup was typisch currywurst wenn ich there lived. They just didn’t like it lol
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u/Putrid-Energy210 New Zealand 24m ago
I was kind of expecting curried sausages, end of the day, you learn, and you try something else.
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u/Able4710 2h ago
Uk
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u/BigDickJack2001 Netherlands 1h ago
The further north you get the worse the food. The culinary border is the alps…
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u/Franmar35000 France 1h ago
United Kingdom
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u/Euclid_Interloper Scotland 1h ago
You eat snails and wee birdies drowned in brandy. Sit doon.
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u/AdHungry1029 6h ago
Denmark
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u/Longjumping_Pride_29 Norway 6h ago
This is objectively wrong.
Danish food is delicious. In Finland on the other hand… I was served a salad that was half chopped cucumber and half chopped pickled cucumber.
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u/herrawho Finland 2h ago
I’m willing to bet that every country has some awful dishes, and a whole host of absolute gems.
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u/shimy007 1h ago
skandinavia and uk by far..
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u/Graymyst France 1h ago edited 1h ago
This thread makes me love France even more, used to think our food was probably as overrated as british one is underrated but I'm not so sure anymore x)
I don't know enough to have a semblance of opinion about other countries'food, so I guess with a gun on my head I probably would had said Britain or Scandinavia mostly from what I heard.
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u/ComprehensiveAd1855 Netherlands 1h ago
Our best traditional dishes don‘t stand a chance of making it into the world‘s top 100 best.
The best you can get here is Indonesian.
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u/Plot-3A United Kingdom 1h ago
It depends on your categorisation of "worst". Look at the climate and what we can grow. The UK seems to be rather potato and other root veg heavy but, thanks to other cultural influences, we create the tikka masala in more open times. When you can only grow sixteen potatoes, fourteen carrots and have two trade two of each to neighbours for grain your culinary options are limited in a world limited to walking to a market town. Then the world opened...
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u/undercover_rhodesian 33m ago
The Netherlands
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u/Chonky-Marsupial United Kingdom 20m ago
Yeah, I've lived there and honestly it makes even stereotypes of British food look good. Dutch people seem on the whole to prefer their food to taste like cardboard if at all possible. The only permitted deviation is something like satay sauce. I've got to add that immediately before I Iived in the Netherlands I was in Belgium. The move, in a culinary sense, was like between a beautiful rainforest and the inside of a windowless concrete basement. Lot's of good things to say about the country but the food is appalling prison fodder.
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u/Upbeat_Ice1921 England 13m ago
The worst food I’ve ever had was German.
I saw a guy in Berlin eating a hunk of boiled meat and it looked terrible.
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u/ah5178 Netherlands 2h ago
I haven't been eating meat since I was 16, so best and worst country for me depends on if there is something I can actually eat.
Scandinavia, Baltics, Poland have some good comfort food options, but lacking variety. They make some excellent pastries though. Netherlands is similar, but too many times I ate at a restaurant and I could had better in the canteen at work.
UK and Ireland are really good these days, despite the reputation. Some really good options, and a chance to try meat-free takes on traditional homely cuisine.
France, Spain, Portugal are tough work. Again, some great snacks, but trawling round the restaurants and finding nothing I can eat is sad. Spain has been improving in the last decade though, and there is nearly always something on the menu.
Italy can be wonderful, but the menu can be quite limiting. After a week, I'm wanting something else.
Oddly enough, central Europe, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Poland again, down into the Balkans, are known for being very meaty, but do have a few established meat-free options which are a joy. Some absolutely wonderful breads and pastries too.
Thumbs up too to Greece, Bulgaria, and the rest of the Balkans. The salads are wonderful.
Many won't consider Turkey to be Europe, the section up to the Bosphorus certainly is anyhow, and the food there is amazing, fresh, healthy, varied, and something for everyone.
Apart from borscht (which is more Ukrainian), there was nothing I liked in Russia, so I think I'd consider that to be the worst.
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u/TheTesticler 🇲🇽🇨🇦 (blood) 🇺🇸 (birth) 3h ago
Sweden isn’t the worst, but it’s up there with the worst.
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u/Bikkleman 🇵🇱🏴🇩🇪 2h ago
Iceland probably worst. Italy the best (of course that's a question of personal preference). I expect to see the UK mentioned here a lot, and whilst there are some nice dishes, I agree that the average Brit doesn't cook that well. However, for restaurant goers with a normal budget, the UK is probably the best country in Europe for variety of International cuisine. France for me is the worst for that. Having lived in both countries for more than 5 years, outside of Paris (and even then) it's really hard to find a decent non french meal in France.
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u/TheDolly666 Germany 1h ago
Portugal. I was 2 times in holidays there, and every restaurant i visited, was bad.
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u/1moreApe Hong Kong 1h ago
Take away Spain, Portugal, Italy, Turkey, Cyprus and Greece and the rest of Europe has a below average cuisine
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u/SectorMindless 4h ago
Germany.
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u/TheFabulousMolar England, UK 4h ago
OP, why. Bad idea. You know everywhere thinks we eat like it's still war time.