“fries”
Accurate.
Why they gotta do Ireland and Scotland dirty like that?
The got the whole half continent dirty. Except Belarus, they are proud of it.
They’d prefer to say it doesn’t exist
Got to love the French calling Italian food overrated, when their international recognized dish consists of black coffee and a cigarette.
Danish pastry is not soggy. On the contrary, it’s a lot crispier than what the rest of Europe is eating.
Perhaps they’re thinking of the pastry called a danish, which is not Danish. We ourselves call it a Berliner, but I think it’s actually from Austria.
Wienerbrød, aka bread from Wien was inspired by Austrian bakers (classic “neutral” SCABS!) who came up to work in Denmark during a huge baker’s strike in the mid 1800s. But as is the Danish way, we managed to pump it full of dairy, in this case butter.
But yeah, it is possible that it’s referring to “remonce”, the filling/topping used.maybe it’s actually swedish but wienerbröd is kinda soggy, isn’t it?
The origins are unclear. The Danish bakers stole the recipe for soggy cakes from Vienna, hence the name, but then the Austrian bakers startede calling it a copenhagen plunder. Immigrants brought the cake to America by the name danish.
Technically the whole range of similar cakes are neither cakes, bread or pastry. They’re viennoiseries, which is layered dough, just like croissants.
UK not even being on the map xD
The French are just jealous of our portable usable bread, that isn’t 16 feet long, doesn’t go off 20 minutes after purchase, and can actually be used to make sandwiches.
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Every now and then this picture or some variation of pops up and my country gets slapped with being rice country.
We cook and eat better than the spanish, french and italians put together. And we are not afraid of our spices.
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Completely valid criticism for hungary. I just put like a kilo of paprika on like 100 grams of chicken 💀
As a Pole, I find this offensive. We’re more than just potato munchers.
We’re also potato drinkers.
You forgot about rotten cabbage that is close to our hearts. In all shapes and forms.
Is there anything a potato can’t do? 😍
please the french
They even dont recognise the potato as a seperate entity. They really just call them pomme de terre (ground apple) and job’s a goodun.
Yeah but that’s like asking a potato to colonize the moon. The space moon.
Ah but they’re not potatoes there… They’re ground apples (that’s the translation in case you’ve no French). Doesn’t count. Big pharma got in on the naming after a campaign by doctors who didn’t like them.
Taxes.
Talk to the English… They were very fond of taking potatoes for taxes in the 1800s (historically accurate truth is that the Irish grew other crops to pay the taxes and used potatoes for their own subsistence but it was an obvious dig that I had to get in for the giggles).
[Laughs in Inca]
Why is the place with the best food labeled “famine”
Was gonna say, maybe I’m just not aware of it, but France had famine in it much later than the Balkans . . . .https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_famines
I was gonna say they miss the wine and fancy cheeses, but now that I think about it the wine selection is actually fairly solid, and you don’t get much fancier than Pule.
That region includes some of the highest wine producing countries in the world
It’s the European equivalent of extreme poverty. But by world standards, they’re doing just fine lol.
Love how the UK isn’t even there
The even took out Ireland. What did Ireland do?
Something something potato joke that everyone’s heard a million times
“THE VAST ATLANTIC OCEAN.” Nothing to see here…
We are happy with everything we stole from other cultures thanks. Along with with a lot of carbs.
I wish I’d had shade like this all summer
that’s what brexit does to a mf
Brexit happened in 2016, the French knew what was up
dam i didnt even notice lmao u right
Nah, their “food” sucked well before that.
i meant it as in they exited physically and moved the island elsewhere
(credits to ZDF Heute-Show 2011-12-12)However, Ireland is gone too.
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I mean the entire isle of Ireland is gone in the French cuisine map. The map in my reply depicts only the UK at a different position.
I actually realized the misunderstanding and deleted my comment, but I guess the deletion hasn’t echoed over to all federated instances yet!
kinda wish it was there but just “BUTTER CHICKEN”
Tikka chips
And the Irish boiled potatoes, boiled meat and boiled cabbage are missing too.
You can do plenty more than just boil a potato
Like mashing or sticking it in a stew?
Idk they missed 4 good puns for their one there. The scottish one almost rights itself, just describe haggis.
That was a good roast.
“map of Europe”
One day we’ll catch them on film enjoying a Greggs sausage roll and the charade will be over.
“Marie Antoinette” is probably the strangest food on that map. I had no idea about French meat preferences.
PS: I wonder where the Viennoiserie is from.
I like it how the map essentially says “we cannot find anything proper to complain about Italy.”
Or, you could look at it from the other end, everything is shit.
“We stole half our flavor profiles from them and refuse to admit it, so we pretend like anything we stole is actually just common knowledge.”
We improved them. One of Italy’s most famous dishes, carbonara pasta, has a French version that is way better.
the Korean version is even better.
I looked it up and it’s spicy carbonara. I should try this.
There are massive leaps to be made by combining French techniques with foreign ingredients, it just requires accepting that maybe other places also have good food, perhaps even better food in some cases.
it is not like tomatoes are native italy
The Italians embraced them much sooner and did a lot more with them. The French were too worried they were poisonous because they were nightshades and only slowly adopted them with the advent of tomato exports from Italy and Spain.
Not for nothin, we love to see a territorially intact Ukraine.
