Northern Europeans are often stereotyped as having “bland food,” but which of these bland countries are the tastiest? Do they deserve the stereotype overall?By “Northern European” I mean Europe that is not Mediterranean, Balkan, or Hungary.(picrel is the closest I can find, though I’d group Slovakia and Ukraine in North Europe for purposes; Northern France is technically also Northern).
also obviously only talking about native cuisine, not immigrantschicken tikka masala made by indians living in the uk don’t count
Of the red nations in the pic? Poland. And it's not even close.
>>21669371Probably England all things considered
Germany by far.
Northern France and it’s not even.l close
>>21669371Why is Russia coloured green, when it is the biggest country in Europe?
Germany wins just based on fresh baked giant pretzels alone
>>21669454Nah. Lyon is renowned for BTFOing pretty much every city in France, if not the world. I will say that it’s right there on the cusp which some would argue that’s what makes it great.
>>21669371>No RussiaFuck outta here
>>21669371France and Austria should be red. Russia should be red.
>>21669371Germany. It's hard to go wrong with fried meat and bread. Also as an Amerishart, out of all of the red countries German restaurants are probably the most common here.Austria should be red though they're the same thing
>>21669478>Austria should be red though they're the same thing [as Germany]Yeah, you didn't need to tell us that you're American if you're gonna say something that fucking clueless. Jesus.
>>21669498I may not be an expert on whatever irrelevant shithole you're from, sure, but as far as the rest of the world is concerned Austrian food is credited to Germans anyway.
>>21669631I guarantee you've eaten my country's cuisine (or some American facsimile of it; a fatsimile, if you will) several times in the past week. >Austrian food is credited to Germans anyway.Other way around, you geographically-challenged retard. Wien is not in Germany.
>>21669638>Wien is not in Germany.No fucking shit. The point is everyone considers wiener schnitzel to be German food. Just like everyone considers strudel to be German too. Those foods are equally popular in both countries. You guys have your own kind of yodeling too but again everyone thinks it's German. Your cultures aren't unique enough for the rest of the world to bother differentiating them.
>>21669371unfortunately, poland
>>21669371even if north was better overall they got sweden and that's -100 points on the cuisine score
>>21669638Austria is a social construct.Anschluss now.
>>21669661>everyonelolYou mean fat, stupid "people" like you, you stupid fatty. >You guys Never said where I'm from, stupid.>yodelingSwiss origins, fatty, not German or Austrian origins.>Your culturesAgain, never said where I'm from, you stupid fatty. Would you be so kind as to go be obese and ill-informed somewhere else? We have no cake and pie here for you, flabby-bottom.
>>21669683You have to be 18+ to post here.
>>21669371Since it's highlighted, and we all agree German food is good, Czech food is pretty good also. It has influences from Germany and from Hungary and Slovakia. I like Polish food too, but it's less accessible to normies than German or Czech food is.
>>21669690>t. rotund retard
>>21669770Sadly I'm not fat, my diet of hamburgers and pepsi runs through me like water and exits my body long before any of it is really absorbed. I hear in less developed places like Europe that overweight people are seen as wealthy elites that can afford extra food. You're welcome to share where you're from but until then the foreigner having an autistic meltdown over Austrian stuff being called German is most likely Austrian. The rest of the world doesn't give a shit.
You know everyone always makes fun of British food until they take a vacation in a Scandinavian country. Safe to say I won't be making fun of Beans on toast ever again.
>>21669826Monaco, you fat, poverty-stricken prepubescent. : )But kudos for choosing Pepsi. Coke a shit.
>>21669379>chicken tikka masala made by indians living in the uk don’t countIt's like Americanized chinese food, separated from its cultural roots to the extent that it's no longer close to the original fare. It's british food at this point, even if that makes you cry.
>>21669830brits are way too overhated regarding cuisinei will never speak ill of the country that brought us shepherd's pie
>>21669839>MonacoWhile that's a lie, I can also see someone having a freakout about two countries being culturally indistinguishable when they're from a country that's just a swarthier, somehow even less relevant version of France.
>>21669841CTM is pretty damn close to the original dish it's based on, murgh makhani. The main difference is on the ratio of butter to tomato. CTM is very tomato-forward compared to MM, which is more butter forward. And yes, CTM is marinated, just as the original chicken tikka is, but the fact that it's saucy while tikka is not really makes it more similar to MM.Meanwhile, general tso's and fortune cookies don't even exist in China and have no similarities to actual Chinese dishes>>21669854We have our own language. : )We speak French and Italian for foreigners but between ourselves, it's Monégasque, which is closer to Italian than French. But yeah, French is the official language.Now, if you said Monaco had no real differences with Southern France? Begrudgingly, outside of language, I'd agree. But Austria is quite distinct from Germany in several ways.
from that map it's got to be belgium
>>21669861>But Austria is quite distinct from Germany in several ways.I never said it's not. There are lot of things invented in Austria and I appreciate them for that, delicious food included. The point is that 99% of people outside of central Europe don't know or care that schnitzel isn't from Germany, but instead from a German speaking country that borders Germany. You never see Austrian restaurants in the rest of the world, you see German restaurants that also serve Austrian food. Austrian foods are readily available in Germany and vice versa. There is massive overlap between the two countries' cuisines and for all intents and purposes they are synonymous.
>>21669454france is technically cheating
>>21670531France is still part of the potato/butter region in Europe and so kinda northern. Especially with its heavy ragouts.
>>21669830Bold of you to assume people who make fun of British cuisine have ever even tried it themselves.
>>21669478Germany is not Northern Europe though
Northern Euros only eat shit like spoiled fish and goat eyes.
>>21669371Hot take but the red countries have way better cuisine than the blue ones imo.Cold northern countries do the best stews, soups, meat pies and roasts. Just better at meat in general.Southern Europe is more about rice and pasta slop which frankly is done better by Asian cuisine.
>>21670634>Cold northern countries do the best stews, soups, meat pies and roasts. Just better at meat in general.lolNo they fucking don't, retard.lmaoJesus, imagine being so ignorant you think that some bland-ass bullshit from Norway is nearly as good as beef burgundy or porchetta.
>>21670644Beef burgundy is from Northern Europe lmao...As I said the north is great at stews.
>>21669456Islamic countries don't belong in Europe.
>>21670644>beef burgundyThere's nothing southern about bœuf bourguignon, retard.
>>21670644>porchettaMeme shit. Wow its a pork roast rolled up. Beef Wellington mogs.
>>21669371Belgium, because it's basically french cooking anyway.
It's almost as if sunnier countries have wider selections
Probably Swedish or Danish just by being more southern and having better opportunities to develop a cuisine while also not being ravaged by wars.
>>21670617>Bold of you to assume people who make fun of British cuisine have ever even tried it themselves.The anon is correct, people like to follow the memes for upvotes and it's unlikely they have ever eaten Brit food.
south
>>21670650>>21670656So you're colourblind as well as retarded. You two must be fun at a zebra crossing.>>21670690Wellie is the ultimate meme roast. All that work and it's… okay. That's it. Just okay.
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>>21670797WA LA!
>>21670797>Toast sandwichare you the same anon that I just upset here 2 minutes ago? >>>21670773
>>21670793>So you're colourblindThe map is trash as op and many others pointed out. Google potato/tomato or butter/olive oil europe for a better divide in north and south.
>>21670818No that's me, fuck you, not even top 3 in the red team
>>21670817>>21670818Did somebody say b-b-bread????
>>21670892Nice You forgot Lardy Cake, a very sweet treat indeed.
>>21669498All Austrians are slavs larping as Germans. If you aren't red then your eastern neighbours aren't either (they are).The entire Austro-Hungarian cuisine is the same shit with each country claiming they have the best paprika or veal. Slovaks are too poor to afford meat so the food is basically variations on flour with bacon and if they were lucky and didn't freeze that year then potatos.
>>21670837>Slovenia, like, totally eats a metric fucktonne of tomato and practically no potato at all, bruh, look at this maplmaoYou blithering fucking retard.>>21670936>Slovaks are too poor to afford meat so they eat baconHoly shit, you're the biggest retard in Retardville, you fucking retard.
>>21670946I said better not perfect divide, retard. Learn to read.
>>21670951>spaniards and italians don't eat potatoeslmaoBrosephine, two of the most famous dishes from Ethpanya are patatas bravas and tortilla ethpanyola. What do you think patatas means?
>>21670959And northern countries often add tomatoes to brown sauces. Mediterranian countries usually just don't serve everything with potatoes like the northern countries do. Just stop being autistic.
>>21670892parkin is great too
>>21670959NTAI think most of us got the idea that the other anon was generalising and to a large extent they are correct, I think you missed the point entirely.
>>21670976The only point you two have is to the tops of your skulls, you pair of absolute pinheads.>>21670971Fucking and? Doesn't make France, a Catholic country, just like the other southwestern European nations (who knew!), which speaks a latinate/romance language as its sole national tongue, just like the other southwestern European nations (whodathunkit!), northern, Schlitzie.France is southern. Beef burgundy, which is based on stracotto di manzo, anyway, is therefore also southern. QED
>>21671045>Catholic countryJust like western/southern Germany, Poland, Switzerland , Austria or Belgium which are still northern. Also bœuf bourguignon is as southern as goulash or bigos.
>>21671069There were two conditions there, retard and not a single one of your other examples fit that one. Work on your reading comprehension skills.
>>21671045*boeuf bourguignonUsing beef burgundy makes you look like a massive cunt. It's serious chip on the shoulder turbo faggotry.
>>21671084Bro, that's its name po angielski. Since we're hablando English, I'm using the Angliká term because a melange of sprogene is fucking carrotic (i doubt anyone will get that joke; it's just for me).
>>21671100Yeah, no, you're a cunt
>>21671113And you, madam, are a gwarglevur.
>>21670793Beef bourguignon was invented in the Duchy of Burgundy before the nation of France was unified. Definitely a northern European invention. But honestly, its just beef stew with wine. A traditional British or German beef stew is pretty much the same thing which is why its so obviously culturally northern European. Southern French cuisine has more in common with Spanish and Italian cuisine.
>>21669456Russia is an Asian country. Russians are asian
>>21671541Russia is Eurasian and the major culture of what you think is Russian is European, they just got lucky they had wast empty lands with at most a few disorganized mongos and arabs to their east and east south when they expanded
Switzerland and Liechtenstein are potato, not tomato countries. Being elevated terrains, they are more like Northerns.
>>21671244It's literally identical to stracotto di manzo which is a much, much older dish. Bœuf bourguignon dates from the late 1800s. Stracotto was one of Caterina de' Medici's favourite dishes, pre-dating bœuf bourguignon by over three centuries. It is a southern dish by virtue of being of Italian origins.
>>21672104>It's literally identical to stracotto di manzo which is a much, much older dishYeah because that is literally just beef stew you fucking retard.
>>21672104le beef burgundy has origins in burgundy 1000 years ago
>>21669861So chicken tikka masala is different from the original in several ways. Thanks for agreeing with my point that it's its own dish and as such british food.
>>216724111867 was basically last Tuesday. My house is older than beef burgundy.
>>21672104>stracotto di manzoJust stolen beef stew from ancient Greece.
>>21672869Which is also southern. Thanks for playing. : )
>>21669830how exactly is beans on toast better than toast skagen you pint battered shithead
>>21670837also this one
>>21669661Wiener Schnitzel is from Milan, Italy. Strudel is Austrian. It's far more common in South Tirol (Italy) than Bayern (Southern Germany).
>>21673061>Wiener Schnitzel is from Milan, Italy.We wuz Kangs and shiet
>>21673123It's a bit muddled but all known signs point to Italian origins, yes.An unnamed dish similar to cotoletta alla milanese was first documented in 1134, in a Latin manuscript from the archives of the Basilica of Saint Ambrose. It described a dish of breaded and fried veal cutlet, literally the same as today’s cotoletta alla milanese.The first known written mention of something like wienerschnitzel in any Germanic source appears much later, in the 19th century in Austria. The first is an 1831 cookbook by Anna Dorn but it just called them breaded meat cutlets. It was later republished in 1845 and the dish was named Wiener Schnitzel.Funny enough, a more popular contemporary cookbook is by Katharina Prato/Pratobevera (née Polt). Her husband, Eduard Pratobevera was an historian and officer /of Ligurian origins/ working for the Austrian empire. Her book wasn't published until a year after her 1857 wedding. She was 13 when Anna Dorn published her book.Both dishes are eaten with fried potato and wedges of lemon.
