• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
    231·
    2 天前

    Got to love the French calling Italian food overrated, when their international recognized dish consists of black coffee and a cigarette.

  • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world
    6·
    1 天前

    We Dutch people don’t even eat that much sauerkraut since it is a German dish. The French actually know us for our baked goods. You know the ones that kick in after an hour.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
      7·
      2 天前

      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.

  • bstix@feddit.dkEnglish
    9·
    2 天前

    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.

      • bstix@feddit.dkEnglish
        3·
        1 天前

        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.

    • RedSnt ♾️🦋♂️👓🖥️@feddit.dk
      1·
      1 天前

      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.

        • Hogrider@lemmy.world
          4·
          1 天前

          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.

        • khannie@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          2 天前

          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.

        • khannie@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          2 天前

          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).

  • Lehmuusa@nord.pubEnglish
    39·
    2 天前

    I like it how the map essentially says “we cannot find anything proper to complain about Italy.”

    • megopie@beehaw.orgEnglish
      19·
      2 天前

      “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.”

        • megopie@beehaw.orgEnglish
          3·
          1 天前

          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.

        • ATPA9@feddit.orgEnglish
          1·
          10 小时前

          Do you really just leave us hanging without telling us how to upgrade carbonara?

            • megopie@beehaw.orgEnglish
              2·
              1 天前

              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.

  • qyron@sopuli.xyz
    61·
    2 天前

    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.

  • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world
    359·
    2 天前

    France is good for bread and wine. French food is basically Italian food without pasta. Lots of butter and salt with no competing flavors. Want something with your savory dish? Fuck you, pair it with a wine. Want spicy? Fuck you that’s not tradition!

    French food is bad. It tastes fine but the ceremony and culture around it are toxic.

    • The_v@lemmy.world
      271·
      2 天前

      “French food is really good.” they told me during months I spent traveling all around country over many years. “It’s just complicated and most people don’t know how to cook it.”

      Me “So in the past two weeks I have tried 14 different places in 6 different cities and all 14 meals have been horrible. Okay…”

      There’s a reason why a tire company publishing a list of recommended places to eat when traveling around France became so popular. Its not because the average place to get food was good.

      Mexico: Stopping at a gas station, a little old lady hand rolling tortillas and cooking them on an open bbq. Her “Tacos?” Me nodding vigorously"Si, si, si" They were insanely delicious.

      • myyass@lemmy.world
        31·
        2 天前

        Yeah I can’t think of any French food that I’m like yeah this is good. Michlin stars? I to like the putting on sticky gold stars in grade school to make myself feel better? I literally have no memory that I can say that was something good that I tried.

        I’ll have an Irish/English breakfast or fish and chips any day. German sourdough or bratwurst and pretzels or schnitzel. Sushi any day.

        The irony is there’s a what used to be a gas station, and repair place as I had my car worked on there, that’s now considered one of the best Mexican places in town.

    • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      1·
      1 天前

      Nice rage bait try 😁

      If you seriously think french food is bread and wine, lol, then you have a lot of nice food to discover.

      Next time add cheese to the stereotype 😉

    • Pyr@lemmy.ca
      4·
      2 天前

      I can’t even tell you what French food is… Nothing comes to mind as particularly French. I can imagine Italian, Greek, Spanish, German, etc but all I can come up with for French is baguettes and escargot.

      • Axolotl@feddit.it
        7·
        2 天前

        Hey! The ciabatta is totally different from a baguette!

        Ciabatta’s crust is more thicc, the crumb has more holes and is more chewy while the baguette crust isn’t as thicc as ciabatta’s one and the crumb is more dense and soft

        • The_v@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 天前

          Baguette: Chewy on the inside, hard, crusty, and chewy on the outside. Gotta scrape the inside of your mouth and give your jaw muscles a workout. If your mouth and jaw isn’t sore after eating one, it’s no good.

          Ciabatta: We like the chewy but the hard and crusty not so much. Let put a ton of olive oil on the outside to lessen the crusty, but keep the chewy. And being Italian, olive oil goes on most things anyways.

        • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          3·
          2 天前

          True, but I believe the baker who invented it did state that it was meant to compete or substitute a baguette, but Italian.