30 Foods That Foreigners Consider To Be Delicacies But For Locals They’re Common, Shared In This Online Group

I use to get this monthly snack box that would feature a different country every month. One month was the Netherlands and I got to try a few of these. Omg so good! I was so thrilled when I found them in a store here in the US

There's a guy who has a cart in my town and he bikes it around to different locations and anytime I spot him out and about it always ends in a wild chase xD

As a dutch person, the comments are so funny to read <3

OMG I LOVE THEM. You can buy these in Aldi in Poland or in Action, not in regular shops though.

I love these! I am a Dutch national but I only lived in the Netherlands as an adult. I never drank coffee until I move there, now I can't live without it! I can buy Stroopwafels at Lidl now, and there's nothing quite like them. Nobody else I know even likes them so I get eat them all myself!

I made pain au chocolate once and hoo boy....never ever again...It took all day and the whole time I was thinking about how I could've just gotten better ones at the local bakery for like 3 dollars...

I'm not gonna lie...that food in the picture looks freaking delicious.

Many popular dishes were originally peasant food. Using prep and spices and vegetables on cheap cuts of meat to make them more palatable.

But people often don't take the time the dish needs and try to shortcut it - and then they f**k it up.

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The thing about smell. Water, the basic drinking liquid, which we perceive as neutral, actually has a taste, which differs based on minerals, I guess? Water in Croatia is a bit sweet compared to Korean water (either bottled or tap water), which is a bit bitter in taste. It's interesting to travel far and find out the things we take for granted are actually so amazing.

I think people who purchase bottled water in countries with excellent filtering plants are wasting their hard earned money!

The tap water I had when I was in Alexandria Bay, NY was the most delicious I've ever tasted, it was like drinking from a glacier. Way better than any bottled water I've ever had, too.

I've been to Iceland and I can confirm that! Also, the smell made me sure I was having a thermal treatment every time I showered!

In a taste test of NYC tap water against the 6 most popular brands and the 4 most expensive luxury water brands, NYC came out third. Also is ranked one of the best waters in the world, and naturally clean enough, NYC has a federal exemption from using purification plants.

A little less extreme, but in Korea, a watermelon is between 10 000 and 20 000 krw, which is considered, and is indeed, expensive. Affordable, but to eat sparingly. In Croatia, one huge watermelon was... what? Not even 1 000 krw.... (for the record, 1 000 krw is little less than 1 euro, or cca 1 usd). So, yes, I can totally imagine this can happen with Japanese people. Melon kinds of fruit are expensive to start with.

There's a large tourist attraction in my city that has an awesome buffet bar. Almost every single Asian tourist that was there kept going back for piles and piles of watermelon. I don't blame them, watermelon is delicious!! It made me happy seeing how happy there were. On another note, my Mum had her first grape at 29 years of age after moving from the Philippines to Australia. So much fresh produce we take for granted.

In New Zealand...buying from a vendor on the side of the road, a large watermelon is approx $3.

An exchange student from Korea that I know obsessively ate a piece of cake every day. She could not believe cake is available practically every day of the year. Apparently, in Korea, you have cake only on someone's birthday.

I'm in the UK ,I think we're very lucky to have cheap fruit and veg. Sometimes price is seasonal but you can get some basic stuff for literally pence.

We always did that in poland when I was a kid. Mushroom picking and berries. Yummy- not the mushrooms- hate those ;)

Same!!! wild berries are always so much better, especially just when you sit down in the middle of a field of them on a sunny day and just eat your afternoon away. (or does everyone else save them and that's just me?)

the bike trail in my neighborhood is "no spray" and there are blackberry bushes along it. Best mid-run refuel ever.

Same in Estonia. In summer, I usually spend much time in a nearby forest picking blueberries (about 5 min walk from home, old nice forest). And I eat them with milk or make raw jam and eat with pancakes.

I have a friend in the Czech Republic that goes mushroom picking every season. He sends me pictures of their haul and I am always jealous because I LOVE MUSHROOMS! I live in the US (SoCal) and I would never test my luck picking mushrooms, I might accidentally kill myself or get super high 🤣🤣🤣

When I was in Mexico, I tried to eat (and find) all 9 varieties of avocado--my favourite was this tiny, black one--you could eat the skin. They are delicious.

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I Love Avocados!

Well, that's logical

We have an avacado tree in our backyard. Something my grandfather planted before he passed way that finally began bearing fruit.

Avocado's from South Africa, in South Africa they can range anywhere from 4 for $1 to about S1 each depending on export demand and time of year...Or Free if the chap down the street invites to unload their overburdened tree