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I guess we can all agree that now it’s easier to get whatever you can think of: accessories, clothing, shoes, electronics, books, magazines, etc., from all around the world. However, there are still some things that are hard to get in a certain country. Especially when we talk about food and drinks. 

Reddit users were asked:  “What common foods in your country are considered delicacies by foreigners?” The list of things that people love but find hard to get in their country goes on and on, from common things such as tap water or bread to caviar, rare meat, or maple syrup. These not only include products but also various dishes that are hard to make right. One of the things that some people named were French pastries. Even though you can find a baguette or croissant in almost every country, people still find these pastries to be best made by the French. And it seems that people who find them seize the opportunity to savor them as much as possible. So, if you are French, don’t be surprised to see a person with 12 or so baguettes going down the street. Also, some people were surprised to find that caviar is found as a delicacy, while for them, it’s a common food. The question that has almost 47k upvotes received many more funny yet understandable answers. 

Do you have any foods that didn't make it to the list? Then don’t forget to leave them in the comments down below!

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

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Hilary Mol
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm part Dutch, and I found a small market here (US, Michigan) that sells them. Michigan has a fairly large Dutch population, and I'm starting to see Stroopwafel more regularly. They're lovely.

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30 Foods That Foreigners Consider To Be Delicacies But For Locals They’re Common, Shared In This Online Group French here so, a lot of our food. If there's one thing we know how to do, it's exporting our food as fancy delicacies.

The truth is, apart from pastries/desserts which can be pretty complicated to put together (the effort to make even just twelve croissants...), most French food is just peasant stuff spruced up for the modern times. The logic is almost always:

Take a cheap-ish cut of meat

Cook it either in wine or in broth for a few hours with a bunch of onions and whatever herbs grow nearby

Add carrots/potatoes, enjoy

That's the basis for bœuf bourguignon, coq au vin, gigot d'agneau, pot-au-feu, blanquette de veau, etc. If you want to get fancy you can wrap it in pastry, and that's another dozen French specialties right there.

There's not really a way to f**k it up, really. It's meat, cooked at low heat over several hours, with a bunch of aromatic herbs; as long as you've got a sturdy pot and you don't let it dry, you'll get something in the range from edible to delicious.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's the wine sauce that makes it so good. I love savory dishes with wine sauce.

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30 Foods That Foreigners Consider To Be Delicacies But For Locals They’re Common, Shared In This Online Group Water, our tap water is perfect and no local ever buys bottled (iceland)

A lot of people are mentioning the sulfur smell of the hot water, and that depends on the area. For example where I live the hot water comes directly from a nearby hot spring area so naturally its gonna have a smell. Locals dont smell it though.

For drinking water you just need to run the tap for a bit, that will get any hot water outta the pipes and bring you spring water.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i lived in Alaska for awhile and the tap was better than anything bottled

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Daria B
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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John Baker
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Here's a free clue. Most bottled water is just someone else's tap water. Especially the "no name" dollar store brands.

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Beans
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well kinda. They usually purify it using reverse osmosis, which a regular filter can't do.

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Brian Bennett
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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Beans
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm in Australia. The water tastes like chlorine to me. Unless I get it tested im not really game that it's excellent filtered water. I've lived in Europe and the US and I only time the water was good from the tap was Switzerland

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Solidhog
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Here in the UK the cold water is piped directly into the house and totally drinkable and lovely. But you don't drink from the hotwater tap because that comes from a tank most of the time or through a boiler. I LOVE TAP WATER!

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Pamela Blue
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm Canadian, and my tap water here in London, Ontario, is lovely. However, just a hour or so down the road is a city where the tap water is totaly undrinkable. But London gets its water from a different place, and the other city gets their's from a well (with a lot of iron in it).

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Id row
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Go to any bar in Iceland, ask for glass of water, it's tap water. Same in home when using soda stream. But do not, i repeat DO NOT drink tap hot water 🤣🤣🤣

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Giovanna
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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!

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Vicky Z
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah depends on the country.... in my country we also drink from the tap

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Dave P
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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Ragnhild Nilsen
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I live in Norway, and our tap water is better than most bottled water. Actually the water from the communal waterworks further south in Norway is bottled in fancy bottles and sold as Voss water. The recidents of Iveland shower and flush their loos with Voss water......

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Same here in Switzerland, people go crazy for "Water from the Swiss Alps". I live on a mountain, the same water they buy in bottles for a lot of money comes out of the tap in my house everyday.

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Elaine Wong
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Switzerland had the best tasting tap water I've ever tried and it also came out ice cold (not sure if that's standard or if that's only near mountain areas). I remember going to Lucerne one summer and my hotel didn't have a fridge/minibar, so I just ran a basin full of tap water to keep my drinks cool.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The first time I went to Sweden, I had a hard time trying to buy bottled still water because tap water there is such high quality. Shops generally only sell sparkling water, which I'm not too keen on, but had to settle for.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My mom lives on an island in Maine with a very deep drilled well. The tap water is basically very cold Poland Spring water that you could buy in a bottle.

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Unnamed Hooman
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Buy empty plastic bottles, fill them with tap water, sell them as ‘better tasting than regular bottled water’ and boom. $$$$

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Nicki
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I lived in NY (Long Island) for a few years and the tap water was sublime, especially in the winter when it came out of the tap ice cold. Yum!

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Adri Febrianto
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In Indonesia, tap water is absolutely undrinkable. Bottled water is a serious business here. It even comes in a cup.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Locals dont smell it though", keyphrase right there. As a visitor I can tell you we do. We really do. Especially when it's warm, like in a shower. It wears off in a few days though but when we come home we can still smell it on our clothes for awhile. Totally worth it though, and harmless!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Iceland does a great job with this. I smelled it but never tasted it in food. I've been to other places with hotsprings and the food will have the sulfer taste from the water. Disgusting. But loved my time.in Iceland and planning on goiing back.

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Guillaume O'Perucha
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In most of Europe the tap water is excellent. Better than bottle water in a lot of aspects, quality included.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Portland, Oregon has excellent tap water. I don’t understand why anyone would buy bottled here.

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Les Izmore
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I live in the Canadian Rockies. Our tap water has won bottled water competitions.

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R L
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We drink our tap water (SA, most parts) but were recently in Lesotho and their water is fantastic, ice cold from the tap- haven't tasted anything so good in years. Bottled water tastes mundane next to it.

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Derek Clark
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Here in the Netherlands our tap water is good too. I never buy plastic bottles, too much waste.

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Zaza
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In The Netherlands we drink tap water too. Bars and restaurants will serve bottled water (and you pay per glass of it), either flat or sparkling and people will buy small waterbottles for on the go, but the standard is for everyone to just drink tap water. A few places have hard water (high calcium), people there don't buy bottled water either, they have a device on the tap that makes the water soft

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Radek Suski
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Congrats. `We actually have a great tap water too yet people buying the shitty bottled water

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Me Potter
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My favorite water is the tap water in our families house in Switzerland: we have our own spring, and it's cristal clear and ice cold; it always takes some time after coming back home (and Germany has good tap water too) until I get used to the water again

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Iceland, one of my favorites . .. but, the hot water with its sulpher content will blacken ( oxidize ) all silver based jewelry .

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My daughter's town in the mountains in Idaho has fantastic spring water.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No local. As a visitor to iceland I even brushed my teeth with bottled water. I wonder how long it takes to get used to it.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you have hard water that is heavily chlorinated after it is treated at the towns waste treatment plan, it tastes nasty. I have a filter in my refrigerator to get better tasting water.

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Beans
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Most filters don't get rid of that much chlorine unless you have a special one. Like the Brita long last does, apparently... But the standard one only filters 'some'

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Chicago has the cleanest least processed water of any city in the US. I point and laugh at the idiots buying bottled water here - it's like they don't know that what they're buying is Chicago tap that's been put through the equivalent of a Brita filter.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It used to be a normal thing to drink from tap. I grew up with tap water. Everything changed in the past twenty years with all the society development. Before it was good. Now, nothing is good.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is actually true in most of the world. Most cities provide clean, potable water, better than you buy in the store. The problem tends to be pipes. Some older buildings (or worse, older cities) have pipes that literally poison the water. Many people simply do not bother to test their water and just get filtered.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But filtering won't remove all the bad stuff unless you have a reverse osmosis filter.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I never drink bottled water. I live in Texas and I drink straight from the tap or from the "ice water" thing in the refrigerator. I also drink out of the garden hose, which, I think, is considered to be "dangerous" by "woke Democrats" who would call the cops on me if it were my son doing so.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh dear, You have strange problems with democrats in Texas, unlike the rest of the world.

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30 Foods That Foreigners Consider To Be Delicacies But For Locals They’re Common, Shared In This Online Group We had some Japanese exchange students at our university in the US, and when they saw the cubed melon on the salad bar (the standard watermelon/cantaloupe/honeydew mix), they thought we were living like royalty. Apparently melon is a really expensive, special occasion food over there.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In Japan, one of those square watermelons go for anywhere between $100 and $200.

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

I live in Finland. We have a lot of forests, so lot of berries such as blueberries and lingonberries. Everyman's Rights mean that you can just go and pick as much as you can find. It's kinda one of those things where if you live near any forested area, and are willing to spent time there come late summer, you'll probably have enough to last until next year in your freezer.

We have so much berries that people from poorer countries (Thailand is a common one for some reason) are hired to pick them up, because doing berrypicking enough to actually profit monetarily is heavy work, and apparently the pay isn't worth it for most Finns.

At the same time, forest berries are considered a superfood around the world, very healthy and trendy. Dunno about actual delicacy status, but definitely a difference in how we think about them.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It is a delicay because they aren't abundant and only in certain climates. I lived in the area around Lake Superior (only u.s. ares with majority Finnish heritage) and tourists are surprised they can just almost wherever they want, and pick berries and mushrooms while they do it. (Though locals don't tell them all the spots, lol) Sigh... miss it.

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30 Foods That Foreigners Consider To Be Delicacies But For Locals They’re Common, Shared In This Online Group a good baguette. I've seen american tourist walk out of a bakery with like 12 of them. Slow down dude, they are made all day long, you don't need that many

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Hilary Mol
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have yet to find a local bakery that makes a good, crusty baguette. The last time I had truly good, crusty bread was in France almost 30 years ago.

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30 Foods That Foreigners Consider To Be Delicacies But For Locals They’re Common, Shared In This Online Group Hawaii has somehow turned spam into a sought after food, especially by visitors from Japan.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was amazed at this fact when I first learned it many, many years ago. I guess it's still popular. I'm still amazed. That stuff is foul.

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30 Foods That Foreigners Consider To Be Delicacies But For Locals They’re Common, Shared In This Online Group I worked for a charity in Iraq for a year and we'd buy a dozen lamb chops for the equivalent of $5. That's like $60 to buy in the US and it's worse quality.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

UK here. I used to love eating cheap cuts of meat, oxtail etc. However, because TV chefs championed these cuts, it drove the prices up.

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30 Foods That Foreigners Consider To Be Delicacies But For Locals They’re Common, Shared In This Online Group (good) olive oil.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Extra virgin olive oil with the best quality being in the Mediterranean countries

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30 Foods That Foreigners Consider To Be Delicacies But For Locals They’re Common, Shared In This Online Group Good french pastries and stuff like croissant and "pain au chocolat", we call them "viennoiserie" in french, no idea if there is a specific word for it in english.

Obviously in France they are super easy to find in any bakery and they are cheaper. It's so common that honestly not a lot of people do go buy some croissants every day.

Macarons are also relatively easy to find, usually they are made in special shops but some bakery do make them.

Oh, and if you go to France or go to a (GOOD) french bakery in your country, try a Paris-Brest . You will not regret it.

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30 Foods That Foreigners Consider To Be Delicacies But For Locals They’re Common, Shared In This Online Group Speculaas/Speculoos/Biscoff cookies. Delicacy might be a big word but people seem to loose their minds over these cookies.

They're originally from Belgium & the Netherlands.

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30 Foods That Foreigners Consider To Be Delicacies But For Locals They’re Common, Shared In This Online Group Jamón serrano, here in Spain is really common and you can find very good product for a very affordable price.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Love it, it has such a rich taste. Here in German supermarkets it is easily available but in comparably small and pricy packs so I treat it as an occasional luxury.

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30 Foods That Foreigners Consider To Be Delicacies But For Locals They’re Common, Shared In This Online Group Halloumi cheese. It's a huge staple in Cyprus and we eat it all the times but in the US I only ever see it as Barbaques and sometimes at exotic cheese plates.

For the halloumi lovers out there try white bread, halloumi and strawberry jam. You are welcome

Try halloumi with watermelon. A groundbreaking combo that is the staple of many summer evenings

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Halloumi with humous and sliced tomato in a fresh baked pita is excellent. If you haven't made pita, it's extremely easy, and so delicious fresh baked. google the recipe.

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30 Foods That Foreigners Consider To Be Delicacies But For Locals They’re Common, Shared In This Online Group It was supposed to be caviar, but now it's also unaffordable for us. cries in Russian

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A friend of mine went to Russia probably 15 years ago--they stuffed themselves with caviar, and they said it was cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap. I'm sorry to hear this has changed.

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30 Foods That Foreigners Consider To Be Delicacies But For Locals They’re Common, Shared In This Online Group Fried Chicken, it's actually become a special holiday meal in countries like japan where you have to reserve your bucket weeks in advance! (mainly because of clever marketing)

But here, people would laugh so hard at that, cause it's just fried chicken!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not exactly true it isn't really a special occasion meal, you can get Karaage chicken or KFC at any time any place in Japan, but it is true that for some reason it has become a popular tradition to have Fried Chicken (often KFC) at christmas time, and yes, people do order and reserve their buckets well in advance. xP

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30 Foods That Foreigners Consider To Be Delicacies But For Locals They’re Common, Shared In This Online Group I'm from Russia and I had an acquaintance who was going to marry an Irish guy. They lived in Russia for some time the guy went completely bonkers for caviar of capelin fish. It's not really a delicacy, it's not rare or expensive at all (probably approx $2.5-3 a can) but he liked it so much he wanted to bring a crate of it for their wedding in Europe. Needless to say his soon to be wife wife was not amused (imagine wanting to bring a crate of peanut butter or something to your wedding).

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Russians used to ask me to bring peanut butter from the states all the time before it was available in stores

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30 Foods That Foreigners Consider To Be Delicacies But For Locals They’re Common, Shared In This Online Group Prosciutto. Like, it's just ham, guys. No biggie.

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30 Foods That Foreigners Consider To Be Delicacies But For Locals They’re Common, Shared In This Online Group Do maple syrup or poutine count? I know at the least, in university I had a friend who came up from the US and thought poutine was the greatest thing ever. Honestly, I'm kind of surprised more of the US hasn't adopted it. Fries, cheese curds, and gravy, sounds more like an American thing. Not sure what other country's opinions on it are.

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30 Foods That Foreigners Consider To Be Delicacies But For Locals They’re Common, Shared In This Online Group Reindeer meat, wild blueberries and cloudberries.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Finland, I presume? I've had venison before, but not had reindeer meat/venison until visiting finland, oddly enough the first time I had it was on a pizza at Kotipizza in Helsinki, the first time I flew over there to meet my now-fiance.

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

I live in Texas and any time anyone comes from out of state we HAVE to go get barbecue.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Most parts would call a regular grill a Barbecue, and don't even know what you are talking about.

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30 Foods That Foreigners Consider To Be Delicacies But For Locals They’re Common, Shared In This Online Group I live in Japan but I’m from the US. Whenever I go back home I buy a few bags of Lindt chocolates from the drugstore as souvenirs. They’re dirt cheap in the US, but for whatever reason they’re a luxury chocolate in Japan, and the same bags would cost $30 here.

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30 Foods That Foreigners Consider To Be Delicacies But For Locals They’re Common, Shared In This Online Group As Italian living in Germany I can say that basically every food from my culture is considered fancy here.

A couple of days ago I saw an Arancino ( cheap fried rice cake ) sold for 5€

In Italy a good Arancino is 1€

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

As an Indian staying in Europe, I hate butter chicken because it has taken over Indian cuisine in Europe and noone wants to try the real stuff.

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Aliquid A
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Depends on how you define "the real stuff". The version of Butter Chicken you are eating in Europe has existed almost as long as the ones in India. The dish has only existed since the 1950s. It isn't like it is some sort of traditional food that pre-dates European contact.

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30 Foods That Foreigners Consider To Be Delicacies But For Locals They’re Common, Shared In This Online Group Depending on where in the US you live, lobster, king crab, Dungeness crab, abalone, spotted prawns, geoduck, etc. can be pretty cheap, normal food but for foreigners they go nuts over these things because they are so expensive elsewhere.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Right? When i lived in Alaska, things like crab/salmon were dirt cheap. we used to just go to the docks and buy it for literally nothing. but elsewhere....$$$$$

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30 Foods That Foreigners Consider To Be Delicacies But For Locals They’re Common, Shared In This Online Group Krainer wurst or carniolan sausage, protected by EU for being slovenian speciality that can only be made here but loved and eaten by milions of germans and austrians.
It's the name that can't be used if made outside of Slovenia and sold commercialy not the actual sausage.

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30 Foods That Foreigners Consider To Be Delicacies But For Locals They’re Common, Shared In This Online Group An indian prepared bajji on master chef Australia

Bajji is available at every 5 blocks or so.

The whole recipe is cut onion/potato, coat it with gramflour and spice and fry. Indians who saw that surely laughed

(In south indian states bhaji is called bajji)

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We used to do the same but with wheat flour. Called them scallops. Yes we were poor and inland. But bhaji and pakiras are good stuff. Though I usually grate the potatoes.

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30 Foods That Foreigners Consider To Be Delicacies But For Locals They’re Common, Shared In This Online Group Pheasant. I grew up in South Dakota and we hunted pheasants every day during the season. In college it was a cheap source of food and ate it all the time. In Central and South American countries it is a delicacy and people could not believe I ate it every day.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Once upon a time, the same could be said for the UK - pheasants are still everywhere, but it seems like it's not exactly a popular dish unless you're one of those "uppity" rich country folk like that...

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30 Foods That Foreigners Consider To Be Delicacies But For Locals They’re Common, Shared In This Online Group Especially in my region its called "blutwurst" roughly translated as "blood sausage" or "black pudding" and i hate it

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Black Pudding or blood sausages are common in the UK too, I think it's common all over Europe and some asian countries, such as Korea with it's "Sundae" have equivalents, I personally love it!

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30 Foods That Foreigners Consider To Be Delicacies But For Locals They’re Common, Shared In This Online Group are quail eggs delicacies? because I could just buy them at a grocery store here like normal eggs but I rarely ever hear of them anywhere else

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Can buy them cheap in grocery stores in Russia too. In the US I think they are expensive

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In my experience a lot of common everyday French foods are high-end specialty foods here in the US. In France, every corner store I went to sold the type of cheese, charcuterie, and pâté that you'd have to go to Whole Foods for here. And it isn't particularly expensive, it's just normal food. Like I went to a little grocer in Paris and got pieces of 4 different cheeses, and I thought, this is going to be like $28. No, it was like $6. I'm just used to what Whole Foods charges. I went to a big department store in the Paris suburbs and there was just an aisle that had all the dry-cured ham and such and tins of pâté, laid out as casually as Lunchables in the US. It's just regular food.

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30 Foods That Foreigners Consider To Be Delicacies But For Locals They’re Common, Shared In This Online Group Piña Coladas i guess. Here in PR you can get them absolutely everywhere with or without alcohol, its mostly just a refreshing drink.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I drink pineapple and coconut juice - same flavour, fewer calories (as there's no cream and no alcohol)

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30 Foods That Foreigners Consider To Be Delicacies But For Locals They’re Common, Shared In This Online Group Any kind of sheep meat. Lamb, mutton, etc.

In non-sheep countries it can be quite expensive. Here it is the cheapest meat and commonly used instead of pork as the "filler meat" in grocery store products such as sausages.

Also, fresh fish - the fish processing time is pretty short here, with fish instantly getting unloaded and sent to factories after the boats arrive, and then quickly processed and sold to consumers - so that the fish is even fresher than in some other seaside countries.

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I've had American friends ask me to send over Cadbury chocolate. IMO it's not as nice as it used to be since it was bought out by Kraft (the irony!) but people still go nuts for it.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The US exchange students at the college I worked at would take boxes of Cadbury’s Flake bars home with them at the end of term - even though I advised them that Galaxy Ripples were far superior. Mind you, after trying Hershey’s “chocolate” even our crappiest chocolate is a step up from that soapy abomination.

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Carnitas, literally something i see prepared on the side of the street everyday

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We have a lot of Mexicans and South Americans in my area. The food from the food trucks is FANTASTIC! Carnitas, Arepas and enchiladas are so good freshly made by someone's abuela.

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

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Target has had them in US stores for a while now, but TimTams continue to fly under the cookie radar.

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30 Foods That Foreigners Consider To Be Delicacies But For Locals They’re Common, Shared In This Online Group Fried plantains, or mofongo, Wich is just more fried plantains mashed with garlic and some Bs toppings.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Mofongo is wonderful! But you'd be surprised how it can be messed up. I had it at a restaurant once and it was dry and nasty. I think they used old left over tostones from days past. So disappointing, especially when you are craving it!

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#38

Kofta: it's so simple to make, you need ground beef and tons of spices and cook them in the grill or bbq.

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30 Foods That Foreigners Consider To Be Delicacies But For Locals They’re Common, Shared In This Online Group Goji berries. We put that stuff in our soups and many people pick that out when they drink the soup.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yep, same. Step mother gets the things in bulk at the nearest far eastern supermarket. I think they are gross though, and indeed eject them from soup.

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Morel Mushrooms. I never had them though.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Very, very, very, very, very, very good. I only eat it for christmas or on special occasions because they are expensive. I want to know where the OP live because i never saw cheap morels?

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30 Foods That Foreigners Consider To Be Delicacies But For Locals They’re Common, Shared In This Online Group Durian. The number of durian farmers who have found overnight wealth are astonishing due to export demand

Due to land scarcity, the durian you have tasted are either from Malaysia (where I'm from) or Thailand. Singapore and China are our biggest exporters.

Also, during pre-covid times, hundreds of coaches ferrying Chinese tourists would visit these commercialised durian orchards on a daily basis for their durian fix. They are offered an all-you-can eat service for a fix price. In other words, it's a durian buffet !

My family owns about few hundred trees of durian on our land but it's only for own comsumption and we'll share it with our friends&family when the harvest is huge. We are far from commercial scale.

Durian is an acquired taste and very polarizing. You either love it or hate it. I'm the latter and the only one in my family, to the dismay of my family. Growing up around the scent, it doesn't bother me. Just dislike the taste. However, I still respect it as the King of the Fruit!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It is polarizing where you hate it or love it but there's a genetic component to it as well. Different people taste/smell different things in a durian. Cilantro is like that as well. To most people near me, its the world's greatest herb and it is in everything. I'm part of the ~13% that anything with cilantro only tastes like dish soap. Best way to ruin a taco is make it taste like a punishment for profanity.

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#42

Gulyás in Hungary is a common soup dish. But for other countries it is uncommon.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's very common in Germany and Austria, though. But people here can't distinguish between gulyás and pörkölt. So what you get as goulash in Germany is pörkölt most of the time and gulyás is called goulash soup.

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Not just my country but my locality... scallops.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I live in a landlocked part of the world. Most of the scallops we get aren't even scallops, they're cookie cutter slices from fish or ground up and pressed into molds and called "medallions". Around here, if all of them are the same size and shape, good chance they aren't the real thing.

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30 Foods That Foreigners Consider To Be Delicacies But For Locals They’re Common, Shared In This Online Group Feijoada. In its core it's working class food, though usually a fancier version is considered a delicacy. And it's rarely as good as the real thing btw.

Also those are not as known but when I lived abroad I blew people's mind with pão de queijo and brigadeiro, which are incredibly common and easy to make.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I came back from Brazil ADDICTED to pao de queijo, and it is something impossible to find here in Italy. A while after that a friend of mine went to Brazil and I asked him to bring me back 1kg of pao de queijo, which I froze :D

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#47

Stella Artois, apparently. I've seen it being served on a tray with a little glass of nuts and whatnot abroad. You don't get that with a Stella or in fact any pils-style beer over here...

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#48

Poutine or maple syrup

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Here maple syrup only comes in tiny bottles and although it says "real" on the label it just tastes like sugar syrup so I'm quite sure it is not real. We do have chips and gravy, cheap to buy or to make. Have been putting mild cheese on mine, but don't know if that really is the same.

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#49

KFC in China. They can't get enuff of that sh*t.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Tell people in China that anything is "American" and they go nuts about it. That is why there are now obese children and teenagers never before seen.

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HotDogs :D I'm a foreigner and I consider HotDogs and Taco Bell Delicacies.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I wouldn't think that hotdog is a delicacy anywhere... isn't it fast food?

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