35 People Share What Stereotypical Foods From Their Nation They Don’t Actually Eat

What's even more interesting is that potatoes were first discovered in South America where they would be brought back to Europe by the Spanish.

I’ve also heard that you’ll have the occasional Guinness.

Washed down with a big glass of milk.

They were originally sold in American Japanese restaurants. With Pearl Harbor, all those restaurants closed so the distribution switched over to Chinese ones and stayed there.

quell surprise...

Very true, no fortune cookies over here

It's not actually food. You're not supposed to eat it.

A friend of mine who used to live in New York City told me that she was on the subway once and overheard a Chinese girl say to her friend, "Let's go get Chinese. But not good Chinese. I mean bad American Chinese."

I think that's pretty standard for all "foreign" food served outside of their country of origin. I'm Hungarian, and every time I see the "goulash" Americans make/eat, I want to bleach my eyes. And the same way, if any born and bred Italian would see what I make as "Italian" food, I'm sure they would be sobbing for a week. And of course most "Mexican" food outside of Mexico is just anything with a handful of beans and corn tossed on top. And to be fair, there"s nothing wrong with any of these. Everyone should eat and cook whatever they like, and call it whatever they like. (And accept that those who are from the country where that food originated from have the right to be offended LOL.)

People act as if Americans created these dishes and called them Chinese, or they were taylored to the American palette. Not at all. No, they're not necessarily from China, but they are the dishes and recipes created by Chinese immigrants in the US using what they had at hand.

It's based on food invented by Chinese immigrants 200 years ago, who couldn't get the same ingredients they had at home, so they did their best to imitate it. And most people liked it, so it stuck

It's Americanized Chinese food :P But yeah, most of the dishes you would find at a Chinese takeout in the states do not exist here

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And "bacon" in Ireland, at least when I visited there recently, was nothing like what Americans think of as bacon. It's more like ham. But substituting corned beef is an upgrade, IMO.

Anyone else get very hungry looking at that pic? 😊

Also known as 'New England Boiled Dinner'.

Specifically, the Jewish Delis in New York sold corned beef which was both reasonably priced and tasted good. Meat and cabbage was a Eastern European thing, but Jews replaced the pork with beef. Beef was cheaper in the USA than it was in Europe, and, the late 19th/early 20th centuries, the brisket was one of the cheapest cuts of meat. In fact, the only reason that it is no longer cheap is because slow cooked and slow smoked meat have become very popular.

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Ha! I like eating local food, but still was not falling for this one.

As in one tv-show someone says: What would vikings says if they appear nowadays and see us eating haukarl? Dudes! We had eaten this out of necessity and you have so much nuce food. Why are you keep doing that?!

Oh! Is this that one Gordon Ramsey puked it up and James May was, "You disappoint me, Ramsay"? -- https://youtu.be/-xhfJRdwHnU?t=119

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Like surströmming in Sweden!

B******t

Poutine is amazing, fries with cheese curds and gravy, what more can you ask for? Plus, Tim Hortons isn't even Canadian anymore given it was sold to a Brazilian Conglomerate. That's when their quality began to deteriorate, their coffee tastes nothing more that boiling muddy water.

Poutine is 3 am drunk food.

I had poutine in a French restaurant here in the south of Johannesburg, and finally understood why people go on and on about it! It's delicious.

When I went to Québec, every place selling fast food (I mean independant restaurants, not big companies) had an option to have poutine instead of regular fries. Probably because it was a touristic area.

Hey, Canadians: How often do you crack open a Molson?

Pretzels are a great snack food especially when you're going somewhere with kids. They all like it, it is easy to carry and not messy.

We eat a lot of pretzels, but the real ones, not the small, crunchy stuff that gets sold like chips. Potatoes in any form are very common, but so is pasta and other cards. Oktoberfest is a tourist thing, real beer lovers go to other festivals (there are plenty). I personally don't like beer, but at least it's real beer not like the p**s water the yanks chug. I do like a sausage now and then but prefer french merguez or italian salsicchia. Also, no one eats a lot of Sauerkraut except for a few regions. Since we have had a constant immigration for fecades, the food preferences have diversified and a lot of germans eat all kinds of stuff, mostly italian, turkish, asian (often adapted, sadly). Most do love food in general, though. Cooking together or going to eat somewhere is definitely a big part of our social lives.

We (my wife and I) had a saying - wherever three or four Germans are gathered together you will find a sausage stall. Outside DIY shops, shopping malls, railway stations... you're never more than a couple of hundred metres from a sausage stand. And all power to it, says I.

Yup, same reason most Irish adukts don’t go towards Dublin City centre for st Patrick’s day. We enjoy the bank holiday and go for walk in mountains or the sea. ( most tourists just go to temple bar with no clue that Dublin. Has beautiful mountains and coastline all within reach by a few miles

American pretzls are an abomination. And to think that they pour mustard on it...

So . . . they do eat lots of waffles, just not fresh ones?

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