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[Stiefel]

German food is absolutely delicious, and it's my favorite. It's way better than the crap that the French and the Italians hack together. British food is pretty good too, and the Scandinavians aren't too far behind.

[Insidious Johnson]

Chef Troll discusses "mean cuisine", food for thought... story page D-13.

[Nasty9]

If you like German food be sure to try Portuguese and Czech food.

I'm not a fan of French food, but Italians can whip up good deserts.

[Felicitatem Parco]

Stiefel, on 24 May 2012 - 07:15 PM, said:

German food is absolutely delicious, and it's my favorite. It's way better than the crap that the French and the Italians hack together. British food is pretty good too, and the Scandinavians aren't too far behind.

*golf clap*

Well played.

[Stormeris]

I prefer Mexican cuisine and my native - Lithuanian

[pursang]

Well... people tend to be more then a little biased over the food that they've grown up with. And most of the time that's the food that is traditionally enjoyed by the nation that you grow up in.

Edited by pursang, 24 May 2012 - 09:32 PM.

[Shredhead]

pursang, on 24 May 2012 - 09:31 PM, said:

Well... people tend to be more then a little biased over the food that they've grown up with. And most of the time that's the food that is traditionally enjoyed by the nation that you grow up in.

Yeah, so what are the US and Americans deem best? I too like the german food, as in it tastes good, but it's way too fat, so one has to be careful and not eat too much of it. Once a week is enough... What I really don't like personally is all this Mediterranean cuisine, be it italian, spanish, portugese, or greek. I eat more vegetables, fruit and low fat meat, no bread, no sausages at all. That really helped to bring me down from 126 Kilos to now 92, still dwindling.

[Insidious Johnson]

Axis Food>Allied Food. I wonder if the reverse would be true if the victors had been reversed also?

[Rayah]

German food is great, some of my favorites.

[C0VVB3LL]

Spent a year in Germany in the AF fell in love with Garmisch and more relevant to the OP Hirschragout.

[Damocles]

German food, you mean falafel right?

[Grayson Pryde]

Damocles, on 25 May 2012 - 07:28 AM, said:

German food, you mean falafel right?

heresy!!!

[Adridos]

Stiefel, on 24 May 2012 - 07:15 PM, said:

British food is pretty good too.

According to my cousin who was once on one of those excahnge visits, the English people know nothing about prepearing a food...

When they cooked, they put the meat into the owen. The juice (can't find the right word) that came from it got poured and then they proceed to make the juice from one of those insta food bags. No need to say it tasted horrible.

Probably just bad luck, but I haven't heard of any good English food, mind introducing me?

[Belial]

Adridos, on 25 May 2012 - 07:52 AM, said:

According to my cousin who was once on one of those excahnge visits, the English people know nothing about prepearing a food...

When they cooked, they put the meat into the owen. The juice (can't find the right word) that came from it got poured and then they proceed to make the juice from one of those insta food bags. No need to say it tasted horrible.

Probably just bad luck, but I haven't heard of any good English food, mind introducing me?

I spent the month of July there just last summer, and I never had any bad food. They don't use all the spices and seasonings that I'm used to here in Louisiana, so that took some getting used to. It was still great, though, because it was fresher, I guess. I don't know any other way to describe it. I had a roast beef dinner that was to die for (broth was excellent, meat cooked just right), and an English breakfast homemade at a bed and breakfast inn is something I still miss. When I took a few days to hop over to Dublin, I ate a beef stew whose broth/gravy was made from Guinness (and yes, the Guinness over there is a bit better). Dee-lish! Fish and chips are a little expensive and overrated for what they are, but still good.

[Gremlich Johns]

Once you get outside of the cities, English food is quite flavorful. The bland English Food people have come to know was the result of herbs and spices being cut out of budgets to spend on "essentials" like simple food when the population migration from the rural to the urban areas began in the early days (like the 1300-1500s).

[Gigaton]

1300-1500? I don't think common folk had much in way of spices besides salt and simple garden herbs those days for there to be much to cut back on. And as far as finer foods go, modern European cooking is throughoutly disconnected from what it was in medieval times (medieval cooking has strong Indian flavour to it).

You sure you don't mean 1700-1800? That seems to be about far as the Northern/Central European cooking traditions go back to, broadly speaking.

Edited by Gigaton, 28 May 2012 - 08:51 AM.

[Robby Vitriolic]

I prefer a wide variety myself. Here are some of my favorite places and dishes (most were enjoyed outside their country of origin)

French: Le Saint X in Seoul, Korea (Itaewon). They had a very rare strip steak topped with foie gras. Getting both in the same bite = paradise.

German: Hofbrauhaus, Las Vegas (Not saying that is where the best German food can be had, but they fly most stuff in from Munich). I like the weisswurste, spaetzl, and body shots of schnapps. Plus plenty of beer (and pretzels to help soak up excess alcohol)

Korean: Ate at too many excellent little restaurants to pick just one. In Busan, any of the places near the fish market. Also had some great pork belly in Daegu. Be sure to have some Kimchi. Wash it down with soju or Hite and you can't go wrong.

Irish: The Irish Embassy, Toronto, CA. Had breakfast there, and black pudding with baked beans is a sure fire hangover cure.

Just my two filthy lucre.

[Egomane]

Robby Vitriolic, on 28 May 2012 - 09:09 AM, said:

German: Hofbrauhaus, Las Vegas (Not saying that is where the best German food can be had, but they fly most stuff in from Munich). I like the weisswurste, spaetzl, and body shots of schnapps. Plus plenty of beer (and pretzels to help soak up excess alcohol)

That's not german, that's only the small part of bavarian food (where the original Hofbrauhaus is located). It's a part of germany but still very much a regional thing you can't just get everywhere. It is a sad thing that germany is mostly known for the bavarian sub-culture, because it has to offer so much more.

I love german food, except for the bavarian part (same goes for german beer), I like any southern europe style food (except for the fish parts), japanese (even the fish part), chinese, korean, mexican and american. There might be more, but right now nothing else comes to my mind.

I mostly don't like french, british and russian food. Everything else is either ok or I haven't tasted it yet.

[Leitwolf]

WAS ZUR HÖLLE IST DENN HIER LOS???? I mean, sorry, what do you mean with german food? Its krautig and fettig and not very lecker... I like italian food. And british breakfast. In covent garden.... there are nice pubs

[Egomane]

Leitwölfchen *kopfschüttel* Ich seh dich hoffentlich beim Zelten!?
I'll try to translate it for our non-german users.

Leitwolf, on 28 May 2012 - 11:31 AM, said:

WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE???? I mean, sorry, what do you mean with german food? Its krautig and greasy and not very tasty... I like italian food. And british breakfast. In covent garden.... there are nice pubs

Good thing that good taste is something different for everyone.