What food is in your country normal and in others not?

xveer22
xveer22 Posts: 93 Member
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For example: I'm from Holland and it is the most normal thing to put chocolate sprinkles on your sandwich. And it is also very common to eat sandwiches for breakfast as well as lunch, all with only one topping.

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  • pie_eyes
    pie_eyes Posts: 12,964 Member
    We deep fry stuff a lot
  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,890 Member
    I'm from Norway.

    We have a sweet brown "cheese" made of whey, just as popular as the more universal yellow cheese, both of which we slice with a special tool made for that purpose. Homemade sandwich(es) is the normal lunch for every age group. We generally eat a lot of bread, and drink cold milk with it. Hot/prepared breakfasts and lunches is still seen as a little decadent, and is normally reserved for weekends/holidays. Potatoes and meatballs used to be the most popular dinner, but now it's pizza (or maybe tacos, time does fly). We eat a lot of fish, especially cod, pollock, herring and mackerel. We also eat a lot of fermented/pickled foods.

    We don't usually drink alcohol, but when we do, we drink a lot.

    And, this isn't a what, but a how - we open bananas by breaking the "handle" end.
  • JFinn26
    JFinn26 Posts: 708 Member
    Northeast United States...the cheesesteak...
    Long sandwich/hoagie roll filled with sliced/chopped ribeye, mixed with onions, and cheese...sometimes topped with marinara sauce.
    In Philadelphia (where they originate), there's the "philly stoop", where businessmen eating them on a lunch break are hunched over so nothing gets on their ties....
  • xveer22
    xveer22 Posts: 93 Member
    kommodevaran wrote: »
    I'm from Norway.
    Homemade sandwich(es) is the normal lunch for every age group. We generally eat a lot of bread, and drink cold milk with it.

    Haha, sounds a lot like the Netherlands

  • zcb94
    zcb94 Posts: 3,678 Member
    Cheddar cheese on our apple pie.
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,230 Member
    Vegemite.
  • JFinn26
    JFinn26 Posts: 708 Member
    MegsieFighter wrote: »
    Deep fried everything?
    Mars bar, milkyway, macaronni cheese, pizza, deep fried avocado... you name it, they will deep fry it for you

    Yesss...fried mac n cheese bites with Dr Pepper BBQ sauce to dip in :)
    Care to join?....the more the merrier
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,988 Member
    Balut.


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  • synchkat
    synchkat Posts: 37,368 Member
    Poutine.
  • JeffreyMGiron
    JeffreyMGiron Posts: 3,582 Member
    synchkat wrote: »
    Poutine.

    bull, thats normal here too
  • SarcasmIsMyLoveLanguage
    SarcasmIsMyLoveLanguage Posts: 2,668 Member
    Poutine, ketchup chips, Kinder Eggs, smarties (candy-coated chocolate), Rockets (what Americans call Smarties)
  • pie_eyes
    pie_eyes Posts: 12,964 Member
    Grits
  • pie_eyes
    pie_eyes Posts: 12,964 Member
    Biscuits and gravy
  • pie_eyes
    pie_eyes Posts: 12,964 Member
    Virginia ham
  • Thisnameischosen
    Thisnameischosen Posts: 2,770 Member
    North East England here so lots of pasties, (puff pastry filled with a savoury meat filling) also Ham and peas pudding sandwiches are popular (peas pudding is yellow split peas cooked down into a spreadable mush)
    Roast dinners or anything that goes well with gravy.. 'We' tend to like our food swimming in gravy.
    Fish and chips obviously
  • pie_eyes
    pie_eyes Posts: 12,964 Member
    Thisnameischosen wrote: »
    North East England here so lots of pasties, (puff pastry filled with a savoury meat filling) also Ham and peas pudding sandwiches are popular (peas pudding is yellow split peas cooked down into a spreadable mush)
    Roast dinners or anything that goes well with gravy.. 'We' tend to like our food swimming in gravy.
    Fish and chips obviously

    Gravy yes
  • OneHundredToLose
    OneHundredToLose Posts: 8,523 Member
    Well lots of people here are American like me, but where I live we have a lot of food that most of the rest of the USA doesn't have. I'm less than an hour from the US - Mexico border, so we've got some amazing Mexican food here. For instance:

    -Sonoran Hot Dogs (you haven't lived til you've had a real one, trust me)
    -Carne Asada burritos
    -Carmelos
    -Carnitas
    -Pollo Asada
    -Authentic, hand made Tamales

    I've lived here my whole life, and I'm not even slightly tired of Mexican food yet. I love it.
  • salembambi
    salembambi Posts: 5,585 Member
    xveer22 wrote: »
    For example: I'm from Holland and it is the most normal thing to put chocolate sprinkles on your sandwich. And it is also very common to eat sandwiches for breakfast as well as lunch, all with only one topping.

    im Canadian but im also half danish and we eat chocolate smorrebrod

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    ive also had the dutch chocolate sprinkle sandwiches which are nice too

    oh and i guess the salted black licorice ( i know its a Scandinavian/Northern European thing) i grew up eating is also weird to Canadians and smorrebrod in general
  • salembambi
    salembambi Posts: 5,585 Member
    SarcasmIsMyLoveLanguage wrote: »
    Poutine, ketchup chips, Kinder Eggs, smarties (candy-coated chocolate), Rockets (what Americans call Smarties)

    all dressed chips, dill pickle popcorn, maple candies,maple cookies,nainamo bars,butter tarts
  • M111111111
    M111111111 Posts: 269 Member
    salembambi wrote: »
    SarcasmIsMyLoveLanguage wrote: »
    Poutine, ketchup chips, Kinder Eggs, smarties (candy-coated chocolate), Rockets (what Americans call Smarties)

    all dressed chips, dill pickle popcorn, maple candies,maple cookies,nainamo bars,butter tarts

    Yes!! Nainamo bars.... Mmm
  • motterotter
    motterotter Posts: 701 Member
    What was a culture shock for me was sashimi and steak tatare or rare
    Delicious now but i was brought up knowing raw meat and fish have parasites you have to cook those *kitten* good and dead
  • pie_eyes
    pie_eyes Posts: 12,964 Member
    OneHundredToLose wrote: »
    Well lots of people here are American like me, but where I live we have a lot of food that most of the rest of the USA doesn't have. I'm less than an hour from the US - Mexico border, so we've got some amazing Mexican food here. For instance:

    -Sonoran Hot Dogs (you haven't lived til you've had a real one, trust me)
    -Carne Asada burritos
    -Carmelos
    -Carnitas
    -Pollo Asada
    -Authentic, hand made Tamales

    I've lived here my whole life, and I'm not even slightly tired of Mexican food yet. I love it.

    I love Mexican food. I make it all the time. So healthy too
  • vegmebuff
    vegmebuff Posts: 31,389 Member
    You all should put where you are from.
    I'm from Canada - BeaverTails, Timbits and a “Double Double”, Saskatoon Berries, Nanaimo Bars, Game meat (venison, elk, deer, moose, bison, boar, and rabbit.), Tourtière, Bannock, Dairy products - even if they are not organic - do not carry any unnatural hormones, Ketchup chips, and other things people have already commented on. Oh, and Kraft Macaroni and Cheese come from Canada and Coffee Crisp.
  • SarcasmIsMyLoveLanguage
    SarcasmIsMyLoveLanguage Posts: 2,668 Member
    salembambi wrote: »
    SarcasmIsMyLoveLanguage wrote: »
    Poutine, ketchup chips, Kinder Eggs, smarties (candy-coated chocolate), Rockets (what Americans call Smarties)

    all dressed chips, dill pickle popcorn, maple candies,maple cookies,nainamo bars,butter tarts

    Oh I'd forgotten Nanaimo Bars. Yummmm
  • SarcasmIsMyLoveLanguage
    SarcasmIsMyLoveLanguage Posts: 2,668 Member
    vegmebuff wrote: »
    You all should put where you are from.
    I'm from Canada - BeaverTails, Timbits and a “Double Double”, Saskatoon Berries, Nanaimo Bars, Game meat (venison, elk, deer, moose, bison, boar, and rabbit.), Tourtière, Bannock, Dairy products - even if they are not organic - do not carry any unnatural hormones, Ketchup chips, and other things people have already commented on. Oh, and Kraft Macaroni and Cheese come from Canada and Coffee Crisp.

    Same for chicken on the hormone thing.
    I've heard of tourtiere but I think that's mainly a Quebec/ eastern Canada thing. Out in the West Coast, you don't hear of it often.
    Japadog is big on the West Coast as is sushi. Not sure if those are regional too.
  • Rachelle24379
    Rachelle24379 Posts: 44 Member
    Uk ... Salt and vinegar crisps ... try and find them in Brazil for example ... mission impossible. Quite devastating lol
  • glenelliott5872
    glenelliott5872 Posts: 150 Member
    edited January 2016
    Wales Lavabread ( a gloopy green seaweed) fried in bacon fat with cockles (little clams) fried in bacon fat and thick bacon (where the fat came from) for breakfast. Mmmmm

    Can't readily get in England
  • sanfromny
    sanfromny Posts: 770 Member
    I'm Haitian. As a kid we ate something called 'Mayi Moulin' Some ppl in the US call it Polenta? Some call it porridge, some call it grits. It's made with corn meal. I dont know anywhere else it's made, well no i think the Dominican Republic (our neighboring country) but they call it something a little different I believe.
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  • sanfromny
    sanfromny Posts: 770 Member
    vegmebuff wrote: »
    You all should put where you are from.
    I'm from Canada - BeaverTails, Timbits and a “Double Double”, Saskatoon Berries, Nanaimo Bars, Game meat (venison, elk, deer, moose, bison, boar, and rabbit.), Tourtière, Bannock, Dairy products - even if they are not organic - do not carry any unnatural hormones, Ketchup chips, and other things people have already commented on. Oh, and Kraft Macaroni and Cheese come from Canada and Coffee Crisp.

    Venison & deer are more common than you would think in the southern US states.

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