Not necessarily the best meals (or places), but the meals (or places) that best represent your culture.
Going more state than country to narrow it down a bit: coney dog, hani, microbrews, walnut and cherry salad, pasties, Vernors float, native trout, apple pie/cider, cherry wine
None sadly. I have the distinction of being in a culinary-bland area in a large culinary-rich country with too many things to choose from if I step out. Even in ancient times, the highest level of culinary creativity you’d get is whatever grew in the fields slapped onto a dish. Not that I mind that much, I’m not huge on food.
Where I’m from you can enjoy some pork with boiled cabbage and potatoes or some nice potato stew with cabbage and lard or cabbage stuffed with minced pork (with potatoes) or, if it’s late in winter, some pickled cabbage with salted pork. And potatoes.
Boston cream pie… more like a cake. Very delicious. If you’re ever in Boston, you can visit where it started at the Parker House Hotel (Omni).
- BBQ, from any/all regions
- Cajun food – very important one!
- Fried chicken and waffles – I tried explaining this umami to a handful of people in Japan, and they didn’t understand.
- Casseroles of all kinds
Good point on the BBQ. The differences between regions is substantial, and although you may not like one region’s BBQ, you may very well love another region’s. I for one am not a fan of the vinegar based BBQ, but a good dry rub, or mustard base, I am all there.
Apart from the obvious cheese and chocolate, i‘d reccomend some good ol rösti with a spiegelei
I’ll fight you!
- Cheese: France, évidemment
- Chocolate: Belgium, potferdomme
- Rösti: …'mkay, I’ll leave you the potatoes leftovers fried in a greasy pan, but ffs not the dried-out thingy from Migros please
Oh hell no. Alway buy the potatos, steam them for 20 mins and then they‘re ready to be grated into the pan. Don‘t forget the aromat!
I mean if you’ve never eaten Pupusas, I don’t know what life you’re living.
I have no idea what it is but I want to eat it now.
Corn tortilla dough is filled with cheese/pork/beans and other yummy options, and cooked on a greasy ass flat grill. Served with a Salvadoran vinegar slaw, they’re delicious
oh my sweet fuck I want that so bad now
There is one pupusa place where I live and they don’t season their food and it just breaks my heart.
Loroco y queso!
What is even that flower? I wonder if I can grow it in my apartment in Canada cause that shit is delicious. They sell frozen loroco where I live but it’s expensive. And I haven’t been to El Salvador in a decade for the real thing
We have a Salvadoran restaurant near us (in Maryland, USA) and we love these!
I’m not usually much interested in “food experiences” but nonetheless I have an answer and it is the sugar shack pancake breakfast.
Oh yeah, that is the best! They have one at the conservation area near me. You go there around March and slap on some cross-country skis to get to the shack. Then just as the cold is starting to set in a bit, you walk in there where they’re boiling the sap and take in the aroma. Then you sit down at a long table and gorge yourself on pancakes with the syrup still hot and mixing with the butter. And then on the way back, if you have any bird seed in your pocket, you can just hold it out and chickadees will land on your hand. It’s magical!
Currywurst. Chopped fried or grilled sausage with ketchup and curry spice sprinkled on top. Often served with fries.
You can get it almost everywhere in Germany, especially at street festivals. Simple, absolutely unhealthy and delicious.
Edit: I would also have said the Döner Kebab. Veil or chicken grilled on a vertical spitroast, sliced into thin strands of meat, loaded into a slightly toasted flatbread along with lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber, onions and depending on the region and restaurant white or red cabbage in vinegar and oil, together with a yogurt sauce.
But you could argue that Döner is Turkish because it was invented by a Turkish immigrant and is usually prepared by Turkish descendants (or those who look Turkish). But then again I heard that restaurants in Turkey started offering German Döner because that’s what tourists expected to get.
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One of my biggest regrets in life is not eating currywurst while I was in Germany. I will make it right though. Maybe next year.
Pork and rice, with pickled vegetables and an egg on top.
Poutine.
Caesar.
A&W burger family.
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Yes.
(It’s different than the US menu.)
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JÄGERSCHNITZEL. ifykyk.
Uhh yeah 🤤
Nostalgieglückstränen, nehme ich an. Ne? NE?!
Mmh, the uniquely East German taste of Realsozialismus
Fish and chips, the UK’s national dish. Curry sauce or mushy peas optional. From a proper local chippy for the real experience.
Tacos, Enchiladas, Papusa’s, Gorditas, Tamales, etc. I’m very spoiled where Im at.
Moose steak.
And lutefisk (lye fish) is not as scary as it sounds.
EdIT: spleling
Nordic or Minnesota? The world will never know.
Noggie.
I considered adding whale steak to the list to make it more clear, but decided against it, because of the perceived controversy. It’s delicious, though.
Cold smoked raindeer meat.
Just amazing.
