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[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Apparently potatoes are a staple food in South America, ao OP isn't alone in this.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (3 children)

They’re a staple food in Germany, too

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Same with Denmark and afaik the rest of Scandinavia.

Set in their ways old (70+) Danish people tend to refuse to eat anything for dinner that doesn't involve potatoes with a thick gravy and some kind of meat, preferably pork 😄

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 0 points 3 days ago (2 children)

How is the pork prepared and served? I think I want to eat this thing you speak of.

[–] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 days ago

When I visited danish relatives they often made flæskesteg (a kind of roast pork, originally a christmas dish) and you can also get flæskesteg burgers and so on. That's what I think of when someone says danish pork.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Oh hundreds if not thousands of ways!

There's the flæskesteg the other reply mentioned

There's the official national dish Stegt flæsk

There's frikadeller

There's Karbonader

And many, many more 😁

All delicious, but proceed with caution if you're trying to limit cholesterol, fat, carbs, or calories as old fashioned Danish food tends to contain all of those in spades 😄

[–] Enkrod@feddit.org 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

So much so that our immigrant population refers to Germans as "Kartoffeln" (potatoes)

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Tbh, I hear that almost exclusively from native Germans, though that might be because I had an Irish sounding maiden name and people figured I’d be insulted by potato jokes. Weirdly, I don’t hear much teasing of Germans from immigrants. I do it, like the other day I left work in socks and crocs and pointed it out as a final step of my Eindeutschung to my coworkers, so not really cutting, but I still don’t hear even light teasing much from others. The most I see is loaded eye contact whenever something is really German. Things like unbelievable bureaucracy, or very precise engineering, or an absolutely terrifying thing that’s for some reason aimed at children.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago

They're the only food in Germany, some might say.