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All food was invented in NY between 1960 and 1990. Before benevolent Americans taught us how to eat food, we all lived for 20 to 30 days and died of starvation. Thank you, Americans.

I feel like British culture viloates everything but the alcohol. There are memes about how weak their food and criminals are.

My favorite type of pasta lately is called cavatappi, which I assumed was some ancient Italian thing. Turns out it was invented by accident in 1970 and was originally named after Adriano Celentano, the dude who made Prisencolinensinainciusol. The more I learn, the less I know.

Saw a map today, on reddit or around here, showing the dominant kind of restaurants across european countries : local food or foreign food. And sure enough, most of northern and Eastern Europe prefers foreign food. Anyone who's traveled around Europe will have a fairly good idea why.

All I'm saying is, the bit about food doesn't work for all countries.

I'm Dutch/British, and I can honestly say the Dutch don't (historically) like tasty food. Maybe it's the Calvinism, maybe were culturally broken. Maybe both.

Behold the Dutch breakfast

Now behold the Dutch lunch

No, that's not a joke or a mistake. That's real.

Typical Dutch food is Stamppot. Which is boiled potatoes (poorly) crushed with 1 or 2 boiled vegetables in it. There are a dozen versions of it and people will argue which beacon of sadness is better.

Another typical Dutch food: pea soup so thick you can eat it with a fork. It has peas, bacon, potato and sadness. Recently people added stuff to make it tasty, but historically it's just peas and potato.

As a little break from food talk, here's a famous Dutch painter making a famous Dutch painting: People eating potatoes . Literally just potatoes.

A typical classic Dutch desert is Hangop, which is yoghurt you hang (hence the name) in a cheesecloth to let the water soak out to make it more dense. That's it. Plain yoghurt. Maybe add some honey for this amazing Dutch "treat".

Now, we have amazing cheeses today, but historically Dutch cheese was pretty shit. Most of the land isn't suited for cattle, so the milk had very little flavour. The Dutch invented adding herbs and spices into cheese. While french cheese might have a vague hint of cumin due to the ripening process in an ancient cave system, the Dutch would just chuck cumin into cheese.

We hate food, and it's a genetic problem we still haven't managed to break.

Okay, but my culture really likes flavourful food that tastes good!

Counterpoint. In some cultures stray cats are allowed in universities.

Criminals in our country are pretty lame.

My culture is super unique because it's built on classism and religious wars.

As a Brazilian, the criminal part is, unfortunately, the truest. Second only to our grannies wielding a Flip flop on a hand

My culture... is in a petrie dish.

Okay but do you spank a log you fed all month until it poops candy and presents?

Okay but to be fair we actually have insane amounts of alcohol and alcoholism in eastern europe. I think all cultures have something unique whether that be good or bad. Sweden, where im living now, truly is very antisocial sometimes.

My culture is unique, we spend half the day arguing and the other half reading really old books :3

I am from the south of northern Germany, we are close enough to the nordics that food is not that important to us save for a few exceptions.

Our grandpas are at least as bad as the grandmas in regards to pissing them off being a bad idea but that has more to do with many of them (of both genders) being assholes to younger people.

I live in one of the cities with the most crimes committed in the country but most normal people will never really notice it especially since the Hell's Angels don't have as much of a presence and direct influence in the city center as in the 90s and early 2000s.