What is your favorite type of World Cuisine?

freshpopcorn

I think I'd like Italian the most!
I used love spicy foods in the past but I've gone off them in the last few years!

What is your favorite type of World Cuisine?

Sonny noggs

Burger and fries

igCorcaigh

Middle Eastern / East med

Thelonious Monk

What's "Irish" cuisine? An oxymoron?

kaylob jose maria

Chinese, sweet and sour chicken balls, egg fried rice

igCorcaigh

Weird visual glitch with the poll results

Thelonious Monk

kaylob jose maria wrote: »

Chinese, sweet and sour chicken balls, egg fried rice

That's probably filed under Irish cuisine actually

No Middle Eastern/Arabic option?

I'm off to Zaytoon in protest.

French the best food at the high end imo.
Italian for simple tasty dishes.
Asian for street food.
Spanish for sharing.

There is no Irish cuisine because most people in Ireland were surviving on potatoes and milk up to a 100 years ago.

The Real Ramona

Chinese or Thai for me.

Odhinn

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

What's "Irish" cuisine? An oxymoron?

Irish cuisine = spuds
Noveau Irish cuisine = spuds and butter

Odhinn

Odhinn wrote: »

Irish cuisine = spuds
Noveau Irish cuisine = spuds and butter

Speaking of which, is there a credible theory as to why we (and the Brits, to a slightly lesser extent, but only slightly) have such under-developed cuisine?

Someone will probably say it's a product of our climate, but that someone has clearly never enjoyed Ikea meatballs, or the fare from its in-store grocery shop.

With our incredibly fertile land, seas and rivers with fish leaping out of them, and wide array of farming systems, we really have no excuse.

igCorcaigh

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

With our incredibly fertile land, seas and rivers with fish leaping out of them, and wide array of farming systems, we really have no excuse.

Historically, the population didn't have access to these foods. The undemocratic ownership of land reduced the choice of food to a large extent.

Roger Hassenforder

Mexican going to walk away with this

alchemist33

Odhinn wrote: »

Irish cuisine = spuds
Noveau Irish cuisine = spuds and butter

Served on a slate

igCorcaigh

Roger Hassenforder wrote: »

Mexican going to walk away with this

Mexican and Indian would have been my 2nd and 3rd choices.

igCorcaigh

igCorcaigh wrote: »

Historically, the population didn't have access to these foods. The undemocratic ownership of land reduced the choice of food to a large extent.

Yeah but you could apply the same to France and to great big chunks of Asia.

Roger Hassenforder

Graph looks shot to fcuk

Purgative

Chicken Jal ferazzi and a coriander nan, every day of the week and twice on Sundays.

DavyD_83

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Speaking of which, is there a credible theory as to why we (and the Brits, to a slightly lesser extent, but only slightly) have such under-developed cuisine?

Someone will probably say it's a product of our climate, but that someone has clearly never enjoyed Ikea meatballs, or the fare from its in-store grocery shop.

With our incredibly fertile land, seas and rivers with fish leaping out of them, and wide array of farming systems, we really have no excuse.

I'm not sure dodgy meatballs and picked fish are that convincing an argument.
I'm sure some of it is due to lack of spices and the lack of exotica flavouring in anything that grows natively here.

A lot of the more creative arts (which require a certain amount of time and money to pursue) didn't exactly flourish in Ireland and the UK in the distant past

poll results seem to be Irish take-away habits

twinytwo

Authentic greek is ****ing amazing

A lot of these foods will depend on where you are having them. Like iv had pizza in italy that is unmatched by any pizza iv had here. Just like a lot of mexican food is actually "tex mex" rather than authentic mexican

DavyD_83

DavyD_83 wrote: »

A lot of the more creative arts (which require a certain amount of time and money to pursue) didn't exactly flourish in Ireland and the UK in the distant past

That's an interesting parallel.

I remember hearing once, I think in a Vincent Browne interview with a number of Irish architects, that in the 1950s, some Scandinavian government sent over some emissaries to discover hidden Irish gems in the visual arts. They seemed to think that a country like Ireland, with its rich cultural and literary heritage, had to have produced some undiscovered artistic gems.

Needless to say, the Scandi delegation soon found themselves back in Dublin Airport, quite empty-handed, shrugging their shoulders.

A Tyrant Named Miltiades!

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

That's an interesting parallel.

I remember hearing once, I think in a Vincent Browne interview with a number of Irish architects, that in the 1950s, some Scandinavian government sent over some emissaries to discover hidden Irish gems in the visual arts. They seemed to think that a country like Ireland, with its rich cultural and literary heritage, had to have produced some undiscovered artistic gems.

Needless to say, the Scandi delegation soon found themselves back in Dublin Airport, quite empty-handed, shrugging their shoulders.

Ireland was never a place of enlightenment. We had a some miserable writers but that's about it. Most of them were West Brits!

If it wasn't for air travel and the internet it would still be a complete backwater.

But you're going off-topic here.

Irish cuisine is non-existent mainly due to a history of subsistence-living and being an island.

Thelonious Monk

Even our breakfast and Sunday dinners etc are pretty much carbon copy of the Brits with minor differences. It's funny how France and Italy has so many culinary classics that were peasant staples but we have feck all.

Roger Hassenforder

We've some fantastic dishes like mashed potato, mashed cabbage and potato, mashed cabbage without potato.

kowloon

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

No Middle Eastern/Arabic option?

I'm off to Zaytoon in protest.

Take me with you, that place and Iskanders are my happy places.

suicide_circus

alchemist33 wrote: »

Served on a slate

or a sod of turf

Thelonious Monk

Actually Turkish food is amazing but we don't have a proper Turkish BBQ restaurant here like the ones they have in London

ghostfacekilla

We're too conservative as a nation. We're still obsessed with 'The Carvery'.
I spoke to a hotshot chef with a stunning resume flown in from overseas to lead a rural irish hotel restaurant who wanted to cater to a classier clientele. He remarked that they wouldn't choose his dishes off the menu, demanded the return of turkey and ham as an option and kicked up a fuss if they weren't given servings or extra servings of potatoes and vegetables, even if the menu options didn't include it.
I vote for french, pre noveau cuisine.
Back to the times when cooking with butter was cool and nobody counted calories.
Szechuan would be a close second. Fantastic flavours.

ghostfacekilla

ghostfacekilla wrote: »

We're too conservative as a nation. We're still obsessed with 'The Carvery'.
I spoke to a hotshot chef with a stunning resume flown in from overseas to lead a rural irish hotel restaurant who wanted to cater to a classier clientele. He remarked that they wouldn't choose his dishes off the menu, demanded the return of turkey and ham as an option and kicked up a fuss if they weren't given servings or extra servings of potatoes and vegetables, even if the menu options didn't include it.

if he worked in a place that served turkey and ham as a menu choice, I doubt he was as much of a hotshot as he may have thought

(that's the other thing about us Irish, we don't like notions!)

He's right, though. I know a chef who barely seasons his food, because he reckons the first thing his customers will do when the plate arrives is to reach for the salt cannister.

I'm not terrifically old, and yet I'm old enough to remember when coleslaw came to our village Spar. I kid you not, I was mocked as a posho for having it on my ham sandwiches. But that might be a small-town thing as opposed to just an irish thing.

ballyargus

There's a lot of drivel spoken here about British and Irish food being underdeveloped.

El Tarangu

When eating out, Lebanese or Indian.

Pizza and pasta, gnocchi, etc are all great, but I eat them so often that they don't seem that much like 'world cuisine' any more.

ballyargus

ballyargus wrote: »

There's a lot of drivel spoken here about British and Irish food being underdeveloped.

Enlighten us, Darina

(Any chance of a 10-spot?)

El Tarangu

ballyargus wrote: »

There's a lot of drivel spoken here about British and Irish food being underdeveloped.

I would have trouble thinking of 5 distinct Irish dishes, tbh.

ballyargus

ballyargus wrote: »

There's a lot of drivel spoken here about British and Irish food being underdeveloped.

cuisine

a style or method of cooking, especially as characteristic of a particular country or region.

There is no cuisine of any note native to Ireland as other people have said.

Cuisine is not some recipe made up in Ballymaloe last week. It's a history of culinary tradition.

suicide_circus

middle eastern cuisine is entirely too reliant on hummus

suicide_circus

suicide_circus wrote: »

middle eastern cuisine is entirely too reliant on hummus

not very sophisticated alright.

Will I Am Not

retalivity

Where is the 'Korean' option?

Theres a country that was dirt poor for centuries yet has a wide variety of meals and cuisine

PokeHerKing

El Tarangu wrote:

I would have trouble thinking of 5 distinct Irish dishes, tbh.

Stew
Coddle
Fry
Roast
Guinness

trashcan

Toss up between Indian and Thai for me. But I have a varied taste and can appreciate most things. Chinese, Italian, Spanish, Japanese (sushi - yum yum). Even cabbage, mash and bacon can be very tasty.

suicide_circus

suicide_circus wrote: »

middle eastern cuisine is entirely too reliant on hummus

One beheading, coming up

PokeHerKing

PokeHerKing wrote: »

Stew
Coddle
Fry
Roast
Guinness

Guiness is a part of a method or style of cooking?

El Tarangu

glasso wrote: »

Guiness is a part of a method or style of cooking?

I would take issue with 'roast' as well - surely this is a quite recent British import?

freshpopcorn

retalivity wrote: »

Where is the 'Korean' option?

Theres a country that was dirt poor for centuries yet has a wide variety of meals and cuisine

Other!

Ipso

PokeHerKing wrote: »

Stew
Coddle
Fry
Roast
Guinness

Batch bread, breakfast roll.

Ipso

Ipso wrote: »

Batch bread, breakfast roll.

ffs

El Tarangu

glasso wrote: »

Ipso wrote: »

Batch bread, breakfast roll.

ffs

Hard to make the case that the breakfast roll isn't a part of our national cuisine (indeed, it's a cultural phenomenon), albeit a relatively recent addition. I guess then we would have to add chicken fillet rolls to the list, also.

When did the meteoric rise of demi-baguette as a national staple begin, I wonder; when I was in college in the mid-2000s, everyone ate rolls all the time, barely anyone would order a sandwich. I only really remember square sliced pan sandwiches when I was a kid (there were those full baguettes, but I don't think they were ever sold as sandwiches); I guess it happened at some point in the late 90s(?)

I don't remember any shops from my childhood having a hot deli counter, either - when did they start coming in?

El Tarangu

El Tarangu wrote: »

I don't remember any shops from my childhood having a hot deli counter, either - when did they start coming in?

To answer my own question - just found this very interesting & accessible history of the the breakfast roll on Reddit -http://www.socresonline.org.uk/16/2/2.html

Thelonious Monk

People were ordering rolls from delis when I was in school in the 90s. Cuisine de France bread is disgusting doughy crap.