What is your least favourite World Cuisine?

Deja Boo · 01-06-2019 08:53PM

Indian food - no thanks.

odyssey06 · 01-06-2019 08:55PM

France

Ipso wrote: »

Notions!

If 'Notions' get us decent grub I heartily endorse this event or product

I think Irish food done with some French inspiration, say by Moloughneys Clontarf, confit of duck legs, lamb cutlets, dublin bay prawns ... can be as good as any country's cuisine especially considering the quality of the input ingredients Irish beef, duck, lamb, seafood.

Sgt Hartman · 01-06-2019 09:14PM

I like German cuisine but it seriously lacks vegetables. Those soggy dumplings they serve with pork and gravy are utterly disgusting, it's like shredded newspaper in wallpaper paste. When I was in Berlin I was guzzling Gaviscon, mainly because I was eating meat, potatoes and gravy for the whole time I was there. It can't be healthy.

Atoms for Peace · 01-06-2019 09:54PM

German food is for real men, none of your pouncy vegan nonsense, meat, meat and more meat along with kraut so acidic it would strip paint, dumplings near critical density, all washed down with masses of beer.

smurgen · 01-06-2019 10:06PM

Atoms for Peace wrote: »

German food is for real men, none of your pouncy vegan nonsense, meat, meat and more meat along with kraut so acidic it would strip paint, dumplings near critical density, all washed down with masses of beer.

It's rotten.sour calf lung and boiled sheeps head.no thanks!

trashcan · 01-06-2019 10:11PM

igCorcaigh wrote: »

They use canned tomatoes with the breakfast fry!

Ugh. That's criminal :eek:

Atoms for Peace · 01-06-2019 10:22PM

smurgen wrote: »

It's rotten.sour calf lung and boiled sheeps head.no thanks!

Just drink more beer.

odyssey06 · 01-06-2019 10:29PM

France

I have fonder memories of German beer than its food - stodgy but it was at least edible, in decent quantities and not likely to cause imminent bathroom visits (unlike Chinese or Turkish).
Visiting Turkey the rule is only eat what you've know has just been cooked, or you just unwrapped or unpeeled it... even salad washed in the local water is a gamble.

Telly · 01-06-2019 10:33PM

Morrocan

igCorcaigh · 01-06-2019 11:17PM

odyssey06 wrote: »

It can be that - Dry pork, cabbage that's been boiled to death and bland mashed spuds. Mediocre.

It can also be - slow cooked pork shoulder, with fresh cabbage and new potatoes, with a dollop of buter. Marvellous.

Thankfully we seem to be heading more in the direction of the latter.

Right. It seems that the quality of Irish food is very dependent on the quality of ingredients and method of cooking. Similar to Italian in that way possibly?

If you can find a proper potato, then nothing more than real (Irish) butter and some sea salt is all that is needed. It's a type of simplicity that lets the produce shine.

dd973 · 02-06-2019 12:29AM

Food in most average English pubs is absolute rubbish, there's a joke that if you go to Heaven the police are English and the Chefs are French, however in Hell..

Wouldn't say I disliked it but only get the taste for Indian food once or twice a year, whereas I could eat Chinese every week.

Nobelium · 02-06-2019 12:39AM

irish. boiled cabbage, boiled ham, boiled cheap cuts of meat, and stews, basically food only suited to boiling in a big black iron pot.

dxhound2005 · 02-06-2019 12:45AM

Sgt Hartman wrote: »

I like German cuisine but it seriously lacks vegetables. Those soggy dumplings they serve with pork and gravy are utterly disgusting, it's like shredded newspaper in wallpaper paste. When I was in Berlin I was guzzling Gaviscon, mainly because I was eating meat, potatoes and gravy for the whole time I was there. It can't be healthy.

Are you sure you like German cuisine?

ILoveYourVibes · 02-06-2019 01:44AM

I put China (LOVE ASIAN FOOD INDIAN ASIAN FOOD TOO) so many dishes for vegetarians.

Russia. I love Quark. Russian salads (bit diff ).

Irish ...love homemade soups.

France encrudites!

I love homemade cooking in general.

Franz Von Peppercorn II · 02-06-2019 02:43AM

Nobelium wrote: »

irish. boiled cabbage, boiled ham, boiled cheap cuts of meat, and stews, basically food only suited to boiling in a big black iron pot.

You probably need to get some more pocket money together and visit a modern Irish restaurant. Maybe get a summer job. Ask parental approval.

L1011 · 02-06-2019 03:02AM

Dutch, with one exception - fritesaus.

The rest of their food is bland, beige stodge but they have perfected the delivery of chips. Crispy, coated in paprika and with fritesaus (not mayonnaise) on the side.

The rest of their stuff could do with being introduced to the paprika jar and more; its basically inedible.

Greentopia · 02-06-2019 04:56AM

Sgt Hartman wrote: »

I like German cuisine but it seriously lacks vegetables. Those soggy dumplings they serve with pork and gravy are utterly disgusting, it's like shredded newspaper in wallpaper paste. When I was in Berlin I was guzzling Gaviscon, mainly because I was eating meat, potatoes and gravy for the whole time I was there. It can't be healthy.

Home made dumplings are light and tasty. I had them for Christmas dinner last with rabbit and red wine /juniper berry sauce and they were delicious.

Berlin has the biggest number of vegan places to eat in Europe, you could have found plenty of no-meat eateries if you really wanted.

I don't like all German food- Maultaschen for example and have seen some stomach turning suspicious meats in jars from the east, but some of it is nice like potato salad and kraut. I tried Mett-raw minced pork with caraway or garlic at a wedding a few weeks ago and liked it.

Grayson · 02-06-2019 05:16AM

igCorcaigh wrote: »

I haven't been to USA but I've heard bad reports.

You can get good food there. However a lot of people just seem to replace good with quantity instead.

Grayson · 02-06-2019 05:22AM

Deja Boo wrote: »

Indian food - no thanks.

I'm grand with some. Cant eat other stuff. I have a stomach condition that just means I get horrible indigestion if I eat anything vaguely spicy. Or too hot or too cold. Or too salty. Or if it has too much tomatoes.

So I'm going to say mexican food is my least favorite. Mainly because there's feck all I can eat in it. I hate it when someone picks a mexican place for dinner.

volchitsa · 02-06-2019 07:51AM

Poland

sugarman wrote: »

Another vote for Polish food here...

Its not all bad mind, I love their Pierogi and kielbasa ...but almost everything is pickled to bejayus and a lot of their dishes are served like a soup/stew and like slop/grul. I tried an awful lot of it, but it all really tasted the same just different textures. So you either hate it or love it.

My worst experience with food tho, was traditional French food. Now I like trying new cuisines and dishes wherever I go. Id already eaten and loved a lot of French food on my travels including steak tartare. So I decided to up the ante and try Andouillette.

For those not familiar with the dish, its a small fat sausage made from tripe, intestines and colon.

I ordered it and it looked grand, smothered in a rich Dijon mustard.

As soon as I stuck the knife in, it hit me and everyone at the table. I felt like puking there and then. I cant even describe it. Possibly fermented pig **** and rotten meat ...like the brown bin for food wastes. Disgusting.

Id paid for it, so having sat looking at and getting somewhat accustomed to the smell I tried a small bit of it. Taste wise, it was actually ok ...mustard and seasoning masked the worst of it. But the textures were vile, it was like chewing on a grisly, knotty, stringy piece of elastic that was covered in ****. Never again.

Oh steak tartare and andouillette - I had forgotten those!

I once ordered steak tartare, convinced in my recently acquired veneer of sophistication that it would be steak with tartare sauce. How wrong I was! I couldn't eat it. Raw minced beef and a raw egg on top... Luckily someone else (French) at the table agreed to swap with me, but I never made that mistake again!

As for andouillette, well you've done an excellent job of describing it, so I'll just agree with every word. Vile stuff.

Mad_maxx · 02-06-2019 08:47AM

Mali

Hungarian, you look forward to mc donalds

LirW · 02-06-2019 09:46AM

UK

L1011 wrote: »

Dutch, with one exception - fritesaus.

The rest of their food is bland, beige stodge but they have perfected the delivery of chips. Crispy, coated in paprika and with fritesaus (not mayonnaise) on the side.

The rest of their stuff could do with being introduced to the paprika jar and more; its basically inedible.

A mate of my dad had to go to the Netherlands for work for a few days. He really struggled with food because it really wasn't nice. Especially the bread was absolutely vile he said. One morning he packed up the bread, went for a walk to the pier and started throwing the bread over to some seagulls. They picked it up and spat it out again. In that moment he knew he was doomed.

metaoblivia · 02-06-2019 09:59AM

Scandinavia

I've never had a Russian dish that I would want to eat again, so they got my vote. Scandinavia isn't far behind. The Polish at least have kielbasa and the Brits fish and chips.

JustAThought · 02-06-2019 10:16AM

I have to say I'm not a fan of stews or slushy food but I've spent a fair bit of time working in germany for stints & their meals are definately very different snd satisfing. It might be huge plates of chunks of meat in various sauces but it is always different and delicious (whatever it was) .

My absolute favourite is Thai:fresh, delicious, divine.

The worst wasVietnsmese -I travelled arpund for a few months & was expecting it be like Thai food or a leftover from the French Indochine regime - throughout it was dissappointing, mediocre and as often as not tssteless and bland. So dissappointing. The only french thing about it was the occasional breadrolls and boiled eggs. As for skinned rat stew or skewers ... you're on your own.

snotboogie · 02-06-2019 10:28AM

cdeb wrote: »

I've been to China, and the food was barely edible I thought. Slimy meat, or meat with all the bones left in. I had a chicken curry where the chicken was at least 50% solid bone, and the rest was just gristle. Usually any greens are drowned in strong sauces, and it's all washed down with a glass of hot water (which is horrible)

Chinese food in China is unbelievable! Why are you having chicken curries in China??? Haha what city were you in? The cuisine is incredibly varied by region. Also Chinese people will **** with you by bringing you to the most “exotic” restaurants possible. Read expat blogs on local food related to where you are going

biko · 02-06-2019 10:39AM

France

I've been to most places on that list and Poland/Germany ranks best, China* worst.

*China is huge and I'm sure there many regions with delish food etc etc

cdeb · 02-06-2019 10:57AM

France

snotboogie wrote: »

Chinese food in China is unbelievable! Why are you having chicken curries in China??? Haha what city were you in? The cuisine is incredibly varied by region. Also Chinese people will **** with you by bringing you to the most “exotic” restaurants possible. Read expat blogs on local food related to where you are going

I tried a chicken curry because the rest of the food was ****e and I figured they could hardly go wrong with that.

How wrong I was...

I was in Beijing, Xian and Guangzhou. As I say, all manky slimy meat with greens sauced to high heaven for no discernible reason, to be ate with chopsticks which were very quickly too slimy to hold on to anything. It was a local tour with plenty of locals and certainly no indication of being exotic or expensive. I was also offered a polysterene cup of diced green something by an elderly woman on a train from Tibet to Xian, and gristle on bone which I have literally no idea how you were supposed to eat.

The foot in Tibet was lovely, strangely enough. Good bit of meat and spuds.

Russian food is decent imo, though some of the breads take a bit of getting used to. I voted for US food as well purely because of the amount of burgers on menus (a trend which is catching on here too unfortunately). I got the Amtrak train across America where the food menu was simply three different types of burgers. I like a burger, but jaysus lads, a bit of variety would be no harm.

seasidedub · 02-06-2019 11:02AM

bubblypop wrote: »

Moose fillet.......
Mmmmmm, lovely

I love reindeer meat. It's basically venison. I love any meat with a real taste - pheasant, duck, foal, we've become used to sanitized chicken which tastes of nothing. Give me real food any day.

Nobelium · 02-06-2019 11:07AM

Franz Von Peppercorn II wrote: »

You probably need to get some more pocket money together and visit a modern Irish restaurant. Maybe get a summer job. Ask parental approval.

You mean one the is actually serving non Irish dishes . . . and the stalking and personal attacks say more about you than me. I hope you keep doing it, works better for me

selwyn froggitt · 02-06-2019 11:28AM

_blaaz wrote: »

Scottish

Deep fried heroin

What is your least favourite World Cuisine?

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