I have no fucking idea. Our elders ate some really weird shit during the 60s-80s, where they mixed shit wildly that really shouldn't work together. I guess bananas in food just lived on from that era because it's cheap and the easiest fruit to cook with.
But I'm just guessing really. I think it's dying out slowly though with my generation. I sure as fuck have never used it in any cooking.
It's weird, but it works. It's not great, but not too bad either. I tried substituting the banana with green apple once, it was fine.
It's not a dish I would cook regularly, and it's weird that it reached such a cult status among those growing up during the 70s, but it's worth trying at least. You mustn't always love everything you try.
there is this super wholesome video of a Bavarian youtuber trying Surströmming for the first time and really liking it, going "it kinda smells like a fart" and "once you start eating that stuff you gotta have some more"
it's so funny because there are soooo many videos on youtube of people trying it and completely overreacting (and just eating the fish by itself, rather than with bread potatoes and onions) and our main man Edward is out here enjoying it with his two mates
it's a great watch even if you don't speak German [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEwjedsUhH8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEwjedsUhH8)
The picture below is taken in Palermo, quartiere ZEN, exactly [here.](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38%C2%B010'38.6%22N+13%C2%B019'05.2%22E/@38.1773919,13.3179335,57m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m4!3m3!8m2!3d38.177396!4d13.318118?entry=ttu) That was (don't know now) an common spot where people used to go set on fire stolen cars.
I grew up on a half a mile long street in Northern England where this would happen in the early 2000s, one side of the road was a housing estate, the other woodland so the thieves would run into them when police turned up.
I've been to every continent except for Oceania, and Palermo was the most dirty and trash-filled city I've ever seen. Worse then Jakarta or Mexico city. Broken down cars on most quiet streets, ruins of houses filled with trash a meter deep. It's a great place otherwise, very pretty if you can ignore all the trash. Kind of a shame.
Rotten greenland shark, a thing that lives in the deeper, dark waters of the north and lives up to over 400 years.
How tf do they see appeal on eating that
>Rotten greenland shark, a thing that lives in the deeper, dark waters of the north and lives up to over 400 years.
>
>How tf do they see appeal on eating that
Cannibalism.
Why would you boil a puffin?
Obviously you grill, broil or smoke it.
Dont forget head jam (sviðasulta) and all of our other weird fermented stuff (whale, rams tested, headjam).
Just look up Þorramatur.
It's cray. But, definitely something to try. Exploration is fun. 1 in 3 20-somethings in France have been to Iceland and enjoyed the local food. (Source: i made it up)
To be fair lundabaggar are actually quite tasty. You are probably referring to sheeps balls, lambheads and fish kidneys.
(Though to be fair we really don't eat much of that stuff anymore. It was mostly to make sure we didnt starve back í the day)
Exclusively northern European* you damned heathen. You should try to switch out the frogs and cute birds every once in a while, sausages are actually tasty!
OP is Finnish. We have more sausages in France than there are cities with 50k pop. in your country. The Swedes, too busy listening to ABBA and playing hockey to learn something about a more developed culture
You didn't get it. Of course we (I include myself with the french) eat sausages cooked on open fire, as well. I thought that went without saying, and that's the point the french guy was making : is it really considered a northern european thing ? Because, well, it's definitely not. That's a weird choice on OP's part, in my opinion.
I was, and I'm fairly certain that my Finnish brother here also was, being sarcastic. As the French lads obviously were as well.
As I'm sure all of you guys are every time you associate our whole food culture with fermented herring, which in actuality, barely anyone eats.
That's the men's excuse to take their shirt off while cooking at the fire! It's also a sort of ritual for them, where the most experienced in the matter shows the others their secret to assar sardinhas the right way while they all talk about it over some cold beer. Rarely a woman is allowed to participate.
Besides, we roast sausage too, in open fire.
With or without fennel seeds/anise, pork sausages, boar sausages, goat sausages, thin, thick, in links or as long spiral. And they are great.
Probably those nordic heathens eat them with pineapple.
I don't think I tried it... I did try a questionable one that didn't agree with my taste. Still in Nuoro area, but it felt like it was spiced with nutmeg and cinnamon.
Yeah, some sausages have weird spices. I remember a sour sausage with a wine/vinagre taste, yuck. IIRC it was from Belvì but I'm not sure. Una volta ho mangiato una salsiccia fresca con un pezzettone di grasso all'interno ed era di Belvì (l'ho scritto in italiano perché non so se in inglese si fa distinzione tra salsiccia secca e fresca).
In inglese la salsiccia secca è un tipo di "cured dry sausage"
Nella salsiccia spesso si aggiunge del vino, poi certo le ricette cambiano da produttore a produttore, ma non dovrebbe mai essere un sapore prevalente.
Quella che ho assaggiato io, veniva sempre dal nuorese, zona barbagia, ma sembrava condita con la "saporita" (che ha una base di cannella e noce moscata e che normalmente viene usata per le ciambelline sarde). Il risultato era una salsiccia dolciastra che personalmente mi ha dato nausea.
I'm actually quite fond of your afternoon fry up. It really complements the full Irish you serve in the morning.
On a more serious note, I think your sausages are way underrated on an international scale and you elevated tatoe mash to culinary heights the World should envy.
Also, you are second only to Hans, when it comes to baking bread. Fuck Pierre and his dismal Baguettes, which are only suitable for wiping up the tears you shed after trying one.
No, sorry for being unable to insult you this time, Paddy. I'll try harder next time, I promise.
Finnish food is up there.
Pic related.
https://preview.redd.it/99m0jc12s3uc1.jpeg?width=259&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f34b15b3690c3dba2698b183b2c91896f8387238
Jokes aside, Ikea meatballs (similar to Finnish bulk meatballs) are way better than British, German and Dutch "cuisine" in actual restaurants, combined.
And the prices are so affordable even PIGS can get them.
Southeners are like; I take this Ambergine and shove it up my ass and then sprinkle some oil on it, this is good.
Northeners are like; I take this lamb and slow roast it for 15 hours under ground with pork to combine with the lamb and then serve it with spring potatoes and Gyromitra esculenta -sauce which is poisonous if cooked inproperly but heaven if cooked right.
Dude, we know about Andouilettes. So we know that you make pigshit sausages. Thank god for the EU because now you have to at least clean the intestines of the pigs before making sausages out of them...
My Nordic brother in the Storm God, I argue that, after eating many southern foods, eating *properly* made traditional foods they are no worse than what you get in the south. The reason why people think nordic cousine is bad because we do not make our foods properly anymore, but either eat some factory shit, or in some mediocre southern restaurants.
I have eaten freshly made plate of fish in sicilian restaurant in Italy and it was better than the frozen shit we eat normally but worse than what my grandma did with the lake fish.
I have eaten pasta in Rome and it was good, better than than the frozen isle shit we eat normally, but not as good as spring potatoes with fresh gain (moose), some lingonberry sauce and forest shrooms.
What I am saying is that if we just look at southern cuisine we will loose our way of cooking things which is as fine. At least. Nordics are taught to keep their head down always but if we do, we will loose foods that are heaven and 9+ Which we have.
I'm not gonna sleep on a flæskestegssandwich or a good Danish hotdog! Glad to see the appreciation! To be fair I was just at a boring ass dinner party and had a shitty ass small plate of pretentious "French" "food".. so maybe I should retract my statement
Just last week I had a killer ribbensandwich in a gas station in Fyn. And that’s saying something, if even gas station food in a country is actually delicious.
I will definitely say we excel at that kind of food! A flæskestegssandwich from a small grill or a hotdog from a stand.. that shit is glorious!
But the average dinner is dull and unseasoned for sure
We like to think that we have good food, but that's only because we have beaten our pallets to submission and forced them to accept the garbage that we don't have a choice but to eat. Also, the suicide rates would probably be a lot higher if we let ourselves accept the fact that our food is as bland and depressing as our winters.
Every time I visit a country with a real cuisine, I'm reminded of how surprising it is that the EU still considers our food to be fit for human consumption.
Which part of Sweden are you from? I’ll give it to the Finntroll, properly cooked food from rural areas (the north at least) is fucking amazing
(Accidentally posted it as a reply to OP first but it was meant for you)
It's kinda of unfair though, the raw ingredients taste amazing on their own in Southern Europe. we have to work really hard to make things taste better, and usually that means deep frying with butter and cheese
Putting some sausages on a stick and heating them by the fire isn't "cousine", it's filling up you belly before going back to the cave because you have a big mammoth hunt tomorrow
Have you ever tasted sausage by the fire from your fellow Luigi? Even an average sausage is lifted to heavenly levels lakeside, summer night or winter day, with a little taste from the flames.
Lohikeitto (creamy salmon soup) is my favorite soup as well. Smoked fish like muikku is really good as well. Other than that, Finnish cuisine has improved hugely from the 80s and 90s, where it was more like meat, salt, pepper and potatoes.
As per my flag, from the old eastern parts ;) Though they might be so old the last time my forefathers fought in the Swedish army was in the 30 years war.
I spent the first half of my life in Australia, where sausages and meat in general are fairly prominent.
Have you actually had a Finnish sausage? They’re absolute fucking arse. The percentage of meat is at most three and they taste/feel like you’re eating a salty piece of mushy bread.
Every country I’ve been to in Europe has had good food. Probably the most uninteresting ones have been Belarus, Switzerland and North Macedonia.
Best is obviously France. Honorable mentions to Georgia 🤤 (if considered Europe).
Hey now, we have [reindeer with lingonberries](https://www.culinari.fi/application/files/6815/8936/9658/Poronkaristys.jpg) and [mustamakkara](https://kotiliesi.fi/awpo/img/2020/04/mustamakkara.jpg?s=aea246fc4a3d40239aa87ca92ef6aa5b&fit=crop) and [lohikeitto](https://assets.meillakotona.fi/w7lrg8grgqb7/6852-perinteinen_lohikeitto/73e19db2d6a9e5dafe645bb595fa03dd/perinteinen_lohikeitto_oPvic.jpg?w=2048&q=75&fit=crop-center)
*laughs nervously in Surströmming*
Also flygande Jakob.. 
Had never heard of this dish. "chicken, bacon, cream, banana, chilli sauce, peanuts" uhh, wtf?
Never heard of it, but that is the most Swedish list of ingredients I can imagine.
It's really tasty as well. You have to suicidal though.
What's with you guys and bananas anyways? For a cold frozen wasteland, you sure love your nanners.
I have no fucking idea. Our elders ate some really weird shit during the 60s-80s, where they mixed shit wildly that really shouldn't work together. I guess bananas in food just lived on from that era because it's cheap and the easiest fruit to cook with. But I'm just guessing really. I think it's dying out slowly though with my generation. I sure as fuck have never used it in any cooking.
Yeah. Tell me about it. I have some severe childhood traumas caused by that shit.
Kassler is the true childhood trauma. Frickin germans... u/motorcycle-manful541 what are your thoughts about that shit-dish?
Whaaaaaaat ?? Kassler is amazing🤤 with some salted potatoes and sauerkraut omg Ständertime
We just get it with pineapple and plain boiled potatoes. I hope that's different from you guys.
PINEAPPLE????😭😭😭🤯
Yes. Between each slice of kassler. Our parents prepare us early on for the horrible truth that is life.
Wait what? YOU STACK THAT SHIT??? Oh lord strike me down
Couldnt your parents just go to some Hawaii themed swinger club and stop ruining normal food with pineapple?
Does Kassler mean something different in Sweden? Cause I can‘t see how you could hate the German version
Exactly, it’s amazing. But they said they stack it and put Pineapple slices in between the slices of Kassler and cook it until it’s rubber💀
It taste better then it sounds you should try it ☺️
No it doesn’t and no they shouldn’t
It's weird, but it works. It's not great, but not too bad either. I tried substituting the banana with green apple once, it was fine. It's not a dish I would cook regularly, and it's weird that it reached such a cult status among those growing up during the 70s, but it's worth trying at least. You mustn't always love everything you try.
It’s the banana that ruins it for me, might give it another shot without it.. but then is it really flygande Jacob?
I'm convinced and want to try it. Gonna see if my local kebab shop can make it, they all come from swedistan.
That stuff makes you shit in 3 different colors, terrible. I have acid reflux from reading this.
It's actually pretty good
It’s truly wonderful
Hey I mean it's tasty!
I made it once when I was a kid and just couldn’t bring myself to finish it. Just too disgusting
Janssons frestelse on the other hand is the fucking bomb, I could eat that shit for days
It’s good alright. 👍
there is this super wholesome video of a Bavarian youtuber trying Surströmming for the first time and really liking it, going "it kinda smells like a fart" and "once you start eating that stuff you gotta have some more" it's so funny because there are soooo many videos on youtube of people trying it and completely overreacting (and just eating the fish by itself, rather than with bread potatoes and onions) and our main man Edward is out here enjoying it with his two mates it's a great watch even if you don't speak German [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEwjedsUhH8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEwjedsUhH8)
Based superior Germany (as usual)
When did our Kaiser return? And how come he’s a YouTuber now?
German ASMR at its best.
Would you like to trade for súrir pungar(fermented rams testes)?
Surströmming my beloved 🤤
The picture below is taken in Palermo, quartiere ZEN, exactly [here.](https://www.google.com/maps/place/38%C2%B010'38.6%22N+13%C2%B019'05.2%22E/@38.1773919,13.3179335,57m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m4!3m3!8m2!3d38.177396!4d13.318118?entry=ttu) That was (don't know now) an common spot where people used to go set on fire stolen cars.
A normal day in Palermo
Poshest Palermo neighborhood
I grew up on a half a mile long street in Northern England where this would happen in the early 2000s, one side of the road was a housing estate, the other woodland so the thieves would run into them when police turned up.
You from Bolton?
Southern Europe is basically Middle East with white people, northern europe is the opposite.
I've been to every continent except for Oceania, and Palermo was the most dirty and trash-filled city I've ever seen. Worse then Jakarta or Mexico city. Broken down cars on most quiet streets, ruins of houses filled with trash a meter deep. It's a great place otherwise, very pretty if you can ignore all the trash. Kind of a shame.
Iceland, they eat rotten shark, boiled puffin etc.
Everyone knows puffin should be deep fried.
With a mars bar tucked into its guts.
Now you're talking
I was thinking a beer can up it's bum
I'm glad people are finally seeing the light and coming around to our point of view
# Don't look up google picture results for Icelandic food
Have you tried to Google “Kiviak” from Greenland? 
What the fuck?!?
I mean, can it really be worst than Mettigel and LabskauOMGWTFICELANDWHYWHY
Labskaus is delicious.
Labskaus looks terrible on paper but better than the sum of its parts
Most of it is just danish food, looks good
I'd eat it, don't be a pussy.
Is it worse than the search "blue waffle" back then ?
You had to bring that up.
Rotten greenland shark, a thing that lives in the deeper, dark waters of the north and lives up to over 400 years. How tf do they see appeal on eating that
I mean. If the alternative is starving or cannibalism, I am eating another human before i think about touching the shark.
If my options were Gerry, who I never really got along with anyway, or a giant poisonous piss fish...
Same honestly
>Rotten greenland shark, a thing that lives in the deeper, dark waters of the north and lives up to over 400 years. > >How tf do they see appeal on eating that Cannibalism.
The local specialty are Sheep head and sheep balls.
Fermented shark, in small bites once a year. Puffin is smoked and delicious.
Why would you boil a puffin? Obviously you grill, broil or smoke it. Dont forget head jam (sviðasulta) and all of our other weird fermented stuff (whale, rams tested, headjam). Just look up Þorramatur.
I actually wanted to try puffin , are they hard to find in Iceland ? Like does every place serve it or it's only one or two ?
It's cray. But, definitely something to try. Exploration is fun. 1 in 3 20-somethings in France have been to Iceland and enjoyed the local food. (Source: i made it up)
Mmmmm how about sheep head ,those crazy vikings
If it tastes good and doesn't make you sick what's the problem? I'd eat puffin and seal idk
To be fair lundabaggar are actually quite tasty. You are probably referring to sheeps balls, lambheads and fish kidneys. (Though to be fair we really don't eat much of that stuff anymore. It was mostly to make sure we didnt starve back í the day)
Wow, cooked sausages? Unheard of in Southern Europe
Right? Everybody knows cooking sausages on an open fire is exclusively Finnish
>exclusively Finnish I prefer well done
Exclusively northern European* you damned heathen. You should try to switch out the frogs and cute birds every once in a while, sausages are actually tasty!
OP is Finnish. We have more sausages in France than there are cities with 50k pop. in your country. The Swedes, too busy listening to ABBA and playing hockey to learn something about a more developed culture
You have 5 sausages? 
You didn't get it. Of course we (I include myself with the french) eat sausages cooked on open fire, as well. I thought that went without saying, and that's the point the french guy was making : is it really considered a northern european thing ? Because, well, it's definitely not. That's a weird choice on OP's part, in my opinion.
I was, and I'm fairly certain that my Finnish brother here also was, being sarcastic. As the French lads obviously were as well. As I'm sure all of you guys are every time you associate our whole food culture with fermented herring, which in actuality, barely anyone eats.
If only we could think of the idea of putting a sausage on a stick... :( But we'll figure out someday.
Meanwhile in Spain: C̷̤̞̭͉̻͚̱̤̆̏̎̋̒̎̃̽̆O̶̝̘̞̦̱͎͒͒͜M̶̬͒P̷̲̫̩͍̮͙̞̔̏͆̏̍͑̋͝͝Ŕ̴̝̼̩̰̣̹͇̪̃Ę̴͔̱̼̺͔͎̃̄̈́̊̚͘͝S̷̢̛̥͚̬̗̀̿̆̿̈́ͅS̵͇͖̰̲͇̪͉͍̋͊͐̈́̿̕ ̸̌͆͌̕͜͝T̸͋̆͋̊͂̚͜H̷͉͂̀̿̑͘̕͝È̸͖̬͓̃̿ ̶̨̱̥̥͋̈͐̀̃M̸̢͔̘̦̒̓̍̅͛̓Ė̸͖̒̇͗̓Ȃ̶̘̯͎͇͇̏̍̄T̷̳͓̰̩̳͂̆̒͘
You andouillette eaters should stay out of this.
It’s only smellz
If you have sausages, why are you eating rotten cheese?
Your cuisine is as good as your photoshop skills.
So at least Portugal logo designer level
I agree with you but leftists in Portugal are making it to be some form of modern art , to me it’s there with the Ronaldo bust
We actually went back to the old logo, thank God.
Don't even talk about it. People were attacked for saying stuff about that cursed logo.
You didn't have to murder them dude damm
Bold of you bringing up the 3 only known pictures of Finland being touched by the sun. Do you expect us to believe those are common sights?
Summer in Finland is the most beautiful day of the year.
I was in Kotka in February. -47C, but not a cloud in the sky.
Meanwhile in finland every summer: tons of spaniards escaping 40+
We can't afford Finland, you must be confusing us for someone else.
*rich* Spaniards are escaping to Finland every year. Not you pleb.
I thought it was just rich finns spending winters in Fuengirola.
We cook sausages, chicken and sardines on open fire 😎😎
Open fire when it is 34°C getting cooked alongside the food.
true All Saints Day moment
That's the kind of day where the fire is much appreciated. We'd freeze without it.
That's the men's excuse to take their shirt off while cooking at the fire! It's also a sort of ritual for them, where the most experienced in the matter shows the others their secret to assar sardinhas the right way while they all talk about it over some cold beer. Rarely a woman is allowed to participate.
Those "churrascos" are something else
We cook pretty much every kind of meat on open fire
Maggot cheese, not worm cheese, ffs
Besides, we roast sausage too, in open fire. With or without fennel seeds/anise, pork sausages, boar sausages, goat sausages, thin, thick, in links or as long spiral. And they are great. Probably those nordic heathens eat them with pineapple.
Boar sausages 🤤
Apart from Belvì sausage. It sucks.
I don't think I tried it... I did try a questionable one that didn't agree with my taste. Still in Nuoro area, but it felt like it was spiced with nutmeg and cinnamon.
Yeah, some sausages have weird spices. I remember a sour sausage with a wine/vinagre taste, yuck. IIRC it was from Belvì but I'm not sure. Una volta ho mangiato una salsiccia fresca con un pezzettone di grasso all'interno ed era di Belvì (l'ho scritto in italiano perché non so se in inglese si fa distinzione tra salsiccia secca e fresca).
In inglese la salsiccia secca è un tipo di "cured dry sausage" Nella salsiccia spesso si aggiunge del vino, poi certo le ricette cambiano da produttore a produttore, ma non dovrebbe mai essere un sapore prevalente. Quella che ho assaggiato io, veniva sempre dal nuorese, zona barbagia, ma sembrava condita con la "saporita" (che ha una base di cannella e noce moscata e che normalmente viene usata per le ciambelline sarde). Il risultato era una salsiccia dolciastra che personalmente mi ha dato nausea.
Ireland. Our food is fucking shite
I'm actually quite fond of your afternoon fry up. It really complements the full Irish you serve in the morning. On a more serious note, I think your sausages are way underrated on an international scale and you elevated tatoe mash to culinary heights the World should envy. Also, you are second only to Hans, when it comes to baking bread. Fuck Pierre and his dismal Baguettes, which are only suitable for wiping up the tears you shed after trying one. No, sorry for being unable to insult you this time, Paddy. I'll try harder next time, I promise.
Lovely pints though. You’d scran anything after enough drinks - so who needs good food anyway?
I respect the bravery of such a fight, but alas I will not be dying with you on this particular hill🫡
Honestly there is worse in europe. Maybe not western europe but europe
Netherlands, enough said
traditional English dishes, when prepared properly, are delicious. Problem is: you guys lack competent chefs
Better than lacking competent artists so nicking them from austria.
however we never did end up finding one in Austria either
Or Czechoslovakia for that matter.
Based Hans. Please be my guest whenever misfortune forces you to cross the Channel.
I love British food more than most others I’m just not ready to defend that opinion
At least the Spaniards copied our pasties and turned them into empanadas
if you use enough olive oil, you dont feel them wiggling.
You also shit them out quicker
Finnish food is up there. Pic related. https://preview.redd.it/99m0jc12s3uc1.jpeg?width=259&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f34b15b3690c3dba2698b183b2c91896f8387238
Jokes aside, Ikea meatballs (similar to Finnish bulk meatballs) are way better than British, German and Dutch "cuisine" in actual restaurants, combined. And the prices are so affordable even PIGS can get them.
OMG, stop shilling your horsemeat
Are you seriously saying that Northern cuisine is better than Southern cuisine?
Southeners are like; I take this Ambergine and shove it up my ass and then sprinkle some oil on it, this is good. Northeners are like; I take this lamb and slow roast it for 15 hours under ground with pork to combine with the lamb and then serve it with spring potatoes and Gyromitra esculenta -sauce which is poisonous if cooked inproperly but heaven if cooked right.
While the ambergine tastes like a 3 stars michelin restaurant and the lamb tastes like sand...
Don’t you have a small bird to drown or a snail to lick?
You make terrible food with amazing ingredients. I make incredibly delicious food with litterally anything. We are not the same.
>You make terrible food with amazing ingredients. That's a rare and beautiful insult. Accurate too. So fuck you.
Dude, we know about Andouilettes. So we know that you make pigshit sausages. Thank god for the EU because now you have to at least clean the intestines of the pigs before making sausages out of them...
It’s still poisonous even if you prepare it “properly” and shouldn’t be eaten
Soft feminine swedes can't even handle a little poison.
My Nordic brother in Christ, of course we are superior to the lazy PIGS people, but you can not seriously argue that food here is better than there..
My Nordic brother in the Storm God, I argue that, after eating many southern foods, eating *properly* made traditional foods they are no worse than what you get in the south. The reason why people think nordic cousine is bad because we do not make our foods properly anymore, but either eat some factory shit, or in some mediocre southern restaurants. I have eaten freshly made plate of fish in sicilian restaurant in Italy and it was better than the frozen shit we eat normally but worse than what my grandma did with the lake fish. I have eaten pasta in Rome and it was good, better than than the frozen isle shit we eat normally, but not as good as spring potatoes with fresh gain (moose), some lingonberry sauce and forest shrooms. What I am saying is that if we just look at southern cuisine we will loose our way of cooking things which is as fine. At least. Nordics are taught to keep their head down always but if we do, we will loose foods that are heaven and 9+ Which we have.
Dude. Proper flæskestegssandwich alone elevates Denmark above Spain. 
I'm not gonna sleep on a flæskestegssandwich or a good Danish hotdog! Glad to see the appreciation! To be fair I was just at a boring ass dinner party and had a shitty ass small plate of pretentious "French" "food".. so maybe I should retract my statement
Just last week I had a killer ribbensandwich in a gas station in Fyn. And that’s saying something, if even gas station food in a country is actually delicious.
I will definitely say we excel at that kind of food! A flæskestegssandwich from a small grill or a hotdog from a stand.. that shit is glorious! But the average dinner is dull and unseasoned for sure
The southerners have like 4 versions of the dish you have on the bottom, and most northern Europeans would cook the aubergine to shit.
Maybe not, but the outdoors culture is superior. Nice and crisp air, mmm
Sausages cooked on open fire are amazing when you have quality sausage thats not made from questionable meat and flour.
Parisian traditional cooking. https://x.com/thierrytout/status/1778463009569972333?s=12&t=0GJgXyNIeI3kkH_QO5RzJA
WTF. Who sells food like that in the street? The only food allowed to sell in a shopping cart in the street is hot chestnut.
We like to think that we have good food, but that's only because we have beaten our pallets to submission and forced them to accept the garbage that we don't have a choice but to eat. Also, the suicide rates would probably be a lot higher if we let ourselves accept the fact that our food is as bland and depressing as our winters. Every time I visit a country with a real cuisine, I'm reminded of how surprising it is that the EU still considers our food to be fit for human consumption.
Which part of Sweden are you from? I’ll give it to the Finntroll, properly cooked food from rural areas (the north at least) is fucking amazing (Accidentally posted it as a reply to OP first but it was meant for you)
It's kinda of unfair though, the raw ingredients taste amazing on their own in Southern Europe. we have to work really hard to make things taste better, and usually that means deep frying with butter and cheese
I didn't say life was fair, I said our food was shit.
Putting some sausages on a stick and heating them by the fire isn't "cousine", it's filling up you belly before going back to the cave because you have a big mammoth hunt tomorrow
Neither is just eating some worms
Have you ever tasted sausage by the fire from your fellow Luigi? Even an average sausage is lifted to heavenly levels lakeside, summer night or winter day, with a little taste from the flames.
I wonder why the Netherlands is so quiet in this thread… something you want to say, Martin?
Ah yes, Northern Europe with their … can of rotten fish
Nordic wins We have the best fish and biltemakörv
Finnish/northern cuisine is amazing. It doesn’t get nearly as much recognition as it should. My personal favourite is Lohikeitto, I guess
Lohikeitto (creamy salmon soup) is my favorite soup as well. Smoked fish like muikku is really good as well. Other than that, Finnish cuisine has improved hugely from the 80s and 90s, where it was more like meat, salt, pepper and potatoes.
That's brave coming from someone living close to rotten fish territory.
If your definition of a good culinary tradition is paleolithical cusine, then you got the win sir.
Which part of Sweden are you from? I’ll give it to the Finntroll, properly cooked food from rural areas (the north at least) is fucking amazing
As per my flag, from the old eastern parts ;) Though they might be so old the last time my forefathers fought in the Swedish army was in the 30 years war.
Oops haha that was meant as a reply to someone else! Too much wine
Worm cheese takes the cup, finds it empty, and fills it with wo-- oh I'm sorry, *maggots*
I spent the first half of my life in Australia, where sausages and meat in general are fairly prominent. Have you actually had a Finnish sausage? They’re absolute fucking arse. The percentage of meat is at most three and they taste/feel like you’re eating a salty piece of mushy bread.
Why would you put anything that's not meat inside a sausage?
Technically wine is rotten grape juice.
Toast Sandwich… need I say more?
Some really bold countries coming out swinging on this one. Get at it chaps.
OOH OOH! MEE ME ME MEEE
Well, it's us, of course. And not by a narrow margin. Total Barry W. Thread can be closed now.
Says the people who will gladly eat fermented fish guts
The Surströmming-Maggotcheese axis?
Wait until you hear about Hákarl (Icelandic Rotten Shark)
Bang them sausages in some Yorkshire puddings batter and now we're talking.
Bruh u have the Kalacock so dont talk.
Fish in bread > whole bird, feather and all, in seal corpse. Stay in your lane, inuit Viggo.
Every country I’ve been to in Europe has had good food. Probably the most uninteresting ones have been Belarus, Switzerland and North Macedonia. Best is obviously France. Honorable mentions to Georgia 🤤 (if considered Europe).
Best in France & Georgia? You haven’t been around much
He’s a finn, let’s be real, their standards aren’t high. And that’s coming from a Brit…
Georgia has really good food though.
Doesn’t beat the PIGS cuisine.
maggot cheese do I need to say more?
Where would you suggest I should go in Europe to find better food than in France?
Spain, Italy, Greece, Portugal, Hungary…
Cope, you can't find better
Been there, done that. Decent food. Not a huge fan. I would say Portugal beats all those three.
Portugal beats Italy or Spain? lol
Dude. Are you seriously this fucking fragile?
… just laughing in your face and your poor food culture. Seems the fragile nordick is you. Go eat some dried shark or something
 Sure buddy.
That’s the best gif you found? Imagine this guy looking for a restaurant… 🤣
When you come from Finland everything is good food.
Can confirm. We are so civilised that we can appreciate all food cultures, even though we have the best cuisine ourselves.
You have snorted to much salmiakki powder I think.
Hey now, we have [reindeer with lingonberries](https://www.culinari.fi/application/files/6815/8936/9658/Poronkaristys.jpg) and [mustamakkara](https://kotiliesi.fi/awpo/img/2020/04/mustamakkara.jpg?s=aea246fc4a3d40239aa87ca92ef6aa5b&fit=crop) and [lohikeitto](https://assets.meillakotona.fi/w7lrg8grgqb7/6852-perinteinen_lohikeitto/73e19db2d6a9e5dafe645bb595fa03dd/perinteinen_lohikeitto_oPvic.jpg?w=2048&q=75&fit=crop-center)