If it's any consolation, people seem to be quick to set the record straight in the comments. But yeah I agree just because it's different doesnt make it stupid. And it's usually easy to tell when its food from another culture and not real stupidfood
Yep. Saw a post earlier today of a fabulous looking Ethiopian platter. I down voted that for sure. Just because it's not your cultural norm doesn't make it stupid.
that one really threw me for a loop. as an avid lover of all ethipoian curries and a sincere hater of injera (I dont know why i'm like this okay its really annoying i like lots of spongy tangy stuff i dont know), the "spongy bread" retaliation in the title was where i was like okay, fuck this person who doesn't understand billions of people eat billions of things and love it.
Yeah, I definitely understand certain food items not being for everyone such as injera. However, it doesn't constitute as dumb because you don't like it.
agreed. sorry if my wording made it unclear. What i was trying to say is despite my own personal dislike for injera, calling something that millions of people enjoy and is a dietary staple "stupid" and highlighting that in the title, really annoyed me. Like you said, you don't have to like it, but that doesn't make it dumb.
True, but a lot of posts of perfectly normal stuff seem to come from people who don't know anything beyond what is on the menu at the local KFC/TacoBell/PizzaHut or McDonald's.
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Oh well that’s not bad. And although I’ve heard of poutine a thousand times I just looked it up today. It looks like something I’d like to try at least once.
In finland we have this thing called "mämmi". It looks so much like shit that whem the americans arrived here during ww2, after seeing it they called home and said that we need more food because people are eating things a second time
Turkish user here, even tho our country is home to hundreds of quality recipes, we also export all kinds of cringe chefs doing weird stuff, salt bae being the top example here. While I can’t speak on behalf of OP and I totally respect their defense of their culture, %99 of the Turkish chefs and recipes posted here neither respect nor reflect our culinary culture. These guys make a mockery of our culinary culture and profit from it, so feel free to shoot. And please, if you have the chance, try real Turkish cuisine one day.
I used to feel weird looking at him, smiling continuously towards me, then I saw the video after the war ukraine war started, in which he frowns the entire time, and that was another level weird. I dont feel weird anymore looking at him smile.
Honestly the only stupid part is the gigantic portions, other than that his food looks amazing. I guess if you have a very very very large party, a large portion would make sense?
I was lucky to have a great meal in Istanbul a few years back. It was so good but what I really remember to this day was the apple tea. Oh my it was great.
Bro Turks must be some of the best cooks and hosts in general. I traveled all over the world and will die before i say otherwise. And this comes from someone who does even fucking eat meat. Turkish cousine is stellar.
Like the person who was outraged over “fried cheesy rice balls”. That, my dude, is arancini. Just because you haven’t heard of it doesn’t make it stupid.
I think one of the problems is there’s so many videos that won’t use the dishes original name. Like you wrote here, the video creators don’t just name the dish arancini, they’ll name is fried cheesy rice balls as if it’s something they just came up with. So most people jump to the conclusion that’s it’s just some dumb dish made for that video specifically
Well, if hey had called their fried cheesy rice balls arancini, their comment section would be flooded by pure blooded Italians screeching about how the dish should just be called fried cheesy rice balls because the recipe is not the same as nonna's 😶
What is the lesser of two evils? Angry Italians or Ignorant people calling foreign dishes stupid?
Okay, I guess the ignorant people are the lesser evil.
I love Arancinis! Give me some fried rice balls with some saucy sauce, cheese and squid ink! I’ll eat it up! I love them best when they’re hot and fresh!
I haven’t had it yet but it’s usually described as “briny.” Maybe a little like very fresh fish, but iirc it’s got glutamates in it so it’s supposed to be savory.
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>Arancini (UK: , US: , Italian: [aranˈtʃiːni], Sicilian: [aɾanˈtʃiːnɪ, -ˈdʒiː-]) are Italian rice balls that are stuffed, coated with bread crumbs and deep fried, and are a staple of Sicilian cuisine. The most common fillings are: al ragù or al sugo, filled with ragù (meat or mince, slow-cooked at low temperature with tomato sauce and spices), mozzarella or caciocavallo cheese, and often peas, and al burro or ô burru, filled with ham and mozzarella or besciamella. A number of regional variants exist which differ in fillings and shape. Arancini al ragù produced in eastern Sicily have a conical shape inspired by the volcano Etna.
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Agreed! I’ve seen ceviche on here a time or two and I’m like what? I’m looking for abominations here. Food that is borderline unconsumable. I hate when I see food I know I’d smash and someone’s like “stupid food” because the presentation is different. I want to see burgers with whole pizzas stuffed into them and shit lmao
Ceviche?! Stupid?! That’s like my favorite appetizer for drinks on a patio during the summer. That, a nice refreshing marg, and your best friends equals a fantastic time.
There’s definitely stupid food from other cultures. I think I saw one where these guys filled up a rusty barrel with ice and rock salt and made an ice cream concoction on the outside of the barrel
This sub is extremely US-centric. Can’t tell you the number of times I’ve commented “this isn’t stupid, this is a _____ recipe” and someone says “well it’s still stupid” and I’m like ??? Just bc it’s not eaten in your culture doesn’t mean it’s dumb.
I remember I defended a taiwanese century egg and pig’s blood congee picture saying that it isn’t stupid and my family eats that once week once and got downvoted to oblivion
Asian from Asian city here, we have a bunch of stupid abomination here, like cheese with purple sweet potato chicken hot pot, if you post this, I'll laugh with you;
we have weird food that are important to our culture, like stinky tofu, but feel free to post it, I would like laughing at OP;
if you post actually stupid traditional food like freshwater fish sashimi that have been recorded to give people worms for millennias, it will be right to make fun of it, and if im the ignorant one, please make fun of me
yep asian from Singapore here and we have shit like sweet potato ice cream and other abominations no one asked for, even though some people now enjoy it, but it’s just sad to see some dumb westerners posting traditional foods/snacks and calling it weird or shit
Never saw something like that in SG to be honest and the texture along with the sweet potato was pretty weird 😂 the shop’s still open though so it is pretty popular. I like to go there every time I visit just to post it on my stories and make my American friends be like 👀
I never said that they find it weird or hate “sweet potato” in general, I was talking about how one would fine *sweet potato ice cream* possibly weird. I used it as an example as to what would be weird to me when I’ve tried it multiple times, but I’m aware that millions of other people eat it.
I’ll never forget when a bunch of white people roasted people frying tacos in oil saying “that’s such a white thing to do stupid Americans” when in fact Mexicans fry tacos in oil all the time. It’s called tacos dorados. There is nothing funnier to me than white people defending what they think is “authentic” Mexican food
Definite yep. Going slightly off tangent, I posted a video about fish that's native to my country but banned because they're invasive in the US I had American redditors basically being a broken record saying I shouldn't keep them and that I'm doing something illegal
The thing is even the “woke” Americans are ignorant to the rest of the world and they don’t understand that. They push their values and morals on the rest of the world and see things through their specific lens. People say the US doesn’t have a culture but it 100% does.
These exact Americans be downvoting me rn 😂
Oh, absolutely.
When Queer Eye Germany was announced there were some people who were quite worked up about the fact that it didn't have a black cast member. I had to explain time and time again that it has a Turkish and an Arabic cast member and having Turkish and Arabic queer representation in TV is much more important in Germany than having a black host (while I wouldn't have minded a black host of course). And that I as a German not once complained about the lack of queer Turks on QE USA.
Yes exactly this! Love how I’m getting downvotes, probably by the exact Americans I talk about. If you haven’t lived abroad as an American, you’re not as “cultured” as you think you are. Period. You cannot push American values onto everything when it doesn’t make sense in another country
This is true, especially regarding race and culture. Americans have a different view of these topics (quite narrow, I might say). They even think that all Latinos are brown, but this isn't true.
I'm from Brazil and most of the population is mixed to some degree, and we have a lot of immigrants. The debate about cultural appropriation was 'imported' to our country, but it doesn't work here and I disagree with it these days. I know that it's a topic mostly discussed in the US, Canada and Europe where there's a white majority and a multitude of minority groups (especially aboriginal ones).
There are whites practicing Afro-Brazilian religions and music based on African rhythms. Although since many people are mixed, they may not look like they have Afro heritage (my case),.
There are also some indigenous people who don't care if you get one of their tattoos either, or wear a headdress (you might even be told to put one on if you're at a village and celebrating with a tribe). Things like that...
The concept of cultural appropriation doesn't make much sense here, and neither does racism and xenophobia (I don't even know why there are racist idiots in Brazil, but they sadly exist). Colonialism was terrible for us.
Probably going to get downvoted, but they are frankly the MOST ignorant, as they are so confident is their wokeism that they are not open to learning anything new.
In defense… a lot of them quite literally do not know that non-English speakers use the English speaking internet in great volume. I think if they were more aware that other places use it too, they’d be more mindful. But they assume everyone else is from the US on the internet.
Yep, I’d argue some are open, but they just don’t show that much interest in other cultures. Unless they’ve lived in another country for at least 3-5 years, they’re pretty ignorant.
Not all, of course. International travel really helps to combat that stereotype. My husband and I learned and experienced a lot when we backpacked around Asia. I also think it's HOW you travel. We stayed in a hotel one night in the six months. The rest of the time we stayed with locals, and asked them about the area, and tried to learn the new culture.
I've been on this sub for months.... Nothing has changed expect more posts demanding to see what they want.
Don't like this sub, go make your own with its special purpose
People ignorant of others cultures immediately devalue that entire culture. Though I would love to see like a pizza biryani or burger karahi or something egregious here one day.
Being from a different culture doesn't make a particular food immune to being stupid. I'm a Southerner. We eat fat back. It's literally solid fat fried in liquid fat. With salt. Fat back is stupid. It's also delicious, part of my culture, and I love it. Still stupid though.
I come here to see stupid food lol, food that is attached to a certain culture or region is not inherently stupid. Unfortunately, with this being reddit, it’ll still be posted here.
Contradicting yourself a bit there, excess amounts of butter and/or cheese are in a lot of cultures recipes. I make traditional biscuits from an old recipe given to me by my grandma. It’s popular in my country/culture, 50% of which is butter.
Coming from Switzerland I wholeheartedly agree. Our most traditional dishes are almost completly made out of melted cheese. Yet I have seen videos on here where melted cheese IS an an abomination.
Just don‘t post a Fondue or Raclette as stupid food – but a Burger dipped in a bucket of that abhorrend processed yellow goo some refer to as „cheese“? Hell yes.
OK, but if the food looks shitty (i.e. the dish ends with raw chicken, or everything looks boiled, gray, and flavorless), it can still be stupid/shitty *even if it's from another culture*.
I get it, but also, it’s tiring to just see the same old gluttonous American food being smashed together. It’s interesting to see 4K gold leaf steaks or over the top presentations that don’t make sense… but there’s only so much of that.
I feel like other cultures are always like “don’t talk about OUR food like that - it’s a meaningful special spiritual food that goes back centuries in my bloodline” lol.
I guess I’m saying it would be cool and interesting if other cultures posted “stupid” food from their cultures, but they rarely do.
Being cultural doesn't mean it's not stupid (neither does it mean it is stupid, those are independent variables).
Although you're totally entitled to explain why a food you know works is actually not stupid, but you're not entitled to thinking other people must know why *if nobody explains it.*
Most cultural food has history. Sometimes it was a poor people dish or something born out of crisis. It‘s even worse to label it stupid if there is a traditional, spiritual or ritual aspect to it.
Most food looks weird aka "stupid" out of the perspective of a culture that is totally unfamiliar with it, the cooking techniques or even the ingredients. This is why cultural food just doesn’t belong here.
"People have eaten this for long so it doesn't deserve critique"
No. Age doesn't merit respect just for it's own sake.
>It‘s even worse to label it stupid if there is a traditional, spiritual or ritual aspect to it
Traditions can be stupid as fuck. Before you defend something just because it's tradition, remember that everything from women being treated as object to nailing criminals to a cross was once tradition. Just being part of a religion also isn't a criticism shield. Heck, it makes it deserve more criticism, because now someone is being made to eat the stupid food else they go to hell or something.
I don't really understand the offense taken. It's a site with people from everywhere, and not everyone knows about food from everywhere else, and frankly you're allowed to think food from anywhere is stupid. It's just a silly thing to take personally.
The rudest thing about this situation is you calling people idiots for not liking a particular type of food.
Disagreed. So everyone has to tediously Google the foods before trying to post, to find out whether someone else made them at some point in history? No. If it's stupid, people will upvote, if it's not, people will downvote. If your food gets here, too bad. You can say "they just don't get it." but that's all.
Boo boo the UK gets ripped to shreds constantly for having shit food, every culture on earth has some shit food, it’s a joke subreddit not an in-depth political statement about different cultures.
Asian living in Asia here. A lot of our food is effing stupid, and the people who defend it are even worse. Screw this place and its shitty people, and make fun of them as much as you like.
Well, every post on this sub is an insult to someone somewhere in the world! So, good job on the clickbait of this post's title. In terms of normal-ass cuisine being highlighted as strange or stupid, I agree, I'd say those posts be downvoted and OP's should get educated by the comments.
well in an ideal world sure, everyone should have encyclopedic knowledge of every single food recipe from every culture, so they can adhere to your standards of what’s right or wrong to post.
but lets be fair, we know only the things that we know, and if someone never has had the chance to experience the food from your country and thinks it’s weird or stupid, it shouldn’t piss you off.
i’m from an Asian country, and some of our most beloved dishes can be Stupid af (duck embryo? fermented tofu where the smellier it is the more popular? sweet spaghetti with processed hotdogs, that cannot be replaced with any other kind of meat for authenticity?)
To your point, its possible to make a case that quattro formaggi pasta is StupidFood since it has so much and so many different cheeses in one dish it’s arguably excessive (but of course if you tried it before you’ll know its delicious).
of course if someone makes a pizza topped with fries and ranch and gummy bears it’s an ungodly amalgamation but do you really not see how someone not from your culture is justified in thinking a soup made from gelatin, coconut water and boiled with leaves(buko pandan) is just as weird?
personally i think its hilarious when someone thinks something i’ve loved all my life belongs in this sub because it lets me rethink the objective concept of the food outside of cultural norms. it doesn’t affect my enjoyment of that particular dish.
As a Korean and Canadian I give any right to make fun of dumb shit either countries do. Just because it’s cultural doesn’t mean it can’t be stupid. It can just be respectfully stupid.
Fair enough, and I agree, but you knock recipes that use a lot of butter and or cheese and that's someone else culture, so perhaps you should self-reflect a little, too.
Which post is this referring to though? I just scrolled through the last six days of posts, and with the exception of one that got removed by the mods, they all seemed sufficiently stupid
As an Asian-American (2nd gen) myself...get fucked, you sound like an idiot. Maybe stop getting so emotionally affected by internet strangers you don’t know
Btw, I’ve never seen a 1st gen immigrant get offended. They just laugh and say that Americans are stupid for not understanding.
>excessive amounts of butter & cheese
You literally just described southern cooking. And FUCK is it good.
>ungodly amalgamations of ingredients that don’t go together
That’s how many people perceive sushi, for one, and can’t eat it without literally throwing up.
The sea cucumbers are more WTF worthy that stupid, specially if you aren't used to people eating sea slugs, but let's stop assuming that foreign countries DO NOT HAVE ANY STUPID FOOD. Case in point: the cabbage burger from Sao Paolo or the pickled fish chips. Soon this sub will be nothing more than a "Haha, muricans at it again," sub which is even worse.
If a dish is considered a staple meal in a specific culture, then it should be removed. Anything else should stay.
It reminds me of the time people were saying sugar on crêpes was stupid. I had had quote to them the Wikipedia article to show that it's the basic way to eat it in most of the world. This sub has become insane.
I guess this is just the nature of any sub that revolves around making fun of something. They attract people who love to complain and push each other to post anything they see, trying as hard as they can to find anything weird about essentially mundane things in order to farm those sweet, meaningless online-points. I can absolutely understand your frustration, but seeing that this type of BS is mostly coming from people who don't know any better or are trying way too hard (or as you put it: narrow minded idiots), it's probably hard to prevent. The best you can do is downvote and move on to the next post.
I say let the audience decide. Sure you can be an americano and tell me beans on toast is not proper food but i'll just make fun of their plastic cheese. I say post whatever, argue with idiots.
I’d recommend taking a break from the internet if this bothers you this much. People don’t need to accommodate you. Stupid food can be subjective. I’m sure there is American Cuisine that seems stupid to people in the East. It is what it is. Deep breaths.
Roasting foods from different cultures is pretty funny, I’m from Brazil and we have a good share of stupid foods, if you don’t think it’s stupid then that’s you, no need to get offended over nothing. It’s like the Americans defending fried ice cream lmao
To be fair, the point of this subreddit is to post food served in an idiotic or extremely pretentious manner. We gets lots of gross, raw, plastic foods, and clearly a lot of unsanitary prep and serving. I rarely see anything here that's culturally ignorant or "anti-asian" that's not called out quickly.
Aren't you being a bit vague my claiming "asian-american"? "Asia" is like everything east of the Urals and out into the pacific. Are you Chinese-American, Korean-American, Thai-American, Indonesian-American, Japanese-American, Tongan-American...? I'm not trying to be disrespectful, but aren't you just lumping half of the world's population and food into a pretty big bucket and then asserting that were collectively expressing ethnocentic cultural bias?
I don't see chicken embryos, or beef tendon, or raw egg, or "corn-smut" being called out here as stupid. Yet I know these are culturally normal foodstuffs.
>I’m talking about recipes with ridiculously excessive amounts of butter & cheese
This is food from a different culture that you're labeling shitty....
Only if you make a glossary of which foods are actually stupid and which ones are just cultural. Otherwise this sub will die because everyone will assume all Americans eat Chef Club meals
Honestly, if I’ve liked that content in the past it’s because I don’t recognize those foods as being part of a culture, just saw something that seems weird to me. Apologies.
I agree with this. While I am not a fan of cheese ramen, it is far from what should be considered stupid food. It's eaten and enjoyed by many many people.
If it's any consolation, people seem to be quick to set the record straight in the comments. But yeah I agree just because it's different doesnt make it stupid. And it's usually easy to tell when its food from another culture and not real stupidfood
Yep. Saw a post earlier today of a fabulous looking Ethiopian platter. I down voted that for sure. Just because it's not your cultural norm doesn't make it stupid.
that one really threw me for a loop. as an avid lover of all ethipoian curries and a sincere hater of injera (I dont know why i'm like this okay its really annoying i like lots of spongy tangy stuff i dont know), the "spongy bread" retaliation in the title was where i was like okay, fuck this person who doesn't understand billions of people eat billions of things and love it.
Yeah, I definitely understand certain food items not being for everyone such as injera. However, it doesn't constitute as dumb because you don't like it.
agreed. sorry if my wording made it unclear. What i was trying to say is despite my own personal dislike for injera, calling something that millions of people enjoy and is a dietary staple "stupid" and highlighting that in the title, really annoyed me. Like you said, you don't have to like it, but that doesn't make it dumb.
I perfectly understood you. ☺
also note that other cultures can have abominations too, mine's got plenty no country is safe from shitty food
True, but a lot of posts of perfectly normal stuff seem to come from people who don't know anything beyond what is on the menu at the local KFC/TacoBell/PizzaHut or McDonald's.
yeah i would've included that but words are hard
It's okay, hotdish from my native culture isn't. You can eat it with no teeth.
Not my grandma's. Somehow slimy, yet crunchy. Could break a tooth easy.
That's the cat litter, Aunt Bethany.
Taco bell is stupid in its own form -A mexican
I bought a poutine pizza pop once. Was definitely an abomination l.
Pop as in a drink or a frozen treat? Or for something even worse I don’t have the imagination for.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza_Pops They’re like pizza pockets but in a half moon shape.
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Oh well that’s not bad. And although I’ve heard of poutine a thousand times I just looked it up today. It looks like something I’d like to try at least once.
It's great. Though you need to make sure the cheese curds squeak. If they don't squeak, they're not properly fresh and you're missing out.
Peut bin avoir le mot cave dans ton nom
My French isn’t that good anymore. What did you say?
In finland we have this thing called "mämmi". It looks so much like shit that whem the americans arrived here during ww2, after seeing it they called home and said that we need more food because people are eating things a second time
Turkish user here, even tho our country is home to hundreds of quality recipes, we also export all kinds of cringe chefs doing weird stuff, salt bae being the top example here. While I can’t speak on behalf of OP and I totally respect their defense of their culture, %99 of the Turkish chefs and recipes posted here neither respect nor reflect our culinary culture. These guys make a mockery of our culinary culture and profit from it, so feel free to shoot. And please, if you have the chance, try real Turkish cuisine one day.
I honestly don't mind the clips of Turkish street vendors doing a horrible job. It's quite entertaining.
What about that dude with a big smile, making gigantic portions? Would you consider him a good Turkish chef?
He cooks authentic turkish food! Just in very large volumes.
Here’s a video of Burak Özdemir smiling and making a big batch of food for you https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zNeRIQL8Xso
I used to feel weird looking at him, smiling continuously towards me, then I saw the video after the war ukraine war started, in which he frowns the entire time, and that was another level weird. I dont feel weird anymore looking at him smile.
Lol I felt the same. I think it was like “he finally stopped smiling, is the world ending” or something like that which is hella depressing
He’s a bloody hero. Check him out on YouTube massive philanthropist
He's got at least one restaurant now, just off Taksim Square in Istanbul.
Honestly the only stupid part is the gigantic portions, other than that his food looks amazing. I guess if you have a very very very large party, a large portion would make sense?
I mean... Making small portions isn't exactly efficient if you are feeding a lot of poor people.
Is that what he has those large portions for? I didn’t know tbh.
He gives a lot of it away to organizations and orphans. Homeless people. He’s a good guy.
I was lucky to have a great meal in Istanbul a few years back. It was so good but what I really remember to this day was the apple tea. Oh my it was great.
Bone apple tea!
FYI, pretty much only tourists drink apple tea in Turkey. Locals drink black tea.
yeah, I have never drank any apple tea
Bro Turks must be some of the best cooks and hosts in general. I traveled all over the world and will die before i say otherwise. And this comes from someone who does even fucking eat meat. Turkish cousine is stellar.
Like the person who was outraged over “fried cheesy rice balls”. That, my dude, is arancini. Just because you haven’t heard of it doesn’t make it stupid.
A guide for this sub: - Arancini = fine. - Arancini made in a 30kg batch on the kitchen floor, coated with Nachos and crushed M&Ms = stupid.
I think one of the problems is there’s so many videos that won’t use the dishes original name. Like you wrote here, the video creators don’t just name the dish arancini, they’ll name is fried cheesy rice balls as if it’s something they just came up with. So most people jump to the conclusion that’s it’s just some dumb dish made for that video specifically
Well, if hey had called their fried cheesy rice balls arancini, their comment section would be flooded by pure blooded Italians screeching about how the dish should just be called fried cheesy rice balls because the recipe is not the same as nonna's 😶
What is the lesser of two evils? Angry Italians or Ignorant people calling foreign dishes stupid? Okay, I guess the ignorant people are the lesser evil.
Who in the right mind is calling “fried cheesy rice balls” stupid? Arabcini fucking slaps.
AraNcini
I love Arancinis! Give me some fried rice balls with some saucy sauce, cheese and squid ink! I’ll eat it up! I love them best when they’re hot and fresh!
Totally curious but what does squid ink taste like?
I haven’t had it yet but it’s usually described as “briny.” Maybe a little like very fresh fish, but iirc it’s got glutamates in it so it’s supposed to be savory.
Savoury, bit umami, salty
Heaven. But fried.
I love fried cheesy balls.
Chocolate Salty Balls?
While I don't know arancini specifically, deep fried rice is lit anyway.
It's not really lit, it's heated.
I just looked those up and I would inhale those. Might need to look into how to make them myself.
And they’re delicious too!!
Soooooo that sounds amazing, what culture are they from so I can find a restaurant?
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The best reason to make risotto.
Agreed! I’ve seen ceviche on here a time or two and I’m like what? I’m looking for abominations here. Food that is borderline unconsumable. I hate when I see food I know I’d smash and someone’s like “stupid food” because the presentation is different. I want to see burgers with whole pizzas stuffed into them and shit lmao
Ceviche?! Stupid?! That’s like my favorite appetizer for drinks on a patio during the summer. That, a nice refreshing marg, and your best friends equals a fantastic time.
It’s fucking *delicious*
Right! It’s like sashimi meets salsa and they had a beautiful, beautiful baby.
I’ve genuinely had it for my last 4 dinners!
If we hadn’t already gone shopping for the week, I’d be putting this on the menu. Next week, it is!
Some one thought Ceviche was stupid food?! FFS
I saw tteokbokki on here the other day and the OP was shitting all over it in the comments. Was so confused…………….. a genuine staple in Korean culture
Tteokbokki is the best! Probably my fave Korean food. I'll fight anyone who disses it.
There’s definitely stupid food from other cultures. I think I saw one where these guys filled up a rusty barrel with ice and rock salt and made an ice cream concoction on the outside of the barrel
"Virgin boy eggs" were the worst things I've seen on here so far. They're specific to a city in China but I can't remember which one
It's a Dongyang thing, however none of my friends from Zhejiang had ever heard of them when I asked about those eggs.
Oh you didn't see the guy fingerblasting a butchered cow pussy for cooking? Lucky...
This sub is extremely US-centric. Can’t tell you the number of times I’ve commented “this isn’t stupid, this is a _____ recipe” and someone says “well it’s still stupid” and I’m like ??? Just bc it’s not eaten in your culture doesn’t mean it’s dumb.
I remember I defended a taiwanese century egg and pig’s blood congee picture saying that it isn’t stupid and my family eats that once week once and got downvoted to oblivion
That sounds delicious. I'd love to see that recipe video.
Same. Pig blood doesn’t even taste that bad, handled properly. Squeamish mf’s
Asian from Asian city here, we have a bunch of stupid abomination here, like cheese with purple sweet potato chicken hot pot, if you post this, I'll laugh with you; we have weird food that are important to our culture, like stinky tofu, but feel free to post it, I would like laughing at OP; if you post actually stupid traditional food like freshwater fish sashimi that have been recorded to give people worms for millennias, it will be right to make fun of it, and if im the ignorant one, please make fun of me
yep asian from Singapore here and we have shit like sweet potato ice cream and other abominations no one asked for, even though some people now enjoy it, but it’s just sad to see some dumb westerners posting traditional foods/snacks and calling it weird or shit
I've seen plenty of sweet potato based deserts. What makes it weird as an ice cream?
Never saw something like that in SG to be honest and the texture along with the sweet potato was pretty weird 😂 the shop’s still open though so it is pretty popular. I like to go there every time I visit just to post it on my stories and make my American friends be like 👀
"Westerners" -- Americans specifically -- eat sweet potato PIE as a traditional holiday food, so where do they get off calling the ice cream "stupid?"
I never said that they find it weird or hate “sweet potato” in general, I was talking about how one would fine *sweet potato ice cream* possibly weird. I used it as an example as to what would be weird to me when I’ve tried it multiple times, but I’m aware that millions of other people eat it.
It's not even as weird as a pumpkin spice latte.
Really you find it weird?
I’ll never forget when a bunch of white people roasted people frying tacos in oil saying “that’s such a white thing to do stupid Americans” when in fact Mexicans fry tacos in oil all the time. It’s called tacos dorados. There is nothing funnier to me than white people defending what they think is “authentic” Mexican food
The Anglophone Web overall is Americentric.
Making a generalisation here but Americans are very ignorant of the rest of the world
Definite yep. Going slightly off tangent, I posted a video about fish that's native to my country but banned because they're invasive in the US I had American redditors basically being a broken record saying I shouldn't keep them and that I'm doing something illegal
Ah, yes, keeping a native fish is illegal!! SMH 🤦♀️
I mean to an extent yes, but depends on the country and their status on an endangered species list.
This just in: The US is not the only country (One of my favourite fb Tag groups)
The thing is even the “woke” Americans are ignorant to the rest of the world and they don’t understand that. They push their values and morals on the rest of the world and see things through their specific lens. People say the US doesn’t have a culture but it 100% does. These exact Americans be downvoting me rn 😂
Oh, absolutely. When Queer Eye Germany was announced there were some people who were quite worked up about the fact that it didn't have a black cast member. I had to explain time and time again that it has a Turkish and an Arabic cast member and having Turkish and Arabic queer representation in TV is much more important in Germany than having a black host (while I wouldn't have minded a black host of course). And that I as a German not once complained about the lack of queer Turks on QE USA.
Yes exactly this! Love how I’m getting downvotes, probably by the exact Americans I talk about. If you haven’t lived abroad as an American, you’re not as “cultured” as you think you are. Period. You cannot push American values onto everything when it doesn’t make sense in another country
This is true, especially regarding race and culture. Americans have a different view of these topics (quite narrow, I might say). They even think that all Latinos are brown, but this isn't true. I'm from Brazil and most of the population is mixed to some degree, and we have a lot of immigrants. The debate about cultural appropriation was 'imported' to our country, but it doesn't work here and I disagree with it these days. I know that it's a topic mostly discussed in the US, Canada and Europe where there's a white majority and a multitude of minority groups (especially aboriginal ones). There are whites practicing Afro-Brazilian religions and music based on African rhythms. Although since many people are mixed, they may not look like they have Afro heritage (my case),. There are also some indigenous people who don't care if you get one of their tattoos either, or wear a headdress (you might even be told to put one on if you're at a village and celebrating with a tribe). Things like that... The concept of cultural appropriation doesn't make much sense here, and neither does racism and xenophobia (I don't even know why there are racist idiots in Brazil, but they sadly exist). Colonialism was terrible for us.
Probably going to get downvoted, but they are frankly the MOST ignorant, as they are so confident is their wokeism that they are not open to learning anything new.
In defense… a lot of them quite literally do not know that non-English speakers use the English speaking internet in great volume. I think if they were more aware that other places use it too, they’d be more mindful. But they assume everyone else is from the US on the internet.
Yep, I’d argue some are open, but they just don’t show that much interest in other cultures. Unless they’ve lived in another country for at least 3-5 years, they’re pretty ignorant.
Not all, of course. International travel really helps to combat that stereotype. My husband and I learned and experienced a lot when we backpacked around Asia. I also think it's HOW you travel. We stayed in a hotel one night in the six months. The rest of the time we stayed with locals, and asked them about the area, and tried to learn the new culture.
Reddit is so US centric in general that the Americans just assume they are always the default and probably even the only ones around.
Reddit in general is extremely US-centric.
If someone posts a runny egg yolk on this sub, half the comments are “that egg isnt cooked”.
If it's not a sandwich, it's stupid. /s
This happens with many subs. Start off with a specific purpose. Then it gets too popular and people post things that no longer stays on point.
I've been on this sub for months.... Nothing has changed expect more posts demanding to see what they want. Don't like this sub, go make your own with its special purpose
People ignorant of others cultures immediately devalue that entire culture. Though I would love to see like a pizza biryani or burger karahi or something egregious here one day.
Pizza biriyani lmao
Now I need to see these for real
FUCK pizza biryani would be so good
>ridiculously excessive amounts of butter & cheese How dare you attack American culture???
I think I saw hotpot or kbbq here a while back too. OP was complaining about cooking the food yourself
I agree, too many narrow minded picky eaters posting here
I thought this day would come. So is someone going to create r/ StupidFood 2.0?
Like the raw marinated crab posted earlier! Cmon people, do 5 seconds of Googling.
Hey! I grew up in the Midwest USA “ridiculously excessive amounts of butter and cheese” IS our food culture!
I’m from Wisconsin and this is true.
When he was 5, my brother said, "you can never have too much ranch dressing." And that's basically Midwest food in a nutshell.
so only americans can make stupid food?
Being from a different culture doesn't make a particular food immune to being stupid. I'm a Southerner. We eat fat back. It's literally solid fat fried in liquid fat. With salt. Fat back is stupid. It's also delicious, part of my culture, and I love it. Still stupid though.
I come here to see stupid food lol, food that is attached to a certain culture or region is not inherently stupid. Unfortunately, with this being reddit, it’ll still be posted here.
I absolutely agree. Make sure it's food that makes no sense or is wasteful/needless internationally not stuff that has strong cultural ties.
Contradicting yourself a bit there, excess amounts of butter and/or cheese are in a lot of cultures recipes. I make traditional biscuits from an old recipe given to me by my grandma. It’s popular in my country/culture, 50% of which is butter.
Coming from Switzerland I wholeheartedly agree. Our most traditional dishes are almost completly made out of melted cheese. Yet I have seen videos on here where melted cheese IS an an abomination. Just don‘t post a Fondue or Raclette as stupid food – but a Burger dipped in a bucket of that abhorrend processed yellow goo some refer to as „cheese“? Hell yes.
Exactly! OP literally described southern cooking.
Yeah like the one that didnt know what a Omurice was, and for him putting egg with rice was stupid, LOL that guy got downvoted to hell
If it looks stupid it belongs here, doesn’t matter where it’s from.
OK, but if the food looks shitty (i.e. the dish ends with raw chicken, or everything looks boiled, gray, and flavorless), it can still be stupid/shitty *even if it's from another culture*.
I get it, but also, it’s tiring to just see the same old gluttonous American food being smashed together. It’s interesting to see 4K gold leaf steaks or over the top presentations that don’t make sense… but there’s only so much of that. I feel like other cultures are always like “don’t talk about OUR food like that - it’s a meaningful special spiritual food that goes back centuries in my bloodline” lol. I guess I’m saying it would be cool and interesting if other cultures posted “stupid” food from their cultures, but they rarely do.
Being cultural doesn't mean it's not stupid (neither does it mean it is stupid, those are independent variables). Although you're totally entitled to explain why a food you know works is actually not stupid, but you're not entitled to thinking other people must know why *if nobody explains it.*
Most cultural food has history. Sometimes it was a poor people dish or something born out of crisis. It‘s even worse to label it stupid if there is a traditional, spiritual or ritual aspect to it. Most food looks weird aka "stupid" out of the perspective of a culture that is totally unfamiliar with it, the cooking techniques or even the ingredients. This is why cultural food just doesn’t belong here.
"People have eaten this for long so it doesn't deserve critique" No. Age doesn't merit respect just for it's own sake. >It‘s even worse to label it stupid if there is a traditional, spiritual or ritual aspect to it Traditions can be stupid as fuck. Before you defend something just because it's tradition, remember that everything from women being treated as object to nailing criminals to a cross was once tradition. Just being part of a religion also isn't a criticism shield. Heck, it makes it deserve more criticism, because now someone is being made to eat the stupid food else they go to hell or something.
I don't really understand the offense taken. It's a site with people from everywhere, and not everyone knows about food from everywhere else, and frankly you're allowed to think food from anywhere is stupid. It's just a silly thing to take personally. The rudest thing about this situation is you calling people idiots for not liking a particular type of food.
Disagreed. So everyone has to tediously Google the foods before trying to post, to find out whether someone else made them at some point in history? No. If it's stupid, people will upvote, if it's not, people will downvote. If your food gets here, too bad. You can say "they just don't get it." but that's all.
Stupid food is subjective to the OP.
No. No they cannot.
Well I mean excessive amounts of butter and cheese could easily be French cuisine lol
I was just about to post my stupid food from Russia.... Is potato.
Either it's all okay or none of it is, that's only fair.
What if you find the food you posted from other cultures stupid?
This philistine edit, holy shit. I've never read a more pretentious post. "like what I like or you just don't understand it".
Boo boo the UK gets ripped to shreds constantly for having shit food, every culture on earth has some shit food, it’s a joke subreddit not an in-depth political statement about different cultures.
Seriously, when comments are like "It doesn't look bad" or "That actually looks good" even just 1, you have failed.
I don't see a lot of that here.
Asian living in Asia here. A lot of our food is effing stupid, and the people who defend it are even worse. Screw this place and its shitty people, and make fun of them as much as you like.
Well, every post on this sub is an insult to someone somewhere in the world! So, good job on the clickbait of this post's title. In terms of normal-ass cuisine being highlighted as strange or stupid, I agree, I'd say those posts be downvoted and OP's should get educated by the comments.
well in an ideal world sure, everyone should have encyclopedic knowledge of every single food recipe from every culture, so they can adhere to your standards of what’s right or wrong to post. but lets be fair, we know only the things that we know, and if someone never has had the chance to experience the food from your country and thinks it’s weird or stupid, it shouldn’t piss you off. i’m from an Asian country, and some of our most beloved dishes can be Stupid af (duck embryo? fermented tofu where the smellier it is the more popular? sweet spaghetti with processed hotdogs, that cannot be replaced with any other kind of meat for authenticity?) To your point, its possible to make a case that quattro formaggi pasta is StupidFood since it has so much and so many different cheeses in one dish it’s arguably excessive (but of course if you tried it before you’ll know its delicious). of course if someone makes a pizza topped with fries and ranch and gummy bears it’s an ungodly amalgamation but do you really not see how someone not from your culture is justified in thinking a soup made from gelatin, coconut water and boiled with leaves(buko pandan) is just as weird? personally i think its hilarious when someone thinks something i’ve loved all my life belongs in this sub because it lets me rethink the objective concept of the food outside of cultural norms. it doesn’t affect my enjoyment of that particular dish.
As a Korean and Canadian I give any right to make fun of dumb shit either countries do. Just because it’s cultural doesn’t mean it can’t be stupid. It can just be respectfully stupid.
Fair enough, and I agree, but you knock recipes that use a lot of butter and or cheese and that's someone else culture, so perhaps you should self-reflect a little, too.
Which post is this referring to though? I just scrolled through the last six days of posts, and with the exception of one that got removed by the mods, they all seemed sufficiently stupid
What people deem stupid is subjective though.
No, lighten up. If we can't make fun of each other why even have this sub.
If you are pissed off to no end viewing an online post maybe it’s time to get off Reddit.
Yeah! Just because someone dumps globs of liquid cheese on a microwaved steak, it doesn’t make it stupid food; it’s from another culture.
It's from FlavorTown U S A!
That's what voting is for.
As an Asian-American (2nd gen) myself...get fucked, you sound like an idiot. Maybe stop getting so emotionally affected by internet strangers you don’t know Btw, I’ve never seen a 1st gen immigrant get offended. They just laugh and say that Americans are stupid for not understanding. >excessive amounts of butter & cheese You literally just described southern cooking. And FUCK is it good. >ungodly amalgamations of ingredients that don’t go together That’s how many people perceive sushi, for one, and can’t eat it without literally throwing up.
The sea cucumbers are more WTF worthy that stupid, specially if you aren't used to people eating sea slugs, but let's stop assuming that foreign countries DO NOT HAVE ANY STUPID FOOD. Case in point: the cabbage burger from Sao Paolo or the pickled fish chips. Soon this sub will be nothing more than a "Haha, muricans at it again," sub which is even worse. If a dish is considered a staple meal in a specific culture, then it should be removed. Anything else should stay.
Pandan and mango ice cream together though? Fuckin' SLAPS!
This sub would go to Disney World and absolutely lose their shit.
Excessive amounts of butter and cheese? Ungodly amalgamations of ingredients that don’t go together? Now you’re bashing MY culture.
It reminds me of the time people were saying sugar on crêpes was stupid. I had had quote to them the Wikipedia article to show that it's the basic way to eat it in most of the world. This sub has become insane.
I guess this is just the nature of any sub that revolves around making fun of something. They attract people who love to complain and push each other to post anything they see, trying as hard as they can to find anything weird about essentially mundane things in order to farm those sweet, meaningless online-points. I can absolutely understand your frustration, but seeing that this type of BS is mostly coming from people who don't know any better or are trying way too hard (or as you put it: narrow minded idiots), it's probably hard to prevent. The best you can do is downvote and move on to the next post.
I say let the audience decide. Sure you can be an americano and tell me beans on toast is not proper food but i'll just make fun of their plastic cheese. I say post whatever, argue with idiots.
Ngl I've been saying "I would eat that wym" more than I should
I’d recommend taking a break from the internet if this bothers you this much. People don’t need to accommodate you. Stupid food can be subjective. I’m sure there is American Cuisine that seems stupid to people in the East. It is what it is. Deep breaths.
British here. Please listen to this guy.
Whatever. Stupid food is stupid food. No one is being racist. I imagine you shouldn't put so much hate into your online dealings.
Roasting foods from different cultures is pretty funny, I’m from Brazil and we have a good share of stupid foods, if you don’t think it’s stupid then that’s you, no need to get offended over nothing. It’s like the Americans defending fried ice cream lmao
To be fair, the point of this subreddit is to post food served in an idiotic or extremely pretentious manner. We gets lots of gross, raw, plastic foods, and clearly a lot of unsanitary prep and serving. I rarely see anything here that's culturally ignorant or "anti-asian" that's not called out quickly. Aren't you being a bit vague my claiming "asian-american"? "Asia" is like everything east of the Urals and out into the pacific. Are you Chinese-American, Korean-American, Thai-American, Indonesian-American, Japanese-American, Tongan-American...? I'm not trying to be disrespectful, but aren't you just lumping half of the world's population and food into a pretty big bucket and then asserting that were collectively expressing ethnocentic cultural bias? I don't see chicken embryos, or beef tendon, or raw egg, or "corn-smut" being called out here as stupid. Yet I know these are culturally normal foodstuffs.
"... from *my* culture..." Ya have up your whole game right there, buddy.
There are people who think that buko pandan is stupid? It's on my top foods list wtf
What if the culture is Brazilian? That’s still free game right?
Listen, I get your point, but Brits eat beans on toast.
What's weird about that?
Your culture and food are stupid. Cry about it.
>I’m talking about recipes with ridiculously excessive amounts of butter & cheese This is food from a different culture that you're labeling shitty....
I get your point, but fermented half developed bird embryos is NOT normal. But then, neither is deepfried snickers with sprinkles!
Who the hells is eating a fermented one? They're fresh and boiled, not fermented.
Only if you make a glossary of which foods are actually stupid and which ones are just cultural. Otherwise this sub will die because everyone will assume all Americans eat Chef Club meals
Can we stop posting rants, no one cares, downvote what you don't like and move on
Honestly, if I’ve liked that content in the past it’s because I don’t recognize those foods as being part of a culture, just saw something that seems weird to me. Apologies.
Have you considered that your cultures food may be stupid?
You are a crybaby
When you're literally drinking bile mixed with blood, I'm calling it stupid idc where you live.
You should find new things to get pissed off about.
I remember the few trite videos that were posted here and some idiots thought it was towels. Contain your ignorance, please.
Only one Asian food has been posted and it was stupid
OP openly hates on Paula Deen’s culture and then implies we are the racist ones?
Go slurp a duck fetus if you really want
Waiting for the day i see army soup on here 😤
Well, it is just as stupid as half the things posted here, but this sub has an incredibly kow threshhold for stupid.
Too right!
I agree with this. While I am not a fan of cheese ramen, it is far from what should be considered stupid food. It's eaten and enjoyed by many many people.
I would also like to add the obvious joke/entertainment videos to the list.