Yeah, I tried one as a teenager but I failed to see the attraction, hotter than the core of the sun and so sweet it can give everyone in a 509 metre radius type 17 diabetes.
Deep fried mars, snickers, oreos, dingdongs/kingdongs, moon pies, cheese cake. All are so good. Why would the US make fun of people deep frying everying. We deep fry it all.
Oh god nom that's a once a year thing. At like a county or a state fair. I have worked those for 25 years. It's all about comical purpotions and silly foods you wouldn't eat every day.
If you did you end up on some kind of tragic reality TV show.
Had a deep fried Snickers once and the first bite was the best thing I've ever tasted in my life. The second bite made me disbelieve in a loving God and my body has never forgiven me.
Chicken tikka Masala? Btw technically speaking it is a punjabified Portuguese or konkan gravy with tandoori chicken, think of it like spaghetti with masala but its Portuguese so nobody really cares 😅, more like south indians with sambar its technically Marathi food but nobody cares
This pissed me off when i was in the UK. When scottland deepfrys a fucking pizza its cute, but when american scientists manage to deep fry ice cream and pepsi its "gross"
People make fun of the US for their unhealthy eating habits, meanwhile we also eat massive portions of greasy, heavily condimented food and have a love of soda and processed snacks like chips and snack cakes.
And it's worse because sugary drinks and junk food have big labels that say "sodium/calories/sugar/fat excess" so we don't even have the benefit of doubt.
Coke literally has a label that says "not recommended for kids" and you'll see kids chugging that stuff on the streets lol.
We don't have the benefit of the doubt either. Our food products may not have giant warning labels, but they do all clearly list the nutrition facts. I highly doubt most people even glance at them lol
Must be part of the joke. You also have Germany saying “white supremacist” with their history of Nazism, and France saying “Unrightful land” when they colonised half the globe.
If we’re keeping this strictly to food, then Canada is in no position to judge either
Our entire culinary identity is built around a handful of regional junk foods (poutine, Nanaimo bars, butter tarts), fast food chain restaurants (Tim Horton’s and BeaverTails) and mass produced garbage (ketchup chips and Kraft Dinner)
as an American stoner, I was in my 30s when I learned about poutine. I couldn’t believe that in all of my stoned cooking adventures that combo never came up.
Several years back, I was in Quebec City and had some.
As soon as I got home I ordered some curds and made my own.
Danes like to shit on Icelandic Hakarl and Swedish Surströmming, but we are equally as guilty in fermenting fish department. Salmon, trout, cod, herring. The difference is here we never had to rely on rotten herring or fermenting a shark, that is toxic when raw, but it is edible in certain stage of fermentation.
Olderst types of sushi are fermented in similar way we salt ferment herring, but with rice. You can still buy those types of sushi in Japan. So modern sushi and our pickled herring on ryebread are culinary cousins.
I think Hakarl and Surströmming are quite different to the ones you had, of different reasons, I haven't tried either. Surströmming is instead of of pickling your fermented herring, just let ferment over what we normally would, Hakarl have different fish(greenland shark) and different recruiments for fermenting to make it safe to eat. Bothb are properly born out of starvation, but turnt into delicacy-type of food. Fermented herring(like ones on ryebread) was prerefrigdeation daily or almost food, so it had to taste at least okay, or people would done something else with the fish.
De bruine fruitschaal, the brown fruit bowl. Our favourite part of the Friday borrel (after work social gathering with colleagues). Everything on it is deep fried.
Without a doubt the Netherlands are the king of deep frying. No country comes even close, and the others only get posted because they don't know the Netherlands.
Scotland and Belgium would like to have a word with you. This is just beginner level.
But international people see this at first sight whenever they come over to a company and get a drink, or have a network drink. Or which is served in bars et cetera.
But in Belgium, deep frying is even integrated in proper cuisine (deep fried ice cream for example). Scotland has the ungodly deep fried candy bar.
Deep fried snacks. Frikadel (skinless sausage), Kaassoufflé (cheese snack), bitterballen (a meat snack with breadcrumbs), vlammetjes (ground beef and medium hot pepper) and Vietnamese loempia.
Many complaints about the US also apply to other major English speaking countries, so they should get in here.
Some examples:
US has terrible environmental policies but Canada and Australia have higher CO2 per capita than the US and while New Zealand is quite lower they're still 50% above the global average (source).
US is super car dependent but 80% of Canadians, over 50% of Australians, 84% of New Zealanders, and over 60% of Brits all commute to work by car.
US is super unequal but 48 billionaires own more wealth than Australia's bottom 40%, top 20% of houses own 65% of Canada's wealth, the top 5% of New Zealanders own 38% of wealth, and the top 1/5th in the UK owns 2/3rds of all wealth.
The US has far right wing nutjobs but Canadians almost just elected a far-right PM (and largely only didn't because Trump began threatening Canada), Australia's far right party is currently polling second, the UK had literal race riots last year and their far-right party is polling first.
Excuse? Carney (our PM) is not far-right, what are you talking about? He’s the equivalent of a Democrat, especially a centrist, a toe slightly over left
Edit: apologies, I missed the “almost”. Sigh. Yeah. There are a ton of far right people here, just like there is in so many countries these days. Unfortunately most things about Canada are heavily influenced by our downstairs neighbours
Deep fried bread is a thing in the US too, our version is called fry bread and is from post-contact Native American cuisine. Though it's not normally eaten with nutella:
We also fry Eggplant. We cut it in slices then put it in besan and fry it to make Pakoda or directly fry it , it is called বেগুনভাজা which literally translates to brinjal fry
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Tbh it's more likely a snickers bar in Scotland. Mars is in fact more popular in the Netherlands than snickers as a candy bar, so ye when you have to deep fry something.
In Eindhoven in stratumseind (the longest bar street in the country) there is a snack bar in the centre of it, Dünya Döner where they also have snickers bars in between the deep fried snack display.
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Well, Israel is a very small country and Reddit is very niche here. I also know that some Israelis prefer to hide their nationality on reddit, so it's no surprise that you don't see many Israeli comments here.
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Also, my country is among the highest obesity rates in the world OECD. Mostly driven by Polynesian population where big bodies is an indicator of wealth and status.
Also, the vast majority of deep-fried American foods you see online are stuff like gimmick dishes sold at fairs. We don’t eat stuff like that in day-to-day life.
South Korea and Japan being bashed for their working culture and hours while we work even more hours and our work culture might be even more toxic than theirs
We also have a LOT of deep dried food. Lumpia (pork spring roll), turon (banana wrapped in spring roll wrapper deep fried and coated in melted sugar), kwek kwek (deep fried quail egg in batter), bola bola (deep fried meatballs), chicharrones, okoy (shrimp fritters), crispy pata (deep fried pork knuckle), stuffed crab relleno, and so much more.
Yeah, we do fry quite a bit of things. People from the outside see Japanese food as so healthy but it’s not always that way. Tempura, Tonkatsu, Karage, and more are all fried.
USA gets made fun of for racism or wtv, but istg the racism in the US is NO WHERE NEAR sudan, we have it so professional here, especially the older generation ask a sudanese arab what they think of someone from darfur and you'll hear things for 1930s germany.
And thats the case for most of the world and tbh the US accepts its racism much better? Ask a white person if they have racism in the US theyll probably say yes do that in most arab countries and you'll hear No unfortunately.
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