/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>7464190
this

>eurolards

I can assure you that Japan has much more interesting junk food than Pocky and anything mass produced by yuropoors.

>>7464190
>Nutella

>>7464220
Nutella.

And Estathé too.

>>7464245

>>7464190
You europoors are so pathetic you need to resort to cherry picking.

>>7464220
nutella's only a meme in the US. It's been a Yuro staple for decades, only yanks lose their shit over 'LE EPIN NUTELLA + BACON CUPCAKES!'

Intercultural differences thread? Great.

Riddle me this, why is it that when I go to any country outside Eastern Yurop it becomes a fucking pain in the ass to find fresh, good quality bread?

No buns, no toast shit, no baguettes, or those hideous things in plastic bags, just plain, regular bread. Here you can get decent bread even in tiny ass shops in the middle of nowhere. So why can't the more civilized part of the world into making bread?

>>7464294

It's a meme on the internet, retard.

We've also had it in the States for decades.

>>7464301

Because you can't afford decent bread in 1st world countries?

Because you are used to whatever they sold in your village and don't consider anything else "real bread"?

>>7464301

>>7464294
>Yuro staple
I guess brits are all memes

>>7464402
Why is that guy looking at words being displayed backwards on his screen?

fu/ck/ing noobs

>>7464302
well fuck, why has it blown up all of a sudden 5 years ago? I always assumed it was America.

>>7464220
Nutella was made for Euro poors to feed their kids when they couldn't afford meals. OK kids, we're all out of food so you each get a tablespoon of nutella...

>>7466324
I saw nutella in US markets when I was a kid, like 33yrs ago or so. Was surprised to see it wasnt all American when it was all over the place in europe>>7466336

>>7464454
Maybe he flipped the image after taking it

>>7464190
>2015
>Not posting the ultimate snack.

>>7466369
Shit forgot pic, I'm a retard.

>>7464190
Yan yan>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Pocky

>>7464301
If you ever went to austria and couldn't find bread then you're doing it wrong

Europe: 0
Australia: -3

Maybe Japan has these too but chocolate cigarettes in Europe come with authentic nanny state labels

>>7466503

That's actually pretty funny.

They stopped selling candy cigarettes in the States altogether years ago.

>>7464215
Yes, Japan definitely has more interesting junk food than Europe. But more edible? Better tasting? No. If I wanted my food to scare children or give small-dicked Asians boners, I'd buy Japanese food. If I want something good, I'd buy European food.

>>7464215

>>7464301
>He's been to Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Spain and the UK and couldn't find "real bread"

Well okay but if I were you I wouldn't tell everyone how retarded I am on the internet.

>>7464301
>implying Japan isn't the bread capital of the world

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2LLeJG_rTE

>>7466630
>literally all white sweetened stuff

>>7466591
Is that Chinese or Japanese? Is there a simple way to tell the difference?

>>7466591
most of those are shit

>>7466659
those are obviously moonrunes, not chinese word letters

>>7466659

Moon runes include Japanese characters, Chinese only includes Chinese characters, Korean looks like movie alien language, Vietnamese looks like Vietnamese, Thai looks like Thai, and fortunately none of the countries neighboring Thailand matter, because there's no way to tell their writing apart from Thai.

>>7466659
The dense, complicated characters are shared between Chinese and Japanese but the simpler ones are uniquely Japanese.

>>7464301

There's a bakery every 5 blocks and there are bakeries in every supermarket that sell everything from baguettes to focaccia

>>7466746
>everything from baguettes to focaccia
So everything between wheat bread and wheat bread?

>>7464301

>no baguettes

If I had access to French quality baguettes at French prices I would eat one every single day for the rest of my life, and only eat other breads when someone offered them to me.

If you want a basic loaf of bread like in your picture just bake it yourself; it's really nothing special.

>>7466636

and yet there aren't as much obese human disappointments compared to the US of A

it ain't the sugar that's making you all fat

>>7466541
Shiiiit, I remember being a kid and getting Spiderman candy cigarettes

>>7466769
As opposed to pork bread?

europeans are fucking children for life (sometimes literally)

they all love soccer, a children's sport
sportscars, a child's fascination
and never ever stop eating candy

i fucking hate eurofags

>and i am one

>>7466503
I used to eat these at school. I never smoked once until I was 19

>>7464190
esta the tastes like literal piss

>>7464190
>snack and drink
Whaaat that's fucking sick dude. I want one.

Happy Easter.

>>7466950
DELETE THIS

>>7466950
are those the giant sized ones?

>>7466997
No, only the price is outrageously huge.
$4.50 for 4 eggs. Disgusting. And that's on sale

>>7466776
>French quality baguettes at French prices
Costco carries Semifreddi's in Norcal, my good man/ma'am. Recommended if that applies to you.

>>7466900
>IED.jpg

>>7466826
As opposed to rye bread.

>>7464294
I'm a Europoor and Nutella is shit as a junk food snack. Generic shop brand hazelnut/chocolate spreads taste far better but aren't meme-worthy enough.

>>7467297

>>7467297
>>7467343
I've never gained more weight as a kid than when my mom used to buy this shit. It's gotta be laced with heroin or something.

>>7467343

>>7467343
>>7467297
Both insanely better than Memetella but people's purchasing habits are drawn towards the brand they feel comfortable memeing about with their friends or on Facebook or even to themselves. I'm sure some people legitimately prefer it, but that's why people call it a meme.

>>7464301
Fun fact: Bread in french is "pain".

>>7466541
No they haven't. They just replaced the name with candy sticks but they're literally the same thing.

>>7466378

>>7467297
>Generic shop brand hazelnut/chocolate spreads
>not honey hazelnut/chocolate spread

>>7466591
>almond tofu flavored Kit Kat

Now that's just pushing it.

>>7464301

Because you have no idea where to look? Anywhere in Northern Europe fresh bakers are everywhere, shapes will vary but basic white bread like pictured will be in any of them.

Rest of the world just google for your closest German bakery.

>>7466659
i'm not unique in that i'm learning chinese and i watch anime.
i've found chinese characters(hanzi) are almost universally more intricate than japanese characters (kanji, katakana, hiragana)
chinese usually looks like it has to be done slowly and carefully, but japanese looks hastily drawn.

desu just look at the same article on wikipedia. once in chinese, once in japanese. spend about 5 minutes(for each language) and you'll probably never forget the difference.

>>7466630
Man, leave it to Japan to take something and just go absolutely batshit with it.

>>7466630
I was just talking to my dad about Japanese bread today. He thought they didn't eat any and only stuck to rice. Very conveniently timed video link.

>>7469181
> dad and I talk about bread a lot

>>7464301
autistic fuck

>>7466591
I've tried most of those....they all pretty much taste like regular Kit-Kats.

>>7466885
I've been eating these since I was about 7 and saw the other kids doing it. We'd pretend to smoke them, then eat them. Unbelievably expensive, and talk about an acquired taste! I still don't like them that much but for some reason I just can't stop now that I'm an adult.

>>7466588
>Batchelors
they don't even try to hide it, do they

>>7464294
Are nutella bacon cupcakes really a thing?
Sounds horrid.

>>7466588
they had the KD versions of these at the cafe of a community centre I took a coding course at, god damn those were good, i ate one every day.

>>7464190
everybody knows Pocky is literal shit

>>7470737

>Eating cigarettes

pleb

>>7466630
I live in Japan and let me tell you, they have no idea how to make a good bread crust. No variety, all soft, sweetened, white bread.

>>7469113

>almost universally more intricate than japanese characters (kanji

You're an idiot. Kanji literally are Chinese characters.

>>7466423
This. In Austria there is a lot of albanian selling fresh bread and livers.

>>7466659
The one and two stroke characters are mostly kana. They have no inherent meaning and just transcribe sound. Chinese has no kana, and while it does have some simple one or two stroke characters, you rarely see a long row of them together.

The bottom right Kitkat says bu-re-n-do with the four simple looking characters, and transcribes the english word blend. The complex looking characters on their right are kanji, probably words for different fruit. Chinese people could read it easily enough, but the pronunciations are different.

>>7469113
That's because hiragana and katakana were literally shorthand kanji.

>>7466586
Japan DAGASHI >>> Europe.

>>7466659
The best way to tell jap and chink apart is that chinese characters are typically over designed boxes that are doing way too much at once, and jap characters are laid back and calm.

Another way to go about it is to ask a kid to write a word in chinese, because 9/10 times what they draw will look identical to chink script. Meanwhile jap is more like what you would get by swinging the pen like a pendulum while rotating the page.


All in all, if its complex its chinese, if its simple its japanese, and if it looks like a bunch of o's and t's its korean.

>>7472992
the cereal bar was fucking rank. Tasted like bran sticks with salt

>>7464190
yan yans are amazing and you know it. Pocky is meh at best tho'

>Not memeing it up properly

>>7473500
that shit actually tasted alright, could only have a couple of pieces tho cause it's so rich.

>>7472822
Even common Chinese vs. Japanese fonts bear out what anon is saying, even if hanzi and kanji are essentially the same (keeping simplified vs. traditional silliness in mind). Japanese print fonts do not tend to emphasize line thickness variations (implying stroke direction) as much as Chinese fonts do.

Anecdotally, my native Taiwanese friend who studied Japanese with me used to say typical Japanese handwriting always looked rushed compared to even messy Chinese handwriting, and he guessed that it was because Japanese kids start with kana whereas Chinese kids learn proper spacing from the very start.