/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.5072513]

>Yuropoor food

[Anonymous No.5072523]

It mostly tends to look poor when it's from Viking Landinavia, and I blame that the harsh climate that doesn't allow for awesome vegetables to grow.

[Anonymous No.5072532]

>>5072513
those look like the remains of a somewhat promising meal.

[Anonymous No.5072534]

>ribs, potatoes, and rutabaga
>poor
what

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[Anonymous No.5072543]

>>5072513
i feel sorry for you

[Anonymous No.5072548]

I've never understood why you'd want to eat whole, peeled potatoes. Did you boil them in something other than plain water? They would be horridly bland if they were just boiled and peeled with nothing else.

[Anonymous No.5072549]

They're not bad ingredients and I'm sure they taste just fine but there's a serious lack of color that makes that meal look boring.

[Anonymous No.5072551]

>>5072548
Look up Finnish potatoes

[Anonymous No.5072566]

>>5072548
Salt.

[Anonymous No.5072568]

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[Anonymous No.5072586]

>>5072548
It is unbelievably plain and boring and also a part of every Dutch meal that is not a stamppot.

[Anonymous No.5072590]

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[Anonymous No.5072600]

>>5072583
Is it min-i-strone-eh or mine-strone ?

[Anonymous No.5072604]

>>5072548
>>5072551

Food here is different because of lots of reasons. Back in the day we couldn't get our hands on fancy foods or couldn't afford fancy meals and certain things just stuck with us. We are used to mild tasting foods, which is why something as simple as a boiled potato can taste good because it tastes like potato.
We do make other kinds of foods as well, but the "bland" Nordic food you usually see is the "traditional" Nordic food.
Also Nordic food can be absolutely fantastic. People just like to post the bland foods here because hurrdurr yuropoor food.

[Anonymous No.5072607]

if you disagree with this, you obviously don't live in the proper parts of europe.

[Anonymous No.5072611]

>>5072548
They can be unbelievably delicious when fresh and prepared correctly (meaning not cooked to shit and in properly salted water).

[Anonymous No.5072613]

>>5072607
>portugal
>freeze dried cod pucks, garlic, olive oil, and parsley

Sounds like that would never get old... NOT

[Anonymous No.5072614]

Sweden has got some of the best cuisines in the world in my opinion.

[Anonymous No.5072619]

>>5072613
beats cabbage and potatoes though.

[Anonymous No.5072621]

>>5072607
Haha, I've only been to the UK and Italy for vacation away from the US, but yeah from what I experienced, that pic seems about right even if overly simplified.

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[Anonymous No.5072639]

>>5072607
>Spain
>rich cuisine

HAHAHAHA

[Anonymous No.5072641]

>>5072639
Ever been?

[Anonymous No.5072650]

>>5072641
Yes.Tapas and various stews, that's it.

[Anonymous No.5072658]

>>5072548
I never understood why they peel them. The skin has a lot of nutrition, and flavour. It seems to go against the idea of eating simple food that is good for you

[Anonymous No.5072677]

>>5072513
People actually skin potato's in yurop? Really? The skin makes potato's taste 99x better

[Anonymous No.5072681]

>>5072650
spainfag here.
I second this partially. Tapas is a cooking resource extremely used here. It can be used in many different ways though. That's why it's that versatile

[Anonymous No.5072685]

How come /ck/ has turned into a cooking themed /int/? The amount of American hate posting is really getting out of hand.

[Anonymous No.5072689]

>Scandanavian food

[Anonymous No.5072707]

>>5072685
it's not just /ck/, but it's more prevalent here because country-specific food is an easy target

[Anonymous No.5072737]

>>5072685
> American hate posting

On /ck/, mentioning any beer from Germany, Chinese food that isn't General Tso's, and Mexican food that isn't a 7 layer chalupa supreme is "America hate posting"

I regard this as a sign that we're in the advanced stages of decline. When I was younger I don't remember Americans being this defensive about people in other countries not living in mud huts.

[Anonymous No.5072746]

>>5072737
>mentioning any beer from Germany
Have you been in a beer thread? It's literally non-stop US-bashing. Yurops tend to talk about America's culture more than their own, it's really insecure. In beer threads America=IPA's so it's nonstop hops trashing and saying how Germany and England's beer is older so it's automatically better. In act Europe tends to have this attutude towards everything, they're automatically better because they're older. It's the last gasp of a dying continent.

[Anonymous No.5072749]

>>5072746
>Have you been in a beer thread?

What do you suppose I was referring to? A McDonalds thread?

In every beer thread there is a diversity of opinions expressed, which generally follow the formula Beer X > Beer Y.

Of all these opinions, the only ones that reliably trigger shrieks of extreme moral outrage are the ones where X is a beer that isn't American. Maybe it's something about beer drinkers in particular, or maybe it's because most beer drinkers live in flyover states where they don't have much going for them except beer and NASCAR.

[Anonymous No.5072750]

>>5072746
Well beer which is 1000 years old, is made from same age wheat type and by a recipe from skilled artisan monks must be inferior to some shit brewed up by a bicycle riding, hipster beard wearing cunt from Boulder CO.

I suppose America makes the best prosciutto and parmesan as well?

[Anonymous No.5072752]

>>5072746
>this is how it starts

Every. Single. Thread.

[Anonymous No.5072759]

>>5072746
Moar liek:
>Europe being provably naturally superior in every way shape or form and stating that fact
>Murrifats getting rectaldamaged
amirite?

[Anonymous No.5072777]

>>5072750
>Well beer which is 1000 years old, is made from same age wheat type and by a recipe from skilled artisan monks must be inferior to some shit brewed up by a bicycle riding, hipster beard wearing cunt from Boulder CO.

>Actually believing those two are somehow related

[Anonymous No.5072786]

>>5072759
>Yurop
>being superior to anybody
Us, China, Japan, South Korea and arguably Russia are the only countries that even matter anymore. Europe has nothing besdes CERN. Don't talk to me like Im some ignorant American, I've visited Europe multiple times and it's shithole. Some places are better than others of course. Paris is the most disgusting city I've ever been too. Trash everywhere, people doing nothing all day besides drinking, nobody has a job unless you cook or sell wine. And they sneer at Americans, despite tourism to their garbage city funding their hedonistic lifestyle. France has squandered everything they have except great climate for growing food and grapes. Fuck Germany's practically the only country that actually does anything valuable, which is of course why everyone in the EU hates them.

At this point Africa is superior to Yurop. At least Africa has resources and cheap labor, which China is willing to exploit.

[Anonymous No.5072789]

Thank you, America, for derailing another thread for no purpose.

[Anonymous No.5072792]

>>5072786
>Paris is the most disgusting city I've ever been too

So you haven't traveled much then

[Anonymous No.5072798]

>>5072789
>derailing
this thread was entirely about america v europe from the start
you fucking europeans can't even identify a fucking problem

[Anonymous No.5072802]

>>5072798

Yeah and it was fairly low key stuff until you came along and started crying about being Americans being persecuted (in a thread making fun of europe, of all places).

You probably literally believe there is a war on christmas too.

[Anonymous No.5072817]

>>5072798
>being this aggressive at a stranger on the internet

[Anonymous No.5072821]

>>5072548
>>5072677
Boiled potatoes and their level of peeling is an important social rite in the Nordic countries. The first time a meal is shared with a newcomer, boiled unpeeled potatoes will be present. These are then manually peeled by the diner themselves, using the knife and a fork, and a little bit of the thumb. It is a meticulous, boring, and occasionally slightly painful process. Yet this is the importance of it. Pointless and pointlessly small-scale suffering and tedium are essential parts of life in Scandinavia. If a diner decides to eat his potato unpeeled, the rest of the people present will gasp, then quietly stare at the offender in a fashion of horror that would be more appropriate to a situation where they have first parked their car on the host's young daughter, and then whipped their cock out and slapped her out of her misery with it. What follows is a diplomatic breakdown through avoidance and awkward silence, and a life-long process of communal ostracizing. Because of boiled potatoes.

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[Anonymous No.5072827]

>>5072824
ugh, I hate these cartoons, but this is pretty much spot on

[Anonymous No.5072851]

>>5072786
Maybe people sneer at you because you're an ugly asshole?

I've been to Italy and France, had a great time and was accepted by everyone I met. Being ugly must suck.

[Anonymous No.5072857]

>>5072600
The former is closest.

It's more Mihn-est-rohn-eh though.

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[Anonymous No.5072884]

>>5072851

He could also just be a suburbanite who's afraid of his own shadow. People who bitch about large cities being "dirty" because they have people dwelling in them confuse the hell out of me. There was a guy here a month ago saying he carried a gun because "my job involves dealing with strangers". Some people got really fucked up by their parents telling them not to talk to strangers.

[Anonymous No.5072885]

>>5072851
Psst... you do realize that when someone posts an obvious provocation, the rule is that to be provoked into answering is to lose?

[Anonymous No.5072886]

>>5072857
ItaliAnon here.
Using English pronunciation rules (such as double E and so on):
mee-neh-stroh-neh.
I don't get bent out of shape if none native speakers can't pronounce it correctly, but I get annoyed when someone is speaking English and says something like
"Today, we're going to bobble my head all over the screen while the male viewership stares at my huge, perky tits as I make some MEE-NEH-STROH-NEH for you."
When I'm speaking English, I pronounce Italian words as they're pronounced in English (such as 'spaghetti,' 'arpeggio' and 'fortissimo'). When I'm speaking Italian, I pronounce English words as they'd be pronounced in Italian (such as 'hotdog,' 'computer' and 'whisky and soda').

[Anonymous No.5072887]

>>5072821
This is one of the greatest posts I have read in my 7 years of coming to 4chan.

[Anonymous No.5072891]

>>5072886
>ItaliAnon here.

That doesn't mean a lot. I've been to Italy and walking down the street you can hear 5 different pronunciations for one word because of dialect differences and how people move around from one region to another.

[Anonymous No.5072915]

>>5072891
So what? There's standard Italian. And there's dialectical Italian. I gave standard.
General southern dialectical pronunciation:
Mee-nuh-stroh-nuh
Neapolitan dialectical pronunciation:
Mee-noo-shtroh-nuh
General northern:
Mee-neh-struhn.

The standard is still "mee-neh-stroh-neh," just as you're not going to take a Geordie's pronunciation of "dew" (which is pronounced by them identically to "Jew") as standard.
Unlike English, though, Italian is more standardised. English has at least four different systems of standardisation.

[Anonymous No.5072925]

>Parme-dj-an
>Mo-ssa-rella

[Anonymous No.5072948]

>>5072925
gtfo mexican

[Anonymous No.5072950]

ITT: Everyone is too dumb to realize that where a food comes from is irrelevant. It's the skill of the person making it and that is literally all that matters.

[Anonymous No.5072955]

>>5072950
Agreed. The skill and knowledge too, but they tie in together anyway.

[Anonymous No.5073960]

>>5072548
>They would be horridly bland if they were just boiled and peeled with nothing else.
It depends on the variety (and you always cook them in salted water unless you're doing them in the skins). Some are very boring when just boiled, others have lots of taste. Potatoes are not all the same! (You might as well say that all beef is the same; just as ridiculous.)

[Anonymous No.5074624]

>>5072792
I'm an American, I went to Paris, I have also been to Rome, and London.

Not even trying to be offensive, but from an objective stand point, it's hard to find a white person in Paris, it's filled with Muslims. I wanted to eat frog legs and escargot, but all I could find was places serving Middle Eastern food. Also, I come from Chicago - we have a place called Lower Wacker Drive, which is basically a subterranean community of homeless junkies and crackheads. I was there on New Year's Eve to drop off a few dozen hamburgers for them. It smells of the waste from Lake Michigan, decay, feces, and more potently than anything, human urine. I can honestly say that this is what Paris smelled like the majority of the time I was there. Your statues and monuments and history are beautiful and noteworthy, but your capitol city is filled with Muslims and smells as bad as the worst place in Chicago.

Feel free to argue with me though, it must be nice having a smug sense of superiority for a country that couldn't even colonize Africa.

[Anonymous No.5074629]

>>5072568
Dude, i'm gonna type as sober as possible, that honestly looks fucking pathetic and digusting compared to my meal. and I'm being one hundred percent serious. Sorry we dont cook shit that was perviously in cans. you're a fucking joke dude, and im dead fucking serious. gert areal family that cooks good food, drinks beer and wine and winecoolers and has a good fucking time, and has a milliondollar house on the beach, im seriously.. dont eever potst your fucking families poverty dinner on these forums ever the fuck again bro, and by bro i mean never my bro, fucking faggot.

[Anonymous No.5074638]

>>5074629
Scallops taste good though....
give them the benefit of the doubt.

[Anonymous No.5074644]

>>5074624

Paris, Rome and London? That's the extent of your travel?

Regarding the race standpoint, I found Paris to be one of the whitest major cities I've visited, and when I say "major" I mean GaWC Alpha class and higher. Of course, I stayed in the good part. I don't know where you stayed, it probably wasn't even technically Paris. What you described sounds like one of those poor suburbs featured in a cheesy French action film. The real Paris is as white as north Chicago.

Also, your comments about colonizing Africa and monuments are confusing. Our capital is half African-American, but they are not predominantly Muslim. And it doesn't smell particularly bad. I agree the statues are alright.

[Anonymous No.5074651]

>>5074644
>France
>Filled with African Americans
huh?

[Anonymous No.5074654]

>>5074651

Just because it was designed by a French doesn't make it French, you tard.

[Anonymous No.5074673]

>>5074654
You're calling me retarded but you can't even write a sentence in context or use a preposition to convey your point.
>ESL/10
>D for effort.

[Anonymous No.5074680]

>>5074673

Not too bright are we. This is a pretty boring discussion in any case, good luck figuring it out.

[Anonymous No.5074700]

>>5074680
u mad?
Brb, watching your country's stock plummet under the weight of Francois Hollandaise
https://indices.nyx.com/en/products/indices/FR0003500008-XPAR/quotes

[Anonymous No.5074706]

>>5072586
>not eating them with at least salt or gravy

[Anonymous No.5074722]

>>5072821
10/10

[Anonymous No.5074742]

>>5072513
Remove the meat from the bones, add some pepper, stock and sauerkraut, mash it all together, serve with some gravy and you've got yourself a really nice winter stew.

[Anonymous No.5074758]

>>5074700
Jesus Christ, you're outstandingly retarded. Don't leave /b/ again.

[Anonymous No.5074773]

>>5072650
>that's it

by 'it' I understand that you mean 'all I tried there' because buddy you are so wrong I can't even start explaining to you how wrong you are

[Anonymous No.5074780]

>>5072513
That looks fuckin awful.

[Anonymous No.5074788]

>>5072607
I come from the dreaded potato wasteland and I approve of this map.
Ireland should be potatozone too by the way if only for historical reasons.

[Anonymous No.5074790]

>>5072884
man... sometimes I just feel legitimately sad for you americans... your governments have fucked you up bad....

[Anonymous No.5074797]

>Yuropoor food
>You r poor food

[Anonymous No.5075340]

>>5072867
hnng

[Anonymous No.5075361]

>>5072513
German, France, Italy and all Scandinavian countries are the only countries that have ever contributed anything worthwhile to cuisine.

All else is peasant-tier slop
/thread.

[Anonymous No.5075377]

>>5072513
I imagine this is the kind of food they served at Auschwitz. This makes me feel better about my life. Thanks, OP.

[Anonymous No.5075384]

>>5075377
No they had bread with sawdust in it

[Anonymous No.5075410]

>>5075361

What have Scandinavian countries contributed?

[Anonymous No.5075435]

>>5072513
>yuropoors in charge of cooking

[Anonymous No.5075455]

>>5075384
That's the story Israel tells...I'm sure in reality it was much more like OP's meal.

[Anonymous No.5075457]

>>5075410

Danefag here. I can't think of any. We have some very good pork and dairy but that's not exactly a contribution to cuisine, that's just local variability of ingredients.

Unless he was talking about modern cuisine? "Nordic Cuisine" is sort of a big deal right now on the strength of Noma, but it's too soon to say if that's just another flash-in-the-pan trend or if it will be significant in the future.

[Anonymous No.5075490]

>>5075361
More like France and Italy. German and Scandinavian food is bland peasant slop, anywhere in America has better food.

[Anonymous No.5075497]

>>5072685
/int/ has food threads all the time. Also /int/ is full of ameriboos. There's much more american hate here than on /int/.

[Anonymous No.5075504]

>>5075497
Implying that calling this plate what it is (pathetic) is tantamount to hate. L2cook fgt.

[Anonymous No.5075506]

>>5075455
They barely had food for the soldiers, so the subjects got potato peel soup and bread stretched out with sawdust.
Meat? Absolutely fucking no.
A lot of labour camps killed people, and why feed some weak Jew who'll be dead from exhaustion in a few months anyway?

[Anonymous No.5075629]

>>5074644
>African Americans
>Europe
That would be African Europeans

[Anonymous No.5077461]

>>5075506

Were you there? Cus you are talking about it like you were. Didn't know there were 90 year olds on this board, my bad. Or maybe you're just JIDF?

[Anonymous No.5077474]

>>5075629
>being this dumb

[Anonymous No.5077779]

Implying Scandinavian "food" represents all of Europe.