/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.7587090]

What do people on Cuba eat/drink?

[Anonymous No.7587111]

>>7587090
cuba libres

[Anonymous No.7587115]

rare joeys

[Anonymous No.7587128]

>>7587090

dirt because that's the only thing communism is good at providing people.

[Anonymous No.7587133]

>>7587090
communist lies

[Anonymous No.7587151]

>>7587128
>>7587133
I'm a pro capitalist American, but wow do you guys come off as try hard faggots. Take Reagan's dick out of your ass long enough to read a little history, kids.

[Anonymous No.7587160]

Lots of beans, lots of rice. The food tends to be pretty mellow, almost bland.

[Anonymous No.7587171]

>>7587090
Rice, beans, plantains. Little green veggies, lots of fruits. Most animal protein is pork, chicken and fish, but still scarce.

[Anonymous No.7587206]

Lots of rice, beans, sausages, fried plantains and that sort of thing. Fried chicken also seemed pretty popular in Havana, loads of stands with natives queued up at them.

[Anonymous No.7587274]

>>7587151

[Anonymous No.7587300]

>>7587090
According to Conans Cuba segments, boxed rum.

And I can dig that.

[Anonymous No.7587303]

>>7587151
Right, like how every communist nation has failed miserably

[Anonymous No.7587315]

>>7587151
He's kind of right though, and I'm fairly left wing (literally voting Sanders today), although I don't know why we need to turn this into /pol/.

Cuban food isn't really that good to begin with, and despite what this guy >>7587206 believes, it's more rice and beans and shitty gutter oil than anything else. Anyone you see gorging themselves on fried chicken and ropa vieja is a corrupt motherfucker, regular people in cuba eat very badly indeed because all the good food gets sent to tourist hotels to make money for the state since it has no more USSR giving them money and the US hasn't lifted the embargo yet.

It's complicated, but any time someone says anything that suggests that life in Cuba is anything short of paradise, the knee-jerk edgy teens come out of the woodwork and start yelling IMPERIALIST IMPERIALIST CNN CNN

Yeah no just fuck off unless you've been there.

[Anonymous No.7587385]

>>7587303
>implying an nation has been communist and not a dictatorship under a guise

Get a load of this faggot

It's like you never read Marx

[Anonymous No.7587398]

They go to the commie-sary and buy Mos-cow for the Vladivo-stock in their soup.

[Anonymous No.7587423]

>>7587385
>every communist nation wasn't communist
This just in, fellas

[Anonymous No.7587463]

>>7587151
>communist
Butt hurt detected

[Anonymous No.7588577]

>>7587315
>Yeah no just fuck off unless you've been there

I have, though, I went all over the northern coast and chilled in Havana, Matanzas, Cardenas, Santa Cruz del Norte etc.

Are there piss-poor peasants that eat trash and gutter oil? Yeah. Is that literally the entirety of Cuba's culinary landscape because everybody is on the verge of starvation? No, I didn't see that sort of thing. In fact, I saw a lot of fatties.

>Anyone you see gorging themselves on fried chicken and ropa vieja is a corrupt motherfucker

I saw crowds of workmen buying chicken from stands in a gross side-street in Havana, this is an overstatement.

I'm also a legit Nazi so there is no bias here, I'd love to say it was an absolute shit heap across the board and this is the brice of gommunism :DDD, it just wasn't.

[Anonymous No.7588608]

eat: Cuban sandwiches

drink: Cuba Libres

man, I crushed that one

[Anonymous No.7588625]

As a base seasoning, Cuban cuisine consists of garlic, cumin, onion, green peppers, oregano and bay leaves fried in lard. Due to meat rationing, meat is used sparingly and when it is it will be usually used as a sort of seasoning, added to beans and whatever local vegetables are in season.
If your feeling pricey, you might go for a sandwich or a meat tamale, sandwiches are usually pork/ham, with some type of mustard or pickle.
Most basic dishes involve slow stewing black or kidney beans and yellow or long grain rice with sofrito.

[Anonymous No.7590768]

Apparently it's not ok to talk about the reasons why a country's food is the way it is

No, you dumb mod. Cuban food is still shitty and the Cuban diet is shit, no matter how many sandwiches you ate in Miami. If you want to read into that and get butthurt over it, that's your own baggage.

[Anonymous No.7590879]

>>7587090

Their drinks are top notch but the cuisine was the shittiest I've ever had and I've been around. Would go back, though. Beautiful place and very nice people. They can't cook for shit though.

[Anonymous No.7590880]

>>7588608
also

smoke: cuban cigars

[Anonymous No.7590967]

>>7590879
inb4 banned for having wrong opinions

[Anonymous No.7591027]

Apparently there used to be a relatively significant Chinese contingent, cooking a blended chino-cubano cuisine which sounds awesome, but I think it's dying out.