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    LOL, that’s funny. As an italian, I regret not having tried real french cuisine yet.

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    “Ice cube salad”?

    Our Finnish cuisine is so non-existent people can’t even make jokes about it.

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    "inventors" is the best diss i’ve ever seen for modern swedish food

    i asked a friend from italy what she thought about our pizza and she basically said “as long as i don’t think of it as pizza it’s fine”

    she and her bf would regularly hang out with the guy who ran the only italian pizzeria in town and they would shit-talk our food for hours. mad respect.

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    Meh, “proper cuisine” is definitely accurate since it’s our national pride, but most of the others don’t really feel like french stereotypes. “Soggy pastry” for Denmark even sounds suspiciously american, I’ve never heard anyone say that about this country in France and I don’t even know what it’s referring to

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      Yeah as a Scandinavia living in france, all that part is totally off too.

      The Meatball thing? Sounds amerikanish too, def not french.

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      I took a look at the website this is coming from, it seems to be mostly the blog author’s interpretation of what the stereotypes are for each of their maps

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    Chicken Tikka Masala was invented in the UK. I can’t think of a single item of French cuisine I would choose over Chicken Tikka Masala.

    • The best restaurants I’ve ever been to have been in London. But, then, they rarely serve “traditional” English food. Dollar for dollar, the food in London is better than the food in Paris.

      Outside of London - sorry, I agree with the map. English cuisine has a few of things they do better than anyone else, but the meals have not impressed me. I can’t speak for the rest of the UK; I haven’t visited Scotland or Ireland, and only drove a few miles in Wales by accident.

      However. I will fight anyone for a Cornish pasty. I don’t know where they were invented, but like all great foods they’re both delicious and made with, like, 6 ingredients.

      My credentials include more than a single trip. I’ve had 4 vacations in France, and 2 years lived for 2 weeks every other month in Paris. I’ve had two vacations in England, and lived for 1-2 weeks every month in London, again for two years running. I have a great amount of experience with restaurants at all price ranges in both cities, and a reasonable exposure to cuisine outside of the capitals.

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          I love your pubs and have found the food enjoyable in my limited experience. I will say I don’t understand Kickey Ball were the guys run around and never kick the ball into the Giant barn door sized goal… But it’s vastly superior to the American version which leads to irreversible brain damage.

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    It’s ironic that they’ve missed out Ireland, throwing some great hunger shade.