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A guy from Ireland once told me that they had lousy food there because all their effort went into producing good whiskey.
1 posted on 07/04/2013 2:33:44 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
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I did not like the food in Denmark but the beautiful women and great beer more than made up for it..


50 posted on 07/04/2013 2:55:27 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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IMO it’s a toss up between India and China. Been to both, lost weight in both. In India because of really bad food and the heat, while in China due to food poisoning.

Nothing beats the food in the good ol USA far as I’m concerned. Been to France, it’s good, but doesn’t beat the USA.


52 posted on 07/04/2013 2:55:51 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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If we are just talking about a specific dish, Iceland has hákarl (Greenland shark, buried for a number of months, resurrected, and dried) Sweden has Stromsturring (fermented herring,) Philippines has Balut, embryonic Duck egg, boiled and served with vinegar... China, dogs, and pretty much anything that moves or crawls....
54 posted on 07/04/2013 2:56:45 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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I’ve never really cared for German food.


58 posted on 07/04/2013 2:58:44 PM PDT by DManA
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Anthony Bourdain to the rescue...


64 posted on 07/04/2013 3:01:46 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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Worst pizza ever: Huntsville, Alabama
Best Pizza ever: UNO’s Pizzeria near downtown Chicago in thw 60’s. (Crisp thick crust served in a thick iron skillet with
imported Italian sausage, fresh tomatoes & divine mozzarella cheese).

Best vegetarian food: Any good restaurant in South India.
My English boss could not understand how anybody could be a vegetarian until I took him to a vegetarian retaurant in Westmont, Ill...the variety and tasty dishes flabbergasted him. He totally understood vegetarians after that meal.

Best Seafood: My mother’s deep fried Pamphret fish and jumbo river prawns stuffed with freshly grated coconut and spices.

Best steak ever: My college buddy’s farm in Iowa from a farm raised, corn fed young cow.

Best cuisine in general: On a princess cruise ship, the chef served a different pasta sauce during every afternoon dinner served on noodles as an appetizer.

The worst meal ever: Fried Chicken in Pocatello,Idaho! It was tasteless, over cooked, dried out, stringy and chewy. I guess hungry cowboys can eat anything.


66 posted on 07/04/2013 3:03:02 PM PDT by entropy12 (Even tho Obama is now a lame duck, with 2014 House majority, he will be a dangerously socialist!)
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Turkey.
Seems good at first but all that awful kebab that makes your stomach ferment...

England.
Nothing edible except dessert.

Austria - only Wienershnitzel and strudel is edible.

Germany - Wurst and beer, everything else is hundesmittel

Andalusia - only the serrano ham is edible

About the Philippines, they do have the best desserts in all of Asia, but otherwise, nothing memorable.


68 posted on 07/04/2013 3:04:29 PM PDT by Bon mots
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I’ve been to Ireland... their food, while not the most imaginative in the world, is good.


73 posted on 07/04/2013 3:08:28 PM PDT by ScottinVA ( Liberal is to patriotism as Kermit Gosnell is to neonatal care.)
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Nations like Italy, China, and Japan.

Japan!!?? I couldn't eat anything even flown over Japan. Raw fish, eyeballs, eels, and seaweed. Hell no.

83 posted on 07/04/2013 3:12:38 PM PDT by chesty_puller (Viet Nam 1970-71 He who shed blood with me shall forever be my brother. Shak.)
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“Until recently I would say that the British Isles has the worst food. Boiled and overcooked is NOT the way to prepare most food since it cooks the flavor right out of it. However, in recent years food has reportedly improved in that part of the world.”

Back when the Brits were a majority there, their food was TERRIBLE. But now that they are transitioning to a non-British “multicultural” society, their food has increased greatly. Of course everything else, starting with crime, now sucks, but their food is much better.


89 posted on 07/04/2013 3:17:07 PM PDT by BobL (To us it's a game, to them it's personal - therefore they win.)
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I went to Costa Rica a couple of years ago, and had heard beforehand that the food was extremely bland.

I heard correctly. None of it bad, but Lord knows it wasn't good.

I had delicious seafood that year in the Cayman Islands, though...

90 posted on 07/04/2013 3:18:49 PM PDT by Kip Russell
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I did a bicycle trip in the USSR (Russia, Estonia, Latvia, etc.) once and lost about 30 pounds in 20 days. Breakfasts were the worst.... you eat what they serve, which was usually something like a plate containing a cold hot dog and some peas.

The worst beer (beer counts as food!) was in Algeria. I spent a few weeks in the Sahara camping/trekking by camel. No booze with me and crappy British food. At the end, back in Algiers, the flight to London got cancelled (Air Algeria planes didn't have the needed equipment to do a landing in London when there was fog), so the airline compensated us with a free beer. After 20 days in the desert with no booze at all, I still couldn't finish that beer is was so nasty (and I love beer).

95 posted on 07/04/2013 3:22:49 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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Has anyone ever tasted manna?


99 posted on 07/04/2013 3:24:49 PM PDT by Alex in chains
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I’m going with the natives of Alaska. I watched a show where they bury fish heads for a month, then dig them up and eat them. The rotten meat falls right off the bone. They call them stink heads.


105 posted on 07/04/2013 3:27:29 PM PDT by Husker24
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The problem with a lot of regional “ traditional cuisines” is that they seem to have been developed during a period of extreme poverty and near starvation in that region. So they developed a lot of ways to make inedible things a little better to survive.
110 posted on 07/04/2013 3:31:59 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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The worst single food I ever ate (well, tried to eat) was a raw shrimp in Japan. Generally, though, Japanese food is pretty darn good.


113 posted on 07/04/2013 3:37:13 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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I was in Antallia Turkey and saw a sign at a sidewalk restaurant that said “T-Bone Steak $10 US”. My steak was not a T-Bone and I doubt it was beef. It was so tough I bent my knife trying to cut it. I picked it up and threw it into the street. A mangy stray dog walked up to it, sniffed it and walked away.

That being said, I do believe that good food is what brings the world together. I have had excellent Chinese food in Malta and great Mexican food food in Norway.

120 posted on 07/04/2013 3:42:30 PM PDT by aomagrat (Gun owners who vote for democrats are too stupid to own guns.)
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I’ve been to a LOT of countries... Without doubt, the BEST food was in Italy. I loved everything.

Worst food? REALLY hard to say. There are good things, and bad things pretty much everywhere.

I’m NOT a big fan of sushi... so, for me, the worst place might be Japan. But, even there... I’ve learned what I like and don’t like. Some things (like skiaki) are excellent.

Korea is just slightly better.... at least, they cook most everything. But, kimchi is PRETTY HIGH on my list of horrible things to eat. Also, cold seawater soup. yuk.

China has mostly delicious food... just always TOO much of it. And, you can always count on at least one dish that is rank... like, Chicken feet.. or fish with a million tiny bones.

If I had to nominate a country/culture with the WORST overall?? I think I’d say Germany. You got schnitzel, chicken halves, and pretzels... that’s about it.

EVERYTHING there, is designed to go with BEER. Which, BTW, they absolutely, hands down have the BEST of. The white asparagus there is also very very good. But, it’s only available a few weeks, so that doesn’t count.

When I go to Germany... I eat EVERY kind of food EXCEPT German. That has to count for something??


122 posted on 07/04/2013 3:42:33 PM PDT by SomeCallMeTim ( The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them f)
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Great Britain has pretty lousy food. Mexico has lousy food. Italian food is among the best. Cajun food (ala Louisiana) is superb.


124 posted on 07/04/2013 3:44:09 PM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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The first time I went to Ireland, in the 70s, my host advised me to eat the full Irish breakfast (eggs, sausage, bacon, black pudding, white pudding, fried tomatoes, toast) and then just drink Guinness the rest of the day. It was good advice.

But by the time I returned in the late 80s, the food in both Ireland and the UK had gotten a lot better. I think joining the Common Market gradually gave both places access to more ingredients and improved their cuisine.


130 posted on 07/04/2013 3:57:00 PM PDT by Ha Ha Thats Very Logical
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