Anonymous
Post 08/30/2015 13:12     Subject: Which country has the worst cuisine?
Anonymous wrote:Scotland. How many Scottish restaurants do you see around here?

~grandkid of two Scottish immigrants


+1 Horror on a plate.
Anonymous
Post 08/30/2015 13:07     Subject: Which country has the worst cuisine?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:We have a well-traveled crowd here, so please answer: which country has the worst food? I know England is traditionally perceived as having bad food, but you can get a nice roast beef and yorkshire pudding, fish and chips and mushy peas, and savory pies. Similarly German food is generally pretty bad, but with some nice pickled cabbage, sauerbraten, potato salads, and good breads. Where is the food unremittingly bad?


What a ridiculous question.

I have had amazing food all over the world. Crappy good too. Good cooks can do wonders with adequate ingredients. Bad cooks can ruin wonderful ingredients. Give a good cook access to fresh good resources and you will eat well always.
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Thank you. You are excused from the thread.
Anonymous
Post 08/30/2015 13:02     Subject: Re:Which country has the worst cuisine?
When the folklife festival included bhutan a few years ago, the Post wrote a piece about how awful the food is there.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/20/AR2008062003185.html
Anonymous
Post 08/30/2015 12:57     Subject: Re:Which country has the worst cuisine?
Anonymous wrote:One of the food critics--Todd Kliman I think--once wrote about this and pointed out that there are bazillions of Filipinos in the US yet nearly no restaurants serving Filipino food. He blamed it on a cuisine that was very unpalatable to Westerners.


Yes, filipino food is really terrible. I remember when I first arrived in Manila and was served some boiled rice, a fried egg, and a bottle of tomato ketchup. It is strange as all the surrounding cuisines - Chinese, Vietnamese, Malay and Indonesian - are excellent. They do some adobo stuff which is pretty good, but generally speaking you eat very badly there.
Anonymous
Post 08/30/2015 12:53     Subject: Re:Which country has the worst cuisine?
One of the food critics--Todd Kliman I think--once wrote about this and pointed out that there are bazillions of Filipinos in the US yet nearly no restaurants serving Filipino food. He blamed it on a cuisine that was very unpalatable to Westerners.
Anonymous
Post 08/30/2015 12:49     Subject: Which country has the worst cuisine?
I will eat anything, but I remember not being able to find anything particularly appetizing in Denmark.
Anonymous
Post 08/30/2015 12:37     Subject: Re:Which country has the worst cuisine?
English food is the most unimaginative and tasteless cuisine.

Even Brits would generally agree.
Anonymous
Post 08/30/2015 12:33     Subject: Which country has the worst cuisine?
Eastern Europe during the Soviet era.
Anonymous
Post 08/30/2015 12:29     Subject: Which country has the worst cuisine?
Lobster Roll, Maryland Crab cake.. Crab soup .. Eastern shore fried chicken... Pit beef...Brooklyn pizza, Carolina BBQ , kc steak , NE Clam chouder, tex mex everything. Chicago hot dog..

The best !!!
Anonymous
Post 08/30/2015 12:26     Subject: Which country has the worst cuisine?
Guatemala.
Anonymous
Post 08/30/2015 12:26     Subject: Which country has the worst cuisine?
Russia
Anonymous
Post 08/30/2015 12:24     Subject: Re:Which country has the worst cuisine?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:American...



That's fast food. Which you can get in many countries.

It isn't traditional American food.


NP - exactly what is traditional american cuisine?


Not that poster, but American cuisine is very regional. Coastal seafood -- New England clam chowder and Maryland Blue Crab. Other stuff built around available meats and vegetables -- Southern Fried Chicken, squash and corn from Native Americans, Cajun dishes, etc. Apples have always been huge. Apple pies, apple butter. And of course stuff inspired by various immigrant groups. And don't forget scrapple. lol
Anonymous
Post 08/30/2015 12:12     Subject: Which country has the worst cuisine?
Central Asia, the 'stans. So much mutton.
Anonymous
Post 08/30/2015 12:09     Subject: Which country has the worst cuisine?
I happen to love Poutine! So good.

My Serbian inlaws admit to having terrible national cuisine, save foe cevap and knedle.

Anonymous
Post 08/30/2015 11:58     Subject: Which country has the worst cuisine?
I really like UK food and spent a substantial time in France and do not like very traditional French foods. So I think all stereotypes go out the window given personal taste.

That being said, I do not like seafood in any form and so Asian and Scandinavian countries would get my thumbs-down for cuisine (I would visit with an open mind but would have to find alternatives!)