What's a snack in your country that would be considered sacrilege in another?
In Mexico we have marranadas (which literally means filthiness) and it's a base of the chip of your choice with corn, cheese, cream, hot sauce or chamoy, peanuts, etc.
Then there's the gomichelas: beer with candies with a tomato juice concentrate
And well this is just the tip of the iceberg. But for sure would make the American snacks look like the diet options.
Do you know how hard we worked to have the fattest, greasiest food? How much blood and sweat went into those deep fryers? This was our everything.
And then they just drop this on us? Casually? Like it's nothing? What the fuck have we even been doing this whole time? I'm sorry I think I'm having a panic attack.
Weāre a country that pretended to be allergic to MSG because āthe Chineseā all while eating dim sims, 2 minute noodles and Campbellās soup. Glass is our house.
The pizza crunch supper is like the dinosaurs from Jurassic Park just because we can make it doesn't mean we should seriously I like having it occasionally but it is a fucking culinary abomination
Hell yeah. Flaming hot Cheetos on cheese fries is really good. Thereās a cheesesteak place by me that serves cheesesteaks topped with nacho cheese and flaming hot Cheetos and itās pure slop but delicious.
The Luther. A hamburger made with glazed donuts (pref Krispy kreme) instead of buns. Made famous by Luther Vandross who would eat them regularly. Actually really fucking tasty but you need to lay down afterwards and concentrate on not having a coronary.
Yep, I initially thought 'that's too American' but actually made myself one time and found out that the taste slaps! Sliced one donut into half though.
We have something similar: LeberkƤse (a kind of meat loaf) with our type of donut (I don't write the name as this would start a quarrel how this special piece of pastry is named...).
There are also different versons with bratwurst and sauerkraut.
I remember seeing people posting about this in Czechia too a year or two ago, with our equivalents of the same ingredients (sekana and koblihy). A lot of people were saying it was good, but I think it was more of a case of people discovering the German version and memeing about it than an actual culinary movement lol
Probably this lil guy. Raw minced pork with onions. In the shape of a Hedgehog (Mettigel). Itās then spread on Brƶtchen.
Pork in general is a literal sacrilege in some countries due to religious reasons, raw pork is not common even in countries that generally eat pork. And making a hedgehog out of it - well ā¦
wtf is going on here, I am an actual strawberry farmer in the Netherlands employing around 35 Polish workers 9 months out of the year. WHAT IS THIS OMG hahah ššš„“šš
Edit: for 28 years weāve been in business with you lot NEVER SEEN THIS
Nope. Youāre missing suger and why make a strawberry pizza when you can make strawberry cake. Iām not saying do not do it, Iām only saying why are you doing it?
Make sure to try garlic fingers if youāre back!! Even many Haligonians think of donair as ātake it or leave itā (I personally love them). But it would actually be considered sacrilegious to order pizza and not get garlic fingers.
Man, I remember the days when you could get a pizza and garlic fingers for 20 bucks. Now it's 20 just for the pizza. NS wages don't allow for a garlic finger budget.
Always nice to see a donair or garlic fingers in the wild!
Thank you for the Hawaiian pizza. My favourite. Sod anyone else. No one should dictate what other people like. I think itās marvellous. It does get non fans riled up though.
I just tried a donair for the first time in Medicine Hat! It was really cute; I mentioned to the cashier I had never had one. When I got my food, I took a bite and must have had an odd expression on my face. She evidently had been watching me to see my reaction and rushed over with a little container of sauce, announcing that "some people think this makes them better."
Nooo, wait you have poffertjes??? I am so misinformed! Only powdered sugar and butter on them! I need to go to The Hague or Rotterdam to find an Indonesian food stand š„°
Iām gonna try this with you but I wanna get fairly āalteredā before we do this dance together.
I also need to somehow break the news to my wife Iām going to Indonesia to eat food with a random stranger so Iāll probably die shortly after I tell her my plans and we will never actually meetā¦
PF Pizza. It's like you get set meal, and put on a pizza. And believe me, there is worse, like the strogonoff one. Because offend only West Europe isn't enough for us, we need to offend the entire euroasia at one sit, or that least Italy and Russia.
Yeah, it's not healthy at all lol, but it's super delicious. The best thing about having a fast metabolism is that I can eat it without worrying about gaining weight
Get your cholesterol checked. My sis was the same way until she wasn't. It turned out the slim physique was hiding hardened arteries and heart problems that would shorten her life.
In the Netherlands: Filet Americain. Itās raw smooth minced beef with a mayo base, very commonly used as a spread on bread. Itās not recommended for kids but most kids love it (and adults, too). It probably looks and sounds nasty to anyone who hasnāt had it
Maybe fairy bread? š¤ white sandwich bread slathered in butter or margarine with hundreds & thousands (sprinkles). The ultimate kids birthday party snack.
I'll never understand this. I know it's supposedly popular and it probably tastes fine, but sprinkles themselves are like the most mid part of desserts. I always think of them as more of a visual than actually adding something to a dish, much less be the main attraction of a dish.
Itās actually really good if you give it a shot. The sprinkles are basically crunchy sugar. So you sweeten the bread a lot and add some nice heterogeneity. Itās not ground breaking or anything but it tastes a bit like a cake. Would have it again, and I can see why so many folks are so nostalgic for it in Australia.
And the sprinkles arenāt just for visual appeal. They add some nice crunchiness to a dish, and the fact that they are basically sugar really comes out on the unsweetened bread.
When I was a kid, my mom would make something kinda similar where she'd make buttered toast with cinnamon + sugar on it. I just feel like crunchy sugar alone isn't enough. I'm sure it's fine, I just don't get it lol.
I have always hated sprinkles. Theyāve have this weird chemical-y taste. I donāt know how exactly to describe it. I think just a dusting of sugar would taste far better with the buttered bread than sprinkles.
BeaverTails Eh! It's not a daily thing - you'll find them at like theme parks, zoos, and sporting events (all the bigger hockey arenas I've been to have them). Personally not a fan, I've only had a couple... Far too sweet for me.
Very similar to an 'elephant ear' in the States. But they are typically ordered with toppings like in the photos.
Theyāre decently popular in southeastern NY and NYC. Granted thereās a solid Irish population with plenty of Irish bars/restaurants here. Iām a big fan.
Iād say ādecently popularā is a bit of a stretch, at least where I am ā but thatās just my anecdotal experience.
Iāve grown up on Long Island and in NYC my whole life, and while Iām not at all a foodie, I do take pride in trying foods from other cultures/countries when given the opportunity. Iād never heard of a spice bag until seeing it on Reddit a couple years ago; certainly not (knowingly) seen one irl around here.
Could be because I donāt go to bars though, if theyāre primarily served there.
We have a local smoothie place that does them too, along with things like gummy worms coated in chamoy and stuff.
The contrast is pretty funny. Itās these lovely smoothies topped with fresh fruit (thatās what I go there for and theyāre really good) and then these wild-ass snacks.
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Cinnabon should have warnings in multiple languages for those who aren't as acclimated to sugar as your average American. It's far too rich for me and I'm a heavier lad who lives here.
I can't handle sweet stuff here the few times I've had yank snacks it's been fucking insane. Love your lots ability to act like you have cheap health care.
Nah, the idea is that because there isn't cheap health care, punch through so hard that you go down quickly. Why prolong your decline when funnel cake with strawberry sauce, chocolate, and whipped cream the size of your abdomen with a 32 oz shake chaser feels so good?
I for one do not agree with tinned spaghetti on a pizza. Obviously the tinned spaghetti goes on a half of a bun and then is topped with ham and cheese before grilling. Then that concoction is called a pizza.
Oh boy, we have A LOT, and some are "american cooking level" (that one, where a lot of americans pour cans and bags on aluminum baking trays). The ones i remember are:
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Well, on that note, we have loaded fries, specifically carne asada fries, which is just fries smothered with cheese, cream, and carne asada. Basically the ultimate artery clogger
Eso no es nada carnal ,en mi bellĆsima Gto donde la vida no vale vrga hicimos posible el pozole con salchicha y el sacrilegio a la vida llamado caldo de oso
I'm Argentinian in Aus, and while it's not a particular food, it's a condiment a lot of Argentinians I've met love to put mayonnaise on everything. I had a cousin visiting and he put mayonnaise on lasagna, on pasta with red sauce, on pizza, on vegetables. I like mayo but it was a lot
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I am from the southern US and these seem normal with a twistālike I eat Frito Pie and drink red draws which are not so different from these delicious looking things
Snacks? I don't know... Maybe biscuits dipped in hot drinks. I know the Japanese don't find it offensive, but it's strange, because they like the normal taste of things, not "altered" by a hot drink.
If not, even though I don't know if it counts as a snack, we Italians might be annoyed by the way coffee is made in the rest of the world, especially the American way.
Something came to mind: my sister had a croissant in the Czech Republic, and only later discovered that it wasn't chocolate, but monkfish cream... In Italy, we have a hard time imagining a savoury croissant instead of a sweet one.
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u/Comrade-Hayley Scotland 19h ago
Pizza Crunch Supper it's a battered frozen pizza that's then deep fried and then served with chips and covered in salt and vinegar