Submitted 1 month ago by ObviouslyNotBanana@piefed.world to [deleted]
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Lots of peeps on the D train, so I’m going G. You’ve got the spiciness of Mexican and Caribbean paired with the savoryness of Guatemalan. Jam packed with fish and chicken dishes. Ceviche, jerk chicken, fried plantains, cornbreads, tacos, giant burritos. Southern Spain means you get paella chock full of shellfish and also Spanish olives. And in the far west you get a bit of Hawaiian flare, so a little bit of Japanese sneaks in.
Regardless D and G are S tier. E and A are A tier.
Plus G gives you some of the best of USAmerican food like all the bbqs, cheesesteaks, American chinese, and all the random fusions that occur in the la, atlanta, and dc metros!
Yeah it’s gotta be G for me too
After living in D for half my life, the lack of decent Mexican food makes me a G person too.
I’ll argue that C has a pretty solid showing. Southern Italy, Greece, Croatia, Serbia, the rest of the Balkans, Turkey, Ukraine, Russia, Northern China, Central Asia, Mongolia, Northern Japan. There’s a lot going on there.
E and A are A tier.
A is obvious, but why E?
Afircan food is pretty great. E has parts of Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Egypt. (Those are the ones that I’ve tried. There’s probably more countries with great food there.)
E’s got Ethiopia. I don’t know if Ethiopian rivals French though
Easy D for me. Indian, Japanese, Chinese, Thai, and Vietnamese. I don’t think I need anything else in life lol. Come to think of it, the only food I’ve had in the last month or so that isn’t from D is pizza, but I can live without pizza.
I dont think any other country would claim this, so I pretty sure this counts as Japanese pizza
“Double deliciousness all the way to the crust!”
Language trivia: In Japanese the “crust” of the bread is called the “ears”
A mini dog pizza? What is this?
~booking next flight to Japan ~
Well, I was hungry…
Dude that, and then there’s like most of West Asia from Afghan to Lebanese with everything in between, plus Turkey and even a sliver of Italy.
With Greece and Italy giving us European in addition to Indian and Asian, D covers pretty much everything and makes it incredibly balanced. it’s the only choice.
D is the answet and it’s so unfair. It has the entire diverse range of Asian cuisine, a glimpse of Western and Latin (through Australia-NZ and Philippines), and a slice of Medditeranean. It has all the ways to cook rice!
Also Korea. I’ve only been to two Korean places and they have always had at least 1 nice vegan option
D has a tiny sliver of Italy too.
Yeah and Malay food 😋 god, d is easy
D without a doubt. Southern tip of Italy, Greek, Turkish, Persian, Pakistan, Indian, Chinese, Thai, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, Australian, just to name a few.
D or G
D gets you most of Middle Eastern, all of India, most of China, all of South Asia, most of Australia, most of Japan. Huge variety, extremely high number of options, lots of spice availability, lots of meat and nonmeat protein options.
G mostly because of Mexico alone. I’ve traveled there a bunch recently and the food game is insane. You also get the US South (which does have a lot of great food outside of deep fried everything), Spain, Portugal, and Morocco.
C gets an honorable mention mostly because of southeast Europe. That whole area has been a crossroads for a very long time.
I’m solidly on D ground, but G because of Mexico alone?? That’s just plain madness or hopefully pure ignorance. Central and South America have so much more than just Mexican food.
You forgot Puerto Rican and Jamaican food which is also in G.
Don’t forget about Peruvian food with G - literally some of the best food on the planet. Since the contest began in 2012, Peru has won World’s Leading Culinary Destination in the World Travel Awards every single year except for one. But a lot of people have no idea that the cuisine even exists. G also has a lot of fusion foods such as Vietcajun and Chifa.
But if you’re vegetarian, D is the obvious choice.
D, hands down. Indian, Thai, Vietnamese, Iranian, Turkish, Japanese, Chinese. Literally my favorite foods
Hands down. Easiest choice of my life
D gang!
Mine, too! (Also Korean and Lebanese.) What an excellent range of options.
I would miss Mexican food, but I’d make do.
D is the only sensible choice, there’s really no debate here.
Definitely. East and Southeast Asia, the entire Indian subcontinent, most of the Middle East and parts of Greece and Italy?!
So unbalanced.
Nah mate it’s the Steak and Cheese pies from New Zealand that make it.
B You get italian food but still can have Surströmming
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Deal of the century
Unparalleled energy
and pitepalt!
D is honestly extremely OP
Yeah no kidding. D and it isn’t even close.
D has all the good stuff. Middle Eastern, Asian food, even a part of Greek food. I don’t really see any competition to that.
Even a tiny bit of italy, D is heaven!
Don’t forget Japan! Pasta, sushi, curry, pad Tai, nasi. All the good stuff
G.
Love Mexican and south American food, Creole, Southern, Cuban…plus the US has stolen foods from around the world, so I guess I get to keep pretty much eating whatever.
There’s also some Morocco, Spain and Portugal in there.
I mostly agree, on American Southern and Mexican alone.
D is tempting though, I love all Asian food. The variety from Middle Eastern, Indian, Vietnamese, Thai, Chinese, Japanese and Korean. I might have just convinced myself to go D while I was writing this actually…
The is a community of Chinese immigrants that settled in Mexico as well. So some Asian cuisine can be included as well.
Agreed. However - my exposure to Asian foods has been mostly those foods popular in western culture like sashimi, restaurant Thai or Chinese, etc. There’a a lot of if that I haven’t been exposed to or eaten, and even though I think I’d probably like a lot of the new stuff, there’s plenty I think I could never get used to like still-kinda-living food on my plate, nattō, etc. So I opted for the biggest slice of multicultural food I could get.
the US has stolen foods
Lots of people in this thread seem to be labouring under the bizarre notion that only the US is allowed to count immigrant cuisine as their own.
Because most everyone is an immigrant? Where do you draw the line and call something native or not? Otherwise we’re eating nothing but succotash and whatever else the First People had. Is anyone saying you can’t have a hamburger in Thailand?
D, Italian, Japanese, Chinese and Indian are already basically everything I eat.
D without a doubt. Indian, Thai, Vietnamese, Japanese, parts of China. It’s even got some Mediterranean in there. That’s basically all I eat already.
The only options are D and G
D has virtually all god-tier food Asia has ever produced, plus a bonus of whatever culinary bullshit Australia vomits onto the world stage.
D because of the huge variety in food, and the tiny chunk of Italy means I still technically get Italian food :)
B is being slept on in this thread. I mean, look at it - you get northern Italy, Germany, Austria, Hungary, the northern Balkans, Sweden, and Finland. If you like pasta, pizza, grilled meats, fries, potatoes, sausages, licorice, a mindbogglingly large number of breads and cheeses, etc. etc. you’d be stupid not to pick that region.
I mean D is a powerhouse lol
This map is doing flavor gerrymandering with D.
Has to be D. Last time I said Japanese and Mexican, but I forgot Iranian.
I’m torn between D and G. I love Thai, Chinese, Japanese, and Mexican/Central American cuisines, not to mention American barbecue.
D is probably the best region.
D gets Turkish, Arab, Indian, Chinese, Korean… why didn’t you cut this in a way that gives the rest of the world any chance?
D. Curry, Szechwan, vietnamese, thai, asian street food!, Teriyaki and Sushi all day.
lol can’t go wrong with A. Snails, frog legs, shark, whale blubber, seal, dolphin, herring, fries and cheese. Truly haute cuisine.
D represents something like 50% of the world population. The variety there is likely sufficient to sustain anyone indefinitely.
Although everything in the global south likely has varying degrees if spice, so those with intolerance might be better served with one of the northern slices.
H, because I’m in Canada, and the food would be cold before the guy from D got here.
D is the obvious correct choice because the western food in Asia is superior to the Asian food in the west.
I live in D, but regardless it’s so stupidly stacked it’s nearly impossible to choose anything else.
D or G
Stillwater@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
D has a ton of Asian goodness
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Also, D even gets the entire bay of Naples.
NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 1 month ago
But then that's food you can eat in Oceania, not food from Oceania. D has a ton of good Asian food, but for traditional Western cuisine you want A or H.
wewbull@feddit.uk 1 month ago
I’d miss mexican food, but some arsehole bundled it with the USA.
sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Mediterranean, middle eastern, indian, Chinese, se asian. I can live with that.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
+1 for D
It’s literally where the world gets most of their spices … the English fought wars for those places and those spices
plyth@feddit.org 1 month ago
To sell them to the world. Never get high on your own supply.
bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Indian and Chinese. I’ll miss my local Moroccan place though.
quoll@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
EvenOdds@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Aussie wine and cheese is arguably even better, yet another reason to go with D.