D or G
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Submitted 8 months ago by ObviouslyNotBanana@piefed.world to [deleted]
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lustyargonian@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Lorindol@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
I must choose the very unpopular “B”, for the sole reason that rest of the world is seemingly unable or unwilling to make proper sourdough rye bread. It is very, very delicious.
adminofoz@lemmy.cafe 8 months ago
American here who learned the forbidden arts of fresh made whole grain sourdough. Ive never eaten store bought bread the same. It really is like a whole new food. First time I tried it I knew I had to learn to make it.
The Norwegians also have this crisp bread knekkebrod that every American i know think it tastes bland but I love them. I have considered life in Europe due to the fact they still have real bread readily available.
The only other things in this category for me are chinese fresh made hand pulled noodles (Biang Biang Mian is a good one) and garden ripened tomatoes. Sounds like a great excuse to do a tour of European China towns.
Lorindol@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Congratulations for discovering tastes beyond sweet white bread! “Knekkebrod” is a basic staple in all Nordic countries, naturally with regional varieties.
Have you ever tasted sour rye bread? If not, here is a recipe if you feel like expanding your taste horizons to a whole new level:
PumpkinSkink@lemmy.world 8 months ago
D or G seems like the obvious choices
rumba@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
D and G are hot because the center point is well north the equator. It puts most of the good food to the south and sides of that point.
sdfric88@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
D for sure but a strong showing from G. Can’t imagine anything else even putting up a slight competition to those options. I live in H and that would be a hilariously sad choice
joyjoy@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
TexMex is real?
Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
G instead of D for me, because while I love Asian food, they also have a lot of spicy-sweet foods, and I hate spicy-sweet. Just do sweet, or just do spicy, but don’t mix them in one. I hate sweet heat, there’s few dishes that can make me like it. I also don’t love a lot of tropical fruits and Asian fruits, I’m a basic bitch. But Tex-Mex all day? I can live with that, plus some Creole and soul food? Set for life. I will miss Asian food though… Curry, ramen, Kung Pao, lumpia…
ThunderQueen@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Im torn between D & G lol
baatliwala@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I live in D, but regardless it’s so stupidly stacked it’s nearly impossible to choose anything else.
Iceman@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Italian, Greek, Turkish, Lebanese, Iranian, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, and Australian? Stupidly stacked for sure and the widest variety to boot.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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.
skisnow@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
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.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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?
curiousaur@reddthat.com 8 months ago
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…
shenanigans4u@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The is a community of Chinese immigrants that settled in Mexico as well. So some Asian cuisine can be included as well.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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.
hotdogcharmer@lemmy.world 8 months ago
A. I’d sooner pop my clogs than not have my rice pudding, black pudding, beans on toast, Eton mess, spotted dick, coronation chicken, and vindaloo.
g0d0fm15ch13f@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Those are foods? Absolutely deranged
Tattorack@lemmy.world 8 months ago
D section.
All the most interesting flavours come from D section.
There also lies the birthplace of spices. Wars were fought over those pices. The earliest forms of global trade was formed over those spices. Europeans started colonialism largely driven by the need for regular access to those spices.
Do not underestimate the power and value of spices. No other section, as presented here, compares.
Thteven@lemmy.world 8 months ago
All these people picking D have never had real Mexican food.
Ougie@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Bro you’ve never been to D obviously.
artiman@piefed.social 8 months ago
D but prob biased because I’m from Iran
adminofoz@lemmy.cafe 8 months ago
At this point I think the city of Shiraz should make me an ambassador because of how hard I push Sharazi salad.
Every potluck im out there hustling Shirazi.
Even when its a bunch of racist old white folks. I let them try my “cucumber tomato” salad. Of course when they love it, I rug pull them and hit em with the “its Iranian!”
Tattorack@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Can’t go without Ghormeh Sabzi.
artiman@piefed.social 8 months ago
I like it, but I have eaten it so many times just this past 3 months that I’m tired I pretty much love all of it listed on Wikipedia My favorites are the kebabs here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Iranian_foods I recently ate tongue but If you’re a vegan there’s a lot of food on the list that’s vegan I like kuku and dolme most as a vegan option we also have a variant of the pizza that is much more tasty than your traditional pizza
TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
I would say G, you get Mexican and southern US you get a bit of Brazilian, southern Spain, southern Portugal, Colombia, Venezuela and I would argue you get Italian in Sardinia and you even get Moroccan.
chunes@lemmy.world 8 months ago
G or D. G is the logical choice but giving up Mexican food is hard.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
It’s a hard choice between D and G for me. G gets all of the southern US cuisine that Europeans are always blown away by, along with texmex, traditional Mexican, street tacos, Louisiana seafood, Cali and Florida seafood, etc… But D gets India, the Mediterranean (maybe even Italy? I can’t quite tell on this map), Korean, Japanese, south china, etc…
If I wanted to commit to consistently good food, I’d go with G. But if I wanted a wider variety with a broader spice palette, I’d go with D.
DJDarren@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
D, because I’m British and can’t trust them forrins to not put too much spice like salt in my food.
jsomae@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Dividing the world according to this uniform mathematical system is so stupid. Is this secretly a pro-gerrymandering psyop?
Runaway@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
I mean D is a powerhouse lol
GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
D is the only sensible choice, there’s really no debate here.
ytg@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Definitely. East and Southeast Asia, the entire Indian subcontinent, most of the Middle East and parts of Greece and Italy?!
So unbalanced.
ynthrepic@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Nah mate it’s the Steak and Cheese pies from New Zealand that make it.
KombatWombat@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Has to be H, because I live there and if I had to get every meal imported to me that would be very annoying.
SVcross@lemmy.world 8 months ago
F
icelimit@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
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.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
you can just not include the spice, like i make asian food with capellini and tomato purée lmao
0xDREADBEEF@programming.dev 8 months ago
G has mexican, cajun, and tex mex. D has filipino. In set for life :)
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 8 months ago
The one loss from G is Detroit Style pizza, but Tacos, Texas BBQ, and Southern biscuits and gravy make up for it
0xDREADBEEF@programming.dev 8 months ago
I dont like pizza that much as a staple in my diet (too unhealthy imo) so thats not too bad, but as a cali-born, kentucky-raised filipino, yes.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 8 months ago
Food is so interconnected culturally, how do you even say where food really comes from? As an obvious illustrative example that most people would agree with, consider orange chicken. I don’t think many people who really know about it would argue that, no, it’s not American and actually Chinese. But at the same time, if we’re willing to say variations of dishes are unique, then by that point you can basically get any food from any region. Because where do you draw the line? Does a different ratio of spices make it a unique dish? If so, well, every meal is probably unique depending on how precisely you measure.
TL;DR: If you agree orange chicken is an American dish and not a Chinese dish then you can probably get any food from any region so the choice doesn’t matter.
bathing_in_bismuth@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Tribals: let’s divide food like its politics
Food lovers: I fucking love all food, and what I didn’t like, I at least tried
JackbyDev@programming.dev 8 months ago
Yeah, and what even makes something “authentic”? I remember Alton Brown saying that he observed that many foods that places are known for (e.g., Chicago and deep dish pizza, though I don’t remember if he used it as an example) often are better outside of that area because in that area everyone often tries to differentiate themselves from each other rather than focusing on the dish. (I don’t necessarily know if I agree with this, but it was an interesting thought.)
fading_person@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
F is one of the best choices, but most people from the northern hemisphere will miss out because they never had a chance to meet our culinary.
wewbull@feddit.uk 8 months ago
I was thinking about F for Argentine cattle alone.
JandroDelSol@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I was gonna say, F has West Africa and a ton of South American countries as well! D is a good choice, but imma go with F as well!
peetabix@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
I had Domodar from West Africa for the first time about a year ago. Its now one of my favourite things to eat.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Can you give me a list of some of the greatest hits?
fading_person@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
My list will be biased towards brazil, but I’d suggest trying tapioca, moqueca, churrasco, farofa, empadão, escondidinho, pão de queijo, broa, boliho de aipim, brigadeiro, paçoca, açai, pé de moleque, pé de moça, beijinho. That’s what came to my mind, but there are a lot more. And also, it’s hard to explain our culinary to others, because it’s not just about the food, it’s much more, like how it’s prepared, how we eat (we tend to eat together and socialize in these moments, people invite others to eat, etc) how we eat the good stuff like on a daily basis, and not just on special events, etc.
And to pay respects to our friends, you will also find great food in west africa, argentina, chile, and all of south america!
CatDogL0ver@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The picture makes me wanting a pizza pie
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
Does the USA only include like hamburgers? Or are we talking about all of the delicious multicultural foods?
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 8 months ago
No French Fries, obviously.
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
All y’all sleeping on global South cuisine. F and E would get you an absolutely smorgasbord of culinary bangers that you’ve probably never heard of. Plus with the amount of colonization that’s happened in those areas, you’d get a lot of European-ish food too, if you wanted something more familiar. It’s a tough choice between the two, but I’d take either of those in a heartbeat.
dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
not sleeping, its just G and D the depth and variety is unmatched. The map projection and geometry choice causes it to be unbalanced geographically per section, so not their fault, and eurocentrism of maps ofc
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
F and E both contain like 30 countries, with insane geographical and cultural variety, which would lead to a huge amount of culinary variety. Just as much variety as in G or D, it’s just no one knows about or appreciates food in the global south.
joan@lemmy.world 8 months ago
For anyone who loves spicy food, I recommend finding an authentic Ethiopian place near you if possible!! I had never even considered that cuisine before, and i was pretty confused what to get, but a couple bites in I was in love!! my favorites are siga wot, and tibs is awesome!!!
Drusas@fedia.io 8 months ago
Doro wat, especially, is amazing.