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As a German, I can assure you that every person I know, including old people, eats Pizza more often than any of the dishes on this list. The listed foods are t
by matt4077 8y ago
As a German, I can assure you that every person I know, including old people, eats Pizza more often than any of the dishes on this list.
The listed foods are the answer to some question, but it is one subtly different from “what people eat”.
Which is kind of disappointing: I actually clicked hoping someone had seen this happen before, and decided to somehow collect data to answer the question “what do people actually eat?”
Instead of just regurgitating stereotypes, it would reveal how connected the world has become. And yet, it could highlight the actually interesting differences, such as the myriad different interpretations of Chinese dishes, or meat-in-bread.
- franze 8y agoI showed this list to my sisters who now lives in germany for .... 26 years. She just responded "tourist crap". Additonal Germany is a huge country and I do not think that one liste can do justice to the variety available in a big country. What people eat is deffinitly different comparing Bavaria vs. Hamburg vs. Berlin.
- mcphage 8y ago> Additonal Germany is a huge country and I do not think that one liste can do justice to the variety available in a big country. That's true about pretty much all of these places, though. It doesn't mean "What is quintessentially ________ food?" isn't an interesting question.
- perlgeek 8y agoI think the list for Germany has a heavy bias towards southern German food. It wouldn't be a bad list for "what to eat south of the Weißwurstäquator" (with the exception of Currywurst maybe, which is more typical for Berlin, but still consumed in the south).
- jplayer01 8y agoTourist crap? This is the kind of food my grandmother made. You've got to be kidding me.
- dewey 8y agoYea that’s definitely not tourist crap. In southern Germany or west Austria almost every restaurant has some variations of these dishes. Even if you go to German restaurants in the north they will have these dishes if you look for “Hausmannskost”.
- jplayer01 8y agoAs a German, I think it's sad that young people are so eager to forget that their own country actually has great dishes that are actually German. Some of my favorite foods are German. Just because not everybody eats like that nowadays doesn't mean it isn't German cuisine or that German cuisine doesn't exist. Looking at that list, there's a lot of German dishes that I love to eat when I get the chance. There's nothing stereotypical about it.
- matt4077 8y agoIf a local specialty doesn’t become global, there’s a reason for that. In any case, I never made the sort of value statement you seem to react to. I simply pointed out there’s a difference between “traditional, German food” and “food eaten in Germany”. If you don’t trust my assessment that pizza or pasta are more popular than Sauerkraut, just check the space each are afforded in retail stores, or the number of restaurants in these categories.
- jplayer01 8y agoIf you take "what locals eat" literally, the site would just be a big list of burgers from McDonalds. That's missing the point though. It's about local cuisine. Why bother with a German list if all you want to put in it is pizza and Döner.
- screye 8y agoI think this may be true with western cuisines, but food in Asia is especially different from what you get in normal Asian restaurants (Indian, Chinese, Thai, etc) Asian cuisines are usually bastardized and then type casted into a very narrow view of the food is actually like. Almost none of the food I had growing up, is available in Indian restaurants in the US. Similarly, I have to really go looking to find authentic food from certain regions in China and legit Thai food. My perspective of these foods completely changed after trying these authentic places.