One thing that suprised me as a child was swedes eating pancakes for lunch, because that’s not how you eat them in Finland. I’ve always seen pancakes as dessert or a snack after school.
On midsummer’s eve, it’s very common to eat bread, potato and herring. Then drink a couple of snaps, with drinking songs of course.
As a dessert, strawberries.
I don’t know if it’s because I live in Stockholm, or if it’s so in the rest of Sweden too, but people tend to eat a lot of international dishes. Pasta, wok, mexican…
Examples of fast foods you can find here are:
hot dogs, pizza, kebab, sushi, wok, hamburgers (yes, we have McDonald’s…).
Mmmmmm, that’s my favorite national meal.
Basically it’s fries, or chips as we sometimes call them, with mozzarella cheese on top, then gravy is added which melts the cheese. It’s common in restaurants and chip stands and it makes a good snack…even fast food restaurants like McDonald’s offer it here, although it’s not very good compared to home-made poutine.
Lobster is also a nice treat , and since hunting and fishing is very popular here, a lot of people I know eat fish and venison during the summer.
Traditional english food… Theres the Sirloin steak, a steak which has actually been knighted by some barmy king… Fish and Chips, the standard friday night meal… Parmo’s. Native to middlesbrough, people only a few miles out of town won’t have heard of em… And, we come to… APPLES. An apple a day keeps the doctor away… Finally, Custard, the ONLY TRUE british sauce. Not many brits know that…
In Slovakia , we have a meal called “bryndzove halusky”.
It’s some kind of dumplings with sheep cheese called bryndza. It’s usually served with bacon. You gotta try it
I haven’t read the entire topic, so I don’t know if anyone has mentioned this, but in sweden (mostly in the northern part of the country I beleve) there is a tradition of eating fermented herring, “Surströmming”.
It’s basically herring that has been sealed up in a tin can until it rots and builds up a pressure of stinky fart gas.
When it’s opened, an awful smell of death sprays out and stinks up the whole neghbourhood.
It’s known as one of the smelliest foods in the world.
I’ve never smelled it, but it’s said to be really nasty. https://www.northerner.com/p_images/swedish_fermented_herring.jpg
I just enjoyed some wonderful homemade Cuban Caldozo. It’s a soup made with Yuca, Calbaza (squash), pork, potatoes, garlic, onons, cumin, salt, and other ingredients depending on the cook. It is sooooo delicious.
My favorite though is called Ropa Vieja, which means “old clothes.” It is a dish prepared with Stringed beef made with lots of garlic and red peppers. It is usually accompanied by morros y cristianos (moors and Christians) which is rice with black beans and yuca and platanos maduros which are fried bananas.
Eu basicly seems to want to destroy anything being culture in individual countries… Just look at how they wanted to ban the british taxies and i believe they actually managed to ban the british double decker bus.
Well, not really. I’ve actually only had them a few times. Good, but I’m not sure what everyone is so fanatical about. The weird thing about eating crabs is that it’s really not so much what the crabs taste like, it’s more about the crazy salty spices they’re covered in. My cousin ordered some kind of crab pasta at a restaurant and kept saying it tasted weird because it didn’t have Old Bay in it.
I know for sure that they wanted to ban it. And then i read lately about how the classic double decker is gonna be retired, which was rumored to be because of the new EU security regulations regarding public transportation.