What's for dinner? every countries specialty

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 recall that EU tried to ban it once, because they thought it was unsafe.

Haha, I’ve heard that they tried to ban tar pastilles (like Tervaleijona)…

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.

The stuff that dreams are made of…

Eoghan

EU tried to ban our traditional Polish meal called Bigos (fonetic spelling)

Its a kind of lettuce that is being prepared, in until it gets a brown color. It includes a few kinds of meats and vegetables. I like it ! It’s great :smile:

They wanted to ban it, because it is good to eat for even 7 days from preparing, if you keep it in the fridge, and then boil it again, and again.

BTW, I’m not good at cooking

EU is looking into our traditional food like dried and smoked fish and pinnekjøtt “dried and salted rib of lamb” which is a common christmas dinner.

And we are not even a member of EU :X

Really? I didn’t think there was anything bad about smoked fish…or anything that had been smoked for that matter.

Dried fish aint smoked .

Bazically its :

Cod that has been hung up for half a year on wooden “ladders” (have no other word :sad: ) and dried .

It might sound terrible ut with no water no bacteries … :confused:

And they tried to ban some special prepared tree in fish selling disks .The norwegians made a test and the tree approved to be BETTER than metal !

Hah ! Beat that !

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.

:yes: Agrees

In Maryland, of course, we eat nothing but crabs. :wink:

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. :tongue:

They never banned the double decker bus in London. Are you sure your not getting your stories confused.

I should know I only live about an hour away from London and to be doubly sure I checked out the BBC website and found nothing there.

In my area, in France, we have the " Quiche Lorraine" which is known from beyrouth to Tombouctou ( or is it ? :tongue: )

And, of course, the famous " omelette au fromage " :grin:

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.

Fast food take out is very popular here in BC, Canada :content: Especially Chinese food.

San Francisco’s got a lot of places to eat–ChinaTown is a nice spot, but Jack London Square has some great places, too–but then there’s the Fisherman’s Warf…

Seafood, Asian food, fast food, barbecue …mmmm–I can smell the food through my hotel window…:content:

I think it’s just the routemaster buses being retired.
I saw an article saying that more modern double-deckers are being put on the roads and also a new double length bus with only one floor called the Bendy is now being used. However most people prefer the old routemaster buses.

Oh and the EU haven’t tried to ban fish and chips (as far as I know) which is supposed to be England’s national dish. Nobody even seems to eat fish and chips very much, but it’s still the national dish.

As bigos were already mentioned - here in Poland we have Kluski, Sauerkraut or Barszcz - but especially Oscypki’s.

At my house anything and everything. But traditional to my culture, a customary dish at my home consists of white rice, stewed beans and steak with tostones (fried platanos)or salad. My kids love this dinner the most.

road pizza and booze. :nodnodwinkwink: