Fun fact: what's known in the US as "Danish pastries" are known in Denmark as wienerbrød (Vienna bread) and it turns out that both terms have some merit:
It was invented in Copenhagen by immigrants from Vienna
Who wants to claim our Brussels Sprouts? Go ahead, take them. Nobody? Well well well.
Brussels sprouts look and taste like little green brains. I have no idea what brain actually tastes like, but I imagine it's brussels sprouts.
Brussel sprouts are delicious. Modern versions have had their bitterness bred out. Roasted until crispy with olive oil and garlic and salt and they're fantastic.
Problem is the fools that boil or steam them. That way lies little green brains.
They taste like the worst version of a cabagge and they smell god awful while being prepared. I do believe some michelin star chef could make me a version I can eat but it would be a much more involved version not just roasted till crispy.
Btw, you can cook and taste brain. It's not the most common thing to find, but you can sometimes find it at a butcher shop, along with the insides of other animals
It's actually super good, like meat flavored butter
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The human brain is the best! sarcasm
The term "frenching" is also a culinary term that means preparing food for even cooking and to make it visually appealing.
Man, we did that in middle school too
What kind of savage puts their freedom fries in a bowl?
Actually…my nation made it. Every popular food item you can think of actually.
Then I spread them around your planet and had my agents whisper in people's ears to say things about them all.
It has been established that the earliest recorded recipes of fries are French.
It doesn't matter, Belgians are making much better fries than French. They deserve the recognition.
In Poland we have Greek style fish, Ukrainian borscht and Russian pierogi. None of which have anything to do with the place they are named after.
I forgot about French pastry. Which I just puff pastry, but we call it French pastry for some reason. Doesn't it come from Ireland?
I thought pierogi was polish 🤔
As all dishes, it's not from a specific country, but from a region of the world. Eastern Europ in this case. When we fill them with potatoes, we call it russian style. Apparently Russians like carbs.
America had just bad eyesight or the belgian flag was already faded. So black became more blueish and yellow became white.
Hot dogs are bastardized from three separate Germanic names. Frankfurt sausages sounded a bit formal, so you got "hot dachshunds," except Americans could neither spell nor pronounce the name of that breed, so you get "hot dogs." If you asked what a hot dog was you'd probably be told it's a wiener on a bun, where the English word "wiener" is a loanword from the German conjugation of "from Vienna." And we've come full circle by routinely referring to dachshunds as wiener dogs.
The less-fun tangent about the prominence of German food in American culture is that New York was famed for its wealthy German-American families until all their wives and children were on a boat that sank. I am not joking.
I always found it funny that it is called "dachshund" in English. In German it is called "Dackel" and "dachshund" would be translated as "badger dog". I don't think that a badger is really meant here, but that the language has just developed a bit strangely (like with the word ampersand).
We call them that because they were meant to drive badgers from dens. It's why they are so inclined to be aggressive little shits when not properly trained
Thanks for the explanation, I didn't know that and wikipedia does not explain that in their etymology section.
Always happy to help, it's not often that my families multiple generations of dog breeding and training actually provides relevant information to internet conversations
Potatoes are a food native to the Americas and the Belgians claiming them is cultural appropriation. French fries are Chilean.
This is a joke, right?
Spaghetti is an Asian-Native American fusion dish.
Kinda but also, it's true. Potatoes come from the Incan Empire
Which has practically nothing to do with Chile lol more like Peru / Bolivia
What about Chile fries? (I jest).
All three, tbh
Were they invented when Belgium was a part of France?
The real question is "why do every other country calls this infamous sweet sauce 'French Mustard'?" It's a disgrace to french gastronomy.
French's mustard was made by a man named French. Similar to Caesar salad being Mexican, because the dude's name was Cesar.
"It's named after a guy" causes a lot of this confusion in STEM fields. It's always a misleading coincidence. Airy discs, the soft concentric rings of diffracted light, were documentary by one Dr. Airy. Dove prisms, resembling a dovetail joint, are pronounced doh-vay, after Heinrich Wilhelm Dove. Radon transforms are crucial to nuclear medicine and 3D imaging, but there's no radon involved, just one Johann Radon. Metropolis light transport in raytracing has nothing to do with New York City, but everything to do with the Manhattan Project, and one Greek mathematician. Bloom filters, spreading points of data into smooth coverage, have a perfectly fitting name that happens to be surname of their creator… Burton Howard Filter.
Makes the "This is Mt. Mountain, it was discovered by John Mountain!" jokes you see in a lot of media actually funny.
They don't. It's "French's mustard" – "French's" is a brand.
Edit: unless you're talking about Dijon mustard, which was created in France, so no real mystery there.
Wow! You changed my vision of this, I didn't know. thanks man!
The French's brand has a tough time weathering the political divisiveness of the early Iraq war. They had to put out a statement because they were worried about dumbass Americans boycotting their products during the Iraq War because France opposed joining the Coalition of the Willing.
Ah the whole "Freedom Fries" debacle
Germany is French, right?
That's the Belgian flag. But don't worry, they are so rare and tiny, that it doesn't make a difference. We eat more Pommes in Germany anyway!
But still, Germany is French right?
See, as someone who doesn't live in Europe, I honestly have a hard time telling which horizontal/vertical striped lines of red/white/orange/blue/black/brown/whatever, represent which countries. All I know is: that's not the flag of France. I have no idea which country it's for.
I also have trouble with all but a few of the country codes (the two letter notation for a country), and states by their letter codes, with few exceptions… for countries, I know like… CA is Canada, US is the USA, UK is England/United Kingdom (and I know those are two different things, but I don't know why or how they're different). For States I know like… NY for new York and CA for California… and like DC for Washington DC (which is different from the state of Washington).
Apart from that and maybe a few others, idfk. And yes, I did not do very well in geography class…
In any case, this joke almost went over my head and I'm still not sure whose flag that is.
It's the Belgian flag
