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30 People Share What Country Has The Worst Cuisine In Their Opinion England. They spent centuries conquering the world in search of spices and decided not to use any of them.

MrWizard311 , Image-Source Report

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288points

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David Green 1 year ago

Chicken tikka masala is regularly reported to be our favourite national dish. Basically we went searching for the spices and then invited the chefs over. There is not a village in England without a curry house.

98points

30 People Share What Country Has The Worst Cuisine In Their Opinion Unfortunately: Iceland.

I can handle bland or bad food…but when I’m paying 5x normal prices for that same bland food…it just pisses me off.

Iceland was one of my favourite places I’ve ever seen. But the food situation there is brutal.

franknorth2010 added:

Iceland. Ever had fermented shark? Horrible.

Entity0027 added:

If I Recall Correctly, Iceland was the one place Anthony Bourdain couldn't wait to leave. When a guy who made a living eating his way around the world, comes to your nation and concludes even the alcohol is disgusting, there be a lot of problems.

Iceland: Pack A Lunch

Benglassco , Steven dosRemedios Report

Final score:

146points

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Dizzie D 1 year ago

I'm sure Icelandic people don't only eat fermented shark. That comes up constantly and it makes me laugh. That's like saying Americans only ever eat hot dogs every day and nothing else.

56points

DavosLostFingers , LightFieldStudios Report

30 People Share What Country Has The Worst Cuisine In Their Opinion "Technically, all Australian cuisine is prison food" - Jimmy Carr

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117points

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Kathryn Baylis 1 year ago (edited)

Is that a nod to the fact that Australia was a penal colony? What about the truly native food the aborigines ate before colonization?

42points

30 People Share What Country Has The Worst Cuisine In Their Opinion There must be a reason why I've never seen a Finnish restaurant outside of Finland.

roygbiv-it replied:

I went out to lunch in Finland. It was a buffet. I s**t you not, everything on the buffet was a form of potato.

mcdofras , BlackWhaleMedia Report

Final score:

109points

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Nea 1 year ago

The best as well as the worst part of their cuisine is potatoes.

32points

30 People Share What Country Has The Worst Cuisine In Their Opinion Russia. It's not even a question.

Yzzy1 added:

Never been to Russia, but had dinner at a Russian family's apartment in Israel. They served chicken feet in a jello mold. What the f**k?

Francesca_N_Furter added::

I've never been to Mongolia or Iceland (the clear winners in this thread), but Russian food is the stuff of nightmares. Mystery soups seem to be big there - you will put bones out of several different species, and the flavor will give you no clue to the origin of those bones. I also saw bread that made me think of the war years....seemed to be made of sawdust and plaster.

Material_Joke1324 , Johnstocker Report

Final score:

95points

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BakedKahuna 1 year ago

Russians cuisine is for getting you ready for the cold. It's warm and provides energy. It's not all for me, but there are some dishes I really like. Like the different style of dumplings they have. Or blinis, pancakes filled with minced meat, folded like springrolls, deep-fried. Last but not least, a rice dish called plov. Similar rice dishes in other parts of the world are known as pilaw or pilau.

40points

30 People Share What Country Has The Worst Cuisine In Their Opinion I'm a chef, and I've cooked all over the world.

This is my *opinion*, but Norway and Russia have the worst local cuisine.

emmiblakk , slub10saker Report

Final score:

87points

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I Am John 1 year ago

Not much to add to that really.

10points

30 People Share What Country Has The Worst Cuisine In Their Opinion Scottish cuisine is basically based off a dare.

CharityMacklin added:

I was once gifted a Scottish cookbook and nah I’m good

papmontana , DanielVincek Report

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73points

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I Am John 1 year ago (edited)

It's not that bad. For a wee Northern country. Various salmon dishes, Cullen Skink, Arbroath Smokies, Millionaire Shortbread, Whisky, Cranachan, Scotch Broth, Stornoway black pudding, Venison stew, mince and tatties, tattie scone, crispy rolls, lorne sausage. Raspberries and wild strawberries here are amazing. If you are looking only at the sleazy options, fair enough.

55points

30 People Share What Country Has The Worst Cuisine In Their Opinion Surströmming, the fermented fish from Sweden, smells very bad, tastes very salty and fermented, and has a gooey texture. Surströmming might just be the ultimate disgusting food. Disgust has a very important evolutionary function, it warns us of weird foods that could be potentially dangerous or deadly.

YsnYlmz , Daniel Mott Report

Final score:

69points

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ColorEd 1 year ago

That's just one thing, not an entire cuisine.

7points

#10

30 People Share What Country Has The Worst Cuisine In Their Opinion Pro tip: don’t get Mexican food in Switzerland

InPredicament4ever replied:

I would expand the scope - don’t get Mexican food in any European countries except Spain.

ExtentEcstatic5506 , Jason Lam Report

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66points

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AndThenICommented 1 year ago

Don’t do Mexican food in Spain - very different flavour profiles

38points

#11

30 People Share What Country Has The Worst Cuisine In Their Opinion Specific cuisine so not what food you can buy in the country it’s absolutely hands down Dutch food. Boiled potatoes, boiled vegetables, a piece of overcooked meat and some packaged gravy is what most Dutch kids eat 5/7 days a week. The other day it’s bread for dinner(no joke) and Sunday more than likely you’re eating Fries and some other deep fried snacks.

It’s the most underwhelming cuisine I can think of. Granted I have never been to Russia, North Korea or Antartica.

Edit: if we’re counting take out or restaurants then definitely not the Netherlands lol. There’s such a variety of restaurants and the food is honestly great.

NinjaSelect3581 added:

The Netherlands. As soon as I could drive we’d go to Belgium for dinner with my high school class mates.

SamBankmanMoneygone , Merinka Report

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62points

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Luuk Eegdeman 1 year ago

The biggest problem with dutch food is that it ain't really a dish most of the time. You can make something really nice out of those potatoes, vegetables, and meat however you would need to add something like spices and you know not overcook them

17points

#12

30 People Share What Country Has The Worst Cuisine In Their Opinion Cambodia.

Never seen something good from there... But I've seen literal fried spiders...

390D9_lol , Gusjer Report

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62points

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Pieter LeGrande 1 year ago

The deep fried baby bats and the battered scorpions took a bit of getting used to as well.

29points

#13

30 People Share What Country Has The Worst Cuisine In Their Opinion You have to consider that there is a difference between a country's traditional "cuisine" and the modern food that you can get in that country.

For example, everyone is talking about how bad traditional English food is, but when you actually go to England, their modern cuisine like Chicken Tikka Masala (probably due to Colonization) is actually pretty good.

A similar example is Japan. Almost all the food that Westerners love from Japan like ramen, teriyaki, okomomiyaki, etc. are modern incarnations. Traditional Japanese food is a bowl of white rice, a few pickles, a bowl of miso soup, and a little fish if you are lucky.

Anyway, from my experience around the world, I would say that the worst food experiences I have had were in Myanmar and the Philippines.

Zubon102 , punctuated Report

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50points

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Baseball is Life 1 year ago

You were clearly not in the right areas in the Philippes, Filipino food is some of the best I've ever had.

10points

#14

I'm Irish, I do plenty of family get-togethers centered around a big Irish table of food, I love it, I love the feeling of sentiment and history. The food is always just a wad of boiled ingredients. We eat it lovingly, and there's nothing wrong with it. But it's not like there's anything *right* with it.

SnowMiser26 added:

Ireland

My grandparents emigrated to the US from Ireland in the 1940s, and holy hell the food they made was godawful. Everything was boiled and gray, there were no spices or sauces, and the only sides were root vegetables.

Maybe my experience was unique - please let me know if it is. It's entirely possible my grandmother was just a terrible cook as an individual, apart from her heritage.

Dangercakes13 Report

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48points

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XenoMurph 1 year ago

Grew up in Ireland in the 70s. A lot of boiled food, ovens are expensive, Ireland was poor. Not sure why we didn't fry much, Maillard obviously never visited Ireland. Things are a lot better now.

13points

#15

30 People Share What Country Has The Worst Cuisine In Their Opinion Mongolia

Given its harsh climate necessitating a largely nomadic and pastoral lifestyle, just not a lot of crops that could historically be incorporated into traditional meals. So everything is either straight up dairy or meat, with little spices of any kind to add any flavor.

Maverick1-618 added:
"Mongolian is definitely the worst cuisine I have ever had. It’s just fermented horse milk and boiled meat (like mutton and marmots). Vegetables don’t exist and they literally don’t season anything because they don’t have any spices at all."

"I don’t like Russian cuisine (it’s pretty mid) but Russian cuisine actually helps to improve Mongolian food at some of the trendier Mongolian restaurants (which don’t serve pure traditional Mongolian food)."

"Generally, cold places with a lack of access to spices or not much agricultural history make the worst food and Mongolia checks all those boxes. Kazakhstani food is similar, but they have more ethnic diversity so you can get some decent Georgian or Korean hyphenated foods."

AvatarTreeFiddy , Ryan McFarland Report

Final score:

43points

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DennyS (denzoren) 1 year ago

I feel like I need to go to some of these places and open a Caribbean restaurant lol

27points

#16

30 People Share What Country Has The Worst Cuisine In Their Opinion North Korea. Cold noodles and whatever the hell pine mushrooms are.

I’ve actually had soju (weak liquor) made in North Korea. It tasted like a cleaner version of the watered down vodka you can buy at gas stations where I live.

MrLanesLament , Graham Hills Report

Final score:

39points

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DennyS (denzoren) 1 year ago

Somehow it matches the dictatorship.

24points

#17

I won't say it's the worst but I grew up my entirely life thinking I liked Chinese food. After dating a woman from Shanghai for 3 years I can now honestly say that I do not like Chinese food. Anyone that grew up on a western diet and abruptly switched to eating authentic Chinese food on a regular basis knows exactly what I'm saying.

krayonflux Report

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33points

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Rose the Cook 1 year ago

Chinese food as sold in western restaurants has been modified to local tastes and quite different to what Chinese people eat at home.

48points

#18

30 People Share What Country Has The Worst Cuisine In Their Opinion Antarctica. Just those disgusting meat paste pouches

chippymanempire , bradhoc Report

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32points

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Robert T 1 year ago

Well the only native food you are likely to get is a penguin popsicle!

37points

#19

30 People Share What Country Has The Worst Cuisine In Their Opinion Kenya. Poor refrigeration meant that meat was often cooked until extremely chewy. I lost so much weight in the six months I lived there.

ifellbutitscool , Deborah Report

Final score:

30points

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David Green 1 year ago

Disagree. A well cooked plate of ugali (cornmeal), spinach and fish or meat with a tomato based sauce, eaten outdoors with friends and a supply of White Cap (other Kenyan beers available) is heavenly.

39points

#20

30 People Share What Country Has The Worst Cuisine In Their Opinion Worst I experienced as a national cuisine - Kazakh. There are good restaurants there, but they are more Uzbek, Uighur or Dungan.

I am not a fan of boiled meat, especially if it is horse; fermented horse milk, or dried fermented milk. There are a few dishes that are ok, but the lack of strong spices or seasoning make this something I don't enjoy much.

That said, I always eat it when we go to family events with my wife (from KZ!) - I respect the culture, but it is not something I would ever actively choose to eat!

bardachni , Dream79 Report

Final score:

29points

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and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 1 year ago

Dried fermented milk is literally cheese.

14points

#21

Not a country, but speaking as a snobby east coast native, the U.S. state of Minnesota has the overall worst food I've personally experienced. It's all like weird bland casserole "hotdish"; "salads" made with stuff like jello, marshmallows, canned pie filling, and Cool Whip; and Swedish cultural holdovers like lutefisk (dried whitefish brined in lye). Also, people just really aren't into veggies there!

Even at nicer restaurants, I've never had a dish where I was like: "Wow, this was amazing! I'll have to come back to this place." Restaurant food ranged from "pretty good" to "tolerable."

Oddly, though, the food in neighboring Wisconsin was great!

Still, after reading this thread I think I would rather dine in Minnesota vs. Iceland or Mongolia.

ETA: I just remembered...if you're vegetarian, in parts of Minnesota, you really have to double-check to make sure that baked goods aren't made with lard! I once got sick after eating a doughnut I later found out was fried in lard. One bakery I encountered even used lard to make their cake frosting.

Ava_Raris_12 Report

Final score:

29points

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TTorrest Author 1 year ago

I went to Wisconsin while on Keto. I had the choice to either go off my diet... or starve. (I chose Option A lol) Not a lot of healthy options out there, but definitely a few tasty dishes.

11points

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#22

30 People Share What Country Has The Worst Cuisine In Their Opinion I don't know about the rest of Canada, but Quebec's everyday cuisine was pretty much boiled meat and potatoes and shepherd's pie until the 1970's, when the province underwent a foodie revolution fueled in part by immigration and in part by the increasing sophistication of cooking shows.

Call_In_The_Bin , Fuzzy Gerdes Report

Final score:

26points

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Ottawa 1 year ago

Boiled meat? I've lived in this province my entire life, and I honestly don't know one person that boiled their meat. Quebec traditional meals are tourtiere, pâté chinois, creton, pea soup and lets not forget the wonderful poutine and none are made with boiled meat. As for the boiled potatoes, well, how elese are we going to make mashed potatoes.

36points

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#23

30 People Share What Country Has The Worst Cuisine In Their Opinion Years ago I went to a Somalian restaurant with an African friend. They had some sort of…soup….that was basically liquid grass fat. Ugh.

Final score:

24points

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V 1 year ago

My kid goes to a school with a high percentage of Somalian students. There are usually a lot of very nice lentil based soups and stews at pot luck's.

29points

#24

30 People Share What Country Has The Worst Cuisine In Their Opinion New Zealand is pretty sh**t. Everything is borrowed, and the native cuisine is just meat and vegetables cooked in the ground. We don’t seem to have a defined dish or taste.

MarsupialNo1220 , einalem Report

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20points

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Linden 1 year ago (edited)

Um, crayfish and seafood are our "native food" too if hāngī is not to someone's taste. A lot is from around the world, but we have great fresh ingredients, good wine, good coffee, craft beers, cheese, chocolate. I really don't know what this person has been eating.

33points

#25

30 People Share What Country Has The Worst Cuisine In Their Opinion I had some truly terrible food in Ukraine, particularly in the Chernobyl exclusion zone workers cafeteria, which we were kindly allowed to use when touring. The best food I had there was in Kyiv in an Indian restaurant!

tidymaniac , Chun Yip So Report

Final score:

18points

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Mani 1 year ago

I am wondering what this person was expecting before using the workers cafeteria of the Chernobyl exclusion zone

61points

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#26

One of the most disgusting dishes I’ve ever had was from Nicaragua, called “Indio Viejo” which literally translates to “Old Indian”.

It’s a stew made out of fermented corn and shredded beef. I’ve had some nasty s**t before, but this tasted like carcass.

GiorgioBroughton Report

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18points

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Kathryn Baylis 1 year ago

Sounds like the name of the dish is a warning. Or a description of the main ingredient…

12points

Exact-Truck-5248 , A Healthier Michigan Report

#27

30 People Share What Country Has The Worst Cuisine In Their Opinion Just about everywhere I've been in Sub Saharan Africa had some offerings that were pretty unappetizing to me. A lot of pasty starches and stews, some of them rather funky. Perhaps acquired tastes I didn't spend enough time acquiring

Final score:

13points

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OhBlahDi OhBlahDa 1 year ago

I think the pasty starches referred to would be things like ugali/pap/sadza (maize meal or sorghum based) and fufu (cassava based). Lol. They're pretty much like rice or potatoes to folks in most of Africa.

12points

#28

I looked at booking a week in Kyrgyzstan a couple of years ago and the consensus was that the food is pretty terrible. I still haven’t been but by the sounds of it they could be in with a shout.

theieuangiant Report

Final score:

13points

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SlothyK8 1 year ago

I've wanted to go to Kyrgyzstan forever. The food wouldn't be a deal breaker unless I HAD to drink fermented mare's milk. Just thinking about it...NOPE! And I'll try almost anything once.

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#29

I wasn't a huge fan of the food in Myanmar. But it was interesting.

coxiella_burnetii Report

Final score:

12points

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Mario Strada 1 year ago

Have you tried the Junta 20mm slugs? I hear they are to die for.

3points

crnppscls , Rusty Clark ~ 100K Photos Report

#30

30 People Share What Country Has The Worst Cuisine In Their Opinion Out of the countries I’ve visited, Tunisia was the worst.
It’s probably prudent to answer this question if you’ve actually tried the cuisine, which I suspect a lot of people haven’t, looking at the answers

Final score:

10points

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David Green 1 year ago

No, disagree on this one. Great mix of French, Italian and North African cuisine.

32points

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#31

30 People Share What Country Has The Worst Cuisine In Their Opinion For the places I've been:

Colombia is the worst overall. Not saying there is bad food there, but next to other countries I've been to (20) it's just not good. It seems that all the restaurants there are just hamburgers and pizza, with some empanada or arepa street stalls sprinkled around. Went to San Andres Island and all of the Ceviche street stalls would smother the amazingly fresh seafood with ketchup. From what I have experienced, Mexico has the best food in Latin America, but I'm really looking forward to Peru. No cuisines measure up to what Asia has to offer though.

KD922016 , Alex Schwab Report

Final score:

8points

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BakedKahuna 1 year ago

Sounds like that person only went out for Streetfood but never bothered to learn about the local cuisine?

6points

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#32

Cuba has some of the worst food. There is a lack of high quality ingredients. One particular meal was accompanied by a side salad made entirely of raw cabbage with a vinegrette that consisted of white vinegar and canola oil. I ate a hamburger from a government run burger joint and the texture of the patty was dubious to say the least. Most of the food was bland, poorly seasoned and improperly cooked. Government pizza and pasta places have such an array of toppings as cheese, processed ham, onion or some combination of the three. The pizza is essentially doughy bread. But I did go to place that served pizzagetti - a pizza topped with spaghetti (and some variation of the three toppings). Suffice to say any thoughts of great Cuban food is more likely to come from Miami than Cuba.

bjeans_1945 added:

We went to Cuba for 15 days. We were very surprised that the foods were so bland. No spices! The only decent meal we had was at the Evan Chef restaurant. Probably because he, Evan, was Fidel's chef. There was a root vegetable with the consistency of a potato. It was Gray and tasted like it looked- like rot. Butter is very scarce. Coffee is the best- it's very Strong. No one drinks the tap water. Bottled water served at the Casa Particulares (think B&Bs) we were allowed to stay at.

Ka_Coffiney Report

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5points

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Susie Elle 1 year ago

"There is a lack of high quality ingredients" my man you know that Cuba is incredibly poor, right?

22points

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#33

Brazil. I spent three months there and literally everything tasted like a*s. Even the best pizza tasted like American cheese on white bread.

lIllIlllIl Report

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4points

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kathoco 1 year ago

Oh wow, not my experience at all! The beef in Brazil can't be beat. And plenty of other good stuff. I've been several times and never been disappointed.

14points

GingerMeTimberMate , joshua_resnick Report

#34

30 People Share What Country Has The Worst Cuisine In Their Opinion Hands down. Philippines.

I’ve tried so many times to like it but it’s just too damn sweet. There’s no umami in their cuisine in general.

But then I’ve tried the fried chicken skin and lechon and it’s always been so over salted that it’s inedible.

I really want to love it because there’s so many Filipinos in my country and they’re amazing but honestly …. Wouldn’t want to be invited to dinner.

It’s bad. Doesn’t work with my pallet.

Final score:

2points

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David 1 year ago

Disagree. I like Filipino food. Not top nation in the world for me but far better than other stuff mentioned in this thread. And much of it isn't sweet. Also not always that salty if you don't want it to be. Rice and roast pig are both pretty plain. usually served with some soy sauce w/ little chilis in it. Source - I've been there several times (Olongapo and Cebu areas) and Filipino social events here in the states due to my brother is married to a Filipino woman.

12points

#35

30 People Share What Country Has The Worst Cuisine In Their Opinion Hungarian food. I worked there for 6 months and the canteen had a stew consisting of chicken, peaches and vinegar. One day they served what I thought was lasagne. It’s was actually glass noodles in ketchup with cottage cheese on top. Another day they served spaghetti with butter, sugar and cinnamon. I ended up going to a Chinese restaurant where they put your cold food on a plate and microwaved it in front of you. It’s was far better than the canteen.

madsikatsi , Glen Edelson Report

Final score:

-1point

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Ancsuri 1 year ago (edited)

I dont know what you did eat there, but that is not hungarian food. I am hungarian and stew with vinegar and peaches are unknown to me. Glass noodles, ketchup and cottage cheese? I thouhgt you would say its gross that we have a pig feet stew, or pig jello. But none of the above mentioned food are vaugely hungarian...

29points

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#36

As an American I'd prefer foreign food.

gorgothardude Report

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-1point

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Andy Saputo 1 year ago

Clearly never had good bbq...

28points

Electra Smith 1 year ago

Ooooh, yeah.

2points

Max Fox 1 year ago

Which? There are sooo many, and all are amazing. I cannot decide whether New Orleans style, St Louis style, mustard-based South Carolina style, Texas brisket, and so many more. The USA took the Caribbean concept and flew with it.

1point

Anyone-for-tea? 1 year ago

Fire up the grill please! I have been to the US a fair bit, and it’s so variable for me. Some of the food tastes very overprocessed. I had a hot dog in a nice bar in NYC and it made me feel very ill. And the chocolate, bread, and cheese tastes weird too. But I guess it depends on how much money you want to spend.

0points

RoanTheMad 1 year ago

Sorry but Korean BBQ is the superior-est BBQ. xP

-2points

Alicia M 1 year ago (edited)

That's fine because there's no shortage of that here either. Say what you will about America but one thing I feel we excel in is food and consumption, which is not necessarily a good thing. The variety of food choices available to us is ridiculous. Our grocery stores are the size of factories.

3points

Fuzzy bunny feet 1 year ago

Clearly never had good southern food.

2points

Larry XK 1 year ago

This country is 416 years old (counting from the first English settlement in 1607). That's probably half the age of most European countries. Also due to the fact that this land was colonized by Europeans whose first and foremost task was to eliminate the First Nations' culture including cuisine it's not a big surprise the our food is mostly based on old European dishes

2points

Larry XK 1 year ago

Didn't take long before the US bashing has begun

2points

Suzy Creamcheese 1 year ago

It never does.

1point

DeoManus Argentem 1 year ago

I didn't learn until I was older that most of my favorite "Italian", "Mexican", "Chinese", and other dishes were actually American. But I also love BBQ, soul food, cracker (this is a legit SE US culture - not a racial slur) food, New England seafood, geez there are so many choices thanks to the vastness/variety of the landmass and abundance of resources! But everybody's welcomed to their own opinion!

1point

Thegoodboi 1 year ago

Everyone has their own pallet from what they grew up eating, so it's hard to say who has the best cuisine. As a US American, I do love my Tex-Mex, BBQ, and a lot of Americanized dishes from other countries. To those countries, the Americanized version may be an abomination but GIMME MORE OF IT!

0points

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Kathryn Baylis 1 year ago (edited)

Not all of it. We do eat a lot of foods the Native Americans hunted, grew, and cooked. Corn, beans, squash, pumpkin, venison, turkey, etc are all native to North America.

16points

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Aria Whitaker 1 year ago

You DO realize we have Natives here in America, right? They are hardly "foreign" and have some absolutely delicious dishes and recipes.

8points

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#37

Austria is pretty bad.

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-19points

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Achmed Mustafa 1 year ago

I strongly disagree. The austrians really know how to cook. Especially the sweet dishes are fabulous. Have you ever tried Kaiserschmarrn?

7points

#38

30 People Share What Country Has The Worst Cuisine In Their Opinion Can't say overall.

But for my tastes Thailand.

I cannot even eat a tiny bit of spice.

Mad_Moodin , Hajime NAKANO Report

Final score:

-30points

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Mani 1 year ago

Thai is easy in the world's top 10 best cuisine (#1 for me)

34points

#39

30 People Share What Country Has The Worst Cuisine In Their Opinion gee man good gracious, the onslaught of answers all saying UK.. have you ever experienced German food? It's like they don't have anything of their own and douse it in schokolade to make it taste better, that's not how it works!! I especially get disgusted by that kind of gingerbread they call pumperknickle and it is coated in chocolate. How can anyone possibly like that?

Harry-D-Hipster , ipolly80 Report

Final score:

-31points

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MiriPanda 1 year ago (edited)

I am German and I have no idea what they are talking about... We very much have dishes of our own, but we sure share similarities with countries close to us. Pumpernickel is dark bread NOT doused in chocolate and I can't fathom any savoury dish that would be...

40points

#40

30 People Share What Country Has The Worst Cuisine In Their Opinion I seriously cannot stand Indian food.

whatever32657 , ozmundaregalis Report

Final score:

-51points

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Mani 1 year ago

I am realizing this whole article is rather stupid

76points

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E Henry Todd 1 year ago

This article tells more about the people posting their opinions than it does the countries they are criticising.

52points

Leo Domitrix 1 year ago

Wish I could upvote you 10,000 times. I quit after 10 b/c this is just one big collection of bigotry.

16points

Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago

Seems like a bunch of folks just having bad experiences that were not the norm. Bearing in mind if you grew up eating this stuff, you probably think it's okay. I do remember going to an Indian -style buffet and not being impressed by the food. But India is a big place; and food that is normal in one place may not be what you find at the other end of the country. So I gave it the benefit of the doubt. In contrast, I love Chinese food, but even I realize it probably tastes nothing like the native stuff.

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GiannaElizabeth 1 year ago

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Dizzie D 1 year ago

This whole article is just complete rubbish. People thinking that the National dish of a country is a reflection on what everyone eats, categorising their personal dislike of 'Indian food' to say that all Indian food is rubbish and eating like one dish and arrogantly stating that is why the country's food is c**p. Wasted five minutes of my life reading this and posting!

24points

RedPepper 1 year ago

I agree, a lot of advice is based on one or two local dishes.

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Verena 1 year ago

A couple of exceptions aside: Most of these just prove that 1. the person in question did not understand the limits and preferred taste of the local cuisine, 2. had no interest in other foid than served at tourist spots and 3. didn't do any effort as to simply verify their assumptions with googling it. This would not be a problem as lobg as thus stories were not read by others, who likewise won't verify this.

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RedPepper 1 year ago

Your second remark is interesting. I suspect all these people have only eaten standardized international food because that's what restaurants serve in tourist spots, and thought it was representative of the local food.

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Susie Elle 1 year ago

There's bad cooking and then there's bad cooking, but saying "I went to this incredibly poor country for vacation or work and the food was terrible" seems a little unfair to me.

8points

ColorEd 1 year ago

This is one of the dumbest articles on BP in a while, and there's been a hell of a competition.

7points

Mariele Scherzinger 1 year ago

This whole listicle is about as valuable as listening to a person who eats at a McDonalds in every country they visit, and then saying: "Oh, this and that country is the worst. The cheese had not melted yet on my burger."

5points

VonBlade 1 year ago (edited)

I do love a positive post on a Friday. Really sets you up for the weekend with love for your fellow meatbags.

5points

Tamra 1 year ago

😂

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Tristan J 1 year ago

Ignoring the overly woke crowd in the comments, Lithuania (home of Bored Panda) had intriguingly bland dishes. Learning the history of the country explains this, but much like traditional cuisine here in the UK, it is a little uninspiring. The desserts were good though.

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Leo Domitrix 1 year ago

I upvoted you simply for the "intriguingly bland". Never ate *in* Lithuania, but other Eastern European nations were pretty zingy compared to, say, "traditional UK/German/etc.". (Which is the basis of the "traditional US", ugh IMO).

1point

Higgleton 1 year ago

Man these negative articles... Who wants to read about ignorant people s******g on other people's culture. So much arrogance in the comments from people thinking they are superior because they think their food tastes better. Might as well go on Reddit and have a proper argument over nothing.

3points

Ueda 1 year ago

So basically people traveling twice in their life and complaining about the experience. Hardly representative I'd say...

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Powerful Katrinka 1 year ago

I stopped reading after the third item. Why does BP think this nonsense is interesting?

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LokisLilButterknife 1 year ago

It is pure clickbait that gets people riled up and generates traffic to their site. Sigh, I miss the days a couple years ago where BoredPanda wrote their own articles based on funny news stories around the world. They also used to feature a lot of fun artwork from newer artists.

1point

David H 1 year ago

Basically it is down to peoples person tastes and preferences

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Victoria 1 year ago

For me, it's not the taste but availability of Vegetarian options, especially in Restaurants . Certain foods are inherently not very friendly. All Island cuisines, with the exception of Trini, most South American, Korean, Viet, Lao and Japanese, Eastern European, etc. I make dishes from these cuisines at home if I want to eat those flavors.

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Lesley Christie 1 year ago

Erm, people generally eat what's native to their country so deep fried tarantulas is no different to southern fried chicken? Bugs are also very nutritious.

1point

LokisLilButterknife 1 year ago (edited)

With a few exceptions I feel like this is entire article is based off of stereotypes. One person tried a dish from another country and didn't care for it and then decided that the all dishes from said country are absolutely rubbish and horrible. Do the people complaining in this article live off a diet of white bread, chicken nuggets, and mayo? What an absolutely bonkers "listicle". I think my brain cells have atrophied after "reading" this dribble.

1point

Dan Holden 1 year ago

This article mostly boils down to either "I'm a picky eater and foreign food is weird" or "I went to a country that isn't Italy or the US and I didn't like the pizza and burgers".

1point

ConstantConstance 1 year ago

The article is terrible. Seems to be coming from people who have never properly experienced the food of the country they are talking about. As a general rule, food is good and I don't think any country does it worse if you take away factors they can't control.(like how in North Korea, the food won't be good because they are in a dictatorship)

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Rose the Cook 1 year ago

I think a lot of these are based on one badly cooked meal that was different to what the person ate at home. I haven't been to some of the countries but the ones where I have the food served was nothing like described here.

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Mim“the Swede”Sorensson 1 year ago (edited)

How is Sweden not on here? I mean, we eat raw fermented fish pretty much every holiday! I don’t even know what our national dish IS, and that should say something in itself! I don’t know, I feel we should be on here. But ok - at least surströmming was on the list. Fair enough.

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maragato 1 year ago

you should try my mother in law cuisine, just saying

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R Dennis 1 year ago

It seems to me that most of these aren't about the cuisine. Some are based on "grossest dishes" - fermented shark, surstromming, fried spiders. Some are people who had a bad meal. Some are being exposed to a food very different from what they normally eat. The first time I went to a Korean restaurant as an adult, it was so bad I didn't try it again for 20 years. I tried it at another location and it was amazing. I had one of the best and one of the worst French meals I have ever had in France, pretty sure the bad meal was because I fell into a tourist trap. One or two experiences does not equal a cuisine and neither does the "weirdest" dish they have.

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Eve Forbes 1 year ago

The English stuff is pretty good - if you go pre-Victorian. The Industrial Revolution and the 2 World Wars did a number on our *native* recipes. It broke transmission chains and the ingredients people could access in ways that left the results bland as f**k.

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Justin Trouble 1 year ago

I love food arguments they are so entertaining people want to fight you because you don't like what they like. I've had people throw punches because I said I didn't like NCY pizza, I was lying just like fu¢king with people.

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Dimitra 1 year ago

I always choose my travel destinations according to the food...

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Alecto76 1 year ago

Ethiopian food. I have had it in Chicago, and maybe that is the issue, but I don't think so. I love it. But, I hate sour dough anything. So I love the food, but can't stand the utensil if that makes sense. The samosas are wonderful.

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ColorEd 1 year ago

It doesn't make sense. How is the sour dough a utensil?

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gerard julien 1 year ago

" don’t get Mexican food in any European countries " well DON'T GET ANY SO CALLED EUROPEAN FOOD IN AMERICA Y'ALL ! emoji-6416...851a58.png

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gerard julien 1 year ago

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E Henry Todd 1 year ago

This article tells more about the people posting their opinions than it does the countries they are criticising.

52points

Leo Domitrix 1 year ago

Wish I could upvote you 10,000 times. I quit after 10 b/c this is just one big collection of bigotry.

16points

Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago

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GiannaElizabeth 1 year ago

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Dizzie D 1 year ago

24points

RedPepper 1 year ago

I agree, a lot of advice is based on one or two local dishes.

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Verena 1 year ago

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RedPepper 1 year ago

4points

Susie Elle 1 year ago

There's bad cooking and then there's bad cooking, but saying "I went to this incredibly poor country for vacation or work and the food was terrible" seems a little unfair to me.

8points

ColorEd 1 year ago

This is one of the dumbest articles on BP in a while, and there's been a hell of a competition.

7points

Mariele Scherzinger 1 year ago

5points

VonBlade 1 year ago (edited)

I do love a positive post on a Friday. Really sets you up for the weekend with love for your fellow meatbags.

5points

Tamra 1 year ago

😂

1point

Tristan J 1 year ago

3points

Leo Domitrix 1 year ago

1point

Higgleton 1 year ago

3points

Ueda 1 year ago

So basically people traveling twice in their life and complaining about the experience. Hardly representative I'd say...

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Powerful Katrinka 1 year ago

I stopped reading after the third item. Why does BP think this nonsense is interesting?

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LokisLilButterknife 1 year ago

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David H 1 year ago

Basically it is down to peoples person tastes and preferences

2points

Victoria 1 year ago

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Lesley Christie 1 year ago

Erm, people generally eat what's native to their country so deep fried tarantulas is no different to southern fried chicken? Bugs are also very nutritious.

1point

LokisLilButterknife 1 year ago (edited)

1point

Dan Holden 1 year ago

This article mostly boils down to either "I'm a picky eater and foreign food is weird" or "I went to a country that isn't Italy or the US and I didn't like the pizza and burgers".

1point

ConstantConstance 1 year ago

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Rose the Cook 1 year ago

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Mim“the Swede”Sorensson 1 year ago (edited)

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maragato 1 year ago

you should try my mother in law cuisine, just saying

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R Dennis 1 year ago

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Eve Forbes 1 year ago

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Justin Trouble 1 year ago

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Dimitra 1 year ago

I always choose my travel destinations according to the food...

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Alecto76 1 year ago

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ColorEd 1 year ago

It doesn't make sense. How is the sour dough a utensil?

2points