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D has a ton of Asian goodness
Also, D even gets the entire bay of Naples, in addition to the cuisines of 3-4 billion people. Anyone who wants anything from A can get anything from there in Oceania.
D is so OP, I cannot imagine anyone picking anything else unless they are basing their choice on where they live.
I’d miss mexican food, but some arsehole bundled it with the USA.
Worse, they bundled it with the worse half of the USA (except for soul food).
Anyone who wants anything from A can get anything from there in Oceania.
But then that’s food you can eat in Oceania, not food from Oceania. D has a ton of good Asian food, but for traditional Western cuisine you want A or H.
D has Australia and nz too
Yeah but the real cuisine from Australia is grubs, roo meat and berries.
You cant only consider indigenous cuisine though. In that case it completely changes Mexican cuisine etc. Infact it changes literally every single cuisine in the world with the idea of ‘real’
But that takes out all the chalange because all the regions have major cities and therefore all sorts of restaurants. I mean you can get good Chinese food in Buenos Aires I know and most other regional cuisines. I mean then New York City is op and everyone else is second place.
Yeah but the alternative is “you can’t eat modern food from absolutely anywhere” because, for example, tomatoes have only been in italy since they were imported from the Americas
So do we not count potato dishes for India since they were introduced by the Brits or how about tomatoes for Italy?
If we allow ingredients but recipes are the issue, than is Japanese curry not counted for Japan considering it went from India to Britain to Japan?
How about removing biryani from India/ Pakistan since the mughals created it with Persian techniques.
What about fusion cuisines? All the pizzas in the world for example?
Keeping it indigenous is literally impossible bc that idea doesn’t even exist.
D is literally the only answer.
Greek, Turkish, Arab, Indian, Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai, Korean, Japanese. If you want something more western, there’s Australian for some classic bbq or fish n chips. There’s also a tiny sliver of Italy.
And don’t forget Kiwi… I want to say… fruit?
+1 for D
It’s literally where the world gets most of their spices … the English fought wars for those places and those spices
C
That’s just my usual ration plus some Indo-Asian spice in the mix. Perfect.
B You get italian food but still can have Surströmming
Deal of the century
Unparalleled energy
and pitepalt!
Damn, what happened to Italy?
It’s in a b c and d.
Cut like a pizza
Has to be D. Last time I said Japanese and Mexican, but I forgot Iranian.
Has to be D …. Has the most major cuisines, most variety.
I may have always lived in H but depending how you define foods from there, we have almost nothing.
B is being slept on in this thread. I mean, look at it - you get northern Italy, Germany, Austria, Hungary, the northern Balkans, Sweden, and Finland. If you like pasta, pizza, grilled meats, fries, potatoes, sausages, licorice, a mindbogglingly large number of breads and cheeses, etc. etc. you’d be stupid not to pick that region.
Sad news: you wouldn’t get any pizza, because that comes from Naples, which is in the south of Italy.
We were talking about national cuisines. To my knowledge Naples is part of the country of Italy.
No, the meme clearly says “from one of these regions”. Region B doesn’t include Naples.
Fine. Keep your Napolitan pizza, while I get to enjoy the wonders of focaccia and flammkuchen :D
This can’t really be answered in a simple way. Like a lot of “traditional” European dishes use potatoes. But at some point they where not native to Europe. So does that count? Or something like New York style pizza, is that American? Because in that case the Netherlands for example has a lot of Indonesian dishes that are more variations on traditional Indonesian food (made by immigrants using more local ingredients).
I think food is the best example why immigration and mixing of cultures can really improve humanity.
My take is that it’s about complete meals, as they exist today, with the region that the meal is associated with. So I would put tikka masala in India, even though it was technically created in the UK. My guess is your Dutch Indonesian version is probably the same as that, and should go in D. Or would most Dutch people say “this is a Dutch meal”?
But you’re definitely right that it’s very fuzzy.
I saw a much more interesting problem not too long ago, which had much clearer lines. It was only about using ingredients native to either the new world or old world. Choose new world and you get chocolate, tomato, and potato. Old world means you miss out, but you do get wheat and rice.
I think you have a good point most Dutch people would say lets get Indonesian food today, while actually getting food you probably can’t find exactly the same in Indonesia.
I would probably take D (I think it still has a tiny slice of Italy). Pizza and asian I can’t live without. I think there is still debate on the origin of fries)…
D looks nice. Greek food, Turkish food, fuck Israel, Indian food, Japanese food, Thai food and whatever crocodile burger Australia serves.
whats wrong with israeli food?
“Israeli food” is a marketing gimmick for coopted Palestinian cuisine. Taking Palestinian dishes and throwing in Ashkenazi / Eastern European items does not a national cuisine make.
It’s part of the settler colonial project to erase Palestinian national identity.
I’m torn between D and G. I love Thai, Chinese, Japanese, and Mexican/Central American cuisines, not to mention American barbecue.
You can get Japanese and Chinese in Hawaii and Cali just fine.
I mean, sure, but it’s not from those places, which is the point of the OP.
Many of those folks live and cook their native cuisine in the G region.
That’s kinda against the whole idea though. You can get pretty much any cuisine anywhere nowadays.
