Look there are a shitload of flaws with Australia but food culture here is a huge thing. Home cooking from scratch is the default, food reviewing and advertising your favourite hole in the wall place is common social behaviour, there’s a pathological obsession with authenticity in food among young professionals.
Australia is a nation of migrants and a lot of different cultures blend and mix here. That is reflected in the food.
same as most north europeans. in much of the world eating is a joy and an art. even people who are struggling try to make whatever they have taste nice. it’s something to be enjoyed and shared and experienced.
not so in northern europe! in these so called “developed” countries, with “high” ““standards of living””, these so called “”““happiest countries on earth””", people seem to think of food the way normal people think of toilet paper or toothpaste, something you reluctantly pick up at the shop because it’s on the grocery list. people in the netherlands and northern germany eat raw fish on untoasted white bread and call it “good.” people in the nordic countries eat cold supermarket bread with cold ham for breakfast and lunch every day and think it’s fine. in england, cucumber sandwiches with the crust cut off is the highest level of cuisine, often praised in literature and art.
the classic chinese meme of 白人饭 (CW: pictures of meat, eggs, cheese) perfectly captures the anglo-germanic non-cuisine.
i had something of a mini-struggle-session with a user here once when the topic of nordic/north germanic food came up, and i think they claimed it’s not fair to judge these countries because in history these countries never had a vegetable or seasoning because climate? so their non-cuisine developed in a different direction from that of normal human civilization? sure, cool, the “food” is still shit tho, and now they do have seasonings and vegetables so there’s no excuse.
I haven’t seen people more unhappy in their daily lives than Nordics. Denmark, Swedish, Finland, Norway. It’s the same shit. Those people don’t know how to smile! UK is a close second. It can’t be the cold. If it were then Iceland would’ve been a tropical country.
right? sure, you can be happy and not smile, but nordics seem vaguely miserable most of the time and don’t seem to enjoy life. yet they always top statistics lists of the happiest countries on the planet.
i suspect it’s self-reported statistics, and they just imagine themselves the happiest, and all other countries as even less happy than they are, because of course they are the best.
Anglos have really bad food in general. Y’all see meals as an afterthought instead of a ritual. Are you really human?
Look there are a shitload of flaws with Australia but food culture here is a huge thing. Home cooking from scratch is the default, food reviewing and advertising your favourite hole in the wall place is common social behaviour, there’s a pathological obsession with authenticity in food among young professionals.
Australia is a nation of migrants and a lot of different cultures blend and mix here. That is reflected in the food.
Australian Anglo food IS good. Because it’s other non anglo food laundered as Anglo food.
same as most north europeans. in much of the world eating is a joy and an art. even people who are struggling try to make whatever they have taste nice. it’s something to be enjoyed and shared and experienced.
not so in northern europe! in these so called “developed” countries, with “high” ““standards of living””, these so called “”““happiest countries on earth””", people seem to think of food the way normal people think of toilet paper or toothpaste, something you reluctantly pick up at the shop because it’s on the grocery list. people in the netherlands and northern germany eat raw fish on untoasted white bread and call it “good.” people in the nordic countries eat cold supermarket bread with cold ham for breakfast and lunch every day and think it’s fine. in england, cucumber sandwiches with the crust cut off is the highest level of cuisine, often praised in literature and art.
the classic chinese meme of 白人饭 (CW: pictures of meat, eggs, cheese) perfectly captures the anglo-germanic non-cuisine.
i had something of a mini-struggle-session with a user here once when the topic of nordic/north germanic food came up, and i think they claimed it’s not fair to judge these countries because in history these countries never had a vegetable or seasoning because climate? so their non-cuisine developed in a different direction from that of normal human civilization? sure, cool, the “food” is still shit tho, and now they do have seasonings and vegetables so there’s no excuse.
I haven’t seen people more unhappy in their daily lives than Nordics. Denmark, Swedish, Finland, Norway. It’s the same shit. Those people don’t know how to smile! UK is a close second. It can’t be the cold. If it were then Iceland would’ve been a tropical country.
right? sure, you can be happy and not smile, but nordics seem vaguely miserable most of the time and don’t seem to enjoy life. yet they always top statistics lists of the happiest countries on the planet.
i suspect it’s self-reported statistics, and they just imagine themselves the happiest, and all other countries as even less happy than they are, because of course they are the best.