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[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

Theres a lot of great dutch food! I will defend pannenkoek, stampot, oliebollen, Gouda, spekkoek, krokets, poffertjes, stroopwafel... hell, I love pickled herring.

Dutch food is very underrated!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You forgot the frikandel speciaal.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I was unaware! I will try it earliest opportunity.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Patatje oorlog, patatje joppie, spekkedikken and frikandelsaus. There's a lot of things!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Bruhhhhh whenever I finally start losing this weight I've been packing on, I look forward to a stroopwafel warmed over my black coffee every Wednesday morning.

Holy fuck people don't know what they're missing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Compared with English food it's certainly first class. British gourmets only survive, because in GB are a lot of Chinese, Japonese, Greek, etc. Restaurants

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Also you know the mitchelin star British restaurants.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Pickled herring is Danish, spekoek is Indonesian and Gouda is bland.

Hagelslag though, that is something I definitely miss.

Maybe the herring is Scandinavian, but we're not going to credit the swedes with this one, they lost that right when they started with the lingonberries.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It's possible that people think of Gouda as that stuff which comes in the standardized, plastic-sealed block of rubbery cheese that most American grocery stores carry. That is bland. One might mistake it for the Monterey Jack next to it, were the labels switched.

Don't get me wrong, I'll still happily eat it, but yeah, real Gouda has flavor.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

That makes sense! I'm currently in the US and have only seen Gouda once and it tasted nothing like it, in the Netherlands there's also many varieties of Gouda that all taste very different.

It's very strange seeing Dutch products on the shelves here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Some people confuse mild and delicate flavours with bland, too. Young Gouda isn't particularly strong but it's good and still distinct.