• @[email protected]
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    220 hours ago

    Tagliatelle are definitely overrated. Borlenghi is where the shit’s at, and they’re vastly ignored by the main foodies

  • @gusgalarnyk
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    61 day ago

    I’m in Germany and people rave about their bread but I live in Mannheim and it’s like… Okay? I don’t have a bakery here that I like more than the ones in New York (specifically) or France (seemingly anywhere) or Vietnam or Japan.

    Maybe it’s because I haven’t found how to use them properly but there just doesn’t seem to be a large amount of diversity. Like I’d expect fresh made hamburger buns, the Bahn mi bread, like a good sub situation, fresh rye bread, idk. Also for a country to have good bread I need to be able to walk into any corner bakery and be satisfied 4/5 times.

    • esa
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      319 hours ago

      I wonder how deep in my bubble I am as I’m reminded that 3 Fonteinen and Cantillon actually aren’t the best known Belgian breweries

      • @MothmanDelorian
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        217 hours ago

        There was a stretch if time in the late aughts where I found a store that had aged Cantillon on the shelf at the going rate. I was buying Rose de Gambrinus with 5 years on it on a regular basis. So many great old beers that store didn’t know they had. The only bad bottle was a Strange Ghost which tasted like rancid Parmesan.

    • @[email protected]
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      12 days ago

      As a Czech I would also suggest to go for smaller brewery, because of our tax system the beer is just negligibly more expensive than from big brewerys.

      I will be in Belgium hopefully in about 3 months and because I will bike there I will have a lot of time for tasting. Also I will like to visit some beer festival, if the timing will be right.

    • RubberDuck
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      12 days ago

      And cervela with samurai sauce is a hidden gem!

  • @[email protected]
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    51 day ago

    Kässpätzle are definitely a hidden gem.

    On the other hand Sauerkraut is probably overrated. I like it but it’s not as commonly eaten as you may think.

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    42 days ago

    swedish meatballs are overrated.

    don’t sleep on a really good Janssons Frestelse though. that and small-batch pickled herring with weird herbs in it.

    isterband is also good but that’s probably a more pan-european thing.

    also, i will always use moments like this to bring up the culinary sleep paralysis demon that is the calskrove.

  • @psmgx
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    11 day ago

    You should eat some bigos.

    But every mom and grandma will do it their own way.

  • Elrecoal19_0
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    32 days ago

    Tortilla de patata is overrated, IMO. About hidden gems, idk.

      • Elrecoal19_0
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        31 day ago

        I don’t like it! Croquetas are wayyy better, but I don’t consider them a “hidden” gem :b

  • @[email protected]
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    42 days ago

    Beck’s is definitely overrated. I don’t know how it’s become so popular.

    On the other hand, Labskaus is damn delicious, I need to make a vegan variant one day. Labskaus and kale with potatoes and meat variety is what I really miss since turning vegan.