Poll: Your Favorite National Cuisine

[Labyrinth]

I can't, for the life of me, decide.

Each cuisine has it's merits, dishes of such amazing flavour and texture that I'd beg for a second serve. They also have their failings and things which just repulse. Trying to choose but one will cut out so much from the others that I adore just as much.

From a cynical standpoint however, I can't pallet fast food. If you consider Maccas as the National Dish of North America, there you go. I've never got the appeal of greasy faux-food which is a taste that I've maintained throughout my life. Who knows? Perhaps it's little but snobbishness on my behalf.

 

[FrostyV3]

Juicy Aussie Steak Cooked On A Barbie.
You Seriously Can't Beat That.

Representing The Aussies,
~Frosty.

 

[joystickjunki3]

North American... gimme coneys, french fries, Phili-cheese steaks and buffalo wings any day. Oh, and American pizza (Chicago or Michigan styles are preferable).

Japanese is also a great eat.

 

[medievalguy]

There is a really cool TED talk about Chinese food, and how every nation puts its own spin on it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6MhV5Rn63M

 

[Dilla]

Asian all the way. Here in the UK, we have a chain called Wagamama's it's such a brilliant place to eat if you like Asian food.

 

[Zer_]

Poutine. Poutine and more Poutine. Quebec's national dish is just amazing.

POUTINE! [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poutine]

 

[Nivag the Owl]

English breakfast is the best thing in the world.

 

[xitel]

Plus, the Hamburger was invented in America, so I claim it as American cuisine. Contrary to popular belief, it wasn't invented in Hamburg, Germany, but instead it was made at Louis' Lunch in New York. The name comes from the style of meat patty. NOW YOU KNOWWWWW...

I thought Louis' Lunch was in Connecticut...?

Yeah, it is... I'm an idiot.

 

[arcainia]

Asian hands down. I love chinese food and thi food. I didn't actually get to try out too much japanese food since it's pretty expensive over here, but my fav dish would be a simple tamago nigiri. I could eat that stuff for the rest of my life.

I'd love to introduce you all to the fine world of Khellendrosian Cuisine...

Take, for example, our national dish, the Sennet Dog. A top-quality all-beef hotdog butterfly fried on a grill, then sliced in half lengthwise and arranged on a toasted bagel. On top of the hotdog pieces, a light layer of melted nacho cheddar is drizzled, and then further topped with the traditional condiments of your choosing (Ketchup, Mustard, etc). On the bottom half, between dog and bagel, a layer of ripple potato chips for added crunch and saltiness. Venturesome people may replace the ripple chips with Salt & Vinegar, BBQ, or even Nacho Cheese Doritos. Sour Cream & Onion, not recommended.

But why end there? Add to your meal, a glass of Dragon's Blood or K-Juice.

Dragon's Blood starts out as RBK (RedBlueKoolaid), a 50/50 mixture of Cherry Koolaid (red pouch) and Tropical Punch Koolaid (Blue Pouch). The RBK is then mixed in the glass as 3 parts RBK to 1 part Dr. Pepper. Add a teaspoon each of lemon and lime juice, and stir gently about 3 times. Note: Dragon's Blood can be made as Drake's Blood, by replacing Dr. Pepper with regular cola, or as Diabetic's Death by replacing the Dr. Pepper with rootbeer.

K-Juice is more the citrus-lover's drink. 2/3rds of a glass of Sprite (7-up works, but Sprite is better), 1/4 glass of Sunny Delight (sweet) or 5-Alive (sour), and 1/6th the glass of peach juice.

Death has never looked so yummy...?

 

[Ionami]

-This-is-Hip-Hop

Please stop that.

Seriously.

As for cuisine I really enjoy Italian! Pastas and things like that.

 

[Pezzer]

BRITAIN! We have chips, (no offense meant) but I have never had good chips anywhere else. We also have steak, haggis, cheese on toast, etc.

 

[justnotcricket]

Plus, the Hamburger was invented in America, so I claim it as American cuisine. Contrary to popular belief, it wasn't invented in Hamburg, Germany, but instead it was made at Louis' Lunch in New York. The name comes from the style of meat patty. NOW YOU KNOWWWWW...

I thought Louis' Lunch was in Connecticut...?

Yeah, it is... I'm an idiot.

You're not an idiot - I'm not even entirely sure where I picked up that little factoid =)

Also realised (duh!) I forgot to actually comment on my preference for a cuisine...I think it'd have to be Japanese in general, with a side of German (Käse Spätzler) if I'm after comfort food...

 

[Ursus Astrorum]

Apart from the traditional fish, rice, and green tea/sake that I usually have, I also have an intense love of Japanese and Thai.

Not that it counts as an international cuisine, but every once in a while I get the craving for rare unseasoned meat, preferably beef and game. That I get these cravings around the time of a full moon and that they come with an urge to eat without utensils is what bothers me. No, I'm not joking.

 

[fix-the-spade]

Fish and Chips.
Full Breakfast.

English food,the thing I miss most in other countries.

 

[speedcoreXdandy]

Indian, you can't beat a good lamb rogan with vegetable pillau, keema naan, with onion bahjis and chicken tikka and poppadoms with mango chutney and mint sauce for starter. I'm salivating just thinking about it. I know it's technicaly Asia but it just doesn't seem to fit what you described there at all, I guess you meant more Eastern Asian cuisine, meh I'll stick my vote there anyway.

 

[This-is-Hip-Hop]

I can't, for the life of me, decide.

Each cuisine has it's merits, dishes of such amazing flavour and texture that I'd beg for a second serve. They also have their failings and things which just repulse. Trying to choose but one will cut out so much from the others that I adore just as much.

From a cynical standpoint however, I can't pallet fast food. If you consider Maccas as the National Dish of North America, there you go. I've never got the appeal of greasy faux-food which is a taste that I've maintained throughout my life. Who knows? Perhaps it's little but snobbishness on my behalf.

Well, fast food is not for the appeal, but the acessibility, my mother was going through college at the same time I was growing up. So it was a rare event when my mother got to cook for the family. Which in turn meant many nights of Microwave meals and McDonalds French Fries. Another viable reason is familiarity along with an edible product, a Pizza Hut in Seattle, WA, will give the same quality of as a Pizza Hut in Tokyo, Japan.

But as for the favorite reigonal food taste, I have the same problem as you do. All of the reigons have flavors that I like, and some flavors that I dislike.

 

[Jamash]

I like traditional English cuisine which, for the sake of the poll, I would classify as separate from European.

 

[This-is-Hip-Hop]

I like traditional English cuisine which, for the sake of the poll, I would classify as separate from European.

European Cuisine can be considered to include traditonal English Cuisine, all of the options are umbrella terms, they also include any past cuisine, but I only mentioned contemporary tastes because most people would be more aware of them.