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aFinn

09-22-2006, 2:43pm

What is the national dish of your country?
What is the best pizza you had?
Do you like seafood or meat paella?

Etc.... Foods of the world, unite :p

SHANIANUTS!

09-22-2006, 2:51pm

Paul

09-22-2006, 2:55pm

We're probably famous for roast beef and yorkshire pudding. Depends whereabouts you go, can be Lancahsire hot pot, fish and chips, scouse.....Personally I eat more Italian food than English.

SHANIANUTS!

09-22-2006, 2:55pm

I also love good matzo ball soup.

SHANIANUTS!

09-22-2006, 2:56pm

Also love pork ribs with spicy bbq sauce.

SHANIANUTS!

09-22-2006, 2:58pm

I also love clams on the half shell and shrimp of all kinds and smelt..

aFinn

09-22-2006, 3:03pm

The best pizza is found in NY metro areas.What makes them special? Crust? Sauce? Toppings?

meatballs. And lasagne For some reason Finnish meatballs are often referred to as Swedish meatballs around the world, I cannot understand why? :huh:
I have something in common with Garfield ( :p ) ...love for lasagne :love:

fish and chipsBritish cuisine doesn't have much appriciation in the world, how do you feel about that?

Also love pork ribs with spicy bbq sauce.What brand of BBQ sauce do you use?

I love most bbq sauces/tastes. Of US brands I only know Bullseye BBQ sauce. I like it.

Paul

09-22-2006, 3:11pm

British cuisine doesn't have much appriciation in the world, how do you feel about that?

I can understand it. I'm veggie so a lot of British traditional meals are no good to me anyway. I've always eaten a lot of Italian food being part Italian, for me British food isn't anything as nice as Italian. The funny thing is my Grandmother who was Italian adored English fish and chips!

I think we are supposed to eat lots of stews and meat & veg, although I think that has changed and more people are eating foreign food. School meals have always been disgusting until recently they have started serving healthy food and children love it, so hopefully food will improve in future. Having said that I've heard some pretty gross things about how some other countries eat, I won't go into that...

SHANIANUTS!

09-22-2006, 3:18pm

I also love good NY style bagels and bialis and good French baguettes and Italian bread and NY Jewish Rye and pumpernickel breads.

SHANIANUTS!

09-22-2006, 3:22pm

What makes them special? Crust? Sauce? Toppings?

For some reason Finnish meatballs are often referred to as Swedish meatballs around the world, I cannot understand why? :huh:
I have something in common with Garfield ( :p ) ...love for lasagne :love:

British cuisine doesn't have much appriciation in the world, how do you feel about that?

What brand of BBQ sauce do you use?

I love most bbq sauces/tastes. Of US brands I only know Bullseye BBQ sauce. I like it.Chewy and little crunchy crust and great tomato sauce and mozarrella cheese is what makes pizza great..toppings are not needed to have great pizza..DiGornios frozen pizza comes very close to very good pizza believe it or not..

My fave bbq sauce at the moment is Sweet Baby Ray's Hot and Spicy sauce...some local bbq joints in Cinci also have their own great spicy sauces..

SHANIANUTS!

09-22-2006, 3:24pm

I also love garlic bread with loads of garlic.

SHANIANUTS!

09-22-2006, 3:26pm

Do you like your lasagne with ground beef and Italian sausage and mozarrella and ricotta cheeses and basil and meat sauce?

SHANIANUTS!

09-22-2006, 3:27pm

I also love Cajun cooking especially jumbalaya and red beans and rice.

aFinn

09-22-2006, 3:35pm

I can understand it. I'm veggie so a lot of British traditional meals are no good to me anyway. I've always eaten a lot of Italian food being part Italian, for me British food isn't anything as nice as Italian. The funny thing is my Grandmother who was Italian adored English fish and chips!The times I have been to London, hmm... I have not enjoyed the food, sorry to say. So I did a lot of ethnic places and fast food places, with a couple of pub lunches. The pub lunches were usually the worst ones.

Chewy and little crunchy crust and great tomato sauce and mozarrella cheese is what makes pizza great..toppings are not needed to have great pizza....So you prefer Italian style pizza with just sauce and cheese?

My mom makes the best pizza in the world. It's not crusty, and it's filled with loads of well spiced minced meat, peppers, tomato, cheese, garlic and onions.

I also have had great pizza in Timmins, Don's pizzeria :) Their thin crust pizza is nice :)

My fave bbq sauce at the moment is Sweet Baby Ray's Hot and Spicy sauce...some local bbq joints in Cinci also have their own great spicy sauces..Hmm, haven't heard of those, only Bullseye :p

I also love garlic bread with loads of garlic.I *LOVE* garlic bread :D

canoilers

09-22-2006, 3:35pm

What is the national dish of your country? I think its poutine
What is the best pizza you had? Da Funky Pickle is the place for me, dems be some funky pizza's
Do you like seafood or meat paella? Can't say never had either of them.

Can't go wrong with an Alberta Black Angus Steak with some potato's. Hot dogs are always nice. Fresh bread, pasta is always nice doesn't matter how or what.

aFinn

09-22-2006, 3:38pm

Do you like your lasagne with ground beef and Italian sausage and mozarrella and ricotta cheeses and basil and meat sauce?
Is ground beef same as minced meat?

I just have/like normal lasagne :p

SHANIANUTS!

09-22-2006, 3:40pm

Yes I love pizza with just great crust sauce and mozarrella cheese..you do not need more stuff to make it great..

SHANIANUTS!

09-22-2006, 3:42pm

Is ground beef same as minced meat?

I just have/like normal lasagne :pWhat is minced meat? Ground beef is like hamburger meat.
Lasagne varies like pizza and paella - no one makes it the same

aFinn

09-22-2006, 4:00pm

What is minced meat? Ground beef is like hamburger meat.I think it's the same, one can make hamburgers, meatloaf, meatballs from minced meat. Might minced meat be a British term for ground beef?

SHANIANUTS!

09-22-2006, 4:12pm

It seems so.

canoilers

09-22-2006, 5:14pm

Yes I love pizza with just great crust sauce and mozarrella cheese..you do not need more stuff to make it great..I think you got it right, gotta have a good crust.

I forgot Pierogies in that too, pan fried preferably. Speaking of which this thread made hungry and I just made some. No sour cream but I'll live.

shaniagal

09-22-2006, 5:50pm

Seriously, what's Canadian food other than beaver tails?

SHANIANUTS!

09-22-2006, 5:52pm

...I will let Sean handle that comment..

canoilers

09-22-2006, 5:53pm

Pountine, they call pan fried Pierogies the Canadian way of making them. How 'bout bannock thats gotta be Canadian.

Anything else I can think of is pretty much Chocolate, like Smarties. :p

SHANIANUTS!

09-22-2006, 6:25pm

I also love garden fresh summer tomatoes with basil and mozzarrella cheese and salt and pepper and pure virgin olive oil.

FinnFreak

09-23-2006, 7:20am

Jaha...

Finnish national dish: has to be pea soup... some might claim it to be roasted reindeer... but that's just trying too hard to have something ethnically special... reindeer is overrated IMO... and moose is much better...

regionally: Ostrobothnia has klimppisoppa, which is a soup that has peas, dough dumplings with raisins and milk... and it's actually pretty good... ;)

Best pizza..? heh, Vaasa is the pizza capitol of Finland... home of the Kotipizza & RAX chains... and we even have the *only* Pizza College...

still... Jaana makes the best pizza. Secret ingredients: love & affection :]

Paella..? - That's music festival food in Finland... and we don't really get the seafood option here... because of the limited cool storage...

Most memorable food experience: Haggis in Ullapool, Scotland, August 2000... and it was good...

John - :)

EilleenTwain88

09-23-2006, 7:50am

reindeer is overrated IMO... and moose is much better...
:biglaugh:
Really? That is like comparing a cow and a buffalo methinks.
Best meet is black grouse or capercaillie IMO. Gonna have some tonight actually... yammy yammy.
Best pizza..?
I have had rather many good ones, but the best was one small local place in Stouffville, Ont. Canada... just cannot recall its name though. Don's?!? Näääh....
Paella..?
Seafood paella, definitely. But it should be made out of fresh incredients (not canned ones) so this is almost impossible to get in Finland. I have never been to Spain, thus so far the best paella I have had was in Florida... or was it California??? Whatever...

The most memorable food experience was in France where I thought I was ordering a octobus rings (with my poor French) and ended up getting a small octobus boiled as a whole in salty vinegar water. The plate turned so that it was staring me right in the eye...

FinnFreak

09-23-2006, 8:31am

Octopus..? wow. Did you get to fill your fountain pen too..?

John - :p

FinnFreak

09-23-2006, 8:44am

My favorite restaurant in Finland:

http://www.bodega-salud.fi/index_en.php

heh... they've got "Rocky Mountain Oysters"...

28. ROCKY MOUNTAIN OYSTERS 20,00 €

Rocky Mountain oysters are a famous speciality from pioneer days. The eater of this dish is awarded a certificate of honour.

John - :p

FinnFreak

09-23-2006, 8:51am

...and now I'm hungry.

Time too cook some pasta.

John - ;)

UllaCountryGal

09-27-2006, 12:05pm

THis thread is so up my alley these days...

Icelandic food
traditional: sour and rotten shark, sour ram testicles, sheep heads, sheep liver, sheep liver jam, dryed and hung fish and my favourtie slátur( sort of haggis),
milk products: Skyr, thick milk, abt-milk, mysa, sour milk
normal day food: fried haddoc in rasp mashed with boiled potatoes, fish in general and and lamb, rice porridge with slátur and raisins.
drinks: Pilsner, Maltextrakt, Appelsín(orange), Jólaöl.
festive food: Hangikjöt(smoked lamb), fried pork chops in rasp, smoked puffin and Ptarmigan/Willow Grouse.

MiniShaniaTwain

09-27-2006, 12:16pm

I do not think the USA has one national dish.

The best pizza is found in NY metro areas.

Meat paellas rock. WIth a little seafood.

I also love singapore mai fun and pad thai and pot roast with veggies and spaghetti with hot Italian sausage and meatballs. And lasagne and ravioli and belly button tortellini.

I agree with you there Bob! I don't think the US has a national dish. The US serves many different kinds of food, from different nations.

MiniShaniaTwain

09-27-2006, 12:18pm

I think the best pizza is found at an Uno Chicago Pizzaria, and I like meat paellas, but not seafood. Pot roast with veggies is yummy, and I love any and all kinds of spaghetti. I love subs, especially from a Tubbys or Subway.

SHANIANUTS!

09-27-2006, 3:56pm

My favorite restaurant in Finland:

http://www.bodega-salud.fi/index_en.php

heh... they've got "Rocky Mountain Oysters"...

John - :p
28. ROCKY MOUNTAIN OYSTERS 20,00 €
Rocky Mountain oysters are a famous speciality from pioneer days. The eater of this dish is awarded a certificate of honour.

Breaded ram testicles boiled in a sauce and fried in butter, with frittered vegetables wok-fried in red Western sauce and served in a tortilla basket with garlic mayonnaise.

Down in Louisville KY there is one Southern restaurant whose specialty is ROcky Mountain oysters...yummy...:love:

SHANIANUTS!

09-27-2006, 4:58pm

..and furthermore...

http://www.foodanddiningmagazine.com/sum04ball.phtml
Food & Dining Magazine Louisville Edition
Denver
Coors Field is a ballpark in more ways than one; it may be the only stadium in the country that includes Rocky Mountain oysters on the menu.

orchestragirl

09-30-2006, 12:28am

ok, one thing you should know about me..I'll eat almost anything! :p
I'm from America, so my national dish would have to be the burger or the hot dog, I think!
I have no idea what a paella is, but I'd probably like it!
The best pizza I ever had ...I love them ALL, lol! :D

Alex

10-13-2006, 11:20pm

SHANIANUTS!

10-14-2006, 1:45pm

Okay I'm a bit late in this thread, but if you're talking about italian food I must say it's the best after mexican food:p haha nah, it's great, I adore pasta and I like the spaguetti lasagna, and if I refer to paella, is great to, even though no italian:D

Pizza? Well I think I'll have to go to Italy someday to taste the real italian pizza, plus here the pizza is very comercial and the quality is not the same, so I hope I will someday.:D Meatballs? Not sure what does that means, maybe I know that in spanish vocabulary:D but I don't know what's up with this, any explanations:D?
Noun 1. meatball - ground meat formed into a ball and fried or simmered in broth
By Wordnet Dictionary

A meatball is a ball of minced (http://dictionary.laborlawtalk.com/Mince) meat (http://dictionary.laborlawtalk.com/Meat) and other ingredients, such as bread (http://dictionary.laborlawtalk.com/Bread), breadcrumbs (http://dictionary.laborlawtalk.com/Breadcrumb), minced onion (http://dictionary.laborlawtalk.com/Onion), various spices (http://dictionary.laborlawtalk.com/Spice), or eggs (http://dictionary.laborlawtalk.com/Egg), usually fried (http://dictionary.laborlawtalk.com/Fried) in a pan (http://dictionary.laborlawtalk.com/Cooking_pan), or baked in an oven (http://dictionary.laborlawtalk.com/Oven). Except for size and shape, meatballs are very similar to meatloaf (http://dictionary.laborlawtalk.com/Meatloaf).
There are many kinds of meatball recipes with different kinds of spices. How you make your meatballs and which fat (http://dictionary.laborlawtalk.com/Fat) you fry them in depend as much on your cultural background as on your individual taste.
Swedish meatballs (http://dictionary.laborlawtalk.com/K%F6ttbullar) (Köttbullar from Swedish cuisine (http://dictionary.laborlawtalk.com/Swedish_cuisine)) are an example of meatballs made with beef and/or pork. Ground veal (http://dictionary.laborlawtalk.com/Ground_veal) has often been substituted for beef (http://dictionary.laborlawtalk.com/Beef). Liver (http://dictionary.laborlawtalk.com/Liver) is sometimes ground together with the meat for texture. Lard (http://dictionary.laborlawtalk.com/Lard) is used rather than butter (http://dictionary.laborlawtalk.com/Butter) in some traditional recipes.
While some meatballs are mostly made of meat and ingredients to cement the ball (http://dictionary.laborlawtalk.com/Ball), other may include other ingredients. For example, the fried meatballs of Albanian cuisine (http://dictionary.laborlawtalk.com/Albanian_cuisine) (also called Qofte të fërguara) include feta cheese (http://dictionary.laborlawtalk.com/Feta_cheese).
The Japanese (http://dictionary.laborlawtalk.com/Japan) Hamburger Steak (http://dictionary.laborlawtalk.com/Hamburger_Steak) or "hanbagu" is based on similar ingredients.
See also: mince (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mince)

aFinn

10-14-2006, 3:21pm

It is quite possible that meatballs and mashed potatoes might be my fave food. Except maybe for the pizza my mom makes.

canoilers

10-14-2006, 7:25pm

I like taters, love em in fact. From the fried to the baked, mashed and even in the middle of a perogy, that stuff is good. :D

Alex

10-14-2006, 11:22pm

Noun 1. meatball - ground meat formed into a ball and fried or simmered in broth
By Wordnet Dictionary

A meatball is a ball of minced (http://dictionary.laborlawtalk.com/Mince) meat (http://dictionary.laborlawtalk.com/Meat) and other ingredients, such as bread (http://dictionary.laborlawtalk.com/Bread), breadcrumbs (http://dictionary.laborlawtalk.com/Breadcrumb), minced onion (http://dictionary.laborlawtalk.com/Onion), various spices (http://dictionary.laborlawtalk.com/Spice), or eggs (http://dictionary.laborlawtalk.com/Egg), usually fried (http://dictionary.laborlawtalk.com/Fried) in a pan (http://dictionary.laborlawtalk.com/Cooking_pan), or baked in an oven (http://dictionary.laborlawtalk.com/Oven). Except for size and shape, meatballs are very similar to meatloaf (http://dictionary.laborlawtalk.com/Meatloaf).
There are many kinds of meatball recipes with different kinds of spices. How you make your meatballs and which fat (http://dictionary.laborlawtalk.com/Fat) you fry them in depend as much on your cultural background as on your individual taste.
Swedish meatballs (http://dictionary.laborlawtalk.com/K%F6ttbullar) (Köttbullar from Swedish cuisine (http://dictionary.laborlawtalk.com/Swedish_cuisine)) are an example of meatballs made with beef and/or pork. Ground veal (http://dictionary.laborlawtalk.com/Ground_veal) has often been substituted for beef (http://dictionary.laborlawtalk.com/Beef). Liver (http://dictionary.laborlawtalk.com/Liver) is sometimes ground together with the meat for texture. Lard (http://dictionary.laborlawtalk.com/Lard) is used rather than butter (http://dictionary.laborlawtalk.com/Butter) in some traditional recipes.
While some meatballs are mostly made of meat and ingredients to cement the ball (http://dictionary.laborlawtalk.com/Ball), other may include other ingredients. For example, the fried meatballs of Albanian cuisine (http://dictionary.laborlawtalk.com/Albanian_cuisine) (also called Qofte të fërguara) include feta cheese (http://dictionary.laborlawtalk.com/Feta_cheese).
The Japanese (http://dictionary.laborlawtalk.com/Japan) Hamburger Steak (http://dictionary.laborlawtalk.com/Hamburger_Steak) or "hanbagu" is based on similar ingredients.
See also: mince (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mince)

Oh now I know what you mean, yes I know that for sure. In spanish we know that like "Albohondigas" and it's a great meat; by the way I have a lot of time since I don't eat that, I'm going to ask my mom for some meatballs next days:D Thanks for the explanations Bob:D

SHANIANUTS!

10-14-2006, 11:56pm

Oh now I know what you mean, yes I know that for sure. In spanish we know that like "Albohondigas" and it's a great meat; by the way I have a lot of time since I don't eat that, I'm going to ask my mom for some meatballs next days:D Thanks for the explanations Bob:DNo hay de que!:)

orchestragirl

10-29-2006, 10:03pm

Hablas Espanol Bobito? LOL! ;)

Paul

10-29-2006, 11:14pm

Being a veggie I don't eat meatballs although there are some meat substitutes which taste just the same. Goes nice in spaghetti bolonese.

SHANIANUTS!

11-07-2006, 11:40am

Hablas Espanol Bobito? LOL! ;)
Si un poco.

canoilers

11-07-2006, 11:52am

I think I'm getting hooked on sliced peices of french bread with spinach dip. I get it all the time now, its awesome tasting.

SHANIANUTS!

11-07-2006, 12:26pm

You may be a vegetarian in the making.

canoilers

11-08-2006, 3:50pm

MiniShaniaTwain

11-08-2006, 6:21pm

Maybe there cause I haven't eaten awhole lot of meat lately. Although when I do get to a MLB game I'm having a hot dog. Thats a must before I go cold turkey at that. I have to have one dog at a MLB game to aleast experiance that. I want the sun shinning on my face a beer and one hot dog and I can check that off my list. I wonder if my friend Nicola thinks she's the reason behind that, the reality is Shania has been the major influence behind that.

I haven't eaten a lot of meat either, but for an entirely different reason. I'm a little afraid to eat meat because of my food poisoning. It did come from chicken. But I'm gradually getting back to meat.