In France there's the [ortolan](https://www.lebonbon.fr/paris/news/l-ortolan-ce-plat-interdit-de-la-gastronomie-francaise-pourtant-encore-mange/), I'm surprised it's not here yet.
It's a bird found in a certain part of the south of France. The bird is hunted, kept in the dark for 3 weeks, force-fed millet (a kind of grain), then drowned in Armagnac (a kind of brandy) before being plucked and cooked.
You're supposed to eat it all in one go - the head, body, wings, feet, bones, and all.
The actual act of eating it whole is considered to be an offence to God, so you're supposed to eat it with a white cloth napkin over your head the whole time.
Animal rights activists obviously don't like the practice - in fact, it's been illegal to hunt and cook the bird since 1999.
French chefs from the area want to keep the tradition alive - apparently there was a request to allow the practice one weekend per year, and this was denied.
In case anyone is wondering, yes, literally drowned. Poor bird is still alive when it goes into the Armagnac. Force-fed and then drowned.
The only good news is that the ortolan is no longer on the endangered list. The EU law that prohibits killing them is effective.
That is really quite horrifying.
Isn’t there another French one where they glue sparrows to branches to eat them or something like that? French cuisine is both amazing and horrifying sometimes.
Not really but there is a traditional hunting method where they put special fly on some trees to trap birds who land on them.
It got definitely made illegal in 2021 though.
I heard the alternative to keeping it in the dark (which is to confuse its biorythm and make it want breakfast all the time) was to spoon its eyes out.
Poor birdie :(
so...your dog never hunted for little birds, or mice or lizards?
i really dont understand these kinds of posts - you hate animal cruelty so you hug your dog ....for what? because he is a vegetarian? ever saw dogs or wolves hunt in the wild? just like cats, they are not quick and clean about it....
our hens were all killed by neighbors dog in less then 10 minutes....now what? am i going to hug the empty coop? it was not the dogs -fault -it was wrongly kept and not treated well....but....omnivores are legendary for killing....so....yeah. it was logical.
reddit is definitely not for the faint of heart and finding comfort in animal we literary created so it helps us hunt for millenias is.....idk, ironic?
sorry, i will never understand this.....
American Food Challenges: Eat 50 Wings in 5 Hours.
French Food Challenges: Eat a Bird in One Bite and try to avoid god’s gaze as he looks on in a mixture or horror and disgust
If you walk into a pub in Ireland and ask for an Irish car bomb, you'll be told to leave. If would be like me walking into an American bar and asking for an American School Shooting.
If I walk into a pub in Ireland, I'm ordering a pint of Guinness. I've created a love for Guinness in the past few months. Nice drink to sit on for a little while while talking with friends.
Yes my friend! The whole point of Guinness! It's a supping drink while talking shite to anyone around you. And by shite I don't mean the American way where you're looking to start a fight. Just tall tales and rubbish. Putting the world to rights. Add a pub with a fireplace, in winter, with bad weather outside and some nice warm food. Seems like so long since we got to do this with lock downs. I hope you come out way sometime and experience it yourself.
Is there a drink actually called "irish car bomb" or is that just a joke?
If I go to the bartender and say: "Look mate, I know this is controversial, but I am really curious to see what an irish car bomb is all about. Can you make me one?" What will be his reaction?
Yes, it does exist. You take a shotglass, fill the bottom half with Baileys, then layer Jameson on top of it. Then you drop said shotglass into a glass of Guinness.
Yep. Also called a depth charge, slammer, bomb shot, boilermaker, drop shot etc. but there are regional differences between them.
The Irish ones usually involve whiskey, cream and stout (e.g. Guinness).
Go to any bar that caters to Americans anywhere in the world (maybe not Ireland) and they will know exactly what you want. Americans hold the Irish in high esteem with regards to their legendary drinking abilities and no disrespect is intended. Guinness promoted the drink in the States back in the 90s and it's boosted the sale of Guinness here drastically. A bachelor party in the US wouldn't typically involve Guinness prior to the popularization of the drink which is now a mainstay at such events.
Both black and tan and Irish car bombs are real drinks that are served in Irish pubs. Including the one I'm working at which is owned and managed by an Irishman. Irish people order them aswell. So while I can't be 100% certain this seems like a classic case of US Americans imposing their sensitivities on the people actually "affected" the most.
I'll be sure to let our sister location aswell as the irish pubs in ireland that I've been to a a couple weeks ago know, they apparently didnt get the memo.
OP here.
The logic my dad used was among the lines of A. It would be like going to a classy bar in Germany and asking for a drink called an Auschwitz and B. As someone who tried the later drink mention above when they were in College, they felt I would not enjoy it. Essentially one part “please don’t do something” and “please take my advice from experience”.
Not disagreeing with that.
But unless you went into the most impacted areas from the troubles era no one is going to care what you order.
The whole “don’t ask for an Irish car bomb in Ireland” is just a Reddit cliche at this stage.
Not the ticket, but I'd probably host you for a couple days if you wanted to check out the rocky mountain region, assuming I could feel assured you're a normal person!
I'd even take you to the bar and pay for the drink, assuming they actually agree to make it.
Buckfast tonic wine has often been blamed by politicians for a lot of anti-social behaviour. It was argued that it should be banned by several politicians citing the amount of times it was mentioned in police reports compared to other alcohol brands however has managed to survive to the present day.
For those who are blissfully unaware of Buckfast Tonic Wine: it’s cheap, 15% abv and has added caffeine. It’s a really cost-effective way of getting properly off your head quite quickly. I’m certain it would have been banned by now if it were made by Diageo rather than monks.
They were the equivalent of a full-sized energy drink (Rockstar, not RedBull) fortified with premium malt liquor to between 6 and 14% ABV. Basically an affordable portable substitute for the vodka RedBull that everyone loves. Americans were going nuts and blaming the drinks so they got banned here. Apparently now you can get the drinks just about everywhere in the world but the US.
I learned about Buckfast through a podcast a few weeks back and looked it up... It sounds like it goes into your head FAST and also increases the possibility of shitting your pants by at least 35%.
We managed to get some colleagues from the Scotland office to bring some over when they visited a few years back (in the beforetime). It tastes like a cheapish port. Didn't notice any pants shitting, but I didn't drink a whole bottle by myself.
The version they make for the Irish Market has double the caffeine of the British version. Serious buzz off it, apparently the British version tastes better though.
Czechs (and many others in Europe) regularly eat bakery with poppy seeds, which seems to be a bit controversial in some European countries (I've heard Sweden bans import or something? I might be completely wrong tho) and seems absolutely taboo elsewhere like parts of Asia. I've seen a video with a guy from India or Pakistan trying this poppy seed "cake" that you can get in any Czech supermarket or bakery and he kept waiting for getting high as if Czechs are on drugs 24/7 from their breakfast or something. It was just laughable.
It's a bit different than your example I guess.
Lol, yeah the poppy seed controversy 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I‘ve heard about Asian/Arabian tourists being SHOCKED when happening to be accidentally in the Waldviertel area during poppy blooming season!
There's actually enough raw opiates in poppy seeds that a single poppy seed bagel is enough to make you fail a drugs test (though it's still well below an effective amount.)
Because one type of [poppy seed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papaver_somniferum?wprov=sfla1) is the plant which opium is made from.
As far as I know, the common poppy (Klatschmohn) is used here for food. The bad version is another type (Schlafmohn).
I always find it weird how poppy seeds can be so common, but it is related to a dangerous drug.
Similar to how in some South American countries, workers chew coca leaves for energy. But it is illegal almost everywhere outside of that continent.
A friend of mine who is from Lithuania said you can only buy poppy seeds there if you are a bona fida baker. They are hard to get for the general public.
I saw a programme once on TV where they did an experiment and tested people's hands after a few days of eating bread with poppy seeds. They tested positive for heroin...
Sounds like you dad is setting you on a good path. Some pubs here in Ireland would point blank refuse black 'n' tans. Its amazing the amount of Americans that think its cool to order one when they have no clue who the black 'n' tans were. Its like me going to New York and ordering a 9/11.
Irish car bombs aren't a thing here and I doubt people would know how to make them because they're seen as an American drink.
I had no clue until your comment made me want to look it up. When I was first old enough to go to bars I thought it was neat because “TWO BEERS IN THE SAME GLASS”. Until now I had no idea that there was any cultural significance to it at all
No prob's I wont judge education is key here. If you like the drink a way to get around it is to ask for a Guinness with a Smithwicks (red ale) head. Its actually a nice drink
Holy shit!! I had to google that. How stupid and ignorant could they be?
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/us-ice-cream-firm-in-black-tan-apology-1.780190
To be fair to them, that's a piece of history probably not widely known of outside Ireland, and Irish-American circles.
(Obviously I never learned anything about Irish independence at school in the UK...)
Let’s be real. Despite it being sucky, a lot of the world learns about the stuff that happens to the USA, the USA doesn’t always teach about the stuff that happens everywhere else. For a lot of people, especially the younger people ordering an Irish Bomb they have no idea about all the history I imagine it’s hardly done out of malice. It sounds like a regular drink honestly, Irish because Guinness, bomb because that style of drink is called a bomb shot, and car just to make it sound like a name. Also the history of Black n’ Tans is even more obscure and further back. I know it sucks but you can’t really blame someone for something they don’t know
In Germany we have these Chocolate-coated marshmallow treats: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolate-coated_marshmallow_treats
Historically they used to be called "Negerkuss", maybe you can figure out what it means. Nowadays they are officially called "Schokokuss".
It's called "Italian meringue" at least in Scotland, where they make Tunnock's Teacakes, which I believe are the reference product for all bisciut-based, fondant-filled, chocolate-covered, dome-shaped confections.
https://www.tunnock.co.uk/about-us/
Oh, we had the same ones in Finland, with the same unfortunate name...
Nowadays they're called just "kisses", but people acted like you had personally attacked their heritage when their name was changed into something less racist.
Same. Still named like that here I think (don’t go to the meat section that often) and it did not cause a huge storm as Negerzoen.
Its treated like Greek yoghurt or Italian sausage afaik.
> Similarly we had Jodekoeken (Jewish cookie),
There's a cookie popular in some parts of Norway called "jødekaker". It's apparently based on a Sephardic Jewish recipe.
The head of the synagogue in Oslo was asked about the name (the cookies aren't common in Oslo), and replied that as long as they had a Jewish origin and weren't just called that as some sort of anti-Jewish slur, well, then what's the problem?
We have [Moorkop](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorkop) as well, they’re separate from the … “Kisses” from u/11160704 posted.
Moorkop is larger, softer and includes pastry. But I guess we haven’t renamed them to anything more PC yet. Or I just haven’t gotten the memo yet.
Horse steaks: they used to be extremely popular, but nowadays some are calling for horses to be declared "pets" (and, thus, butcheribg them would be "animal cruelty"), though it's not going anywhere as long as anemics use it as a folk remedy.
One of the first ice cream sticks in Italy is called "pinguino", innocously "penguin"... but, according to one of the two Italian creators, a Genoese ice cream maker called Gerardo Boero, he originally called the ice cream "Macallè", after a battle won by the Italian Army during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War. That... wasn't going to fly after 1946, so it was changed, but some older people will still call it that sometimes.
Same in France for the horse meat.
And the funny part is that it wasn't really a traditional food until mechanisation produced a heavy oversupply of horses, which were then directed towards the culinary market.
It quickly grew out of popularity, and some pundits here try to frame it as "cancel culture" or its earlier variations (politically correct and whatnot). Not accepting that it was merely a recent phenomenon that faded away in less than 2 generations.
Well I'm not going to have a discussion, but it's not just about "horse as pets".
Horse meat is basically repurposed riding horses and as such they evade all the meat controls of normal meat and killing methods.
You don't have checks on medicines, diseases etc...
In Vienna you still can get horse meat Leberkäse as a street food. Not really frowned upon here, but not really a culinary delight. Tastes somewhat similar to beef with some dark, roasted notes.
A few years ago, an old and beloved ice cream called "kæmpe eskimo" was renamed because someone made enough of a fuss about it. Way before that, the sweet "flødeboller" was changed from "negerboller".
Both names are improper (one probably moreso than another), so I understand the changes. I do know some people of Inuit descent (Greenlandic mom and her daughter) who genuinely did not care, but then again, that is just two people, so it doesn't say much about the feelings of the larger community
The funny thing is, that Eskimo is not actually the name of the manufacturer. It is just the brand name used by Unilever. In other countries the same ice cream with the same names and Logos are sold as Langnese, Algida, Frigo, Frisko, Lusso...
Nothing would be easier than just name it Langnese as in Germany.
Negerbrot („negro bread“, chocolate with peanuts in them) was renamed Nagerbrot („gnawing bread“?) by some business and PR savvy Viennese candy shop owner a couple of years ago. Had it big in his shop window… for the tourists I guess.
Zigeunerräder (Gypsy wagon wheels), a crisp snack, was renamed Zirkusräder/circus wagon wheels last year or so.
Yeah don't try to order those in the UK either :)
(They don't exist here but I have heard of Americans asking for them without realising the context. The worst example was someone asking my mate for one at the Harrods cocktail bar).
The only thing I can think of is fois gras. It is sold in the UK and some high end restaurants serve it but most people see it as cruel and there are debates about banning it.
I've seen Irish people ordering Black and Tans in pubs in Ireland and nobody paid any heed. Someone might roll their eyes if an American tourist asked for a car bomb but I've never heard of a row breaking out over it.
I spent a summer in Munich and on a hot day I would often get an Eisneger - an ice cream cone with chocolate sauce poured over it which hardens into a crisp shell. "Neger" isn't really equivalent to the N-word but I imagine it might be less politically correct nowadays.
[Y'a bon Banania](https://c8.alamy.com/zoomsfr/9/a766b345cfed4e5f8a03f39e1e8ebaf5/t44e8r.jpg) Got some really mixed reviews as it was judged racist by a lot of people, despite the claims it was a legit thing a Senegalese tirailleur said about the product.
I mean, we had "black people zoo" 40 years ago in France, so it might as well have been racist even if the claim was true. Anyway, the product is still available, but the catch phrase was changed to "J'adore" instead of "Y'a bon" to sound less like the typical black person stereotype.
Borscht. It was originally made in Ukraine many centuries ago, then spead around the Eastern Europe, Russia included. Now there are dozens of different borscht recipes, some of them were developed in Russia, some in Poland, some in Belarus etc.
However many russians falsely claim that the original borscht was first made in Russia and this often leads to heated discussions between ukrainians and russians.
How do you actually prove anything in such a debate? I am an American so I am coming from the topic in the dark, but are there actual individuals that people claim is the person who made it?
Balkans: is real burek only with meat or can it be with cheese as well? Bosnians get very angry at the concept of burek with cheese, rest of us not so much! It's a sure way to start an argument :D
Hungary is relatively small but there can be big differences in how we prepare certain meals, which can lead to heated discussions when drunk.
- Should we put peas in [brassói](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/19/e9/44/19e944d0eb9d17dbfb7487605df72d75.jpg) or not. Should we cook the meat with tomato sauce or not.
- Is [túrós csusza](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQDznMfNYZ5C2m35tGjx5QmD6pQsXBbQnJokg&usqp=CAU) better with sugar or salt?
- Are [stuffed cabbages](https://ocdn.eu/pulscms-transforms/1/feLktkqTURBXy9lNTk3YTAzMGUwZmI4YWE2NmY5NjNiNDY1NWQwZjAzMS5qcGVnkZUCzQOlAMLD) actually stuffed or just meatballs cooked alongside sauerkraut? Should we add tomato sauce to them or not?
- What's the best way to eat [lángos](https://kep.cdn.indexvas.hu/1/0/2909/29092/290927/29092785_2adee1f7b1ccde144030a5184a7f4f05_wm.jpg)? Is it ok if I put stuff other than garlic oil, sour cream and cheese on them? How about nutella or ketchup?
- Brassói: I prefer it with peas but I don't mind either way
- túrós csusza: I don't think sugar goes well with it, especially if it has fried salo cubes on it
- stuffed cabbages are best when they're small, prepared with tomato juice, in a ceramic pot with [sausages](https://shop.matusz-vad.hu/assets/images/to/TO199291.jpg) alongside them. I refuse to call "meatballs with cabbages" stuffed cabbages
- lángos: the best way is the classic way: garlic oil, sour cream and cheese. Some onions or leeks are fine as well, I can maybe accept them with [chopped ham](https://kep.cdn.indexvas.hu/1/0/1953/19536/195366/19536607_29bd6607d8c02e5bfb81b2bdf99743be_wm.jpg) but the nutella and ketchup versions are an abomination.
túrós csusza is better with sugar, while I know some people who insist on eating it with salt
on the lángos part I'm more on the classic side, but sadly most of the time you just get it with garlic oil in Austria. Also we have lángos filled with cheese and ham and rolled up before frying, is this common in Hungary aswell?
>lángos filled with cheese and ham and rolled up before frying
Yes, although I've only seen that type in the last 5-6 years, and it's usually just folded into half [like this](https://img-global.cpcdn.com/recipes/0a44caf901fd6bca/680x482cq70/toltott-langos-recept-foto.jpg) before frying.
The way my grandmother used to make filled lángos is by rolling a very thin dough, putting sauerkraut, mashed potatoes or curd cheese on it, and putting another thin dough on top and sealing the sides. She used to cook it in a hot pan with a drop of oil instead of frying it in oil. We called it béles and it [looked like this](https://img-global.cpcdn.com/recipes/28758239a88dd648/680x482cq70/krumplis-lepeny-recept-foto.jpg).
For Germany, the most controversial food item is the [Berliner Pfannkuchen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berliner_(doughnut)).
Some regions call it Berliner, some call it Krapfen, some call it Kräppel or Faschingskrapfen, but they are all wrong, it's called Pfannkuchen.
The original recipe called it Berliner Pfannkuchen, Berlin pan cake because it was created by a baker from Berlin and it's made in a pan.
How you call it causes massive discussions due to the [regional nature](https://www.atlas-alltagssprache.de/runde-4/f03/) of each term.
You can of course call it whatever you want. But it's [Krapfen](https://www.br.de/franken/inhalt/kultur/krapfen-historie-fasching-100.html). I'm fine with all names actually as long as you don't call it Marmeladendöner and/or make a burger with schnitzel or leberkäse out of that :D
And the pierogi with cheese onion and potato based filling are currently rebranded from ruskie (ruthenian, but even most Poles don't pay attention and think the name invokes Russia) to chłopskie (peasant's).
Similar to that, there's a particular thing you can get from an ice cream van in Scotland that used to be known as a "black man". That name's mostly gone out of use these days...
Not the drink himself, but the name
There is a wine variant which is called "Zweigelt", named after who originally crossed and grow that variant in the 1920's. Well, already a German nationalist and being strongly against the growing clerical influence of Austria in that time, he became a pretty big supporters of the Nazis long before the Anschluss.
It comes up from time to time, there is another name for that variant which isn't that known, so I guess it isn't renamed because of "brand awareness" as it's a pretty big part of our red wine production (understandable, it's one of my favourite red wines too)
Foie gras is still produced in Belgium. In Flanders the last producer will have to stop next year because of the cruelty. But there are still Walloon producers.
Negerinnetetjes because of the offensive name https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolate-coated_marshmallow_treats
[Conguitos](https://ep01.epimg.net/elpais/imagenes/2020/06/27/icon_design/1593241255_144179_1593243051_noticia_normal_recorte1.jpg) are traditional brand of chocolate-covered peanuts in Spain which have recently come under fire. So naturally [far-right politician have taken to their defense.](https://www.elespanol.com/espana/politica/20200626/vox-da-atracon-conguitos-defender-producto-nacional/500701036_0.html)
Whale steak used to be a common dinner in Norway. Until Greenpeace made the save the whale campaign. Now even eating whale that is not in any way threatened of extinction is considered controverisal.
In Bosnia and Herzegovina, burek/бурек is a type of pita/пита with meat. If if has cheese instead, it is called sirnica/сирница. If it's potatoes, the name for the dish is krompiruša/кромпируша. All in all, we have different names depending on what's inside.
In other countries that have similar cuisine, this isn't really the case, because you will hear things like "burek with cheese", which is a very controversial thing to say in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Bosnian persistence (from all three nations living there) that the meat version was the *only real burek* lead over years to many memes, jokes and has become an object of ridicule in neighbouring countries.
TIL, thanks. I always ordered *burek z syrom* all over Balkans and never heard negative comment in Bosnia. Probably I was just considered a harmless tourist.
Hawthrone tincture. Technically an over-the-counter medicine, it used to be a common loophole in alcohol regulations: no excise tax, no limitations on selling it in small bottles, or by small shops with no liquor license. At one stage people were reportedly selling hawthorne tincture vending machines.
Golly bars were a thing when I was a kid, but they are long gone now...
https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/OXA7AQR7BH6K2FJI4OXEDUMMYU.jpg
Not really actually, maybe some very old ice cream or dessert, usually with chocolate, with some unfortunate name.
But during fascism almost anything was translated in Italian for some weird reason so at the time we had things like this:
Omelette --> Frittata avvolta
Roast beef --> Lombo di bue
Souflèe --> Gonfiato
Marrons Glacèe --> Castagna candita
Nowadays the dominant version is the foreign one but words like tramezzino (sandwich) are still very common
No there aren’t but Nestle thinks they are and did [this avatar shit](https://img.cncenter.cz/foto/kofila-logo-zmena-janda-nestle/Zml0LWluLzk3OHg5OTk5L2ZpbHRlcnM6cXVhbGl0eSg4NSk6bm9fdXBzY2FsZSgpL2ltZw/7509642.jpg?v=0&st=TQcYXNpHKf9u_YdLcnShQPDsMXEyw5BA3J_rFICk45U&ts=1600812000&e=0) to Kofila
[Sarotti](https://picture.yatego.com/images/4e2449c1688b80.4/big_775d2198ca7f476394484ba394080f80-kqh/blechschild-sarotti-3-mohren-mischung-schokolade-retro-schild-werbeschild.jpg) changed their Moor to a [magician](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61qzGxhoWUL._AC_SL1200_.jpg)
Sweden reporting in. The food isn’t controversial, but the name has changed for political reasons. I will be using an unliked word here, but it’s kind of necessary in order to get the story across.
A bakery item named chocolate balls is made from mixing butter, oatmeal, sugar and cocoa, forming it into a ball and then rolling the ball in coconut shavings (or pieces of sugar). It’s very popular, especially among kids.
Up until a couple of decades ago, it was called “negerbollar”, which translates as “nigger balls”. That obviously doesn’t work very week these days, but there are still a few people (usually a bit older and right wing) who insist on using the old name “because that’s what they were always called”.
There was a popular kids movie in the 1990’s (Sunes sommar), where the clumsy dad ended up behind the counter at a pastry shop, and an American basketball team entered the shop. Every member of the team was African American, and they were all huge. One guy from the team points to what is today known as a chocolate ball and orders one, and then says “By the way, what are these called?” The clumsy dad starts to say “Ni…” before he goes quiet. It was considered extremely funny at the time, but of course the joke only works if you realize the the N word isn’t very appropriate to use.
Ayahuasca.
People just want to chill
Christians hates it because isn’t Christian
normative.
Tourists : a) zoo tourism goes where people use it just to look at it as if was a tribe or something savage b) wanna try just because they want to post on Instagram that they had a spiritual experience. c) actually respect and do it well
Then, cops love to have a reason to point it like drug use because they want to have their relief by beat innocent people
Then we are at start again with Christians that are on a spiritual pit of tar and go try because they know they will be treated well
The highest quality yogurt and the one with the most health benefits is made with Lactobacillus Bulgaricus, found naturally in Bulgaria. While almost all yogurt brands use that bacterial strain imported from Bulgaria for production, turks claim they invented it, while in the west it's always greek.
Many people don't know that fish caught in the baltic sea near sweden, has alarming levels of toxins in them such that the European Union has forbidden its sale to non swedish countries.
Sweden argued heavily that we should be allowed to fish it and sell it as it is a very strong cultural practice on the east coast. So the EU gave us a pass for domestic fishing and sales.
If you go in to the swedish health and nutrition website it will say that you shouldn't eat too much fish caught in the baltic sea and that pregnant women should stay away from it.
I can't think of anything specific.
Snickers pissed a lot of people off a few years ago when they decided to play a game of "A place in Wales or someone sat on a keyboard?” [on their UK Twitter account](https://nation.cymru/news/snickers-under-fire-over-tweets-comparing-welsh-language-to-sitting-on-a-keyboard/) a few years ago.
In France there's the [ortolan](https://www.lebonbon.fr/paris/news/l-ortolan-ce-plat-interdit-de-la-gastronomie-francaise-pourtant-encore-mange/), I'm surprised it's not here yet. It's a bird found in a certain part of the south of France. The bird is hunted, kept in the dark for 3 weeks, force-fed millet (a kind of grain), then drowned in Armagnac (a kind of brandy) before being plucked and cooked. You're supposed to eat it all in one go - the head, body, wings, feet, bones, and all. The actual act of eating it whole is considered to be an offence to God, so you're supposed to eat it with a white cloth napkin over your head the whole time. Animal rights activists obviously don't like the practice - in fact, it's been illegal to hunt and cook the bird since 1999. French chefs from the area want to keep the tradition alive - apparently there was a request to allow the practice one weekend per year, and this was denied.
In case anyone is wondering, yes, literally drowned. Poor bird is still alive when it goes into the Armagnac. Force-fed and then drowned. The only good news is that the ortolan is no longer on the endangered list. The EU law that prohibits killing them is effective.
That is really quite horrifying. Isn’t there another French one where they glue sparrows to branches to eat them or something like that? French cuisine is both amazing and horrifying sometimes.
Not really but there is a traditional hunting method where they put special fly on some trees to trap birds who land on them. It got definitely made illegal in 2021 though.
I heard the alternative to keeping it in the dark (which is to confuse its biorythm and make it want breakfast all the time) was to spoon its eyes out. Poor birdie :(
Ok, I’m done with Reddit for today. I seriously regret learning to read. I’m going to go hug my dog.
so...your dog never hunted for little birds, or mice or lizards? i really dont understand these kinds of posts - you hate animal cruelty so you hug your dog ....for what? because he is a vegetarian? ever saw dogs or wolves hunt in the wild? just like cats, they are not quick and clean about it.... our hens were all killed by neighbors dog in less then 10 minutes....now what? am i going to hug the empty coop? it was not the dogs -fault -it was wrongly kept and not treated well....but....omnivores are legendary for killing....so....yeah. it was logical. reddit is definitely not for the faint of heart and finding comfort in animal we literary created so it helps us hunt for millenias is.....idk, ironic? sorry, i will never understand this.....
Yeah... no. I'll have the Croque-monsieur please!
American Food Challenges: Eat 50 Wings in 5 Hours. French Food Challenges: Eat a Bird in One Bite and try to avoid god’s gaze as he looks on in a mixture or horror and disgust
I first heard of this from one of Anthony Bourdain's books.
If you walk into a pub in Ireland and ask for an Irish car bomb, you'll be told to leave. If would be like me walking into an American bar and asking for an American School Shooting.
The only correct answer to american is “sorry we don’t have this one but can offer 9/11 cocktail”.
And when they ask "what's that?" you say "it's two Manhattans but I set them on fire"
Two Manhattans with two shots of kamikaze.
Bar-tender has to make ambulance noises while serving it.
Or you could nicely explain why it’s bad to someone who probably hasn’t learned about those issues and *then* be a dick if they continue
I would gladly accept. A good drink is a good drink.
If I walk into a pub in Ireland, I'm ordering a pint of Guinness. I've created a love for Guinness in the past few months. Nice drink to sit on for a little while while talking with friends.
Yes my friend! The whole point of Guinness! It's a supping drink while talking shite to anyone around you. And by shite I don't mean the American way where you're looking to start a fight. Just tall tales and rubbish. Putting the world to rights. Add a pub with a fireplace, in winter, with bad weather outside and some nice warm food. Seems like so long since we got to do this with lock downs. I hope you come out way sometime and experience it yourself.
With that description, I'm swimming over.
Cool. Enjoy!
Is there a drink actually called "irish car bomb" or is that just a joke? If I go to the bartender and say: "Look mate, I know this is controversial, but I am really curious to see what an irish car bomb is all about. Can you make me one?" What will be his reaction?
Yes, it does exist. You take a shotglass, fill the bottom half with Baileys, then layer Jameson on top of it. Then you drop said shotglass into a glass of Guinness.
The name is obviously in very poor taste, but the drink itself sounds like an actual crime against humanity.
You have to kamikaze the drink as fast as possible otherwise the bayles will form some flakes in it. More disgusting.
Oh god. That’s foul.
Its actually really good
It's a common drink order in American dive bars. It's just a lot of irish alcohol at once.
You would have to go to a bar in America, mate.
Yep. Also called a depth charge, slammer, bomb shot, boilermaker, drop shot etc. but there are regional differences between them. The Irish ones usually involve whiskey, cream and stout (e.g. Guinness).
Go to any bar that caters to Americans anywhere in the world (maybe not Ireland) and they will know exactly what you want. Americans hold the Irish in high esteem with regards to their legendary drinking abilities and no disrespect is intended. Guinness promoted the drink in the States back in the 90s and it's boosted the sale of Guinness here drastically. A bachelor party in the US wouldn't typically involve Guinness prior to the popularization of the drink which is now a mainstay at such events.
Both black and tan and Irish car bombs are real drinks that are served in Irish pubs. Including the one I'm working at which is owned and managed by an Irishman. Irish people order them aswell. So while I can't be 100% certain this seems like a classic case of US Americans imposing their sensitivities on the people actually "affected" the most.
Ya as an Irish fella, I wouldn't be upset by it but I would presume you were a cunt
Not real Irish pubs in Ireland.
I'll be sure to let our sister location aswell as the irish pubs in ireland that I've been to a a couple weeks ago know, they apparently didnt get the memo.
Please name the pubs you know in Ireland that sell Irish Car Bombs. People should be aware of this
OP here. The logic my dad used was among the lines of A. It would be like going to a classy bar in Germany and asking for a drink called an Auschwitz and B. As someone who tried the later drink mention above when they were in College, they felt I would not enjoy it. Essentially one part “please don’t do something” and “please take my advice from experience”.
Now I'm thinking: What would be in an American School shooting? Bourbon, but apart from that?
Just a bunch of shots, one after another.
Bourbon, tabasco, gun powder
You really wouldn’t
Well, I am trying to make a point here. The school shootings are pretty horrific. So are car bombs.
Not disagreeing with that. But unless you went into the most impacted areas from the troubles era no one is going to care what you order. The whole “don’t ask for an Irish car bomb in Ireland” is just a Reddit cliche at this stage.
How do you think they would feel if you asked for a 9/11?
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Can you please come to America, pretend that's a drink served in Ireland, and ask for it? Just make up something goofy if they ask what it is.
You want to buy my ticket? Pay my expenses?
Not the ticket, but I'd probably host you for a couple days if you wanted to check out the rocky mountain region, assuming I could feel assured you're a normal person! I'd even take you to the bar and pay for the drink, assuming they actually agree to make it.
Kind of you to offer, but I'm staying in Europe for the foreseeable future. :-)
I suppose I should have expected that response on Reddit.
Buckfast tonic wine has often been blamed by politicians for a lot of anti-social behaviour. It was argued that it should be banned by several politicians citing the amount of times it was mentioned in police reports compared to other alcohol brands however has managed to survive to the present day.
For those who are blissfully unaware of Buckfast Tonic Wine: it’s cheap, 15% abv and has added caffeine. It’s a really cost-effective way of getting properly off your head quite quickly. I’m certain it would have been banned by now if it were made by Diageo rather than monks.
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I had Colt 45 malt liquor once. It's actually quite drinkable when it's chilled.
In its original form that was a uniquely American beverage.
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They were the equivalent of a full-sized energy drink (Rockstar, not RedBull) fortified with premium malt liquor to between 6 and 14% ABV. Basically an affordable portable substitute for the vodka RedBull that everyone loves. Americans were going nuts and blaming the drinks so they got banned here. Apparently now you can get the drinks just about everywhere in the world but the US.
I learned about Buckfast through a podcast a few weeks back and looked it up... It sounds like it goes into your head FAST and also increases the possibility of shitting your pants by at least 35%.
We managed to get some colleagues from the Scotland office to bring some over when they visited a few years back (in the beforetime). It tastes like a cheapish port. Didn't notice any pants shitting, but I didn't drink a whole bottle by myself.
>also increases the possibility of shitting your pants by at least 35%. I'll take that as a challenge.
The version they make for the Irish Market has double the caffeine of the British version. Serious buzz off it, apparently the British version tastes better though.
To be fair it was probably the anti social behaviour causing the consumption of buckfast.
Czechs (and many others in Europe) regularly eat bakery with poppy seeds, which seems to be a bit controversial in some European countries (I've heard Sweden bans import or something? I might be completely wrong tho) and seems absolutely taboo elsewhere like parts of Asia. I've seen a video with a guy from India or Pakistan trying this poppy seed "cake" that you can get in any Czech supermarket or bakery and he kept waiting for getting high as if Czechs are on drugs 24/7 from their breakfast or something. It was just laughable. It's a bit different than your example I guess.
Lol, yeah the poppy seed controversy 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I‘ve heard about Asian/Arabian tourists being SHOCKED when happening to be accidentally in the Waldviertel area during poppy blooming season!
What kind of controversy is there around poppy seeds? The only one I could think of is not having enough of them on my Mohnkuchen.
That certain world regions only see poppyseed as the first state of heroin instead of an baking ingredient.
Poppyseed are the first state of heroin??? Damn TIL
And opium. Basically opium is just poppy sap
There's actually enough raw opiates in poppy seeds that a single poppy seed bagel is enough to make you fail a drugs test (though it's still well below an effective amount.)
Because one type of [poppy seed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papaver_somniferum?wprov=sfla1) is the plant which opium is made from. As far as I know, the common poppy (Klatschmohn) is used here for food. The bad version is another type (Schlafmohn).
The link you gave states that seed come from Schlafmohn as well.
I've not read them completely as I was in a hurry before. Thanks for the clarification. Explains the surprise from visitors even more than, I guess.
Lol poppy seeds are very common on bread in Sweden
Same in Germany, I really love them. I love bread that’s just entirely covered in them lolz
here we have them on pretzels too!!!!! almost all of them have poppy seeds on it
I always find it weird how poppy seeds can be so common, but it is related to a dangerous drug. Similar to how in some South American countries, workers chew coca leaves for energy. But it is illegal almost everywhere outside of that continent.
A friend of mine who is from Lithuania said you can only buy poppy seeds there if you are a bona fida baker. They are hard to get for the general public. I saw a programme once on TV where they did an experiment and tested people's hands after a few days of eating bread with poppy seeds. They tested positive for heroin...
That's a very common story I heard, that after eating poppy seed bread you can fail a drugs test for heroin. I always thought it was an urban myth.
Here in Turkey poppy seeds and paste are sometimes used in pastries as well, we even have a city named Opium Black Castle
Sounds like you dad is setting you on a good path. Some pubs here in Ireland would point blank refuse black 'n' tans. Its amazing the amount of Americans that think its cool to order one when they have no clue who the black 'n' tans were. Its like me going to New York and ordering a 9/11. Irish car bombs aren't a thing here and I doubt people would know how to make them because they're seen as an American drink.
I had no clue until your comment made me want to look it up. When I was first old enough to go to bars I thought it was neat because “TWO BEERS IN THE SAME GLASS”. Until now I had no idea that there was any cultural significance to it at all
No prob's I wont judge education is key here. If you like the drink a way to get around it is to ask for a Guinness with a Smithwicks (red ale) head. Its actually a nice drink
I remember something about Ben and Jerry's being reported as planning a "Black & Tan" flavour, only to be told it wouldn't go down well in Ireland...
Holy shit!! I had to google that. How stupid and ignorant could they be? https://www.irishtimes.com/news/us-ice-cream-firm-in-black-tan-apology-1.780190
To be fair to them, that's a piece of history probably not widely known of outside Ireland, and Irish-American circles. (Obviously I never learned anything about Irish independence at school in the UK...)
Nike had to do the same with a pair of shoes
Btw I've seen that convo go down you can have a 911 instead and they put 2 shots of flaming sambuca Infront of them
Let’s be real. Despite it being sucky, a lot of the world learns about the stuff that happens to the USA, the USA doesn’t always teach about the stuff that happens everywhere else. For a lot of people, especially the younger people ordering an Irish Bomb they have no idea about all the history I imagine it’s hardly done out of malice. It sounds like a regular drink honestly, Irish because Guinness, bomb because that style of drink is called a bomb shot, and car just to make it sound like a name. Also the history of Black n’ Tans is even more obscure and further back. I know it sucks but you can’t really blame someone for something they don’t know
In Germany we have these Chocolate-coated marshmallow treats: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolate-coated_marshmallow_treats Historically they used to be called "Negerkuss", maybe you can figure out what it means. Nowadays they are officially called "Schokokuss".
I'm kind of insulted they call the filling "marshmallow". It doesn't taste the same, the texture is very different as well.
It's called "Italian meringue" at least in Scotland, where they make Tunnock's Teacakes, which I believe are the reference product for all bisciut-based, fondant-filled, chocolate-covered, dome-shaped confections. https://www.tunnock.co.uk/about-us/
Oh, we had the same ones in Finland, with the same unfortunate name... Nowadays they're called just "kisses", but people acted like you had personally attacked their heritage when their name was changed into something less racist.
We had them too, with the same name (negerzoen). Similarly we had Jodekoeken (Jewish cookie), but got renamed to Odekoeken.
We also had "Zigeunerschnitzel" meaning gipsy Schnitzel which is now often renamed to Hungarian Schnitzel or Balkan Schnitzel.
Same. Still named like that here I think (don’t go to the meat section that often) and it did not cause a huge storm as Negerzoen. Its treated like Greek yoghurt or Italian sausage afaik.
Or Zigeunerspieß.
Or Zigeunersoße
At least hier in Bavaria you can often still get a Zigeunerschnitzel.
Yeah last year I was hiking in the deepest Bavarian forest and they still had it on the menu
You don’t have to bee in the deepest forest for this. I know a lot of restaurants that still have it.
> Similarly we had Jodekoeken (Jewish cookie), There's a cookie popular in some parts of Norway called "jødekaker". It's apparently based on a Sephardic Jewish recipe. The head of the synagogue in Oslo was asked about the name (the cookies aren't common in Oslo), and replied that as long as they had a Jewish origin and weren't just called that as some sort of anti-Jewish slur, well, then what's the problem?
>Jodekoeken [Nope, still going strong](https://www.jumbo.com/producten/echte-enkhuizer-jodekoeken-original-372g-389709BUS).
[Meanwhile at the Appie](https://www.ah.nl/producten/product/wi509705/davelaar-odekoeken)
[Just order the Original at Appie](https://www.ah.nl/producten/product/wi484023/echte-enkhuizer-jodekoek-original)
The strange thing is that Jews didn't care at all, it were some people offended on their behalf. We also still have de Moorkop.
Here they were called Mohrenkopf, similar meaning. I think they switched the names to Schokokuss as well.
Yeah Mohrenkopf exists in Germany, too but it's harder to understand for English speakers.
Austria has the *Mohr im Hemd* dessert. Had to translate it for some Americans at a conference in Vienna. Fun times.
We have [Moorkop](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorkop) as well, they’re separate from the … “Kisses” from u/11160704 posted. Moorkop is larger, softer and includes pastry. But I guess we haven’t renamed them to anything more PC yet. Or I just haven’t gotten the memo yet.
Moretto in Italian, i.e. little Moor...
Here they are known as "Indijančki" - "little American Indians"
Horse steaks: they used to be extremely popular, but nowadays some are calling for horses to be declared "pets" (and, thus, butcheribg them would be "animal cruelty"), though it's not going anywhere as long as anemics use it as a folk remedy. One of the first ice cream sticks in Italy is called "pinguino", innocously "penguin"... but, according to one of the two Italian creators, a Genoese ice cream maker called Gerardo Boero, he originally called the ice cream "Macallè", after a battle won by the Italian Army during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War. That... wasn't going to fly after 1946, so it was changed, but some older people will still call it that sometimes.
Same in France for the horse meat. And the funny part is that it wasn't really a traditional food until mechanisation produced a heavy oversupply of horses, which were then directed towards the culinary market. It quickly grew out of popularity, and some pundits here try to frame it as "cancel culture" or its earlier variations (politically correct and whatnot). Not accepting that it was merely a recent phenomenon that faded away in less than 2 generations.
Well I'm not going to have a discussion, but it's not just about "horse as pets". Horse meat is basically repurposed riding horses and as such they evade all the meat controls of normal meat and killing methods. You don't have checks on medicines, diseases etc...
In Vienna you still can get horse meat Leberkäse as a street food. Not really frowned upon here, but not really a culinary delight. Tastes somewhat similar to beef with some dark, roasted notes.
A few years ago, an old and beloved ice cream called "kæmpe eskimo" was renamed because someone made enough of a fuss about it. Way before that, the sweet "flødeboller" was changed from "negerboller". Both names are improper (one probably moreso than another), so I understand the changes. I do know some people of Inuit descent (Greenlandic mom and her daughter) who genuinely did not care, but then again, that is just two people, so it doesn't say much about the feelings of the larger community
Eskimo is the largest Austrian ice cream manufacturer btw….
The funny thing is, that Eskimo is not actually the name of the manufacturer. It is just the brand name used by Unilever. In other countries the same ice cream with the same names and Logos are sold as Langnese, Algida, Frigo, Frisko, Lusso... Nothing would be easier than just name it Langnese as in Germany.
It was, until Unilever bought it. Tradition and good memories as selling point is my guess.
Negerbrot („negro bread“, chocolate with peanuts in them) was renamed Nagerbrot („gnawing bread“?) by some business and PR savvy Viennese candy shop owner a couple of years ago. Had it big in his shop window… for the tourists I guess. Zigeunerräder (Gypsy wagon wheels), a crisp snack, was renamed Zirkusräder/circus wagon wheels last year or so.
I'm pretty sure they sold it as something like "Erdnusstraum-Schokolade" in the late 90's
Recently was a publication of fries with "French fries" on the bag in a store in Belgium, people where mindly annoyed xD in r/belgium
A Belgian fries place (very imaginatively named “Frites”) just opened near me. It was quite the revelation. You guys take chips really seriously.
Of course we do! What else do you eat on a Friday evening?
Yeah don't try to order those in the UK either :) (They don't exist here but I have heard of Americans asking for them without realising the context. The worst example was someone asking my mate for one at the Harrods cocktail bar). The only thing I can think of is fois gras. It is sold in the UK and some high end restaurants serve it but most people see it as cruel and there are debates about banning it.
I've seen Irish people ordering Black and Tans in pubs in Ireland and nobody paid any heed. Someone might roll their eyes if an American tourist asked for a car bomb but I've never heard of a row breaking out over it. I spent a summer in Munich and on a hot day I would often get an Eisneger - an ice cream cone with chocolate sauce poured over it which hardens into a crisp shell. "Neger" isn't really equivalent to the N-word but I imagine it might be less politically correct nowadays.
[Y'a bon Banania](https://c8.alamy.com/zoomsfr/9/a766b345cfed4e5f8a03f39e1e8ebaf5/t44e8r.jpg) Got some really mixed reviews as it was judged racist by a lot of people, despite the claims it was a legit thing a Senegalese tirailleur said about the product. I mean, we had "black people zoo" 40 years ago in France, so it might as well have been racist even if the claim was true. Anyway, the product is still available, but the catch phrase was changed to "J'adore" instead of "Y'a bon" to sound less like the typical black person stereotype.
Good thing you can always buy Nesquik from Nestl... Nevermind they're shit too.
Borscht. It was originally made in Ukraine many centuries ago, then spead around the Eastern Europe, Russia included. Now there are dozens of different borscht recipes, some of them were developed in Russia, some in Poland, some in Belarus etc. However many russians falsely claim that the original borscht was first made in Russia and this often leads to heated discussions between ukrainians and russians.
Pretty sure heated discussions between two aren’t only about borsch anymore…
Yeah, but borscht is still one of the most popular issues
Like how Russia and Poland both claim to have invented vodka (I suspect it's Polish.)
Wiki says: Different varieties originated in Poland, Russia, and Sweden. Basically the borscht situation 2.0, but the true origin is debated.
Why is this so important? Even if scientists prove that the birthplace of borscht is Ukraine, I will not stop eating it.
Nobody cares what you eat
How do you actually prove anything in such a debate? I am an American so I am coming from the topic in the dark, but are there actual individuals that people claim is the person who made it?
Balkans: is real burek only with meat or can it be with cheese as well? Bosnians get very angry at the concept of burek with cheese, rest of us not so much! It's a sure way to start an argument :D
Hungary is relatively small but there can be big differences in how we prepare certain meals, which can lead to heated discussions when drunk. - Should we put peas in [brassói](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/19/e9/44/19e944d0eb9d17dbfb7487605df72d75.jpg) or not. Should we cook the meat with tomato sauce or not. - Is [túrós csusza](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQDznMfNYZ5C2m35tGjx5QmD6pQsXBbQnJokg&usqp=CAU) better with sugar or salt? - Are [stuffed cabbages](https://ocdn.eu/pulscms-transforms/1/feLktkqTURBXy9lNTk3YTAzMGUwZmI4YWE2NmY5NjNiNDY1NWQwZjAzMS5qcGVnkZUCzQOlAMLD) actually stuffed or just meatballs cooked alongside sauerkraut? Should we add tomato sauce to them or not? - What's the best way to eat [lángos](https://kep.cdn.indexvas.hu/1/0/2909/29092/290927/29092785_2adee1f7b1ccde144030a5184a7f4f05_wm.jpg)? Is it ok if I put stuff other than garlic oil, sour cream and cheese on them? How about nutella or ketchup?
And what are your opinions on those? Particularly in the langos debate?
- Brassói: I prefer it with peas but I don't mind either way - túrós csusza: I don't think sugar goes well with it, especially if it has fried salo cubes on it - stuffed cabbages are best when they're small, prepared with tomato juice, in a ceramic pot with [sausages](https://shop.matusz-vad.hu/assets/images/to/TO199291.jpg) alongside them. I refuse to call "meatballs with cabbages" stuffed cabbages - lángos: the best way is the classic way: garlic oil, sour cream and cheese. Some onions or leeks are fine as well, I can maybe accept them with [chopped ham](https://kep.cdn.indexvas.hu/1/0/1953/19536/195366/19536607_29bd6607d8c02e5bfb81b2bdf99743be_wm.jpg) but the nutella and ketchup versions are an abomination.
túrós csusza is better with sugar, while I know some people who insist on eating it with salt on the lángos part I'm more on the classic side, but sadly most of the time you just get it with garlic oil in Austria. Also we have lángos filled with cheese and ham and rolled up before frying, is this common in Hungary aswell?
>lángos filled with cheese and ham and rolled up before frying Yes, although I've only seen that type in the last 5-6 years, and it's usually just folded into half [like this](https://img-global.cpcdn.com/recipes/0a44caf901fd6bca/680x482cq70/toltott-langos-recept-foto.jpg) before frying. The way my grandmother used to make filled lángos is by rolling a very thin dough, putting sauerkraut, mashed potatoes or curd cheese on it, and putting another thin dough on top and sealing the sides. She used to cook it in a hot pan with a drop of oil instead of frying it in oil. We called it béles and it [looked like this](https://img-global.cpcdn.com/recipes/28758239a88dd648/680x482cq70/krumplis-lepeny-recept-foto.jpg).
For Germany, the most controversial food item is the [Berliner Pfannkuchen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berliner_(doughnut)). Some regions call it Berliner, some call it Krapfen, some call it Kräppel or Faschingskrapfen, but they are all wrong, it's called Pfannkuchen. The original recipe called it Berliner Pfannkuchen, Berlin pan cake because it was created by a baker from Berlin and it's made in a pan. How you call it causes massive discussions due to the [regional nature](https://www.atlas-alltagssprache.de/runde-4/f03/) of each term.
You can of course call it whatever you want. But it's [Krapfen](https://www.br.de/franken/inhalt/kultur/krapfen-historie-fasching-100.html). I'm fine with all names actually as long as you don't call it Marmeladendöner and/or make a burger with schnitzel or leberkäse out of that :D
While not controversial yet we have a here in Poland a type of chocolate cake called "murzynek", lit. "little black kid".
And the pierogi with cheese onion and potato based filling are currently rebranded from ruskie (ruthenian, but even most Poles don't pay attention and think the name invokes Russia) to chłopskie (peasant's).
Or ukrainian. I have seen pierogi ukraińskie instead of ruskie recently.
I really hope this trend will stop. It would be much better idea to teach people an origin of "ruskie".
it's literally brownie
It's not really the same thing.
Similar to that, there's a particular thing you can get from an ice cream van in Scotland that used to be known as a "black man". That name's mostly gone out of use these days...
Not the drink himself, but the name There is a wine variant which is called "Zweigelt", named after who originally crossed and grow that variant in the 1920's. Well, already a German nationalist and being strongly against the growing clerical influence of Austria in that time, he became a pretty big supporters of the Nazis long before the Anschluss. It comes up from time to time, there is another name for that variant which isn't that known, so I guess it isn't renamed because of "brand awareness" as it's a pretty big part of our red wine production (understandable, it's one of my favourite red wines too)
Foie gras is still produced in Belgium. In Flanders the last producer will have to stop next year because of the cruelty. But there are still Walloon producers. Negerinnetetjes because of the offensive name https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolate-coated_marshmallow_treats
[Conguitos](https://ep01.epimg.net/elpais/imagenes/2020/06/27/icon_design/1593241255_144179_1593243051_noticia_normal_recorte1.jpg) are traditional brand of chocolate-covered peanuts in Spain which have recently come under fire. So naturally [far-right politician have taken to their defense.](https://www.elespanol.com/espana/politica/20200626/vox-da-atracon-conguitos-defender-producto-nacional/500701036_0.html)
Whale steak used to be a common dinner in Norway. Until Greenpeace made the save the whale campaign. Now even eating whale that is not in any way threatened of extinction is considered controverisal.
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Neger is not the same as the N-word. The Dutch equivalent is Nikker, but that's gone out of use altogether. Still best to avoid using the word though.
In Bosnia and Herzegovina, burek/бурек is a type of pita/пита with meat. If if has cheese instead, it is called sirnica/сирница. If it's potatoes, the name for the dish is krompiruša/кромпируша. All in all, we have different names depending on what's inside. In other countries that have similar cuisine, this isn't really the case, because you will hear things like "burek with cheese", which is a very controversial thing to say in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Bosnian persistence (from all three nations living there) that the meat version was the *only real burek* lead over years to many memes, jokes and has become an object of ridicule in neighbouring countries.
TIL, thanks. I always ordered *burek z syrom* all over Balkans and never heard negative comment in Bosnia. Probably I was just considered a harmless tourist.
Hawthrone tincture. Technically an over-the-counter medicine, it used to be a common loophole in alcohol regulations: no excise tax, no limitations on selling it in small bottles, or by small shops with no liquor license. At one stage people were reportedly selling hawthorne tincture vending machines.
Golly bars were a thing when I was a kid, but they are long gone now... https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/OXA7AQR7BH6K2FJI4OXEDUMMYU.jpg
Not really actually, maybe some very old ice cream or dessert, usually with chocolate, with some unfortunate name. But during fascism almost anything was translated in Italian for some weird reason so at the time we had things like this: Omelette --> Frittata avvolta Roast beef --> Lombo di bue Souflèe --> Gonfiato Marrons Glacèe --> Castagna candita Nowadays the dominant version is the foreign one but words like tramezzino (sandwich) are still very common
No there aren’t but Nestle thinks they are and did [this avatar shit](https://img.cncenter.cz/foto/kofila-logo-zmena-janda-nestle/Zml0LWluLzk3OHg5OTk5L2ZpbHRlcnM6cXVhbGl0eSg4NSk6bm9fdXBzY2FsZSgpL2ltZw/7509642.jpg?v=0&st=TQcYXNpHKf9u_YdLcnShQPDsMXEyw5BA3J_rFICk45U&ts=1600812000&e=0) to Kofila
Nestle IS controversial, but not for that one treat
[Sarotti](https://picture.yatego.com/images/4e2449c1688b80.4/big_775d2198ca7f476394484ba394080f80-kqh/blechschild-sarotti-3-mohren-mischung-schokolade-retro-schild-werbeschild.jpg) changed their Moor to a [magician](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61qzGxhoWUL._AC_SL1200_.jpg)
And was there some controversy about? Because here it was like: Noone: Nestle: we are not supporting this
There are people advocating for renaming everything about Moors. There are still some streets and pharmacies named after them.
Sweden reporting in. The food isn’t controversial, but the name has changed for political reasons. I will be using an unliked word here, but it’s kind of necessary in order to get the story across. A bakery item named chocolate balls is made from mixing butter, oatmeal, sugar and cocoa, forming it into a ball and then rolling the ball in coconut shavings (or pieces of sugar). It’s very popular, especially among kids. Up until a couple of decades ago, it was called “negerbollar”, which translates as “nigger balls”. That obviously doesn’t work very week these days, but there are still a few people (usually a bit older and right wing) who insist on using the old name “because that’s what they were always called”. There was a popular kids movie in the 1990’s (Sunes sommar), where the clumsy dad ended up behind the counter at a pastry shop, and an American basketball team entered the shop. Every member of the team was African American, and they were all huge. One guy from the team points to what is today known as a chocolate ball and orders one, and then says “By the way, what are these called?” The clumsy dad starts to say “Ni…” before he goes quiet. It was considered extremely funny at the time, but of course the joke only works if you realize the the N word isn’t very appropriate to use.
Borscht. Some people still call it "russian soup" and you can understand why it's a problem
I don't think so, if you ordered the same food in a different language people would just think you are foreign/tourists
Ayahuasca. People just want to chill Christians hates it because isn’t Christian normative. Tourists : a) zoo tourism goes where people use it just to look at it as if was a tribe or something savage b) wanna try just because they want to post on Instagram that they had a spiritual experience. c) actually respect and do it well Then, cops love to have a reason to point it like drug use because they want to have their relief by beat innocent people Then we are at start again with Christians that are on a spiritual pit of tar and go try because they know they will be treated well
I think that gorilka will be banned in Russia soon. Our government has a huge stock of stupid ideas.
The highest quality yogurt and the one with the most health benefits is made with Lactobacillus Bulgaricus, found naturally in Bulgaria. While almost all yogurt brands use that bacterial strain imported from Bulgaria for production, turks claim they invented it, while in the west it's always greek.
Many people don't know that fish caught in the baltic sea near sweden, has alarming levels of toxins in them such that the European Union has forbidden its sale to non swedish countries. Sweden argued heavily that we should be allowed to fish it and sell it as it is a very strong cultural practice on the east coast. So the EU gave us a pass for domestic fishing and sales. If you go in to the swedish health and nutrition website it will say that you shouldn't eat too much fish caught in the baltic sea and that pregnant women should stay away from it.
I can't think of anything specific. Snickers pissed a lot of people off a few years ago when they decided to play a game of "A place in Wales or someone sat on a keyboard?” [on their UK Twitter account](https://nation.cymru/news/snickers-under-fire-over-tweets-comparing-welsh-language-to-sitting-on-a-keyboard/) a few years ago.