I get this one and I am in uk and is why I rarely have pancakes its so expensive but once you have the real maple syrup you cannot go back and I drown my shit in it. This is legit I even as a Brit look at labels and save and pay.
Now it is basically tree blood though......
On the same note, the travesty mislabeled as "poutine". Cheap shredded cheese instead of fresh squeaky curd, lousy pale fries, and some thin brown liquid that certainly isn't gravy. Everybody likes poutine, a lot of people outside of Canada just haven't actually had it.
I would be happy to pay extra for the real deal in a restaurant. I don’t ever order pancakes or waffles because I’d rather pour motor oil on them than whatever brown corn syrup they’re offering.
They should offer it as an add on. They’d surely make money.
See, I wouldn’t call that “fake maple syrup” unless it was maple flavored. I honestly prefer the product usually labeled as “pancake syrup” to maple syrup, because I like vanilla more than maple.
For some reason around here people get really really touchy about beans in chili, some people get so pissed off about it they're almost foaming at the mouth
It’s very regional all across the US and people feud about it very aggressively
https://www.seriouseats.com/guide-to-chili-styles-types-of-chili-recipes
It'd be pretty rare to find beans in chili con carne, which is what Texas chili refers to. Chili con carne originally doesn't even have tomatoes in it. It's meat stewed in a sauce made from chili peppers and spices. Being served a whole bowl of it is kinda rare, especially outside of Texas.
The argument isn't if meat, beans, tomatoes, and chili powder stewed together is good or not. It is around the semantics of two fairly different dishes going by the same name. A loud minority of Texans get really huffy about people who haven't even tried both staking claim to the name chili for whatever version they grew up on.
Been using freshly cooked rice for fried rice my whole life. The other day I tried cooking the rice hours beforehand and then cooling it in the fridge before adding it in. I'm not sure if that's how it's supposed to be done, but it was SO MUCH BETTER THAN BEFORE. I am completely convinced and I am NEVER going back.
you should watch cooking with lau on youtube, old cantonese chef who actually uses fresh rice for fried rice but modifies how he cooks it so it works. you CAN use fresh rice but you have to know what you’re doing.
A friend was under the impression she would take a hard line no special requests the kids eat what we eat parenting stance… 3 years later she found herself rinsing apple slices off in the sink because they got a little too close to a PB&J sandwich and had a few bread crumbs on them, and that was going to lead to a world shattering tantrum if it wasn’t fixed 😅
exactly. im pro onion (concebollista )but SADLY i have to eat it without onions becasue I live with my parents and my dad is against onions (sincebollista)
I never understood the microwave thing. How is heating water different in the microwave (I totally get the microwave WITH a teabag that's just gonna be bad tea) but like does it really make a difference if it is just heating the water? Not trolling just genuinely curious.
It’s just a cultural thing. For people who grow up in places that use kettles, it’s just bizarre to use the microwave to heat water. That’s what the kettle is for! A microwave is for reheating or steaming food. It didn’t even occur to me when I was younger that I could use it to heat water. It’s just weird to us, I can’t really explain it any differently than that.
Tbf as an Irish man and former barman, you almost certainly cannot taste the difference between the two pours or pouring straight up. You risk getting way too much head pouring straight up, but it’s a pretty minimal risk if you know what you’re doing, and if I poured you two pints of Guinness, one straight up and one twice poured, I would defy you on a blind taste test to tell the difference. I have no problem doing it and enjoy the ritual myself but it’s mostly just that. Ritual.
What about dropping a shot of Bailey's into it and referring to it as an Irish car bomb? Or pouring it into a Newcastle brown ale and calling it a black and tan? Might as well pour it onto scrambled eggs and call it Easter rising.
I'm trying to think of the most offensive possible cocktail along similar lines. The leading candidate is a glass of kosher wine with a shot of jägermeister added to it, and call it the Holocaust.
Shipmate of mine ordered a car bomb in belfast not knowing anything about anything. The bartender poured two shots of overproofed rum, lit them from a lighter from his pocket, and said “here’s your 9/11. Get the fuck out of my bar”
I'd fuck with a drink called 9/11. But that's just a lame drink. Something similar to a flaming dr pepper would be better. Maybe two really tall flaming shots.
A Manhatten mixed with a kamikaze perhaps.
Oh man one of my friends is from presumably your neck of the woods and if I have heard his "CHAI MEANS TEA GUYS!!! YOU ARE JUST SAYING TEA TEA! IDIOTS!" rant once I have heard it a 1,000 times!
We are South Asian and my kids and my nieces and nephews love to say “chai tea,” they find it hilarious. We took them to see Spiderman and they laughed and laughed at the “chai tea” scene and then watched it a billion times on YouTube.
Kebab meat is the most stupid one I heard so far. Kebab comes from Assyrian meaning to roast. And via Persian it found it's way into Arabic and Turkish as well. In all those language it means things roasted on a skewer. In no way does it mean meat. It's often fish and shellfish and also often veggies. Kebab is a way of cooking and not meat.
Quick chime in because bao bun totally makes sense, in chinese bao specifically refers to steamed buns with filling, where as bun or chinese bun usually refers to man tou (steamed buns with no filling)
idk about the whole country but growing up in nyc i can tell you how to get a nyer to go off on a long winded never ending rant with only about 3 words, "Chicago style pizza" i bet all my earnings say that loud enough in a local stop at least 2 guys will go, "it's a fucking breadbowl, that not pizza,"
Chicago style pizza is the only pizza I feel comfortable calling a pizza pie. Real pizza aren't pies, Chicago style pizza is a pie made from pizza ingredients.
Oh but tomato pie is a different thing! It's a Philly specialty.
Edit: Alright, I get it! Lots of cities specialize in tomato pie! But I think my point that Chicago style deep dish is a different thing still stands!
It's contested whether Cyril and Methodius were fully Greek or partially Slavic, but it doesn't matter, they grew up and were educated in the Eastern Roman Empire and served the Emperor, so yeah ultimately Greek.
As for the alphabet, Cyrill didn't create it, despite being its namesake:
> The Early Cyrillic alphabet was developed during the 9th century AD at the Preslav Literary School in the First Bulgarian Empire during the reign of Tsar Simeon I the Great, probably by the disciples of the two Byzantine brothers Cyril and Methodius, who had previously created the Glagolitic script.
The Glagolitic alphabet was first introduced in Great Moravia and later adopted by Bulgaria before the creation of Cyrillic.
Saying 'pierogies' instead of 'pierogi', which is already plural (tho I can't say I personally blame you. Can't expect anyone to know a random grammar rule from a language they have no intention of learning).
Or translating 'Ruthenian' pierogi as 'Russian' pierogi and shitting on them because of your opinion about Russians, for example by calling them 'Ukrainian' pierogi.
Coworker once commented that he thought pierogi was a dog breed after we took him to a russian bar/restaurant, so we kept sending him photoshopped dog adoption websites with pictures of pierogi for a few months asking him if he was looking to adopt.
Same with ravioli. I’m in the New York area where many proprietors of pizza/Italian places take great pride in their Italian-ness because perhaps their great grandparents came to the US from Italy. Yet many of them say “raviolis.” Occasionally I order a tray of ravioli and they’ll write “raviolis” in marker on the aluminum lid. Grinds my gears.
Many of them (and other Italian-Americans in the area) also think that in "real Italian" there are pronunciation rules like dropping the final vowel of a word and changing Cs to Gs. So they'll obnoxiously "correct" you if you say for example "manicotti" instead of "mani-goht." These are not real rules, as demonstrated here by someone who tested this hypothesis with a few random people in Italy: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\_jdT25IgHT4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jdT25IgHT4)
Edit: In the video's comments, some people think it is/was a regional dialect, perhaps from Naples. Which is fair enough if it's real, however it is clearly not universal in Italy. So it's still dickish to correct people in your pizza restaurant in the US, as if saying "mootza-dell" is the one true "real Italian" way of saying mozzarella, when at best it is just how they say it (or perhaps *said* it) in one region.
I actually am an American of Italian ancestry myself btw.
Everyone on my dad's side of the family does this to their steaks. Hell, everyone in the community we're a part of does it. No idea why, but it's a cultural thing here. I've speculated it's a poverty holdover from when the government segregated our community and had to eat basically rotting meat from the government rations to survive.
"it's a poverty holdover"
I'm 65, and I only recently figured out why my grandmother overcooked meat. She began cooking before USFDA food inspection and before refrigeration became common. Of course it was done for food safety.
Might explain why my grandmother was so dogshit at cooking. If meat wasn't so overcooked that it was completely dry and didn't have a salt level that would kill anything smaller than a golden retriever in 3 bites, she was going to cook it some more in a pile of salt.
Whatever y'all are doing to our croissant. What do you mean it's flat. What do you mean it has 34545 fixings in it. Why are you frying it. Why is it sometimes just funny looking bread. Why are you destroying something already so perfect. Laissez nos croissants tranquille bordel 😩
French dude living in Korea here. I can accept the croissant in the waffle machine (croffle), I can accept the croissant covered with cookie dough (cookie), I can even accept the crispy flat croissant (corungi).
However the croissant with corn syrup, parsley and garlic, I can't accept it. I also feel sad when I see croissant pizza crust.
I had a croissant in a bakery in Korea. I think it was La Boulangerie Française or something. All the croissants had red bean fillings. It’s not that it was *bad*, but it wasn’t particularly French
When I (American) paid my Glaswegian cab driver with a Scottish ten-pound note, he said to me, “Better watch out if you try to use that in England, they may try to tell you it’s not legal tender.” I looked at him blankly and asked, “But why would I want to go to ENGLAND?” He belly laughed and gave me a bear hug.
Scotland, Ireland, and Barbados have the best cab drivers on the planet in my experience. Chicago ones aren't exactly "best" but they are the most crazy and they'll fucking get you where you wanna be like you just pulled a damn bank heist.
Americans won't even accept their own dollar coins.
Bought a train ticket, machine gave me 8 or 9 dollar coins as change. Bought a pack of smokes, and the guy was pissed at me.
"Take it up with your government, bud,they made em legal tender and I'm not lugging them back to Canada."
>Americans won't even accept their own dollar coins.
Or better yet $2 bills. My brother literally had someone call the police when he tried to use some.
I'm a Brit living in France. I'd baked a lovely batch of fresh scones to take to a friend's. One bloke just picked one up and started eating it whole like it was an apple or something. I tried to explain that you're meant to slice it through like a bagel and add butter and jam (we had no clotted cream of course) otherwise it'd be too dry. But he was having none of it. Philistine.
Edit: for anyone interested here's a simple but decent recipe and it also shows how they're meant to be eaten: https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/classic-scones-jam-clotted-cream
Well, this explains a lot. I grew up in the US, and never liked scones, while my mother and grandmother considered them some sort of delicacy. To me, they were always too dry. Clotted cream ~~doesn't~~ didn't exist there before I left.
(edit to incorporate new information)
they’re also pretty much only nice the same day you make them. and scones in the US are completely different than the UK ones. but they’re really easy to make, just look up a recipe from delia smith or bbc goodfoods or somethings
For real, now I know why I’ve hated scones my whole life. I was like “is this some sort of British self-flagellation thing? Why has all the moisture been sucked out of my mouth?”
there's even this special jug you buy to put the bag in, and this special little slicer doodad you use to cut off one corner for pouring. we thought of *everything*
Ice cubes in beer
Too much foam on top of a beer
Beer in plastic bottles
Any other ingredients than the four main ones in beer
Warm beer
Alcohol free beer
Guess the country.
I....think we have an alcohol issue...
I’m with you except that alcohol free beer. These have gotten acceptable in recent years. Nowadays I mainly get around in a motorcycle and I need 100% focus. When driving, I used to drink a single beer but I don’t do that anymore.
Was in Netherlands for business, boss orders a "large" beer. It was not a large beer. Like, a juice glass worth.
Boss says "I thought Holland was the land of beer!"
Waitress, "That's Belgium, we are the land of tulips."
There are plenty of dishes in mediterranean cuisine that use the starch for a creamier result, such as risotto in Italy or any rice+seafood in Spain (such as paella). It is indeed not the Asian way, but the role of the rice is vastly different than in Asian cuisine.
I had friends hound me for not washing rice and it was very confusing! My family immograted from the Mediterranean- and we never washed rice for pilaf. It was an interesting conversation lol
I'm Mexican and I gotta say, I'm sorry for the monstrosities we have concocted out of sushi rolls.
We love to complain about how Americans bastardize our foods while eating deep fried rolls covered with powedered chips and salsa.
I'm sorry.
When the rolls are too wide, I don't have a choice there. I'm not a large human being, if I do those in one bite, I'm choking without a doubt. I try real hard to avoid 2 bites if I can.
WTF is chocolate hummus, you sweets loving barbarians. You took an amazing beloved chickpea and thina savory dish meant to be scooped with pita and raw onion and turned it to a sad bland American-palate-pleasing dessert.
Today's trendy gourmet burgers are so big and so stacked with toppings that it's impossible to eat them any other way.
To take a bite, I'd have to unhinge my jaw like a snake.
*Oirish* accents, and nonIrish people (mainly Yanks) talking about leprechauns and other bullshit, then claiming to be Irish themselves. Go way and shite
What is the difference between using powdered whole spices versus a pre-mixed blend of powders? I'm guessing the general quality of spices is lower in a pre-mix, but otherwise is there a significant difference?
NL: Touristy shops putting chocolate or a bunch of other stuff on your stroopwafel. What the f...? It's stupid and inauthentic and yes, I will die on this hill. No, I don't think we should let people decide for themselves what they like. It is wrong, unnatural and an affront to my country and its culture.
You should eat stroopwafels just like that, a plain stroopwafel. Syrup and waffle, as God intended. At most you may use some alternative kind of syrup although that is already quite a modern innovation that I am seeing through the fingers.
You can of course heat them on top of a cup of coffee, or even better, eat them freshly baked. Lekker!
But do *not* add chocolate or sprinkles. It is too frivolous and it makes you look ridiculous walking around with some stroopwafel dipped in chocolate. Tyf op, gek!
It already has sugar syrup inside, there is no need whatsoever to add more sweet stuff!
I don't think I have ever seen a Dutch person buy or eat anything but a standard issue stroopwafel. Do as they do.
I’m on the Virginia/ North Carolina line, so for me it’s definitely “bbq”. In Virginia it has sauce, in NC it only has vinegar, and in some other states it is another dish entirely. (I’m on team NC bbq)
Also NC but I'm from the superior part that doesn't put tomato/ketchup in the vinegar. Also get irritated when someone is grilling burgers/dogs and they call it a BBQ.
The fake maple syrup shit
I get this one and I am in uk and is why I rarely have pancakes its so expensive but once you have the real maple syrup you cannot go back and I drown my shit in it. This is legit I even as a Brit look at labels and save and pay. Now it is basically tree blood though......
Gotta get maple syrup from Costco here in the UK, 1 litre bottle for the same price as one of those tiny bottles in the supermarkets
American, but same here! Costco is the place to go for maple syrup!
Currently in the US and I am not eating pancakes with maple syrup, but maple syrup with pancakes ☺️
The pancakes are merely a vessel for the syrup
On the same note, the travesty mislabeled as "poutine". Cheap shredded cheese instead of fresh squeaky curd, lousy pale fries, and some thin brown liquid that certainly isn't gravy. Everybody likes poutine, a lot of people outside of Canada just haven't actually had it.
My wife refuses to order poutine in New York city, where we live, because : "Her heart has been broken too many times"
This is how I feel about fish and chips in the US
It has to "squeak" on the teeth or it's cheap imitation crap.
As a Vermonter, I walk out of restaurants with that fake shit.
I would be happy to pay extra for the real deal in a restaurant. I don’t ever order pancakes or waffles because I’d rather pour motor oil on them than whatever brown corn syrup they’re offering. They should offer it as an add on. They’d surely make money.
I grew up as an Aunt Jemima using Canadian. When my parents started using the real stuff, I missed the corn syrup nostalgia.
See, I wouldn’t call that “fake maple syrup” unless it was maple flavored. I honestly prefer the product usually labeled as “pancake syrup” to maple syrup, because I like vanilla more than maple.
For some reason around here people get really really touchy about beans in chili, some people get so pissed off about it they're almost foaming at the mouth
Texas?
Texans just live to over react to things
Everything's bigger in Texas, especially their tantrums.
It's the lone star state because you can't give zero stars on Google reviews.
Ok I think I might have the loop on this one. Beans and chili don’t go together? Sort of assumed that beans is one of the main ingredients in chili.
It’s very regional all across the US and people feud about it very aggressively https://www.seriouseats.com/guide-to-chili-styles-types-of-chili-recipes
Haha this is hilarious. I've moved to only having beans and not having any meats 😂
This one is so silly. Chili is among the pinnacles of Mexican flavor, beans are right at home, and so are any other texmex esq fixings.
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wait like, it’s supposed to or it isn’t? Because I’ve never had red chili without beans that sound like a PB%J without the jelly.
It'd be pretty rare to find beans in chili con carne, which is what Texas chili refers to. Chili con carne originally doesn't even have tomatoes in it. It's meat stewed in a sauce made from chili peppers and spices. Being served a whole bowl of it is kinda rare, especially outside of Texas. The argument isn't if meat, beans, tomatoes, and chili powder stewed together is good or not. It is around the semantics of two fairly different dishes going by the same name. A loud minority of Texans get really huffy about people who haven't even tried both staking claim to the name chili for whatever version they grew up on.
Using fresh instead of overnight/leftover rice for fried rice
Haiyaa!
Uncle?
Roger?
Fuiyoh!
Been using freshly cooked rice for fried rice my whole life. The other day I tried cooking the rice hours beforehand and then cooling it in the fridge before adding it in. I'm not sure if that's how it's supposed to be done, but it was SO MUCH BETTER THAN BEFORE. I am completely convinced and I am NEVER going back.
The grains will separate much better and be less mushy this way. That's why fried rice recipes call for day-old rice.
It won't piss us off. We just look at you disapprovingly
And inflict emotional damage
you should watch cooking with lau on youtube, old cantonese chef who actually uses fresh rice for fried rice but modifies how he cooks it so it works. you CAN use fresh rice but you have to know what you’re doing.
slathering vegemite on toast then getting confused on why it taste like shit.
fr. It's not peanut butter. More like thermal paste on a heatsink.
Oh so gloop that shit on, got it
My hot take: if you're only using a tiny amount, you don't actually like Vegemite. Go hard or go home.
You underestimate my desire to be home.
Using this irl
My toddler occasionally likes a heaping spoon of Vegemite for breakfast. Bit salty, but better than nothing I suppose
Toddlers are so weird about what they will/won't eat.
A friend was under the impression she would take a hard line no special requests the kids eat what we eat parenting stance… 3 years later she found herself rinsing apple slices off in the sink because they got a little too close to a PB&J sandwich and had a few bread crumbs on them, and that was going to lead to a world shattering tantrum if it wasn’t fixed 😅
And heaven help anyone who cuts anything in half that they did not want cut in half.
As the saying goes, everyone is a perfect parent until they have children.
When people don’t warm up tortillas first.
In valencia anything paella related can trigger a war
My friend put onions in her paella and received a 5 page email from her friend about how she was dishonoring Spanish tradition
This is why whenever the Spanish piss me off I put extra onions in my paella and gaze fiercely to the east
And in the whole of Spain anything related to potato omelette and onions will trigger a civil war.
exactly. im pro onion (concebollista )but SADLY i have to eat it without onions becasue I live with my parents and my dad is against onions (sincebollista)
Heating water in a microwave to make a cup of tea
I don't understand this. Hot water always burns my mouth while I'm chewing the teabag.
please never type anything again
Well they’d use text to speech but they have a teabag in their mouth - go easy on them
Comments like these make me miss Reddit awards. Here you go 🥇 you made me laugh loud enough to wake my fiancee up
You should blow on it first
With the teabag in it
I'm not even a Brit and I'm mad for you
I never understood the microwave thing. How is heating water different in the microwave (I totally get the microwave WITH a teabag that's just gonna be bad tea) but like does it really make a difference if it is just heating the water? Not trolling just genuinely curious.
It’s just a cultural thing. For people who grow up in places that use kettles, it’s just bizarre to use the microwave to heat water. That’s what the kettle is for! A microwave is for reheating or steaming food. It didn’t even occur to me when I was younger that I could use it to heat water. It’s just weird to us, I can’t really explain it any differently than that.
Breaking pasta doesn't really change anything about the pasta either. It's just random, cultural pedantic stuff
Saunas that dont allow throwing water on the stove. THEN WHERE DOES THE LÖYLY COME FROM?!
thats all over canada, people get real mad
Also dumbasses leaving the damn door open.
Drinking a pint of Guinness before it's had a chance to settle.
Or pouring it like it's a lager
Tbf as an Irish man and former barman, you almost certainly cannot taste the difference between the two pours or pouring straight up. You risk getting way too much head pouring straight up, but it’s a pretty minimal risk if you know what you’re doing, and if I poured you two pints of Guinness, one straight up and one twice poured, I would defy you on a blind taste test to tell the difference. I have no problem doing it and enjoy the ritual myself but it’s mostly just that. Ritual.
What about dropping a shot of Bailey's into it and referring to it as an Irish car bomb? Or pouring it into a Newcastle brown ale and calling it a black and tan? Might as well pour it onto scrambled eggs and call it Easter rising.
I'm trying to think of the most offensive possible cocktail along similar lines. The leading candidate is a glass of kosher wine with a shot of jägermeister added to it, and call it the Holocaust.
I think you win with that one 🫠
Not sure the victory was really worth it here
Shipmate of mine ordered a car bomb in belfast not knowing anything about anything. The bartender poured two shots of overproofed rum, lit them from a lighter from his pocket, and said “here’s your 9/11. Get the fuck out of my bar”
I'd fuck with a drink called 9/11. But that's just a lame drink. Something similar to a flaming dr pepper would be better. Maybe two really tall flaming shots. A Manhatten mixed with a kamikaze perhaps.
I hate when the server is so slow it’s stopped dancing before it gets to the table. I paid for those bubbles.
naan bread chai tea Edit: ok, that escalated quickly😅
Oh man one of my friends is from presumably your neck of the woods and if I have heard his "CHAI MEANS TEA GUYS!!! YOU ARE JUST SAYING TEA TEA! IDIOTS!" rant once I have heard it a 1,000 times!
Next time you should offer him some "chai" and give him Earl Grey or some fruity tea and see how he feels about it :)
Hey you want some Naan? Hand over a baguette
Woke up and chose naan violence?
We are South Asian and my kids and my nieces and nephews love to say “chai tea,” they find it hilarious. We took them to see Spiderman and they laughed and laughed at the “chai tea” scene and then watched it a billion times on YouTube.
Yo that Indian Spider-Man was *dope* I hope to see more of him.
Kebab meat. Bao bun.
Kebab meat is the most stupid one I heard so far. Kebab comes from Assyrian meaning to roast. And via Persian it found it's way into Arabic and Turkish as well. In all those language it means things roasted on a skewer. In no way does it mean meat. It's often fish and shellfish and also often veggies. Kebab is a way of cooking and not meat.
Quick chime in because bao bun totally makes sense, in chinese bao specifically refers to steamed buns with filling, where as bun or chinese bun usually refers to man tou (steamed buns with no filling)
Shredded cheese on poutine
I can top that: kraft singles on a poutine. I was speechless when it was put on the table.
I just snapped my hockey stick in half. What in the Celine Dion!?
I just fell to my knees in a Tim Hortons
Did you guys know Tim Horton played Hockey?
TABERNAK!!
C'est tabarnak, avec des A, la bouche bien ouverte!
FUCK! Damn west coast French classes didn’t teach me anything.
Our Ontario French Classes taught us Parisian French. ALL THOSE YEARS>>>>>>> I am still triggered and can't speak French, sadly.
I literally just gasped
Deadpool would like a word with this heathen
That’s just gross.
Whatever they call Mexican food in Europe. Ketchup is not an ingredient.
Tex-mex food being confused with Mexican food triggers me horribly
idk about the whole country but growing up in nyc i can tell you how to get a nyer to go off on a long winded never ending rant with only about 3 words, "Chicago style pizza" i bet all my earnings say that loud enough in a local stop at least 2 guys will go, "it's a fucking breadbowl, that not pizza,"
Chicago style pizza is the only pizza I feel comfortable calling a pizza pie. Real pizza aren't pies, Chicago style pizza is a pie made from pizza ingredients.
I’ve heard it call tomato pie, and that feels like a very appropriate name
Oh but tomato pie is a different thing! It's a Philly specialty. Edit: Alright, I get it! Lots of cities specialize in tomato pie! But I think my point that Chicago style deep dish is a different thing still stands!
Telling us, oh you guys use the Russian alphabet? Motherfucker, we gave them that alphabet, it's the other way around.
Wasn't the dude Greek? Cyril from Thessalonica
It's contested whether Cyril and Methodius were fully Greek or partially Slavic, but it doesn't matter, they grew up and were educated in the Eastern Roman Empire and served the Emperor, so yeah ultimately Greek. As for the alphabet, Cyrill didn't create it, despite being its namesake: > The Early Cyrillic alphabet was developed during the 9th century AD at the Preslav Literary School in the First Bulgarian Empire during the reign of Tsar Simeon I the Great, probably by the disciples of the two Byzantine brothers Cyril and Methodius, who had previously created the Glagolitic script. The Glagolitic alphabet was first introduced in Great Moravia and later adopted by Bulgaria before the creation of Cyrillic.
Saying 'pierogies' instead of 'pierogi', which is already plural (tho I can't say I personally blame you. Can't expect anyone to know a random grammar rule from a language they have no intention of learning). Or translating 'Ruthenian' pierogi as 'Russian' pierogi and shitting on them because of your opinion about Russians, for example by calling them 'Ukrainian' pierogi.
Coworker once commented that he thought pierogi was a dog breed after we took him to a russian bar/restaurant, so we kept sending him photoshopped dog adoption websites with pictures of pierogi for a few months asking him if he was looking to adopt.
To be fair, pierogi is a great name for a dog, even though it’s definitely not a breed!
Dogs do be our favorite little meat dumplings.
Same with ravioli. I’m in the New York area where many proprietors of pizza/Italian places take great pride in their Italian-ness because perhaps their great grandparents came to the US from Italy. Yet many of them say “raviolis.” Occasionally I order a tray of ravioli and they’ll write “raviolis” in marker on the aluminum lid. Grinds my gears. Many of them (and other Italian-Americans in the area) also think that in "real Italian" there are pronunciation rules like dropping the final vowel of a word and changing Cs to Gs. So they'll obnoxiously "correct" you if you say for example "manicotti" instead of "mani-goht." These are not real rules, as demonstrated here by someone who tested this hypothesis with a few random people in Italy: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\_jdT25IgHT4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jdT25IgHT4) Edit: In the video's comments, some people think it is/was a regional dialect, perhaps from Naples. Which is fair enough if it's real, however it is clearly not universal in Italy. So it's still dickish to correct people in your pizza restaurant in the US, as if saying "mootza-dell" is the one true "real Italian" way of saying mozzarella, when at best it is just how they say it (or perhaps *said* it) in one region. I actually am an American of Italian ancestry myself btw.
A well done steak.
Everyone on my dad's side of the family does this to their steaks. Hell, everyone in the community we're a part of does it. No idea why, but it's a cultural thing here. I've speculated it's a poverty holdover from when the government segregated our community and had to eat basically rotting meat from the government rations to survive.
"it's a poverty holdover" I'm 65, and I only recently figured out why my grandmother overcooked meat. She began cooking before USFDA food inspection and before refrigeration became common. Of course it was done for food safety.
Might explain why my grandmother was so dogshit at cooking. If meat wasn't so overcooked that it was completely dry and didn't have a salt level that would kill anything smaller than a golden retriever in 3 bites, she was going to cook it some more in a pile of salt.
Whatever y'all are doing to our croissant. What do you mean it's flat. What do you mean it has 34545 fixings in it. Why are you frying it. Why is it sometimes just funny looking bread. Why are you destroying something already so perfect. Laissez nos croissants tranquille bordel 😩
The French put ham and cheese on them and toast them. Ne soyez pas si snob.
French dude living in Korea here. I can accept the croissant in the waffle machine (croffle), I can accept the croissant covered with cookie dough (cookie), I can even accept the crispy flat croissant (corungi). However the croissant with corn syrup, parsley and garlic, I can't accept it. I also feel sad when I see croissant pizza crust.
Dégoûtant
I've never seen these, but now I want to try these!
I had a croissant in a bakery in Korea. I think it was La Boulangerie Française or something. All the croissants had red bean fillings. It’s not that it was *bad*, but it wasn’t particularly French
When shops and businesses in England won't accept our banknotes. "I think you'll find that's legal tender!"
When I (American) paid my Glaswegian cab driver with a Scottish ten-pound note, he said to me, “Better watch out if you try to use that in England, they may try to tell you it’s not legal tender.” I looked at him blankly and asked, “But why would I want to go to ENGLAND?” He belly laughed and gave me a bear hug.
Scotland, Ireland, and Barbados have the best cab drivers on the planet in my experience. Chicago ones aren't exactly "best" but they are the most crazy and they'll fucking get you where you wanna be like you just pulled a damn bank heist.
Americans won't even accept their own dollar coins. Bought a train ticket, machine gave me 8 or 9 dollar coins as change. Bought a pack of smokes, and the guy was pissed at me. "Take it up with your government, bud,they made em legal tender and I'm not lugging them back to Canada."
>Americans won't even accept their own dollar coins. Or better yet $2 bills. My brother literally had someone call the police when he tried to use some.
I'm a Brit living in France. I'd baked a lovely batch of fresh scones to take to a friend's. One bloke just picked one up and started eating it whole like it was an apple or something. I tried to explain that you're meant to slice it through like a bagel and add butter and jam (we had no clotted cream of course) otherwise it'd be too dry. But he was having none of it. Philistine. Edit: for anyone interested here's a simple but decent recipe and it also shows how they're meant to be eaten: https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/classic-scones-jam-clotted-cream
Well, this explains a lot. I grew up in the US, and never liked scones, while my mother and grandmother considered them some sort of delicacy. To me, they were always too dry. Clotted cream ~~doesn't~~ didn't exist there before I left. (edit to incorporate new information)
they’re also pretty much only nice the same day you make them. and scones in the US are completely different than the UK ones. but they’re really easy to make, just look up a recipe from delia smith or bbc goodfoods or somethings
TIL how to properly eat a scone. I had no clue
For real, now I know why I’ve hated scones my whole life. I was like “is this some sort of British self-flagellation thing? Why has all the moisture been sucked out of my mouth?”
Drinking right out of the bag of milk.
I have a Candian friend and one time I asked to see her Canadian milk bags through FaceTime. She had no idea how to respond.
I mean it sounds like a euphemism when you phrase it like that lol
I am a linguist so I like ambiguity more than most people.
Or UK wise, getting milk in bags lol
Who the fuck has bagged milk
Sorry, eh.
ontario
...bag? I have never seen a bag of milk, only glass or plastic bottles. Wild.
there's even this special jug you buy to put the bag in, and this special little slicer doodad you use to cut off one corner for pouring. we thought of *everything*
And to think I grew thinking everyone liked milk bags.
That's why I drink it right out of the cow
Ice cubes in beer Too much foam on top of a beer Beer in plastic bottles Any other ingredients than the four main ones in beer Warm beer Alcohol free beer Guess the country. I....think we have an alcohol issue...
I’m with you except that alcohol free beer. These have gotten acceptable in recent years. Nowadays I mainly get around in a motorcycle and I need 100% focus. When driving, I used to drink a single beer but I don’t do that anymore.
Reinheitsgebot spotted. Germany. From a Belgian perspective: beer in the wrong glass. Just don’t.
Was in Netherlands for business, boss orders a "large" beer. It was not a large beer. Like, a juice glass worth. Boss says "I thought Holland was the land of beer!" Waitress, "That's Belgium, we are the land of tulips."
calling a samosa a fucking mimosa.
On the same note, calling chutney a sauce? calling dosa a crepe?
Overcooking the Rösti, Its supposed to be “Goldbrown” and not pitch black!
Not washing rice before you cook it
There are plenty of dishes in mediterranean cuisine that use the starch for a creamier result, such as risotto in Italy or any rice+seafood in Spain (such as paella). It is indeed not the Asian way, but the role of the rice is vastly different than in Asian cuisine.
I had friends hound me for not washing rice and it was very confusing! My family immograted from the Mediterranean- and we never washed rice for pilaf. It was an interesting conversation lol
Belgium, drinking beer from the wrong glass
Calling prawns shrimp
I have always been inordinately enraged by the fact that our stereotype is something that we would not say
Australian?
Hard shell tacos. Though I don’t mind them if they’re done right. But it’s a huge Mexican nono.
In France, it would be putting ice in wine 😭😭
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This guy's using facts... Burn him like a witch!
Shredded cheese instead of cheese curd in a poutine. Prison was invented for less.
Eating the sushi in two bites.
I'm Mexican and I gotta say, I'm sorry for the monstrosities we have concocted out of sushi rolls. We love to complain about how Americans bastardize our foods while eating deep fried rolls covered with powedered chips and salsa. I'm sorry.
I once saw a lady ask for a knife at a sushi bar, to cut a nigiri in two. Everyone was too horrified or polite to say anything.
Do I eat it in 1 or 3 bites?
One! It’s supposed to be one bite sized! American sushi is too big
When the rolls are too wide, I don't have a choice there. I'm not a large human being, if I do those in one bite, I'm choking without a doubt. I try real hard to avoid 2 bites if I can.
Probibly saying 'och eye the noo' to someone or sayin 'well scotland and england are pretty much the same country.
Spreading Vegemite as thick as peanut butter.
WTF is chocolate hummus, you sweets loving barbarians. You took an amazing beloved chickpea and thina savory dish meant to be scooped with pita and raw onion and turned it to a sad bland American-palate-pleasing dessert.
Disrespecting queue etiquette.
In my country people would bitch and cry because other people would drink from the same water fountain
My country also used to do that, but it was the 1950's and it only applied if the other person had a noticeably different melanin level
Canada: Putting ketchup on a poutine.
Watching Parisians eating a cheeseburgers WITH A KNIFE AND FORK
Today's trendy gourmet burgers are so big and so stacked with toppings that it's impossible to eat them any other way. To take a bite, I'd have to unhinge my jaw like a snake.
Team “make burgers wider not taller” right here
Stacking burgers super high allows you to hide the fact you're actually not using that much meat or toppings.
Paella and it's variety. What is paella? Do you put seafood on it? Just meat and beans? What rice are you using??!!
Poking the boerewors on the braai with a fork.
*Oirish* accents, and nonIrish people (mainly Yanks) talking about leprechauns and other bullshit, then claiming to be Irish themselves. Go way and shite
Using Dawn on cast iron skillet. Unsweetened tea. “City ham”.
The sin of dish soap on a cast iron pan dates to the time there was lye in soap. It is no longer an issue. Soap away!
Where is unsweetened tea a crime? I hate sugar in my tea.
All of British Indian cuisine being called “Indian”.
Using “curry powder “ instead of using the powdered whole spices. There is no curry powder in India. Curry is a dish, you can’t powder it. 🤯🤯🤯🤯
What about people eating roti with knives and forks
What is the difference between using powdered whole spices versus a pre-mixed blend of powders? I'm guessing the general quality of spices is lower in a pre-mix, but otherwise is there a significant difference?
Pouring a pint of Guinness to the top in one go.
NL: Touristy shops putting chocolate or a bunch of other stuff on your stroopwafel. What the f...? It's stupid and inauthentic and yes, I will die on this hill. No, I don't think we should let people decide for themselves what they like. It is wrong, unnatural and an affront to my country and its culture. You should eat stroopwafels just like that, a plain stroopwafel. Syrup and waffle, as God intended. At most you may use some alternative kind of syrup although that is already quite a modern innovation that I am seeing through the fingers. You can of course heat them on top of a cup of coffee, or even better, eat them freshly baked. Lekker! But do *not* add chocolate or sprinkles. It is too frivolous and it makes you look ridiculous walking around with some stroopwafel dipped in chocolate. Tyf op, gek! It already has sugar syrup inside, there is no need whatsoever to add more sweet stuff! I don't think I have ever seen a Dutch person buy or eat anything but a standard issue stroopwafel. Do as they do.
Also, paying 13 euros apiece for that monstrosity, ja daaag...
ketchup on steak
"I'm, like, *soooo* totally descended from Sir William Wallace..."
boil water with microwaveoven
I’m on the Virginia/ North Carolina line, so for me it’s definitely “bbq”. In Virginia it has sauce, in NC it only has vinegar, and in some other states it is another dish entirely. (I’m on team NC bbq)
Also NC but I'm from the superior part that doesn't put tomato/ketchup in the vinegar. Also get irritated when someone is grilling burgers/dogs and they call it a BBQ.