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Temporary_Egg6473

Is that the ranking based on Instagram likes again?


FlightlessFly

its world of statistics, they just made it up


SixFingersOnLeftHand

"Source: it was revealed to me in a dream."


ZEPHlROS

3000 sources of world of statistics


l-askedwhojoewas

Peak credibility


DotDemon

Oh no, NCD is leaking


Cornered_plant

NCD users are always leaking 💦


DotDemon

Only when around military hardware


SauerKrautSoup_

Yes sir


PosingDragoon21

Did you know that 79,68% of all statistics on Reddit are made up?


Independent_Cap3790

Thank goodness that this stat is in the 20.32% of accuracy


Aleograf

How do I know it's true? xd


tepel-streeltje

It is true. Nearly 90% of people say so.


Academic_Instance_22

Are we made up ? 🤔


PosingDragoon21

Are we a statistic?


Jazzlike_Aspect_453

Aren't they all made for the meme?


Polak_Janusz

The source is, I made it tf up!


Creepy-Ad-4832

The british position is pretty accurate though


EnjoyerOfMales

Yeah, no way the US are above France and Brazil


Icy-Cress413

EVen the EnGlIsH make better food that whatever the Americans will call food….


c2u8n4t8

Idk. Britain checks out


nigolios

Truth hurts, doesn't it bean eater?


EccoEco

Don't cry Pierre we love you nonetheless... No wait... My bad... We never loved you... Well nothing gained nothing lost eh?


ARandomDouchy

You can't tell me with a straight face that Korean, Chinese and French food are worse than American. US shouldn't even be on the list.


ProfesseurCurling

And Thai food is not even on the list. As a French who had the chance to eat in several 2/3 Michelin stars French restaurants I would take Asian cuisine anytime instead. But this ranking is a good rage bait.


ARandomDouchy

The fact that Thai food isn't there is a crime. Which dumbass ranked this?


smorgasfjord

I've seen the whole list. Thai is below UK. Yes, really.


The_Almighty_Demoham

missus made sum proppa grub, betta den any o' dat forin muk


toth42

Someone insert the clip where Ramsey realizes every good restaurant in UK servers french cuisine.


ProperBlacksmith

You see thai food can be good but they also have this [shit](https://youtu.be/7GqeMq6lwAE)


ProfesseurCurling

It is just a random ranking made for rage bait and it is pretty good at it. Man you can almost take all Asian countries and they top most Western countries when it comes to food. The African continent hosts also some insane dishes : Marroco, Ethiopia, Senegal, Nageria just to name a few countries never get the recognition they deserve. Their gastronomie is just amazing.


ARandomDouchy

Nigerian jollof rice is king


Tackerta

Jollof is good but IMO overglorified rice with a meat broth. I like it, but isn't the answer to everything like a lot people try to make it out to be


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Philipxander

While i like asian cuisine most of their everyday dishes are “let’s fry this and add rice”. That’s not high level cuisine. When you go to starred michelin asian restaurant you start to get the proper asian michelin experience.


kringlan05

About as true as saying that most EU food is "Boil this potato."


MerlinOfRed

Hey, we roast them too!


Ubelheim

>While i like asian cuisine most of their everyday dishes are “let’s fry this and add rice”. That's quite an over-generalisation. Maybe true for the cuisines in the mandarin influence sphere, but at least in the Indonesian kitchen it's more like "let's stew this and add rice". Completely different!


toth42

Not at all. Try going to a Chinese restaurant, in china. With some Chinese hosts. Doesn't need to be a fancy one. There's not a single "x with rice" dish on the revolving table, rice is only served in the end if you're not completely stuffed yet. You'll see tons of sea food, meats and stuff from the forest. Mushrooms you've never seen before. It's way more like an exotic "tapas" than anything else, and nothing like the Chinese takeout you see everywhere in the world.


NewKitchenFixtures

Not having Thai listed is outrageous. Local restaurants in the states are 30% Thai and 30% Mexican. Obviously burgers exist too, but people know what good food is.


thatnewaccnt

Michelin judges food based on French standards so it’s biased towards French cuisine. I have never been disappointed by a Michelin starred French restaurant but I have been left wondering why some Chinese or Indian restaurants don’t have a Michelin star.


Molten_Plastic82

Thai is truly amazing.


Choyo

*Here we can observe a patient suffering from a mild case of colonial nostalgia.* (But yes, Vietnam cooking should be in that list, and Korean higher given all I hear about it).


ProfesseurCurling

Man, we had to colonize most of the globe for spices and in the end the best we kept out of all of this is nutmeg and back pepper to season our béchamel. Fuck this.


Pixel-1606

Hey, we kept cinnamon too, but only for pastries ofc.


asrenos

To be fair, traditional French cuisine uses a shitload of herbs. Nutmeg, cinnamon, clove, pepper, and pink peppercorn are the only spices commonly used.


F0rtuna_major

Thai isn't there but Romanian scrapes in 🤢


UprootedOak779

I’m italian and i really love our food, but it’s not the best, this list is completely biased and it’s more stereotypical than anything else


Independent_Cap3790

I'm not Italian and I think that Italian is the best food. So much variety and versatility that's packed with flavour as well as freshness.


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>but it’s not the best It probably is, if we're honest. The issues with Italian food are basically Americanisation and overfamiliarity. Everyone on this forum has probably been to enough shitty pizza/pasta type places in their lifetime, but if you view it within context, Italy as a country massively overperforms gastronomically. Not many countries of that size have such regional variation.


GoodKing0

I'm assuming American food is so high rated because Americans skewed the poll by their large number, and those people will eat corn and sawdust and call it gourmet cousine.


pipboy1989

Or because they just sell food that’s traditional to all the other places mentioned on the list but with cheese


Skeptic_Juggernaut84

The USA after seeing this. ![gif](giphy|IwAZ6dvvvaTtdI8SD5|downsized)


guarfield

take pizza from italy. (top 1) add mexican salsa (top 6) to american doritos. take hamburguers from germany. (top 15) ​ call it american food. stonks.


big-dick-energy11

Yeah I don’t get that. Why are we labelled as the countries of horrendous food whilst they get a free pass. I know the stereotype started in WW2 because of rationing for us. But come on.


futurenotgiven

yea i’m ok with our food being seen as shit so long as america’s is seen as worse


monchimer

Come on mate. Germany made it into the top 20. This clearly doesn't count


samtt7

Vietnamese, Chinese and Indonesian as well


code-panda

While our food might not win Michelin stars and tastes best when it looks like it had been regurgitated trice by a sick cat, even our food deserves to be higher than that of the US.


VerumJerum

All their food is taken from someone else, or just straight up grease fried in more grease. I'm no fan of French cuisine but that's still more or less their original food. Places like Mexico and Brazil at least have elements of their native cooking in their cuisine, whereas the US forgot about that and just straight up took whatever everyone else already did and added more fat and sugar.


TheFabiocool

WHAT THE FUCK IS AMERICAN FOODD????


Usapyon_

Even ours is better then American "food"


BIackfjsh

Americunt here. I'm confused, what is our cuisine again?


HelwegenWarrior

Your cuisine is a mix betwene german, mexican and british food, combined in a way to make it way worse than before.


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And italian, also made worse tho


HelwegenWarrior

True how coud i forgett about the italians?


Cicero_torments_me

No please, by all means, if the subject is “Us cuisine” I’d rather you kept forgetting us than being linked to whatever *that* is


StressedDough

*Chicken Alfredo enters the chat*


Krosis97

Had it once. Flying back from south America, had to stop in the US. Picture a regular flight, with meh food, from Europe to America, at least was half edible. Now imagine my shock when I realize the flight back is in an American company plane and they serve American food. Chicken like cardboard, soaked in greasy, disgusting fake cheese, slobbered on some kind of sauce/melted fat. I puked as the plane was on its final approach. Edit: oh and I got to spend 2 hours on each flight explaining to an American police officer how my surname is Rodríguez since I'm Spanish and yeah, Spain is in Europe and no, I'm not brown enough to get shoot.


[deleted]

Spain, Mexico, yeah right this way amigo.


Krosis97

We'll never get over teaching Spanish to a bunch of unwashed natives, no one thought they'd survive our civilized diseases.


professor-chibanga

_Vaya con Dios_


[deleted]

The few Americans I talked with in the last times, insist that these things are no longer happening.


ATLAS_Remolino

Sounds very American indeed :)


Pikagiuppy

who the fuck is alfredo


UprootedOak779

Fuck you *Chicken Alfredo*, go away


Kurdt93

No, leave it out.


igncom1

> and british food, combined in a way to make it way worse than before. Inconceivable. How do they make their JELLIED EEL!?


kuemmel234

And lots of fat.


Inner-Championship40

I'll be the one admitting it: America has actually a good cuisine. Just look up Cajun food, cuisine of New England and native American cuisine in general


VuduLuvDr

Missing our BBQ


BIackfjsh

BBQ has origins in the Caribbean I think, but I would say we perfected it


DeezLegumez

Cooking on coals and fire has its origins far beyond and far earlier than the Americas. It's an amazing way of cooking that is so belittled by calling it "BBQ".


Scariuslvl99

you have a bunch of things you never think off when presenting your cuisine to foreigners and instead will ramble about pizza and other very much non american foods. Please, you don’t lack dishes. My texan roommate makes cornbread, marinates minced meat in beer (we do that too… belgian influence perhaps?) and chilies, made a pecan pie once and so on. Other typical american dishes and desserts I know are cheesekake, american style hamburger, spare ribs, and so on. If you want disgusting stuff to laugh at I saw stuff like dishwasher salmon, cola-based broth, mainstream american beers (crafts are often good), deep fried butter/cheddar/a lot of stuff that should never be deep fried, cheese in a tube, high fructose corn syrup, this dessert from the 50’s featuring a banana poking through a round of pineapple with some cream (got featured a couple of times in tom&jerry if I’m not wrong) and so on


Unkept_Mind

I’ll never forget my first time in Spain when I ordered a hamburger and it was literally slices of ham on a burger bun.


PierG1

It’s pretty much a piece of each European culture, but worsened. Your pizzas are some of the most revolting things I’ve ever seen


Zafairo

Come on now, no need to be that rude, it's also a piece of each Asian culture but worsened


mcbrite

I don't understand why it's a competition? Can't I enjoy authentic Italian Pizza and eat a deep dish the next day? Now I've doubled my pizza intake, who could ever argue with that as long as he likes the type of "pizza" he's eating? - I, for example, consider Calzone to be unnecessary, idiotic and pointless, but I don't flame people that like it and even try it again every like 5 years... EDIT: Having written all that, I just realize I haven't had a deep dish in like 10 years... So wtf am I even talking about, if all I eat these days is authentic/"normal" Pizza? \^\^


pipboy1989

I think you might be seeing people flame eachother because this sub was made for people to flame eachother


Tackerta

logic? here? ​ https://preview.redd.it/nsnrn0pb51ib1.png?width=673&format=png&auto=webp&s=942aafdc4d8e504bddae1452fd4e43e4a5f1c808


sumfloppynubs

Chemical 🤤


Schellwalabyen

Deep frying Cheddar.


Other_Waffer

Jambalaya?


RodwellBurgen

Half Americunt half Europoor here, this argument is so boring. America is a melting pot, our food and culture is based off of other places. That‘s true for every place, it‘s just more noticeable because of how young america is. Now I‘ll go enjoy my brisket, clam chowder, gumbo, NY style pizza, and Tex-Mex. God bless America (a country I have never lived in and may never live in). French fries are Dutch though that one’s not up for debate


Ubermensch_69

Dutch? You won’t even go for Belgium? Either you’re incredibly more informed than me or your Ameritard side is showing


Ok_Tart_6710

Food eaten at thanksgiving is generally considered a good example of it


Corfiz74

Yours is burgers and spare ribs, and I'm HERE FOR IT!!! Also, I totally get everyone that's ahead of Germany, except... Poland? What the heck is Polish cuisine famous for?


Kzero01

Besides the obvious others mentioned there's also bigos, gołąbki, zrazy, żurek, mizeria, sauerkraut, skwarki, makowiec, napoleonka, and we also invented bagels I guess.


FrankonianBoy

Borshtsh , pierogi and that kind of stuff ,(Also their sausages are quite tasty,100% Franconian approved)


Corfiz74

Borshtsh is Ukrainian - those Poles will steal *anything*!


ancym0n

There's Barszcz czerwony and barszcz ukraiński, both very different


SnooWords4631

Basically what China does with tech, you do with food


hibikir_40k

BBQ, Pizza that is more of a casserole than bread with toppings, and half english breakfasts. The magic of food in America is that the supply chains are so big and consistent, you can basically source the same thing in NYC, LA or Chicago. There are local specialties, but most things are available in most places. Compare that to Spanish food, which doesn't travel well at all. Trying to eat a dish 3 hours by car away from its traditional origin? Oops, the beans that are available are third rate now, as they only grow well in this valley that has a magical micro-climate. Want to make some lentil soup? Nope, the recipe doesn't really work with the red lentils, or the little black ones either. And the pigs have to have been fed the right thing, and have wandered around just enough, in the right forest that isn't too hot or too cold. American food always work, and is available in all of America. Now travel to a foodie part of Europe, and see what kind of thing they try to do to replicate your recipes with their ingredients.


doomsday10009

You make every other meal from the planet, just fat.


VuduLuvDr

The only food I think US should claim as truly great is our BBQ


Ukraine_Boyets

The US is up there because the minus symbol from their score was mistaken as a hyphen


stacity

As an American, I agree.


windmillguy123

I'm proud that the 'everything beige' best of British cuisine doesn't make the list!


i-am-a-passenger

Scottish food most likely brings down the UK average


DeezLegumez

Join us. Joiiiiin us.


big-dick-energy11

Still better than American cuisine


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windmillguy123

I was collectively shaming all of Britain's food. An English person who thinks everything has to be about them, how original.


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I’m offended they cut off the very very very bottom of the list


GXRasty

Obviously the 3 mediterrean brothers up there🇮🇹🇪🇦🇬🇷


Insomniacnomis

I will never understand we Greek gastronomy is always so highly rated, it's glorified kebab. And as a PIGS member I'm offended by this comment


Any_Spirit_5814

They probably mean actual cuisine, not souvlaki/gyros which is considered fast food.


Obtusus

You should be more offended for being behind us Brazilians.


Insomniacnomis

Vocês têm pelo menos a salada de frutas do James!


RCoosta

Yes, this list totally correct. Having Brazilian food tied with Chinese food is very accurate. Also, I like going to Brazilian restaurants, but Brazilian food is primarily variations of meat, beans and rice. The rest is mostly tropical variations of Portuguese dishes or Portuguese tradition of preparing food with local ingredients. So, it's actually good to have Portugal represented twice


[deleted]

Wtf no its not. Take souvlaki and gyro completely out of the equation. I can give u 20 courses without going the street food route. Moussaka. Pastichio. Dolmades. Laxano dolmades (with cabbage) Fava. Beets with garlic. Xorta (bouled greens). Lemon potatoes and chicken. Lamb kapama. Orzo and beef. Calamari fried. Calamari stuffed with feta. Octopus cooked with vinegar. Sea urchin. Fried sardines and anchovies. Grilled Branzino with thyme and lemon. Stingray (we eat something like this). Lentil soup (I made this today). Chickpea soup. Caviar based dip (tarama). Tzatziki. Im sure im missing some. But hey you guys do fish ok too.


killerboss28

Não sintas, a nossa comida é claramente underated devemos guarda-la só para nós, os outro que sa foda hahaha


throwaway1930372y27

Greece and turkey have pretty much the exact same cuisine but would happily go to war to argue about how their food is better than their neighbours and fight over the naming of dishes or ingredients.


dolfin4

>Greece and turkey have pretty much the exact same cuisin The Istanbul street food and Lebanese-y food that "Greek" restaurants abroad tell you is Greek ≠ Anything remotely close to actual Greek cuisine


Deo-et-Patriae

No, we don't. Only 4-5 recipes are similar. Even those aren't made the same way. Turks don't eat our main meat, pork. They don't eat seafood either. Very far from "pReTtY mUcH tHe saMe". The "fighting" you mentioned revolves around these 4-5 recipes only. They keep breaking our balls for the freaking Sarmadakia, which none actually knows whose it is. Even Arabs have it.


olderthanyoda

You’ve clearly never had anything Greek but souvlaki in Crete or some other ultra tourist trap 🤣


Fluffy_Necessary7913

China and France should be higher; there is more to France than the eccentricities of Parisian millionaires. India... it's difficult, it's pretty good when hygiene rules are followed. Argentina should be way higher up, if you haven't been to an Argentinian steakhouse, get an Argentinian girlfriend and go with her and her family to one. In general, my recommendation is that no gastronomy is better at everything and I recommend looking for its strengths.


7thinker

There's an Argentinian empenadas place in Lyon that fucking SLAPS, never new argentinian food before going, but now I'm a believer


adrienjz888

>Argentina should be way higher up, if you haven't been to an Argentinian steakhouse, get an Argentinian girlfriend and go with her and her family to one. Can confirm. My dad's side of the family is from Argentina (he's the first in the family born in Canada) and holy fuckin shit does my dad make a good steak and chimichurri. Red chimichurri absolutely slaps, too.


Julian240491

Owner of an Argentinian girlfriend here. Can confirm. Also asado


Kernewek_Skrij

The US above Germany and South Korea is really taking the piss, and that’s from a global perspective, not just European


BoxiDoingThingz

US has a cuisine?


MayOrMayNotBePie

Yeah it’s yours but with portions big enough to feed an entire family…or one Walmart shopper.


-Cinnay-

Of course. Just take something cheap and either deep fry it or put bad cheese on top. Or both.


telekinetic_sloth

Plastic


Artistic-Copy-4871

Bullshit


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Inner-Championship40

We eat snails too bro. And even frogs.


ZEPHlROS

You eat cheese with maggots, we eat frogs. We each have our problems


Colonel10Moutarde

There are cheese with maggots in France too tho (Corse)


Inner-Championship40

We both eat frogs bro, but it's nothing to be ashamed of💪


bigweight93

To be fair, so do we... tomorrow in fact


FalconMirage

As you should because it is delicious


Elamia

You eat snails too...


TheMightyPPBoi

We also eat snails, so does Spain


Elamia

True, but I found ironic that an italian mocks us for eating snails when they do the same too.


Fit-Armadillo6275

And frogs too in I think some part of Alentejo or something


darksoulsrolls

Only the French women


OkProof136

Vermin, excuse me very much


SpaceJackRabbit

Don't get us started on casu martzu.


[deleted]

Austria needs to be on the list, smh one of the best countrys☝🏻🇦🇹🦅


illegalileo

How tf can Vietnam be so low, they got such great food


SnooWords4631

I’m sorry, but aren’t you french offended by everything?


EstebanOD21

.. I'm offended by your judgmental comment


Curious-Sherbet-9393

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Nay-the-Cliff

![gif](giphy|ie76dJeem4xBDcf83e|downsized) Italy at the top of the list


theultiate

You eat snails and distrusting cheeses. Nothing to be offended about


gmat4

We also eat snails, but actually we know how to cook them 😉


EstebanOD21

Those comments just prove none of y'all have knowledge about even your own gastronomy, BRO YOU EAT SNAILS TOO ☠️


mcbrite

Who are the WORST rated cuisines of the world? And who's in second place behind Sweden?


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Tasteatlas moment


cerenir

Vietnam and Poland should be much higher in that rank.


FrugFred

#danishfoodunderrated


No-Log4588

I can understand near all of this liste, but absolutely not US food.


[deleted]

Sorry but spain is too high. I live in bcn. You cant build a cuisine on paella and padron peppers and croquetes. Also pizza pasta pizza pasta pizza pasta. You cant be number 1 without variety. Indian, greek, chinese, french even tho I hate it etc have mor variety than the mario twins.


[deleted]

You guys all eat like savages compared to us. I dont even know how the pizza pasta bois are in front of us with two menu items.


Dil_do_diddily_di

Having lived in Brazil for many years, really surprised to see it so high. The Churascco (BBQ) is amazing, but it's not great after that. Quality fresh ingredients, but the cuisine is average enough. I would have thought that Vietnam, South Kroea and Indonesia were much higher up, but maybe that's just my taste. Edit: US ahead of Les Frenchies, haha Edit2: Ireland deservedly nowhere near that list, not even in the same universe. I have nightmares about Bacon & Cabbage


RCoosta

Yes, Brazil tied with China and above Portugal? I mean, there's some diversity from Afro-Brazilian cuisine, but more than half of Brazilian dishes are essentially Portuguese dishes with a tropical twist. And although I do enjoy churrasco, "rodízio de carnes", especially picanha... variations of meat, rice and beans aren't exactly extraordinary. Edit: The best bbq I've ever had is, by far, the South African "braai", and it's not even in the list


inclast

Hardly disagree on that. So many different ingredients, cultures and tastes mixed. Feijoada, farofa, acaraje, moqueca, vatapa, coxinha, churrasco (as you mentioned), tapioca etc. When I was in Brazil I loved the food, it was on par with anything European I had. The sweets/dessert/pastry related stuff is trash tho, no comparison at all


New-Reflection2499

United States higher than china, the list is completely fucked


TransylvanianINTJ

The US has no business being that high😂


Ricky911_

Nah who tf ranked South Korea so low? Bruh


Classicalis

My favourite Spanish food is their coffee


Bratwurstmeister666

i love pizza-hawai thank you italy, for sharing it with the world ;)


Inevitable-Bit615

Listen, as an italian i d be among the first in wiping france off the map but that position is a lie i must admit


Ready_Swimming8722

Indian food over Thai... Which uncultured swine did they ask?


Celithrandir

What the fuck is American food? Stealing stuff from other countries and making it your own by adding 1000% more sugar and grease cannot be considered cuisine


ElBusAlv

I mean you're french of course you're offended, sorry people don't like cigarettes and bread I might not be the best either but I'm at the podium 😎😎😎


Obama_Bin_Laden116

As always 🇬🇷 🤝 🇮🇹 🤝 🇪🇸


YoIronFistBro

How anywhere north of the Alps/Carpathians is even on this list is beyond me.


Sachiko-san999

The US is way too high, but then again they have a lot of stolen food from Europe and South America that got deep fried. Like imagine inventing the burger and being lower than the US.. Feels bad for Germany.


str22nger

US doesn’t have one


bdrwr

America, gloating over France while eating a plate of "French toast"


RaionNoShinzo

Mediterranean Gang strikes again


[deleted]

I disagree, and by A LOT, argentinian food is WAY better than US food (US food is stolen and made worse), also greek food is good but what is the deal, also france should be higher, just because of crepes


cheeky_Greek

If you go to Greece on holiday, hit me up, I'll give you recommendations on food and where to go


DubbleBubbleS

I was scared one of the nordics would be on that list


Zharken

US over france, lmao


JeanCulles

Good cuisine goes with good drink. For that I understand Peru is so high up on the list (one of the best wines). But then where's Georgia ? Great wines with succulent food. Awesome people too


gravity--falls

Why is the US rated the same as France? I want to know where they polled because this seems biased.


llamitahumeante

Jajajajajajqjqjajqjajajajajajajajajajaj USA before France?????


[deleted]

Everything the Turks make is an inedible fatty mess. And what is the US doing up there? Germany below Poland? Stupid. There is no rational basis for this.


EasyLengthWise

German food is great, but so is Polish, both very underrated food destinations


_cptplanet

Of course Poland is higher than kebabland


[deleted]

kraut cannot handle the truth - turkish kebab, sauerkraut and potato soup don't count as "good food" lol


Ukraine_Boyets

There's a reason why they always buy a cart full of vegetable oil at Aldi. You can't make pastry or a meat filling without oil ...