Also, D even gets the entire bay of Naples, in addition to the cuisines of 3-4 billion people. Anyone who wants anything from A can get anything from there in Oceania.
D is so OP, I cannot imagine anyone picking anything else unless they are basing their choice on where they live.
Anyone who wants anything from A can get anything from there in Oceania.
But then that's food you can eat in Oceania, not food from Oceania. D has a ton of good Asian food, but for traditional Western cuisine you want A or H.
You cant only consider indigenous cuisine though. In that case it completely changes Mexican cuisine etc. Infact it changes literally every single cuisine in the world with the idea of 'real'
But that takes out all the chalange because all the regions have major cities and therefore all sorts of restaurants. I mean you can get good Chinese food in Buenos Aires I know and most other regional cuisines. I mean then New York City is op and everyone else is second place.
Yeah but the alternative is "you can't eat modern food from absolutely anywhere" because, for example, tomatoes have only been in italy since they were imported from the Americas
This gate keeping of cuisine is ridiculous. It would logically follow that you have to throw out anything that's made with something originally from a different zone. So no potatoes, tomatoes, corn or other new world crops... Well, anywhere but one of these sections. Anything that comes from cultural exchange is, apparently, right out. So good luck with whatever the fuck they were eating in mesopotamia and the Indus river valley civilisation. I hope you like your beer to be bread.
If it's been made by people who identify culturally as being "of that zone", and they self-identify it as part of their culture, then that's from there. Pretending that the awful colonisation of the entire world by white Europeans just... didn't happen is insanely naïve.
I mean, that's not what the word "from" means, otherwise curry would be American food and that aside from not making sense would make the OP a lot less interesting to consider.
Greek, Turkish, Arab, Indian, Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai, Korean, Japanese. If you want something more western, there's Australian for some classic bbq or fish n chips. There's also a tiny sliver of Italy.
That’s only if you like those things. G gets you barbecue, Mexican, Peruvian, Cuban, every Caribbean island, Hawaii, French Polynesia, and several others it’s hard to tell from the map.
Of the things you listed from D I only like Greek, Italian, Chinese, and Japanese. And I can get all of those from Hawaii and California.
But you HAVE BBQ, in the form of Hawaiian BBQ, which goes pretty hard too. And there’s BBQ-analogues all over Southeast Asia. And don’t forget, like, all of the Middle East. Check out some of the feast preparations of whole animals, as well as modern “convenience” spins on older recipes more suitable for family-size prep.
I won't deny, I'd miss Mexican food. Sure, a kebab is basically a burrito, but the differences are enough that it'd be a shame to never have either one.
But I do find the barbecue thing weird. Australian barbecue is close enough to American to be a more than acceptable substitute (although perhaps I'm biased). Korean galbi is amazing, though quite different.
Lots of peeps on the D train, so I’m going G. You’ve got the spiciness of Mexican and Caribbean paired with the savoryness of Guatemalan and Colombian. Jam packed with fish and chicken dishes. Ceviche, jerk chicken, jambalaya, fried plantains, cornbreads, tacos, and giant burritos. Southern Spain means you get paella chock full of shellfish and also Spanish olives. And in the far west you get a bit of Hawaiian flare, so a little bit of Japanese sneaks in.
Regardless D and G are S tier. E and A are A tier. Everything else is, well, a carb with sauerkraut and sausage.
Plus G gives you some of the best of USAmerican food like all the bbqs, cheesesteaks, American chinese, and all the random fusions that occur in the la, atlanta, and dc metros!
After living in D for half my life, the lack of decent Mexican food makes me a G person too.
I'll argue that C has a pretty solid showing. Southern Italy, Greece, Croatia, Serbia, the rest of the Balkans, Turkey, Ukraine, Russia, Northern China, Central Asia, Mongolia, Northern Japan. There's a lot going on there.
Afircan food is pretty great. E has parts of Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Egypt. (Those are the ones that I've tried. There's probably more countries with great food there.)
Easy D for me. It has Indian, Bangladeshi, Japanese, Chinese, Thai, and Vietnamese. I don't think I need anything else in life lol. Come to think of it, the only food I've had in the last month or so that isn't from D is pizza, but I can live without pizza.
(I'm Indian so there's obvious bias. But even if Indian and Bangladeshi food were removed, I'll still choose D. I'll be a little tempted by G because of Barbecue, but Korean barbecue is pretty great as well.)
Dude that, and then there's like most of West Asia from Afghan to Lebanese with everything in between, plus Turkey and even a sliver of Greece and Italy.
With Greece and Italy giving us European in addition to Indian and Asian, D covers pretty much everything and makes it incredibly balanced. it's the only choice.
D is the answet and it's so unfair. It has the entire diverse range of Asian cuisine, a glimpse of Western and Latin (through Australia-NZ and Philippines), and a slice of Medditeranean. It has all the ways to cook rice!
I’ll be a little tempted by G because of Barbecue, but Korean barbecue is pretty great as well
Galbi is great, but don't forget you also get Australian barbecue. Which, while not exactly the same as American barbecue, is much more similar to it than galbi is.
D without a doubt. Southern tip of Italy, Greek, Turkish, Persian, Pakistan, Indian, Chinese, Thai, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, Australian, just to name a few.
D gets you most of Middle Eastern, all of India, most of China, all of South Asia, most of Australia, most of Japan. Huge variety, extremely high number of options, lots of spice availability, lots of meat and nonmeat protein options.
G mostly because of Mexico alone. I've traveled there a bunch recently and the food game is insane. You also get the US South (which does have a lot of great food outside of deep fried everything), Spain, Portugal, and Morocco.
C gets an honorable mention mostly because of southeast Europe. That whole area has been a crossroads for a very long time.
I'm solidly on D ground, but G because of Mexico alone?? That's just plain madness or hopefully pure ignorance. Central and South America have so much more than just Mexican food.
Don't forget about Peruvian food with G - literally some of the best food on the planet. Since the contest began in 2012, Peru has won World's Leading Culinary Destination in the World Travel Awards every single year except for one. But a lot of people have no idea that the cuisine even exists. G also has a lot of fusion foods such as Vietcajun and Chifa.
But if you're vegetarian, D is the obvious choice.
Love Mexican and south American food, Creole, Southern, Cuban…plus the US has stolen foods from around the world, so I guess I get to keep pretty much eating whatever.
B is being slept on in this thread.
I mean, look at it - you get northern Italy, Germany, Austria, Hungary, the northern Balkans, Sweden, and Finland. If you like pasta, pizza, grilled meats, fries, potatoes, sausages, licorice, a mindbogglingly large number of breads and cheeses, etc. etc. you'd be stupid not to pick that region.
Yeah, D gets you at least four entirely different types of cuisine and Australian stuff will still have that Euro/American vibe. Only downside is you'll technically be allowed to eat Vegemite.
D represents something like 50% of the world population. The variety there is likely sufficient to sustain anyone indefinitely.
Although everything in the global south likely has varying degrees if spice, so those with intolerance might be better served with one of the northern slices. That said, slice A would be hands down the worst choice.
Wouldn't be a problem. G includes the West Indies places like Trinidad which has plenty of food that originated in India. So not the full list of all Indian food but it is perfectly real and not some crappy fusion restaurant knock off.
Results of the British colonial era bringing a lot of people from India after ending the official slave trade and still wanting people to work plantations. So they switched from literally slavery to the not quite but still awful indentured service. The British would get the lowest social groups in India that functionally couldn't own property in India to sign contracts for many years of work in exchange for a 1 room shack and a micro plot of land of their own.
It has the salt, the umami, the sour in brilliant combinations and it leaves you fed in a distinct way compared to other foods! You just want to lay down and rest on the food afterwards which you don't get from many other cuisines 😎
Haha, one could argue the feeling of being fed and needing rest afterwards might be because of the sheer amount of husmanskost that is usually had (because it is so good) 😄
D!!! Of Course??? Turkish, Greek, Indian, Thai, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Irani, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Filipino.... E, C and G get honorable mentions but it really is not fair at all.
D is lots of different Chinese regional dishes (Shanghai style, south China styles, Xi'an Muslim styles, and all the different dumplings); all the great Japanese food, Vietnamese food, Thai food, Indian food, Aussie and New Zealand wines, Aussie steaks, New Zealand lamb, Malay, Indonesian dishes, Cebu BBQ, plus Lebanese and Persian food. That is a lot of variety.
G gets you New Orleans dishes, California wine, Cali tacos, Tex Mex, southeastern USA BBQ, Low Country Boil, Mexican food, Caribbean food, central American, chocolate, and I am guessing Hawaiian dishes.
I must choose the very unpopular "B", for the sole reason that rest of the world is seemingly unable or unwilling to make proper sourdough rye bread. It is very, very delicious.
It’s a hard choice between D and G for me. G gets all of the southern US cuisine that Europeans are always blown away by, along with texmex, traditional Mexican, street tacos, Louisiana seafood, Cali and Florida seafood, etc… But D gets India, the Mediterranean (maybe even Italy? I can’t quite tell on this map), Korean, Japanese, etc…
If I wanted to commit to consistently good food, I’d go with G. But if I wanted a wider variety with a broader spice palette, I’d go with D.
All the most interesting flavours come from D section.
There also lies the birthplace of spices. Wars were fought over those pices. The earliest forms of global trade was formed over those spices. Europeans started colonialism largely driven by the need for regular access to those spices.
Do not underestimate the power and value of spices. No other section, as presented here, compares.
G has mexican, cajun, columbian, and tex mex. Seriously south florida is insane food choice as well. Hell, I can get california burritos too. D has filipino, thai, arabic, and indian. Incredible vegan options and protein options and who doesnt love spicy thai chicken and rice? Either of those and im set for life :)
Yeah it's hard to say for sure. It looks to me like northern Greece (Greek Macedonia) is probably in C, but the Greek islands, the Peloponnese, and Attica are probably all in D.
I mean, even if you don't include China and Japan C also gets to call dibs over places like the Balkans and Caucasus (notably including Armenia), and on top of that it gets Italy.
A better question is which one of these is the worst. If I had to pick, B and C are not the best but even those aren’t too bad. A looks like it isn’t much but it is arguably the best. French and UK cuisine with a little German.
G. Sufficiently diverse populations and no hoity toity rules about what is authentic cuisine. Plus these regions contain every biome to grow every sort OG fruit vegetable and herb i could ever want to eat.
D for sure, Greek, Turkish, Persian, Lebanese, Indian, Thai, Vietnamese, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Cambodian, Philippine, New Zealand, and Australian (which is essentially French/British). And more.
All y'all sleeping on global South cuisine. F and E would get you an absolute smorgasbord of culinary bangers that you've probably never heard of. Plus with the amount of colonization that's happened in those areas, you'd get a lot of European-ish food too, if you wanted something more familiar. It's a tough choice between the two, but I'd take either of those in a heartbeat.
It’s D and it’s not even a little close. I’d be sad to lose burritos and jerk chicken, and not be able to try more African food, but yea D 10000%, no regrets.
If the lines were rotated some 22 degrees you'd have more of a realistic regional division of foods types for most places. As it is G and D has so much diversity that it's not much of a loss either way.
Food is so interconnected culturally, how do you even say where food really comes from? As an obvious illustrative example that most people would agree with, consider orange chicken. I don't think many people who really know about it would argue that, no, it's not American and actually Chinese. But at the same time, if we're willing to say variations of dishes are unique, then by that point you can basically get any food from any region. Because where do you draw the line? Does a different ratio of spices make it a unique dish? If so, well, every meal is probably unique depending on how precisely you measure.
TL;DR: If you agree orange chicken is an American dish and not a Chinese dish then you can probably get any food from any region so the choice doesn't matter.
G instead of D for me, because while I love Asian food, they also have a lot of spicy-sweet foods, and I hate spicy-sweet. Just do sweet, or just do spicy, but don't mix them in one. I hate sweet heat, there's few dishes that can make me like it. I also don't love a lot of tropical fruits and Asian fruits, I'm a basic bitch. But Tex-Mex all day? I can live with that, plus some Creole and soul food? Set for life. I will miss Asian food though... Curry, ramen, Kung Pao, lumpia...
I would say G, you get Mexican and southern US you get a bit of Brazilian, southern Spain, southern Portugal, Colombia, Venezuela and I would argue you get Italian in Sardinia and you even get Moroccan.
This can't really be answered in a simple way. Like a lot of "traditional" European dishes use potatoes. But at some point they where not native to Europe. So does that count? Or something like New York style pizza, is that American? Because in that case the Netherlands for example has a lot of Indonesian dishes that are more variations on traditional Indonesian food (made by immigrants using more local ingredients).
I think food is the best example why immigration and mixing of cultures can really improve humanity.
My take is that it's about complete meals, as they exist today, with the region that the meal is associated with. So I would put tikka masala in India, even though it was technically created in the UK. My guess is your Dutch Indonesian version is probably the same as that, and should go in D. Or would most Dutch people say "this is a Dutch meal"?
But you're definitely right that it's very fuzzy.
I saw a much more interesting problem not too long ago, which had much clearer lines. It was only about using ingredients native to either the new world or old world. Choose new world and you get chocolate, tomato, and potato. Old world means you miss out, but you do get wheat and rice.
I think you have a good point most Dutch people would say lets get Indonesian food today, while actually getting food you probably can't find exactly the same in Indonesia.
I would probably take D (I think it still has a tiny slice of Italy). Pizza and asian I can't live without. I think there is still debate on the origin of fries)...
Seems like everyone is answering "cuisine" instead of ingredients. All of France beats 1/6th of Italy. Bread making is France and India. But Canada has all the recipes and ingredient quality from all over the world.
If sourcing ingredients is the question, G more than D, if grown outdoors, but G has negative geopolitical support, and ingredients can be grown indoors in H. F is where coffee and cocoa come from, and I have addictions.
D for sure but a strong showing from G. Can't imagine anything else even putting up a slight competition to those options. I live in H and that would be a hilariously sad choice
Ay I am torn between G and E, African food is incredible and I'd probably be ok, but G is where I live and my city has amazing food, including African cuisines so if you just mean what's available in those regions, then G, absolutely.
Australia is in D and it is home to a vast multicultural community. There are people with a cultural background from all over the world cooking in Australia!
Okay first we gotta see what each region actually has. I'm gonna only count countries where a significant fraction of the area is included (so no including Italy in D or A or France in H). With that in mind,
A: France, Germany, British Isles.
B: Central, Northern and Eastern Europe, Italy, Russia.
C: Balkans, some Eastern Europe, Italy, Russia, northern half of Central Asia, Caucasus, Turkey if we're being generous, China, Japan and (North) Korea.
D: Middle East (sans Egypt), Indian Peninsula, China, Southeast Asia and East Asia
E: Some Arabian Peninsula, eastern North Africa, sub-Saharan Africa
F: Most of South America, western North Africa, West Africa
G: Some South America, Central America, USAmerica, Spain
H: Spain and USAmerica
Some are obviously stronger than others stares at D and G, but wow this is more even than I expected. A gets hard carried by France, B gets Italy and Eastern Europe, C gets (some of) that and also Armenia and East Asia, E gets hard carried by Egypt (sorry for the whole rest of Africa, y'all need better PR), F is the birthplace of the potato and while H is just a subset of G it's a pretty decent one. Without further ado, here's my tier list:
I don't think it's usually associated with the country, but you will find a good amount of Egyptian stuff in a Middle Eastern restaurant. I think falafel is the most popular example. Also not internationally popular but Egyptian cheese is really good.
G (kind of a tie with H idk, I just like US borgers basically)
C (for Ukrainian mostly, basically cheating to get back to B lol)
D
F
E
Anything D and below idk, I could eat it but it I certainly wouldn't enjoy it, I hate Asian food with a passion, sans that bit of Turkish and Mediterranean which is ok. F and E I honestly don't know what they eat, like jerk chicken? Nando's type stuff? Yeah then I might actually choose to starve tbqh.
I wasn't thinking of French, I like some British foods like a nice all English breakfast with some orange juice, though a croissant is well paired with that.
Would probably choose B as thats the one im most used to but D is also really good. You have south-east asian, east asian, indian, arabic, turkish, greek etc. You even have australia and new zealand included if thats what you fancy. Also israel where, as we all know, all food orginates from.
Seems i have to be the autist in this thread and complain about that map. How is that a fair split if D contains 50% of the human population while A has barely 200mil.
Why is it centered on Italy? Why so far north? Any slice going north just touches 2-4 countries while the ones going south can have 30?
I guest there isnt a place to put the center that would weight all sectors equally but cmon this is just lazy
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Stillwater@sh.itjust.works · 183 pts · 345d
D has a ton of Asian goodness
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works · 106 pts · 345d
Also, D even gets the entire bay of Naples, in addition to the cuisines of 3-4 billion people. Anyone who wants anything from A can get anything from there in Oceania.
D is so OP, I cannot imagine anyone picking anything else unless they are basing their choice on where they live.
NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io · 12 pts · 345d
But then that's food you can eat in Oceania, not food from Oceania. D has a ton of good Asian food, but for traditional Western cuisine you want A or H.
SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 345d
D has Australia and nz too
showmeyourkizinti@startrek.website · 5 pts · 345d
Yeah but the real cuisine from Australia is grubs, roo meat and berries.
SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 345d
You cant only consider indigenous cuisine though. In that case it completely changes Mexican cuisine etc. Infact it changes literally every single cuisine in the world with the idea of 'real'
showmeyourkizinti@startrek.website · 2 pts · 345d
But that takes out all the chalange because all the regions have major cities and therefore all sorts of restaurants. I mean you can get good Chinese food in Buenos Aires I know and most other regional cuisines. I mean then New York City is op and everyone else is second place.
SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 344d
So do we not count potato dishes for India since they were introduced by the Brits or how about tomatoes for Italy?
If we allow ingredients but recipes are the issue, than is Japanese curry not counted for Japan considering it went from India to Britain to Japan?
How about removing biryani from India/ Pakistan since the mughals created it with Persian techniques.
What about fusion cuisines? All the pizzas in the world for example?
Keeping it indigenous is literally impossible bc that idea doesn't even exist.
BreakerSwitch@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 344d
Yeah but the alternative is "you can't eat modern food from absolutely anywhere" because, for example, tomatoes have only been in italy since they were imported from the Americas
NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io · 1 pts · 345d
Yeah that's (part of) Oceania.
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works · -1 pts · 345d
This gate keeping of cuisine is ridiculous. It would logically follow that you have to throw out anything that's made with something originally from a different zone. So no potatoes, tomatoes, corn or other new world crops... Well, anywhere but one of these sections. Anything that comes from cultural exchange is, apparently, right out. So good luck with whatever the fuck they were eating in mesopotamia and the Indus river valley civilisation. I hope you like your beer to be bread.
If it's been made by people who identify culturally as being "of that zone", and they self-identify it as part of their culture, then that's from there. Pretending that the awful colonisation of the entire world by white Europeans just... didn't happen is insanely naïve.
NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io · 4 pts · 345d
I mean, that's not what the word "from" means, otherwise curry would be American food and that aside from not making sense would make the OP a lot less interesting to consider.
wewbull@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 345d
I'd miss mexican food, but some arsehole bundled it with the USA.
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 345d
Worse, they bundled it with the worse half of the USA (except for soul food).
AA5B@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 344d
Zagorath@aussie.zone · 55 pts · 345d
D is literally the only answer.
Greek, Turkish, Arab, Indian, Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai, Korean, Japanese. If you want something more western, there's Australian for some classic bbq or fish n chips. There's also a tiny sliver of Italy.
tyler@programming.dev · 15 pts · 345d
That’s only if you like those things. G gets you barbecue, Mexican, Peruvian, Cuban, every Caribbean island, Hawaii, French Polynesia, and several others it’s hard to tell from the map.
Of the things you listed from D I only like Greek, Italian, Chinese, and Japanese. And I can get all of those from Hawaii and California.
nialv7@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 345d
Yeah I'd choose D but will be really really sad to not be able to eat anything from G ever again.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 345d
But you HAVE BBQ, in the form of Hawaiian BBQ, which goes pretty hard too. And there’s BBQ-analogues all over Southeast Asia. And don’t forget, like, all of the Middle East. Check out some of the feast preparations of whole animals, as well as modern “convenience” spins on older recipes more suitable for family-size prep.
Zagorath@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 345d
I won't deny, I'd miss Mexican food. Sure, a kebab is basically a burrito, but the differences are enough that it'd be a shame to never have either one.
But I do find the barbecue thing weird. Australian barbecue is close enough to American to be a more than acceptable substitute (although perhaps I'm biased). Korean galbi is amazing, though quite different.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 345d
I think Mexican food would be the only major loss here, tbh
DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 345d
And don't forget Kiwi... I want to say... fruit?
50MYT@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 345d
Hangi.
quoll@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 345d
kiwi land has amazing dairy and wine
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 345d
G is better- fight me
Zagorath@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 344d
Of course the CIA would say that.
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 343d
Look I spent a lot of time in South America… wait I want supposed to say that
sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works · 28 pts · 345d
Mediterranean, middle eastern, indian, Chinese, se asian. I can live with that.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 345d
+1 for D
It's literally where the world gets most of their spices ... the English fought wars for those places and those spices
plyth@feddit.org · 8 pts · 345d
To sell them to the world. Never get high on your own supply.
bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 345d
Indian and Chinese ftw. I'll miss my local Moroccan place though.
quoll@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 345d
plus aotearoa for cheese and wine.
EvenOdds@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 345d
Aussie wine and cheese is arguably even better, yet another reason to go with D.
galoisghost@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 345d
D also has all the shit I cook. Hello microwaved Vegemite and cheese sandwiches.
wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io · 99 pts · 345d
Lots of peeps on the D train, so I’m going G. You’ve got the spiciness of Mexican and Caribbean paired with the savoryness of Guatemalan and Colombian. Jam packed with fish and chicken dishes. Ceviche, jerk chicken, jambalaya, fried plantains, cornbreads, tacos, and giant burritos. Southern Spain means you get paella chock full of shellfish and also Spanish olives. And in the far west you get a bit of Hawaiian flare, so a little bit of Japanese sneaks in.
Regardless D and G are S tier. E and A are A tier. Everything else is, well, a carb with sauerkraut and sausage.
cAUzapNEAGLb@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 345d
Plus G gives you some of the best of USAmerican food like all the bbqs, cheesesteaks, American chinese, and all the random fusions that occur in the la, atlanta, and dc metros!
FeatherConstrictor@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 345d
Yeah it's gotta be G for me too
shifty@leminal.space · 8 pts · 345d
After living in D for half my life, the lack of decent Mexican food makes me a G person too.
I'll argue that C has a pretty solid showing. Southern Italy, Greece, Croatia, Serbia, the rest of the Balkans, Turkey, Ukraine, Russia, Northern China, Central Asia, Mongolia, Northern Japan. There's a lot going on there.
NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io · 1 pts · 345d
A is obvious, but why E?
SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org · 5 pts · 345d
Afircan food is pretty great. E has parts of Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Egypt. (Those are the ones that I've tried. There's probably more countries with great food there.)
morphballganon@mtgzone.com · 3 pts · 345d
E's got Ethiopia. I don't know if Ethiopian rivals French though
SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org · 59 pts · 345d
Easy D for me. It has Indian, Bangladeshi, Japanese, Chinese, Thai, and Vietnamese. I don't think I need anything else in life lol. Come to think of it, the only food I've had in the last month or so that isn't from D is pizza, but I can live without pizza.
(I'm Indian so there's obvious bias. But even if Indian and Bangladeshi food were removed, I'll still choose D. I'll be a little tempted by G because of Barbecue, but Korean barbecue is pretty great as well.)
mushroomman_toad@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 345d
I dont think any other country would claim this, so I pretty sure this counts as Japanese pizza
tiramichu@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 345d
"Double deliciousness all the way to the crust!"
Language trivia: In Japanese the "crust" of the bread is called the "ears"
klemptor@startrek.website · 4 pts · 345d
I call it the pizza bone.
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 345d
A mini dog pizza? What is this?
booking next flight to Japan
billygoat@catata.fish · 1 pts · 345d
Needs more corn
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 345d
Well, I was hungry... Not anymore
PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de · 11 pts · 345d
Dude that, and then there's like most of West Asia from Afghan to Lebanese with everything in between, plus Turkey and even a sliver of Greece and Italy.
tiramichu@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 345d
With Greece and Italy giving us European in addition to Indian and Asian, D covers pretty much everything and makes it incredibly balanced. it's the only choice.
PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 345d
I will sorely miss Mexican food but that's an acceptable price to pay
xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 345d
D is the answet and it's so unfair. It has the entire diverse range of Asian cuisine, a glimpse of Western and Latin (through Australia-NZ and Philippines), and a slice of Medditeranean. It has all the ways to cook rice!
Zagorath@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 345d
Galbi is great, but don't forget you also get Australian barbecue. Which, while not exactly the same as American barbecue, is much more similar to it than galbi is.
Deathray5@lemmynsfw.com · 3 pts · 345d
Also Korea. I've only been to two Korean places and they have always had at least 1 nice vegan option
50_centavos@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 345d
D has a tiny sliver of Italy too.
Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 345d
Yeah and Malay food 😋 god, d is easy
Greg@lemmy.ca · 52 pts · 345d
D without a doubt. Southern tip of Italy, Greek, Turkish, Persian, Pakistan, Indian, Chinese, Thai, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, Australian, just to name a few.
Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 50 pts · 345d
D, hands down. Indian, Thai, Vietnamese, Iranian, Turkish, Japanese, Chinese. Literally my favorite foods
Edit: Also includes a little bit of Italy!!
devedeset@lemmy.zip · 48 pts · 345d
D or G
D gets you most of Middle Eastern, all of India, most of China, all of South Asia, most of Australia, most of Japan. Huge variety, extremely high number of options, lots of spice availability, lots of meat and nonmeat protein options.
G mostly because of Mexico alone. I've traveled there a bunch recently and the food game is insane. You also get the US South (which does have a lot of great food outside of deep fried everything), Spain, Portugal, and Morocco.
C gets an honorable mention mostly because of southeast Europe. That whole area has been a crossroads for a very long time.
jol@discuss.tchncs.de · 12 pts · 345d
I'm solidly on D ground, but G because of Mexico alone?? That's just plain madness or hopefully pure ignorance. Central and South America have so much more than just Mexican food.
nialv7@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 345d
You forgot Puerto Rican and Jamaican food which is also in G.
parricc@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 344d
Don't forget about Peruvian food with G - literally some of the best food on the planet. Since the contest began in 2012, Peru has won World's Leading Culinary Destination in the World Travel Awards every single year except for one. But a lot of people have no idea that the cuisine even exists. G also has a lot of fusion foods such as Vietcajun and Chifa.
But if you're vegetarian, D is the obvious choice.
GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml · 47 pts · 345d
D is the only sensible choice, there's really no debate here.
kobaia@discuss.tchncs.de · 42 pts · 345d
B You get italian food but still can have Surströmming
rucksack@feddit.org · 25 pts · 345d
blursed
ObviouslyNotBanana@piefed.world · 10 pts · 345d
Deal of the century
silasmariner@programming.dev · 6 pts · 345d
Unparalleled energy
lime@feddit.nu · 4 pts · 345d
and pitepalt!
Tonava@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 344d
Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip · 41 pts · 345d
D is honestly extremely OP
kata1yst@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 345d
Yeah no kidding. D and it isn't even close.
gerryflap@feddit.nl · 37 pts · 345d
D has all the good stuff. Middle Eastern, Asian food, even a part of Greek food. I don't really see any competition to that.
doortodeath@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 345d
Even a tiny bit of italy, D is heaven!
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 345d
Don't forget Japan! Pasta, sushi, curry, pad Tai, nasi. All the good stuff
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 345d
G.
Love Mexican and south American food, Creole, Southern, Cuban…plus the US has stolen foods from around the world, so I guess I get to keep pretty much eating whatever.
saigot@lemmy.ca · 35 pts · 344d
D, Italian, Japanese, Vietnamese, Chinese and Indian are already 90% of my diet
BigBenis@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 345d
D without a doubt. Indian, Thai, Vietnamese, Japanese, parts of China. It's even got some Mediterranean in there. That's basically all I eat already.
Voyajer@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 345d
The only options are D and G
Bane_Killgrind@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 0 pts · 345d
Consider global warming
bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 345d
G. Mexican food will survive anything, including being left out for a couple days and not killing you when you forget how long it's been left out.
HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 345d
D has virtually all god-tier food Asia has ever produced, plus a bonus of whatever culinary bullshit Australia vomits onto the world stage.
mere@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 28 pts · 345d
D because of the huge variety in food, and the tiny chunk of Italy means I still technically get Italian food :)
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 345d
This map is doing flavor gerrymandering with D.
Runaway@lemmy.zip · 26 pts · 345d
I mean D is a powerhouse lol
ZC3rr0r@lemmy.ca · 26 pts · 345d
B is being slept on in this thread. I mean, look at it - you get northern Italy, Germany, Austria, Hungary, the northern Balkans, Sweden, and Finland. If you like pasta, pizza, grilled meats, fries, potatoes, sausages, licorice, a mindbogglingly large number of breads and cheeses, etc. etc. you'd be stupid not to pick that region.
buttnugget@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 344d
Has to be D. Last time I said Japanese and Mexican, but I forgot Iranian.
fenrasulfr@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 345d
D is probably the best region.
BigPotato@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 345d
Yeah, D gets you at least four entirely different types of cuisine and Australian stuff will still have that Euro/American vibe. Only downside is you'll technically be allowed to eat Vegemite.
fenrasulfr@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 344d
Well you also get greek for the European vibes. And kebab according to Germans.
finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 23 pts · 345d
I'm torn between D and G. I love Thai, Chinese, Japanese, and Mexican/Central American cuisines, not to mention American barbecue.
tyler@programming.dev · 2 pts · 345d
You can get Japanese and Chinese in Hawaii and Cali just fine.
NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io · 4 pts · 345d
I mean, sure, but it's not from those places, which is the point of the OP.
bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip · -1 pts · 345d
Many of those folks live and cook their native cuisine in the G region.
SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 345d
That's kinda against the whole idea though. You can get pretty much any cuisine anywhere nowadays.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 344d
D. Curry, Szechwan, vietnamese, thai, asian street food!, Teriyaki and Sushi all day.
pyre@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 344d
D gets Turkish, Arab, Indian, Chinese, Korean... why didn't you cut this in a way that gives the rest of the world any chance?
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 345d
lol can't go wrong with A. Snails, frog legs, shark, whale blubber, seal, dolphin, herring, fries and cheese. Truly haute cuisine.
kandoh@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 345d
A contains just sliver of Italy too
jayrar@lemy.lol · 1 pts · 345d
And beans
baatliwala@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 345d
I live in D, but regardless it's so stupidly stacked it's nearly impossible to choose anything else.
icelimit@lemmy.ml · 18 pts · 345d
D represents something like 50% of the world population. The variety there is likely sufficient to sustain anyone indefinitely.
Although everything in the global south likely has varying degrees if spice, so those with intolerance might be better served with one of the northern slices. That said, slice A would be hands down the worst choice.
SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca · 18 pts · 345d
H, because I'm in Canada, and the food would be cold before the guy from D got here.
gray@lemmy.ml · 18 pts · 345d
D is easily superior
socsa@piefed.social · 18 pts · 345d
D is the obvious correct choice because the western food in Asia is superior to the Asian food in the west.
lustyargonian@lemmy.zip · 17 pts · 345d
D or G
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 345d
G, no contest.
weariedfae@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 345d
It's gotta be G. Soul food, Mexican, fry bread, bbq, all the fruits from that region, yum.
I'm not big on Asian foods, I enjoy them well enough but the only thing I'd miss in D would be Indian.
Thrawn@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 345d
Wouldn't be a problem. G includes the West Indies places like Trinidad which has plenty of food that originated in India. So not the full list of all Indian food but it is perfectly real and not some crappy fusion restaurant knock off.
Results of the British colonial era bringing a lot of people from India after ending the official slave trade and still wanting people to work plantations. So they switched from literally slavery to the not quite but still awful indentured service. The British would get the lowest social groups in India that functionally couldn't own property in India to sign contracts for many years of work in exchange for a 1 room shack and a micro plot of land of their own.
Johnmannesca@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 345d
Don't forget Chine-Mex!
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 345d
Context clues are telling me that this is relevant to my interests.
Please, good sir/madam, what is Chine-Mex? Is it what I hope it is?
Johnmannesca@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 345d
Well, if we assume American-Chinese foods are based upon what's available to make authentic dishes, then Chine-Mex is the equivalent for South US(border region mostly) and Mexico. Stuff like cilantro in egg rolls or avocado fried rice! Here's a nice supplemental NPR Article: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/04/16/399637724/the-chinese-mexican-cuisine-born-of-u-s-prejudice
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 344d
That looks amazing, thanks
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 345d
I'm also cautiously optimistic, but I'll be honest with you, it feels a little too good to be true.
_stranger_@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 345d
I once ate at a place called Wok-A-Mole that served Chinese Mexican buffet, and had a mural of pandas wearing sombreros.
I hope it's that, but with good food
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 345d
??? If there is any good Mexican in China or vietnam, please tell me where. Every time I am disappointed.
guy@piefed.social · 16 pts · 345d
Husmanskost is one of the best cuisines but damn there's no contest against D.
Gimme the D for the rest of my life please
hanke@feddit.nu · 4 pts · 345d
I'm a casual husmanskost enjoyer, but I've never heard of anyone claiming it to be one of the best cuisines out there.
I don't disagree with you, but I was surprised to hear that take 😄
guy@piefed.social · 3 pts · 345d
It has the salt, the umami, the sour in brilliant combinations and it leaves you fed in a distinct way compared to other foods! You just want to lay down and rest on the food afterwards which you don't get from many other cuisines 😎
hanke@feddit.nu · 2 pts · 345d
Haha, one could argue the feeling of being fed and needing rest afterwards might be because of the sheer amount of husmanskost that is usually had (because it is so good) 😄
But once again, I don't disagree👍
joan@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 345d
D!!! Of Course??? Turkish, Greek, Indian, Thai, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Irani, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Filipino.... E, C and G get honorable mentions but it really is not fair at all.
fritobugger2017@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 344d
D or G because those both can grow coffee.
Tough call though.
D is lots of different Chinese regional dishes (Shanghai style, south China styles, Xi'an Muslim styles, and all the different dumplings); all the great Japanese food, Vietnamese food, Thai food, Indian food, Aussie and New Zealand wines, Aussie steaks, New Zealand lamb, Malay, Indonesian dishes, Cebu BBQ, plus Lebanese and Persian food. That is a lot of variety.
G gets you New Orleans dishes, California wine, Cali tacos, Tex Mex, southeastern USA BBQ, Low Country Boil, Mexican food, Caribbean food, central American, chocolate, and I am guessing Hawaiian dishes.
And now I'm hungry.
Akasazh@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 345d
Me, who knows how globes work:
I'm perfectly fine either way.
Lorindol@sopuli.xyz · 13 pts · 345d
I must choose the very unpopular "B", for the sole reason that rest of the world is seemingly unable or unwilling to make proper sourdough rye bread. It is very, very delicious.
uzay@infosec.pub · 13 pts · 344d
It is split that way because obviously no one can live for the rest of their life without mediterranean food
fading_person@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 345d
F is one of the best choices, but most people from the northern hemisphere will miss out because they never had a chance to meet our culinary.
Leather@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 345d
A!
French food! And uh, rotting whale taint buried in sand for three months, then pickled in shark piss.
thatradomguy@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 345d
D. Japan literally has so many random recipes that I get overwhelmed when deciding what to try.
Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 345d
Imma go with A
potatopotato@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 345d
Is it the snails, the frogs, or the British food that's doing it for you?
tuckerm@feddit.online · 8 pts · 345d
The Guinness! Makes everything else tolerable. (But also, shepherd's pie is in there.)
josefo@leminal.space · -1 pts · 345d
Worse option ever lol
OddMinus1@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 344d
D looks nice. Greek food, Turkish food, fuck Israel, Indian food, Japanese food, Thai food and whatever crocodile burger Australia serves.
Thteven@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 345d
All these people picking D have never had real Mexican food.
PumpkinSkink@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 345d
D or G seems like the obvious choices
zipsglacier@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 345d
zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 345d
For me it's D > G > everything else.
morphballganon@mtgzone.com · 10 pts · 345d
Mexican and Texas BBQ? Say no more.
hperrin@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 345d
G, for sure. Mexican food is the best food.
UnmetPlayer@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 345d
D so I can still dip my timtams in vegemite
Xella@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 345d
G, I can't live without Mexican food.
DJDarren@sopuli.xyz · 9 pts · 345d
D, because I’m British and can’t trust them forrins to not put too much spice like salt in my food.
fubarx@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 345d
Hard D. No, wait...
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 345d
Everybody wants the D.
chunes@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 345d
G or D. D is the logical choice but giving up Mexican food is hard.
daggermoon@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 345d
B, it tastes good like American food but it won't cause you an early death.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 345d
It’s a hard choice between D and G for me. G gets all of the southern US cuisine that Europeans are always blown away by, along with texmex, traditional Mexican, street tacos, Louisiana seafood, Cali and Florida seafood, etc… But D gets India, the Mediterranean (maybe even Italy? I can’t quite tell on this map), Korean, Japanese, etc…
If I wanted to commit to consistently good food, I’d go with G. But if I wanted a wider variety with a broader spice palette, I’d go with D.
Tattorack@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 345d
D section.
All the most interesting flavours come from D section.
There also lies the birthplace of spices. Wars were fought over those pices. The earliest forms of global trade was formed over those spices. Europeans started colonialism largely driven by the need for regular access to those spices.
Do not underestimate the power and value of spices. No other section, as presented here, compares.
NorthWestWind@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 345d
A has like nothing good it's just the British (and Greenland)
kata1yst@sh.itjust.works · 21 pts · 345d
There is France. France has pretty damn good cuisine.
db2@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 345d
ohulancutash@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 345d
Cumberland sausages, steak and ale pie, apple pie, Yorkshire puddings, toad in the hole, curry, gin, whiskey, whisky, Guinness, IPA, Sunday roasts…
I pity the rest of the world.
wewbull@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 345d
...but we stole the rest of the worlds recipes.
NorthWestWind@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 344d
...and sucked at using them
fum@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 345d
D looks like I'd get Japanese, Indian, and Vietnamese food. Everything else in there is a bonus.
drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 345d
H because we just rip off everyone else's food anyway
ItsPlasmaSir@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 345d
If it weren’t for Sardinia being centered on this map, half these regions wouldn’t stand a chance
0xDREADBEEF@programming.dev · 8 pts · 345d
G has mexican, cajun, columbian, and tex mex. Seriously south florida is insane food choice as well. Hell, I can get california burritos too. D has filipino, thai, arabic, and indian. Incredible vegan options and protein options and who doesnt love spicy thai chicken and rice? Either of those and im set for life :)
Spesknight@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 345d
Why is this centered of Italy?
lime@feddit.nu · 26 pts · 345d
everyone gets pizza
And009@lemmynsfw.com · 2 pts · 345d
Finally
tuckerm@feddit.online · 7 pts · 345d
Korea is doing a lot to keep C viable.
F is a secret top tier with Morocco and Argentina.
I have to admit ignorance about most of E's cuisine, but Egypt is in there. That's something.
Zagorath@aussie.zone · 9 pts · 345d
Most of Korea (including all of South Korea) is in D, so there's no value add from C there.
tuckerm@feddit.online · 4 pts · 345d
Alright, I have to chalk that one up to my ignorance of "how big is North Korea."
Maybe part of Greece is in C? This JPEG compression is making it difficult.
Zagorath@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 345d
Yeah it's hard to say for sure. It looks to me like northern Greece (Greek Macedonia) is probably in C, but the Greek islands, the Peloponnese, and Attica are probably all in D.
NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io · 1 pts · 345d
I mean, even if you don't include China and Japan C also gets to call dibs over places like the Balkans and Caucasus (notably including Armenia), and on top of that it gets Italy.
Jumbie@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 344d
G is the best answer. You’ll end up eating every single cuisine from the other categories (or a variant of it).
NoPanko@feddit.uk · 7 pts · 345d
D no question, Indian food makes up a huge portion of my diet
Juice@midwest.social · 7 pts · 345d
Its funny that Italy is in 3 zones, impriving the quality of food of all three.
I'm also a D guy. I knew I liked D before the map was even posted
ICastFist@programming.dev · 7 pts · 345d
F for all my Brazilian food and churrasco needs
eager_eagle@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 345d
yeah, it's hard to beat BR food for me, most of the world don't know what they're missing out
Landless2029@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 345d
D still gets you Brazil and american BBQ though.
Edit: I meant G
eager_eagle@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 345d
it... doesn't?
also, american BBQ is such a low bar compared to churrasco, people might even be insulted
Landless2029@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 345d
Gah I meant G
ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com · 7 pts · 345d
ThunderQueen@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 345d
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 345d
morphballganon@mtgzone.com · 6 pts · 345d
France does some serious work.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 345d
I love French food. It may be the best in the world. Is it enough to offset the food crimes in the rest of the sector? You be the judge.
bier@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 345d
What do you have against hachee?
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 345d
I've never tried it. Also, I didn't notice the Netherlands were in sector A.
nagaram@startrek.website · 6 pts · 344d
G easily.
Southern comfort food, Mexican, Carribean, and Sushi Rolls. RIP Pizza but I didn't need it
Pacattack57@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 345d
A better question is which one of these is the worst. If I had to pick, B and C are not the best but even those aren’t too bad. A looks like it isn’t much but it is arguably the best. French and UK cuisine with a little German.
mlg@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 344d
D by far has the widest available palette, it includes the silk road which is the thing that fueled C, B, and E.
Dearth@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 344d
G. Sufficiently diverse populations and no hoity toity rules about what is authentic cuisine. Plus these regions contain every biome to grow every sort OG fruit vegetable and herb i could ever want to eat.
ultraviolence@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 345d
B and enjoy a life full of Surströmming
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org · 5 pts · 345d
Wurst, kiełbasa, pierogi, bagels, vepřo-knedlo-zelo, svíčková, chlebíčky and of course it's the only region to combine wine, beer and vodka.
ObviouslyNotBanana@piefed.world · 5 pts · 345d
Don't forget about banana curry pizza
Philote@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 345d
D for sure, Greek, Turkish, Persian, Lebanese, Indian, Thai, Vietnamese, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Cambodian, Philippine, New Zealand, and Australian (which is essentially French/British). And more.
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 345d
Anyone who chooses A or H is a psychopath
tuckerm@feddit.online · 12 pts · 345d
H has poutine and lobster, A has France and Ireland. There are some top tiers in each of these divisions.
Edit: wait, a piece of northern Italy is in A. A is a secret top tier.
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 345d
H has three of the top pizza traditions.
NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io · 2 pts · 345d
Or likes French and/or Spanish food.
Landwere@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 345d
Luv me beans on toast, simple as
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 345d
All y'all sleeping on global South cuisine. F and E would get you an absolute smorgasbord of culinary bangers that you've probably never heard of. Plus with the amount of colonization that's happened in those areas, you'd get a lot of European-ish food too, if you wanted something more familiar. It's a tough choice between the two, but I'd take either of those in a heartbeat.
WanderWisley@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 344d
G, BBQ and Mexican.
flop_leash_973@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 345d
G or D for me.
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 345d
You mean I have to choose between Hokkaido or the rest of Japan? Rough :(
noxypaws@pawb.social · 5 pts · 343d
D without the slightest hesitation.
carrylex@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 345d
Why is this centered on a random spot of warm water in the Mediterranean Sea?
erusuoyera@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 345d
It's not called the "middle of the earth" sea for nothing.
carrylex@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 345d
unlimited_mana90@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 345d
Check out the etomology for Mediterranean.
Jhuskindle@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 345d
G. Mexican and texmex. I hate Texas but holy shit Tex mex is like heaven. Oh and that Creole food oh yeah
Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 344d
artiman@piefed.social · 5 pts · 345d
D but prob biased because I'm from Iran
absentbird@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 344d
H, just put the poutine directly into my arteries.
hotdogcharmer@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 345d
A. I'd sooner pop my clogs than not have my rice pudding, black pudding, beans on toast, Eton mess, spotted dick, coronation chicken, and vindaloo.
transfluxus@leminal.space · 4 pts · 344d
I need this in a higher resolution
billwashere@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 345d
I need a much sharper image around that middle part before I’d make a decision.
noodles@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 345d
D D D
Soup@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 344d
It’s D and it’s not even a little close. I’d be sad to lose burritos and jerk chicken, and not be able to try more African food, but yea D 10000%, no regrets.
altima_neo@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 345d
G all day
remon@ani.social · 4 pts · 345d
B followed by all the other sections that have a slice of Italy. No point in bothering with the rest.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 345d
Does the USA only include like hamburgers? Or are we talking about all of the delicious multicultural foods?
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 4 pts · 345d
G.
Because I don't wanna change. But D is tempting. I love Asian food, and the best Asian shit is from that Southern region.
Legom7@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 345d
Other than everything invented in Brooklyn I don't know what H is, but I think it'd be good enough for me.
RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 343d
D, with G a very close second
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 345d
Horrible split, going right through my country, my state, and my administrative region.
For that, I would have to think if food from the other side of the river is considered illegal...
Rhaedas@fedia.io · 4 pts · 345d
If the lines were rotated some 22 degrees you'd have more of a realistic regional division of foods types for most places. As it is G and D has so much diversity that it's not much of a loss either way.
JackbyDev@programming.dev · 4 pts · 345d
Food is so interconnected culturally, how do you even say where food really comes from? As an obvious illustrative example that most people would agree with, consider orange chicken. I don't think many people who really know about it would argue that, no, it's not American and actually Chinese. But at the same time, if we're willing to say variations of dishes are unique, then by that point you can basically get any food from any region. Because where do you draw the line? Does a different ratio of spices make it a unique dish? If so, well, every meal is probably unique depending on how precisely you measure.
TL;DR: If you agree orange chicken is an American dish and not a Chinese dish then you can probably get any food from any region so the choice doesn't matter.
Valmond@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 345d
A of course, you get both French and Italian food.
Lodespawn@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 345d
A small part of northern Italy .. is Genoa even in that part? Also .. english food 🤮
Valmond@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 345d
You can both eat the best food in the world, and the worst 😁
Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 345d
G instead of D for me, because while I love Asian food, they also have a lot of spicy-sweet foods, and I hate spicy-sweet. Just do sweet, or just do spicy, but don't mix them in one. I hate sweet heat, there's few dishes that can make me like it. I also don't love a lot of tropical fruits and Asian fruits, I'm a basic bitch. But Tex-Mex all day? I can live with that, plus some Creole and soul food? Set for life. I will miss Asian food though... Curry, ramen, Kung Pao, lumpia...
callyral@pawb.social · 4 pts · 345d
F because i live there
and food here is pretty good
TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 345d
I would say G, you get Mexican and southern US you get a bit of Brazilian, southern Spain, southern Portugal, Colombia, Venezuela and I would argue you get Italian in Sardinia and you even get Moroccan.
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one · 3 pts · 345d
I partake in a little cannibalism, so it doesn't matter to me.
dan69@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 344d
D>G/F>E
Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 345d
H, I’m Canuck and old. Don’t want to change what I eat this late in the game.
Glifted@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 345d
G, but I acknowledge D is rad too
Marty_TF@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 345d
d
StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 345d
All c
CatDogL0ver@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 345d
The picture makes me wanting a pizza pie
dumbass@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 345d
Everyone wants to eat the D
bier@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 345d
This can't really be answered in a simple way. Like a lot of "traditional" European dishes use potatoes. But at some point they where not native to Europe. So does that count? Or something like New York style pizza, is that American? Because in that case the Netherlands for example has a lot of Indonesian dishes that are more variations on traditional Indonesian food (made by immigrants using more local ingredients).
I think food is the best example why immigration and mixing of cultures can really improve humanity.
Zagorath@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 345d
My take is that it's about complete meals, as they exist today, with the region that the meal is associated with. So I would put tikka masala in India, even though it was technically created in the UK. My guess is your Dutch Indonesian version is probably the same as that, and should go in D. Or would most Dutch people say "this is a Dutch meal"?
But you're definitely right that it's very fuzzy.
I saw a much more interesting problem not too long ago, which had much clearer lines. It was only about using ingredients native to either the new world or old world. Choose new world and you get chocolate, tomato, and potato. Old world means you miss out, but you do get wheat and rice.
bier@feddit.nl · 4 pts · 345d
I think you have a good point most Dutch people would say lets get Indonesian food today, while actually getting food you probably can't find exactly the same in Indonesia.
I would probably take D (I think it still has a tiny slice of Italy). Pizza and asian I can't live without. I think there is still debate on the origin of fries)...
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club · 3 pts · 345d
Is this the question that prompts the start of European part of WWIII??
It's a hard (and meaningless) decision.
And a fairly civil debate, gg.
atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 345d
C
I cannot live without sarmale and mici
humanspiral@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 344d
Seems like everyone is answering "cuisine" instead of ingredients. All of France beats 1/6th of Italy. Bread making is France and India. But Canada has all the recipes and ingredient quality from all over the world.
If sourcing ingredients is the question, G more than D, if grown outdoors, but G has negative geopolitical support, and ingredients can be grown indoors in H. F is where coffee and cocoa come from, and I have addictions.
sdfric88@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 345d
D for sure but a strong showing from G. Can't imagine anything else even putting up a slight competition to those options. I live in H and that would be a hilariously sad choice
stoy@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 345d
Ok, so every slice gets a part of the mediteranean kitchen?
Should be fine with most of the northern slices, include Italy, Spain or Greece and I am happy.
Sooo B for me.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 344d
I'm doing G. It would have all my favorite comfort foods, plus Mexican food. If the point extends to Italy, then it's perfect.
Who would pick H? What's up there, poutine and seal blubber?
individual@toast.ooo · 2 pts · 343d
Naz@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 345d
Oh you fucker, you put the bullseye on Italy which has my favorite cuisine and are forcing me to choose which part!
transfluxus@leminal.space · 2 pts · 344d
Damn, what happened to Italy?
RBWells@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 344d
Ay I am torn between G and E, African food is incredible and I'd probably be ok, but G is where I live and my city has amazing food, including African cuisines so if you just mean what's available in those regions, then G, absolutely.
MummysLittleBloodSlut@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 345d
D, easy
abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 345d
A has Scotland and I don't think I could give up Scottish Fast Food.
Nikls94@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 345d
Definitely A. France, Britain, Scotland, Iceland and Canada. Edit: just found a piece of Italy and Switzerland within A.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 345d
RIP to the Mediterranean
Or alternatively, everyone gets a little bit of Mediterranean food
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 345d
Not having the option of all Mediterranean foods is just plain evil.
Nexyte@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 345d
Well, it kinda is in every section.
chrischryse@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 345d
Whichever one has Sicily so either C or D can’t really tell
PlaidBaron@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 345d
Yeah people seriously underestimating Sicilian food.
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online · 2 pts · 345d
D. I kinda already do...
KombatWombat@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 345d
Has to be H, because I live there and if I had to get every meal imported to me that would be very annoying.
Valmond@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 344d
The cross is the epicenter of good food it seems.
bitchkat@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 344d
I think I have to go with A purely because of potato scones and Lorne sausage.
LemmyThinkAboutIt@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 344d
G. Mexican, BBQ and (possibly?) Hot Dogs, all I need. I also couldn't live without Dr Pepper.
SVcross@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 345d
F
Greyghoster@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 345d
Australia is in D and it is home to a vast multicultural community. There are people with a cultural background from all over the world cooking in Australia!
NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io · 2 pts · 345d
Okay first we gotta see what each region actually has. I'm gonna only count countries where a significant fraction of the area is included (so no including Italy in D or A or France in H). With that in mind, A: France, Germany, British Isles. B: Central, Northern and Eastern Europe, Italy, Russia. C: Balkans, some Eastern Europe, Italy, Russia, northern half of Central Asia, Caucasus, Turkey if we're being generous, China, Japan and (North) Korea. D: Middle East (sans Egypt), Indian Peninsula, China, Southeast Asia and East Asia E: Some Arabian Peninsula, eastern North Africa, sub-Saharan Africa F: Most of South America, western North Africa, West Africa G: Some South America, Central America, USAmerica, Spain H: Spain and USAmerica
Some are obviously stronger than others stares at D and G, but wow this is more even than I expected. A gets hard carried by France, B gets Italy and Eastern Europe, C gets (some of) that and also Armenia and East Asia, E gets hard carried by Egypt (sorry for the whole rest of Africa, y'all need better PR), F is the birthplace of the potato and while H is just a subset of G it's a pretty decent one. Without further ado, here's my tier list:
S: D, G, C A: A, B, E, F B: H
morphballganon@mtgzone.com · 1 pts · 345d
... is Egypt known for their food? I was thinking Ethiopian was the best of that section.
NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io · 3 pts · 345d
I don't think it's usually associated with the country, but you will find a good amount of Egyptian stuff in a Middle Eastern restaurant. I think falafel is the most popular example. Also not internationally popular but Egyptian cheese is really good.
m4xie@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 345d
'A' also has Belgian waffles, Dutch Pannenkoeken, Swiss fondue, and Icelandic Skyr (it's like yogurt, my wife likes it).
unknown1234_5@kbin.earth · 2 pts · 345d
G bc thats where I live already
vivalapivo@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 344d
C of course. Italian, Georgian, Slavic, Uzbek, and northern China.
ThirdConsul@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 344d
What's that landmass in A?
sunbytes@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 343d
D. I need my Tim Tams.
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 345d
B if only one
In order of preference for me:
Anything D and below idk, I could eat it but it I certainly wouldn't enjoy it, I hate Asian food with a passion, sans that bit of Turkish and Mediterranean which is ok. F and E I honestly don't know what they eat, like jerk chicken? Nando's type stuff? Yeah then I might actually choose to starve tbqh.
transfluxus@leminal.space · 0 pts · 344d
This is nuts. French food is overrated
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 343d
I wasn't thinking of French, I like some British foods like a nice all English breakfast with some orange juice, though a croissant is well paired with that.
ItsPlasmaSir@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 345d
If it weren’t for Sardinia being centered on this map, half these regions wouldn’t stand a chance
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 345d
D
m4xie@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 345d
It's got to be H, because I live in Canada and I'm not flying across an ocean every time I go for groceries!
joyjoy@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 345d
TexMex is real?
SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 345d
H because bannock is bestock
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 344d
Would probably choose B as thats the one im most used to but D is also really good. You have south-east asian, east asian, indian, arabic, turkish, greek etc. You even have australia and new zealand included if thats what you fancy. Also israel where, as we all know, all food orginates from.
Reality_Suit@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 345d
I was split between G and D until I saw the comment that D has a ton of Asian goodness. Definitely D.
tyler@programming.dev · 2 pts · 345d
G also has Asian goodness. Hawaii, French Polynesia, and Cali have tons of Asian food
NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io · 0 pts · 345d
Wait, what does D have other than Asian goodness?
tuckerm@feddit.online · 4 pts · 345d
I think people are mostly saying D for India, China, Japan, and Korea. It also has Greece and Lebanon.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 345d
Also Australia, so you get western things like sandwiches, pizza, and french fries. Plus meat pies.
jsomae@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 345d
Dividing the world according to this uniform mathematical system is so stupid. Is this secretly a pro-gerrymandering psyop?
DicJacobus@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 345d
groet@feddit.org · 1 pts · 343d
Seems i have to be the autist in this thread and complain about that map. How is that a fair split if D contains 50% of the human population while A has barely 200mil.
Why is it centered on Italy? Why so far north? Any slice going north just touches 2-4 countries while the ones going south can have 30?
I guest there isnt a place to put the center that would weight all sectors equally but cmon this is just lazy
tomi000@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 343d
I like how Germany is divided into East and West^^ the food is more distinct between North and South though.
CheesyFox@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 339d
C
That's just my usual ration plus some Indo-Asian spice in the mix. Perfect.
meliante@lemmy.pt · 1 pts · 344d
A (as in H) for northern Portugal and Galicia.
Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 345d
Can I just get the entire southern hemisphere?
xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 345d
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 345d
Do you need F to have access to potatoes?
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 343d
B. I know what I'm doing, healthiest lands with a pro-social mind.
Raiderkev@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 343d
G has burritos and in n out. Wtf more do you need?
tetris11@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 344d
E would be the only one I'd have to adjust for, I think the rest are all already on my plate
psx_crab@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 345d
I've been living in D my whole life and eating D most of the time, so i'll have D.
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 345d
G has MD blue crabs and Scrapple.
Case rested.
androidul@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 345d
right in the center!
To have access to all dishes in the word, thank you
😎🤘
marzhall@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 345d
Important: the potato and the tomato are from Peru. Are we talking modern cuisines, or pre-Columbian fusion?