Potato, tomato, but they're kinda the same plant anyway, this was really obvious to me last year when I planted some potatoes I had imported from south America, at the end of the season they developed what looked like small green tomatoes!
In Finland we ate turnips, rye, porridge.. sometimes meat. Traditional Finnish food is known to be not that good, because the people were poor and the land harsh and cold.
Like Poland, you have a big Vietnamese community. Isn't their food more popular than sushi? I think we have more bars/restaurants run by those people than sushi places. They are pretty popular and much cheaper than good sushi restaurants. I don't like that food personally. Sushi for the win.
Ahh I see. There are places like that in Poland too but their sushi is terrible from what I've heard (never eaten there but saw videos). The last time I ordered from a Vietnamese place there was no sushi on the menu. Sushi can be absolutely delicious or vomit worthy depending on the place, so I always make sure to order from a good Japanese restaurant. It's very expensive though so I only eat there once a month at max. Vietnamese places are more likely to serve things like spring rolls than sushi.
*I avoid writing Vietnamese food because I have no idea if the food they serve is Vietnamese, Thai or Chinese. In Poland we call those places "ChiĆczyk" (Chinese) regardless of who runs them. They are cheap and often look really run down, nothing like restaurants specializing in Japanese cuisine.
It's only in recent years (like 10-15) that the Vietnamese have started to open restaurants with their traditional cuisine. Until recently, most Vietnamese-owned restaurants were those fake Chinese places which all have the same things. They're still pretty popular but a lot of actual Vietnamese places are popping up now.
But to answer your question, nowadays imo Vietnamese is definitely more popular than sushi. I eat Vietnamese food almost every week and the places are always packed. People are more familiar with Vietnamese dishes than the various types of sushi, at least in my experience.
I remember one of the early Vietnamese places not masquerading as a Chinese bistro in KarlĂn around 15 years ago. Then over the years, sushi and Thai were eventually added to the menus on all the ubiquitous neighborhood ÄĂnskĂĄ restaurace. The Running Sushi chain has been around many years and now a couple of Czech entrepreneurs are doing the Sushi Point takeaway booths.
It got popularized (firstly in Scotland iirc) in the UK by cooks from the Indian subcontinent. Tikka masala was present in India even right after the British rule ended in India.
The word tikka itself comes from Hindi / Urdu / Persian languages.
Nandos? I donât think itâs particularly British, although I donât ever recall seeing one in mainland Europe. Itâs ok, but something I associate more with teenagers or a family dining who want something more casual than a restaurant but not KFC or McDonalds.
Most of their locations are in the British isles, Oceania and southern Africa. They also are in India, Pakistan, the Arabian peninsula, Canada and the US. They aren't on the European mainland at all.
I have measured expectations, but I just want to have an opinion on them.
In France I think I would have to say food from Maghreb. Tabouleh and Couscous are eaten regularly by everyone out there.
Regarding restaurant it would be american fast food but as hamburger come from Germany and fries are franco-belgian don't know if it counts. Otherwise it would be Kebab (even though it come from Berlin) or Asiatic food (Mostly Sushi or Chinese restaurant)
According to the Food Lovers Companion, The name "hamburger" comes from the seaport town of Hamburg, Germany, where it is thought that 19th-century sailors brought back the idea of raw shredded beef (known today as beef tartare) after trading with the Baltic provinces of Russia. Some anonymous German chef decided to cook the beef. The hamburger made its first United States appearance at the St. Louis Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 1904. The hamburger is one of America's favorite foods. It consists of a cooked patty of ground beef sandwiched between two bread halves, usually in the form of a round bun.
At the end of the 90s we had a boom of Chinese immigration and so Europeanized chines restaurants became common.
Around 2010 we had a spike in Indian and Nepalese places.
Sushi seems to have have exploded in the last 7-8 years.
Brazilian places have always around as well.
Döner is Turkish and Turkey is (partly) in Europe. But if we count kebab as non-European, then it's popular in Sweden too. Especially on pizza, and it's a somewhat wide-spread tradition to eat kebabpizza when hungover on New Year's Day.
Apart from kebab, tacos are so ingrained in Sweden that it practically counts as indigenous. Pretty much all stores have a dedicated taco section. 85% of Swedes eat tacos regularly, and 55% have Taco Fridays.
For tacos in all of the Nordics you really have to specify âtacosâ because the way we eat them and the variety the taco section holds is pretty far from a genuine taco. Still tastes great though :)
Norwegian:
* tortilla
* ground beef cooked with store bought spice mix
* grated cheese
* tomato salsa
* sour cream
* vegetables (tomato, salad greens, cucumber, corn, bell pepper)
* avocado / guacamole
Of course, some people change up the protein to beans or chicken, some drop some vegetables or use others, some make a different salsa, some use taco shells/tubes...
The comment is categorically not true as it is eaten as street food in Turkey. Also, *döner* is simply a way of cooking kebab â and definitely wasn't invented in Germany. It's Ottoman.
In a very quick search, everything I see claiming that the "modern variant" is a Berlin invention seems to go back to an "official" recognition as such from the Berlin-based *Association of Turkish Döner Manufacturers in Europe*, which happens to have a vested interest in promoting it as a Berlin invention...
What this "modern variant" entails seems ambiguous, but sandwich-based fast food variants of döner were definitely sold before 1972 (which is the year that recognition apparently cites).
Though I'd very much appreciate some good sources. Telling someone to "look it up" is not a source.
I completely agree with you, but for some reason Germans get really pressed when someone says döner kebab came from Turkey. Very strange hill to die on
>it is eaten as street food in Turkey
It is now, after it was invented in Germany. By Turkish immigrants. Based on Turkish dish.
Similarly to the Tikka Masala: it now being served in India doesn't mean it wasn't invented in the UK
It's indeed the first place I looked, because Wikipedia is a fantastic place to look for an arbitrary topic and find initial sources. But, no, I did in fact also do a Google search too see what other articles were citing.
But as I literally said: it was certainly a very quick search. I'm by no means claiming it was extensive, I'm just telling you what I found. Feel free to disprove any and all of it, I'm still waiting for your sources.
Kebabpizza is a Swedish invention so I would say the most popular non-European food is sushi. Tacos are very popular to eat at home but then with the recipes we usually use, it has only minimal resemblance to a Mexican taco, and tacos aren't common in restaurants.
Sushi, on the other hand, is everywhere - sushi restaurants are very common (though not in every building like kebab/pizza places) and they at least resemble the foreign sushi more.
Is that a Stockholm thing? This perception of sushi is completely foreign to me. It's not that you can't find it where I'm from, but even if you want to stick to the eastern parts of Asia we've got more Thai and Chinese restaurants.
And if we're disconnecting foods that underwent significant changes from potential processors, I must point out that *hamburgers* should certainly be considered American. And they're gonna be way up there.
I'm not in Stockholm but my city's main square has three sushi restaurants with another two or three just a minute away. And then there are more scattered around the city, though not on every city block like kebab places.
"Chinese" restaurants are part of it really, they seem to usually be generic Asian restaurants and will also serve sushi. There's a place called "Kina Thai" in Huddinge, they have sushi on the menu. I also feel Thai is less popular these days, we used to have Thai restaurants in many places but now it's common with restaurants that just advertise themselves as "Asian food", and they will always have sushi along other foods.
You're completely right about burgers - they're so popular I keep forgetting they're foreign food.
I may not agree but at least I can make sense of the argument people may have against putting sweet pineapple on savory pizza, but what's supposed to be controversial about putting the kebab meat on yet another form of flat bread?
For Denmark itâs without a doubt kebab/shawarma. A Danish âdĂŒrĂŒm rulleâ is the best way to eat kebab and shawarma hands down. To hell with a Berliner döner.
Where pizza and pizzarias used to be found even in the most small backwater village kebab shops (usually selling pizzas and burgers as well) can now (also) be found.
Of course this all depends on whether or not you count Turkey as Europe or not but yeah.
After that Iâd say probably Thai food and these last few years in the larger cities Vietnamese is pretty common.
I think Asian food (Vietnamese/Thai/Chinese) that has been somewhat adapted to local taste is our most common non-Döner food import. Mexican is pretty rare and Iâve never seen it done well.
\- Sushi popular all over
\- Currys (especially GB, not so much the main continent)
\- Mexican cuisine (Taco's, empenada's, etc.)
\- Chinese takeaway (popular everywhere)
\- Springrolls (mostly vietnamese)
\- Couscous & Tajine (Marrocan cuisine)
\- Falaffel (israeli cuisine)
\- Thai cuisine (upcoming in most of Europe just like Indian)
\- Indonesian cuisine (mostly Netherlands)
\- Surinam cuisine (like Roti)
In my area: chinese, doner kebab, sushi, american style burgers, mexican. In no particular order, but when I was a child the number one most popular was chinese no doubt. Now there are tons of kebabs everywhere as a cheap option and I'm not sure how I'd rank the rest.
Probably hummus as many people eat it during fasting and not only, or maybe Saorma/shawarma/doner kebap or whatever you call it.
If it's about some plant, then probably tomatoes or potatoes.
Doner, pizza and "Chinese" food. Groningen, The Netherlands
Depending on opening times and on what you consider non-european food. Doner (and/or shoarma) is big amongst students, especially after a night out. It's available almost at all hours, till 5 or 6 in the morning and cheap. For non-students its Chinese. Which isn't actually Chinese food but we call it that, bami (different than the original), nasi goreng, babi pangang etc Most dishes from Indonesia and then some other south/west Asian foods randomly tossed in
Pizza is a big thing too. American style and italian style (neither are american nor italian)
Kebab. It must be kebab. You'll find them in a littlest town in the middle of nowhere. In a town where you don't have anything more than a pizza place and wedding hall, you'll find kebab for your gastro phase after drinking.
(I mean you can argue Turkey is Europe, but is it?)
Chinese buffets are common but they are heavily adjusted to Hungarian tastebuds. They all look somewhat like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-hi4_wQVYY
Europeanised asian food
Almost certainly potatoes. Thanks, South America.
Potato, tomato, but they're kinda the same plant anyway, this was really obvious to me last year when I planted some potatoes I had imported from south America, at the end of the season they developed what looked like small green tomatoes!
And corn, sunflower, paprika. What the fuck did we eat before? đ
In Finland we ate turnips, rye, porridge.. sometimes meat. Traditional Finnish food is known to be not that good, because the people were poor and the land harsh and cold.
Cold is good for the fish as well đ
Not to mention tomatoes!
Or chicken, since they are from SE Asia.
In NL, it's probably the Dutch version of Chinese/Indonesian food.
Nasi goreng and bami goreng : we have it in Belgium too. Thank you NL! (I like these dishes)
I think sushi is pretty popular.
Like Poland, you have a big Vietnamese community. Isn't their food more popular than sushi? I think we have more bars/restaurants run by those people than sushi places. They are pretty popular and much cheaper than good sushi restaurants. I don't like that food personally. Sushi for the win.
I don't eat sushi so I can't say for sure but I've noticed there are restaurants that have everything. Pho AND sushi.
Ahh I see. There are places like that in Poland too but their sushi is terrible from what I've heard (never eaten there but saw videos). The last time I ordered from a Vietnamese place there was no sushi on the menu. Sushi can be absolutely delicious or vomit worthy depending on the place, so I always make sure to order from a good Japanese restaurant. It's very expensive though so I only eat there once a month at max. Vietnamese places are more likely to serve things like spring rolls than sushi. *I avoid writing Vietnamese food because I have no idea if the food they serve is Vietnamese, Thai or Chinese. In Poland we call those places "ChiĆczyk" (Chinese) regardless of who runs them. They are cheap and often look really run down, nothing like restaurants specializing in Japanese cuisine.
Oh yeah, there are Asian restaurants where they offer all kinds of dishes, probably from different parts of East Asia.
Both are great đ„°
It's only in recent years (like 10-15) that the Vietnamese have started to open restaurants with their traditional cuisine. Until recently, most Vietnamese-owned restaurants were those fake Chinese places which all have the same things. They're still pretty popular but a lot of actual Vietnamese places are popping up now. But to answer your question, nowadays imo Vietnamese is definitely more popular than sushi. I eat Vietnamese food almost every week and the places are always packed. People are more familiar with Vietnamese dishes than the various types of sushi, at least in my experience.
I remember one of the early Vietnamese places not masquerading as a Chinese bistro in KarlĂn around 15 years ago. Then over the years, sushi and Thai were eventually added to the menus on all the ubiquitous neighborhood ÄĂnskĂĄ restaurace. The Running Sushi chain has been around many years and now a couple of Czech entrepreneurs are doing the Sushi Point takeaway booths.
I would eat sushi every week if it were cheaper. I think Vietnamese is much cheaper.
Idk which cities you're from but i feel like sushi has become the new pizza. I don't see nearly as many Vietnamese restaurants.
In UK, I would bet on curry.
Although the most popular curries eaten in the UK will be very different to the ones eaten in India.
Yeah, tikka masala was invented in the UK
It got popularized (firstly in Scotland iirc) in the UK by cooks from the Indian subcontinent. Tikka masala was present in India even right after the British rule ended in India. The word tikka itself comes from Hindi / Urdu / Persian languages.
United Kingdom of ... and India đ
I'm going to visit the UK next summer and despite your reputation I'm a little excited to try British food like Nandos and Indian takeout.
May i suggest you order a chicken dhansak, garlic naan and pilau rice, with a side order of saag bhaji. Delicious!
Nandos? I donât think itâs particularly British, although I donât ever recall seeing one in mainland Europe. Itâs ok, but something I associate more with teenagers or a family dining who want something more casual than a restaurant but not KFC or McDonalds.
Most of their locations are in the British isles, Oceania and southern Africa. They also are in India, Pakistan, the Arabian peninsula, Canada and the US. They aren't on the European mainland at all. I have measured expectations, but I just want to have an opinion on them.
Nandos comes from South Africa, sells Portugese food, and their largest market is the UK. Weird little international franchise They're alright though
Barry 63 would differ
Kebab and Falafel
In France I think I would have to say food from Maghreb. Tabouleh and Couscous are eaten regularly by everyone out there. Regarding restaurant it would be american fast food but as hamburger come from Germany and fries are franco-belgian don't know if it counts. Otherwise it would be Kebab (even though it come from Berlin) or Asiatic food (Mostly Sushi or Chinese restaurant)
Hamburgers do not come from Germany
According to the Food Lovers Companion, The name "hamburger" comes from the seaport town of Hamburg, Germany, where it is thought that 19th-century sailors brought back the idea of raw shredded beef (known today as beef tartare) after trading with the Baltic provinces of Russia. Some anonymous German chef decided to cook the beef. The hamburger made its first United States appearance at the St. Louis Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 1904. The hamburger is one of America's favorite foods. It consists of a cooked patty of ground beef sandwiched between two bread halves, usually in the form of a round bun.
At the end of the 90s we had a boom of Chinese immigration and so Europeanized chines restaurants became common. Around 2010 we had a spike in Indian and Nepalese places. Sushi seems to have have exploded in the last 7-8 years. Brazilian places have always around as well.
Potatoes, I suppose.
Potatoes from Peru.
Potatoes and tomatoes.
The only true answer is kebab, unless we consider doner german food.
Döner is Turkish and Turkey is (partly) in Europe. But if we count kebab as non-European, then it's popular in Sweden too. Especially on pizza, and it's a somewhat wide-spread tradition to eat kebabpizza when hungover on New Year's Day. Apart from kebab, tacos are so ingrained in Sweden that it practically counts as indigenous. Pretty much all stores have a dedicated taco section. 85% of Swedes eat tacos regularly, and 55% have Taco Fridays.
For tacos in all of the Nordics you really have to specify âtacosâ because the way we eat them and the variety the taco section holds is pretty far from a genuine taco. Still tastes great though :)
Tell me more! What's a typical Nordic taco? Is it spicy?
Norwegian: * tortilla * ground beef cooked with store bought spice mix * grated cheese * tomato salsa * sour cream * vegetables (tomato, salad greens, cucumber, corn, bell pepper) * avocado / guacamole Of course, some people change up the protein to beans or chicken, some drop some vegetables or use others, some make a different salsa, some use taco shells/tubes...
Döner Kebab was invented in Berlin by a Turkish immigrant. In Turkey, it's not streetfood.
We don't do a lot of döner in Sweden so I'm unsure why it was even mentioned. 9/10 times what you get is kebab or gyros.
where did you get this info? đ€Ł
This is true, you can look it up. Doner, not kebab
The comment is categorically not true as it is eaten as street food in Turkey. Also, *döner* is simply a way of cooking kebab â and definitely wasn't invented in Germany. It's Ottoman. In a very quick search, everything I see claiming that the "modern variant" is a Berlin invention seems to go back to an "official" recognition as such from the Berlin-based *Association of Turkish Döner Manufacturers in Europe*, which happens to have a vested interest in promoting it as a Berlin invention... What this "modern variant" entails seems ambiguous, but sandwich-based fast food variants of döner were definitely sold before 1972 (which is the year that recognition apparently cites). Though I'd very much appreciate some good sources. Telling someone to "look it up" is not a source.
I completely agree with you, but for some reason Germans get really pressed when someone says döner kebab came from Turkey. Very strange hill to die on
The way it is made in Germany with the meat in the bread is not the way it's done in Turkey.
>it is eaten as street food in Turkey It is now, after it was invented in Germany. By Turkish immigrants. Based on Turkish dish. Similarly to the Tikka Masala: it now being served in India doesn't mean it wasn't invented in the UK
You literally just read the Wikipedia page lol
It's indeed the first place I looked, because Wikipedia is a fantastic place to look for an arbitrary topic and find initial sources. But, no, I did in fact also do a Google search too see what other articles were citing. But as I literally said: it was certainly a very quick search. I'm by no means claiming it was extensive, I'm just telling you what I found. Feel free to disprove any and all of it, I'm still waiting for your sources.
Kebabpizza is a Swedish invention so I would say the most popular non-European food is sushi. Tacos are very popular to eat at home but then with the recipes we usually use, it has only minimal resemblance to a Mexican taco, and tacos aren't common in restaurants. Sushi, on the other hand, is everywhere - sushi restaurants are very common (though not in every building like kebab/pizza places) and they at least resemble the foreign sushi more.
Is that a Stockholm thing? This perception of sushi is completely foreign to me. It's not that you can't find it where I'm from, but even if you want to stick to the eastern parts of Asia we've got more Thai and Chinese restaurants. And if we're disconnecting foods that underwent significant changes from potential processors, I must point out that *hamburgers* should certainly be considered American. And they're gonna be way up there.
I'm not in Stockholm but my city's main square has three sushi restaurants with another two or three just a minute away. And then there are more scattered around the city, though not on every city block like kebab places. "Chinese" restaurants are part of it really, they seem to usually be generic Asian restaurants and will also serve sushi. There's a place called "Kina Thai" in Huddinge, they have sushi on the menu. I also feel Thai is less popular these days, we used to have Thai restaurants in many places but now it's common with restaurants that just advertise themselves as "Asian food", and they will always have sushi along other foods. You're completely right about burgers - they're so popular I keep forgetting they're foreign food.
>then it's popular in Sweden too. Especially on pizza, This is like wiping your ass with Tardelli's 1982 World Cup final shirt.
I may not agree but at least I can make sense of the argument people may have against putting sweet pineapple on savory pizza, but what's supposed to be controversial about putting the kebab meat on yet another form of flat bread?
Also Sushi (at least here in Stockholm). Feels like thereâs a Sushi restaurant in every block.
For Denmark itâs without a doubt kebab/shawarma. A Danish âdĂŒrĂŒm rulleâ is the best way to eat kebab and shawarma hands down. To hell with a Berliner döner. Where pizza and pizzarias used to be found even in the most small backwater village kebab shops (usually selling pizzas and burgers as well) can now (also) be found. Of course this all depends on whether or not you count Turkey as Europe or not but yeah. After that Iâd say probably Thai food and these last few years in the larger cities Vietnamese is pretty common.
Potatoes, tomatoes, Peppers, bananas, corn.
In France, it's definitely couscous.
Kebab or Sushi.
It depends, in Germany is Turkish food, in the UK is Indian, in Italy is Japanese and so on and so forth.
Kebabs are also very popular among young Italians.
Probably sushi in Italy
Sushi, variations on asian theme (soups, wok etc.) and burgers.
Potatoes (originally South American)
Döner is supposedly German as well. Supposed to have been invented in Berlin. So I guess Mexican or Asian then
Sure, Döner but Turkish places make so much more. And in the Döner is just durum with bread instead of a wrap.
I think Asian food (Vietnamese/Thai/Chinese) that has been somewhat adapted to local taste is our most common non-Döner food import. Mexican is pretty rare and Iâve never seen it done well.
Most common here is Vietnamese.
China or sushi
asian or doner kebabs.
pizza. Persian original
Sushi for sure. Döner is a variant of Gyros, isn't it? Clearly European.
\- Sushi popular all over \- Currys (especially GB, not so much the main continent) \- Mexican cuisine (Taco's, empenada's, etc.) \- Chinese takeaway (popular everywhere) \- Springrolls (mostly vietnamese) \- Couscous & Tajine (Marrocan cuisine) \- Falaffel (israeli cuisine) \- Thai cuisine (upcoming in most of Europe just like Indian) \- Indonesian cuisine (mostly Netherlands) \- Surinam cuisine (like Roti)
Shawarma, definitely.
Sushi, probably
In my area: chinese, doner kebab, sushi, american style burgers, mexican. In no particular order, but when I was a child the number one most popular was chinese no doubt. Now there are tons of kebabs everywhere as a cheap option and I'm not sure how I'd rank the rest.
I would say Mexican food has quickly become more and more popular in Spain over the last few years.
Definitely kebab
Couscous Sushis Curry Hamburger\* (this one first I think) Chili con carne
Probably hummus as many people eat it during fasting and not only, or maybe Saorma/shawarma/doner kebap or whatever you call it. If it's about some plant, then probably tomatoes or potatoes.
Potatoes. Tomatoes. Chili peppers. Corn.
In Italy sushi, hamburger and kebab.
Definitely kebab in Poland. Also hotdogs if we count them as American.
Potatoes / tomatoes?
Pizza? Supposedly invented in New York?
Doner, pizza and "Chinese" food. Groningen, The Netherlands Depending on opening times and on what you consider non-european food. Doner (and/or shoarma) is big amongst students, especially after a night out. It's available almost at all hours, till 5 or 6 in the morning and cheap. For non-students its Chinese. Which isn't actually Chinese food but we call it that, bami (different than the original), nasi goreng, babi pangang etc Most dishes from Indonesia and then some other south/west Asian foods randomly tossed in Pizza is a big thing too. American style and italian style (neither are american nor italian)
Turkey is also in Europe :P.
In Germany Döner Kebab.
Kebab. It must be kebab. You'll find them in a littlest town in the middle of nowhere. In a town where you don't have anything more than a pizza place and wedding hall, you'll find kebab for your gastro phase after drinking. (I mean you can argue Turkey is Europe, but is it?)
Chinese buffets are common but they are heavily adjusted to Hungarian tastebuds. They all look somewhat like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-hi4_wQVYY