• Rob Bos@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    Theres a lot of great dutch food! I will defend pannenkoek, stampot, oliebollen, Gouda, spekkoek, krokets, poffertjes, stroopwafel… hell, I love pickled herring.

    Dutch food is very underrated!

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      11 months ago

      Bruhhhhh whenever I finally start losing this weight I’ve been packing on, I look forward to a stroopwafel warmed over my black coffee every Wednesday morning.

      Holy fuck people don’t know what they’re missing.

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      11 months ago

      Pickled herring is Danish, spekoek is Indonesian and Gouda is bland.

      Hagelslag though, that is something I definitely miss.

      Maybe the herring is Scandinavian, but we’re not going to credit the swedes with this one, they lost that right when they started with the lingonberries.

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          It’s possible that people think of Gouda as that stuff which comes in the standardized, plastic-sealed block of rubbery cheese that most American grocery stores carry. That is bland. One might mistake it for the Monterey Jack next to it, were the labels switched.

          Don’t get me wrong, I’ll still happily eat it, but yeah, real Gouda has flavor.

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            11 months ago

            That makes sense! I’m currently in the US and have only seen Gouda once and it tasted nothing like it, in the Netherlands there’s also many varieties of Gouda that all taste very different.

            It’s very strange seeing Dutch products on the shelves here.

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            11 months ago

            Some people confuse mild and delicate flavours with bland, too. Young Gouda isn’t particularly strong but it’s good and still distinct.

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      11 months ago

      Compared with English food it’s certainly first class. British gourmets only survive, because in GB are a lot of Chinese, Japonese, Greek, etc. Restaurants