Not necessarily the best meals (or places), but the meals (or places) that best represent your culture.

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        Corn tortilla dough is filled with cheese/pork/beans and other yummy options, and cooked on a greasy ass flat grill. Served with a Salvadoran vinegar slaw, they’re delicious

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      We have a Salvadoran restaurant near us (in Maryland, USA) and we love these!

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        What is even that flower? I wonder if I can grow it in my apartment in Canada cause that shit is delicious. They sell frozen loroco where I live but it’s expensive. And I haven’t been to El Salvador in a decade for the real thing

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    Currywurst. Chopped fried or grilled sausage with ketchup and curry spice sprinkled on top. Often served with fries.

    You can get it almost everywhere in Germany, especially at street festivals. Simple, absolutely unhealthy and delicious.

    Edit: I would also have said the Döner Kebab. Veil or chicken grilled on a vertical spitroast, sliced into thin strands of meat, loaded into a slightly toasted flatbread along with lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber, onions and depending on the region and restaurant white or red cabbage in vinegar and oil, together with a yogurt sauce.

    But you could argue that Döner is Turkish because it was invented by a Turkish immigrant and is usually prepared by Turkish descendants (or those who look Turkish). But then again I heard that restaurants in Turkey started offering German Döner because that’s what tourists expected to get.

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    Pa amb tomàquet, bread with tomato. No, really.

    You take some slices of bread, or something like a baguette or ciabatta sliced longitudinally to make a sandwich. Good bread, mind, not that spongy stuff you get in the U.S. Something with some crust, with a bit of a crunch. Slightly toasted (but not burnt) is good, and easier, but not necessary. You can eat this hot or cold, it’s good either way.

    Anyway, as I was saying you take some bread, and you take some tomatoes. Red, juicy, the tastiest the better. Slice one in half, take half, rub the sliced part on one side of the bread (on the crumb, obviously, not the crust), until the bread has soaked a good amount of the tomato’s juice (you could do both sides if you wanted to, but it’d probably be a bit of a mess). It’s not a problem if some small bits of the tomato’s meat also end up in the bread, but you don’t want big chunks (unless you want tomato as a topping, though that’d be a bit redundant). You don’t want the bread to get too soft, don’t ruin that crunch. If the tomato is juicy enough you can reuse it for the next slice, until it runs out of juice or you’re just left with the skin.

    Once you’ve got all your slices done, sprinkle some salt over them. Don’t go overboard, you want to be able to taste the bread, and the tomato.

    Finally, dribble some good virgin olive oil on them. Again, don’t go overboard, don’t drown them. Once you’re done you can take one of the slices and use it to help spread the oil and salt on the other ones by tapping the crumbs against each other.

    You can now eat the slices as they are, toast them if you want, accompany them with cured meats (cured ham is fantastic with this) or cheeses, as a side or as toppings, or as the filling of a sandwich (seriously, unless you’re making a hot dog, or a cheese melt, or a hamburger, or something like that this is the way to make a sandwich; once you’ve tried it you won’t be going back to plain or buttered bread).

    Experiment, have fun, try different kinds of bread, more or less tomato, oil, or salt, toasted or untoasted, different toppings (anything you’d put in a sandwich will almost certainly work), oil from different types of olives, maybe rub some garlic on the bread before the tomato, if it’s hard enough to take it… there are infinite possibilities and combinations, and unless you go overboard with the toppings they’re just five minutes away as long as you’ve got some bread, some tomatoes, some olive oil, and some salt.

    (Also, if you’ve got really good bread and really good oil, but would rather skip the tomatoes, pa amb oli, bread with oil — and a sprinkle of salt — can also be an excellent snack to eat by itself before a meal, though pa amb tomàquet is better if you want to eat it with toppings, or as a sandwich.)

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      Found the Italian?

      If you don’t live in Italy and you’re naughty, rub a little bit of garlic on the bread before the tomato :-).

      Italy has so good food it’s crazy (and I’m living in France!) but it seems impossible to get that bread, those tomatoes etc elsewhere (there is surely some magic to it too). It’s like oranges from Naples. You just don’t make them anywhere else.

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          Oh yes it is! A shame Barcelona is so overcrowded with tourists nowadays (I went there a lot some 10+ years ago, stopped when the tourist invasion happened, I mean I was then part of the problem).

          Mediterranean food for the world !

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    New York pizza and hotdogs, Philly cheesesteaks, Vermont cheddar, and San Francisco sourdough clam chowder bowls. I’m sure every state has their specialty, so you’ll have to visit every single one to try everything :p

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    • BBQ, from any/all regions
    • Cajun food – very important one!
    • Fried chicken and waffles – I tried explaining this umami to a handful of people in Japan, and they didn’t understand.
    • Casseroles of all kinds
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      Good point on the BBQ. The differences between regions is substantial, and although you may not like one region’s BBQ, you may very well love another region’s. I for one am not a fan of the vinegar based BBQ, but a good dry rub, or mustard base, I am all there.

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    Apart from the obvious cheese and chocolate, i‘d reccomend some good ol rösti with a spiegelei

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    A Bunnings Snag.

    If you visit Australia our main hardware store called Bunnings hosts charity bbq to fundraise. For a couple dollaroos you get a barbequed sausage on a piece of bread with your choice of onions and/or condiments.

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      I can’t read the word “dollaroos” without hearing it in an Australian accent. I hope Australians read the word “loonie” and think there’s perhaps a slightly intoxicated Canadian involved.

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      The first time I tried a sausage sizzle from Bunnings, I was a bit disappointed. Maybe it’s because all my mates have been recommending giving it a try and hyping it up and whatnot, and I was really looking forward to it when I finally got around to it, but I didn’t really find it all that after the fact.

      I mean, it’s not bad. It’s a couple of bucks, it’s a great sausage on white bread, I’d get it again no worries. I kinda just expected more I guess.

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      Bunny chow is so good. There’s a South African expat who runs a store/restaurant by my house here in Texas and makes what seems to be pretty authentic bunny chow and Vetkoek. Unfortunately, I found out that he and his wife are so aggressively MAGA that I legitimately wonder if he left S.A. because he was sad to see Apartheid go.

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        Seems far too common. My parents had a difficult time getting into the US so hearing about “all the illegals just strolling into the country” vitriol Fox spews seems to indoctrinate them

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    He he the Swedish kebab & bearnaisesås pizza (no one said it had to be good, and I didn’t say surströmming which is something nobody eats after all). Very popular! You might never forget it except if the Italians finds out and declare war on Sweden and everyone dies.

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    Just some pasta with tomatoes, cut in small pieces, with a bit of olive oil and some basil. It takes 10 minutes just of waiting for the pasta to be ready. As simple and quick as delicious.