Post your work in the good food thread. Mine speaks for itself. France ~ Spain > Italy.
Bourdain was #TeamSpain FWIW.
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Would take India and Greece off the list and replace with Vietnam and Ethiopia.
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Greece is like the WOAT Mediterranean cuisine. Thai >> Japan.
my local Indian buffet is sooooo good.
thereâs this orange-in-color chicken dish, and the orange is a pastel color because of the creme ingredient.
they just recently added a new dish, and itâs unreal good. again chicken fundament (lmao) with a light brown coffee flavored sauce (or something close, I canât definitively place the flavor.)
This discussion reminds me of an idea I had for a food madness thread. The question for each pairing is: âWhich food item do you pick if you canât eat the other one for the rest of your life?â
Is there interest in something like this?
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Thatâs true for a lot of countries though. Spain, Italy, US, China all have significant regional differences.
When talking about vaccines, people tend to think of measles by default. But the measles vaccine is like the gold standard in terms of effectiveness and providing lifelong immunity.
This article makes a big deal about 100% of the school being vaccinated but fails to mention:
- The pertussis vaccine just isnât that effective, like 75% or something, way lower than measles
- Protection wears off after a few years so you have to get boosters to stay immunized
It does say that vaccinated people who get pertussis anyway usually have much milder symptoms, which is a pretty important fact.
So yeah thatâs a bad article but maybe more foxnews-ignorant than anti-vaxx. Or maybe both.
Iâve had whooping cough (as an adult) and itâs no joke. 
I felt a sudden existential shudder when I realized an American hamburger might be my favorite meal
17% of the worldâs population lives in India. Deprecating all its food based on whatâs served at US strip mall lunch buffets is really silly.
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Japanese food needs to be in the top 3 and definitely above China. Greek food doesnât deserve to be on the list. Vietnamese and at least one African cuisine needs to be on it.
OK, what is either a street or haute cuisine Indian dish that would blow the mind of an American with only a casual understanding of âIndianâ food?
How many of you guys have actually been to Spain? The food there is generally atrocious. Even at its best, putting it on par with heavyweights like Italy and France is lol. Greece can gtfo of that list as well. Add Ethiopia, maybe Vietnam, maybe Malaysia. US is probably too low, largely because itâs a big diverse country with a lot of unique offerings.
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I donât think thatâs necessarily the way to judge a cuisine. I think Indian food doesnât hit the heights of like great French cooking, but itâs a broad range of dishes many of which are unlike anything found anywhere else. Itâs contribution to diversity rather than sublime food. Compare and contrast with like Spanish food, itâs hard to say itâs exactly revolutionary compared to other Mediterranean offerings and itâs just worse than Italian and French subtlety-wise as well.
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If you had to nominate 5 cuisines to eat for the rest of your life, choosing Indian as one would be extremely reasonable, whereas choosing Greek would be super lol.
Have you been to India? I havenât but good friends whose opinions about Indian food I value assure me itâs orders of magnitude better than the best here (UK), and the latter is pretty good.
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I have several times and the food eg small plates in Seville can be really top notch.
Dude seriously.
The foreign fare you get in America is often/usually a pale imitation.
I have started the thread:
Indian food is some of the best flavours in the world tbh, its so good and a tip is to try out there modern take on vegan food and Boom, we have a winner⌠
Now overall Iâd rather eat Italian or French food tbh as the spice is not for me long term but during this holiday season when eating out its got to be Indian.