so. since im hispanic (my moms from mexico), for my family its traditional to eat barbacoa on sunday mornings. barbacoa is not barbeque. its cow tongue. yes. that sounds disgusting. but its not. you just boil the tongue for a few hours and then PEEL the skin off and shredd the meat. also, its traditional to eat tamales on christmas eve. whats your tradition?

Interesting topic! I'm from Spain and I lived there for the first ten years of my life so I'm quite accustomed to traditional hispanic foods such as tapas. I have also eaten tamales on Christmas Eve like you, Mrs.FredWeasley. I love Spanish food and I get so exicted to go back to Spain once or so a year and eat some of my grandmama's cooking! ¡delicioso!

I am Puerto Rican so I eat a lot of Spanish food.There is arroz con gandules,mofofngo,tostones,aranitas,sorullos and a the list goes on and on.Why is it that grandmas cook so good.
>Rosie

Well, I live in the USA, and many would say that Hot Dogs and Pizza are our 'traditional foods'.. I say BAH! to that. We have a mix of all the wonderful cultures and I must say, I lived for some time when I was younger in a neighborhood of our city that was predominately Puerto Rican and Spanish American so even though I am nearly full blood Irish, we still cook a lot of rice and beans.. my favorite meal is a simple one "arroz con pollo".. chicken and rice... it is soooo good, especially when we use Adobo (con pimienta!) It's an interesting diet, and I love it!

im from england and i love our traditional english meals!
every sunday we have a big roast dinner, my preference being minted lamb, good old roast potatoes etc.
fry ups in the morning are just great, but foreign people always seem to think we have them every morning, we dont! if we did we would all be fat!! but every now and again they are welcome, bacon, eggs, sausages, fried bread, mushrooms, tomatoes, beans yum!
of course, fish and chips are always popular here, but they are not eaten as much as people think either, traditionally a friday.
its funny because chinese food seems to have been adopted as typical english food now, every weekend after a night out its habitual to go to a chinese and grab a curry or w/e. you can find a chinese takeaway on every high street in england nowadays. chinese, indian and other foreign foods are loved by the english!
as well as food, a good old cup of tea is very traditional in england, preferably accompanied by a couple of biscuits to dunk ! very rarely does a day go by when i dont have a cup of tea.

Surprisingly, Scottish people ( like me) don't spend all there time eating Haggis, neeps and tatties ( Haggis, swede/turnup and potatoes for those who are not farmilair with this meal) and drinking whisky. As a matter of fact I hate Haggis and have never drank whisky in my life. But I do like Irn-Bru, which is made in Glasgow. It's my favourite drink. I don't know if Americans will be familair with this drink because I heard it wasn't sold in the US because Barr ( the manufacturers) refuse do give away the recipe.
Other Scottish foods? Dunno... But British foods? I like fish and chips, Sunday Roasts and stuff like that though my dad tends to make Sunday roasts on Monday for some reason ...

ive always wondered what fish and chips were. i was under the impression that the "chips" were actual potato chips. i think im wrong. and what does Irn-Bru taste like?

I think to you Americans you would say fish and fries rather than fish and chips. That can be confusing sometimes. I visited Florida once, asked for chips and ended up with a packet of crisps lol But that's slightly off topic.
What does Irn Bru taste like? Hard question. It tastes orange wierdly enough ( which is what colour it is) , but it doesn't taste like oranges. Not orange as in Fanta orange, but bright orange. It just tastes sweet and mixed fruity but on the packet it just says flavoured soft drink so it's hard to explain. I'm sure somebody else could do a better job than me lol

As a Brit, I guess I should say, Roast Beef and Yorkshire Pudding or Fish and Chips, btu to be honest Chicken Tikka Masala is more British than Indian and a lot of 'foriegn' foods have been adapted to suit our tastes.

I suppose though I would have to say that Fish and Chips is the dish most people associate with the UK.....I just don't eat it.

I'd agree with the other Brits who mention fish and chips, roast dinners, chinese and indian take aways and would also add italian (pizza and pasta are big over here too) to that.

But at the moment I'd say us Brits are on a health kick, so theres more salads, pasta, new potatoes, and lots of grilled meats and fish. Everyone I know is on a diet of some kind (its summer over here so everyones trying to squeeze into bikini's).
I would have to say that I do love chips (fries - but much thicker). But I also love lots of healthy things like chicken salad with avocado.
Of course there is nothing like a roast dinner - but I mainly have them in winter.

I'm from Belgium and we have the best French Fries in the world!! I've never eaten any as good as at home.
Our chocolate is quite good too...
But we can't eat fries and chocolate the whole time, so we eat a lot of potatoes and meat and vegetables... normal food I guess
and a lot of bread too, for breakfats and lunch
On sunday we eat 'pistoles', but I don't know how to translate that... I think its actually french but almost everyone in belgium eats this on a sunday...
Italian food is popular too, as is rice...
But if you want to go traditional there's Brussels sprouts and chicorey but I never eat it because I don't like it,but it comes from Belgium so...

well here in Egypt we have a lot of traditional food ,
the most famous and every one here eat it is beans, well actually when I translated the word beans it gave me more than one thing but it is only one of it, it is brown and in Arabic we call it "fool" (no laughing , it how it is pronounces) and another thing also made from "fool" is Falafel
it is really tasty with tomato salad

we also have "koshary" it taste really good
there is also "Fatta" it is made from bread, rice, meat, and sauce

and a lot more but I can't think of anything else right now

Doesn't sound that disgusting. Us chinese people eat stuff like that all the time. Have you ever tried cow tendom? Or pigs feet? Heck, I even tried pigeon before.

But that's not what us chinese people eat everyday. We basically eat rice or noodles and we eat pork more than beef. Tons of vegetables too, it's pretty normal.

Oh yeah, and we have tons of dishes that are similar to western dishes such as scrambled eggs and mashed potatoes. Since I live in America my dad likes to adapt english dishes into chinese food.

I'm cringing as I write this, because it is such a dinky-di Aussie thing to like, but I love meat pies and egg and bacon rolls. One of my American mates from university was over here a while ago and she didn't know what an egg and bacon roll was. Missing out, I tell you.

Also, I practically live off Vegemite sandwiches.

I'm from Fiji and it's tradtitional to have "lovo" on special occasions e.g Christmas, Birthdays, New Year etc.

lovo (earth oven) is food cooked in the gound, a common practice among pacific island people. It consists of dalo (taro), rourou/paulasami, chicken, pork, fish which are firstly wrapped in foil then banana leaves and placed on hot stones/wood. It is then covered up with more leaves and soil.

The result is quite yummy

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Super traditional greek food we Greeks love: souvlaki! Gosh it must be one of the best foods in the whole earth. It is the less fattening and the most enjoyable fast-food you can get here. It is really amazing!
Other foods are mousakas -which i hate-, greek tomato salad, some fish dishes... But nothing compares to souvlaki!

Albus you're totally right. I'm American and maybe my family's weird but we eat everything! Arabic, Mexican, Chinese, Afgahn, Vietnamease (sp), 'regular American food', Italian, Greek, we'll try pretty much anything.




Beater I love falafel! It's so good, I like hummus too. The Arabic couple at church love my brothr and me because we eat the food they bring to stuff.




I've never heard of that stuff but it sounds yummy. I love meats and cheeses and eggs.

When we went to China my little brother and I ate better than some of the adults. We tried almost everything, except bugs and fish. It was almost all really good.

I'm from Greece and we have a tonne of delicious foods that I still love to make here in America. Here's just a few of them:

Moussaka
Souvlaki
Pastitsio
Ravani
Baklavas
Magiritsa

Yumm.

I am polish and i love poland and i love polish food!!!!!

we have (just naming the food that i love the most)

>kotlety schabowe- it is pork meat that you put in bread crumbs and eggs, then you put it on a pan and you just cook it, you can eat it with potatoes and a salad.

>barszcz czerwony- it is beet soup, its read and people usually drink it out of cups.

>pierogi- very popular polish food, it looks like a little ball of dough, but inside you can have a variety of food, the most common stuff in pierogis are: meat, cheese, there are russian pierogies which have cheese and onions and potatoes, and there are pierogies with mushrooms and this salad called kapusta kiszona, i dont know how you would say it in polish.

>golomki- it is meat and rice wrapped around with a cooked piece of lettuce.

its all good and there is a lot more that i like but i dont want to bore everyone. but do try some polish food if you ever have the chance.

ohh i almost forgot, a very popular food is called tatar. its raw ground red meat, with onions, pickels, olive oil and raw eggs its the best. but i have noticed that americans dont really want to eat raw meat.... but they should!!!! but i have stopped eating tatar cause i heard that you could get a tap worm from eating tatar....and i kinda dont want to get that.....

I'm 100% Britishers, unless you go back about a century, then I'm part Greek!


In England, Fish and Chips is a big faviroute. Basically, chips (or fries) and battered cod fish. It's quite nice.

The delicacy is Beef and Yorkshire pudding! Very yummy. You've got to have your Yorkshire pudding (pastry kind of thing with hole in middle) filled with gravy! Oh yeah!

I live in Costa Rica (Central America) and if you guys ever come here, everyone is going to tell you that you have to eat "gallo pinto"... It's a mixture of rice, beans and spices, and sometimes they throw meat in it, but that's not very common. It tastes good actually. Most of the times people eat it at breakfast and even the guys at McDonald's made a meal out of it!!! (but for breakfast though!)
We also have tamales for around the Christmas time of the year, but they're very different from the ones people make in Mexico.

As has been said most people think of fish and chips (fries) when you say England.
i have to say though i don't like it that much.
for me i'm more in to italian with different pasta dishes and definately a good chinese takeaway.
you get most things here now,we are such a multi-cultural society.

I live in America and my family at least does not follow the stereotype of basically only eating hamburgers and hotdogs i for one hate hamburgers! My favorite type of food is chinesse but it has been americanized! i also like italian, mexican, greek, polish, and australian foods (even though im still trying to eat vegemite without feeling sick)

i live in america too. but im hispanic. i think hispanic foods are DELICIOUS. but, sometimes they get kinda repetitive and boring. so i like eating diff cultures of food. chinese, italian, vietnamese, french, and i think thats it. oh, and american. i hate mcdonalds. ever since i watched supersizme, all ive ever eaten from mcdonalds is the fries and mcflurrys. thats it.

Well I live in America and there's alot of variety but here in Colorado something that's really common is Rocky Mountain Oysters. They're so good!



Yeah I know! I'm talking chinese as a second language (it's so cool). So we were askin ghim what all American Chinese foods they actually had in China. He had no idea what orange chicken was (he asked if it was a certian breed of chickens... i'm dead serious) , he had no idea what lots of other stuff was but he did know dumplings. Although they're prepared completely different in China, he made some and brought them in for our chinese new year celebration... they were SO good! Oh and there's a chinese restraunt called Shanghai and he said it drove him nuts how everyone pronounced it wrong! So now it drives me nuts too.... but that's off topic.... sort of!

One of my friends has been to China and she said they had turtle soup with an actual live turtle swimming around in it at some chinesse resturant! but dont beg the question on this because she has been known to tell big lies or exagerate the truth to the extreme.

I could ask my teacher about the turtle soup on monday.... he'll porbably go into some long story and it'll get me out of class time! PLus now I'm curious as to if that's true! But he said that round foods are a tradition of the mid-autumn festival in china so now he wants us to bring in round food during the festival.... I don't understand why... and when we asked he said we should research... really weird...

well i hope i dont make you look dumb if its not true but she went on and on about it she said she asked if she could keep the turtle and they told her no she sounded pretty disappointed about it

actually we have a lot of exotic foods, but since we are celebrating our mooncake festival tomorrow evening, it's the 15th of august in lunar calendar, so i'd say mooncake is one of our traditional delicacies.

I'm Irish & 'traditional' I guess would be a full irish breakfast which is pudding, sausages, fried eggs, hash browns, fried bread, beans & rashers.....basicly a fat attack waiting to happen....its vile.
We eat a lot of potatoes though which are yummy I don't eat out much though because Ireland seems to have a phobia of catering for vegans but I have a veggie cafe in my town which cooks amazing food but is soooo expensive

Well, I'm Australian. We don't have too much, but what we do have we have alot of. I hate to sound fair dinkum, but we usually have a barbey at least twice a week, I looove Vegemite sandwiches and am always one for a meat pie.

And there's the bacon and egg roll....*drools*.

Plus, I doubt many have heard of it, but I'm a big fan of bush Twisties (not the packet kind). I'm a country girl, so I've spent alot of time out there, and one of our traditions is taking a load of Damper dough, finding a really long stick and putting some of the dough on the top. Then you cook it slowly over the coals. It's done when you can slide it off the stick without it getting stuck. Then you add honey or golden syrup and you have your Bush Twistie! ......Total droolage. It sounds gross, but it is soooo good.

-thesolitaryone-

I’m from The Netherlands and we eat a lot of potatoes here. They can be nice, but it’s almost always the same, so I can’t stand them no more. Except when you have POTATOE chips

thesolitaryone i went to australia and new zealand this summer and i tried a couple of the things you mentioned earlier

everyone in my group had to try vergemite i was one of 2 in a group of 40 that could eat it without gagging we came up with the theory that parents give it to there children to build character any truth to this?

ha i had a bush twistie except i didnt know it was called that we made the damper and everything but WE didnt roast them (our hosts did) and we put on syrup and honey no onewanted to try it really but myself and a few others did and when we said it was good everyone else tried it

sausage sizzles are amazing i dont pile on ketchup like i saw a lot of aussies do because i hate ketchup really but it was fantastic

we had some kangaroo jerky which tasted good but made your breath smell really bad

well its not really a food but TIM TAMS are amazing my group got addcited and on our coach we sat there trading like regular for carmal or whatever it may be and if we gave a tim tam to someone we made sure they paided us back in tim tams . pretty much everyone bought over 100 tim tams overall i probably got about 150 one kid got 120 in one go and already had like 10 packages of 9! have you ever dipped tim tams in hot choclate it is pure bliss if you havent i reccomend you try it (im not advertising or anything dont worry)

Hahaha - I had no idea TimTams were even exclusively Aussie. I'm a TimTam addict myself...Sooo good. Everyone has their own unique way of eating them . As for Vegemite - I suppose it's an acquired taste, lol. I love it, but it is very salty and bitter which is a major turn off to those who haven't grown up with it. And we eat it because we enjoy it, not to build character (hard to understand, I know lol). I doubt many would really enjoy traditional Aussie food - It's really weird, lol.

well you can still get tim tams at like the world market which i thankfully have rather close by. we thought it tasted like salty tar or something wierd like that

ha i pranked a lot of people back home with it i told them it was a very good choclate spread for toast. haha worked everytime

Ok I'm an Indian.So in south India rice is very common.I mean different south Indian states have different sweet dishes and all that like Pongal from Tamil Nadu ..but rice is our main food.we eat rice everyday.

I'm not very sure about north India but I think they commonly make dishes out of wheat,like paratas ..

Woop woop first Salvadorian!!!!! Im Salvadorian and the official food has to be pupusas, which is corn dough filled with ground up fried pork and mozerella cheese, or cheese and loroco (plant), or fried beans and cheese, mmmm just had some bean pupusas yesterday . Us Salvis love us some beef or chicken stew and panes con pollo (french rolls with chicken), and pastelitos (flavored dough filled with chicken and rice that is then fried). the pupusas and pastelitos are served with curtido, which is cabbage and carrots that is grated and vinegar, water and onion is added, tastes bomb!!!!

Well I'm from England, and like gryffindorgirlie and etphonehome said, the main meal that is associated with the country is fish and chips. But there is also (and this is one of my favourite foods)bangers and mash-which is sausages with mashed potatoes and gravy. It's really nice.
And to name three others:
shepherds pie
cornish pasties and
beans on toast
And yes, the great British fry- up as well!

Aah, we eat sausages and mashed potatoes too, it's most of kids favourite meal (and most of hurried moms favourite meal too And my fav, because I barely know cooking)
I remember that chapter of The Simpsons, when they say "We're Brits, we eat lots of disgusting food" It's quite... hilarious but unfair; I personally would never try a kidney pie or a shephers pie, but what with that, it's your food and every country has a disgusting food

I'm from Argentina and we eat... lots of meat!! Our favourite meals include meat for sure, beef or veal of course, despite lamb is quite appreciated, a bit of pork too, and then chicken. On Sundays it's kind of a tradition that we have a barbecue with the family, we call it 'asado' and it's pretty different from US' barbecues. Really tasty!

Then we have meals for winter like rice stews, meat and vegetable stews, and a kind of stew made with cow stomach, which is really ugh and I don't like any of them because I'm all a pricky

And lots of Italian food, since most of our inmigrants came from Italy (like my great grandparents -- and from France, also) like pizza, spaghetti and various noodles with and without sauce, lasagna, etc. Since we eat so much meat all the time, we try to balance it with salads, and we eat ... almost every kind of veggies!

We have pastelitos too, but sweet ones: they're fried and filled with quince jelly and spread with syrup Then tortas fritas, which are salty pastry chunks fried. My grandmom always fed us up with that stuff, lol.

And also we have lots of potatoes prepared in any way. I love potatoes. We have mashed potatoes, potatoes salad with mayonnaise, potatoes in stew, French fries, potatoes omelettes...

Oh, and something that I find really weird: we have these and these and these, and they're filled with dulce de leche, and I've always wondered whether there're alfajores in other parts of the world and how are they called, because... I'd die without them! We use dulce de leche for pancakes *yum* which are my favourite dessert.

Gosh, I'm so hungry now! *going to eat a huge bowl of crisps and milk and cocoa*

First 'Pakistani' here! well we eat this thing called 'chapati/roti' its kinda like a flour tortilla. we eat it pretty much every day....we eat rice a lot too. chicken tikka is really good tooo. I eat Arabic food too, like hummus and felafel and shawarma.

Beans, cornbread, fried chicken and veggies. Nothing like fried green tomatoes, squash, and okra. With some corn casserole... yummy southern cookin!!!

The foreign exchange student were hosting from Columbia said she expected to be eating hamburgers practically three meals a day... we only just had hamburgers for the first time since she's been here (which has been over a week).

I'm from the Phillipines. Anyone else here that's from my country?!

ADOBO!! May it be chicken or pork. I love the salty-sweet taste, specially if my Mum made it.

We also have our version of Hot Chocolate, the Tablea. It's really yummy!

Hello, excellent topic

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The most trad-ush-on-uL food in thus cun-tree (New Zuh-lund) is fush und chups. We all luv thum! Their wrap-uhs litt-uh every c-ahh p-ah-k

(The most traditional food in this country (New Zealand) is fish & chips. We all love them! Their wrappers litter every car park )

Traditional foods in the United States... well hamburgers, hotdogs are both pretty big ones. I have a steak or prime rib every Sunday at my house. Usually I have fish 3-4 days a week... Salmon, Tilapia, Mahi-Mahi, and Tuna usually. On other days I usually have Chicken, Hamburgers, or a salad.

American foods...yup it's the Hamburger! HAHA we are so creative. There's also the famous Philly cheese steak and pizza which we stole haha!. Sorry Italy

I'm half Canadian and there's a dish my grandmother use to make. I don't remember the name but it was kielbasa, egg noodles, cabbage and onions with a bit of oil all cooked in a electric frying pan.

For Christmas we always made a Canadian desert called Kluts. I'm not so sure on the spelling, but that's how it sounds. Anyway it's pastry dough rolled out flat with butter, brown sugar and cinnamon. Then it's rolled, sealed lightly with milk and baked. It's soooo good!

Dawn