Do you agree that German food is underrated?!
Do you agree that German food is underrated?
especially relative to Italian and French food?
Answers: French and Italian are over-rated. Real German food just isn't as well know and therefore highly under-rated and highly unknown. Everyone just thinks of Bratwurst and Beer and Potatoes. no it's over rated totally No. My grandparents were German and they fixed some really good food.
Though it was all pretty fattening, my one grandma lived till she was 90, full blooded German.
Wish I had some of those non-existent recipes. I don't like any kind of cooked cabbage...so most German food doesn't taste very good to me. I do like some of the sausages, and their baked goods (especially sweets) are excellent. I spent two weeks in Germany and to be honest the food was nasty.
Of course I try to follow a Kosher diet so I am predjudiced Hmm, what exactly is underrated? It is good food, but quite heavy, and not as half as healthy as Italian food or any other meditarainian region diet(lots of fish and seafood) German national food is more like potatoes, pork, sausages, sour cabbage and lots of beer:) Ok, thats just a stereotype, but not far from the truth. Absolutely. Some of the best food I ever ate was in Germany. I fell in love with their sweet and sour cabbage and some sort of thinly sliced cucumbers in a cream sauce. I had some of the best breads, desserts, sausages, and so many other things that I didn't want to leave after a month.
I have been in France and Italy too, and the food is good, but there is something about German food that just does it for me.
(in my humble opinion) The only under rated things German cuisine offers is:
Bread
Pastries
The rest is, well, topped by quite a few European countries. German style food is nothing to be proud of. It lacks the understanding that it should be enjoyable, a blend of different savory tastes. Instead it is mainly a style of nourishment, very fatty, lots of carbohydrates and repetitive tastes of salt, pepper, cumin, mustard and parsley.
But there are also some exceptions. The wine regions offer some nice dishes, there are very good pastries and the brewers make one of the best beers! hard to find them in this country, so difficult to agree or disagree No, because i don't think it's particularly tasteful. but then again, I don't like french food that much, although they employ herbs much more creatively. Yes. yea. nothing can beat the good old fat sausage like a vienerschnitzel (sp?) , sour kraut (sp again?) and mustard. mm mm mmmmm...hahaha yea i cant spell none of it but i sure as hell LOVEEEE it!! No.
Usually in European restaurants you are not confronted with that nasty cooking smell that's endemic to German restaurants.
In Germany, even when you go to Italian, French or other restaurants, everything smells awful.
But I agree about some of their baking, which is certaily better than its British equivalent - if only Germans could lighten up a bit on all that caraway and sourdough, which is not to everyone's taste. Germany is full of Italian (and french) restaurants. Italy and France doesn't have a big selection of German restaurants.
This must be a clue....
I take that back - The area of italy under Austria (Bolzen) eat foods that are German BUT with Italian flair & flavor! it's just bad food all around, yuck!