• Dasus@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    “Ice cube salad”?

    Our Finnish cuisine is so non-existent people can’t even make jokes about it.

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      39 minutes ago

      Uuuhh… the starvation bark bread? I think there was a reindeer meat pizza that one some award.

      Whatever, our own one thing is a vaguely modified American dish, and comes from Quebec, so you’re not alone.

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        32 minutes ago

        That’s not cuisine, that’s a dish. It’s a Finnish dish, but the cuisine is technically Italian.

        We don’t have a cuisine in the same way in the North as mainland Europe does. Like do you know what the national dish of Finland is? Karjalanpaisti, Karelian stew. Which when traditionally made, has the following ingredients ONLY; beef cubes, pork cubes, a mildly salted pot of water.

        Heat for several hours.

        That’s it.

        Like people joke about how bland British food is but it’s literally on fire compared to our traditional dishes. Like a shepherd’s pie made with a red wine and even bland-ish British spices would be absolutely gorgeous compared to Karelian stew.

        I think the national dish really reflects the Finnish spirit well though.