Also, D even gets the entire bay of Naples, in addition to the cuisines of 3-4 billion people. Anyone who wants anything from A can get anything from there in Oceania.
D is so OP, I cannot imagine anyone picking anything else unless they are basing their choice on where they live.
Anyone who wants anything from A can get anything from there in Oceania.
But then that's food you can eat in Oceania, not food from Oceania. D has a ton of good Asian food, but for traditional Western cuisine you want A or H.
You cant only consider indigenous cuisine though. In that case it completely changes Mexican cuisine etc. Infact it changes literally every single cuisine in the world with the idea of 'real'
But that takes out all the chalange because all the regions have major cities and therefore all sorts of restaurants. I mean you can get good Chinese food in Buenos Aires I know and most other regional cuisines. I mean then New York City is op and everyone else is second place.
Yeah but the alternative is "you can't eat modern food from absolutely anywhere" because, for example, tomatoes have only been in italy since they were imported from the Americas
This gate keeping of cuisine is ridiculous. It would logically follow that you have to throw out anything that's made with something originally from a different zone. So no potatoes, tomatoes, corn or other new world crops... Well, anywhere but one of these sections. Anything that comes from cultural exchange is, apparently, right out. So good luck with whatever the fuck they were eating in mesopotamia and the Indus river valley civilisation. I hope you like your beer to be bread.
If it's been made by people who identify culturally as being "of that zone", and they self-identify it as part of their culture, then that's from there. Pretending that the awful colonisation of the entire world by white Europeans just... didn't happen is insanely naïve.
I mean, that's not what the word "from" means, otherwise curry would be American food and that aside from not making sense would make the OP a lot less interesting to consider.
Greek, Turkish, Arab, Indian, Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai, Korean, Japanese. If you want something more western, there's Australian for some classic bbq or fish n chips. There's also a tiny sliver of Italy.
That’s only if you like those things. G gets you barbecue, Mexican, Peruvian, Cuban, every Caribbean island, Hawaii, French Polynesia, and several others it’s hard to tell from the map.
Of the things you listed from D I only like Greek, Italian, Chinese, and Japanese. And I can get all of those from Hawaii and California.
But you HAVE BBQ, in the form of Hawaiian BBQ, which goes pretty hard too. And there’s BBQ-analogues all over Southeast Asia. And don’t forget, like, all of the Middle East. Check out some of the feast preparations of whole animals, as well as modern “convenience” spins on older recipes more suitable for family-size prep.
I won't deny, I'd miss Mexican food. Sure, a kebab is basically a burrito, but the differences are enough that it'd be a shame to never have either one.
But I do find the barbecue thing weird. Australian barbecue is close enough to American to be a more than acceptable substitute (although perhaps I'm biased). Korean galbi is amazing, though quite different.
Lots of peeps on the D train, so I’m going G. You’ve got the spiciness of Mexican and Caribbean paired with the savoryness of Guatemalan and Colombian. Jam packed with fish and chicken dishes. Ceviche, jerk chicken, jambalaya, fried plantains, cornbreads, tacos, and giant burritos. Southern Spain means you get paella chock full of shellfish and also Spanish olives. And in the far west you get a bit of Hawaiian flare, so a little bit of Japanese sneaks in.
Regardless D and G are S tier. E and A are A tier. Everything else is, well, a carb with sauerkraut and sausage.
Plus G gives you some of the best of USAmerican food like all the bbqs, cheesesteaks, American chinese, and all the random fusions that occur in the la, atlanta, and dc metros!
After living in D for half my life, the lack of decent Mexican food makes me a G person too.
I'll argue that C has a pretty solid showing. Southern Italy, Greece, Croatia, Serbia, the rest of the Balkans, Turkey, Ukraine, Russia, Northern China, Central Asia, Mongolia, Northern Japan. There's a lot going on there.
Afircan food is pretty great. E has parts of Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Egypt. (Those are the ones that I've tried. There's probably more countries with great food there.)
Easy D for me. It has Indian, Bangladeshi, Japanese, Chinese, Thai, and Vietnamese. I don't think I need anything else in life lol. Come to think of it, the only food I've had in the last month or so that isn't from D is pizza, but I can live without pizza.
(I'm Indian so there's obvious bias. But even if Indian and Bangladeshi food were removed, I'll still choose D. I'll be a little tempted by G because of Barbecue, but Korean barbecue is pretty great as well.)
Dude that, and then there's like most of West Asia from Afghan to Lebanese with everything in between, plus Turkey and even a sliver of Greece and Italy.
With Greece and Italy giving us European in addition to Indian and Asian, D covers pretty much everything and makes it incredibly balanced. it's the only choice.
D is the answet and it's so unfair. It has the entire diverse range of Asian cuisine, a glimpse of Western and Latin (through Australia-NZ and Philippines), and a slice of Medditeranean. It has all the ways to cook rice!
I’ll be a little tempted by G because of Barbecue, but Korean barbecue is pretty great as well
Galbi is great, but don't forget you also get Australian barbecue. Which, while not exactly the same as American barbecue, is much more similar to it than galbi is.
D without a doubt. Southern tip of Italy, Greek, Turkish, Persian, Pakistan, Indian, Chinese, Thai, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, Australian, just to name a few.
D gets you most of Middle Eastern, all of India, most of China, all of South Asia, most of Australia, most of Japan. Huge variety, extremely high number of options, lots of spice availability, lots of meat and nonmeat protein options.
G mostly because of Mexico alone. I've traveled there a bunch recently and the food game is insane. You also get the US South (which does have a lot of great food outside of deep fried everything), Spain, Portugal, and Morocco.
C gets an honorable mention mostly because of southeast Europe. That whole area has been a crossroads for a very long time.
I'm solidly on D ground, but G because of Mexico alone?? That's just plain madness or hopefully pure ignorance. Central and South America have so much more than just Mexican food.
Don't forget about Peruvian food with G - literally some of the best food on the planet. Since the contest began in 2012, Peru has won World's Leading Culinary Destination in the World Travel Awards every single year except for one. But a lot of people have no idea that the cuisine even exists. G also has a lot of fusion foods such as Vietcajun and Chifa.
But if you're vegetarian, D is the obvious choice.
Love Mexican and south American food, Creole, Southern, Cuban…plus the US has stolen foods from around the world, so I guess I get to keep pretty much eating whatever.
B is being slept on in this thread.
I mean, look at it - you get northern Italy, Germany, Austria, Hungary, the northern Balkans, Sweden, and Finland. If you like pasta, pizza, grilled meats, fries, potatoes, sausages, licorice, a mindbogglingly large number of breads and cheeses, etc. etc. you'd be stupid not to pick that region.
Yeah, D gets you at least four entirely different types of cuisine and Australian stuff will still have that Euro/American vibe. Only downside is you'll technically be allowed to eat Vegemite.
D represents something like 50% of the world population. The variety there is likely sufficient to sustain anyone indefinitely.
Although everything in the global south likely has varying degrees if spice, so those with intolerance might be better served with one of the northern slices. That said, slice A would be hands down the worst choice.
Wouldn't be a problem. G includes the West Indies places like Trinidad which has plenty of food that originated in India. So not the full list of all Indian food but it is perfectly real and not some crappy fusion restaurant knock off.
Results of the British colonial era bringing a lot of people from India after ending the official slave trade and still wanting people to work plantations. So they switched from literally slavery to the not quite but still awful indentured service. The British would get the lowest social groups in India that functionally couldn't own property in India to sign contracts for many years of work in exchange for a 1 room shack and a micro plot of land of their own.
It has the salt, the umami, the sour in brilliant combinations and it leaves you fed in a distinct way compared to other foods! You just want to lay down and rest on the food afterwards which you don't get from many other cuisines 😎
Haha, one could argue the feeling of being fed and needing rest afterwards might be because of the sheer amount of husmanskost that is usually had (because it is so good) 😄
D!!! Of Course??? Turkish, Greek, Indian, Thai, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Irani, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Filipino.... E, C and G get honorable mentions but it really is not fair at all.
D is lots of different Chinese regional dishes (Shanghai style, south China styles, Xi'an Muslim styles, and all the different dumplings); all the great Japanese food, Vietnamese food, Thai food, Indian food, Aussie and New Zealand wines, Aussie steaks, New Zealand lamb, Malay, Indonesian dishes, Cebu BBQ, plus Lebanese and Persian food. That is a lot of variety.
G gets you New Orleans dishes, California wine, Cali tacos, Tex Mex, southeastern USA BBQ, Low Country Boil, Mexican food, Caribbean food, central American, chocolate, and I am guessing Hawaiian dishes.
I must choose the very unpopular "B", for the sole reason that rest of the world is seemingly unable or unwilling to make proper sourdough rye bread. It is very, very delicious.
It’s a hard choice between D and G for me. G gets all of the southern US cuisine that Europeans are always blown away by, along with texmex, traditional Mexican, street tacos, Louisiana seafood, Cali and Florida seafood, etc… But D gets India, the Mediterranean (maybe even Italy? I can’t quite tell on this map), Korean, Japanese, etc…
If I wanted to commit to consistently good food, I’d go with G. But if I wanted a wider variety with a broader spice palette, I’d go with D.
All the most interesting flavours come from D section.
There also lies the birthplace of spices. Wars were fought over those pices. The earliest forms of global trade was formed over those spices. Europeans started colonialism largely driven by the need for regular access to those spices.
Do not underestimate the power and value of spices. No other section, as presented here, compares.
G has mexican, cajun, columbian, and tex mex. Seriously south florida is insane food choice as well. Hell, I can get california burritos too. D has filipino, thai, arabic, and indian. Incredible vegan options and protein options and who doesnt love spicy thai chicken and rice? Either of those and im set for life :)
Yeah it's hard to say for sure. It looks to me like northern Greece (Greek Macedonia) is probably in C, but the Greek islands, the Peloponnese, and Attica are probably all in D.
I mean, even if you don't include China and Japan C also gets to call dibs over places like the Balkans and Caucasus (notably including Armenia), and on top of that it gets Italy.
G. Sufficiently diverse populations and no hoity toity rules about what is authentic cuisine. Plus these regions contain every biome to grow every sort OG fruit vegetable and herb i could ever want to eat.
A better question is which one of these is the worst. If I had to pick, B and C are not the best but even those aren’t too bad. A looks like it isn’t much but it is arguably the best. French and UK cuisine with a little German.
All y'all sleeping on global South cuisine. F and E would get you an absolute smorgasbord of culinary bangers that you've probably never heard of. Plus with the amount of colonization that's happened in those areas, you'd get a lot of European-ish food too, if you wanted something more familiar. It's a tough choice between the two, but I'd take either of those in a heartbeat.
D for sure, Greek, Turkish, Persian, Lebanese, Indian, Thai, Vietnamese, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Cambodian, Philippine, New Zealand, and Australian (which is essentially French/British). And more.
G instead of D for me, because while I love Asian food, they also have a lot of spicy-sweet foods, and I hate spicy-sweet. Just do sweet, or just do spicy, but don't mix them in one. I hate sweet heat, there's few dishes that can make me like it. I also don't love a lot of tropical fruits and Asian fruits, I'm a basic bitch. But Tex-Mex all day? I can live with that, plus some Creole and soul food? Set for life. I will miss Asian food though... Curry, ramen, Kung Pao, lumpia...
It’s D and it’s not even a little close. I’d be sad to lose burritos and jerk chicken, and not be able to try more African food, but yea D 10000%, no regrets.
If the lines were rotated some 22 degrees you'd have more of a realistic regional division of foods types for most places. As it is G and D has so much diversity that it's not much of a loss either way.
I would say G, you get Mexican and southern US you get a bit of Brazilian, southern Spain, southern Portugal, Colombia, Venezuela and I would argue you get Italian in Sardinia and you even get Moroccan.
Food is so interconnected culturally, how do you even say where food really comes from? As an obvious illustrative example that most people would agree with, consider orange chicken. I don't think many people who really know about it would argue that, no, it's not American and actually Chinese. But at the same time, if we're willing to say variations of dishes are unique, then by that point you can basically get any food from any region. Because where do you draw the line? Does a different ratio of spices make it a unique dish? If so, well, every meal is probably unique depending on how precisely you measure.
TL;DR: If you agree orange chicken is an American dish and not a Chinese dish then you can probably get any food from any region so the choice doesn't matter.
Seems like everyone is answering "cuisine" instead of ingredients. All of France beats 1/6th of Italy. Bread making is France and India. But Canada has all the recipes and ingredient quality from all over the world.
If sourcing ingredients is the question, G more than D, if grown outdoors, but G has negative geopolitical support, and ingredients can be grown indoors in H. F is where coffee and cocoa come from, and I have addictions.
This can't really be answered in a simple way. Like a lot of "traditional" European dishes use potatoes. But at some point they where not native to Europe. So does that count? Or something like New York style pizza, is that American? Because in that case the Netherlands for example has a lot of Indonesian dishes that are more variations on traditional Indonesian food (made by immigrants using more local ingredients).
I think food is the best example why immigration and mixing of cultures can really improve humanity.
My take is that it's about complete meals, as they exist today, with the region that the meal is associated with. So I would put tikka masala in India, even though it was technically created in the UK. My guess is your Dutch Indonesian version is probably the same as that, and should go in D. Or would most Dutch people say "this is a Dutch meal"?
But you're definitely right that it's very fuzzy.
I saw a much more interesting problem not too long ago, which had much clearer lines. It was only about using ingredients native to either the new world or old world. Choose new world and you get chocolate, tomato, and potato. Old world means you miss out, but you do get wheat and rice.
I think you have a good point most Dutch people would say lets get Indonesian food today, while actually getting food you probably can't find exactly the same in Indonesia.
I would probably take D (I think it still has a tiny slice of Italy). Pizza and asian I can't live without. I think there is still debate on the origin of fries)...
D for sure but a strong showing from G. Can't imagine anything else even putting up a slight competition to those options. I live in H and that would be a hilariously sad choice
Okay first we gotta see what each region actually has. I'm gonna only count countries where a significant fraction of the area is included (so no including Italy in D or A or France in H). With that in mind,
A: France, Germany, British Isles.
B: Central, Northern and Eastern Europe, Italy, Russia.
C: Balkans, some Eastern Europe, Italy, Russia, northern half of Central Asia, Caucasus, Turkey if we're being generous, China, Japan and (North) Korea.
D: Middle East (sans Egypt), Indian Peninsula, China, Southeast Asia and East Asia
E: Some Arabian Peninsula, eastern North Africa, sub-Saharan Africa
F: Most of South America, western North Africa, West Africa
G: Some South America, Central America, USAmerica, Spain
H: Spain and USAmerica
Some are obviously stronger than others stares at D and G, but wow this is more even than I expected. A gets hard carried by France, B gets Italy and Eastern Europe, C gets (some of) that and also Armenia and East Asia, E gets hard carried by Egypt (sorry for the whole rest of Africa, y'all need better PR), F is the birthplace of the potato and while H is just a subset of G it's a pretty decent one. Without further ado, here's my tier list:
I don't think it's usually associated with the country, but you will find a good amount of Egyptian stuff in a Middle Eastern restaurant. I think falafel is the most popular example. Also not internationally popular but Egyptian cheese is really good.
G (kind of a tie with H idk, I just like US borgers basically)
C (for Ukrainian mostly, basically cheating to get back to B lol)
D
F
E
Anything D and below idk, I could eat it but it I certainly wouldn't enjoy it, I hate Asian food with a passion, sans that bit of Turkish and Mediterranean which is ok. F and E I honestly don't know what they eat, like jerk chicken? Nando's type stuff? Yeah then I might actually choose to starve tbqh.
I wasn't thinking of French, I like some British foods like a nice all English breakfast with some orange juice, though a croissant is well paired with that.
Ay I am torn between G and E, African food is incredible and I'd probably be ok, but G is where I live and my city has amazing food, including African cuisines so if you just mean what's available in those regions, then G, absolutely.
Would probably choose B as thats the one im most used to but D is also really good. You have south-east asian, east asian, indian, arabic, turkish, greek etc. You even have australia and new zealand included if thats what you fancy. Also israel where, as we all know, all food orginates from.
Australia is in D and it is home to a vast multicultural community. There are people with a cultural background from all over the world cooking in Australia!
Seems i have to be the autist in this thread and complain about that map. How is that a fair split if D contains 50% of the human population while A has barely 200mil.
Why is it centered on Italy? Why so far north? Any slice going north just touches 2-4 countries while the ones going south can have 30?
I guest there isnt a place to put the center that would weight all sectors equally but cmon this is just lazy
D has a ton of Asian goodness
Also, D even gets the entire bay of Naples, in addition to the cuisines of 3-4 billion people. Anyone who wants anything from A can get anything from there in Oceania.
D is so OP, I cannot imagine anyone picking anything else unless they are basing their choice on where they live.
But then that's food you can eat in Oceania, not food from Oceania. D has a ton of good Asian food, but for traditional Western cuisine you want A or H.
D has Australia and nz too
Yeah but the real cuisine from Australia is grubs, roo meat and berries.
You cant only consider indigenous cuisine though. In that case it completely changes Mexican cuisine etc. Infact it changes literally every single cuisine in the world with the idea of 'real'
But that takes out all the chalange because all the regions have major cities and therefore all sorts of restaurants. I mean you can get good Chinese food in Buenos Aires I know and most other regional cuisines. I mean then New York City is op and everyone else is second place.
So do we not count potato dishes for India since they were introduced by the Brits or how about tomatoes for Italy?
If we allow ingredients but recipes are the issue, than is Japanese curry not counted for Japan considering it went from India to Britain to Japan?
How about removing biryani from India/ Pakistan since the mughals created it with Persian techniques.
What about fusion cuisines? All the pizzas in the world for example?
Keeping it indigenous is literally impossible bc that idea doesn't even exist.
Yeah but the alternative is "you can't eat modern food from absolutely anywhere" because, for example, tomatoes have only been in italy since they were imported from the Americas
Yeah that's (part of) Oceania.
This gate keeping of cuisine is ridiculous. It would logically follow that you have to throw out anything that's made with something originally from a different zone. So no potatoes, tomatoes, corn or other new world crops... Well, anywhere but one of these sections. Anything that comes from cultural exchange is, apparently, right out. So good luck with whatever the fuck they were eating in mesopotamia and the Indus river valley civilisation. I hope you like your beer to be bread.
If it's been made by people who identify culturally as being "of that zone", and they self-identify it as part of their culture, then that's from there. Pretending that the awful colonisation of the entire world by white Europeans just... didn't happen is insanely naïve.
I mean, that's not what the word "from" means, otherwise curry would be American food and that aside from not making sense would make the OP a lot less interesting to consider.
I'd miss mexican food, but some arsehole bundled it with the USA.
Worse, they bundled it with the worse half of the USA (except for soul food).
D is literally the only answer.
Greek, Turkish, Arab, Indian, Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai, Korean, Japanese. If you want something more western, there's Australian for some classic bbq or fish n chips. There's also a tiny sliver of Italy.
That’s only if you like those things. G gets you barbecue, Mexican, Peruvian, Cuban, every Caribbean island, Hawaii, French Polynesia, and several others it’s hard to tell from the map.
Of the things you listed from D I only like Greek, Italian, Chinese, and Japanese. And I can get all of those from Hawaii and California.
Yeah I'd choose D but will be really really sad to not be able to eat anything from G ever again.
But you HAVE BBQ, in the form of Hawaiian BBQ, which goes pretty hard too. And there’s BBQ-analogues all over Southeast Asia. And don’t forget, like, all of the Middle East. Check out some of the feast preparations of whole animals, as well as modern “convenience” spins on older recipes more suitable for family-size prep.
I won't deny, I'd miss Mexican food. Sure, a kebab is basically a burrito, but the differences are enough that it'd be a shame to never have either one.
But I do find the barbecue thing weird. Australian barbecue is close enough to American to be a more than acceptable substitute (although perhaps I'm biased). Korean galbi is amazing, though quite different.
I think Mexican food would be the only major loss here, tbh
And don't forget Kiwi... I want to say... fruit?
Hangi.
kiwi land has amazing dairy and wine
G is better- fight me
Of course the CIA would say that.
Look I spent a lot of time in South America… wait I want supposed to say that
Mediterranean, middle eastern, indian, Chinese, se asian. I can live with that.
+1 for D
It's literally where the world gets most of their spices ... the English fought wars for those places and those spices
To sell them to the world. Never get high on your own supply.
Indian and Chinese ftw. I'll miss my local Moroccan place though.
plus aotearoa for cheese and wine.
Aussie wine and cheese is arguably even better, yet another reason to go with D.
D also has all the shit I cook. Hello microwaved Vegemite and cheese sandwiches.
Lots of peeps on the D train, so I’m going G. You’ve got the spiciness of Mexican and Caribbean paired with the savoryness of Guatemalan and Colombian. Jam packed with fish and chicken dishes. Ceviche, jerk chicken, jambalaya, fried plantains, cornbreads, tacos, and giant burritos. Southern Spain means you get paella chock full of shellfish and also Spanish olives. And in the far west you get a bit of Hawaiian flare, so a little bit of Japanese sneaks in.
Regardless D and G are S tier. E and A are A tier. Everything else is, well, a carb with sauerkraut and sausage.
Plus G gives you some of the best of USAmerican food like all the bbqs, cheesesteaks, American chinese, and all the random fusions that occur in the la, atlanta, and dc metros!
Yeah it's gotta be G for me too
After living in D for half my life, the lack of decent Mexican food makes me a G person too.
I'll argue that C has a pretty solid showing. Southern Italy, Greece, Croatia, Serbia, the rest of the Balkans, Turkey, Ukraine, Russia, Northern China, Central Asia, Mongolia, Northern Japan. There's a lot going on there.
A is obvious, but why E?
Afircan food is pretty great. E has parts of Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Egypt. (Those are the ones that I've tried. There's probably more countries with great food there.)
E's got Ethiopia. I don't know if Ethiopian rivals French though
Easy D for me. It has Indian, Bangladeshi, Japanese, Chinese, Thai, and Vietnamese. I don't think I need anything else in life lol. Come to think of it, the only food I've had in the last month or so that isn't from D is pizza, but I can live without pizza.
(I'm Indian so there's obvious bias. But even if Indian and Bangladeshi food were removed, I'll still choose D. I'll be a little tempted by G because of Barbecue, but Korean barbecue is pretty great as well.)
I dont think any other country would claim this, so I pretty sure this counts as Japanese pizza
"Double deliciousness all the way to the crust!"
Language trivia: In Japanese the "crust" of the bread is called the "ears"
I call it the pizza bone.
A mini dog pizza? What is this?
booking next flight to Japan
Needs more corn
Well, I was hungry... Not anymore
Dude that, and then there's like most of West Asia from Afghan to Lebanese with everything in between, plus Turkey and even a sliver of Greece and Italy.
With Greece and Italy giving us European in addition to Indian and Asian, D covers pretty much everything and makes it incredibly balanced. it's the only choice.
I will sorely miss Mexican food but that's an acceptable price to pay
D is the answet and it's so unfair. It has the entire diverse range of Asian cuisine, a glimpse of Western and Latin (through Australia-NZ and Philippines), and a slice of Medditeranean. It has all the ways to cook rice!
Also Korea. I've only been to two Korean places and they have always had at least 1 nice vegan option
Galbi is great, but don't forget you also get Australian barbecue. Which, while not exactly the same as American barbecue, is much more similar to it than galbi is.
D has a tiny sliver of Italy too.
Yeah and Malay food 😋 god, d is easy
D without a doubt. Southern tip of Italy, Greek, Turkish, Persian, Pakistan, Indian, Chinese, Thai, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, Australian, just to name a few.
D, hands down. Indian, Thai, Vietnamese, Iranian, Turkish, Japanese, Chinese. Literally my favorite foods
Edit: Also includes a little bit of Italy!!
D or G
D gets you most of Middle Eastern, all of India, most of China, all of South Asia, most of Australia, most of Japan. Huge variety, extremely high number of options, lots of spice availability, lots of meat and nonmeat protein options.
G mostly because of Mexico alone. I've traveled there a bunch recently and the food game is insane. You also get the US South (which does have a lot of great food outside of deep fried everything), Spain, Portugal, and Morocco.
C gets an honorable mention mostly because of southeast Europe. That whole area has been a crossroads for a very long time.
I'm solidly on D ground, but G because of Mexico alone?? That's just plain madness or hopefully pure ignorance. Central and South America have so much more than just Mexican food.
You forgot Puerto Rican and Jamaican food which is also in G.
Don't forget about Peruvian food with G - literally some of the best food on the planet. Since the contest began in 2012, Peru has won World's Leading Culinary Destination in the World Travel Awards every single year except for one. But a lot of people have no idea that the cuisine even exists. G also has a lot of fusion foods such as Vietcajun and Chifa.
But if you're vegetarian, D is the obvious choice.
D is the only sensible choice, there's really no debate here.
B You get italian food but still can have Surströmming
blursed
Deal of the century
Unparalleled energy
and pitepalt!
D is honestly extremely OP
Yeah no kidding. D and it isn't even close.
D has all the good stuff. Middle Eastern, Asian food, even a part of Greek food. I don't really see any competition to that.
Even a tiny bit of italy, D is heaven!
Don't forget Japan! Pasta, sushi, curry, pad Tai, nasi. All the good stuff
G.
Love Mexican and south American food, Creole, Southern, Cuban…plus the US has stolen foods from around the world, so I guess I get to keep pretty much eating whatever.
D, Italian, Japanese, Vietnamese, Chinese and Indian are already 90% of my diet
D without a doubt. Indian, Thai, Vietnamese, Japanese, parts of China. It's even got some Mediterranean in there. That's basically all I eat already.
The only options are D and G
Consider global warming
G. Mexican food will survive anything, including being left out for a couple days and not killing you when you forget how long it's been left out.
D has virtually all god-tier food Asia has ever produced, plus a bonus of whatever culinary bullshit Australia vomits onto the world stage.
D because of the huge variety in food, and the tiny chunk of Italy means I still technically get Italian food :)
This map is doing flavor gerrymandering with D.
B is being slept on in this thread. I mean, look at it - you get northern Italy, Germany, Austria, Hungary, the northern Balkans, Sweden, and Finland. If you like pasta, pizza, grilled meats, fries, potatoes, sausages, licorice, a mindbogglingly large number of breads and cheeses, etc. etc. you'd be stupid not to pick that region.
I mean D is a powerhouse lol
Has to be D. Last time I said Japanese and Mexican, but I forgot Iranian.
D is probably the best region.
Yeah, D gets you at least four entirely different types of cuisine and Australian stuff will still have that Euro/American vibe. Only downside is you'll technically be allowed to eat Vegemite.
Well you also get greek for the European vibes. And kebab according to Germans.
I'm torn between D and G. I love Thai, Chinese, Japanese, and Mexican/Central American cuisines, not to mention American barbecue.
You can get Japanese and Chinese in Hawaii and Cali just fine.
I mean, sure, but it's not from those places, which is the point of the OP.
Many of those folks live and cook their native cuisine in the G region.
That's kinda against the whole idea though. You can get pretty much any cuisine anywhere nowadays.
D. Curry, Szechwan, vietnamese, thai, asian street food!, Teriyaki and Sushi all day.
D gets Turkish, Arab, Indian, Chinese, Korean... why didn't you cut this in a way that gives the rest of the world any chance?
lol can't go wrong with A. Snails, frog legs, shark, whale blubber, seal, dolphin, herring, fries and cheese. Truly haute cuisine.
A contains just sliver of Italy too
And beans
D is the obvious correct choice because the western food in Asia is superior to the Asian food in the west.
H, because I'm in Canada, and the food would be cold before the guy from D got here.
D represents something like 50% of the world population. The variety there is likely sufficient to sustain anyone indefinitely.
Although everything in the global south likely has varying degrees if spice, so those with intolerance might be better served with one of the northern slices. That said, slice A would be hands down the worst choice.
D is easily superior
I live in D, but regardless it's so stupidly stacked it's nearly impossible to choose anything else.
D or G
It's gotta be G. Soul food, Mexican, fry bread, bbq, all the fruits from that region, yum.
I'm not big on Asian foods, I enjoy them well enough but the only thing I'd miss in D would be Indian.
Wouldn't be a problem. G includes the West Indies places like Trinidad which has plenty of food that originated in India. So not the full list of all Indian food but it is perfectly real and not some crappy fusion restaurant knock off.
Results of the British colonial era bringing a lot of people from India after ending the official slave trade and still wanting people to work plantations. So they switched from literally slavery to the not quite but still awful indentured service. The British would get the lowest social groups in India that functionally couldn't own property in India to sign contracts for many years of work in exchange for a 1 room shack and a micro plot of land of their own.
Don't forget Chine-Mex!
Context clues are telling me that this is relevant to my interests.
Please, good sir/madam, what is Chine-Mex? Is it what I hope it is?
I'm also cautiously optimistic, but I'll be honest with you, it feels a little too good to be true.
Well, if we assume American-Chinese foods are based upon what's available to make authentic dishes, then Chine-Mex is the equivalent for South US(border region mostly) and Mexico. Stuff like cilantro in egg rolls or avocado fried rice! Here's a nice supplemental NPR Article: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/04/16/399637724/the-chinese-mexican-cuisine-born-of-u-s-prejudice
That looks amazing, thanks
I once ate at a place called Wok-A-Mole that served Chinese Mexican buffet, and had a mural of pandas wearing sombreros.
I hope it's that, but with good food
??? If there is any good Mexican in China or vietnam, please tell me where. Every time I am disappointed.
Husmanskost is one of the best cuisines but damn there's no contest against D.
Gimme the D for the rest of my life please
I'm a casual husmanskost enjoyer, but I've never heard of anyone claiming it to be one of the best cuisines out there.
I don't disagree with you, but I was surprised to hear that take 😄
It has the salt, the umami, the sour in brilliant combinations and it leaves you fed in a distinct way compared to other foods! You just want to lay down and rest on the food afterwards which you don't get from many other cuisines 😎
Haha, one could argue the feeling of being fed and needing rest afterwards might be because of the sheer amount of husmanskost that is usually had (because it is so good) 😄
But once again, I don't disagree👍
G, no contest.
D!!! Of Course??? Turkish, Greek, Indian, Thai, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Irani, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Filipino.... E, C and G get honorable mentions but it really is not fair at all.
D or G because those both can grow coffee.
Tough call though.
D is lots of different Chinese regional dishes (Shanghai style, south China styles, Xi'an Muslim styles, and all the different dumplings); all the great Japanese food, Vietnamese food, Thai food, Indian food, Aussie and New Zealand wines, Aussie steaks, New Zealand lamb, Malay, Indonesian dishes, Cebu BBQ, plus Lebanese and Persian food. That is a lot of variety.
G gets you New Orleans dishes, California wine, Cali tacos, Tex Mex, southeastern USA BBQ, Low Country Boil, Mexican food, Caribbean food, central American, chocolate, and I am guessing Hawaiian dishes.
And now I'm hungry.
Me, who knows how globes work:
I'm perfectly fine either way.
It is split that way because obviously no one can live for the rest of their life without mediterranean food
I must choose the very unpopular "B", for the sole reason that rest of the world is seemingly unable or unwilling to make proper sourdough rye bread. It is very, very delicious.
Imma go with A
Is it the snails, the frogs, or the British food that's doing it for you?
The Guinness! Makes everything else tolerable. (But also, shepherd's pie is in there.)
Worse option ever lol
F is one of the best choices, but most people from the northern hemisphere will miss out because they never had a chance to meet our culinary.
D. Japan literally has so many random recipes that I get overwhelmed when deciding what to try.
A!
French food! And uh, rotting whale taint buried in sand for three months, then pickled in shark piss.
D looks nice. Greek food, Turkish food, fuck Israel, Indian food, Japanese food, Thai food and whatever crocodile burger Australia serves.
All these people picking D have never had real Mexican food.
Mexican and Texas BBQ? Say no more.
D so I can still dip my timtams in vegemite
D or G seems like the obvious choices
For me it's D > G > everything else.
G, for sure. Mexican food is the best food.
Everybody wants the D.
D, because I’m British and can’t trust them forrins to not put too much spice like salt in my food.
Hard D. No, wait...
G, I can't live without Mexican food.
G or D. D is the logical choice but giving up Mexican food is hard.
B, it tastes good like American food but it won't cause you an early death.
Why is this centered of Italy?
everyone gets pizza
Finally
A has like nothing good it's just the British (and Greenland)
There is France. France has pretty damn good cuisine.
Cumberland sausages, steak and ale pie, apple pie, Yorkshire puddings, toad in the hole, curry, gin, whiskey, whisky, Guinness, IPA, Sunday roasts…
I pity the rest of the world.
...but we stole the rest of the worlds recipes.
...and sucked at using them
H because we just rip off everyone else's food anyway
It’s a hard choice between D and G for me. G gets all of the southern US cuisine that Europeans are always blown away by, along with texmex, traditional Mexican, street tacos, Louisiana seafood, Cali and Florida seafood, etc… But D gets India, the Mediterranean (maybe even Italy? I can’t quite tell on this map), Korean, Japanese, etc…
If I wanted to commit to consistently good food, I’d go with G. But if I wanted a wider variety with a broader spice palette, I’d go with D.
If it weren’t for Sardinia being centered on this map, half these regions wouldn’t stand a chance
D section.
All the most interesting flavours come from D section.
There also lies the birthplace of spices. Wars were fought over those pices. The earliest forms of global trade was formed over those spices. Europeans started colonialism largely driven by the need for regular access to those spices.
Do not underestimate the power and value of spices. No other section, as presented here, compares.
G has mexican, cajun, columbian, and tex mex. Seriously south florida is insane food choice as well. Hell, I can get california burritos too. D has filipino, thai, arabic, and indian. Incredible vegan options and protein options and who doesnt love spicy thai chicken and rice? Either of those and im set for life :)
D looks like I'd get Japanese, Indian, and Vietnamese food. Everything else in there is a bonus.
D no question, Indian food makes up a huge portion of my diet
A purely for the pain au chocolat
Its funny that Italy is in 3 zones, impriving the quality of food of all three.
I'm also a D guy. I knew I liked D before the map was even posted
F for all my Brazilian food and churrasco needs
yeah, it's hard to beat BR food for me, most of the world don't know what they're missing out
D still gets you Brazil and american BBQ though.
Edit: I meant G
it... doesn't?
also, american BBQ is such a low bar compared to churrasco, people might even be insulted
Gah I meant G
Korea is doing a lot to keep C viable.
F is a secret top tier with Morocco and Argentina.
I have to admit ignorance about most of E's cuisine, but Egypt is in there. That's something.
Most of Korea (including all of South Korea) is in D, so there's no value add from C there.
Alright, I have to chalk that one up to my ignorance of "how big is North Korea."
Maybe part of Greece is in C? This JPEG compression is making it difficult.
Yeah it's hard to say for sure. It looks to me like northern Greece (Greek Macedonia) is probably in C, but the Greek islands, the Peloponnese, and Attica are probably all in D.
I mean, even if you don't include China and Japan C also gets to call dibs over places like the Balkans and Caucasus (notably including Armenia), and on top of that it gets Italy.
G is the best answer. You’ll end up eating every single cuisine from the other categories (or a variant of it).
France does some serious work.
I love French food. It may be the best in the world. Is it enough to offset the food crimes in the rest of the sector? You be the judge.
What do you have against hachee?
I've never tried it. Also, I didn't notice the Netherlands were in sector A.
G. Sufficiently diverse populations and no hoity toity rules about what is authentic cuisine. Plus these regions contain every biome to grow every sort OG fruit vegetable and herb i could ever want to eat.
D by far has the widest available palette, it includes the silk road which is the thing that fueled C, B, and E.
A better question is which one of these is the worst. If I had to pick, B and C are not the best but even those aren’t too bad. A looks like it isn’t much but it is arguably the best. French and UK cuisine with a little German.
Im torn between D & G lol
G, BBQ and Mexican.
All y'all sleeping on global South cuisine. F and E would get you an absolute smorgasbord of culinary bangers that you've probably never heard of. Plus with the amount of colonization that's happened in those areas, you'd get a lot of European-ish food too, if you wanted something more familiar. It's a tough choice between the two, but I'd take either of those in a heartbeat.
G easily.
Southern comfort food, Mexican, Carribean, and Sushi Rolls. RIP Pizza but I didn't need it
Anyone who chooses A or H is a psychopath
H has poutine and lobster, A has France and Ireland. There are some top tiers in each of these divisions.
Edit: wait, a piece of northern Italy is in A. A is a secret top tier.
H has three of the top pizza traditions.
Or likes French and/or Spanish food.
Luv me beans on toast, simple as
D for sure, Greek, Turkish, Persian, Lebanese, Indian, Thai, Vietnamese, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Cambodian, Philippine, New Zealand, and Australian (which is essentially French/British). And more.
B and enjoy a life full of Surströmming
Wurst, kiełbasa, pierogi, bagels, vepřo-knedlo-zelo, svíčková, chlebíčky and of course it's the only region to combine wine, beer and vodka.
Don't forget about banana curry pizza
D without the slightest hesitation.
G. Mexican and texmex. I hate Texas but holy shit Tex mex is like heaven. Oh and that Creole food oh yeah
A. I'd sooner pop my clogs than not have my rice pudding, black pudding, beans on toast, Eton mess, spotted dick, coronation chicken, and vindaloo.
D but prob biased because I'm from Iran
G or D for me.
You mean I have to choose between Hokkaido or the rest of Japan? Rough :(
Why is this centered on a random spot of warm water in the Mediterranean Sea?
It's not called the "middle of the earth" sea for nothing.
Check out the etomology for Mediterranean.
H, just put the poutine directly into my arteries.
I need a much sharper image around that middle part before I’d make a decision.
G instead of D for me, because while I love Asian food, they also have a lot of spicy-sweet foods, and I hate spicy-sweet. Just do sweet, or just do spicy, but don't mix them in one. I hate sweet heat, there's few dishes that can make me like it. I also don't love a lot of tropical fruits and Asian fruits, I'm a basic bitch. But Tex-Mex all day? I can live with that, plus some Creole and soul food? Set for life. I will miss Asian food though... Curry, ramen, Kung Pao, lumpia...
It’s D and it’s not even a little close. I’d be sad to lose burritos and jerk chicken, and not be able to try more African food, but yea D 10000%, no regrets.
If the lines were rotated some 22 degrees you'd have more of a realistic regional division of foods types for most places. As it is G and D has so much diversity that it's not much of a loss either way.
G.
Because I don't wanna change. But D is tempting. I love Asian food, and the best Asian shit is from that Southern region.
D D D
B followed by all the other sections that have a slice of Italy. No point in bothering with the rest.
G all day
I would say G, you get Mexican and southern US you get a bit of Brazilian, southern Spain, southern Portugal, Colombia, Venezuela and I would argue you get Italian in Sardinia and you even get Moroccan.
Food is so interconnected culturally, how do you even say where food really comes from? As an obvious illustrative example that most people would agree with, consider orange chicken. I don't think many people who really know about it would argue that, no, it's not American and actually Chinese. But at the same time, if we're willing to say variations of dishes are unique, then by that point you can basically get any food from any region. Because where do you draw the line? Does a different ratio of spices make it a unique dish? If so, well, every meal is probably unique depending on how precisely you measure.
TL;DR: If you agree orange chicken is an American dish and not a Chinese dish then you can probably get any food from any region so the choice doesn't matter.
Other than everything invented in Brooklyn I don't know what H is, but I think it'd be good enough for me.
I need this in a higher resolution
D, with G a very close second
A of course, you get both French and Italian food.
A small part of northern Italy .. is Genoa even in that part? Also .. english food 🤮
You can both eat the best food in the world, and the worst 😁
Horrible split, going right through my country, my state, and my administrative region.
For that, I would have to think if food from the other side of the river is considered illegal...
Does the USA only include like hamburgers? Or are we talking about all of the delicious multicultural foods?
F because i live there
and food here is pretty good
C
I cannot live without sarmale and mici
Everyone wants to eat the D
G, but I acknowledge D is rad too
The picture makes me wanting a pizza pie
Seems like everyone is answering "cuisine" instead of ingredients. All of France beats 1/6th of Italy. Bread making is France and India. But Canada has all the recipes and ingredient quality from all over the world.
If sourcing ingredients is the question, G more than D, if grown outdoors, but G has negative geopolitical support, and ingredients can be grown indoors in H. F is where coffee and cocoa come from, and I have addictions.
D>G/F>E
All c
Ok, so every slice gets a part of the mediteranean kitchen?
Should be fine with most of the northern slices, include Italy, Spain or Greece and I am happy.
Sooo B for me.
I partake in a little cannibalism, so it doesn't matter to me.
This can't really be answered in a simple way. Like a lot of "traditional" European dishes use potatoes. But at some point they where not native to Europe. So does that count? Or something like New York style pizza, is that American? Because in that case the Netherlands for example has a lot of Indonesian dishes that are more variations on traditional Indonesian food (made by immigrants using more local ingredients).
I think food is the best example why immigration and mixing of cultures can really improve humanity.
My take is that it's about complete meals, as they exist today, with the region that the meal is associated with. So I would put tikka masala in India, even though it was technically created in the UK. My guess is your Dutch Indonesian version is probably the same as that, and should go in D. Or would most Dutch people say "this is a Dutch meal"?
But you're definitely right that it's very fuzzy.
I saw a much more interesting problem not too long ago, which had much clearer lines. It was only about using ingredients native to either the new world or old world. Choose new world and you get chocolate, tomato, and potato. Old world means you miss out, but you do get wheat and rice.
I think you have a good point most Dutch people would say lets get Indonesian food today, while actually getting food you probably can't find exactly the same in Indonesia.
I would probably take D (I think it still has a tiny slice of Italy). Pizza and asian I can't live without. I think there is still debate on the origin of fries)...
d
Is this the question that prompts the start of European part of WWIII??
It's a hard (and meaningless) decision.
And a fairly civil debate, gg.
H, I’m Canuck and old. Don’t want to change what I eat this late in the game.
D for sure but a strong showing from G. Can't imagine anything else even putting up a slight competition to those options. I live in H and that would be a hilariously sad choice
Okay first we gotta see what each region actually has. I'm gonna only count countries where a significant fraction of the area is included (so no including Italy in D or A or France in H). With that in mind, A: France, Germany, British Isles. B: Central, Northern and Eastern Europe, Italy, Russia. C: Balkans, some Eastern Europe, Italy, Russia, northern half of Central Asia, Caucasus, Turkey if we're being generous, China, Japan and (North) Korea. D: Middle East (sans Egypt), Indian Peninsula, China, Southeast Asia and East Asia E: Some Arabian Peninsula, eastern North Africa, sub-Saharan Africa F: Most of South America, western North Africa, West Africa G: Some South America, Central America, USAmerica, Spain H: Spain and USAmerica
Some are obviously stronger than others stares at D and G, but wow this is more even than I expected. A gets hard carried by France, B gets Italy and Eastern Europe, C gets (some of) that and also Armenia and East Asia, E gets hard carried by Egypt (sorry for the whole rest of Africa, y'all need better PR), F is the birthplace of the potato and while H is just a subset of G it's a pretty decent one. Without further ado, here's my tier list:
S: D, G, C A: A, B, E, F B: H
'A' also has Belgian waffles, Dutch Pannenkoeken, Swiss fondue, and Icelandic Skyr (it's like yogurt, my wife likes it).
... is Egypt known for their food? I was thinking Ethiopian was the best of that section.
I don't think it's usually associated with the country, but you will find a good amount of Egyptian stuff in a Middle Eastern restaurant. I think falafel is the most popular example. Also not internationally popular but Egyptian cheese is really good.
G bc thats where I live already
Has to be H, because I live there and if I had to get every meal imported to me that would be very annoying.
G. Mexican, BBQ and (possibly?) Hot Dogs, all I need. I also couldn't live without Dr Pepper.
B if only one
In order of preference for me:
Anything D and below idk, I could eat it but it I certainly wouldn't enjoy it, I hate Asian food with a passion, sans that bit of Turkish and Mediterranean which is ok. F and E I honestly don't know what they eat, like jerk chicken? Nando's type stuff? Yeah then I might actually choose to starve tbqh.
This is nuts. French food is overrated
I wasn't thinking of French, I like some British foods like a nice all English breakfast with some orange juice, though a croissant is well paired with that.
Ay I am torn between G and E, African food is incredible and I'd probably be ok, but G is where I live and my city has amazing food, including African cuisines so if you just mean what's available in those regions, then G, absolutely.
Damn, what happened to Italy?
Would probably choose B as thats the one im most used to but D is also really good. You have south-east asian, east asian, indian, arabic, turkish, greek etc. You even have australia and new zealand included if thats what you fancy. Also israel where, as we all know, all food orginates from.
The cross is the epicenter of good food it seems.
I think I have to go with A purely because of potato scones and Lorne sausage.
D
D. I kinda already do...
H because bannock is bestock
C of course. Italian, Georgian, Slavic, Uzbek, and northern China.
What's that landmass in A?
It's got to be H, because I live in Canada and I'm not flying across an ocean every time I go for groceries!
I'm doing G. It would have all my favorite comfort foods, plus Mexican food. If the point extends to Italy, then it's perfect.
Who would pick H? What's up there, poutine and seal blubber?
If it weren’t for Sardinia being centered on this map, half these regions wouldn’t stand a chance
TexMex is real?
D. I need my Tim Tams.
RIP to the Mediterranean
Or alternatively, everyone gets a little bit of Mediterranean food
Whichever one has Sicily so either C or D can’t really tell
Yeah people seriously underestimating Sicilian food.
Not having the option of all Mediterranean foods is just plain evil.
Well, it kinda is in every section.
A has Scotland and I don't think I could give up Scottish Fast Food.
Definitely A. France, Britain, Scotland, Iceland and Canada. Edit: just found a piece of Italy and Switzerland within A.
Australia is in D and it is home to a vast multicultural community. There are people with a cultural background from all over the world cooking in Australia!
D, easy
F
Oh you fucker, you put the bullseye on Italy which has my favorite cuisine and are forcing me to choose which part!
I've been living in D my whole life and eating D most of the time, so i'll have D.
Dividing the world according to this uniform mathematical system is so stupid. Is this secretly a pro-gerrymandering psyop?
I was split between G and D until I saw the comment that D has a ton of Asian goodness. Definitely D.
G also has Asian goodness. Hawaii, French Polynesia, and Cali have tons of Asian food
Wait, what does D have other than Asian goodness?
I think people are mostly saying D for India, China, Japan, and Korea. It also has Greece and Lebanon.
Also Australia, so you get western things like sandwiches, pizza, and french fries. Plus meat pies.
Can I just get the entire southern hemisphere?
C
That's just my usual ration plus some Indo-Asian spice in the mix. Perfect.
I like how Germany is divided into East and West^^ the food is more distinct between North and South though.
G has burritos and in n out. Wtf more do you need?
Seems i have to be the autist in this thread and complain about that map. How is that a fair split if D contains 50% of the human population while A has barely 200mil.
Why is it centered on Italy? Why so far north? Any slice going north just touches 2-4 countries while the ones going south can have 30?
I guest there isnt a place to put the center that would weight all sectors equally but cmon this is just lazy
B. I know what I'm doing, healthiest lands with a pro-social mind.
Do you need F to have access to potatoes?
A (as in H) for northern Portugal and Galicia.
E would be the only one I'd have to adjust for, I think the rest are all already on my plate
G has MD blue crabs and Scrapple.
Case rested.
Important: the potato and the tomato are from Peru. Are we talking modern cuisines, or pre-Columbian fusion?
right in the center!
To have access to all dishes in the word, thank you
😎🤘