Popular Foods And Their Actual Countries Of Origin

Midge 2 year s ago

isnt that weird. also many "Italian" dishes today were started in the United states during the depression era. like spaghetti

Johnny 2 year s ago

Most of the later iterations were different... and much better

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Wilfred 2 year s ago

#9 Eating fish wasn't invented in Portugal and I'm quite sure they didn't eat it with chips in 800 AD.

channax 2 year s ago

Wilfred,
what part you didn't understand ?
1 - "Portugal bought a centuries-old Andalusian dish called peshkado frito to the UK in the 1400s"
and .......................................
2 - "when the potato became popular in the 1800s, they made the perfect accompaniment"
and ......................................
3 - "Now you know where “fish and chip Friday” comes from!"

Cy 2 year s ago

It'd be nice to include sources to support these points. A summary Google search of "origins of churros" does not highlight any ties to China...

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Wilma 2 year s ago

Cy, These facts come from Reddit which makes them unequivocally true.

Iva 2 year s ago

Quote: Cy

origins of churros

Actually, a quick Google search for "origins of churros" turns up the following link about the 4th entry down, and does mention China.

www.bbc.com%2Ftravel%2Farticle%2F20200616-the-complex-origins-of-beloved-churros
&usg=AOvVaw2Quop2ruK5uE0trp7pDima&cshid=1656380523243080

Sula 2 year s ago

#2 I'll call BS on shaking cream in freezing temperatures makes ice cream, it would only get you cold butter.
But I do see where you got the idea, "Iced Cream". Why would anyone be out in freezing weather with a bag of Cream unless the churn hadn't been invented yet.

Liz 2 year s ago

#8 Swedish meatballs: For the meat part usually just ground beef. Perhaps mixed with pork sometimes but never only pork.

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Clare 2 year s ago

#3
its actually Kipferl not Kipfer
only austriansmarttalking

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Mabel 2 year s ago

#3 i would say that croissant originates from the victory of Hungarians against the ottoman empire (the only empire that contributed with nothing to the world) that is why it has the half moon shape.

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Woody 2 year s ago

I learned croissants were russian... created in the shape of a scycle to represent the hard work of farmers.

Where we think ice cream is from: Italy.

Where ice cream is really from: Mongolia.

The Italians are known the world over for the quality of their ice cream and gelato, and you’d be forgiven for thinking they were indeed the inventors of this delicious sweet treat, but you’d be wrong. That accolade actually goes to Mongolia… or so the story goes.

OK, so not the ice cream we know and love today, and it happened completely by accident too. It’s said that Mongolian horsemen would carry buffalo or yak milk across the Gobi desert in containers as provisions, but as the temperature dropped and they galloped, the milk would freeze as it churned. As the Mongol empire expanded in the 1200s, so too did the popularity of this new iced milk/cream thing and it’s said Marco Polo took the idea back to Italy at the end of the 13th century.