I mean, I've had German and British food and I can confidently say it doesn't seem like they love food, lol.

I have met people in Britain who genuinely seem to hate food. They have a plain cheese sandwich, the worst imaginable bread or eat Huel every day.

That doesn't necessarily reflect all Britons, but I do think they genuinely care about food less on average than other cultures.

Ah, a Dutch person

Bro has never been to England

OP is British

He's british i guess.

The alternative to loving food is to eat as a necessity and seek to optimise it. Various combinations of industrialisation, the Protestant work ethic/disdain of unproductive hedonism, neoliberal financialisation of food production/distribution (hence the flavourless “water bomb” tomatoes that last longer in the supply chain, for example) and possibly endemic low-level depression could do this, to the point where the norm is just to get the necessary calories and a dopamine hit from some sugar/salt/fat and anything else seems suboptimal.

For many cultures food is just nutrition, something that you have to do. This doesn't mean you can't appreciate good food or that your traditional recipes are bad, just that it's not the same as cultures where there is a lot of importance on both the food and the context of consuming it with others

I would say this holds true for the USA considering all this fast "food" they eat. A culture that loves food doesn't do this.

People say that about food, music/dancing, and stories because they are the least antagonistic thing they could bring up while boasting about their culture. Its the least likely to get attacked as well, its a non-controversial aspect they can sing the praises of and its something easily shared

If they bring up their cultural religion, values, politics, philosophy, or social dynamics, suddenly things can become an area of controversy and even ethical debate. Most people are too fragile or cowardly to investigate that stuff.

I once saw a post where the guy said he was from Minnesota and he thought ketchup was too spicy.

I wanted to burn the heretic.

I feel like a lot of people are taking the post too literally (or maybe I’m not). I once knew a girl who posted a photo of her dad watching football on a plane captioned “Persian dads really need their football lol” and it’s like. That’s just a universal dad thing. Lots of dads in every culture do that.

Some people just do not think about cultures outside their own. Like, at all.

The cultural equivalent of:

"So what do you like to do?"

"I like to have fun."

Some cultures value food more than others. Pretty obvious there's a spectrum between "we eat for sustenance" and "holy shit taste this recipe I've been honing for decades". This is a shit post, not a shitpost.

I've moved to England 5 years ago. I can confirm a worrying amount of people don't care for food at all here.

Instead of a nice meal, when they want to enjoy a convivial moment, they burn shredded black leaves in boiling water, add milk to it to cover the terrible taste, and call that tea. And if you don't ruin it in the exact specific way that they designed, they get angry (but they don't understand why e.g. Italian and French people are so particular about their traditional recipes).

Send help.

In my culture we had nothing but roadkill and weeds to eat, so we got really good at making stuff palatable. << Most cultural food legends.

Kenny must be dutch.

i mean. have you encountered soylent culture? white people get marketed to like eating sucks and all your nutrients should come in a tube

Well, seeing the chemical waste people eat in the US, I do think they hate real food. Also in my culture (Dutch) food isn't as important as it is in Italy for example. We eat rather healthy, but the best quality food we produce we export because we love money more than food apparently. For the best quality food produced in the Netherlands you need to go to a supermarket in France. It's stupid.

This is what I imagine elves are like.

IMO, English Canadians don't really have a food that they can call their own. Quebec has poutine, tourtieres, pea soup, and other things. English Canada eats many of those things, but also a lot of generic North American or European things: hamburgers, steaks, North-American style pizza, pasta, stew, etc.

Where I think Canada might be a bit different is that after decades of high levels of immigration, Canada has a lot of foods from other parts of the world. It's common to find South Indian, Pakistani, Punjabi, Turkish, Persian, Carribean, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Thai, Korean, Mexican, etc. restaurants in a city. Many of them cater to immigrants from those countries, so they're authentic tasting.

A lot of that is made at home too. While a home-made stir fry probably wouldn't taste authentically Chinese to someone from China, there are many meals from around the world that have been adapted for Canadian tastes. Very white people in Canada often cook adapted versions of Indian curries, Chinese stir fries, Mexican tacos, Thai curries, etc.