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cacian
07-15-2013, 12:16 PM
Turkish Delight is one for me :)
LiraelG
07-15-2013, 01:47 PM
Wow, I find it impossible to choose one!

I have only been to Italy once, but pizzas made in Italy are absolutely fabulous! The bases are paper thin, the toppings are full of flavour and they are not too greasy! I am sure it varies from restaurant to restaurant, however.

I am also a fan of Greek salads in Greece. The tomatoes over there are out of this world - they make the best tomatoes you can buy in the UK seem incredibly bland.

Indian cuisine is another favourite, particularly mild, tomatoey chickpea based dishes and lentil dahl.
Darcy88
07-15-2013, 06:13 PM
Sushi. Greek cuisine is a close second. I could live on sushi.
tailor STATELY
07-15-2013, 06:33 PM
Escargot.

I remember reading an article from an SF Bay Area paper (San Mateo Times ?) eons ago that instructed one how to prepare local snails for cooking... never tried it; but how I love escargot.

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY
Ecurb
07-15-2013, 07:06 PM
Turkish Delight is one for me :)

I remember wanting to try Turkish Delight ever since I read "The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe" (at age 6 or 7). It was one of the biggest disappointments of my life. Good candy is a modern invention. In the 1800s, people drank hot chocolate -- but they didn't know how to make decent chocolate candy. Turkish Delight (to my taste) is one of those horrid, gelatinous confections, the texture of which is repulsive, and not ameliorated by a great flavor.

Other than that, however, I like all foods, foreign and domestic, except pickled pig's feet.
Lykren
07-15-2013, 07:44 PM
Jalapeņos! Mmm...
quidoftullamore
07-15-2013, 08:51 PM
Food is my thing. I'm really gifted at eating. I love all kinds of food, but I have to say I really like Chinese food...especially Schezuan dishes.
*Classic*Charm*
07-16-2013, 12:58 AM
Turkish Delight is one for me :)

Turkish Delight is lovely. Rose jam made from Turkish roses is also pretty magical. There is a really incredible hard cheese from Spain whose name I cannot remember.

I don't know that I have a favourite foreign food, though I may have a different answer once I have travelled more.
cacian
07-16-2013, 03:05 AM
Turkish Delight is lovely. Rose jam made from Turkish roses is also pretty magical. There is a really incredible hard cheese from Spain whose name I cannot remember.

I don't know that I have a favourite foreign food, though I may have a different answer once I have travelled more.

Hi Classic Charm do you mean Manchego Cheese? if it is then yes I agree it is lovey especially with Jamon Seranno. An absolute corker of a combination dish. :)
Pensive
07-20-2013, 01:30 PM
Turkish Delight is one for me :)

I love it and also Turkish baklava.
Also vegetarian sushi.
Gilliatt Gurgle
07-27-2013, 09:24 AM
My Czech half would naturally proclaim Kolaches, my other half is mostly Scottish and therefore favors Italian.
Kyriakos
07-27-2013, 09:28 AM
Well i would not call it a "delicacy". I probably would not call it a "food" either. But back when i lived in London during my university years i used to eat a lot of this stuff:

http://www.straight.com/files/styles/popup/public/KFC%20chicken.jpg

Still was always thin though :)

http://www.troll.me/images/antijoke-chicken/whats-the-difference-between-kfc-and-starbucks-starbucks-didnt-murder-my-entire-family.jpg
cacian
07-27-2013, 12:29 PM
My Czech half would naturally proclaim Kolaches, my other half is mostly Scottish and therefore favors Italian.

hi Gilliatt is it a tradition for Scottish to favour Italian?
cacian
07-27-2013, 12:30 PM
Well i would not call it a "delicacy". I probably would not call it a "food" either. But back when i lived in London during my university years i used to eat a lot of this stuff:

http://www.straight.com/files/styles/popup/public/KFC%20chicken.jpg

Still was always thin though :)

http://www.troll.me/images/antijoke-chicken/whats-the-difference-between-kfc-and-starbucks-starbucks-didnt-murder-my-entire-family.jpg
KFC I could only hack it once a week when fed up with cooking if not now and then. I have now completely stopped eating it :)
Paulclem
07-27-2013, 07:24 PM
Chips!


They're a French invention.
papayahed
07-28-2013, 09:27 PM
My Czech half would naturally proclaim Kolaches, my other half is mostly Scottish and therefore favors Italian.


I love me some Kolaches! Didn't realize they were Czech? Thought they were southern.
Nacht-Jagen
08-01-2013, 05:01 AM
Schweinshaxe, of course! It's absolutely fantastic! The best food I've ever had! I've only had it once though.
cacian
08-01-2013, 05:39 AM
Schweinshaxe, of course! It's absolutely fantastic! The best food I've ever had! I've only had it once though.

and what a word I can't even pronounce it haha :)
what kind of food is it?
Gilliatt Gurgle
08-01-2013, 09:02 PM
I love me some Kolaches! Didn't realize they were Czech? Thought they were southern.

Well, who knows they could have originated in southern Bohemia, but no they didn't pop out of a Cajun oven.
Now, let's be clear, I hope you didn't fall victim to the greatest travesty that befell cultural cuisine when the likes of Owens, or was it Jimmy Dean?, that labeled their frozen "pigs in a blanket" as kolaches!
"pigs in a blanket" are not kolaches (rest in piece grandma Vlasta)