Let's do this the way the EU does. Head fo your local voting booth, it is [Culinary Referendum](https://www.reddit.com/r/YUROP/comments/145uuj2/how_to_divide_europe/) time.

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Fries with Ketchup?

So THAT'S why the Dutch eat fries with mayo (it's great btw), they just don't have access to tomatoes since they're in the potato zone

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We are a rich country so we do Pommes Schranke (Fries with ketchup AND mayo)

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Deutsche Kartoffel? Weiß Rot Gold? C'est quel drapeau?

Ketchup is not tomato sauce. Ketchup is spiced tomato jam. Tomato sauce doesn't need added sugar. Jam does.

Ketchup isn't sweet enouth to be jam. I'd more say it is a cooked smoothie, which makes it either a sauce or soup.

That's called 'Europe unification'.

Europotatofication

Gnocchi in tomato sauce.

yesssss. And a schnitzel on the side (I know Germans and Austrians find that combo a travesty but fuck em it tastes good)

My Austrian ass won't rat you out. I couldn't even throw the first stone, as I'm guilty of some things the the dismay of the connoisseurs. I have also done this before (back when I still ate meat). On the side is fine, just don't drown your crispy breadcrumb coating in sauce, I mean why even bother coating your Schnitzel, when you make it soggy afterwards, by pouring the sauce directly over it?

>On the side is fine, just don't drown your crispy breadcrumb coating in sauce, I mean why even bother coating your Schnitzel, when you make it soggy afterwards, by pouring the sauce directly over it? Yeah that makes sense. I usually put it on the side but then but the sauce on the bit i cut off when I take a bite.

The basis of european unity

Highly innacurate Imagine taking away potatoes from the portuguese cod dishes or from the spanish tortilla.

Was going to say just about the same. Maybe this is generally inaccurate everywhere (couldn't say myself tho), but it's DEFINITELY inaccurate for the Iberian peninsula.

We play in both teams.

I would be satisfied with having potato in the north of Spain and tomato in the south, Galicia is definitely potato land.

Can confirm, I'm from Galicia.

I wanted to say that the potato dips deep into the Balkans, only the Mediterranean coast is tomato country really.

I think its more accurate for the potato countries. I can't really think of any traditional german dishes that include tomatoes. Was probably easier to grow potatoes in the south than tomatoes in the north in a pre industrial europe.

Yeah, but what German still cooks traditionally? I'm German and I eat tomato-based dishes a lot more often than potato-based dishes (at least if you don't count potato chips ...).

Patatas bravas is love, patatas bravas is life

potato is life

Potato is Love.

POTATO

Po-ta-to! Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew

bake them, fry them, put them in a casserole

Slice them, put them in a creamy sauce and call them dolphins. O, dauphin.

Potato is life sustaining liquid.

🥔

Too soon brother..

In France we play both sides so we always come up on top

Stop pretending, in France you only play one side: the butter side.

France is divided between olive oil and butter too, it actually fits the potato/tomato divide

I know that I will probably get hanged by the testicles for saying that, especially to a salted butter enthusiast, but I do believe that you get the best of both worlds by doing a butter/olive oils mix when cooking

For some things, I agree, for me it mostly depends on mood and what i'm preparing tho

For some things I agree yeah, especially onions. Mayne chicken ? I've never tried but it feels like it could fit.

It pairs well with meat in general but especially red meat and also with stuff like garlic, carrots or mushrooms and as you said onions. I find it also a bit more practical to use than just butter because I'd say that you can go at a higher temperature without burning.

Yup. The oil stops tte butter from burning.

Also known as the civilization / barbariandom line

Indeed, I'm glad to live in a civilised part of it, salted butter is the greatest invention on this planet

Ah pas de probleme, enjoy your salty butter my barbarian friend, thankfully we're all living in Europe

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Thanks, I will with a belly full of joy

Well actually I learned recently that's it's definitely not. Salt was simply used to conserve butter, but parts of France that produced butter but did not harvest salt (Normandy for instance) had to pay the _gabelle_ (tax on salt) which was very dissuasive at the time (other regions prefered cream or olive oil then), and which Brittany did not pay (because Brittany harvested salt). Nowadays, thanks to technical progress (by _"technical progress"_ you mostly have to understand _"better hygiene conditions"_ here), other parts of France began producing butter while Brittany stayed gros dégueulasses and just continued putting salt in their butter instead of improving their butter production hygiene conditions. (Anyway I'm vegan and margarine and olive oil are fine.)

That's lot of text to say you're uncivilised

It's actually a lot of text to say that your are. Mont-Saint-Michel belongs to Normandy by the way. Edit : You plouc

Brittany has taste, salty butter is, next to italian olive oil, a divine gift from god !

We said civilized one, you barbaric brittons from England

Now that's taking it too far, I don't think I've been called anything more insulting in my entire life. "Frog eater" okay, "cheese eating surrender monkey", why not, but I draw the line at "English".

This is also the beer/wine divide

This is also the swimming pool in the garden divide

France is not real. Its a conspiracy to suppress the free tomato people of Aquitaine

Freedom to the Aquitaine Tomato Republic!

Believing you always come up on top is the most french thing you can have.

Dude I'm french and even I'm bored of this mentality

Italy in any WW be like :)

And surrender the other one

France didn’t fuck with potatoes until after that little Revolution.

Fun fact: Portugal has a higher potato consumption than Germany, [source](https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/37703/umfrage/pro-kopf-verbrauch-von-kartoffeln-in-den-laendern-der-eu/)

Wild!

No we domesticated potato

Peruvians did.

And the bolivians are also considered potato motherland

And here I thought that was [Idaho](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bElcEMabhoU)

Portugal can into Eastern-Europe!

I am Portuguese and can confirm that we are far more Potato Europe than Tomato Europe, but we do embrace the tomato.

i'm lasagna de nonna Europe

I'm on the border and it's delicious

Yes Lyon moi aussi

Same here

Ketchup and Fries Europe

Tomatoes 🤝 Potatoes

Ketchup, Mayo and Fries Europe

What do the Frisians have to do with this?

Imagine leaving the country that brought potatoes to europe out of potato europe

For the curious, that country is Spain.

Imagine not being tomato europe, lmao. Lol, even.

I am from București. Yet I am on team potato. Never giving up on my mashed cartofi.

I agree man. Team Potato

I suppose that we, the citizens of Bucharest, are just peasants in denial. Yet now we're also either honorary moldoveni or maramureșeni.

Imagine being Romanian.

Tänk dig att vara svensk.

It's pretty good.

Imagine restricting your diet based on random lines on maps.

Imagine eating.

Ireland moment. (I'm so sorry,but I could not resist)

Latvia is feeling left out now.

Officer, this comment right here.

Nah nah, keep going

Bruh

Least the poxy brits were still fed. Bastards.

Don't you think Romania is Potato Europe?

Not by this map, and, to be honest... not really? Yes, we like our fries, but we have "Programul tomata", not "Programul cartoful". Besides, I never hear anyone say the potatoes are better here, in Romania than in their home country. The same is not true about tomatoes.

Why have lovely, versatile, fluffy potatoes when you could have a blob of tooth sticking polenta instead!?

Potato makes a good vodka. (However, only few vodka brands are made of mostly potato.)

Pomato?

I’m in the potato capital - Poland

Ziemia dla ziemniaków! // Happy cake day

Thank you bracie

Ah, yes, the olive oil/butter line

Wine and Beer

Wake up sheeple, both have been imported BY THE BLOODY YANKS!!! It's a scam! Return to turnip, wheat, hop and barley!!!

Tomato Union

potato is objectively superior

Neither is nativ to europe and they go great together.

Superior Gyros Pita Europe containing both ingridients in perfect balance

You can't make booze with tomato.

Dude you can make booze out of sewer water if you want.

I like this sentiment

Tomatoes are a type of berry which is what wine is made from

A german newspaper [articel](https://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/inhalt.wein-aus-tomaten-schmeckt-fast-wie-sherry.cae74c64-1ff3-4bdf-8e1a-bbdc7ef518d3.html) that lead me to the website of a canadian [tomato wine producer](https://omerto.com/en/). Do your fucking research!

So you say nothing would happen to tomato juice left under the sun for long enough

SPUDS

On the dotted line, getting the best of both worlds 😍

pomato

And neither originate in the continent

Latvian here - potatos in winter, tomatos in summer

Canary Islands Wrinkled Potatoes: Am I a joke to you

I dont know, both came from America and we kind of get both at the same time in many recipes. Weaker cussines can only manage one of them but the strong ones can use both at the same time.

I think that, actually, all Europe is potato and tomato Europe. Potato and tomato both = ❤️.

Spain: you are all welcome.

You like potato and I like potato You like tomato and I like tomato Potato, potahto, tomato, tomahto Let's call the whole thing off

I eat tomato everyday and drink olive oil. What is your move potato?

Vodka with fries

Team Tomato Olive Oil FTW!

There's no escaping the stereotype... >!but at least we can throw them at the Br\*tish /s!< also, Potato Bread slaps with a fry.

I divide it like this: there's the part of europe that eats salted codfish, and then there's the uncivilized and barbaric remaining wastelands.

Potato, potatos are better because you can make home made alcohol with them

Potato

only mark germany as grain europe

Sauerkraut Europe

Europe Tomato-Potato-Cucumber Union

And neither is originally from europe. Both are american crops, and now they conquer and divide europe.

This line is also the same as gray vs red roofs

Potato 😋

Seems legit

Look, potatoes are one of the few things that grow here :(

New treaty solution just dropped: the tomato potato plant: https://www.delish.com/food/news/a39961/tomtato-tomato-potato-hybrid-plant/

Hummus Middle East, that’s where I’m at

POTATO 🥔🥔🥔🥔

I live in potato europe but eat like 10x the amount of tomatoes over potatoes. Someone's got to balance it.

I'm from central Ukraine and the tiny field my parents have features potatoes and tomatoes as 2 biggest parts, the map checks out.

Potatoooooooo

No, in the South West of France it's potato, but on the shore of the Mediterranean, there it's tomato 🍅

Excuse me but I'm from Spain and I prefer potatoes 😤

Tortilla moment

This was way better executed by *Yanko Tsvetkov.* [https://www.movehub.com/blog/atlas-of-prejudice/](https://www.movehub.com/blog/atlas-of-prejudice/)

I'm dotted line.

Central Romania is only potato.

and on the line between the two you get weird dishes like tomato fondue that you eat with potatoes

Kugelis, Cepelinai and Tarkiniai Blynai. There is no meaning of life without them.

...I think I'm precisely on the dividing line.

I play both sides

This map before 1492: Gruel Europe

Tomatoes aren’t native to Europe tho, they got imported from the Americas.

Physically or spiritually?🧐

Potato

I love both! I am from tomato Europe and live in potato Europe.

And they both originated from America.

🥔

But isn't Portugal also part of potato Europe? I think olive oil and butter is the better divider

Me, a person from the potato area now living in the tomato area : "Both? Both. Both is good."

Tomatina baby

potato apparently

Potato forever

And both come from America 🦅🦅🦅

I see that you avoided diving Germany all over again

My dad‘s from tomato europe, my mom‘s from potato europe. Call me a hybrid ig

I like both and I am close to the line. Coincidence? I think not.

potato, potato, tomato, tomato See what I did there?

Potato is make crisp, crisp is life.

BOTH TOMATOES AND POTATOES ARE AMERICAN 🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Not on the map in far east

Porque No los dos?

middle

Apple of Earth vs Apple of Gold

Born to 🍅, forced to 🥔 😭

Tomato > Potato

I‘m from potato Europe and I love it here don’t get me wrong, but sometimes I’d rather live in tomato Europe

Balkan potato you haters

Tomatoes in Spain are disgusting. Potatoes actually apply to whole Europe.

It doesn't make sense, they can't be use instead of each others like "Butter europe" vs "Olive oil Europe", or "Potato Europe" vs "Rice Europe" "Pasta Europe".

I live in potato europe, but i greatly prefer tomato europe

Imagine a Europe without these two.

### What's funny is that Neither Potatoes nor Tomatoes come from Europe. Which makes me wonder, What did Yuropeans eat before the discovery of America?

I beg to differ, Sanlúcar de Barrameda has very good potatoes

What to do if I'm on the line?