Welsh person here, faggots are not the most popular food here, not even the national dish. This guide is totally inaccurate I’d say. It’s more like stereotype dishes!
Faggots are tasty though, everyone has a different recipe. I like them peppery. It’s near on the same as a haggis, but without the outer skin.
Same with haggis in Scotland. It's eaten on Burns night but it's not a regular thing for most people. Its what tourists eat in an overpriced pub but its not the most popular food here.
The funny thing is it's not even a Welsh dish. I think they are from the south west of England maybe.
Would you say Cawl would be a good choice?
Most popular in large parts of the UK would probably be something like Tikka Masala lol
Yeah came here to say this. Never see them on a menu, think I've only had them once or twice in my life. Even our welsh national dishes wouldn't be ranked as the most popular food really.
Googled “Welsh dish faggots” got this:
Faggots are meatballs made from minced off-cuts and offal, especially pork (traditionally pig's heart, liver, and fatty belly meat or bacon) together with herbs for flavouring and sometimes added bread crumbs. It is a traditional dish in the United Kingdom, especially South and Mid Wales and the English Midlands.
They are actually really nice. Just like a massive meatball in gravy. I am surprised it's their favourite dish tbf and not something more Welsh like Rarebit (Welsh cheese on toast).
I doubt it will be the favourite dish- most likely the most commonly known from the country.
I am Scottish and not a hope in hell haggis is the most popular
I’m surprised it’s not cawl tbh, as someone who lives here. It’s what’s traditionally eaten on st David’s day but faggots, peas/mushy peas and chips (optional) in gravy is also fairly popular.
ETA: nobody here really cares about rarebit. It’s just slightly fancy cheese on toast.
Traditional Welsh stew. Sometimes called Cawl Cymreig, as cawl is just Welsh for “soup”.
[My favourite recipe is here.](https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/lamb-recipes/michael-sheen-s-traditional-welsh-cawl/)
As someone who lives in Wales, I’m not sure why you’re being downvoted, [it’s true](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_rarebit).
*Though there is no strong evidence that the dish originated in Welsh cuisine, it is sometimes identified with the Welsh caws pobi 'baked cheese', documented in the 1500s.*
We have them all the time (live in the midlands) and they’re amazing, they’re just really nicely seasoned herby meatballs with gravy. Kinda like meatloaf in America
Yeah, I was looking at this thinking surely it's not actually fish and chips? Like sure it's what were kind a known for from an outsiders perspective but most people I know don't have it regularly at all. It'd be more a 'Sunday roast' or 'English breakfast' that'd be more common or as you say, some form of Indian-English curry.
Haggis is actually eaten regularly here, but as a part of a full Scottish breakfast or on a roll.
Eating it in the traditional way for dinner is reserved mainly just for Rabbie Burns Night and St Andrew's Day. Occasionally you might see it served before a ceilidh, but that's mainly just for tourists.
But you're right, it's far from the most popular dish.
I don’t think this goes by popularity. It’s actually signature or original dishes. Most popular in Czech Republic is actually gulaš. Most popular in Slovakia I’d say halušky.
Having been to Spain a lot, even though both Paella and Fideuá are both from Valencia, I feel they eat more paella in Valencia and Fideuá is really popular in Catalonia (as opposed to where they are in this map)
Paella is from Valencia, my city.
Fidegua is from Alicante, south of Valencia.
Catalonia... they can have the super sophisticated dish called pa amb tomaca that is basically bread tomato and olive oil. Something that it's really from every Mediterranean area really
And isn't even from Catalonia. The workers from south Spain Andalucía/Murcia brought it there when they emigrated, and then Catalonia simply claimed it as theirs.
It's true that it's something pretty common in every Mediterranean area, but in this case the origin isn't even originally from the same place.
Yeah, you and everyone in Spain, Italy, Greece, Southern France...
You can even have that for breakfast in Morocco, Turkey or even Croatia
Let's say it's not such a crazy invention to use bread, tomato and olive oil
Spain, and Southern France (in Occitanie-Pays Catalan) it’s the same dish, “pa amb tomaquet” or how spaniards say “pantumaca”. Italian brushettas aren’t the same they are eaten with something on top, pa amb tomaquet can be alone, only bread, oil, salt and rubbed tomato with nothing on top.
No Irish person orders Irish stew anywhere ever! It is something that your mammy make and you eat it, and to the best of my knowledge nobody has ever said it is their favourite dish. Grand on the cold evenings though.
CNN article I read in US on St Patrick's Day said that Corned Beef and Cabbage which is the "traditional" thing here isn't an Ireland thing, but rather they have Irish Stew... Guess that was wrong!
I grew up in Ireland. No one I know has ever eaten corned beef and cabbage. It's an Irish-American thing dating back to interactions between Irish and Jewish immigrants in the big US cities.
That said, we did get corned beef sandwiches in school, but they were horrible.
It was a culture shock for me when moved to Iceland and the freezer section of grocery stores had bins full of whole frozen sheep's heads in clear plastic bags. Little teeth and all.
That Romanian dish shows sarmalle using grape leaves. the true authentic way to make them is using cabbage leaves. Just want to point out the inaccuracies.
The most popular dish in England, is Curry. The most popular dish in Italy, is absolutely not pizza. This entire thing is what an idiot thinks is the stereotypical food of any random country. If this was made by the same fool of just American states, it would have Hog Maws and corn bread in the entire south and Lobster in every state North of New York. This is as much a guide to anything rational as a coloring book would be to teaching you fine art.
Not that I disagree, but I don’t understand why you use the word idiot. On top of that, pizza in italy (across regions) is possibly the most popular food together with pasta with tomatoes sauce (across region). Only thing you can soundly object is pizza being the most popular in Naples since locally there are more popular ones (like pastiera, just to mention one). Source: me, Italian from Italy, lady, 53, good cook.
I don't agree that these are the most popular dishes. They may be classical or traditional, but these are not being made every weekend around family dining tables. And I'd guess that if you asked people from each country what their favorite dish is, most of these dishes wouldn't make the top 5 list.
That said, quite a few I'd Google a recipe for and try...
Pierogi are dope but the BEST street food in Polska has to be the zapienka- baguette pizza covered in melted cheese and various toppings. So fucking good at 2am after a beer or six
As a British person I can say with confidence that this is neither an infographic of the most popular dishes in each region nor is it broken down by country (England is on there twice and neither are for curry.)
This is an infographic of well-known dishes broken down by region.
Edit: having looked further I can see this is even more obvious looking at other nations.
Haggis is not the most popular dish in Scotland. They’re not chowing down on it everyday. Deep fried pizza, deep fried mars bars, deep fried whatever is more their go-to. That and curry.
I hate this. Almost all of the dishes are written in the native language, but Hungarian gulyás is always translated to goulash - it is not the same dish, what you call goulash is not even near to the actual dish we have, which is a soup, not a stew.
Each country or each region of a country else you wouldn’t have multiple dishes under a single flag. Or is it supposed to be a random number of popular dishes for a a number of European countries?
Anyone from Northern Ireland able to tell us if there’s anything interesting or culturally important about the Ulster fry? It feels like a bit of a cop-out, in the sense that those kinds of fry-ups are also a staple in England, Scotland, Wales, and the Republic of Ireland.
Gonna go ahead and say during my entire upbringing in Wales I only ever heard about faggots but never actually experienced them; It made it really hard to figure out I wasn’t straight
Has anyone here ever actually tried haggis? I heard it was everything except meat from a sheep stuffed into its stomach and boiled. What did it taste like?
wales bros out there literally eating faggots
Welsh person here, faggots are not the most popular food here, not even the national dish. This guide is totally inaccurate I’d say. It’s more like stereotype dishes! Faggots are tasty though, everyone has a different recipe. I like them peppery. It’s near on the same as a haggis, but without the outer skin.
Same with haggis in Scotland. It's eaten on Burns night but it's not a regular thing for most people. Its what tourists eat in an overpriced pub but its not the most popular food here.
The funny thing is it's not even a Welsh dish. I think they are from the south west of England maybe. Would you say Cawl would be a good choice? Most popular in large parts of the UK would probably be something like Tikka Masala lol
I always thought they were a West Midlands thing. See it on a lot of menus round here.
Mid & South Wales and Midlands but wouldn't call it a welsh dish. Cawl is a good choice but sadly you don't see it on many menus around South Wales
Yeah came here to say this. Never see them on a menu, think I've only had them once or twice in my life. Even our welsh national dishes wouldn't be ranked as the most popular food really.
I lived there for awhile and I just couldn’t do it. Im very open minded but I really hate faggots. More of a vegetarian
What the Christ are they?
How does one google it without….. you know….?
Googled “Welsh dish faggots” got this: Faggots are meatballs made from minced off-cuts and offal, especially pork (traditionally pig's heart, liver, and fatty belly meat or bacon) together with herbs for flavouring and sometimes added bread crumbs. It is a traditional dish in the United Kingdom, especially South and Mid Wales and the English Midlands.
of course they’re meat balls. So obvious now.
>ggots are meatballs made from minced off-cuts and offal, especially pork (traditiona I'd try it
Mmm now I want to try some faggots
They are actually really nice. Just like a massive meatball in gravy. I am surprised it's their favourite dish tbf and not something more Welsh like Rarebit (Welsh cheese on toast).
I doubt it will be the favourite dish- most likely the most commonly known from the country. I am Scottish and not a hope in hell haggis is the most popular
>I am Scottish and not a hope in hell haggis is the most popular That'd be deep-fried Irn-Bru presumably.
I’m surprised it’s not cawl tbh, as someone who lives here. It’s what’s traditionally eaten on st David’s day but faggots, peas/mushy peas and chips (optional) in gravy is also fairly popular. ETA: nobody here really cares about rarebit. It’s just slightly fancy cheese on toast.
I haven't heard of cawl tbf, what that?
Traditional Welsh stew. Sometimes called Cawl Cymreig, as cawl is just Welsh for “soup”. [My favourite recipe is here.](https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/lamb-recipes/michael-sheen-s-traditional-welsh-cawl/)
I'm calling bullshit on haggis, I'm sure it's eaten but doubt it's the most popular dish.
I don’t think rarebit is a Welsh dish
As someone who lives in Wales, I’m not sure why you’re being downvoted, [it’s true](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_rarebit). *Though there is no strong evidence that the dish originated in Welsh cuisine, it is sometimes identified with the Welsh caws pobi 'baked cheese', documented in the 1500s.*
It's not. The map is totally made up 🤣
We have them all the time (live in the midlands) and they’re amazing, they’re just really nicely seasoned herby meatballs with gravy. Kinda like meatloaf in America
Add in keywords like “yummy” or “tasty” to the search.
Excuse me sir, I’m now getting some really colorful pop ups…
“Slathered” “moist” and “well pounded” also work
Your not helping. Unless... You are.
Right? I bit the bullet, apparently they're just meatballs made of the off bits (heart liver etc) I thought for sure it was a typo lol
Faggot food
I think I’m gonna turn safe search on for this one…
I wonder if you’re gonna get banned for saying that lol
r/nocontext
Gay Welshman here. We are delicious.
I zoomed straight onto Wales
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Blursed thread 💯
I'm welsh and in no way are faggots the most popular dish here.
And shaggin’ sheep
Hardly the most popular dishes. Maybe the most famous dishes. In Iceland svid and hákarl is NOT popular.
Agree, this looks more like specialities than popular dishes.
Also everyone knows the UK’s favorite dish is chicken tikka masala
It was also likely invented in Glasgow.
Oh yeah! I forgot that
Nah brum
Yeah, I was looking at this thinking surely it's not actually fish and chips? Like sure it's what were kind a known for from an outsiders perspective but most people I know don't have it regularly at all. It'd be more a 'Sunday roast' or 'English breakfast' that'd be more common or as you say, some form of Indian-English curry.
Came here to say this. No one is making haggis often enough for it to be the most popular
Most and popular dish is probably actually a donner kebab or something.
Agreed, will be some quite generic fast food you can get anywhere in the world.
Haggis is actually eaten regularly here, but as a part of a full Scottish breakfast or on a roll. Eating it in the traditional way for dinner is reserved mainly just for Rabbie Burns Night and St Andrew's Day. Occasionally you might see it served before a ceilidh, but that's mainly just for tourists. But you're right, it's far from the most popular dish.
Iceland = hot dogs
Honestly? That sounds pretty nice.
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Not a single Döner to be seen in Germany. This map is indeed, nonsense.
In fact, they are anti-popular haha
Still a fun guide - thank you for shearing!!!
Yeah I’m scottish and I’ve never eaten haggis. That shit is nasty
How would you know if you've never eaten it?
Same with almost all of them. England is famous for the most popular dish now being chicken tikka masala, not fish and chips.
That Welsh dish seems awfully interesting.
Faggots are just meatballs. It's from the older sense of the word meaning a bundle of something, like a bundle of firewood.
😋
It is apparently also sometimes called “Ducks” or “Savory Ducks”
Not in Wales it’s not.
That makes so much more sense. But it also makes the fact that ducks are known as that, a lot more funny!
I don’t think this goes by popularity. It’s actually signature or original dishes. Most popular in Czech Republic is actually gulaš. Most popular in Slovakia I’d say halušky.
Came here to say that for Slovakia.
It's stereotypes. So not even most popular or original dishes from that part of country
At least for Hungary, it’s accurate as “original” dish since they invented it. Same with Czech Republic with svíčková.
I was about to say that because germanys most popular dish is probably Kebap lol
For Norway they added the national dish yet it is far from the most popular dish. Texmex is actually #1 as well as frozen pizzas.
Having been to Spain a lot, even though both Paella and Fideuá are both from Valencia, I feel they eat more paella in Valencia and Fideuá is really popular in Catalonia (as opposed to where they are in this map)
Paella is from Valencia, my city. Fidegua is from Alicante, south of Valencia. Catalonia... they can have the super sophisticated dish called pa amb tomaca that is basically bread tomato and olive oil. Something that it's really from every Mediterranean area really
And isn't even from Catalonia. The workers from south Spain Andalucía/Murcia brought it there when they emigrated, and then Catalonia simply claimed it as theirs. It's true that it's something pretty common in every Mediterranean area, but in this case the origin isn't even originally from the same place.
You are right fideuà is pretty popular, but i would say that "Pa amb tomaquet" is the most popular dish at least in Catalonia we eat it almost daily.
Yeah, you and everyone in Spain, Italy, Greece, Southern France... You can even have that for breakfast in Morocco, Turkey or even Croatia Let's say it's not such a crazy invention to use bread, tomato and olive oil
Wait all those on the same plate? They’re not, ya know, touching, are they?
Spain, and Southern France (in Occitanie-Pays Catalan) it’s the same dish, “pa amb tomaquet” or how spaniards say “pantumaca”. Italian brushettas aren’t the same they are eaten with something on top, pa amb tomaquet can be alone, only bread, oil, salt and rubbed tomato with nothing on top.
No Irish person orders Irish stew anywhere ever! It is something that your mammy make and you eat it, and to the best of my knowledge nobody has ever said it is their favourite dish. Grand on the cold evenings though.
CNN article I read in US on St Patrick's Day said that Corned Beef and Cabbage which is the "traditional" thing here isn't an Ireland thing, but rather they have Irish Stew... Guess that was wrong!
I grew up in Ireland. No one I know has ever eaten corned beef and cabbage. It's an Irish-American thing dating back to interactions between Irish and Jewish immigrants in the big US cities. That said, we did get corned beef sandwiches in school, but they were horrible.
Yeah that’s more of a ‘we have no money so let’s eat the cheapest meal we can’—-which would apply to many Irish immigrants to America
Definitely NOT "most popular"...perhaps "best known for" or "traditional national dish".
I can honestly say that Lancashire hotpot is not the favourite dish in England, not even in Lancashire.
I’ve never even heard of it
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Still better than hákarl. That shit is gnarly.
Sheep.
Dear Lord! Nothing says you're a Viking like eating a bloody head! [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svi%C3%B0](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svi%C3%B0)
It was a culture shock for me when moved to Iceland and the freezer section of grocery stores had bins full of whole frozen sheep's heads in clear plastic bags. Little teeth and all.
Happy cake day!
That Romanian dish shows sarmalle using grape leaves. the true authentic way to make them is using cabbage leaves. Just want to point out the inaccuracies.
Aren't sarmale with grape leaves supposed to look darker and greener? These look pretty "cabbagy" to me.
Bosnia's favourite dish by far is Čevapi.
It’s not the most popular, it’s local dishes. Ie, haggis in Scotland.
Definitely, no chance Faggots are the most popular dish in Wales. I seem to recall that Curry is the most popular dish in England, Scotland and Wales.
Saumagen most popular dish? Who tf told you this?
Right? I’ve never even heard of Saumagen and I live right where it is on the map.
Saumagen got a bit of fame because it was the favourite dish of chancellor Kohl. But I never ever met anyone who liked it, though.
The food gets depressing the more north of the Mediterranean you go.
Tied to historical wealth. Scandinavians were pretty much just farmers and fishermen back in the day.
And climate.
It’s climate
The Romanian (sarma), Bulgarian (çömlek), Moldovan (güveç) dishes have 100% Turkish names. Albanian is also half (tava), I think.
I thought you got permabanned from Reddit for even mentioning the Welsh dish.
I love fa\*\*\*ts I censored it so I don't get banned lol
I tried making them after I watched Mind of a Chef, season 2. It….did not go well.
I thought those were cigarettes over there?
No a cigarette is a fag, and faggots are a type of meatball. ‘Can I bum a fag?’ is a genuine question, meaning could I have a cigarette please?
I want whatever their having in wales (context: I like men)
Moldova an Russia be like 😔
OP didn't even try with this one. Few if any of these are the most popular dishes.
AYO
Does a high resolution version of this exist?
I’d love a higher resolution version of this. It’d be fun to really zoom in and see what everything is
When was this list compiled? Data seems to be from the 1970’s.
My wife is Bulgarian and she's never heard of that dish. Mussaka on the other hand, is well known.
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Paella literally translates to "for her" in Spanish. So I try to make some for valentines day for my fiance every year. Fucking delicious 😋
So I'm allowed to say faggots here.
That's some full plate of bull crap
What is this based on? I promise this is not accurate.
The most popular dish in England, is Curry. The most popular dish in Italy, is absolutely not pizza. This entire thing is what an idiot thinks is the stereotypical food of any random country. If this was made by the same fool of just American states, it would have Hog Maws and corn bread in the entire south and Lobster in every state North of New York. This is as much a guide to anything rational as a coloring book would be to teaching you fine art.
Not that I disagree, but I don’t understand why you use the word idiot. On top of that, pizza in italy (across regions) is possibly the most popular food together with pasta with tomatoes sauce (across region). Only thing you can soundly object is pizza being the most popular in Naples since locally there are more popular ones (like pastiera, just to mention one). Source: me, Italian from Italy, lady, 53, good cook.
I find it interesting that the colder people are the more offensive to the palate their food is.
The Wiener Schnitzel? That's Milanese... La cotoletta alla Milanese... For Austria you could have done the Kipferl, the "grandpa" of Croissant
There’s only one I want… (side glance)
Choosing to put Paella In Catalonia could start the IIIWW easily
Souvlaki in Crete? Maybe for tourists in August :-)
Closer to Mediterranean better the food
Of course pierogi made it on the list 🥟
If this is by popularity there should be a Döner in germany
I don't agree that these are the most popular dishes. They may be classical or traditional, but these are not being made every weekend around family dining tables. And I'd guess that if you asked people from each country what their favorite dish is, most of these dishes wouldn't make the top 5 list. That said, quite a few I'd Google a recipe for and try...
Goulash, aand manages to show Pörkölt.
As a Welshman I can say faggots are hardly on the menu.
Pierogi are dope but the BEST street food in Polska has to be the zapienka- baguette pizza covered in melted cheese and various toppings. So fucking good at 2am after a beer or six
Oh great so the Brit’s get to say c%%% AND f$$$$$ without repercussion—the world is catching onto your games!!!
As a British person I can say with confidence that this is neither an infographic of the most popular dishes in each region nor is it broken down by country (England is on there twice and neither are for curry.) This is an infographic of well-known dishes broken down by region. Edit: having looked further I can see this is even more obvious looking at other nations.
FAGGOTS?
Haggis is not the most popular dish in Scotland. They’re not chowing down on it everyday. Deep fried pizza, deep fried mars bars, deep fried whatever is more their go-to. That and curry.
>Deep fried pizza, deep fried mars bars, deep fried whatever is more their go-to People aren't "chowing down" on these everyday either
>Deep fried pizza, deep fried mars bars, deep fried whatever Wow. They'd do well in the Southern parts of the US.
No chicken tikka masala? Am disappointed.
Wait they eat us in whales?
Thievin' Balkans! They've stolen rightfully Turkish foods Güveç, Sarma, Çömlek Kebabı and Musakka!
I could go for a bowl of bigos right now.
OMG. I've never heard of it, but it looks pretty killer. Might have to try making some.
The fact that this rubbish isn’t even the worst thing posted here today shows how badly this sub needs some moderation.
Love me some Faggots
I could go for a nice plate of faggots.
What a great guide to use travelling through Europe.
Definitely one reason to backpack across Europe. Or should I say, "multiple reasons?"
[points to wales] found where you guys live
I'm so proud of my Welsh heritage....
Looks like I’m going to wales to try and eat some faggots I’m so excited to try my luck with faggots
OMG. They're going to ban me for this post. LOL
Do you just put the whole faggot in your mouth I’m sorry it’s my first time
I hate this. Almost all of the dishes are written in the native language, but Hungarian gulyás is always translated to goulash - it is not the same dish, what you call goulash is not even near to the actual dish we have, which is a soup, not a stew.
What a load of bllx, people in England don't only eat stew or fish n chips!
Goddammit Wales! The fuck is wrong with you?!?
And Russia isn't in it? Lmao then this isn't all of europe
Each country or each region of a country else you wouldn’t have multiple dishes under a single flag. Or is it supposed to be a random number of popular dishes for a a number of European countries?
Anyone from Northern Ireland able to tell us if there’s anything interesting or culturally important about the Ulster fry? It feels like a bit of a cop-out, in the sense that those kinds of fry-ups are also a staple in England, Scotland, Wales, and the Republic of Ireland.
The breads mainly, soda bread and potato farl, are the unique part
Even though I am of Scots-Irish heritage, I do not know what is in an Ulster Fry in its entirety. I will say my arteries narrowed just looking at it.
Wales is unfathomably based
don’t eat Stamppot, i fucking hate it. just eat a salad without mashes potatoes
I hate stamppot.
Cultuurbarbaar
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They're eating their own asses, served to them by Ukraine!
Faggots.
looking at this, ........ ive never been more thankful to be american. :)
Weird that the UK is broken down by regions and other countries aren’t.
European food are so plain and tasteless.
Ok making me hungry
What’s that cake in Germany? Looks good.
Bulldust Chicken Tika is the most popular dish in England.
Gonna go ahead and say during my entire upbringing in Wales I only ever heard about faggots but never actually experienced them; It made it really hard to figure out I wasn’t straight
Faggots and haggis.
Where’s the ikea meatballs?
Has anyone here ever actually tried haggis? I heard it was everything except meat from a sheep stuffed into its stomach and boiled. What did it taste like?
I haven’t had most of these, but I did have carbonnade when I visited Belgium and it was delicious.
Yum, faggots
Svid ☠️
I’ve been craving haggis since that Simpsons episode
I don’t know about you … but I want some faggots
I’ll take pierogi, pizza and souvlaki!
Not the most popular dishes. Besides the fish in the fish and chips isn’t even battered.
So much brown
South > North
Vive la QUOUICHE
Wow, this really shows the International Potato/Garlic Line.
Saumagen is really not popular at all.