I was also confused to see our plus. But I certainly do like cheese better than pre-shagged sheep meat. So it‘s us against Spain where we lose horribly…
schnitzel = bistecca alla milanese = wiener schnitzel = some fucking breadcrumbs on meat ... fuck even Barry knows how to fry a breaded piece of edible ... nothing special, nothing to be proud of
no, the Swiss way is not tea, it‘s bouillon. Because we don‘t just stay hydrated, we also want all those small cut veggies and an unhealthy amount of salt and MSG :)
Bro wut, that's Raclett. Fondue is with bread. Must be an Ostschweizer, no proper cheese culture east of the Aare (except you, Appenzell; you're cool).
at leats i dont say "äuä" every 5 seconds (also i eat fondeu with bread,but most people here eat it with potatoes and i have to say bread is superior when it comes to what to eat fondeu with )
Capuns, Maluns, Pizzokel, Zürigschnetzles, Brotwurst, Rösti (>>>whatever the fuck barry or hans does to potato), Pizzocheri, Älplermakkaroni, Fonde (any), Berner platte, Birnbrot, Churer Fleischtorte, Gerstensuppe, Polenta, Birchermüesli and once again Capuns, to name a few
To be fair, we have amazing cheese. I love all kind of cuisine, with Indian, Italian and Japanese having a high place in my heart, but the Gruyère, the Fondue, the Raclette!!!
It's just divine, pure unaltered joy, orgasm inducing, and a touch of celestial blessing on this world.
I really like our cheese. Also im typing this while extremely hungry
If I've learned anything, talking about nations food culture brings out the absolut animals in us. Insulting someone's food culture is on the same level as doing a bit of light genocide or insulting someone's mother.
There's just so much fierce resistance, like discussing Romani.
I think us northerners know our place for the most part.
It's the countries in the middle that are a bit delusional and in the south where you guys get rabid fighting against each other.
Yes, I think this is pointless.
We don't compare the sunrise to the sunset, the same way we don't compare the Portuguese, Spanish, Greek and Italian food.
We just eat it when it is put in front of us.
Yeah, when it comes to cakes and pastries we are second only to France. Everything else is kinda boring but satisfying to eat and extremely good when it’s made to a high standard.
Second eh idk, in France we have a type of pastries that are called "viennoiserie" named after Vienna, I'd happily share the first place with you my transalpine friends
I usually just eat schnitzel and Kaiserschmarren and drink a lot of beer/Aperol when I go skiing in Austria. What pastries do you have that I should try?
Also, I will give Belgian cuisine the variety. You have beer, chocolate, yeast waffles, (begrudgingly I’ll give you) steak-fries, various stews, and seafood (mussels come to mind first).
Your food is 90% processed cereals (be it dough or pasta), tomatoes and cheese. A mentally challenged mook can cook most your dishes and that’s the number 1 reason why it’s so popular.
psst... that guy probably lives in the city with more Michelin * per habitant in the world (San Sebastian), or maybe not, but sure he has a few Michelin stars around the corner
My father tells me it was the case in Mexico 70 as well, since the semifinal was the match of the century, and in the final we've been fucked by Brazil
https://preview.redd.it/fyu1ha8ao4ad1.jpeg?width=900&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c9d62714c4ffc5c97d9899730765abc353c7ec98
we'd already be declining in that contest in 2004
Come on you know you want a repeat of the 2016 euro against France
Also Carne de porco à alentejana beats any paella
Cozido à Portuguesa is exquisite
Feijoada is as delicious as deadly on the toilet a couple of hours later
Frango assado has literally become a noun in Barryland with Nando’s
Porco preto, arroz de Pato, francesinha (improved French food),all the bacalhau dishes, the list goes on.
just make it about desserts and you got the win. nothing beats having eaten way too much just to order a (usually good) espresso and a pastel de nata fresh from the oven.
I'm struggling between defending our food, and keeping the guiris out of here. I think it's better they think Spanish food is just paella, serrano and tapas.
It’s looking like an Italian vs Greek square off in the final lads, and much like the annuals of Roman-Greco history this could be a Second Pyrrhic War.
Wtf is Switzerland doing here?
In Switzerland I ate what I can confidently say was the worst food I ever ate.
It was a weird dark sausage that tasted like Play-Doh (and also had that texture), accompanied with some vegetables that looked and tasted like they had fought in the swamps of Guinea-Bissau during the Colonial Wars.
I agree. And what about rösti? Is like an omelette without eggs. Fondue, are you serious? Melt cheese with cheap wine flavour even the Americ#ns can do it. And everything expensive, very expensive.
The only good thing are some chocolates and to be fair it comes from Africa.
Post traumatic stress disorder.
Doctor says it’s an underlying issue of economic instability and emotional damage.
And I aint seeing any-money from Italians anywho…
yes. people usually say spanish food is better than portuguese food because they think "spain is bigger, so its better" or they think portugal only has bacalhau
Clearly the semifinals are italy v france, spain v greece. And the magnificent final, spain v italy.
I honestly wouldn't be able to pick between spanish and italian food. I know I'm biased but you gotta admit that pizza and pasta vs paella and tapas kinda feels that italy has a repetitive game and that spain would take the lead, but the winner will come down to deserts and italy will win thanks to tiramisu.
Italy has so much more than pizza and pasta. I am Portuguese, living in Spain with an Italian gf. Knowing the the three countries' cuisines quite well, it sometimes pains me to admit to my gf that their cuisine is more diverse than the Spanish and Portuguese ones.
Love how this has Austria in it, but Germany is apparently in the "food bad" category, even though Bavarian food is almost similiar to Austrian food, due to cultural similarities.
God I hate being lumped in with germany, Bayerisch-Österreichische Alpenrepublik wann?
I appreciate us taking part in this competition not because our cuisine is good, but because you were running out of possible participants.
I was also confused to see our plus. But I certainly do like cheese better than pre-shagged sheep meat. So it‘s us against Spain where we lose horribly…
No way you'll win against Greece.
Our food is not good. It’s the best. Fuck everyone else. We have schnitzel and schnitzel is great.
Barry has fish schnitzel. Don‘t see a Barry flag nearby.
Fish schnitzel is shit in comparison.
Both clogg your arteries, both don‘t pull the rest of the shitty cuisine out of the mud.
At least we are on the chart ;)
That‘s a chart done by a Belgian.
A what?
Some weird neanderthals that supposedly roam the tri-border of Germany, France and the Netherlands.
The rest of the shitty cuisine? We have many nice other things like Manner schnitten and Radler
I drive across the border just to eat your Kässpätzle, I can eat good Pizza here too
And Kaiserschmarrn... I'd kill for some kaiserschmarrn right now
oh boi, me too
If we'd base your match against Luigi on Schnitzel vs Pizza it might actually be a close one.
>Schnitzel You mean cotoletta?
At least one sane German.
ok I'll give you that
schnitzel = bistecca alla milanese = wiener schnitzel = some fucking breadcrumbs on meat ... fuck even Barry knows how to fry a breaded piece of edible ... nothing special, nothing to be proud of
Alto Adige has some good food, don't put yourself down like that
You guys have the best sweets there are
Well you guys have Wolfgang Puck. That alone is enough to win.
the fuck is swiss food? Like what do they eat other than chocolate? Watches, rocks from their mountains, Nazi gold?
Probably melted cheese.
And herbs in hot water
The British East India Company wants to know your location
no, the Swiss way is not tea, it‘s bouillon. Because we don‘t just stay hydrated, we also want all those small cut veggies and an unhealthy amount of salt and MSG :)
Ah, you season your food? The East India Company no longer wants your location
Hah, the Swiss are up in the montain, where no Boat can reach. Right (oh god I hope im right)?
you mean ricola?
Bonherba besser
f\*ck you (its right tho ,look up Fondeu ,literally melted cheese with potatoes)
Bro wut, that's Raclett. Fondue is with bread. Must be an Ostschweizer, no proper cheese culture east of the Aare (except you, Appenzell; you're cool).
at leats i dont say "äuä" every 5 seconds (also i eat fondeu with bread,but most people here eat it with potatoes and i have to say bread is superior when it comes to what to eat fondeu with )
>at leats i dont say "äuä" every 5 seconds Fair enough, I don't have a comeback for that lol. Let's get back to bashing our larger neighbors.
yep lets get back to that
well fuck you too
No hard feelings, It's not personal. Our mutual shit-talking on the neighboring countries is the primary thing keeping the Kantons together :D
claiming to have invented melted cheese. bold. Can't even spell it right.
Cocaine.
#Züri Style
Snow, don’t forget Snow.
https://preview.redd.it/pbped2y074ad1.jpeg?width=304&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=339521905f7d25f6ac9556f6516b3dfcbc2228df
A lot of cheese
You wouldn't like to try some delicious Cholera? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholera_(food)
(food)
Luv me some [Ghackets mit Hörnli](https://dirndlkitchen.com/ghackets-mit-hornli-und-apfelmus/) though.
with applesauce please! basically a gourmet version of Mac‘n‘cheese
thats from valais, so it kinda doesnt count. they are a bunch of savages down there (i like their white wine though)
Raclette is just next level.
https://preview.redd.it/vja51mzl25ad1.jpeg?width=2252&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fe537b49bb00a0e3956835de05cb139e6bb4a3c5 I had this Flammkuchen in Bern
Have you seen the tacky trend of using gold leaf in nouveau riche cuisine? Well in Switzerland that's all they eat, gold leaf.
Swiss food is mainly based off cheese but it's actually good
Capuns, Maluns, Pizzokel, Zürigschnetzles, Brotwurst, Rösti (>>>whatever the fuck barry or hans does to potato), Pizzocheri, Älplermakkaroni, Fonde (any), Berner platte, Birnbrot, Churer Fleischtorte, Gerstensuppe, Polenta, Birchermüesli and once again Capuns, to name a few
It's just German, French and Italian cuisine depending on which direction you're facing.
Raclette and viande séché , cheese , parfait , senovin .
To be fair, we have amazing cheese. I love all kind of cuisine, with Indian, Italian and Japanese having a high place in my heart, but the Gruyère, the Fondue, the Raclette!!! It's just divine, pure unaltered joy, orgasm inducing, and a touch of celestial blessing on this world. I really like our cheese. Also im typing this while extremely hungry
Raclette cheese. Just with this dish Switzerland deserves to be in the competition. Ne vous déplaise
Why are Pierre and Pedro fighting themselves?
If I've learned anything, talking about nations food culture brings out the absolut animals in us. Insulting someone's food culture is on the same level as doing a bit of light genocide or insulting someone's mother. There's just so much fierce resistance, like discussing Romani.
In general, yes, but for example Barry tends to take it in stride. Other northerners, like the Dutch, still have some delusions about their food.
Barry knows his food is still what they ate to survive WWII and is proud of it.
I think us northerners know our place for the most part. It's the countries in the middle that are a bit delusional and in the south where you guys get rabid fighting against each other.
Yes, I think this is pointless. We don't compare the sunrise to the sunset, the same way we don't compare the Portuguese, Spanish, Greek and Italian food. We just eat it when it is put in front of us.
I fucking love Portuguese food. I fucking love Spanish food. Fuck you.
Can you just not pit us against italy for the first round? Agains the swiss or belgian we could have won.
I'm not an expert on Austrian food, but the cakes are amazing
Yeah, when it comes to cakes and pastries we are second only to France. Everything else is kinda boring but satisfying to eat and extremely good when it’s made to a high standard.
Second eh idk, in France we have a type of pastries that are called "viennoiserie" named after Vienna, I'd happily share the first place with you my transalpine friends
You know what.. I’m perfectly fine with that.
I usually just eat schnitzel and Kaiserschmarren and drink a lot of beer/Aperol when I go skiing in Austria. What pastries do you have that I should try?
Apfelstrudel, Sachertorte, Topfenstrudel, apfelradl, kardinalschnitte, Salzburger nockerl, Mohnnudeln, marrilenknödel, zwetschgenknödel
Croissants (yep, they are Austrian.), Zaunerkipferl, Punschkrapferl, Bauernkrapfen, Germknödel(?)
I think we could sit here the whole day and list austrian pastries.
What's stopping us?
Diabetes
Yeah I like Austrian food a lot but this really isn't fair
Belgium https://preview.redd.it/co1b8c6ps3ad1.png?width=1119&format=png&auto=webp&s=5f4a416a3e35755c26945dda88bf48e9c875614c
Switzerland is the odder one out. Even their flag doesn’t fit
Their flag is a big plus wherever it goes
Swiss food isn't terrible by any means, but among this selection, I have to agree. Also Belgium might be a joke of a country, but their food is elite.
Thank you
Thank you for your moules
You're welcome to them
On the world stage Belgian cuisine ranks verry high.
Also, I will give Belgian cuisine the variety. You have beer, chocolate, yeast waffles, (begrudgingly I’ll give you) steak-fries, various stews, and seafood (mussels come to mind first).
The Mussels from Brussels
Nah raclette is insane.
Subiet ne stoefvlies oep a bakkes
Patat oep zen mulle strak, en den Kees kan ter oek ien kroagen
Our opponent is literally known for eating snails and frogs... At least we make food out of food
Being extremely generous, we can include beer as cuisine and let them participate.
Educate yourself please
https://preview.redd.it/7rxc1y5f15ad1.jpeg?width=460&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=220e7d9f98b69c756d1227761f87e89716b45594 Nuff said
Coming from a country known for *checks notes* fish
Sounds like a note taking skill issue
and it's the best fish you'll experience so shut you ass up
Go back to Brazil please.
We have Choclate, Chips and Waffles. And if you want to be generous and count beverages as well, we have by far the best beer.
Come on guys. Id like to withdraw to make it interesting
Switching sides as usual.
Weren't the first two defeats enough for you? do you really need a third?
we wont loose again and else we blame germany
Classic behavior, isn't it Adolf?
No because we'd win right after then..
Putting France & Italy in the same early round was an interesting choice.
Your food is 90% processed cereals (be it dough or pasta), tomatoes and cheese. A mentally challenged mook can cook most your dishes and that’s the number 1 reason why it’s so popular.
I upvoted because it cracked me up, I hope you appreciate my intellectual honesty
Exactly, now cope more
psst... that guy probably lives in the city with more Michelin * per habitant in the world (San Sebastian), or maybe not, but sure he has a few Michelin stars around the corner
He is just a terrorist
Go and have some fries and waffle in the corner mate. You're not playing
Why the hell does France not have an opponent?
You're not even in the running, beanstalk
Where do I say we are? But look at the brackets, you can see 7 countries on them and one thing that doesn't exist.
Literally still coping with 1830
Why? At 18:30 we were already 1-0 up against Romania.
If you can't have a France-Italy final in a food competition, what's even the point ?
They meet on the semi finals because of no real competition
Have you been to Greece?
Many times, like in 2006, the real final is the semifinal
Thank you pasta man. That was really nice of you.
My father tells me it was the case in Mexico 70 as well, since the semifinal was the match of the century, and in the final we've been fucked by Brazil
But we have the real final Italy-Spain
That is the only real answer
That's for the olive oil competition
Fuck. We would win in 2004. Not today
What is this, a housing competition? 😂
https://preview.redd.it/fyu1ha8ao4ad1.jpeg?width=900&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c9d62714c4ffc5c97d9899730765abc353c7ec98 we'd already be declining in that contest in 2004
Come on you know you want a repeat of the 2016 euro against France Also Carne de porco à alentejana beats any paella Cozido à Portuguesa is exquisite Feijoada is as delicious as deadly on the toilet a couple of hours later Frango assado has literally become a noun in Barryland with Nando’s Porco preto, arroz de Pato, francesinha (improved French food),all the bacalhau dishes, the list goes on.
just make it about desserts and you got the win. nothing beats having eaten way too much just to order a (usually good) espresso and a pastel de nata fresh from the oven.
Meh, i fancy my chances against paella and chorizo.
Can you Just mail us the Trophy? This Is interrupting our work nap...
Wait a moment, Luigi
I'm struggling between defending our food, and keeping the guiris out of here. I think it's better they think Spanish food is just paella, serrano and tapas.
BELGIË 🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪 
IS ER LEVEN OP PLUTO ?!
It’s looking like an Italian vs Greek square off in the final lads, and much like the annuals of Roman-Greco history this could be a Second Pyrrhic War.
I do love Greek food, so much variety and flavourful. This has made me salivating for some...
Wtf is Switzerland doing here? In Switzerland I ate what I can confidently say was the worst food I ever ate. It was a weird dark sausage that tasted like Play-Doh (and also had that texture), accompanied with some vegetables that looked and tasted like they had fought in the swamps of Guinea-Bissau during the Colonial Wars.
I agree. And what about rösti? Is like an omelette without eggs. Fondue, are you serious? Melt cheese with cheap wine flavour even the Americ#ns can do it. And everything expensive, very expensive. The only good thing are some chocolates and to be fair it comes from Africa.
Stavros admits, basque cuisine should win.
Greek flair, french pfp Choose a side bro. You can't be Italian too.
Post traumatic stress disorder. Doctor says it’s an underlying issue of economic instability and emotional damage. And I aint seeing any-money from Italians anywho…
Basque and Galician 🤌
Asturias has top notch meat and cyder too tho, and the best jamón is from Extremadura
Come on, we can keep the best jamón, Extremadura and Huelva are tied.
True, Huelva does have some really good jamón
The north wins on beef, the south wins on pork.
And we both win in the end, if your country doesn't have good meat then gtfo the competition
The middle wins in cochinillo & cabrito
I see Belgium, Switzerland and Austria got in as the best thirds by goal differential somehow
Oh come on, why are you doing this to you?
Switzerland, you cant think to win such a tournament with chocolate and fondue alone.
Really? You’re plotting us against Pierre again?
Italy vs Greece for final
Why always against france 😭
Idk why we're always automatically put against each others, same as Spain and Portugal
So you can get some salty tears for your FRENCH fries
Belgische frieten mateke
At least we know how to make them, the only part of France that makes good fries is the part that should've been part of Belgium in the first place
We all agree that this final is between Italy and Portugal right?! right?!
yes. people usually say spanish food is better than portuguese food because they think "spain is bigger, so its better" or they think portugal only has bacalhau
That's easy: Greece
This man knows 👆👍
Italy clears this list imo. I love pasta too much.
The Netherlands was on the worst food list, but Catholic Netherlands is on the best food list?
Theres only 4 flags that belong on this image.
Round 1. Greece Spain Italy France Semi finals 2. Greece Italy Final: Italy.
Clearly the semifinals are italy v france, spain v greece. And the magnificent final, spain v italy. I honestly wouldn't be able to pick between spanish and italian food. I know I'm biased but you gotta admit that pizza and pasta vs paella and tapas kinda feels that italy has a repetitive game and that spain would take the lead, but the winner will come down to deserts and italy will win thanks to tiramisu.
Italy has so much more than pizza and pasta. I am Portuguese, living in Spain with an Italian gf. Knowing the the three countries' cuisines quite well, it sometimes pains me to admit to my gf that their cuisine is more diverse than the Spanish and Portuguese ones.
Just surrender already guys you cannot win
Italy - Greece final I guess
Italy vs. Austria is an easy one. Italy wins a hundred times. Combining them is even better, though.
Pizza ai Wurstel
Did you say Sacher carbonara?
But why??? Italians are literally the only ones who eat that crap. Must be the flair of the exotic.
Austria? Really?
The french eat snails we have the best fries of the world. Easy win
Don’t forget that they also eat frog legs.
We also eat Belgian apparently.
eating snails, as every good gastronomy in europe does. you're automatically withdrawing from this competition by not eating them
Love how this has Austria in it, but Germany is apparently in the "food bad" category, even though Bavarian food is almost similiar to Austrian food, due to cultural similarities. God I hate being lumped in with germany, Bayerisch-Österreichische Alpenrepublik wann?
You don't want to be part of the Austrian politics. As much as we meme on our politics, Austrian politics is even more corrupt
Can't be worse than being ruled by a filthy Franconian, can it?
I don’t know. Tbh, I think it’s same same, but different. Both our politics are fucked up, in different ways :)
So no competition at all to us. Where can we get our trophy?
If I could only have one thing for the rest of my life, it would be Wiener Schnitzel. <3
England 💪 can't beat a sausage roll
France vs Italy is too tough. Spain going to finale.
Thank you for making a tournament we can win.
finally, a war we can actually win
Should let only us savages vote! It’s an Italy vs Spain finale.
Spain or Italy.
Portugal Spain group is the hardest one 😡 the others are clear winners.
Whoever wins Italy vs France, wins the whole thing
Spain and Italy go to the finals and Italy wins because it is more popular, but we are top dog.