Any food in the US that’s qualified with <nationality> will typically baffle anyone of said nationality.
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M137@lemmy.today 6 days ago
Swede here, no one in Sweden has ever served meatballs with white sauce of any kind (no idea what it is) and dill… Highly doubt the meatball ingredients are even close to correct either.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Soggy@lemmy.world 6 days ago
That’s true in every country, you should see “pizza Americana” or “American fried rice”.
fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days ago
Or you know, watch the comment section of most Spanish omelette or paella videos. I’m there on the omelette comments btw, it’s not that fucking hard why do everyone fuck it up.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 5 days ago
You know that there’s basically one paella recipe per Spanish village, right (if not more)?
Soggy@lemmy.world 5 days ago
They’re only fucking it up if they’re trying and failing to make a specific thing, not just because they thing they make offends you.
marzhall@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Hell, it’s true just traveling across the US. Try “Phildadelphia Cheeseteak” a few hours’ drive out of Philly. They’ll ask if you want marinara.
Soggy@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Accurate but I was trying to expand beyond “Americans using food words wrong”. (Also, “wrong” is culture purity nonsense in this context. Food and language evolve and that’s fine.)
njordomir@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Reminds me of how Germans still have this image of America being full of cowboys with six shooters on their hips.
Fellow 'muricans: if you ever get a visitor from Germany, take them to a Wild West reenactment. They will NEVER forget.
ServantOfRa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 days ago
Can verify, extremely baffled.
SirHaxalot@nord.pub 6 days ago
bet it’s the same cum they put on their cinnamon buns
whaleross@lemmy.world 6 days ago
If you served this in Sweden you’d get angry side glances and passive aggressive snorts.
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 6 days ago
I’m assuming the same can be said about USA with this particular sandwich lol
VibeSurgeon@piefed.social 5 days ago
My bet would be just plain confusion - “why are you calling them Swedish meatballs if you don’t make them like meatballs are made in Sweden?”
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Looks like a Polish thing, pulpety w sosie koperkowym.
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Seems like they probably skipped the broth. Looks basically just beschemel, though, being generous, it may have a bit of mustard, sour cream, and/or some herbs mixed in.
n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
It’s Minnesota, they are more scandanavian than Scandinavia, I don’t trust you