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Theres a lot of great dutch food! I will defend pannenkoek, stampot, oliebollen, Gouda, spekkoek, krokets, poffertjes, stroopwafel... hell, I love pickled herring.
Dutch food is very underrated!
You forgot the frikandel speciaal.
I was unaware! I will try it earliest opportunity.
Patatje oorlog, patatje joppie, spekkedikken and frikandelsaus. There's a lot of things!
Bruhhhhh whenever I finally start losing this weight I've been packing on, I look forward to a stroopwafel warmed over my black coffee every Wednesday morning.
Holy fuck people don't know what they're missing.
Compared with English food it's certainly first class. British gourmets only survive, because in GB are a lot of Chinese, Japonese, Greek, etc. Restaurants
Also you know the mitchelin star British restaurants.
Pickled herring is Danish, spekoek is Indonesian and Gouda is bland.
Hagelslag though, that is something I definitely miss.
Maybe the herring is Scandinavian, but we're not going to credit the swedes with this one, they lost that right when they started with the lingonberries.
Gouda is anything but bland
It's possible that people think of Gouda as that stuff which comes in the standardized, plastic-sealed block of rubbery cheese that most American grocery stores carry. That is bland. One might mistake it for the Monterey Jack next to it, were the labels switched.
Don't get me wrong, I'll still happily eat it, but yeah, real Gouda has flavor.
That makes sense! I'm currently in the US and have only seen Gouda once and it tasted nothing like it, in the Netherlands there's also many varieties of Gouda that all taste very different.
It's very strange seeing Dutch products on the shelves here.
Some people confuse mild and delicate flavours with bland, too. Young Gouda isn't particularly strong but it's good and still distinct.